WCA consultation ruled unlawful - White paper, part 2
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I am really sorry to hear of your agony torture Catherine21, and I'm sure you are not the only disabled person suffering chronic deep pains, physical, and mental.
You are a good kind person, we all deserve love, respect, friendship, dignity and respect and a wholesome, improving in terms of happiness and joy life.
You deserve happiness and joy and good things that make you happy Catherine.
You can recover.
You are stronger than you know.
I felt like you did as I caught Respirovirus for a month just before Xmas; I live alone, it felt harsh and I was so down, and anxious, unable to campaign for disabled people. I felt guilty, in great physical pains too, because of my 7 MSK conditions.
It passed, and your mood will lift.
Everything passes and fades away Buddha said, If you see this you are beyond sorrow.
Good times end, bad times pass, so keep insight patience, and hope in your life.
We disabled people, need to campaign for better human rights, reasonable adjustments everywhere etc. but we also need to be friends because of disabilism the stigma, We need to nurture respect, and care and get to know each other.
Is there no disabled persons support group near you/ Could you not Google ''sources of support for disabled people with your postcode'', or ''even meditation and mindfulness, Buddhism?''
You owe it to yourself, Catherine.
Try to make more friends, to have friends, be a friend.
It took great courage to drag myself out of bed when I was so ill, and many times in the past too, because of depression, anxiety, and PTSD the horrible memories of domestic violence and gang harassment, but they have got less over the decades with therapy and mediation, and anything wholesome e.g. diet exercise.
I believe, you, or anyone else suffering can recover, and even be joyful, as I am now, I believe in disabled peoples ability to always recover, to be spiritual and political warriors for greater individual happiness and a better world.
It took you great courage to post your cry for help, good people want to help those who try.
Buddha's Blessings.
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Wonderful message thankyou i have loads of buddas around my house and garden very displined wise people train the mind and soul
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Ps i glad your happy
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Kindness is King
Compassion is the greatest wisdom - we all suffer, deeply and deserve friends and love and support. Provided we treat others how we want to be treated. If we are bitter we do not deserve support, or do we?
Thank you CATHERINE21
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I am joyful, not merely happy, because courage and commitment create freedom.
I am joyful because I have met 30 enlightened beings in my 60 years, and they were mostly not Buddhists.
We are not sectarian, a true Buddhist has no enemies, only unskillful people, we ae not evangelical, we merely try to support others who suffer just like ourselves, simply because it is suffering and can end, and so unnecessary.
All those and 1000s more mantras and practices make for JOY.
At the same time I am far from enligthened, and there are no panacaes, I still suffer but it get less and less as the years go by, and by the 6 practices of mine recommended by my Buddhist teachers, or 25.5 years.
We Buddhists work for a wiser, peaceful world across religions, and party politics, we consider evangelism emotional black mail and wrong, because it causes others pressure and pain.
Hence we have spread mindfulness and meditations in a secular form around the world since the 1960s, and that horror the Vietnam War; Tich Natch Hanh is like Mandela: so tender, wise, gentle, nurturing forgiving, inspiring, courageous, calm, joyful, amazing, a miracle of the best in humans. He wrote The Miracle of Mindfullness and 29 other books to help others develop inner peace and world peace. Try reading his books perhaps?
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Huge benefits cuts 'will push disabled people into poverty trap'
metro.co.uk Tuesday January 28th 2025
[ you can write a letter to mail@ukmetro.co.uk]
Campaigners have warned the governments plans to cut £billions from benefits could push 'many more' disabled people into poverty.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has picked up the previous Conservative Govt.'s target of slashing £3billion from the UK s benefits bill, with a plan expected before Easter.
But James Taylor of disability equality charity SCOPE said a tendency to start with 'a figure to cut, rather than on what works to support disabled people into jobs' has continually led governments to ' come unstuck'
[Legal Q, and case to answer?: Can any Govt. use economic cuts, against the right to life, duty of care health and safety, and other laws. I will ask Pro Bono Unit, Public Health lawyers, Mind Legal Unit, legal departments of SCOPE, Disability Rights UK, etc., etc.]
He added: 'Life costs a lot more for disabled people. Our employment advisers find the stress of knowing benefits could be stopped for not meeting certain conditions makes it much harder for disabled people to find work.
'Cutting benefits spend means taking away the support disabled people need to live, which will push many more disabled people into poverty.'
Mikey Erhardt, of Disability Rights UK, added: 'Making sure there is food on the table and a warm, safe roof over our heads is the number 1priority for most of us. When people are unwell or when they have long-term impairments or health conditions, then we as a decent society should give them the level of benefits that they need.'
Sir Stephen Timms, the disability and social security minister, told Metro: 'I think that delivering the savings which have been committed to is wholly consistent with changing the system so that it supports disabled people.'
'We do have to deliver stability in the economy and that means we've got to deliver those savings. But we believe that we can do it in a way that improves the way the system works.'
