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Apparently Welsh Labour MP's were not happy hearing this.
It will be very interesting to see what she says next week about the wider cuts being made.
To give some history in the Senedd Plaid are really laying into them,
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I read that the rules for PIP are changing at the end of May 2025. I thought this wasnt coming into effect until Nov 2026?
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Has it come alot earlier than your award date
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Can you give me a link to where you read this?
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Well Labour lose Runcorn in the by election …..
Here's hoping this is the beginning of the end for Starmer & co …..
Surely there will be rumblings of discontent within the party and questions asked about his leadership !
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But which way will Labour go? Towards the right to try of get Reform voters back? Or return to a decent one-nation social-democratic party that we hoped for? We don't know when Labour lost. One benefit claiming household could have swung it, a few pensioners could have swung it, but equally hatred for migrants could have won the day. I can't see a good way forward from this morning.
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''But while Labour held on by just 687 votes, Reform enjoyed a huge 21% swing – a rise of 30% since 2021, Labours vote was down 11%''.
That was what I woke up to this morning 😩It really was no surprise, my City will never ditch Labour, worrying that Reform has that swing in votes, God help us all.
The overall percentage turnout was 32.27 per cent, looks like folk are probably fed up and couldn't be bothered to vote.
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Wherever it said that, they're wrong. Every reputable source I checked correctly puts the putative start date for the PIP points changes at November 2026. In fact, isn't it mentioned in the Green Paper?
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DWP figures released in response to an FOI request from the Benefits and Work website show how many people with different disabilities and illnesses currently receive the PIP daily living allowance having scored under four points in all categories. They include:
- 214,000 claimants with arthritis – that’s 77% of all arthritis claimants receiving the daily living allowance
- 38,000 with cardiovascular diseases – 62%
- 45,000 with respiratory diseases – 55%
- 38,000 with multiple sclerosis and neuropathic diseases – 48%
- 23,000 with cancer – 33%
- 11,000 with cerebral palsy and neurological muscular diseases – 24%
- 26,000 with psychotic disorders – 23%
The figures also indicate how many new applicants with different conditions would over time fail to qualify for PIP from November next year if the plans are voted through.
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I have lived as a non-tourist in very different countries, and I have not had any problems with the local population - maybe because I behaved decently and did not show disrespect for the traditions of the natives?
Voting for certain parties is like going to support your football team - it only benefits the owners of the football club (or party).
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HI! It seems that you did not understand the meaning of what I wrote - the government does not need petitions and personal letters to deputies to collect public opinion - there are systems for this that collect data on the Internet.
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-10236/CBP-10236.pdf
2.9 Department for Work and PensionsThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has experimented with several AI-related tools, including:
• White Mail: a correspondence reviewing tool that identifies people whomight be in vulnerable situations and prioritises them for DWP assistance
.• The Lighthouse AI Programme: as of 2023, this involved:
– trialling AI-enabled projects to complement the services workcoaches provide to customers in job centres.
– trialling how AI can write, update, or organise code to address thecurrent digital skills shortage in areas like software engineering.
– trialling productivity tools for all colleagues to use, such as rapidlysummarising policy documents or providing simple tools to gatherinformation for frontline colleagues.15
Note that a Guardian article from January 2025 reported that several DWP AIexperiments had been cancelled or curtailed.16
It is not known how true this is, but even if only a small part is true, it looks like a monkey with a grenade.
I will note that the links you provided contain significant errors, it is clear that it was not written by an AI specialist.0 -
Aktion 4.
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The
"Do not scrap the Work Capability Assessment (WCA)" petition has finally been published ….Everyone needs to get it signed !3 -
Please share the names, titles and emails of those you wrote to.
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Catherine, you have been doing an amazing job sending out all those emails, just remember to take care of yourself as well :)
The Runcorn election result is good news for nobody. Reform's gains are also not good for anyone on this forum, unless you are strongly in favour of no welfare state and removal of all employment disabled benefits after four months. Those are Reform's actual policies.
Moving on.
Our Council didn't have a vote. This wasn't because of the mayoral or boundary changes, they voted 2 years ago so it's not their cycle yet. Even if they had had an election here I know it would've stayed a Lab majority. The last time there was a mass drop in Labour council votes, around the time of Corbyn and when people were being silly over Brexit, our Council gained red seats. It gained even more last time. It's been a very long time since it was anything other than red.
We don't have a realistic Labour candidate in our ward and never have had, so all this is pretty irrelevant to me anyway :/ Can't vote for or against what doesn't exist.But I am watching with interest the results in some neighbouring areas. Some good and some bad (from my perspective) so far.
The only positive I can see from Reform winning anything is that there's plenty of time till the election for people to realise they aren't really in it for the voters. Otherwise we are all in for a very unpleasant time come the next GE.
The Tories are haemorrhaging votes to Reform like nobody's business, so a coalition or shift is very likely if this trajectory continues.4 -
Actually we are more intelligent than they believe , we know they are corrupt , we know they want us as slaves . I think this labour government are puppets and controlled , and I think the benefits cuts are to wake people up , most thought labour were going to save us and they are worse than the tories , they must be laughing their socks off at us , they don't care they are cruel heartless and greedy .
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I just heard something from YouTube regarding the voting , not sure if anyone on here has heard but apparently Labour are not happy with starmer ( obviously) and are talking of getting rid of him and putting Ed milliband in his place . How true this is I don’t know but can he be any worse than starmer for us ?
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You are doing very important work by sending out letters! And if you published the list of emails, I think many would join you.
I would expand the mailing list to the former MP. My idea is that we should also write to those corporations and ministries that receive money from saving on the disabled. To find out whether such money burns their souls or not.0 -
it’s not looking good for starmer so that’s good news . According to what I’ve heard and I obviously don’t know if it’s true but his personal life’s in trouble and so is his premiership so hopefully he’ll resign
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