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I cannot believe you only got 3 year award disgraceful make sure you talk to your doctor about all of this and so sorry triggering other illnesses make sure all documented if you can't go to your GP hopefully they do an e consult I did loads of emails yesterday it is so triggering I'm getting flashbacks of things I haven't thought about for a long time it's so stressful I'm just pushing people away as have no energy for anything else x
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Morning luvpink
Yes I’ve been diagnosed about that length of time too after a second infection of glandular fever. So I’ve most likely had ME 35 years. I really think if there was going to be an improvement in out health it would of happened by now .
Yes three years , well actually less than 3 . Originally assessor said two but dwp increased to three but on my letter the review date is less than three years. My first pip took two years of fighting to higher tribunal after being awarded zero points . I really hope I don’t go back to that again.
Take care and enjoy the nice weather x
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Hi Catherine,
I know but it’s the assessors, all down to luck .
Try and find time to relax Catherine, this isn’t good for our MH. Watch a good horror to take your mind off things . I get to the stage where I can’t think about it for a while so I can recharge x0 -
Sadly our condition will not improve and there is no cure for us.
I only ever got 3 year awards despite this being life long and me providing evidence how much it impacts my daily life.
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If these reforms go through I hope at least the severe criteria applies to us and everyone will conditions that won’t improve . They could save money by stopping these reassessments. I was discussing this Friday and yesterday with Chiaried who explained what they think about it . If you’re up to it check out the conversation to see what you think .
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Bless you I watch starmer reeves kendell and rayner that's a horror in its self as luvpink said all your illnesses have been diagnosed maybe they might recognise the information more if that makes sense I'm seeing psychiatrist on Wednesday which is hard because I go onto masking mode and imposter syndrome can't win oh it's hot I can't stand it
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I remember at school a friend got stuck down with glandular fever and we visit her as was off for months and she was in a dark room we spent about 20 minutes and her mum said she was tired so we left I remember feeling so so upset for her I left school early so I never knew if she returned
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Ps 28 years later is on pictures that is one I will be looking forward too trying to watch black mirror can't focus
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Yeah I agree our conditions are severe and life long with no effective treatment or cure and I have often said that money could be saved by stopping these ridiculous degrading assessments.
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I’m looking forward to that one
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I wonder how she is now . First time I got it I didn’t know what it was GP was useless. I had flare ups of bad throat every month for about 6 months. So sore couldn’t even drink water .
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Honestly I don’t understand all this nonsense the governments , Tory and Labour , sprout out about making it so we need a diagnosis. Considering the amount of medical evidence we all have and how hard we fight for pip I can’t see how anyone could possibly get pip without a diagnosis. Just another media and government lie
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Just awful stress doesn't help this has been years I think you same as me since sunak speech 2023 on high alert I try to distract myself reeves doing u turn on nom doms all u turns except this kendell reeves won't have it reeves husband works for dwp says it all really
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Starmer panicking I think though . He’s apparently told all MPs they have to vote when before he said they can abstain. He must think he doesn’t have enough support as he’s threatening them now
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Hoping the ones who was going to abstain come to the thinking of voting against it or are on the fence I feel he's basically saying you will come and vote this in I can imagine the psychological pressure they are applying it's absolutely sickening I thought tories changed the way of politics but this one has brought so many back alley under handed ways to push his agenda I still can't get my head around the legal sick of it all I emailed good law project 5 times no response where as I'm the beginning of all this they did respond I think all we can do is hope get the proper support from gps I'm coming of sleeping tablets wrong time to do me thinks I'm so in awe of people who get about thier daily life's this has floored me but still keep emailing glad to see my mp didn't vote for assisted dying bill wes street whatever his name is said NHS didn't have funds for it which is good but why go through all the voting the mind boggles
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Labour rebels could jump ship to form Left-wing 'real socialist' party amid anger over proposed welfare cuts?Sir Keir Starmer faces the threat of a new left-wing 'real socialist' party amid mounting anger from Labour backbenchers over controversial welfare cuts.
The Mail on Sunday has learnt that disaffected Labour backbenchers are already being approached to consider joining a new 'radical Left' political movement.
