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Ministers on resignation 'watch-list' over welfare reforms
The government is wary of ministers resigning over potential changes to benefits, Harriet Harman tells the Electoral Dysfunction podcast.
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It still has to go to the vote whatever Kendall says
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But the figures don’t show how many people should have been awarded a 4 but as they had enough points for an award they haven’t appealed. I found with my last assessment I was awarded 2 points on at least one , possibly two , where it should of been a 4 but as I was given enhanced I didn’t even check my award letter to the 4? Point rule came about
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I hope they do . It’s the only way to save themselves even if they don’t care about us
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Two 'New Labour' party MPs, sit on the parliamentary group for ME (Myalgic encephalomyelitis), and yet at the same time are openly and publicly supporting Labours benefit cuts.
Freshly elected Exeter MP Steve Race, and Gen Z Labour right newcomer MP for York Outer, Luke Charters.
The think tank, Labour together, was inextricably wrapped up in the (frankly evil), 'get Britain working group' of 34 Labour MPs.
This was brain child of Starmers chief of staff, the infamously despicable low life Morgan McSweeney. (This guy needs to be sacked ASAP)
(This is a group of extreme right wingers, a product of the demon Blairs New Labour)
It is reported that it is already nearly impossible for people with ME to get PIP.
The most recent data shows 56,102 claiming PIP have ME listed as their primary condition.
The chairman of the ME association, wrote to Liz Kendall about the cuts stating that;
'...many people with moderate or severe ME/CFS, and Long Covid, are still being refused sickness and disability benefits. They are only succeeding when there is a reconsideration of their case or they go to appeal....'MEA writes to the Rt Hon Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - The ME Association
Patients with Long Covid (And other rarer diseases, such as Sarcoidosis, etc) also meet over 50% of the same diagnostic criteria as patients with ME.
The severe cases are completely crippling, but it is extremely difficult to get recognition of the completely disabling symptoms when claiming benefits.
More than two million people – including children – are now living with long Covid.
it is known that 381,000 long Covid sufferers are “severely limited in their ability to undertake their day-to-day activities”.
Since the pandemic struck in 2020, there has been a marked uplift in the number of people claiming health-related benefits.
If they impose the cuts, the are going to kill people, the most vulnerable, and yet all I see Starmer saying is these cuts are designed to get young people back into work!
The pathways to work green paper fails to consider that people who meet the very stringent criteria for being in the LCWRA ‘support’ group claiming NS-ESA, who meet the criteria set for both ‘Mobility’ and ‘Risk’, (having spent many years being assessed by numerous expert doctors), may not score 4 points in any one daily living PIP descriptor.
Its life or death and they are making people, who have already been through the fire, been through absolute hell, suffer tremendously, by dangling these cuts.
I think that a lot of this must be down to extreme ignorance about how peoples symptoms affect them. The alternative is that we are dealing with outright evil.2 -
Rumour Lisa Nandy is one of them
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Catherine what with your love of horror films and now an animal lover I feel we are twins 👯
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I think they’re just evil. I’d like to put them in a car with no gas and say go on drive around for 12 hours or you will lose all your money. That’s what’s it like living with ME.
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This from the times journalist Max Kendrick on X
Reaction from leading rebels last night was cold. "They’re doing a lot of things short of the thing they’ve actually been asked to do. We had two principal demands ... this addresses neither."
Even the most moderate say it's very welcome but not yet enough to change their mind1 -
She’s front bench isn’t she ?
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yes she’s been very quiet
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I haven’t heard her say anything about anything. Is she watching and waiting do you think ?
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who knows we just gotta pray
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More from the Times
The olive branch on disability cuts will cost about £500m and is already causing concern in government about yet more unfunded spending commitments
But so far hasn't won over MPs as ministers make clear they aren't shifting on the substance
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What changes or tweaks ? The one rumoured was to save enhanced at leased . This is simply TP of 13 weeks . That’s not long enough for a MR now let alone in the future
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By this it looks like the rebels are not impressed
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It won’t actually cost them anything though as it’s money already being paid out now . Or have they costed in scrapping the two child limit plus WFA with money saved from us ?
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Yeah they have took it out of there funding for that time already
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That will be a further stab in the back to me . It’s one thing lying that the benefits bill needs to come down but to then increase it again with another group is disgraceful. We aren’t making a choice to be disabled after all .
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DWP cuts are being driven by Starmer adviser Morgan McSweeney
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been at the centre of a storm in recent days; more so than usual. It’s over the Labour Party government’s plans to cut £6bn from chronically ill and disabled people’s benefits.
Aside from the fact that disabled people feel scared and betrayed, many non-disabled people are pointing out that this plan from Labour is something the Tories would have enacted. In fact, the Tories weren’t even planning on cutting as much as Labour now are.
However, a group of Labour MPs who have been openly supporting their party’s attempts to cull disabled people points to where this drive for further decimation of the welfare state is coming from. And it’s right at the top of Downing Street – namely, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney and his Labour Together think tank; the same people who destroyed Jeremy Corbyn and pushed Starmer into power in the first place.
People have been widely sharing a letter from a new group of MPs in the Labour Party. It’s called ‘Get Britain Working’ and is headed up by David Pinto-Duschinsky. He also sits on parliament’s Work and Pensions Select Committee:
The letter, signed by 36 Labour MPs, is basically issuing a public statement of support for Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall’s plans to cut chronically ill and disabled people’s benefits. Pinto-Duschinsky even penned a column in City A.M. about the group. It was more-of-the-same nonsense: work is good for disabled people; we’ve got a worklessness crisis; people are left to rot on benefits, but the main problem is it’s costing us too much.
Now, you’d be forgiven for thinking that these 36 MPs just appeared out of thin air to create the Get Britain Working Group. Of course they didn’t.
Labour Together (again)
My colleague Hannah Sharland has done some extensive digging into these miscreants. And she found that almost every single one of them (29 in total) had either been funded by a) McSweeney’s Labour Together think tank directly (17) or b) by someone who had also donated to Labour Together (20), or both (8). You can browse her research here. Someone who funded six of these MPs was Trevor Chinn, one of the co-founders of Labour Together.
Of course, this is the same Labour Together that:
- Plotted to destroy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party.
- Fomented the exaggerated antisemitism crisis.
- Went after grassroots Labour supporters and smeared them as antisemites.
- Created Stop Funding Fake News to try and destroy the Canary, SKWAWKBOX, and other independent media outlets.
Labour Together was the brainchild of McSweeney and Chinn – and the former is now Starmer’s chief of staff. However, the point with the fact it is Labour Together MPs openly supporting the DWP’s drive to cut disabled people’s benefits should not be a surprise either.
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