Green Paper Discussion (from 24th March, 2025)

There was an interesting article in the Times (a paper I generally wouldn't read because of previous attitudes to autism) about the untapped resource of ND people, from the perspective of why we are being kept down/prevented from working. More of that media and less of the other would be appreciated.

I was thinking about the plan to put the PIP points thing through primary legislation and make it law so it can't be challenged from an equality perspective. But surely even if they did do that, that wouldn't enshrine the particular criteria in law, nor the way in which the points were assigned. There would still, surely, be opportunities to challenge the legality of the criteria, given that putting such limits/requirements would mean discriminating against some disabled people whose conditions are not properly covered in the criteria.

I'm frustrated with the "everyone knows someone who is playing the system" squad, though. Their arguments are copypaste but they don't really make sense.

If they genuinely knew someone that was cheating, and were that outraged about it that they need to rant on social media, you'd think they'd have reported them to the DWP. The fact that official fraud figures are so low means that if they DID report these people, their accusations were proven to be unfounded. If there were that many people playing the system, then the fraud % would be higher. All it shows is the shocking level of disability awareness in the UK, which is the real thing that needs fixing.

The chair throwing is a symptom of the hate being fostered in the press.

Hope @apple85 is ok he was good with resistance posts. Reeve is started to be targeted by more people in the media, people are now pushing for the fiscal rules to be changed including economists, but the problem is Reeves has some strong anti social security ideology and has become obsessed with this fiscal rule she has set, she was calling for what she is doing now 12 years ago, and same with Kendall. A lot of disabled people elsewhere think this will get watered down without any fight, or that it isnt that bad. I think if this does get reversed somehow, Reeve will quit.