October 7th - diary date
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the most interesting thing I can find from today is the following (disability campaigners and activists have a truckload of reading if they choose to do so:
List of all new published (Tory commissioned) reports
Links to all 31 reports
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video link from today:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stephen+timms&sp=EgIIAg%253D%253D
transcript from today:https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons#undefined
I’ll try and have a quick skim now and post screenshots of the parts of commons q&a that relate to the disabled community if that is of help (just bear with me)0 -
When is the White Paper to be published? Autumn ends on 30 November. Do we really have to wait that long?
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A lot of labours plan is riding on the disabled community ‘playing ball’ (a tad of a problem when some disabled will be unable to do so regardless of what you do…………’most fish will never be able to fly like birds’)
Obviously the incoming white paper this autumn (within next 8 weeks in theory?) will have the details of how labour intend to go about this………….but this indication of hedging bets of the disabled community filling in major gaps in employment rate from current amount to aim of 80% (a % which has never been achieved in the uk before) is not smart or realistic thing to bet on in terms of success
I will say it again - it’s early days but Labour don’t seem to be on a planet with common sense from what I’ve heard so far!
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I'm not sure I suspect it'll go alongside the budget
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Question - aren’t more existing jobcentres currently being shut than new ones open?
Another question - many disabled claimants don’t drive and rural buses are getting less frequent by the year…………prehaps public transport needs to be looked into before opening (and deciding on location) of job centre
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we are lucky in west sussex we got rid of both Davies and the conservatives here, she moved to east Sussex (poor devils)
labour are as said not in the real world. I can't speak for others but I'll not be playing ball with anything that Will make me iller.
an 80% rate is impossible even if the whole percentage was from non disabled people. I am beginning to genuinely think this government isn't going to make it to 2029
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The logical answer to that would be within the next 8 weeks (I imagine after the autumn budget in 4 weeks time)
But who knows if these ministers know that uk autumn is from sept-nov and winter starts on 1st dec………….some pretty daft things have been said by them the past few months (how smart and common sense versed is the average minister?……………..serious question I’ve been pondering on for a lot of 2024)
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Oh OK thankyou
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couple of thoughts:- I don’t know where on earth ministers have gotten that the ‘problems of yesterday’ and ‘problems of today’ are these hugely different things……………..any disabled person will tell you it’s the same pressure and problems year after year, and the dwp have been recycling the same ‘plans’ year after year after year to tackle ‘problems’ (which only succeed in adding more misery) and all labour seem to be offering is more of the same
- Low pay can only be tackled if employers across the board increase pay……….so unless the jobcentre is going to offer an easier and cheaper way to study/train (from home for many - and not the job+study combo………..done it before and it’s a killer & piling on for too much onto the average disabled person) but promotion and/or qualifications are the only other ways to get better pay (disclose your disability and employers may use that as an excuse to pay you less than your abled counterparts, even if you do the job better than them……had some experience of that also back in the day
- Some work coaches really try hard to help……….but I’ve met a few that are borderline sadistic
- I just don’t get why politicians and dwp can’t see what the rest of us have - the uk gov response to the pandemic was poor in comparison to many other countries and left many with their mental health wrecked and long covid in high levels (and because our nhs is in such a mess there was not the resources to provide ppl with a health mot and treatment/help in general at the end of the lockdowns - battered and broken items don’t function properly unless throughly repair and that’s true with ppl too) and the uk cost of living may explain why other g7 nations are doing better than us. Labour still don’t understand this problem, the cause of it nor understand that many other things need to looked at and addressed before even tackling the economic activity issue (you can’t decorate a house for sale unless you build it first and that takes time with many stages)
if labour want to make progress on this goal of theirs to get more disabled in work (and save themselves time and money) they need to start talking to disabled people (via focus group, further dwp consultations actually asking disabled for ideas, opportunities to talk to a dwp minister via video chat or something…………..sure you guys can come up with better ideas than me)Ignoring talking to disabled and rehashing the same tired Tory ideas is not a recipe for success - labour need to think outside the box and I question their ability (and disabled are often quite good problem solvers due to personal circumstances imo)
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Every head of dwp minister seems to sing from the same old broken record - it’s annoying as hell
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Think my takeaway is that labour dwp ministers concern on disabled claimants well-being is a bit of an afterthought in their ‘get lots of the disabled into employment’ action plan
And I don’t think there’s a lot of goodwill towards labour in the disabled community right now………I think a few won’t want to jump hoops if it helps labours stats out of bad feeling and stubbornness if that makes sense
Labour need to go back to the drawing board in terms of communication of things concerning disabled community - the stress they are causing some is unacceptable
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my bet would be about a fortnight after budget (mid to late November)
There’s enough happening on autumn budget day……..don’t think I could handle the white paper the same day…….the info overload would be cruel!
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I am not seeing any compassion from this Labour government for the population.
Tbh, in respect of welfare of the population, I haven't even noticed the join where the Tories left off and Labour began.
Therefore I would not imagine they will consider it 'cruel' to overload people with information on Budget Day.
On the contrary, Budget Day is the ideal day for them to bury the bad news of their intention to continue just as the Tories would have done i.e. further demonise people with disabilities.
On Budget Day, most people will be too busy focusing on the impact on their own taxes, pensions etc. to give a thought to the impact on anyone else including those who have disabilities.
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Update regarding Universal Credit Migration
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/dwp-confirms-%E2%80%9Csmall-numbers%E2%80%9D-of-esa-managed-migrations-from-september
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This is about Esa which has come to light
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/damning-dwp-secret-report-on-esa-claimants-finally-published-after-six-years
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