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Worried for this Community

Topcat71

"I am worried for this community since the latest government announcements. You can see how it is affecting people in all that is posted here, covering all subjects. It's like a motorway pile-up, and everyone is just wandering around trying to find a direction to go in. There is little direction, and we are just left comforting each other before the fog clears and we can see the damage and how it affects each of us personally. I only fear that after Christmas the stress and anxiety will increase."

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sunnydays

Tbh, I feel exactly the same and I don't read any to do with Pip, Benefits or what Labour are doing. It all has a bad effect on me as a whole.

veriterc

Topcat - I totally agree with you. In fact, I have just posted an aticle saying WE have to take more command, as the Government doesn't seem to have any idea what to about the NHS, which most of us have to depend on. Months after the Darzi report, the Dept. Health are running around liker headless chickens, doing nothing new or useful. I reckon we have to start adking for what we need - not what some politician thinks we should have. I have some suggestions of what we can do for ourselves on https://aftercancers.com/now-is-the-time-to-fix-the-nhs/

Verite

Topcat71

"Was the announcement just for the headlines to appeal to those who think disabled people are living off the state? How can the Prime Minister, who talks so deeply of his mother's health conditions, and the Deputy Prime Minister, whose family was on benefits, be so two-faced? I work 12 hours a week, and at work I hear people talk, saying things like, 'It's about time they got them to work and stopped scrounging.' I just sit there and think this is what it's about: fueling people's anger and hate towards disabled people. Disabled people are not going to be supported in jobs, and this 'try before you take the job' idea is just an unrealistic concept dreamt up by people who have never had a disability or understood disability."

colejames

The way this government are behaving annoys and embarasses me as a Labour Party member. I stay because of my fellow councillors on the town council and the good that we do locally. I didn't and wouldn't have voted for Starmer, Reeves or Streeting. Starmer's playbook since becoming Labour leader has done nothing but assert his authority and build a bastion of support for himself. A democratic Labour Party no longer exists and he still reaches out for more power.

His plans for devolution are anti-devolution. How does moving local government from around 200 or so councillors between county and district and putting all of that power in the hands of a single Mayor. In effect a single elected person is a benefit to Starmer who plans to make all the mayors answerable to him rather than their electorate. There are supposedly plans to increase the power of Mayors but to do that whilst removing their independance and tying them into delivering Starmers new order.

If we looked at the number of local people involved with decision-making as councillors across the two counties which our Mayor will be elected to run we could be reaching 800 individuals. All of those councillors are responsible for and accountable to constituents.

That number is then swelled by all the Town and Parish Councillors, who get no allowances and are involved because they want to improve things in their area and who have absolutely no knowledge of what is happening and no information coming or briefings being provided to them. So since Starmer and his ilk have no respect for the people who elected him as leader of the party and he stabbed in the back, I don't hold out a lot of hope for us as a community.

Unless all of the pressure groups, charities, etc build a combined campaign, something which has a really significant number of supporters then those in charge will still be listening to the SPuDs (I think) in their department and with their ears all the time whilst those groups who represent the electorate are ignored of half listened to and ignored.

So having stated why I share your concerns about the treatment of our community or the services which the govenment manages is that I don't think that any of the electable political parties really represents us

NCL

I have left the Labour Party over this.

There are so many people for whom this change is so life limiting and dangerous, who don't have any family/friends/partner support. I'm really scared for them.

I'm scared that I'll lose my benefits. I know that as I've a partner with some income, I'm relatively lucky, although it will completely trash independent life. I could end up with no income.. again… and I would have to appeal - again… No car, housebound, again… When my benefits were withdrawn once before I was too ill in hospital to appeal before the deadline. I think this is true for a lot of people. So many benefit decisions are overturned after refusal. How much does that cost the authorities? This system is so broken.

There are very many Labour MPs for whom their majority is smaller than the number of disabled people in their constituency. I know that a party with even more appalling policies will get in if I don't vote Labour, but there must be a better alternative.

DPAC have a good guide to the legal challenges being made to the benefits changes under human rights legislation.

Shame on the government.

Colejames is right - we need a co-ordinated response to this cruelty. Anyone interested in discussing possibilities?

Jellihead

Changes are due to happen in November 2026. So we all have time to write letters. Explain our personal situation to our local MP. Not just once but monthly. Tell them how we struggle in winter. Tell them how frustrating it is that you can't do things that able bodied, fit, young people can. Not because we don't want too. We just can't. Keep a diary of you bad days. Write to your MP and ministers. They keep frightening us. Let's frighten them with the truth.

IrishManc

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/133023/worried-for-this-community

Much of this ties in with the WEF’s “sustainable development goals” and “Agenda 2030” as well as their “depopulation” agenda, of which Starmer is a disciple, as is King Charles & Prince William, but politicians of all parties are merely the spokespeople - unelected, unaccountable and untouchable senior civil servants are ultimately responsible for this from behind the scenes and who hold the real power in government - their arrogance in ignoring all court rulings made against them is creating a very dangerous situation for serious civil unrest and conflict going forward

IrishManc

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1017361#Comment_1017361

there is no political nor democratic solution to this - we have to support real patriots in our military who want to drop all ideologies, step forward and mount a military takeover of government, arresting all politicians and senior civil servants under Military law during mass arrests, on charges of treason and sedition against the British people - the only alternative is that the globalists represented by those Labour WEF puppets in this Labour government will do similar to us and weaponise our own military and police against us, turning the U.K. into North Korea