Green Paper Related Discussions

I have been trying to distract myself from all of this as much as I can because otherwise it can become completely time consuming and I refuse to let that happen.

I live in a beautiful place, the weather has been great this week and I have sat outside overlooking the sea.

I hope you all manage to have a good weekend.

What they’re doing makes no sense especially if they say they’re trying to get people to work. This would prove they’re lying as more people won’t be able to work.

I really don’t think they know what they’re doing. They just seem to look back at the Tory’s and copy them . I actually had a reply from starmers office a copy of days before the parliamentary talk last Wednesday. First thing they said was it’s the Tory’s fault. Gave a load of rubbish but whoever wrote it didn’t sign their name just from the office of …

I could be wrong… but with the means testing PIP that seems to have come from a freedom of information request from the DWP. it could be that it was something that was considered by the DWP. I think by law it has to be shared, even if the idea itself was shelved.

It doesn’t mean that it might not happen in the future. Probably not now… labour can’t just slip it into the bill, or DWP just decide to implement it. I know DNS is a source of information for most of us, and is dedicated to disabled news, but it’s also a journalist outlet and they tend to sensualise news. It’s just scaremongering at this point making this time worse for us, not good for our MH.

We can only deal with the facts and put pressure on our MPs and respond to green paper by the 30th June.

And they’re voting in assisted dying and scrapping vagrant laws to give us options ? How nice of them.

I’d prefer Tory’s over this lot . They spoke of doing thing but at the end of the day they held a full consultation and they didn’t make things water tight as this lot . You can tell Labour are serious where Tory’s just seemed to try to do something to stay in power .

Rebels lives are probably being threatened not just their jobs.

God I swear this and other things are really messing with my head, I'm seriously considering having my meds increased for the second time since the green paper came out just to stay sane. I'm living in a permanent state of utter dread and terror it's like they are purposely trying to drive us to the brink!

Let's all laugh at the irony of how much much this has cost 'working people' in taxes with my medication increases and extra doctors visits. I wish there was a way to see how much extrawe've had to use the NHS since this started

So if the bill gets scrapped before it goes to the vote they need to find another way of getting that £5 billion ?

Not sure what to make of it but Daily express running two reports claiming Starmer would like to u turn but Reeves has added it in to her savings . I can’t post the link but wonder if it’s another “ leak “

PM Keir Starmer is facing a massive revolt from Labour MPs that threatens his Parliamentary majority.

He’d love to buy them off, but thanks to Rachel Reeves, he can’t afford to do so. That's because the savings have effectively been spent, even before they're banked.

In a bid to plug the black hole in the nation’s finances, the Chancellor announced in her Spring Statement that she would slash £5billion from disability benefits.

That includes tightening eligibility for the personal independence payment (PIP), cutting sickness-related universal credit, and restricting access for under-22s.

The backlash has been fierce.

Critics claim the government is taking cash from people who struggle to get out of bed, let alone into work.

Around 80 Labour MPs may rebel, just short of the 83 needed to wipe out Starmer’s majority of 165.

At least a dozen government figures are threatening to resign if the vote, due on 1 July, goes ahead.

The mood is turning ugly as Starmer refuses to make any further concessions. Labour whips are getting tough, warning rebels they’ll be blacklisted from ministerial jobs.

Starmer has already been forced into a U-turn over the winter fuel payment. This time, though, Reeves has made that impossible.

The money’s already gone.

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Reeves has lost her grip on the nation’s finances. She left herself with just £9.9billion of fiscal headroom after October’s budget – despite pulling in £40billion of extra tax.

That’s because she spent an extra £30billion, and waved through huge public sector pay rises without asking for any productivity in return.

She borrowed £20.2billion in April, and another £17.7billion in May. Month by month, we are heading closer to bankruptcy.

Reeves is blaming the Tories, global instability and Trump tariffs, but this is her mess. The economy is shrinking, inflation refuses to fall and her tax hikes have backfired.

Her Budget national insurance raid on employers has helped destroy 275,000 jobs. Her clampdown on wealthy non-doms risks driving money and talent out of the country, and lose the Treasury more than it gains.

The Iran war is a wildcard, especially if it sends the oil price soaring.

Now the disability savings are on the line too. That £5billion has already been baked into her figures. Without it, her numbers don’t add up.

If Starmer backs down, Reeves will need to find the money from somewhere else.

Most experts already think further tax hikes are coming in October, possibly as much as £24billion to £30billion.

She may now need to add another £5billion to that.