Upcoming changes to benefits

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  • Moorgater
    Moorgater Online Community Member Posts: 55 Empowering

    Which Parliamentary constituency are you in? I'd say just write to your own MP though maybe word it differently depending on whether it is a Labour or SNP member.

  • stressed76
    stressed76 Online Community Member Posts: 70 Empowering

    Read online or X that alot of the labour membership are against the cuts & one of blairs people is advising against it but you don't know whats real & not anymore

  • Moorgater
    Moorgater Online Community Member Posts: 55 Empowering

    Thanks. That's what I figured though faced with a government this clueless, I never rule anything out!

  • Moorgater
    Moorgater Online Community Member Posts: 55 Empowering

    If they carry on like this they certainly are. Attacking voters in your own constituencies is rarely a good move.

  • evelyncourtney
    evelyncourtney Online Community Member Posts: 34 Empowering

    No worries at all! You’re right, and so much of what they say is contradictory or worded almost purposefully confusing. (I have a theory that’s intentional…)

  • Hobbit25
    Hobbit25 Online Community Member Posts: 11 Connected

    Thanks for your reply. I'm in a Labour constituency.

    I'm unsure what to write but I will look up some drafts and add my own personal touch to it. I need to be honest about how bad it would affect me financially and how much the worry is getting to me but I am scared it'll be seen as me just trying to guilt trip or be manipulative or something. I've never done this before and even feel the same when I go to the doctor in a crisis because there's just so much stigma around MH conditions and especially what I have - BPD/EUPD but this feels like life or death and not only for me but for countless thousands in The UK if these proposals came true so I have to say something even if makes no difference.

  • Becky93
    Becky93 Online Community Member Posts: 65 Empowering

    You can only write to your own MP though right? My MP is not a Labour MP, Liberal Democrat who it seems oppose this already.

  • Becky93
    Becky93 Online Community Member Posts: 65 Empowering

    Issue is what parties actually stand with the sick and disabled. Conservatives and Reform will support this. So you're left with Liberal Democrats, Greens, and SNP in Scotland, parties that can never win.

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 740 Trailblazing

    There's a back lash from the public if you read comments on different media.

  • evelyncourtney
    evelyncourtney Online Community Member Posts: 34 Empowering

    I read a GB news article about the cuts earlier and even the comments there were largely critical of the govt!

  • Andi66
    Andi66 Online Community Member Posts: 740 Trailblazing

    https://www.itv.com/news/2025-03-11/labour-mps-called-in-to-no10-for-talks-benefits-cuts-amid-growing-rebellion

    This is on itv news today. Starmer meeting the ones who disagree with cuts twice this week.

  • Nightcity
    Nightcity Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 3,324 Championing

    bullying people into doing as they're told, what a charmer he is

  • Moorgater
    Moorgater Online Community Member Posts: 55 Empowering

    It's won't hurt to write to your MP whatever side they're on, I think. But Labour MPs need to be made aware that if this goes through, they can't win long term. They can't get back in by alienating their own constituencies.

  • Moorgater
    Moorgater Online Community Member Posts: 55 Empowering

    Don't worry about how it looks - I guarantee your MP will be getting lots of these letters as this progresses!

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 240 Empowering

    I hope it was delayed cos they could be a good sign that they’re worried. They can’t control Dianne Abbott as she would stick her principles as would Jeremy Corbyn. I also really hope they stick to their guns on this. Even you you can imagine Starmer bullying them with removing the whip they must know that they risk losing their seat at the next election

  • secretsquirrel1
    secretsquirrel1 Online Community Member Posts: 240 Empowering

    It’s hard to see who their voters could be . They’ve alienated everyone