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So slippery aren’t they . I should have got a 4 last time but the assessors don’t award them . My assessor had knowledge of my conditions and had my medical notes so knew my conditions were not curable yet she gave me a 2 year award. Even dwp increased it to 3 years . There doesn’t seem to be any rules they have to stick to . It’s just luck on the day . Timms better make the most of his time in government, it’ll be his last .

It’s terrible that they can remove points during reassessment. Mist conditions don’t improve, in fact they get worse with age .
I definitely think there should be set rules as it all seems to be down to luck . Even the 10 year light touch , I’ve asked so many people how they’re awarded yet no one really knows.
I know people that should claim pip but are too afraid of the system and it’s shocking that something that’s there to help people is made so difficult it puts people off from applying for it.

I hope everyone is as well as can be, I have taken a step back as this is getting very depressing, especially as the government have started announcing spending in other areas including other DWP things, which tells us even more so this is ideological.

I do have a glimmer of hope of all those MPs still fighting for us though as well as the other organisations.

That's right. 😔 In addition to those real world reasons for claiming PIP there is also the fact that the increase in claiments has also been manufactured by the government itself in implementing previous benefit cuts.

Anyone with some basic common sense would realise that deprivation only increases the chance or increase of health conditions.

Hey, but the Labour leadership would hate to stop deluding themselves in their comfortable Westminster bubble with the constant presence of Morgan McSweeny, whispering neoliberalistic ideology in their ears. 😒

There is also the refusal to see that Long Covid really helped to push up the number of people who have become disabled.

Dismissing inconvenient facts does not make them go away.

Saying that PIP is an out of work benefit is another excuse to smear us so they can take the PIP off us. What is wrong anyway with many claiments being given a benefit that helps people with the cost of their support, whether they are capable of work or not? 🤔

People should not be only defined by their ability to be capable of work and it is not the most important thing in life either. The actual person is, with their values and talents, plus with what they can contribute to the well-being of others is much more important.

The latest figures for unemployment from the ONS are 1.61 million people, up 62,000 in the last quarter. It's been rising quite a bit for some time now.

How on earth are they going to employ us if 1.6 million fit and healthy jobseekers can't find a job. It would be a cold day in hell, to be blunt when any employer would take us on!! 😡

Have a look on X at Liz Kendalls @leicesterliz. It is full of posts about disabled people entering the work place but they all have one thing in common, they are all young!

What a great advantage that is 🙄 to all us older people who are going to be disproportionately affected by these cuts, with it being another reason why no employer will ever employ us!! 😤

I hope that we are giving them at least some of the misery and sleepless nights that we've been having. 😁

It will only ever be small part of what we are going through though because the worst they will lose is status and their ministerial pay grade.

It may seem devastating to them but they will NEVER know what it's like to have the prospect of a future of destitution and homelessness as we have. 😡

They deserve to know at least some of our misery though. Even if this was all resolved tomorrow, we will never be able to be able to see life in the same way again after going through this horror! 😱

I felt a bit sorry for my parady of Loathsome LIz the other day (not) so I did one for Keir Starver too. I do actually post these online on X etc to give a serious message too about our plight so it's not just about making fun out of them (but it helps). I know a lot of mp's have social media accounts so may see them and share them, and realise what a laughing stock we know they are!!

Farage had a press conference yesterday outlining his manifesto further. No mention of disability cuts and no questions asked by the media regarding the planned cuts. Not sure where he’s standing regarding these cuts and I’m not sure anyone knows.
My feeling is that he is unsure on wether to back these planned cuts as currently outlined or not because he isn’t sure how they will go down with the electorate.

I’d press him too.

He has to be made to take a clear stance regarding this issue.

With the damage he's done to us and to so many others in this country with both left and right wing voters hating him he will not only have to go elsewhere, I think that he will have to permanently leave the country because I don't think that he will be safe if he stays here as he is so throughly detested.

He's already had his former home, his private home and a vehicle connected to him set on fire recently, in London.

I shouldn't think that he's feeling all that comfortable, to be honest!

You're quite right about him not giving a damn about all the people whose lives he's ruined or going to ruin.

That's going to be the main problem for him. No one is going to thank him for making their lives so difficult!!