How reliable is the media ?
Hi just asking how reliable is the I news ?
Because of what I read Rachel reeves considering cutting disability benefits, got enough to worry about as it is with pip, uc migration and now this. Can someone check it out please
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Ok thanks,
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It's best to wait until next month, when Reeves is due to make a statement and the Budget be announced.
After both of those things are read in full (instead of the media cherry picking the most sensational bits from interviews, and reporting them possibly out of context) we will have a better idea of the direction Labour intend to go.
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Hi @Andi66 We will know for sure what is happening on the 30 October when it is the Budget. Until then the media are just speculating. Try not to worry, hard I know. Take care.
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Easier said than done not to worry, when the assessments we go through as disabled people are awful as it is and the the things we have to go through to get whatvwen deserve, to then seemingly have the government blame disabled people for alot of the so called HOLE in the economy.....I for one worked for 20 years, but came down with illnesses beyond my control, and sincerely could not work anymore..... The stress and worry of all these what's ifs at the moment is making my illnesses worse 😕 and I'm beyond worried about what they may do to us next!!! 😔 😟
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I try to stay away from media but its on everything tv Google all around us last year with sunak saying sick note that moment my world spun I felt like he was talking to me god I went down couldn't move out of bed scared to open my eyes was horrendous pure terror my daughter crying for me I dug deep I am scared really scared but I can't go down like that again life is hard enough but the media are cruel really cruel and always blaming elderly disabled immigration and more near the budget I notice they put out stories of benefit fraud or making out people to get thousands in benefits so that justify them making cuts to all the lazy benefit bums get them to work unfortunately we live in a world of division and the media certainly get a pound of flesh
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The problem with media speculation is that the reporters usually have no experience of disability. They have no idea how their reports will affect their readers.
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Hi I think it's awful and unfortunately causing extreme anxiety and a worsening of manys symptoms. I am ashamed of the press many just using it as a way to make money and scare mongering. At the moment I am trying not to read any of it. I have worked for many years but has to give up last November and was dismissed due to my disabilities. I am 63 and have multiple issues and am having to battle with the GPS and NHS who pass the buck between each other.
We will just have to wait but my best wishes go out to you all during this time of great worry. We are all here for each other.
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DAWNBIIWOO i completely agree with what you're saying , the worry & stress makes our illnesses ten times worse, I am absolutely terrified as to what this labour government have decided to do to disabled people to fill this so called black hole, how they can turn round and decide yet again to point the finger in our direction is a disgrace, we didn't put the black hole there and yet its once again disabled people who are going to pay the price, if labour can take away the pensioners winter fuel payments without a care in the world then I believe we should be worried! I too worked many years after leaving school until my health took a turn and I could no longer work, I get high rate care & mobility, I am on a 10 year rate until I have another assessment and I'm worried sick , next month won't come quick enough to finally find out what is going to happen to us all , frightening times!
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I think that the media like to hype things up and disabled people are easy targets. I am really anxious about it. I have lots of chronic conditions mental, physical and neurological. I have me and fibromyalgia which are energy limiting and the thought of them trying to force me back into work is really plaguing me so the media reports just make everything worse. I worked all my life until 2 years ago when serious illness hit but I don't think that counts for anything. I would love to be able to work but it would just make me worse. The labels they give to people on benefits is appalling.
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Sorry to hear you have felt like that. Hope you are improved. I can totally empathised. If it gets badfor you again then please reach out.
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I hear they are going to look at the PIP assesment process from another angle! Targeting mental health issues. Had more than my fair share of ESA assesments in the past for physical problems but retired now. There must be more claims for PIP mental health than for physical prob"s. I only just learned that a mental health problem can get you top points for a mobility car! My PIP assessor wanted me to get down on the floor just to see if i could get back up, i refused as i knew i could not do it, so, standard points, but, not liking the way you look and wont go out "only, in you"r are mind you" gets you the top pionts. So, who in you"r minds is more worthy "going by what i just said" for the top points! mental health or Physical.
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That would be so unfair as some mental health issues are serious and dangerous for other people to be around if your triggered
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I have thankyou I cant let my daughter worry she got so so upset just seeing her face it's so hard isn't it we have been treated appallingly since last budget all that pounding from tories hoping labour would be our saviour few months ago was worried about universal credit still am and now this pls let's hope on 30th its not as bad as we think x
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It's all speculation and nothing has been confirmed at the moment.
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I agree it's all maybes in the press.
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I’m so scared too it feels like the media are playing with us and are enjoying it sadly.
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Seems going back 2023 labour talking about getting people back to work with severe mental health issues talking integrates employment advisers in health settings to help mental health back to work and will hand to local council written by Jonathan Ashworth talking hypothetically how can seriously mental ill go back to work I know this wasn't written now but was in 2023 and maybe I'm grasping at straws just seems little abstracts that you read all become part of puzzle labour are vile they way they treated us
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True very true i want to say so much about The labour party but I can't thankyou always reassuring very appreciated
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Intreasting article on disability news Stephen timms recognised the flaws in UC I don't know how to share sounded like he's on our side
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It's disgusting and really upsetting that mental health is being targeted this way. I'm in no way as bad a position as others but I'm on yet another Psychologist waiting list as they say I complex PTSD and the waiting list from Mind has been so far 8 months. What hope has anyone got especially if cognitively impaired. Let's hope they listen to Scope and the other Charities regarding Mental health issues as well as the Physical Disabilities.
I hope they are not as vile as people think. I have a family member who is a Labour supporter and very vocal about it but they have gone very quiet since the winter fuel payment and proposed tax rises!
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