About the PM's (Sunak's) speech: Stop demonising us
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Won't be till autumn I suspect but will be interesting to see who he appoints in his cabinet later today. We need someone to replace Liz Kendall asap
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No, but she's definitely not a Corbynite!
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Catherine, I know it's hard and your thoughts are spiralling but try to take it one step at a time. We are better off than we were this time yesterday
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The new Labour mp who beat Liz Truss , did it for who his late father who was let down bt the welfare state and NHS after having a stroke and died at 65. Very touching speech
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I was also disappointed to see Stride keep his seat. There are a couple of Tories who lost their seats who I think are more moderate and may have been better leader candidates than some of those who survived. I am not a Tory voter but would rather they were more moderate in their policies just in general - that is where Tories have usually been.
My seat ended up much more marginal than I expected. Incumbent Tory held on but lost most of his majority. Local seats I was also watching both went Labour. One gave me particular pleasure given the nasty things he has said and done that have affected people in my constituency, even though he isn't our MP.
Our incumbent could be worse. Hoping that the loss of his majority will spark him into more action and less complacency about important local issues. Not sure if he will work with the neighbouring Labour folk. Not sure they get along. He did used to work with a previous Labour neighbour, but I guess it's about personal chemistry.
I am so happy to see the greens and libs get seats as well.
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I hope that in all this talk of a "changed Labour" that Starmer has the humility to recognise that he won with far fewer votes than Corbyn lost with in 2017 and 2019. A third fewer in fact compares to 2017.
A lot of people who were angry with the way we have been impoverished voted not for Labour, but for Reform, preaumably in the misguided belief that they offered hope of real change as Corbyn did. Starmer failed to acknowledge their desperation and chase instead the Tory vote, which he in the main did not end up getting as Labour's vote share decreased overall.
If he wants people to vote Labour in future not Reform, he needs to recognise why Corbyn was so popular and stop all this nonsense about how he lost the people, because on the numbers, he was far more popular than you Kier.
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That's a shame Stride still there, hoping he will go. Labour won here.
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Perhaps we should remind Labour that even if Reform won 4 million votes, there are what, 7 million disabled people in this country? That's almost twice as many potential voters.
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Liz Kendall is allegedly going to be made the Secretary of DWP, anyone know her views on pip and disabled people?
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I really hope this is not another attack on people with MH conditions…
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"The shadow work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, said the party would recruit 8,500 more mental health workers and promised that the sickness benefits bill would fall under Labour."
im not opposed to this because any kind of help would be greatly appreciated, but I hope they don't try this one size fits all approach when it comes to MH. MH is very complex and not everyone responds to help the same way.
I guess we will just have to wait and see…
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I've had over 20 years of NHS mental healthcare but I'm still ill. Some of us have lifelong mental distress and not all of us have a neat lable for it, mine is as a result of years of childhood trauma. I don't have a mental illness, I'm just very broken. So my official label if you can call it that is dysthymia with anxiety, a quick google would suggest this to be a mild problem but it's really not. I worry greatly that I would be in the firing line under any attacks on MH.
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@Catherine21 it is alleged liz Kendall will be dwp minister, nothing confirmed yet that I can see
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I thought the same that’s all we need !
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liz confirmed as minister #@,%
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Liz Kendall is DWP 🤨
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Just caught Rachel Reeves on gb news but it cut off before she said any more about making work pay yes Liz kendal is dwp minister unfortunately
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^I don't think she'll go after PIP. Rachel Reeves is taking Jeremy Hunt's job and she did say if Labour get in, she'll leave PIP alone. We'll know more when parliament resumes.
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The thing is not to panic yet, starmer may do a re shuffle. And also don't some of these things have to go through the house of Lords. Also if disability groups like scope etc get involved they may listen. Also they probably go after those who are able to work and choose not too first, plus they want to focus on young people.
Liz kendal on Facebook I've been scrolling through her page
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Be nice if she halts esa transfer to UC
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