Green Paper Discussion (from 24th March, 2025)

I've just heard from my MP. She is opposed to the cuts and wants to meet me and others in our position, so although there's a list of only 27 MPs who have stated they will vote against the cuts, I reckon there's many more biding their time.

@waylander9602

You may want to look at Disabled People Against Cuts. They are highly effective disability activists, they were the ones who fought the last government to have their disability green paper declared unlawful, mainly due to the finding by the Office for Budget Responsibility, the Treasury watchdog that only 3% of us would actually get employed!

https://dpac.uk.net/

Hence why this government are trying to force this one through by an Act of Parliament, to minimise that sort of action against them. However, even the OBR have said that there isn't enough detail in proposals.

Also, Labour will make a big mistake in making the rest of the MP's vote in July when the OBR's own impact assessment is not likely to be completed until October.

They are making many mistakes, in fact, with the way they are totally misrepresentating our chances of being able to work between our disabilities, highly reluctant employers and a persistently great shortage of work coaches and with the indecent haste at which they are doing it all, before due process has been followed.

I know that the DPAC will be doing their level best for us but I would try not to be too pessimistic, if you can. 😊 Even though the government seem so determined to get these proposals through and that the whole thing seems inevitable, that it will go through in it's current form, remember that they are doing it without following the correct protocol.

It's because we are so terrified of this succeeding that it seems so likely to happen to us. The reality is there is plenty to play for yet.