Gail
@blueannoyed.bsky.social
Grassroots Activist, Founder of 'Hand2Mouth' Universal Credit Project, Author, Likes Photography, Loves Scotland, Lives in Northumberland
Be there if you can, Take plenty of water ,sun cream, and something to eat, and any meds you may need
June 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Be there if you can, Take plenty of water ,sun cream, and something to eat, and any meds you may need
Our email campaign does work keep writing to your MPs the fight isn't over yet!
Takes less than 5 mins of your time to explain how cuts affect you and that if they vote for them , you wont be voting for them at GE
www.writetothem.com
Takes less than 5 mins of your time to explain how cuts affect you and that if they vote for them , you wont be voting for them at GE
www.writetothem.com
WriteToThem
WriteToThem is a website which provides an easy way to contact MPs, councillors and other elected representatives.
www.writetothem.com
June 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Our email campaign does work keep writing to your MPs the fight isn't over yet!
Takes less than 5 mins of your time to explain how cuts affect you and that if they vote for them , you wont be voting for them at GE
www.writetothem.com
Takes less than 5 mins of your time to explain how cuts affect you and that if they vote for them , you wont be voting for them at GE
www.writetothem.com
"Anyone swayed by the argument, “I won’t take support away from existing disabled people but future disabled people are fair game,” cannot claim to be a left-wing MP."
#WelfarenotWarfare
#Stopdisabilitycuts
#WelfarenotWarfare
#Stopdisabilitycuts
June 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"Anyone swayed by the argument, “I won’t take support away from existing disabled people but future disabled people are fair game,” cannot claim to be a left-wing MP."
#WelfarenotWarfare
#Stopdisabilitycuts
#WelfarenotWarfare
#Stopdisabilitycuts
If you think claiming PIP is easy,look at this extract from an assessment report
June 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
If you think claiming PIP is easy,look at this extract from an assessment report
Stop the Bill!
June 30th 4.30 pm
Rally in Parliament Square to try to influence the vote
July 1st 1pm+
Vote on social security cuts due late afternoon/ early evening meet Old Palace Yard from 1pm onwards.
Vote is expected to be in the evening
#WelfareNotWarfare
#TaxTheRich
June 30th 4.30 pm
Rally in Parliament Square to try to influence the vote
July 1st 1pm+
Vote on social security cuts due late afternoon/ early evening meet Old Palace Yard from 1pm onwards.
Vote is expected to be in the evening
#WelfareNotWarfare
#TaxTheRich
June 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Stop the Bill!
June 30th 4.30 pm
Rally in Parliament Square to try to influence the vote
July 1st 1pm+
Vote on social security cuts due late afternoon/ early evening meet Old Palace Yard from 1pm onwards.
Vote is expected to be in the evening
#WelfareNotWarfare
#TaxTheRich
June 30th 4.30 pm
Rally in Parliament Square to try to influence the vote
July 1st 1pm+
Vote on social security cuts due late afternoon/ early evening meet Old Palace Yard from 1pm onwards.
Vote is expected to be in the evening
#WelfareNotWarfare
#TaxTheRich
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The cuts of benefits for disabled people are already significantly bad, this argues that they are actually worse that what has been described.
inequalities.substack.com/p/disability...
inequalities.substack.com/p/disability...
The headline disability benefit cuts are £9bn, not £4.7bn
The OBR are assuming that people change their behaviour in response to the cuts - without this, the cuts are nearly twice as deep
inequalities.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The cuts of benefits for disabled people are already significantly bad, this argues that they are actually worse that what has been described.
inequalities.substack.com/p/disability...
inequalities.substack.com/p/disability...
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“I was in a constant state of hypervigilance. I was completely traumatised.”
Oxevision cameras are being installed above patients’ beds in NHS mental health units causing fear, retraumatisation and even linked to deaths.
This isnt safety. This is surveillance.
#StopOxevision tinyurl.com/4wmvmn53
Oxevision cameras are being installed above patients’ beds in NHS mental health units causing fear, retraumatisation and even linked to deaths.
This isnt safety. This is surveillance.
#StopOxevision tinyurl.com/4wmvmn53
Is it safe? Is it spying? Disquiet over NHS ‘magic eye’ surveillance camera in mental health units
Campaign calls for investigation into the use of Oxevison amid concerns over care and its effect on patients
tinyurl.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“I was in a constant state of hypervigilance. I was completely traumatised.”
