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BLOG | They Just... Don't Have A Clue....?!
Reading all the vile, dehumanising, belittling, ignorant commentary in the Media, by the government, in Social Media, there's definitely THIS One This In Common...
#PIP #Disability #Disabled #benefits #FND #Fibromyalgia #Autistic #AutisticBurnout
https://open.substack.com/pub/lelibugvaeda/p/they-just-dont-have-a-clue?r=5b24jd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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We’re aware there are campaigns mobilising against #Labour’s cuts to #PIP.
If you are part of these campaigns please feel free to share the post.
#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
#NoToPIPCuts
#WelfareNotWarfare
#CripsAgainstCuts
Canary · 'How dare you': an open letter over callous DWP PIP cuts to Stephen TimmsAmid the Labour Party DWP callous PIP cuts, one disabled Canary reader has penned a damning letter to disability minister Stephen Timms.
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‘Your position is no better than that of Boris Johnson who thought that Covid was “nature’s way of dealing with old people”.
In the future, people will look back and view what you are doing as the #Labour government’s way of ‘dealing with the disabled’.
The results will be the same.
People will die.’
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‘If we need help with those basic things, it is highly likely that it is because of pain, discomfort, and restricted movement.
That does not start and end with dressing and washing. It is there for every moment of every day, from the time we get up in the morning until the time we go to bed at night.
What’s more, you appear to ignore the costs associated with these “low level” problems.’
A big thank you to all of you who reposted my friend’s letter regarding #PIP cuts to Disabilities Minister Stephen Timms yesterday.
We got 79 reposts here , which is absolutely brilliant!
On the Other Place it’s now been reposted over 865 times and had over 30,000 views.
The letter has caught the attention of The Canary who have published it with an intro.
The Guardian · ‘Electoral wake-up call’: dozens of Labour MPs risk losing majorities over welfare cuts
FAFO time...
At least 80 Labour MPs are at risk of losing their majorities over proposed welfare cuts, according to data shared between Labour MPs who are warning the government that the changes “pose a real electoral risk”.
Cabinet and senior ministers are among those who have smaller majorities than the number of constituents expected to be affected by the changes.
The Guardian · ‘Electoral wake-up call’: dozens of Labour MPs risk losing majorities over welfare cuts
In 2 days the #DWP will spy on your bank account.
How to take action and protect yourself.
#educate #organise #resist #UKpoliceState
#ClassWar #DifferabilityGenocide #UC #PIP #surveillance #DPAC #press #BreakingNews #DisabilityNews #news
https://youtu.be/new_JEz4ntU?si=xSRzzGG_E-qPtikF
In 2 days the #DWP will spy on your bank account.
How to take action and protect yourself.
#educate #organise #resist #UKpoliceState
#ClassWar #DifferabilityGenocide #UC #PIP #surveillance #DPAC #press #BreakingNews #DisabilityNews #news
https://youtu.be/new_JEz4ntU?si=xSRzzGG_E-qPtikF
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Not sure how many other outlets covered the story of the exchange between Richard Burgon and Stephen Timms in the Commons, but The Canary ran a very detailed piece here:
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/04/10/dwp-pip-eligibility-criteria/?
Canary · A Labour minister just exposed how cruel DWP PIP changes are going to beStephen Timms response to a parliamentary question on DWP PIP revealed the level of contempt this government holds disabled people in
This week, Stephen Timms said the #PIP cuts that being unable to cut up food, dress, wash and use the toilet were "low level functional needs."
This is my friend’s response (it’s already had 300 reposts and is currently getting 200 views a minute on the Other Place)
Please boost if you can.
We need to be seen and heard.
"Hundreds of thousands of seriously ill and disabled people will become “invisible” and cut adrift from local support services as a result of the government’s £5bn programme of disability benefit cuts."
The Guardian · Ill and disabled people will be made ‘invisible’ by UK benefit cuts, say experts