Spring Statement Discussion (link to documents here)
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The British media and political spheres are notoriously corrupt and have been for years. This is what the Leveson Inquiry found, and it's also why Starmer cancelled Leveson II (despite pledging it).
They haven't been bought, they're literal buddies and colleagues.
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Did he cancel it as Prime Minister?
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Just saw Hillary Benn try to justify the government's robbing the poor to fund the war chest.
The "Difficult " decision they had to make.🙄
Oh boohoo,I'm sure you were all in tears with worry for us.
Um,no you weren't, you took the path of least resistance, the easy way out for YOU regardless of our demise, come on now have the guts to stand over your convictions and tell it like it is, no matter how you dress it up you are trying to keep us down and compliant.
If you don't work you will starve and - or Freeze.
At least highwaymen robbed the rich and did it while masked your lot do it bare faced to the poor. To your utter shame. Smh.
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I’m not 100% sure about this but when the “substantial risk” came in originally GPs wrote letters to the DWP when someone was being assessed to cover this aspect, when there was no other seeming category to qualify the person to the benefit. It wasn’t mandatory but many were happy to do it.
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Anxiety and fear levels through the roof
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They can justify this all they want. The truth is for years the government have not been investing in local communities outside of London. We had the 2008 financial crisis with decade of austerity and everyone thought with Labour now that is all behind us.
Well, Labour have done worse than Conservatives. Austerity 2.0 is going to start. The welfare state is not a mess, it is this way because it would cost government much more to invest in people, and towns, and societies than leave people on benefits. Now they are taking the benefits away, how are people going to survive? Best thing they can do is reconsider the reforms and stop it.
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Hi CB is when people have made national insurance payments to qualify and it is means tested.
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What does it stand for?
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Contribution based when people made national insurance contributions when they worked.
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Thanks for your input. We've to brain storm between us due to lack of clarity from the damn DWP.
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How would I know whether I've been awarded LCWRA on the basis of "Substantial risk"? Do they mention that you've been awarded LCWRA on the basis of "Substantial risk" in the WCA report?
Are there specific illnesses for which they award LCWRA on the basis of Substantial risk?
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Re tbe Blue Badge my Pip Review took nearly a year and they sent an extension letter about about six weeks before the badge expired so I was able to get that through and the Council renewed it really quickly.
They extended it for 12 months but then the review came through three months later.
I was really worried about it too but it turned out OK.
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I thought they were going to keep holding hands and have a peck on the cheek the way they were going on...
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Hi @luvpink. Did you mean to say it “WASN’T” means tested ? - as I’m on CBESA (support group) and assumed this benefit wasn’t means tested - but only ESA-IR (income related).
Thanks.
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so basically we don’t know our limitations we are all living under some misguided notions that we’re too ill to work oh and our specialists are all misguided too btw. So “they” need to tell us what’s best for us, cos clearly we have no notion of how we feel.
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presumably you meant it is contribution based and is NOT means tested.
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@gamer1 I've been through it all. When you think it can't get any worse it does.
They don't give a flying fig about us. None of them ever did. I'm almost 59 I've had my fill of them moving the goalposts and as you get older and hope you'll be left alone it changes again.
I've no idea how they think any of these new proposals will do anything for us other than make us sicker as well as poorer.
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it’s going to leave so many people helpless and hopeless. No pip ,no carer , not enough financial support. Sorry to say but I think for some people, they will be left so devastated that there are going to be suicides as a direct result of these disgusting cuts. Labour are not the party they used to be.
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It is means tested yes.
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