So labour won by a landslide - what happens next? (Both in general & disabled ppl perspective)

oh I did once

But I learnt that had lesson from the brexit fallout

Either way I think it’s everyone’s responsibility to keep politicians accountable - the last thing we should do is presume things will always be **** and accept it……….its probably a fight this community will probably never fully win but it’s still a worthwhile fight that we should never give up on

I don’t have a lot of time now but Stephen timms has been named ‘minister of social security and disability’ (I don’t know if this is a senior minister role, junior minister or undersecretary of state role?)

When it was a junior minister role under the tories it was named ‘minister of state for disabled people, health and work’ - which I personally sounds better if you associate list order as order of priority (I’m checking the Tony Blair years and they had ‘minister of state for employment & disability rights’ which is very similar for now - though there was in Blair’s day a ‘secretary of state for social security’ also so it sounds like those 2 briefs from the Blair days have been merged) - it could of been better but at least it’s a (junior) minister role

As I said I don’t have time to expand now but I’ve got missed feeling on timms which I’ll explain later but would be very interested in what the rest of you think

(Also I found out that foxcroft was actually a party whip for part of the corbyn leadership days which may part explain why starmer chose to take foxcroft off the disabled ppl brief and moved to the whip office - still a huge loss to this community imo)

you’re very kind to be interested in my thoughts Jimm - I like to think my autism makes me logical in a good way (though 100% logic thinking can make you cold - I hope I also have a bit of empathy even though I’m very blunt)

I’m probably going to have to split my opinion in several posts over the coming days (esp with kings speech later today - that may change a few things for

————————So it sounds like the minister for disabled ppl is split over a couple of ministers: Stephen timms - minister of social security & disability (responsible for cross government responsibility for disability) Alison McGovern - minister of state for employment (responsible for disability employment)
on the one hand it makes sense to split the role as ‘disabled ppl’ as it’s such a huge minority group but only if the 2 above don’t view this part of their role with lesser importance than there other role parts (I will post further opinion on timms & McGovern as individuals later)One thing I’ve noticed is both timms & McGovern are both very much starmers ppl (compared to foxcroft who was happy to work under both starmer and corbyn)
But the big takeaway is that this dwp minister team are very focused in getting a significant amount of disabled ppl off welfare and into work (prehaps more importance put on this compared to tackling welfare fraud, or prioritising going after fully able welfare spongers)
I think in all honestly those in the disabled community who think realistically knew that esp with cost of living plus the country finances we can’t realistically expect something for nothing (or given money for disability and just left alone) we would need to figure out a way the disabled community can contribute going forwardHowever labour seemed to have learnt nothing from the Tory tenure in the dwp (appointing Kendall as head of dwp was a very Tory move and the aggressive language used by Kendall, starmers and others the past year, even in this past month just does further damage to this community)It’s not wrong for labour to want more disabled to be able to work or to reduce welfare bill
however their current method is to claw back as much welfare money as possibleBut their method in an analogy is:Telling the disabled that they are going to to have to run a marathon with next to no warning (so no time for prep or training or getting necessary aids) but they aren’t going to section off or clear the marathon route of ppl or vehicles traffic before starting the race
basically labour nor the dwp have no right to ask anything of the disabled community till they ‘clear/section off the marathon route of traffic” for our communities safety if that makes sense - if they do that then we can start to find a solution that benefits all but not before
I’ll expand on that thought in the next few days

I think a full pdf of the kings speech 2024 full contents will be published soon but for now I’ve found this

https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/kings-speech-2024-research-and-reading-lists/

I have a few other things to do today but I’ll do my best to identify the upcoming bills of interest

edit: well getting more disabled of welfare and into work looking very likely to be a priority for labours gov year 1 (edit 2: May of jumped the gun on that last one - these House of Lords docs seem to be educated guesses - need to wait for the official kings speech doc

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/LLN-2024-0042/LLN-2024-0042.pdf

full kings speech 2024 pdf (will try and breakdown - likely with screenshots and highlighter later today or tomorrow)

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/669791c549b9c0597fdafe63/King_s_Speech_2024_background_briefing_notes.pdf