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Yeah reading that I think I'll be alright

I am going to start a Parliamentary Petition which if it gets a 100,000 signatures has to be discussed in Parliament, and may change the law.

Please Google ''Parliamentary Petitions U.K.'' to find out ,more how they work.

For now I'm asking Campaigns Dept, all staff at Scope including this online discussion forum to respond by listing all the disabled and mental health and grey power. elderly/ pensioners groups with full addresses, postcode email and telephone numbers.

Having a full list of such groups in the UK I will then draft a Parliamentary Petition, ask for amendments and improvements,

then send it to the full list

The petition's aim will be to reverse the £2.5bn cuts in disability welfare benefits, to stop the welfare suicides, brutal, inhuman and degrading, stigmatising treatment of disabled people

and

suggest the positive things we want, as policy to support disabled people now, and in the future.

Please give your suggestions, ideas thoughts, and total positivity, please do not indulge in doubt, depression, anxiety and trauma, we need to do the very opposite no matter how bad we feel, or good, I am feeling S*** today had 2 spasms last night, only 3 hours sleep.

Even some suicidal feelings, but hey, I do NOT want Scope staff to ring or email me, because I WONT DO IT and let myself and you all down.

I have great compassion, joy compassion, spirit, will not take no for an answer, will try and try and try and fight and fight and fight again,.

I am a politico-spiritual warrior for love, compassion, against stigma, for social justice.

All demons are diamonds geddit?

WE ARE ALL WORTH FIGHTING FOR

AND GENUINE HELP TO WORK OR NOT, SUPPORT, MORE NOT LESS BENEFITS

AAND THE EXTRA COSTS OF DISABIL;ITY, AND DISABILITY DEFINED HELP BY US NOT THE SOP CALLED LABOUR GOVT.

Any one any idea of even a rough date of next general elections; we need to design strategy and tactics in the run up to next general election,

I am standing in the local elections to

• get gang crime down, youth counselling, safer streets and estates
• - For more green gardens tree planting, too as therapy and joy for volunteers
• - And to get council and housing associations to stop treating their tents as 2nd class citizens, as the Grenfell report said.

Wish me luck, I wish you all joy the best of luck, lots of love, and courage freedom, and growing ever more everyday.

Thank you Catherine21.

I DO Care deeply.

You cared enough to respond kindly.

Let me start my list of disability physical charities and advocacy groups UK, to build a cross group and cross party alliance to reverse the £2.5bn cuts:

It Can be done: 13m disabled people, 8 million pensioners or v.v.? memory problems =s 21m voters.

There 67m people in the UK. That is enough if

- disability, mental health, and pensioners charities pull together in a n alliance.

Its not lack of voter numbers who are adversely affected but lack of confidence, self-esteem, internalised oppression, and at present the lack of 3 social movements pulling together to make our case, reasonable rational and realistic - and unstoppable

Mental charities advocacy groups:

Mind

Physical charities advocacy groups:

Disability Rights UK

Scope

Pensioners advocacy charity groups/ Grey Power

Please everyone I we need you, add to the list above.

I will redraft and amend by saving the proposed strategy to reverse the 2.5bn cuts and republish on Scope forum, consulting this forum many times.

Date of next general election anyone

propsed writing to MPs, and lobies of Prilsament, peaceful deomos too

Sharing startegy on social medias

List of all social media need:

Facebook

LinkedN

X

Reddit

Threads etc. .

@sarah_lea12

I had a pip reassessment last year.

I used to get three year awards each time but this time I wrote on my form requesting a longer award, and to my amazement I had a paper based assessment, kept high rate on both elements, and I was given an 'ongoing ten year' award.

I wish you the best outcome when you have your assessment.

My struggle is transferring onto the toilet, so no barricades for me 🚽 - Libres et sans culottes!

I do not understand the comment above re barricades? Please enlighten me.

This is from the free paper on the bus in Leeds:

Metro.co.uk Thursday June 26th 2025

Letters

[ ] Can we ever imagine a time when the British government of the day wont seek to make the sick and disabled pay for its spending choices in other areas?

Philip Duval, Manchester.

[ ] Sir Keir Starmer is buying 12 F-35A US jets to expand our 'nuclear deterrence'.

We have been aware of the threat from Russia for many years, even before Vladmir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 (or 2014 if we are counting Crimea) yet we have been happy to let Ukraine fight this wart on behalf of the rest of Europe instead of giving them what they need to actually push Russia back, which you would think would be the most effective way of protecting the UK from Russian aggression.

This newfound appetite for defence spending is clearly being driven by Donald Trump's threat of withdrawing from NATO unless European states spend more, which effectively highlights who it is that determines UK defence policy.

Is this really the best way to protect the UK in modern warfare, which is highly digitised and much more reliant on new technology such as drones.

In particular, is it really the case having 10 times as many nuclear weapons equates to 10 times as much nuclear deterrence, given a single nuclear strike would have such huge consequences?

Sir Keir Starmer has chosen to prioritise an arms race over welfare, climate change, international collaboration and human rights.

What a difference a year in power make

Federico Moscogluri, Hertford.

Dear Catherine21

I am sorry you too had similar and different struggles re your mental health.

The fact that you became a support worker was a great achievement, even if were not able to sustain this valuable role. You were are an expert by excperience.

