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Looks like I've missed alot today can't follow what's happening to many threads for me to understand ☹️

That's great to hear Catherine. I hope that you will soon start feel a bit better. xx 😊 It's so hard isn't it but all we can do is keep going with our resistance.

It will take time and a lot of determination from us but I'm sure that things will get quite a bit better.

I'll be ready with those party poppers with you, don't you worry!! 🎉🎊 And possibly a celebratory beverage or two! 🍻🥂 (medication allowing).

Thanks for cheering me up. 👌😊

They really are a bunch of morons, it's like we're being governed by reincarnations of Hitler, Starlin, & Mussolini, this government even makes them look like compassionate leaders, and that;s saying something (only speaking hypothetically of course, I don't condone any of their actions)!!

You're right that under the Tories, it was never as bad as this. They didn't try to cut support from us at this scale though.

Labour would have objected to these cuts as well, as you've said. What wolves in sheep's clothing they ended up being! 🐺🐑

I couldn't imagine any party being this evil, including Labour. It's the sort of thing you used to see happening in poor, third world countries with a totalitarian regime not rich, first world countries like ours and a democracy.

It's been so hard to take in the fact that they are doing all this to us but I think now we have accepted the totally unacceptable really well and have channeled all the fear, anger and frustration into a powerful fighting force. ✊

It would really help if Starmer and Co could go as soon as possible but realistically, our allies and ourselves are going to have to fight on a lot longer for that to happen.

Even with them still there, the proposals can be postponed until we get a proper say and we have the OBR impact assessment considered before any decision is taken.

If the vote is for the cuts, there will be legal challenges that can be made, as they have ignored so many equality and human rights laws, we will have a really good case. 💪

When they do go, I would suggest that they take Morgan McSweeny with them and to ensure that nobody is ever allowed to listen to Tony Blair again in the future!! 😁

You're not on, having a pop at teachers. Do you have any idea how complex a classroom becomes when children with SEN aren't properly placed by local authorities and end up in mainstream settings with cuts to teaching assistant numbers? The vast majority of teachers aren't "unsympathetic" they're massively overloaded trying to teach up to 30 kids with hugely differing abilities and difficulties all in one room. You cannot imagine it unless you see what it's like in hundreds of schools up and down the country these days and making generalisations about thousands of otherwise capable teachers is disgusting. They are set up to feel and it's successive governments and their austerity measures that have caused it. That's right, the very same governments that are threatening to slash your benefits. Think about that.

Bare in mind LCW which is the basic rate of Universal Credit, they know full damn well that disabled people who can't work won't work so they'll push them onto LCW and bother them like once a month with this "duty to engage".

IF YOU CAN'T WORK, YOU CAN'T WORK. How many times do we have to say this?

All of this confusion, all the muddying the waters doesn't stop the fact that Labour intend to cut benefits and that Disabled people are treated like garbage in this country.