Official thread: ‘Get Britain Working’ White Paper released Tuesday 26th November

I got to say I’m having to say I’m having to take more and more time outs from the scope forum (and many disability commentators on social media) who are scaremongering and refusing to look at the bigger picture - that compromise will be needed and we’re need to pick our priorities carefully

you know what’s keeping me up at night right now? - that we are charging towards a kemikaze/stride far right Tory gov as of now (who honestly make sunak/stride look like domestic cats in comparison)

You all must of noticed the increase of far right media, commentators and a increasing amount of the general public stepping up their (yes uneducated, but it’s hard to learn if your foaming at the mouth in blind anger) attacks on welfare claimants and disabled ppl as an extension - gov targeting disability payments in the past has be described as ‘red meat’ policies in the past which is a good description as many of the public think/act like carnivorous animals when angered and the logic is ‘feeding them red meat’ will have a calming effect.

I’ve noticed the past few years more and more people openly supporting society moving towards a more eugenic ideology (the survival of the fittest viewpoint) - in around the next 24 hours uk society could be one step closer to that worrying vision depending on the opinion of 650 individuals!

There is not enough financial help available for the uk disabled population - I’m not disputing that………but the uk is not in the financial position to provide the extra funds (at least with zero attached conditions) and that’s before you include those who try (and succeed) to game the system via lying or exaggerating their health or disability. And as much as I hate admitting it more likely than not red meat policies (that leaves a bad taste in the mouth, leaves ppl in poverty and prematurely ends lives) in black & white terms does save the government money (gotten from general public taxes) as many disabled are only able to take money from the state but not contribute anything back.

On paper (when thinking only in black and white economic terms) ‘red meat’ policies to address the sharply increasing benefit bill is the ‘easy’ option - it satisfies certain quarters of the general public and will save significant coin (and it’s easy to close ears to suffering disabled) - on past quite recent quotes I think both kemikaze & stride would carry out this ideology (and probably on steroids)

Right now labour are being very hard to read - both starmer and Kendall have used some pretty appalling language towards the disabled the past few months - however when reading the white paper I don’t get (what some people are saying) that labour are just slightly sugar coating past very recent Tory ideas (and prehaps upcoming welfare reforms will prove that to be true) but I personally didn’t read it that way…….. it needs a lot of work and input from all areas of the disabled community but I see it as potentially a first draft of some ideas that could have positive outcomes for both disabled community and the state

But labour need time, cooperation and compromise (and for all sides to be realistic)to have any chance of improving things for all parties - labour aren’t taking the obvious red meat approach yet (but I fear if the disabled community keeps on jumping too conclusions and attacking them on decisions that have clearly not been made or finalised - they may conclude that it’s too much effect/money to try and make disabled community happy and they should just take the easy option and go on full on red meat)

Using one of my analogies- essentially labour need to figure out the way to offer this increasingly large amount aggressive welfare/disable claimant hater quarter of the public a very convincing ‘red meat substitute’ but they can’t achieve that without disabled and welfare claimant cooperation and both sides needs to give something to get back!