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

Not quite.

Looking at disability issues through either the medical or social models is flawed. Using a mixed model approach is best, because it includes the strengths of both perspectives while addressing the drawbacks.

Also the true culprit behind all this is capitalist ideology, where disabled people (and other groups) who cannot contribute to the means of production are seen as defective. What you're describing is one of many arguments that capitalists and eugencists use to justify their agenda.

Agreed. So many issues plaguing British society can be fixed by addressing the housing crisis. That includes seizing second homes from landowners to reuse as council housing. There's more second homes than homeless people.

Yes me too. Almost 49 years working, paying into system. Some people can't even imagine what it's like to work almost half a century and still have to work. It's only now at 64 I'm going down the WCA route with the hope of getting LCWRA. I haven't even applied for PIP. Can't even get state pension till I'm 67 and they keep putting that up. Is anyone speaking up for the over 60s with ongoing, increased health issues or are forced to extend extra years of work?

@secretsquirrel1 I don't think Kendall is entirely bad, though. She, when she was 49, altruistically allowed another woman to carry a baby for her. Such kindness to both the surrogate and the child.

Perhaps that's the sort of work she envisages for those of childbearing years in her new regime?

Sadly, I'm too old to become a brood mare for Kendall et al. The soup pot for me, I fear.

That’s a lesson right out of the Handmaid’s Tale isn’t it. With all the forthcoming layoffs to NHS England and hundreds of thousands in the civil service… we’re heading for Giliead. ‘Blessed be the Fruit’ my friends.. Starmer so so looks like a commander it’s scary.

Before the past week I thought the assisted dying bill after seeing how bad my father died

over 48 hrs when they said he would die in 8, His inquest is still in limbo owing to the local health board dragging it out, he needed a transfer from the local hospital to air ambulance only a mile up the road and his life would have been saved, 9 hours later an ambulance arrived by then the clot had moved and dad was finished, he fought like a goldfish out of water for 48 hrs, His death was horrific its bad enough losing someone you love but seeing them die like that. So the assisted dying bill I was open to the idea, but the sheer contempt and manner Labour Ministers are showing they knew damn well those pip vouchers alone were making people deeply uneasy and worry, they kept silent. They kept leaking stories

instead of just telling people, WORD FOR WORD she announced this week Blair gave a speech weeks before the GE, today not Civil services layoffs what did Blair say?

Cut Civil service replace with AI.