Get your MP to act against cuts

PLEASE DON'T FORGET that the Local Elections are coming up on 1st May 2025. If it is possible for you do so I URGE YOU TO VOTE. 📢 Please don't think that Local Elections are for local issues, they can make a great deal of difference to national policy making too. ✊✊✊✊

It is vitally important as we have a chance to vote against the Labour government, with 80 MPs being in unstable swing seats where disabled people in each of their constituencies (each MPs area) can easily vote them out, as long as THEY DO turn out to vote.

Each vote in every other constituency IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THOUGH.

Whatever you do please don't doubt that YOUR VOTE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. ✊✊✊✊ PLEASE THINK COLLECTIVELY, THE MORE OF US ACT TOGETHER THE BETTER!!

For those of you who believe that none of the main political parties represent you and you would normally stay at home and not vote did you know THAT YOU CAN SPOIL YOUR BALLOT? 🤔

For the sake of keeping it simple, just write a big cross ❎ like that from edge to edge of the whole paper, right through all the candidates, like the example below. 👇👇👇👇

Please don't put a mark of ANY KIND by any individual candidate as it will be considered as a vote for them.

ON THE DAY PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO TAKE PHOTO ID as you will not be allowed to vote without showing it!! You don't have to have a passport or driving licence, there are many other types of ID that you may already have or can easily acquire before the day. The full list is here. 👇

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/voter-id/accepted-forms-photo-id

I know by experience, of course, just how tough it is with our health conditions to even consider going out, for many of us (including me) and we all feel so ground down by the vile government treatment of the disabled but this is something that COULD MAKE A VERY REAL DIFFERENCE TO OUR FIGHT AGAINST THESE PROPOSED SADISTIC, IMMORAL AND POSSIBLY UNLAWFUL CUTS!!

THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE HAD A POSTAL VOTE WILL HAVE SENT IT IN BY NOW BUT FOR EVERYONE ELSE.👇👇👇👇

Firstly, you must be on the ELECTORAL REGISTER, if not make sure that, when the letter comes later in the year to sign you up to it, you do so for future elections.

Please check that there is an election in your area (constituency) at the link below.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/your-election-information

If you have trouble with either of the links highlight the text and press OPEN on the menu that comes up beside it.

Unfortunately there isn't a Local Election in my constituency this year!! 😱😱 😱 😱 so please make a difference too for those of us who have no opportunity to vote at all at this crucial time!! 😒

Scope's 'The cost of cuts' campaign now has over 90,000 signatures - click on the link below, then on 'Add your name' (even if you have) to see that Scope have nearly reached their 'new' target of 100,000 signatures: https://www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/the-cost-of-cuts

Gremlins have been in the works for several hyperlinks for me today, so apologies I couldn't get anything better to work! However 90k thousand signatures in just over a month isn't bad.

⚠️ Government Phishing Alert!! ⚠️

If you see this on Facebook or anywhere else for that matter, don't fill it in!

Dav1D
I think he his just towing the party line with this nonsense 1 out of 10 claim, he obviously doesn’t give a rats **** about the 1.2million who will lose out. It’s not even going to be fair assessments because we all know they will not award 4 points even if it’s deserved. I will never understand the madness behind this, what a terrible country this is now, the harm this is going to cause so many vulnerable people is disgraceful. Makes me ashamed to be a human being.

Hi Martin. She actually completely ignored my letter, which was purely about the proposal

‘to merge ESA with JSA to make a new ‘unemployment insurance’ benefit, paid for a limited time’.

Do you think the MPs being lied to; or are they lying to us?

I meet the Govs 2008 severe conditions criteria for ESA, will never work again, they have that in writing from numerous doctors, including leading specialists, I have provided medical evidence proving I meet the criteria for entry into the support group under Risk and Mobility, but I do not believe I meet the proposed new 4 point rule.

I have a rare complicated multisystemic disease, (have been through 16 years of absolute hell) Ive only just, (finally) got access to ESA, last year. (After losing everything).

Up to 90% of patients with my disease were receiving delayed diagnosis.

(Cant describe how horrific its been)

If I were to try to work again, Id be collapsing, at first id keep trying to get back up, and then start collapsing again, going down for minutes at first, then comatose for hours, then days and nights consecutively bedbound, with increasingly serious very severe symptoms, etc, etc. They know this. Theyve seen it.

They wouldnt make a lame horse suffer and treat it so badly.

Are they genuinely Evil or highly ignorant? One wonders.

**** to my courage and dignity!

We need an effective way to fight them.

Thats the problem here.

Theres no way to fight back against them!

What your MP wrote was what the Labour government will admit to. They want to minimise the bad effects of this particular proposal hoping that MPs, the general public and the disabled will accept it.

The Freedom of Information request has the CORRECT figures, where it emerged that 87% or nearly 9 out of 10 of all standard daily living claiments would not get an award for failing to get 4 points in a descriptor.

This is the sort of manipulative misinformation that we are trying to fight. We can't trust anything they say so we must all keep up with what's going on so we can fact check and challenge their claims.

Thanks again, @jul1aorways. The awareness, motivation, and support you’re giving to so many of our members across the forum in standing up to these ruthless benefit cuts is honestly amazing and exemplary . I’ve just managed to catch up on some of the posts-there were about 10 pages for me to catch up on the Green Paper thread! My poor brain is struggling a bit now!

Let’s continue to keep the momentum going. 🤗

Dear All,

If you haven’t received a response to your emails and are physically able to attend your MP’s local advice surgery, please consider this powerful option suggested by Dr Jay Watts (Psychologist) on the X platform (see Dr Jay’s banner below). It’s a valuable opportunity to respectfully urge your MP to vote against-or at the very least abstain—when the Green Paper proposal comes to Parliament in June.