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Yes because UC is the problem. It has been since the start. We are all being moved onto the new system.
"What they’ve done is basically made disabled people no longer disabled in the eyes of the law."
DWP did precisely this in the 2016 Act. This is what I'm trying to explain. We URGENTLY need to revisit those reforms. The worst has already happened to sick and disabled claimants!
Parliament was deliberately lied to and that cannot be allowed to stand.
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sarah, this has very little to do with Starmer. This has been in the planning long before he became an MP.
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but he’s the PM now . He can’t blame the Tory’s or anyone else though of course he tries to . He could have scrapped uc and the pip reforms day one but instead fought to keep the reforms in court . Had Tory’s won I don’t think we’d be in this mess now , not this badly anyway.
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Then you have no idea. UC cannot be scrapped.
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why can’t it ? We could of stopped migration and gone back to legacy benefits
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UC migration was scaled up last May - nothing to do with Labour. The 10,000 cap was to be removed through 2022 amended migration regulations.
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well if he has no power he’s as good as useless and even worse for lying to gain power
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secretsquirrel, the Tories spent 14 years blaming Labour for the mess we are in and will be in for a long time!
Have you forgotten what has happened in the last 14 years???
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I didn’t feel this bad when the Tory’s were in power I know that much . Yes there was the fear of losing pip but we’d usually have esa to help pay our bills as we went to tribunal. With this you fail the pip assessment you lose everything. And now the assessment it set up to fail us . Standard care will be practically gone and even some on highest care like myself will not be eligible. Then sanctioned when we can’t work. Of course starmer could stop this , he doesn’t want to . He doesn’t care but anyone in this country. Being PM is a stepping stone to greater things. Maybe he doesn’t even want a second term . Who he’d think his voter base is now god knows IMO
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Thankyou so much for the kind response and taking the time to post info and phone numbers.
I really do appreciate it.
I'm feeling a little bit calmer this evening.....sometimes the stress of it all hits me like a bloody train. As Im sure it does all of us.
Everyone Is so kind on this forum.
Again ...thankyou. xxxxx
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Never mind the last 14 years, it's the last 2 months under Labour that will prove worse for millions of us than the Tories were! And some of your posts today sound like you're apologising for Starmer's toxic Labour.
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It's impossible to ignore those 14 years. You can pretend but the damage is done and inequality will continue to grow.
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"Then sanctioned when we can’t work."
The sanctions regime for JSA came in with the Welfare Reform Act 2012 ready for UC in April 2013.
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Then for that matter, don't stop at 14. What about 16 years ago when Labour robbed us all to bail out their banking chums? That was the actual start of the rot.
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Ok. It's Starmer's fault. Not. What about Iain Duncan Smith - the architect of welfare reforms - for PM so he can fix it for us again?
He got Brexit done. He knows all about the broken benefits system. The man is a genius!
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it doesn’t matter when it was thought up or introduced. Starmer could stop it now. Starmer continued to fight for the Tory green paper in court . According to Ellen Clifford they fought the case hard. And they’ve come back with even harder cuts than the Tory’s . It’s not because of a black hole or defence , it’s because this is what they planned to do while in opposition.
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Yes, the Cabinet ministers who collaborated with IDS in 2011, 2012 and 2015 to pull the wool over our eyes couldn't risk the Tory plans not going ahead and being found out before UC swallows up legacy benefits..
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Does he know exactly how they did it? I'm willing to believe he has been wrongly briefed by colleagues and advisors since becoming an MP in 2015.
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