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I think if they reinstate the WFA ( which I agree with) and scrap the two chid limit and cut disability benefits that looks like discrimination to me . Whether it is in law is another matter. I’m more worried now with all the talk of scrapping the two child limit as I think they’ll say the disability rules need voting for to help children. I hope I’m wrong and by next week they’re u turning for us too

Yes it could be discriminatory but maybe not outright, I found out this information though.

Could this be discriminatory?

✅ Not direct discrimination, but possibly:

❗ Indirect discrimination and/or unfair treatment under the Equality Act 2010 or Human Rights Act 1998.

Here’s how:

A. Indirect Discrimination

• If a group policy (e.g. public spending choices) disproportionately harms disabled people, even if it doesn’t target them, it could amount to indirect discrimination.
• Cutting disability benefits while expanding support for other groups without justification could raise legal and ethical concerns.

B. Discrimination by Omission

• If disabled people are not equally supported in the cost of living crisis while other groups are helped, that could be seen as failing the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) under the Equality Act:
  • Government must show it considered the impact on disabled people when making major spending decisions.
  • Ignoring this duty has led to successful court challenges in the past.

C. Breach of Legitimate Expectation / Unfairness

• If disabled people were promised continued support (e.g. LCWRA or PIP), then that support is cut while other groups benefit, it may be argued that this is unjust or irrational, especially if the criteria for support are not applied consistently.

🔥 3. Political & Legal Pressure Points

Even if not illegal, this approach is politically and morally challengeable:

• Disabled people face disproportionate poverty, isolation, and energy needs.
• They are more likely to require heating all day (due to staying home).
• Many do not benefit from the triple lock or other pension protections.
• Reinstating generous pensioner benefits while cutting from disabled people could be framed as socially regressive and contrary to equality aims.

I'm afraid to say that it seems like they are backing down on the WFA and the child benefit cap to try and make a trade off with the Labour MPs who are against the cuts, hoping that they will accept having disabled people's people's lives ruined for the sake of looking after children and elderly people.

ALL vulnerable people should be looked after, not just certain groups at the expense of others!! 😡 Plus there is the money to do so.

This country is not as impoverished as the leadership try make out that it is. In fact it's exactly the opposite. They are just making a political choice to neglect us. 🤥 There are many other ways our support could be funded, that will not ruin our lives.

The good news though from what I can see, is that Labour MPs who are on our side are unlikely to be taken in by all this skullduggery and seem really fed up by the leaderships hideous, morally bankrupt antics and being treated with such disrespect by them.

They are the ones who could lose up to 200 seats at the next GE with quite a few going at the next Local Elections, which will cover a lot more of the country than the one just gone will.

The leadership have a great deal more to fall back on so it won't bother them. I can imagine our parliamentary supporters feel pretty fed up about that too!! 😳 Their self interest is to our advantage, as are their worries about how badly the Labour Party is being seen for doing this too.

Thank you @charlie72 😊 for your excellent research for this post and a later one on the basis for legal challenges against these cuts.

I feel more hopeful than I did because of it! 🤗 I hope that everyone reading that information will feel more optimistic about the situation.

can you imagine the way they must speak about us in private, I bet they are enjoying causing all this suffering the sickos

not a chance ….

Labour as a party are finished for the foreseeable future !

Reform will have a majority come the next election = no need for a coalition .

What is this all about?

Can someone tell me, looking after granny and children is cute for the public but looking after the brain damaged person, handicapped in a wheelchair isn't so cute is it?

There’s also a hierarchy of sympathy in how people perceive vulnerability:

Children and elderly people are often seen as more "deserving" or "innocent."

Disabled people, particularly working-age adults, are too often unfairly framed as burdens or benefit scroungers — a narrative that gained traction in Britain during the austerity years.