The Cost of Cuts
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Yes I agree, I don't go on social media anyway as like you say it was very bad for my mental health. At the moment though it's on tv, online, and even people talking about it in my local CO OP!! I think it just all got a bit too much for me with comments speculating about the changes, I know people are just trying to help, but saying things like this is what I think will happen, which I appreciate are totally entitled to their opinions does nothing to help with peoples worries. I panicked reading one comment saying people on LCWRA could be moved to LCW and made to look for work even though Iv'e been assessed as can't work. Some people beleive these comments and think they must be true and they've heard it somewhere official etc. I'm genuinely not having a go at anybody posting comments but the guessing of what may happen doesn't help anybody, it just fuels tension and anxiety.
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I panicked reading one comment saying people on LCWRA could be moved to LCWโฆ.Iv'e been assessed as can't work
Until 2015, LCW also meant can't work!
Both groups in ESA were for claimants judged by (non-medically trained) DWP decision-makers to have a Limited Capacity for Work. Thousands of sick and disabled people were unlawfully placed into WRAG or found 'fit-for-work' in the first national reassessment programme of 2011-2014 leading to a similar backlog of appeals that we see now.
From 2017, the support component of LCW was removed for new claims/claimants under the Welfare Reform and WORK Act 2016. LCWRA recipients were led to believe they deserved the extra component and failed to grasp the intent behind those welfare reforms.
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There is a lot of speculating going on out there, I have read comments like PIP is shutting down, LCWRA to LCW, and more, those I think are panic posts. I treated the ITV leak as credible, especially when Keir reacted to it pretty much confirming its accurate, but otherwise I only accept anything if its straight from a minister.
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Yeah well I hate to say I told you so but I did and too much protection of government was taking place here
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I don't understand the last part from 2017 could you explain pls
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No such thing as leaks.
There is such a thing as whistleblowers but not leaks not to mainstream press as its heavily controlled and they can only publish what they are allowed to and that's restricted by government officials ,big bosses and hedge fund managers etc
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Same difference.
A whistle blower leaked it to the press.
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It's only same thing if the person who leaked it to press becomes a target or a national security threat in some way along lines of wikileaks
This isn't it therefore it will have been a statement put out and approved by whoever published it
With a sensationalist title like leaked.
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Here think along lines of Keira knightly role In the true movie official secrets
She became a national security threat and considered a whilteblower which just means anything government doesn't want you to find out because its so bad they actually think the British public will protest.
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The national paper that reported it were scared too because the threat of legal action is real.
I think it was The times usually a financial paper is more honest because things like war tank the economy
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Hey hope your good I seen an article don't know how true starmer quoted its for mild anxiety yh right define mild he's back tracking but actually I think he's down playing it don't know if this article true
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Hey Cath
I haven't seen article I have correct post above this one The leaks on official secrets was Ms Gun to The Observer a center left paper sister of The Guardian.
Read about your awad Cath hopefully it will give some security for a while
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Thankyou hope your well who's Ms Gun I don't understand it all
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Oh it was a lady who leaked confidential emails about the war in Iraq. A whistle-blower protaryed by keira knightly in movie Offical Secrets very good film .
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Oh yes seen trailer
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There's none truer than your feathered friends noonebelieves : )) <squark!>
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my feathered friends?? ๐ค๐ค
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Signed. I too wishe there was an alternative to providing my own address
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