Is it a 'New Dawn' for disabled people aswell?

Meg24
Meg24 Online Community Member Posts: 390 Trailblazing
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I'm posting this in the desperate hope that someone from Labour HQ or Scope might see this and seek to act urgently before the new government's summer recess.

There's all this talk of a "New Dawn' in the papers this morning, of how it's all different now and isn't it great. Doesn't feel that great from where I'm standing.

I will not engage with speculation about what may happen, but what we do know at the moment is that from September, so before parliament is due to sit again, the mass forced migration from ESA to UC is set to begin, which has me terrified and angry in equal measure. Then we have the news that Labour is keeping the PIP consultation open, which I have been unable to respond to because I am so terrified of that too.

Labour owes disabled people an urgent explanation of what they plan for us, of whether we are to be targetted in Reeve's 'difficult decisions' budget.

Do they not realise how terrified we all are, how many of us voted the Tories out in the desperate hope that the persecution would stop now?

I'm so happy for them that they're all having such a great time in this new world, now TELL US WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!

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  • Amaya_Ringo
    Amaya_Ringo Online Community Member Posts: 413 Championing

    I am still awaiting the appointment of a minister for Disabilities.

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    It's very very early days, the new government is only getting sworn in today, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens. Though I know many people are already writing to their new MPs asking for more support for the disabled.

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  • Ironside1990
    Ironside1990 Online Community Member Posts: 376 Pioneering

    ThThe Daily Mail is a Tory rag. It's expected of them to write something like this.

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  • carbow32
    carbow32 Online Community Member Posts: 256 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/886666#Comment_886666

    Same here the min I opened my computer this morning it was the first thing that came up.

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,713 Championing

    A lot of the media does indeed play on your fears to get you to engage. As fear is one of the easiest emotions to manipulate.

    Having what what Streeting actually said, he is basically saying that people who are sick are less able to work, and there are more people who are sick now because the NHS is in such a bad place. So the NHS should be focusing on trying to make people healthy again, focusing on getting patients better and to a place where their health is good enough that they can work again.

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