Last week, Sir Stephen visited Camden HQ of St Mungo's in north London to see how the homeless charity was helping hostel residents. A facility there is used to teach plumbing, wiring, tilling and decorating – a scheme the minister suggested could help the UK hit the never-before-seen 80% employment rate mooted last November.
The figure was at the heart of the government's Get Britain Working whitepaper, which set out plans to boost the economy by getting millions with a long-term sickness or lack of basic skills into a job.
Sir Stephen said many disabled people not working on health grounds 'would love to be in a job.'
'They haven't had the chance up until now,' he said, adding that Labour is 'wholly committed' to making sure that the system supports those who are not able to work.,.'
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Indeed, Timms pledged almost 10 years ago to help "claimants abandoned in the Support Group" so no change there.
None of this is new or unexpected.
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Will people write to the Metro paper - email address above), other papers TV etc.? please
Thank you, because moaning and doing nothing about it will not change a thing.
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What do you imagine they can/will do?
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If you've been on benefits for 20+ years then you will remember protests going back 10 years following the first national reassessment programme.
The media fell silent but cross-party talks continued as usual. Now we're up in arms about it?
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Still, there's no action e.g. writing to MPs, the media etc, so how can you expect positive chnge re Getting Britain Working? Cynical non action never changes anything, but only makes what bad worse.
The energy people put into negativity could be put into campaigning.
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Why wait until now to start campaigning ??
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Are you campaigning now?
I started months ago.
Back USA civil rights activist, and writer.
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Have you read any of my posts?
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trouble is to many people read with there eyes and not there brain
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Wafting hot air around more like.
I can see how they got Brexit done in only six weeks lol!!
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What shall we write im terrible spelling everything but i agree we need to start NOW
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Thank you Catherine21 indeed.
I think you have recovered, at least in part, since your cry for help. You are strog, courageous and compassionate for yourself and others.
Firstly
Write to your MP
I am anxious fearful and depressed, even suicidal just at the thought of the Getting Britain Working reforms.
Because although the Govt has promised through Stephen Timms, the DWP minister, that all disabled people will be supported into work, and not bullied, such measures as:
searching peoples' bank accounts, and assuming without asking the claimant first, as is the case in Canada, and taking back any monies not given except in DWP benefits, is too strong.
Due process demands we have a human right to a fair hearing ECHR Article 7.
And the general tone of the proposals of GBW is harsh - there is little or no recognition, or true empathic, compassionate understanding of disabled peoples' genuine needs, and the 1000s of diagnoses' adverse effects of disabled people's live.
The GWB should be written 'with' disabled people representative lawyers in Parliament, and thus delayed for a year.
Previous governments of all political colours have FAILED in previous similar reforms, because they did not truly understand the complexity of the task to genuinely support disabled human beings, into work. [content removed]
Previous governments failed massively, and unemployment did not go down, overall of disabled people, because
disabled peoples' views were not listened to, or their representative organisations, and alliances;
hence the 10s of 1000s of suicides over the decades of disabled people, increased poverty of disabled people - yet it costs about £1200/ year more to live as a disabled person because of the extra living costs of disability;
the govt in its law making did not have the right balance at all of compassion, and support/encouragement into work, recognising many severely complexly, terminally ill people could not work, and should receive a higher rate of benefits, and not 'stick' as force /violence is illegal, but assertiveness, not bullying intimidation, or harassment;
Also, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said your govt and previous governments have not met yet, or fully implemented their recommendations to fully include disabled people in the U.K.
And Further the UN Disabled People's Carter of Rights also say Britain has not fully implemented disabled peoples human rights, and the U.. is a signatory.
We want to help the government succeed, and have compassion, and preserve our basic constitution human rights within liberal democracy, such:
Right to Life;
Duty of Care;
Rightof the citizen to dignity and respect (not to be talked down to by DWP and Jobcentre staff as is currently common);
Freedom from bullying, harassment by state staff including but not only, DWP and Jobcentre+ staff, because it does happen , and legal complaints have been mounted.
Health and safety.
Sincerely
Sign your name please
That will do for now.
Everyone can think of their own individual letters to their MPs -
please Google your ''Find your MP'' if you do not who your MP is.
Thanks.
I am still asking, like some others in SCOPE for a SCOPE Template letter, and one agreed with Disability Rights UK, Disability Alliance, Mind Legal Unit, Age UK, SANE, etc. any group affected by GWB, and who is protesting against it, because it is not disabled-friendly, and nurturing, but instead is already causing suicides at its prospect!!!
Be positive. Be strong. Survive.
Even thrive.
Choose to be a political warrior, and a spiritual warrior of compassion, and for your own well-being too, do not forget!
You are brave, recovering, strong, and kind Catherine21; I salute you, you deserve joy,
as does anyone else who writes to their MPs,
and send a copy to SCOPE's Campaigns Department please.
Thank you.
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Richard Burgon has spoken out against the scapegoating of disabled people on benefits.
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Very proud of her, this shows fighting things early is the way to go, rather than sitting here until its too late. Where is her knighthood.
I think details are here?https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Clifford-v-SSWP-Judgment-16-January-2025.pdf
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