Sources said that to inflict maximum damage on Sir Keir, the proposed new party – master-minded by supporters of ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - could be launched during Labour's national conference this Autumn.
The plans emerged amid forecasts that so angry are Labour backbenchers at their Government's plan to slash disability benefits, that scores of MPs could refuse to back it at next month's crucial Commons vote.
Talk of the new party also comes just days after Mr Corbyn – who now sits as an Independent MP – said he was 'determined there will be, in short time, a strong alternative democratic socialist, left-wing voice that brings people together'.
However, it is understood that Mr Corbyn himself may not himself lead the new party, with sources suggesting that role should go to a younger figure such as Coventry South MP Zarah Sultana, currently suspended from the Parliamentary part for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap.
The spectre of a break-away left-wing movement comes with Sir Keir potentially facing the biggest rebellion of his premiership so far over plans which could mean cutting personal independence payments (PIP), the main disability payment in England and Wales, for about 800,000 people.
So worried is Sir Keir that Labour whips have reportedly threatened that anyone who simply abstained would never get a ministerial job while MPs voting against would lose the Party whip.
Last night, one senior Labour MP said those reports were 'rubbish' and cautioned that if the revolt was huge, it would not be possible to suspend '100 or so MPs'.
Even moderate backbenchers have privately vented their anger at the cuts while Left-winger Andy McDonald has branded the proposals 'a huge attack on the incomes of disabled people'.
However, the Daily Mail highlighted last week how spending on sickness benefits was on course to rocket by £18 billion a year to reach £70 billion by the next general election if nothing was done to trim the bill.
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has warned that the country's benefits system faced collapse if costs continued to escalate.
Long-mooted plans for the new party are understood to have accelerated in the last few weeks amid mounting anger among Labour backbenchers over government policy, including the now-abandoned decision to scrap Winter Fuel payments for many pensioners and the proposed disability benefit cuts.
And last weekend, Mr Corbyn, already part of a five-strong 'Independent Alliance' group at Westminster, appeared to acknowledge that people's frustration that 'we didn't found a new political party' would soon be answered.
Sources close to the ex-Labour leader also told this newspaper that there were now 'very, very active discussions' about setting up the new movement.
However, they dismissed reports that the party would be called 'Arise' after a former Corbyn aide registered such a party with the Electoral Commission just over a week ago.
Last night, Starmer allies played down any threat from such a new party, suggesting 'a couple of ' current Labour MPs were more likely to defect to the Greens than join a Corbynsta-style group.
But one longstanding Labour MP said: 'It's all very well for Starmer's acolytes to dismiss the threat of a proper socialist party but the PM is playing with fire.
'After the winter fuel fiasco and now this attack on disability benefits, he's leaving a vacuum on the Left of British politics and someone's going to fill it.'
Mr Corbyn was originally suspended from Labour in 2020 after claiming the scale of antisemitism in the party had been overstated and later expelled for standing as an Independent against an official Labour candidate.
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And he said he wanted to lead a government with transparency 😂 . Worst PM ever and they know it
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I read elsewhere that the rebels said let Starmer take away the whip and we’ll just start another party . I really think if he continues he could finish Labour off for good
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Personal Independence Payment (PIP) applicants with depression or anxiety are "instantly rejected" if they are classified as 'stable.' That's according to a former Department for Work and Pensions assessor, says a former DWP assessor.
Of course, the DWP denies this outright, as usual.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/dwp-instantly-rejects-pip-applicants-35418083
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What nobody is calling reeves out on is she's saying she's already spent 5 billion ???? Hasn't even gone to vote yet that's a disgusting excuse they certainly didn't expect all the backlash I believe they thought everyone would love this punish the scroungers they went to far literally including every debilitating illness no one was spared I feel a tide changing I think mps will not be told and bullied as much as we have had the rug pulled from us alot of them have too from The shinning photo taken when first won all smiles hope and even excitement that they could make a change to gaza to farmers to elderly to disabled to taxes everyone has woken up well slapped round the face labour made enemies the minute they opened thier mouths people had enough of be ruled by millionaires we will always be the loser so proud of people fighting back
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