Wednesday: Statement on Benefits
[Moderator note: This discussion contains a lot of speculation.]
I've just read this. I'm more frightened these people that I was of anything IDS put forward... and that's saying something.
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honestly how dare she. How dare she call herself labour, how dare she crash the economy then take it out on the most vulnerable. The first person to take their own life out of fear will be on her head. I’ve written to my MP to express my disgust and if people have it in them I suggest they do the same.
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Zipz, he is still in his seat and the entire benefits fiasco which includes UC is down to him and only him!
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In a way I'm glad they've brought this forward, I (like many others) am tired of being kept in a constant state of fear and suspense every single day regarding these welfare reform proposals. I wish she'd just hurry up and unveil the entire plans on wednesday and not just a small 'snippet' of them. It's cruel to keep many of us living in fear like this.
If we know definitively in full what the reform plans are it will finally give the sick/disabled community and our advocates the ability to begin preparing any possible legal challenges against any reform proposals which could be found unsafe/dangerous to a claimant's health/welbeing. We can also engage in consultations and lobby our MPs against any severe reform plans.It's not doing my mental health any good having to continue to sit around each day worrying about the possible severity of the reforms, I just want to know Labours plans in full, then we can finally focus on our next move forward, so hurry up and bring them on, I say!
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They are Tory plans being delivered by Labour.
Let's stop pretending the last 14 years didn't happen pleeez!
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The 2016 Welfare Reform and Work Act.
Read.
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From the Benefits and Work site
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Where (who) do people think all the anti-Starmer poison comes from ??
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@WhatThe You're right. In 2010, I had DLA for life as a result of which I was exempt from reassessments for out of work sickness benefits. I jumped (as if) through the new hoops, damaging my mind. I just about coped until last April and the PIP Green Paper. The GE gave a spark of hope. I didn't this anything could be worse than 14 years of Tory rule. I think I was wrong.
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https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/7/contents
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https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/7/contents
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They simply don't have a choice because the cap on UC migration has been lifted.
(I hope that post doesn't sound blunt - not how I meant it 🙂)
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I was PCA exempt and persecuted too 😞
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The media has been quiet while all this has been going on. Now they're fanning a lot of hot air people are paying attention but none of this is new.
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don’t even think about excusing the part starmer/reeves/kendall have played in this (I have not included labour as a unit of 400 odd mps in this as we won’t know their reaction & position till things get officially announced)
At the end of day labour are now the ones in charge and every choice that has been made since July is 100% on them
im Sick of labour ministers blaming every bad thing on the last Tory gov and it’s time they took some accountability for some truly awful decisions they made the past 6 months
I haven’t forgotten what the tories did but labour imo are making things worse (via many inexcusable decisions imo)
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The Tories spent every month of those 14 years blaming their "inheritance" from Labour!!!
I'm sick of hearing how everything is the new Prime Minister's fault! He didn't vote for welfare cuts in 2015 and he didn't support Brexit in 2016.
Without Labour publishing the Tories buried documents, we'd never know what happened during the last national reassessment programme and it's vital that we do.
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@WhatThe We have a *Labour* government now with a massive majority. The fiscal choices they are making are akin, if not worse, than those made when Cameron and IDS ruled.
Are you saying that because of 14 years of Tory misrule disabled people and other vulnerable groups *have* to be abused again. Stamer is responsible for this chapter.
Think how much hurt was done 2010-15 under a workable coalition. Now, we have a government with a landslide majority and there's no opposition to protect us from the worst schemes they might propose.
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This woman is seriously annoying me now.
I've sent her a few "statements" this morning
As I posted in another thread, You should always educate the rich and thick on reality.
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All this anxiety from them making me bad. I've has to up my antidepressants. Starmer before the election said we will treat disabled people with dignity. I emailed him. So that why I voted Labour, thought they were different. I shouldn't of bothered. I am scared. What is wrong with this woman ? She's ruining the country, and taking it out on the vunerable. Giving the train drivers that high wage when they already get a huge pay. I've looked at jobs on indeed , there's nothing I able to do because of my health plus i don't drive , I just give up
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Zipz, I'm saying that the most damaging welfare cuts voted for in 2015 changed who qualifies for LCWRA now. Any proposals for further reform are just that.
John McDonnell as shadow chancellor pledged to reverse those cuts if Labour got into power in 2017. But they didn't. UC was paused then rolled out and finally escalated in May 2024 under the Tory 'leadership'.
I just don't see how this PM can be held responsible for laws he did not support!
Many in his cabinet of ex-DWP ministers however did support those 2015 cuts. Timms is an apologist for IDS and Kendall is too. IDS still holds his seat in Parliament and still rules the roost!
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