Balancing the books on the backs of disabled people is not just unfair; it’s cruel. A million disabled people stand to lose vital support, while the wealthiest are protected. This isn’t necessity, it’s a choice—and it’s the wrong one. #SpringStatement - ThreadSky

elliechowns.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Balancing the books on the backs of disabled people is not just unfair; it’s cruel. A million disabled people stand to lose vital support, while the wealthiest are protected. This isn’t necessity, it’s a choice—and it’s the wrong one. #SpringStatement

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melanpops.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well said change of government same policies

janemick.bsky.social•3 days ago

and it will lose you the majority.
I've already joined the Green Party

girlonabrompton.bsky.social•3 days ago

Me too

janemick.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm incandescent with rage!!!

girlonabrompton.bsky.social•3 days ago

Labour the new NASTY PARTY. I hope they get wiped out at the next election. They're just competent Conservatives.

janemick.bsky.social•3 days ago

my Labour MP is just about to get yet another irate letter...

iain-willcox.bsky.social•2 days ago

Disengenious nonsense. Any ideas of your own?

alistairblantyre.bsky.social•3 days ago

👁️🥴

siry4ever.bsky.social•3 days ago

Labour needs to be voted out imo
#LabourOut
#RejoinEU

e6pete.bsky.social•3 days ago

Mel Stride spittle flying trying to find conspiracy with the OBR - when they refused to use them, and he calls for deeper cuts to welfare while wringing his hands on tightening access. Tories - want all the benefit without a clue how to pay for it.

ala8.bsky.social•3 days ago

Reeves hitting the poor and sick pal

e6pete.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah I heard that this afternoon - definitely need to raise taxes on higher earners to level things up.

e6pete.bsky.social•3 days ago

You scaring disabled people is unfair and cruel. Mel Stride blustering about tax rises has to rapidly move the fear forward to the budget next year because it didn’t materialise as he had predicted. But don’t let facts get in the way of a good story. The OBR forecasts are positive. Disgraceful.

jimmyr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Many disabled people are scared, upset, angry for good reason. They want us dead.

e6pete.bsky.social•3 days ago

I understand that. I don’t.

e6pete.bsky.social•3 days ago

Justify 1000 people a day qualifying for PIP? I am life time Labour voter and have worked all my life.

e6pete.bsky.social•3 days ago

If people can work - they should.

ruonblu.bsky.social•3 days ago

Do you know what PIP is?

robotpinemarten.bsky.social•3 days ago

PIP isn’t an out of work benefit

daktangle.bsky.social•3 days ago

Demand higher pay then. Disability can hit anyone at any time. The safety next should be wide and effective, not restrictive and inhumane.

e6pete.bsky.social•3 days ago

Not sure what the pay thing is about. I agree we have to support people and I have always argued for that. People
Should be supported back into work where it is possible, where it is not we support them.

daktangle.bsky.social•3 days ago

My apologies, I interpreted what you wrote as implying that it's unfair disabled people get support when non-disabled people work do not.

And yes, people who cannot work need support, but so do disabled people who work as it inherently increases the cost of living. PIP is that support.

sam.beleriand.social•3 days ago

But they're all genuine claimants, so what do you think cuts will do?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-confirms-steps-tackle-people-34448804

sam.beleriand.social•3 days ago

The people claiming PIP have already fought their way through a system designed by the Tories to be cruel and punitive. You don't seem to appreciate that TOO FEW people are able to claim, and those that can are more than deserving.

pripyat-princess.bsky.social•3 days ago

IM FUCKING DISABLED YOU HACK FUCK AND I STILL CANT GET PIP
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY MEALS I SKIP A MONTH?!?!?

e6pete.bsky.social•3 days ago

If you’re disabled I absolutely believe you should get support. Isn’t one of the changes going to change the previous assessment so people with chronic conditions don’t have to keep going for assessments. I hope you get the support you need.

pripyat-princess.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am disabled, and I'm telling you that if people get PIP, they absolutely qualify for it. What disabled people need from able people is for you to listen when we tell you just how bad things are, not say "EXPLAIN THAT, JUSTIFY THAT"
https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2022/october/headline_885099_en.html
This shit has a death toll.

pripyat-princess.bsky.social•3 days ago

And yeah, the no more assessments for chronic conditions thing was part of the Tory whitepaper. I'm unsure if that is part of these proposed "reforms" though. What I do know is that you will need 4 points in any one category in PIP to be able to receive UC's LCWRA. cont...

ala8.bsky.social•3 days ago

Piss off, Reeves is doing a social cleansing on the sick and disabled, OBR growth according to Sky News is a 1 per cent increase in growth, not 2 per cent, and she hits the sick on UC by cutting their lifeline in half

cheryl1878.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s evil and more Tory than Tory

catlady49ers.bsky.social•3 days ago

Greedy selfish fake Christians

mdtathome2.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am ashamed that I voted Labour at the last election. No return to austerity they promised!
They are clearly doing all the unpopular policies now in the belief that it will be forgotten by the time of the next election. I, for one, won't be fooled again 😕

aled.bsky.social•3 days ago

And it doesn't work

montrose.bsky.social•3 days ago

Definitely

England is going down morally

algarveceltic.bsky.social•3 days ago

Tax the greedy not the needy

malory555.bsky.social•3 days ago

Cruelty is a feature of this administration - not a bug.

hotchkiss13.bsky.social•2 days ago

So that’s 1m disabled people struggling 2.5m pensioners significantly worse off, 10k more children in poverty since KS took office and 1/4m more people in poverty by the end of this parliament. Under Labour.

ladypatricia2.bsky.social•3 days ago

The GOP borrowed money from Social Security to finance their war under Bush 1. They’re the deadbeats here.

produkshun.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is an argument. We're never gonna win until we revoke Murdoch citizenship and get rid of Fox News. Just ask where a guy who owned 18 newspapers or convince banks to loan him billions of dollars to build his media empire over the course of just a few of years.

Here's a hint: think Roubles.

circeseawitch.bsky.social•3 days ago

#taxwealthnotwork

troubleuptmillrd.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/troubleuptmillrd.bsky.social/post/3llei7zj6a22e

ripspicks.bsky.social•3 days ago

expected000.bsky.social•3 days ago

amber2024.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s always the disabled people that get targeted first, as most of society doesn’t care about us. Covid deaths, cuts to benefits, lack of accessibility, abuse… but it never ends with us. They will target others soon for cuts. People need to start defending the disabled as we are always frontline.

amber2024.bsky.social•3 days ago

With the wealthy at the top, it’s not the poor at the very bottom. It’s the disabled. We are the ones who are stripped of funding and rights so they can have more money and power. When they have taken everything from us, they move onto the poor, then the working class. Protect the disabled first.

louise-virtual.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you.

jinxcat72.bsky.social•3 days ago

A lot of people on pip are working!

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