Scope's reply to the governments planned concessions to the green paper.

Beth Rigby reporting on X recently.

Looks like another major concession on the way as govt looks to get the welfare vote across the line. Understand (as per @jessicaelgot @Kitty _donaldson @singharj ) that any changes on PIP eligibility will wait until Timms review (due to report in autumn 2026)

Scrap it now 🤯 All of these shenanigans are just a ploy, we are not fools, we know what is going on behind closed doors, private conversations pertaining to ''oh, give them this now - we will claw it all back with sizable interest'', believe me this will be happening right now.

The Telegraph lately has been nothing but hate for a wide range of groups, not just disabled people. They are the ones who also offered the calculator for tax payers to work out how much of their money was going on 'scroungers' and who call bigotry 'patriotism' on giant billboards across London.

They are also read by some of the richer, more priveleged, higher earning right-leaning people in our society. I have genuinely seen people on the comments pages there complaining about losing tax from their six figure salaries to support benefit claimants (insert various stereotyped slurs here).

In other words, we can't beat the Telegraph's bias, the best we can do is ignore it and fight on.

Though it irks me that they called autism mental health. Autism is not mental health. Treating it as a mental health condition rather than a neurodevelopmental disorder with cognitive, functioning, processing and sensory challenges is one of the reasons there is not enough proper support out there. (And a reason why many autistic people have mental health problems). This really gets to me because so long as they consider autism itself to be mental health related, nobody is interested in exploring the real causes of higher MH diagnoses in autistic people. And that is a failing created by avoidable ignorance.

On a better note, some powerful speakers in the chamber today. What strikes me is that nobody actually likes the bill. Some say it's not going far enough, some that it's not going anywhere. But nobody is there saying, wow, this is great. That's surely not a good sign for the govt trying to implement it going forward?

I've also seen the report about potential additional concessions re Timms' report:

"The Work and Pensions Minister Sir Stephen Timms is expected to tell MPs that the timing of the eligibility changes to the personal independence payment (Pip) will now take account of the findings of the review that Timms is to lead."
Per BBC.

Richard Burgon and Vicky Foxcroft would be great contenders for Timm's job.

So what will be left ?