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I don’t want to get political on here but they are all the same . There is no choice .

Hi guys do we no if there Targeting the new claimers for pip or people already receiving it ?

always gets in

It feels like a deliberate contrived effort to dehumanise and demonise. The more downtrodden we are made to feel the easier it is for them to make us feel hopeless, without hope we are lost. If we are lost, the strength to keep fighting, to carry on is lost. Divide and conquer, classic playground bullying tactics. VILE.

I held some hope of positive change when Labour were elected. They just feel like an extension of the Tory party!

I feel that disabled people have been demonised and labelled as lazy scroungers and benefit cheats by the right wing media ( the majority of it)

I feel we are going to lose the majority of our incomes by March.

I don’t know which disabled people the government consulted, but it’s nobody I know!

Employers are unwilling to take on people who need reasonable adjustments at work as there are plenty of folk looking for jobs without disabilities.

When I was in my last job, I constantly felt like they were examining my health and disabilities under a microscope. I was micromanaged more than other people. My employer showed a flagrant disregard for the equipment I needed. I’m partially sighted anmong other things, and despite constant lobbying from myself and access to work , it took them 4 and a half years to get me a s big screen, screen magnifier etc. For a long time I had to hold an hand magnifier up to my screen so I could see the type on my small screen. Every mistake I made, despite the tech not working properly, resulted in a trip to the boss,s office, and a reprimand. Their quality checks were draconian. I was singled out by the fire people and had my ability to exit the 15 storey building questioned like it was a major problem, and I’m not in a wheelchair. The bullying was unreal, I had to go out the building for breaks as they were a bunch of bitchy backstabbers. My job was a nightmare. They eventually medically retired me.

I have a brain injury, hydrocephalus, a brain anuerysmn, suffer from intercranial hypertension and chronic migraines, I’m partially sighted, diabetic, I have fibromyalgia, thyroiditisis, asthma and a host of other immune related issues. I’m in constant pain and I feel completely exhausted all the time. I wear hearing aids too. I cry at the thought of having to take another job with that level of stress and I’m still trying to deal with the mental fallout from my last job.

I believe the current government have not really considered the obstacles people with disabilities face in the world of work. Every adaptation I had to fight for and provide written proof from my medical practitioners, physios, rehab team at the brain injury unit and I even had to get my union involved and access to work was always on the phone to them. It has left me with long term depression and ptsd.

I still have the collection of giant things my workmates left on my desk as they thought they would be helpful……a giant calculator half the size of the desk, a giant pencil, giant post it’s, giant glasses, a giant toothbrush, a giant metre sized ruler…..I wasn’t as unlucky as the poor lady in our team that lost all her teeth…she got a big donkey with giant plastic teeth and a can of purred soup!