Press bias
https://www.thecanary.co/long-read/2025/01/09/media-coverage-benefit-claimants/
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I miss @Nightcity, it took me over an hour to work out how to share the link for above post 🤦♀️
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Thanks for sharing that link @judie glad you got there in the end!
This is why I've been asking people not to believe everything they read online, there's been a huge push is talking about disabled people since we got our new government. I personally believe it's just the papers using smear tactics against the government and unfortunately disabled people are stuck in the middle of it all.2 -
A very good link, thanks, @judie. No surprise though & exactly the reason I don't read the main stream press & never watch news on TV. Don't need the extra stress, anger build up or the high blood pressure. I do read local news & that's it. I look on In Your Local too & the comments on there are enough to make your hair fall out & more often than not, made by pensioners.
Universal Credit has also done for disabled, as that is the old dole, so those vicious tongues that pop up an awful lot, lump us in with the general unemployed without any thought.
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No Labour government will get an even break from the msm. Blair maybe the exception!
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My view of UC leads me to believe this is simply a cost cutting exercise. Those affected? maybe they are a second thought.
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I agree. I'm sick of hearing people who have no idea what they're talking about ranting on about disability benefits.
Whether you work or not has no bearing on PIP award; it's not a difficult concept to grasp.
You can't self diagnose and get benefits.
A routine including work may help some people with mental health problems but for some people with depression or stress being forced into work will be the end of them, literally.
The growing benefits cost is mainly down to the rising number of pensioners. An aging population is going to push up the cost of welfare faster than anything.
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HMG are well aware that employers don't want disabled or sick workers. It is performative cruelty to continually press disabled claimants to seek paid work.
I have been 'parked' since 2010, there is no real support. We used to have places like Remploy, but oh no, it isn't fair to pigeon hole the disabled, and deprive them of mainstream employment opportunities. Those places must be closed.
How cynical can they get?
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🤣 All politicians are mauve yettis, that is how I shall envision them from now on!
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I call them something else, but it would get modded.
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