The Green Paper Discussion (the document link is here too!)

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  • Martinp
    Martinp Online Community Member Posts: 42 Empowering

    can’t sleep again, mind racing thinking about how I’m going to survive on the streets. I don’t want to exist in a hostel with a single room, that’s probably the best I can hope for now. I know it’s a couple of years away but it will happen and I’ve got to live knowing it’s going to be like that. I really hope if I do go to sleep I don’t wake up.

  • noonebelieves
    noonebelieves Online Community Member Posts: 384 Pioneering

    @Martinp I’m really sorry you’re feeling this way, and I can hear how much pain you’re in and being unable to sleep peacefully . The government proposals are scary for everyone , and it’s hard to see a way forward. But please know you and me are  not alone. There are people out there like Scope fighting for better support and resources for people in situations like us. Please reach out to someone, even if it’s hard. Do you have someone you can turn to ?You matter, and there is help available.Take care of yourself, and don’t give up.
    Best wishes 

  • HollisMcBobbery
    HollisMcBobbery Online Community Member Posts: 31 Contributor
    edited March 23

    fantastic read thanks for the info.

    Just to make it clear I'm no reform fan! Just love the tories being screwed.

    I'm fully in the I hate Reform, Tories and now Labour cohort of voters lol

  • Girl_No1
    Girl_No1 Online Community Member Posts: 199 Empowering

    @HollisMcBobbery (love the username, btw!)

    General rant incoming ….

    If even half of those two million the politicians think should be at work, that number would need to increased by approx. 40-50% to take into account unpaid carers who support us.

    Let's call it three million. From where the freaking heck are employers going to magic up three million jobs?? Particularly as AI becomes more entrenched in the workplace. That's before considering the who knows how many additional health & care staff that will be require to be recruited to offer this 'personalised' support to the two million rejoining the workforce. New 'recruits' from benefit claimants are extremely unlikely to be the specialist medical/psychological/psychiatric staff who will be required to provide this.

    From my own perspective, over decades of working with a hidden disability, whilst employers were onboard with making (some) adjustments to accommodate my condition, the resentment from colleagues, towards those accommodations and me, was personalised, horrendous, humiliating, and ultimately exacerbated my condition.

    Should jobs even be found for us, I don't think anyone has identified it is not only employers who need to be educated and supportive but colleagues also. Or, if colleagues cannot be supportive, at least there should be some mechanism whereby disabled people can leave such environments without punitive action from DWP.

    Ultimately, Labour will, once again, become the "Party That Isn't Working" as the unemployed figures balloon.

    We'll have come full circle since they introduced disability benefits as a means of massaging their then horrendous unemployment figures.

    Bottom line for me is I'm too old for their games. Between now and the sh*t hitting the fan, I'm making plans to ensure I and my disabled relatives can live (together if necessary) with as much dignity as possible in our final years.

  • johnnyy85
    johnnyy85 Online Community Member Posts: 70 Contributor
    edited March 23

    In the sun today

    “Rachel Reeves will use Labour's monster majority to face down welfarerebels”

    “RACHEL Reeves has vowed to use Labour’s monster majority to secure welfare reforms as she declared the total spend on benefits is “morally indefensible and economically damaging”.

  • alexroda
    alexroda Online Community Member Posts: 146 Empowering

    labour, tories, reform, trump etc etc will fail. They will have to keep squeezing people out to balance their debt.

    First, pensioners, disabled, jobless, then another group and then another.

    Unless you start taxing the rich and modify the system, this problem won’t be solved and in the meantime our way of living will be dismantled before our own eyes.


    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/22/all-uk-families-to-be-worse-off-by-2030-as-poor-bear-the-brunt-new-data-warns

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing

    I prey they find it all to be against out human rights how can they do this

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing

    I feel dread now since 2023 sunaks speech I don't want to hang around it's the big reset

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing
  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing

    I have a grown daughter who's fighting hard to make sure I'm ok I just don't want to be here anymore how do I leave her she says I can live with her long term wouldn't work she has her own life one bedroom flat bless her I had hope but reading things I have none now do you

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing

    But thier doing through primary legislation what happens then I'm clueless

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing

    IIt's Unforgivable how we been treated leaving us in a complete state of terror

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing
  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing
  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing

    I read echr are going to investigate if it's against our human rights

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing

    I know I got used to those plans honestly I'm starting to panic I though judicial court sorted

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing

    They shown thier face people are mad but I hope the budget doesn't get this pushed to the side we are literally fighting for our life's it's like living in a nightmare one minute try to stay calm next total terror oh don't worry about Switzerland they got it here so unbelievable wicked evil

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing

    Good point

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Posts: 4,790 Championing

    That's true I havent been rude I have asked if he's against the cuts

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