Labour doubles down on slashing billions from DWP's disability benefits bill

If thats not the trigger story i'm genuinely scared with whats to come

Wrong place it starts Disabled Man dated 6/2/25 & currently the top story

Thanks. I've just read the series of articles published this evening.

I think breaking covid rules & dodging the question by saying but the other party were partying did it for me

Ok, so not sure what the rest of the article says but on the front of the telegraph in one of the smaller sections at the bottom of the front page says "PM axes bid to reform sick note culture"

is this referring to voice-coachgate?

No Labour won’t get a second term at this rate - problem is that reform and a kemikaze led Tory party would up the cruelty and privatise the nhs & other dire stuff to boot

Labour need to be persuaded that trying to cater to reforms audience alone is not a great tactic (Tory, reform and Labour are all fighting over the far right voter - and the centralist, moderate and left wing voters have basically been forgotten)

Is it even possible for starmer to have an epiphany, fire the right wing ministers from their positions, change his advisers and change directions to more centralist politics?

I mean I think many Labour backbenchers (and a couple of ministers) realise how things are are rapidly going downhill and if they keep to this current trajectory they won’t last till 2029 without the public backlashing louder for them to go than the unelected sunak

I go back to your quote ‘the most dangerous ppl are those with nothing left to lose’ - if reeves/kendall implement even 50% of that nasty times piece last weekend then tens of thousands of disabled ppl would feel that desperate………..and I don’t think Labour have factored that in

I’ve noticed on twitter disabled ppl understanding the seriousness of the situation and show a willingness to fight the dwp and labour head on - only organisation is missing, a focus point to relay around

I can’t remember @Nightcity if you wanted to figure out a way to be able to step up your own keyboard ‘activism’ if that makes sense?

Its pretty much war at this point.

A BBC article suggests the reforms are centre of Labour's larger mission. It reminds us that when Reeve was in the job that Kendall now has she vowed to make Tory welfare reforms look like child's play, and that Labour MPs have contacted the BBC to say they believe there is gaming in the system, this is where I think Labour and Tories differ.

Labour leadership have an ideology of being strongly anti sickness benefits. It started when they accused the Tories of using it to mask the unemployment figures, carried on with the introduction of ESA, and is now being progressed further again now.
Whilst with the Tories its just they are ideologically obsessed with low taxes and small government, when benefits get in the way of that they attack it, but they do seem to hint at some sympathy now and then, which I have only ever seen from the type of Labour MPs who are getting purged from the party. As a example unless it was Corbyn, I dont think we would have ever seen cost of living payments from a Labour government.

Under Labour, it was planned to reassess as low as every 3 months, and to kick a million of incapacity benefits altogether, I feel people keep needed to be reminded of this.