Pip & general election pledges???

I think informally Labour have said they will not make the WCA harsher or remove PIP in the way the Tories want to. What they have said is "all support for the disabled needs to be focussed on a return to work" HOWEVER. This is election speak and doesn't necessarily mean exactly what it first seems. They have not come out in support of people who cannot work for two reasons imo, firstly the Tories have done such a good job of demonising us in the press, that in Labour went full on against that brainwashing, the right wing papers like the Mail, Sun and Express would be ruthless, they would say they support 'scroungers and fraudsters' and their readers, a lot of whom are red wall voters who voted Tory in recent years, might be put off from swinging their vote to Labour. Then you've got the threat from the Tory party themselves, they would say much the same thing, but they would write in on leafleta and post in through every letterbox, they'd shout about it on their election speeches and on TV. It would reach every swing voter, not just those who read their papers.

It is upsetting that we have been made out to be such villians that no-one dares stand up to speak for us, that's in part due to all the mud that successive Tory ministers have thrown at us, I still remember when IDS kick started it all by encouraging neighbours to notice who still had their curtains closed in the morning and who set up a dedicated phone line for neighbours to report neighbours for suspected benefit fraud.

Keir Starmer has socialist roots, as much as he appears to be playing the game right now, he knows that left wing voters will not vote for the Tories, even if we are very worried. I have hope.

Labour have NOT already won. If too many people think that then the turnout will be too low and we could even face the horrific prospect of a Tory/Reform alliance. Don't forget that at least 25% of all voters always vote Conservative, that's why there are so many safe seats. In a lot of Tory MP areas, the majority was quite large in 2019, so it will require lots of voters to turn out to vote Labour (or Libdem depending on the tactical vote) in order to ensure the seat is lost. Most Labour MPs are in safe seats of their own, whenever they take a swing seat, the vote difference is usually quite small and a lot of left wing people might vote Green this year which will reduce it further.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not anyone fall victim to complacency about this, there's a reason all the right wing polls funded my Tories are showing heavy Labour wins, it's because they want the Labour voters to stay at home because if that happens, they could easily still win this.

to be fair the only 2 parties using the ‘if you can work, you will work’ line is only currently the tories and Labour Party (not even reform have brought up the line as of yet)

the manifesto’s have yet to come out and I’m sure once they all have skilled forum members will go through them with a fine comb to find the bits concerning or of interest to those with disability