About the PM's (Sunak's) speech: Stop demonising us
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I know of charities who do it for their own benefits. They get lottery awards and council funding to pay themselves a wage, while doing as little as possible for the vulnerable people they work for.
They also support government policies, than campaigning to change things for the better
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I got a response from labour emai don't know how to share on here
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I set an email to scope online community??? Want people to see it how do u share
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Disabled people aren't an outgroup like immigrants or Jews, who can be separated from mainstream society. Sick and disabled people are aunts, cousins, nephews, nieces, grandfathers. People recognize people get sick. People know when they visit their grandparents Grandpa can't walk to the door. I think people's perceptions depend a lot on whether they feel isolated and the people immediately around them.
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Got a reply back for 2nd email from Sir Keir Starmer
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I did try to post the email I got but it didn't come through
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Yh how do you share on here trying for hours be intreasted to see if we got the same response
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Letter was nice ot spoke alpt about supporting back to work but noting of you couldn't work but obviously good they responded imaging tories doing that hell no
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Don't know I selected, copied and pasted, look ok but it then it disappeared. It says what Labour want to do to help disabled people. It does mention help into work but not in a bullying way the torys are
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Yes I was surprised I been emailing my local no mp never response
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My mp was a tory and stepped down, he was useless anyway
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HI @Catherine21 we've got your emails, thank you for sharing. I'll copy it over to here shortly with names removed. 😊
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From Kier Starmers email (thanks @Catherine21)
"Dear…,Thank you for your email to Sir Keir Starmer KC in relation to Labour’s plans for disabled people. At this point in time, Keir is receiving an extremely high volume of correspondence, so he has asked me to respond on his behalf. I’m very sorry for any delay in getting back to you.
Your views, personal experiences and observations have been noted and shared with the relevant policy teams.
Over the last ten years, disabled people have been disproportionately impacted by the Conservative Government failure, with a broken system of social security and social care that has failed to support disabled people to live fulfilling and independent lives.
Labour is committed to the social model of disability and the principle of working with disabled people, so their views and voices are at the heart of all we do.
Labour is committed to championing the rights of disabled people and to the principle of working with them, so that their views and voices will be at the heart of all we do.
Labour will always treat disabled people with dignity and respect. Labour will protect disabled people by making all existing strands of hate crime an aggravated offence.
Labour will work with local areas to create plans to support more disabled people and those with health conditions into work. We will devolve funding so local areas can shape a joined-up work, health, and skills offer for local people.
Labour believes the Work Capability Assessment is not working and needs to be reformed or replaced, alongside a proper plan to support disabled people to work. We will tackle the backlog of Access to Work claims and give disabled people the confidence to start working without the fear of an immediate benefit reassessment if it does not work out.
Labour will improve the reasonable adjustments process so that the system works better for those that need it and will examine how to best achieve this in detail if we form the next government.
Labour will make flexible working the default from day one for all workers, with employers required to accommodate requests as far as is reasonable. Labour will ensure workers can benefit from flexible working, including opportunities for flexi-time contracts.
Labour will introduce mandatory disability pay reporting for organisations with more than 250 employees. We will act to close the employment gap and enshrine in law the full right to equal pay for disabled people.
Labour is committed to reviewing universal credit so that it makes work pay and tackles poverty.
Labour is committed to championing the rights of disabled people and to the principle of working with them, so that their views and voices will be at the heart of all we do.
Labour is the Party of change and will change the country for the better if elected on July 4.
If you have any further questions or requests please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Best wishes,
Alistair
Membership Services
The Labour Party"
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Maybe it's just me but does that Labour response mention anywhere people who cannot work at all?
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Exactly so I emailed again saying you haven't stated what if we can't work
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What do people think my first thought was no mention of protection if you can't work surly thier sending millions back to work ??? And I did ask that question I did say this is making us very ill I said the silence from labour on disabled people I said how many people will unalive themselves I said I will be one of them I said is labour same as tories I went in on them they didn't really answer that question everybody email them telling them views [email address removed by moderator].
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Hi @Catherine21, just to let you know I've just had to remove the email address from your post as we don't allow them in discussions 😊
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I think they may not want to answer because of votes, they want to appeal to tory voters , and reform.by saying this it looks like the will be getting the welfare sorted. Maybe if they get in , they hopefully will address this issue
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Mine is the same answer as yours Catherine
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