Wednesday: Statement on Benefits
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They seem to be really focused on people with mental health rather than physical conditions and trying to get people with mental health conditions back into work.
I honestly can’t see anything major coming of it, This happens on fairly regular basis, lots of talk and plans but very rarely do they get enforced, Usually they go through the courts etc and get watered down to a barely recognisable change.
The amount of harm they cause with all the theatrics is just cruel though but of course it makes them look like they are doing something.
Even if they do by some miracle get the rules and regulations changed to what they are proposing it will take years before we see it in action.
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Anyone watching pmq a back bench mp said about how scared disabled people are , all he said was getting us into work
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@Andi66 just started watching in now. Elderly constituent told by GP 3 months for a GP appt. I've beenn ill pneumonia for 7 wks now and couldn't get through for 3 weeks to get more antibiotics till last week. It's very, very frightening. They said ring 111 but they wouldnt give prescription neither would pharmacy. I have to stand at kitchen window to keep a signal and oxygen goes down when I move or stand for more than 5 mins. I don't think I need to have suicidal ideation these healthcare people will just get rid of me by all this nonsense. Truly scary.
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Im not watching thankyou x
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We all need to email them and tell them mental health serious and your playing with our lives
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Discrimination against mental health and attempting to override experts by fools with no idea will never get to the end stage of becoming a law.
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It is , I have copd so my breathing is bad. Parliament tv have statements from the treasury
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Blackstone !!!!@ oh yh they own them own i know im slow but she gave 2 seconds on benefits this is enough to trigger my rage
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Did the prime minister say they would help 100,000 disabled people back into work
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I really don't think anything major that will affect us like cutting our benefits will or would ever happen. Like some folk have mentioned on here it's mostly just bluster to appease opposition parties and the markets, which is why Reeves made her silly statement today(which I refused to watch….yawn yawn!!). If anything bad which would affect sick/disabled people to an extent it would deprive them of a right to live independantly or leave them worse off would be illegal, and also immoral. Most of these so called reforms will end up watered up, binned, or just like the DWP case with Ellen Clifford taken back to the high court. I'm more concerned with the vile language used to describe sick/disabled people, either in the media or by polititions from all sides, it should be illegal to be able to cause us such upset, anxiety, and added stress, on top of what we're already going through.
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I've been saying this for the 15+ years of my ESA claim. It doesn't matter how much politicians bang on about getting X numbers into work, the fact remains that employers don't want to hire sick and disabled people.
Who wants to hire a 49yo man with Becker Muscular Dystrophy , who hasn't worked since 2009, whose only skills were driving a bus or truck; licence revoked on medical grounds?
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There will always be and has forever been disabled people and that is something which all the political parties, all the mainstream media and all the other talking heads should understand.
The second thing is that it will take a while for legislation to be enacted.
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"Give is a job..I could do that". rem "Boys from the blackstuff" on tv.?
Ok I'm 58,13 confirmed conditions, some decades and lifelong,two more issues being investigated. Was on indefinite Dla then the pip fight, Iresa for years, now gonna get bumped onto UC any time.
Agonising pain from at least four of my conditions, nausea, dizziness, black outs,sweating pufusely,
"Go on,Give is a job,i could that"..
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Yes. No many really. Possibly just the people who will recover with time and decent NHS care.
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so we've gone from 400,000 to 100,000 lol the wheels are already coming off before the green paper.
I agree with the language "work limiting"
and Kendall's recent delight "Must support disabled people but ORDINARY people too" apparently we're aliens or something.
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"Ordinary people"! There's an HR Dept in the Commons. I wish another MP or staff member would report her.
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When someone without a disability is described as a normal person, grates on me!
"Ordinary people?!" We are ordinary, we are normal. Only difference is that we're disabled.
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All of you guys are amazing i havent watched and the updates really appricated i feel lighter today
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Oh really she said that we could have her for that
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Did they say the changes applied to new claimants ??
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