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No I mean I have stopped worrying about all of the changes to be honest. If I lose my pip and uc health element after migration, then I am ok to just wither away at home alone. Theres no way I could jump through the hoops of the job centre and looking for work and I have no partner or children so wouldn't be missed by many. Sad I know, but I've accepted my fate and in one way it will be a relief. I won't stop fighting for others though as I know other people will be worried sick so I will do all I can to make our voices heard.
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Morning everyone,
Damning report from Amnesty International in the Mirror today regarding the welfare system.
On a brighter note as I needed a laugh Angela Rayner just came 4th in most beautiful women in the country ( daily express) , though it was polled by something called illicit encounters 😂.2 -
Just hearing the Nigel Farage is saying too many people are being diagnosed with MH autism and adhd, everyone has it in for us, I hope next election he don’t get in
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What are your ideas on where to write other than to deputies?
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I realise that in its infancy SCOPE along with many others that were set up by the Government were actually held back. Scope I believe were aslo involved with Remploy a company that was set up to find "disabled" and long term sick people, work, but as you may or may not know because of the Acts and Laws governing re-employment of this group they stiffled the needs of them and made it harder to employ them by the need of adaptions to get them employed for safe access and regress to work, and also the need for them to be "shadowed" while at work by "champions" that would look after them while on the premesis.
This is where we are now, since they have to log in like everyone else while there, and in case of a Fire, or practice drill for evacuation, these champions were the first to go into action to make sure they were able to evacuate in a timely maner, and safely.
The government on paper are supposed to do this anyway, and employers were also given a subsady to employ so many disabled people, but bec ause of changes to the referendum and the increase of things like buisness rates and adaptions some employees could not afford the adaptions.
Scope is charity run, so you would think with what Scope actually do this would be the first thing the government would assist in. YES, there is a budget for adaptions to both work and home, but this budget instead of being increased by the numbers claiming Disability Benefits is being CUT?
This latest thing with the Green Paper is a classic example of work manipulation, where the budget for disabled is given, BUT, now is including people who have been on the Dole for a long time and abandonded, and those that are long term sick by saying work is good for "people" and does according to their surveys say they will do everything to get "people" back into work by increasing the BASIC LIVING WAGE.
but why were we left behind knowing that the cost of living as a disabled person is around £950?
How do you equate, the cost of living rise to us as "Non-working people that may not be able to work, yet are DISABLED 24/7, while others of working age or not, still get all the benefits with out the needs of adaptions or medical assistance, or prescriptions to survive every day to function?
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next stop for Angela plenty of fish(wives)
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I don’t know how they plan to get us to work. I have fibromyalgia and ME among other conditions. I’m constantly in bed resting. Any exertion and I get PEM . I couldn’t even sit at a desk at home and sleep on and off throughout the day . How’s streeting going to get the NHS to cure me so I can work when there is no cure ? I can’t understand how this will be legal .
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Raynor - the 4th most beautiful woman in the country ?
After these cuts proposals, the blind won't be voting for her again ! 😆
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the funniest was the pic they posted of her in the article shows her in a pub drinking a pint of lager 😂
I actually watched her a bbc interview being interviewed by a disabled woman. This was pre election I think. She spoke very well and seemed empathetic towards the disabled. But of course it was the old IF you can work and looking after those that CANT . Though lose a 4 point descriptor and you’re no longer disabled, all cured .
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Hi Catherine, I’m ok thanks, how are you? a lot of respect to you for emailing mps etc, when I’ve emailed my mp in the past for help i was ignored which disappoints me and makes me more angry so don’t bother now for my own sanity, I wish I knew what side she was on with these cuts
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Unfortunately, the UK government has sunk to such a level that even it is better than the Conservatives and the Labour Party.
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No, it isn't. It's absolutely clear what Reform's policies are, and none of them are beneficial to disabled people. They will absolutely be worse to us than the Tories or Labour. It's just that grim a field.
As an autistic person, what is going on in the US at the moment terrifies me. The fact Farage is now jumping on the bandwagon just makes that worse.
What is going on across the atlantic is an existential threat to people on the spectrum. The last thing we need is it spreading over here.As for the overall fight, the biggest problem we all have is that disability content is not interesting to the 'rest of the world'. It drops off news pages quickly, most people are like, 'not my problem' and move on. Changing that narrative is very hard because the vast majority of able bodied people lack the ability to empathise with disabled people. It's just outside of their scope of understanding, so they judge what they see, not what a person's lived experience may actually be. That makes the fight much harder. If it were in the press every day, there would be more action. But it isn't. And so here we are.
Equality so rarely includes us.6 -
Oh I see Zipz, you were referring to a comment in the discussion section, that makes sense.
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I check everyday looking for some hope but I start to think it's time to accept things are not going to change Does anyone know of dates of discussion or anything that we can focus on as a positive
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The way i see it is that it will get voted on and passed but hopefully gets watered down….
Ideally we could do with seeing the economy nose dive which in turn will effect the GDP figures and inflation rates, when that happens the blame lays solely at the door of the chancellor (Reeves) …..
The above will put pressure on Starmer from within the party to get shut of her and when that happens it's not long after that the PM is advised to step down as pressure mounts within the party ….
A new PM could possibly scrap the whole process of reforming the benefits system because with a clear head they can see what damage it has and is causing the Labour party.
And let's not forget the local elections especially the Runcorn by election which could send shock waves through the Labour party ….
Runcorn is a Labour strong hold but come May 1st that is set to change !
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Does anyone know if emailing my local Mayor would do any good ? The current one is Labour so I am not sure If I would be just wasting the little bit of brain power I have left 😁We are voting for for a Mayor in the local elections, as mentioned before, I defaced and returned my voting slips 😂 I guess I could tell her that lol. This Mayor has been re elected several times and I guess is well thought of, I live in a mega Labour stronghold, I cant see that ever changing but folk are starting to see that she only has one main objective and it is not related to health or welfare.
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they should be number 1 on plenty of fish( wives) 😂
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hopefully Catherine ❤️
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