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The last two reassessment I had they reduced my mobility points and I had them reinstated st mandatory reconsideration.
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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.0 -
I have always assumed if I work it would have to be a full time job, but given PIP isnt means tested or work related, I now am starting to understand more how it can help people work, as on enhanced daily living, its possibly enough to allow a part time work combined with PIP to pay the bills. But on the gateway stuff you are right, I get a huge discount on my water bill because of PIP. I think my region has perhaps the best water social tariff in the country.
I also fully agree on the points you making that we should presume things about others, and should it be spent on specific things. Its purpose is to help disabled people with the challenges they face in daily life. Which can mean a variety of things.0 -
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!! 😤
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Could you check and confirm REFORMS policy for benefits - I think that you will find them similar (if not worse) than Labours
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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! 😱
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The ones following starmer don’t realise once they’ve ruined the country he’ll be off elsewhere and those left behind won’t get a second thought .
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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!!
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Here's the link to their Open Letter. It's the best one I've seen yet.
Also have a look at the screenshots I posted for The Guardian yesterday (if you haven't seen them already) of two articles that tell you a lot more about #TakingThePIP.
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was thinking about Great Expectations and Reeves could be Miss Favisham and Kendall Estella, messing with poor PIP
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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!!
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Well he seems to be settling himself up in the EU so maybe they’ll want him but he’s so useless I doubt it .
As for the fires they’re a bit suspicious and maybe more in the personal side as is talked about away from the msm . Will we ever know the truth probably not .2 -
Politicians and political parties all over the world have been clowns for the behind-the-scenes owners of circuses. Sometimes clowns put their former employers in jail (Zelensky-Kolomoisky), but clowns themselves are nothing. And if a new party appears (Farage, for example), it means that someone with real power needs it. It is very expensive to maintain a political party.
And if you noticed, there is no room for ordinary people in this equation.
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How much money is rich? 6000/16000?
Now this is not money for which you can buy something valuable. This is money not to die of hunger for several months.
The shameful policy of mixing the disabled with the unemployed, refugees and the like bears its bitter fruits.
I believe that any disabled person should be provided with support to ensure a safe existence, regardless of their "wealth".0 -
If Farage were to come out in support of leaving benefits cuts alone Starmer would have no choice but the scrap the cuts . Apparently half of red wall are against cuts so labour will lose the red wall if he continues surely
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"New Labour" behind the curtain, like odious extreme right wingers Labour Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeny and former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Funny, we never voted for their opinion on how the government is run! 🤔
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Exactly my thoughts, he's currying favour with the EU so he can land a job with them once his tenure is over as PM … hence the change to fishing grounds and free movement for under 30's within the EU
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@secretsquirrel1 mentioned the celebrity campaign. This post has some more details if anyone fancies a look. It has a link to the website. Really great work they're doing 🤗:
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I agree wholeheartedly. Lets say they means test PIP, if they set the cut off at the same point as pension credit that's mine gone !! I live alone, I don't have private pensions etc but was just £3 odd over getting PC, so no WFA for me and this would have been my first year receiving it, I need my PIP now more than ever. I really do not like the argument that ''pensioners are living a life of luxury'' and therefore they don't need PIP. Some posts really get my back up on here at times, I usually refrain from saying anything about them but when folk want to take from one section of disabled folk to make sure another section is funded, well honestly its pretty saddening and disappointing.
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Thank you so much @charlie72 for more of your really encouraging research. 👏
It makes you realise how successful the pushing back of the tide has been for disabled people, over the years and most of all, it emphasises the possibilities we have for a much less damaging implementation of these proposals. I think though that we have to be realistic and realise that on the other hand that the government leadership are very unlikely to do a complete U Turn.
I wish too that there were more Labour MPs that would vote against the cuts, the majority of the numbers we have heard about on the media are abstaining rather than voting. 😞 Votes against would help us enormously.
Because the government have managed to take so much away from us and threaten us with so much more in the way of cuts (the Tories as well as Labour) it only serves to make us look on the pessimistic side though.
Perhaps we can allow ourselves be quite a bit more optimistic after all. 😃
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