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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.

It’s hard to know what to believe. One minute it looks bad then I read they’re turning against him

I read in the daily express that it’s been put forward ( Gordon brown I think ) that they can pay for the scrapping of the two child limit but taxing gambling sites . If this is the case maybe another u turn could come for us especially as MPs are apparently still putting pressure on starmer . The fact he’s going against reeves shows he’s u turning.

Disgusting that they think this is okay

I believe that this will pass but some aspects will get watered down, that's my hypothesis.

Don't give up hope, I'm really tired, my neck issues are getting worse, I'm miserable but I'm not letting these narcissistic abusers to grind me down to the dust.

Our lives were never meant to be easy, it's a fight every day and that we can overcome our obstacles we face, we can overcome these nasty pieces of work.

I'll take a break until sometime next week to stop myself spamming, take care and look after yourselves.