Press bias

judie
judie Community Member Posts: 336 Empowering
in Current affairs

https://www.thecanary.co/long-read/2025/01/09/media-coverage-benefit-claimants/

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  • judie
    judie Community Member Posts: 336 Empowering

    I miss @Nightcity, it took me over an hour to work out how to share the link for above post 🤦‍♀️

  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,373 Championing

    Thanks for sharing that link @judie glad you got there in the end!

    This is why I've been asking people not to believe everything they read online, there's been a huge push is talking about disabled people since we got our new government. I personally believe it's just the papers using smear tactics against the government and unfortunately disabled people are stuck in the middle of it all.

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Community Member Posts: 1,386 Championing

    A very good link, thanks, @judie. No surprise though & exactly the reason I don't read the main stream press & never watch news on TV. Don't need the extra stress, anger build up or the high blood pressure. I do read local news & that's it. I look on In Your Local too & the comments on there are enough to make your hair fall out & more often than not, made by pensioners.

    Universal Credit has also done for disabled, as that is the old dole, so those vicious tongues that pop up an awful lot, lump us in with the general unemployed without any thought.

  • judie
    judie Community Member Posts: 336 Empowering

    I agree. I'm sick of hearing people who have no idea what they're talking about ranting on about disability benefits.

    Whether you work or not has no bearing on PIP award; it's not a difficult concept to grasp.

    You can't self diagnose and get benefits.

    A routine including work may help some people with mental health problems but for some people with depression or stress being forced into work will be the end of them, literally.

    The growing benefits cost is mainly down to the rising number of pensioners. An aging population is going to push up the cost of welfare faster than anything.

  • judie
    judie Community Member Posts: 336 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/967976#Comment_967976

    🤣 All politicians are mauve yettis, that is how I shall envision them from now on!

  • judie
    judie Community Member Posts: 336 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/967980#Comment_967980

    😆

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