Oxevision cameras are being installed above patients’ beds in NHS mental health units causing fear, retraumatisation and even linked to deaths.
This isnt safety. This is surveillance.
#StopOxevision tinyurl.com/4wmvmn53
Oxevision cameras are being installed above patients’ beds in NHS mental health units causing fear, retraumatisation and even linked to deaths.
This isnt safety. This is surveillance.
#StopOxevision tinyurl.com/4wmvmn53
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Reality check, Labour:
IAPT Talking Therapies stats show 1.8M referrals, over 60% drop out.
Of 1.2M who start, 45% quit. Just 336K recover.
PIP claimants are not mild cases. They’re the illest—often in secondary services.
You can’t cut support by pretending therapy is a magic fix.
IAPT Talking Therapies stats show 1.8M referrals, over 60% drop out.
Of 1.2M who start, 45% quit. Just 336K recover.
PIP claimants are not mild cases. They’re the illest—often in secondary services.
You can’t cut support by pretending therapy is a magic fix.
April 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Reality check, Labour:
IAPT Talking Therapies stats show 1.8M referrals, over 60% drop out.
Of 1.2M who start, 45% quit. Just 336K recover.
PIP claimants are not mild cases. They’re the illest—often in secondary services.
You can’t cut support by pretending therapy is a magic fix.
IAPT Talking Therapies stats show 1.8M referrals, over 60% drop out.
Of 1.2M who start, 45% quit. Just 336K recover.
PIP claimants are not mild cases. They’re the illest—often in secondary services.
You can’t cut support by pretending therapy is a magic fix.
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Please sign and share
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STOP the new 4 point PIP rule
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
April 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Please sign and share
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This is a sad comment on the value that UK society places on its own people.
UK state pension rises by £470 to £11,790 a yr.
26% of retirees receive the full amount
SP is less than 50% of minimum wage. Worst in major economies.
Thousands below the poverty line lost winter fuel payment.
2m pensioners live in poverty.
110,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
26% of retirees receive the full amount
SP is less than 50% of minimum wage. Worst in major economies.
Thousands below the poverty line lost winter fuel payment.
2m pensioners live in poverty.
110,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
April 7, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This is a sad comment on the value that UK society places on its own people.
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Just want to recommend How to be Disabled and Proud by @cathyreaywrites. It's kind of a survival guide for disabled children, but also much more than that. It's smart, kind and funny, but also empowering. And it has a brilliant chapter on activism.
@puffinbooksuk
@puffinbooksuk
How To Be Disabled and Proud
A warm, funny and empowering guide to what you can expect growing up disabled, written by disabled journalist and mum Cathy Reay. Have you ever felt like you don’t fit in anywhere? Or like no-one…
www.penguin.co.uk
April 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Just want to recommend How to be Disabled and Proud by @cathyreaywrites. It's kind of a survival guide for disabled children, but also much more than that. It's smart, kind and funny, but also empowering. And it has a brilliant chapter on activism.
@puffinbooksuk
@puffinbooksuk
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Labour's disability cuts will affect over 2.9 million people, increasing pressure on the NHS, local authorities and housing... while many Disabled people "will become invisible within the support system"
policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/the-imp...
policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/the-imp...
The impact of planned disability reforms on local authorities and the NHS | Policy in Practice
New disability reforms analysis: Millions affected, billions lost. Read who’s impacted, by how much, and why
policyinpractice.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Labour's disability cuts will affect over 2.9 million people, increasing pressure on the NHS, local authorities and housing... while many Disabled people "will become invisible within the support system"
policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/the-imp...
policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/the-imp...
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Why work with government that will force many disabled people into absolute poverty? Changing the requirements to get daily living component of PIP will actually force many people off PIP & family carers will lose their carer's allowance impoverisation for the family
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Disability groups consider ‘step back’ from government
A number of disability-led organisations say they are considering “stepping back” from engaging with the government over benefit cuts
www.bbc.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Why work with government that will force many disabled people into absolute poverty? Changing the requirements to get daily living component of PIP will actually force many people off PIP & family carers will lose their carer's allowance impoverisation for the family
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The LP cannot let go of the narrative that disabled people are lazy & don't "contribute" by labouring for pay. It is not an issue of behaviour; it is the reality that disabled people are oppressed in the capitalist system & btw, disabled people are in paid work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Keir Starmer criticises watchdog's benefits forecasts
The PM says he
www.bbc.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The LP cannot let go of the narrative that disabled people are lazy & don't "contribute" by labouring for pay. It is not an issue of behaviour; it is the reality that disabled people are oppressed in the capitalist system & btw, disabled people are in paid work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ministers are silent, but PIP cuts won’t just hurt disabled people — carers will suffer too.
