Green Paper Discussion (from 24th March, 2025)

She's swallowed the KoolAid. By the gallon it appears.

How long do you think she spent, twisting her logic, to reach those "reasons" it was wrong for her mother and son to have received benefits due to illness / disability.

Why don't you hand them back then?

I'd put my house on her son passing whatever the new PIP test is with flying colours, irrespective of his condition/s, despite her assertion all he wants is a chance to work. 🙄

@Summerlove , you are absolutely correct. It’s good to see someone who’s sitting up in parliament truly cares for disabled people and condones the actions of their own party members. I still cannot believe for a mere sake of £6billion govt is prepared to eat off a dead person’s plate. I will surely look out for posts from secretsquirrel . Be blessed too 🤝

I always worked with people who seemed pleasent, and nice, but the wiring in my head tells me they are all lying, and judging, which makes working with people difficult.

Working from home would be ideal for me, but there's an obsession with getting people into offices, which I just can't do.

I was on legacy ESA, and got migrated to UC, which was a smooth process for me. The issue with legacy ESA is that we got ignored for the £20 uplift during COVID I think it was.

@idk ,Sounds like your wiring in your head is 100% spot on✅

Best Wishes!

BBC News website now leading with the story about even more welfare cuts to be announced on Wednesday.

More cuts!

And there will be more as time goes by cause the economy will worsen

I hope charities challenge ALL these changes proposed.

Getting rid of ESA CB it’s a big loss for the welfare state.

In other European countries if you’ve become too ill to work, and won’t be able to do so in the future, you are entitled to a significant life time pension till your death. 

(If you improve and can work, you can do so, just tell them so).

Their award is much more than a few hundred quid a month, it’s like a few thousand a month depending on your contributions.

Regardless of savings etc

IMO that’s the way to look at it. 

Our benefit awards are a pittance.

I hope these charities that fight in the name of the disabled community take this into account and legally fight to abolish this unemployment insurance, cause this change as the legal procedure is set up, can be challenged in court. Letting it go unchallenged would be a terrible mistake for the ill and disabled community.

These charities want changes and higher benefits for everyone in need (which the different governments aren’t willing to give). However very little or no mention of this new proposal insurance employment from them. 

This benefit ESA CB it’s something that we already have, it would be a major blow for our welfare state to lose it.

Finally, having seen the inner workings, corruption at work from different Unions (which was a big blow for me), I have to question these charities motivations including Scope. Only time will tell if they are really on the disabled community side.

Unfairness it’s always something worth fighting for regardless of the consequences.

It's terrifying. I ask myself just how much harder they can hit us but I feel that they'll just continue this torture until a future government is prepared to raise taxes. The cuts so far will impact on the NHS and councils massively.

I bet Kendall will be happy her colleague is making our lives even more miserable, they are deplorable excuses for humans

I think it shows how they've got no moral fibre whatsoever. Sadly, I think we'll see that the back benchers have no backbone.

I often think I've got little in the way of courage but I'm wrong, I have. In the 90s I stood up to the new CEO in the boardroom in front of c 30 employees after we'd seen dozens of colleagues frogmarched out of the building by security (40 years service some of them) treated disgustingly, all of us being given a 'pep talk' by the new 'top man' daring to lecture us about how it's necessary bla bla too and about our continued loyalty etc. The word loyalty set me off and I when asked if we had any questions I said loud and clear (I'm like a mouse ordinarily) I do, don't you think our loyalty might depend on how we see our colleagues being treated? He and the other board members were fuming with the finance man uttering some nonsensical answer. Was so pleased to see his ex wife completely wipe the floor with him in the High Courts for c £30million. Anyway, I digress sorry.. sorry, I just cannot abide people with absolutely no moral fibre and who try to ride roughshod over others.

What we should ALL remember here is that dealing with the illnesses and disabilities that we have, day in, day out, takes courage, in buckets full. So we've still all got that no matter how vulnerable we are made to feel. We can use that to our advantage. I cannot go out to protest but as my lovely dad used to say, 'the pen is mightier than the sword'. I intend to use that ink well and profusely.