And should be PROUD of gaining paid emnployment, giving support care and compassion, as well as apt challenges to other disabloed and distressed foilk.

You work was invaluable.

We are so stigmatised Catherine, and everyone, we devalue our achievements, against trhe odds because of the cruel anmd hatefrul stigma.

This is interenaliused disablism, and we can recgnise it as such for what it is, baggae from oppression, a hateful society, at least in part; of course there are those whjo care aboyut uas deelpy too. Other disable people anmd mental health survivors.

There are allies whjo belive we are worth supporting, as capable as intelligent as any no disabled persons.

We need to STOP devaluing ourselves.

We are human beings who deserve far better; we do not need to sie from suicide - because that is the indicator of just how badly we are treated - viciouysly in fact. We are worth huiman dignity life and love and support anbd recognitioin,. We are NOT pieces of **** uindrer someones shoe, althougfh we have felt l;ike that, because of constant messages thjat we are not quite equal, or not wrth listening to, not worth our benfits, that we are scroungers. All of thois is disablism and it saps the life, and fight the life foirce from us.

WE DONT NEED TO BUY THE DISABLIST PROPAGANDA, WE HAVE A CHOICE, HOWEER SMALL AT FIRST TO RECOGNISE OUR HUMANITY THE VALIDITY OF OUR THOUGHTS FEELINGS AND ACTIONS.

There are 2 different things going on here:

1

Yes we have intenalised baggae stigma, from the stigmas of disanblism and mentalism, these bogus cruel oppressioons.

Some of us on top oif that have sexism and racism internalised, yet we can recognise and feel that the opprerssors stuff and bigfotry are THEIRS NOT OURS. We can live again. The very fact we are live, that I am alive is a miuracle.

2

We have tr

o deal with the harsh reality of Disablism in all its forms, just to survive, to build self esteem, to live and love, to feel joy, that we have a right to9 exist, because there are many Fascists and Nazis who want us dead.

In other words, we have to know what the problem is.

It is oppression in a word, we are victims or have been and do not need to be miserable depressed, anxious traumatised victims.

We can live life to the full with friends allies and love, the strength of disabled comrades, whether they are socialists, like me, like you? or not.

We need DISABILTY PRIDE.

I am proud to be a disabled person, I am proud to be a mental health survivor and thriver, recognised by an outstanding achievement award in community work, and other forms of recognition. People say I'm a great chair of meetings, have a GSOH so wacky and Monty Python (great fantastic message their Life of Brian: #Lifes a piece of S*** when you look at it but … always look on the bright side of life.. a Buddhist mantra of course like, glass half full.) Bonkers humour. I am a true individual Bonkers Buddhist. I am madcap, Zany, and a crazy spontaneous and joyful dancer. Courageous.

We need more meetings in the disability pride movement just to focus opn deconstructing the cruel oppression of disablism, and to construct to create a higher self-esteem.

Your sentences are rather long, and sometimes it is difficult to understand what you are saying Catherine, I recognise this trait. The need to be heard to be recognised and valued, and the anxiety that accompanies speech.

If you are saying its your brain that causes your disabilities, perhaps not, or only partly. There is the rough harsh reality of social oppression: bullying at home school, the workplace, and harassment, shunning of disabled people in public places such as pubs and restaurants.

There is a capitalist investment in saying the cause are in our brains, genes, or some other 'constitutional factors, but not the psychosocial structural aspect.

Hence the psychosocial model of disability not the biomedical model.

It is definite psychol;gical and social oppression this disablist mentalist stigma. Also many oif us are poor always have ben, we are working class, or from families, like mine that are half unemployed with all the oppression of stigma of not working.

It is also the vicious class system.

Its it only our brains then medication is the answer, and not better opportunities for supported work, or being left alone on benefits, or openness and welcoming wherever we go in society.

And the answer if it our brain chemistry is provided by multinational pharmaceuticals, and medication isn't perfect, there are '[side' effects, even adverse effects - Prozac nearly killed me via 3 weeks of insomnia - and then as suicide attempt back in summer of 1993.

Fortunately, I survived anfd knew from that crisis on I had either to slowly but defginitely, gradually, rebuild my sel;f esteem, self compassion. Because real change is slow not manic . That I did and I am so glad I did that hard work of cultivating insight through therapy, setting up support groups, meeting new friends, survivors and thrivers i disability pride and mental health pride.

All is not lost

we can reverse the changes, the cuts of benefits, but it will require ,ore responsiveness, not indulging in despair, creating courage and getting the practical task done, people volunteering for the tsks to make a strategy outlined in previous recent posts.

If we don't believe we can do this and go along with disablism, and not organise unite and fight back not with bitterness, but sweet reasoning, and lovemaking a case.

No one is going to liberate us, do it for us.

We have to do it ourselves, united proud and strong, alive, really alive, instead of the misery, the AGONY of suicidal feelings - which we definitely DO NOT deserve.

And WE CAN DO IT

rebuild our human dignity, self worth, our self-esteem, self compassion and the best in our disability pride humanity

AND

Get the £2.5bn cuts reversed, if we organise together.

''Because you are worth it!'' Think Loreal advert for skin cream; told you I was wacky, bonkers madcap Milan Ghooooossshhhh!!!