PIP is a passport to support like Carer’s Allowance & council tax reductions. Losing it could cost carers thousands a year, pushing families deeper into poverty.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
PIP is a passport to support like Carer’s Allowance & council tax reductions. Losing it could cost carers thousands a year, pushing families deeper into poverty.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Some disabled people could lose £10k a year in benefits by end of decade
Experts say planned cuts will deliver series of ‘painful income shocks’ for many
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ministers are silent, but PIP cuts won’t just hurt disabled people — carers will suffer too.
PIP is a passport to support like Carer’s Allowance & council tax reductions. Losing it could cost carers thousands a year, pushing families deeper into poverty.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
PIP is a passport to support like Carer’s Allowance & council tax reductions. Losing it could cost carers thousands a year, pushing families deeper into poverty.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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“This is going to be remembered in the same way as the poll tax for Margaret Thatcher and tuition fees for Nick Clegg. Those caused riots. This won’t, but demonising disabled people will not be forgiven”. 💔letters in @theguardian.com on #DisabilityBenefits www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
March 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
“This is going to be remembered in the same way as the poll tax for Margaret Thatcher and tuition fees for Nick Clegg. Those caused riots. This won’t, but demonising disabled people will not be forgiven”. 💔letters in @theguardian.com on #DisabilityBenefits www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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#DisabilityBenefits cuts will cost more in every way.
“For every pound that someone loses in benefits, you know that – if a council has to step in to cover the shortfall – it’s about £1.50 additional impact”- Disability Policy Centre.
Important piece by @cjayanetti.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3vun5uz8
“For every pound that someone loses in benefits, you know that – if a council has to step in to cover the shortfall – it’s about £1.50 additional impact”- Disability Policy Centre.
Important piece by @cjayanetti.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3vun5uz8
Councils and NHS could face millions in extra costs due to disability benefit cuts
Government plans for Pip cuts will drive up costs for local authority social care services and NHS, campaigners warn
tinyurl.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#DisabilityBenefits cuts will cost more in every way.
“For every pound that someone loses in benefits, you know that – if a council has to step in to cover the shortfall – it’s about £1.50 additional impact”- Disability Policy Centre.
Important piece by @cjayanetti.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3vun5uz8
“For every pound that someone loses in benefits, you know that – if a council has to step in to cover the shortfall – it’s about £1.50 additional impact”- Disability Policy Centre.
Important piece by @cjayanetti.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3vun5uz8
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Dear @teamlabouruk.bsky.social MPs,
I know many of you are doomscrolling #DisabilityBenefits cuts. Could I ask you a favour? Please (re)watch I, Daniel Blake. His fate will be that of ***many*** more if Labour’s proposals go through.
Please do the right thing,
Jay
P.S. tinyurl.com/yc2hs52f
I know many of you are doomscrolling #DisabilityBenefits cuts. Could I ask you a favour? Please (re)watch I, Daniel Blake. His fate will be that of ***many*** more if Labour’s proposals go through.
Please do the right thing,
Jay
P.S. tinyurl.com/yc2hs52f
Dailymotion
tinyurl.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Dear @teamlabouruk.bsky.social MPs,
I know many of you are doomscrolling #DisabilityBenefits cuts. Could I ask you a favour? Please (re)watch I, Daniel Blake. His fate will be that of ***many*** more if Labour’s proposals go through.
Please do the right thing,
Jay
P.S. tinyurl.com/yc2hs52f
I know many of you are doomscrolling #DisabilityBenefits cuts. Could I ask you a favour? Please (re)watch I, Daniel Blake. His fate will be that of ***many*** more if Labour’s proposals go through.
Please do the right thing,
Jay
P.S. tinyurl.com/yc2hs52f
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NEW: The Equality and Human Right Commission is investigating Labour’s benefits cuts for potentially breaching the Equality Act. Spoiler alert: it is. I’m half way through all these PIP scoring forms and changing to needing 4 in one item is clearly discriminatory.
March 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
NEW: The Equality and Human Right Commission is investigating Labour’s benefits cuts for potentially breaching the Equality Act. Spoiler alert: it is. I’m half way through all these PIP scoring forms and changing to needing 4 in one item is clearly discriminatory.