My mum volunteers for the NT, and says that if they don’t have enough volunteers they can’t open certain rooms. If the place can’t run without volunteers, then that should be a job!

Anyway, there’s a consultation out about these cuts at the moment, and it’s terribly written and includes lots of very leading questions, but if you have time to fill it out by 30 June, that would be great. People are literally going to die because of these cuts. www.gov.uk/government/c...

If labour actually wanted more disabled people in work, it would invest money in treating mental health, bringing down the NHS waiting lists, and investing in new treatments. If ME/CFS hadn’t been treated like a mental illness and severely unrefunded in research, maybe I would be working full-time!

Cutting benefits isn’t gonna change that - it’s just gonna force disabled people and families into further poverty. How about Labour brings in legislation that forces employers to make more adjustments and provide more protections for employed disabled people? Labour has lurched to the far right.

But for many disabled people, it’s a choice between working or working more hours, and causing a deterioration in their health. Many employers are just not willing to make the adjustments needed. Disabled people are much less likely to be employed because employers won’t employ them.

And anything to do DWP is not devolved, to be Scotland is still going be impacted by those changes. This dignity in work talk feels like dogwhistle ableism- the majority of disabled people who are out of work or in part-time work (like me) would love to be able to be well enough to work full-time.

Luckily, PIP is a devolved benefit (up here it is ADP) but we are still likely to be affected because Westminster will probably cut the money in the block grant based on their own decisions, and Scot Gov will have to chose to find the shortfall, which means something is getting cut.

The public is being being misled that PIP is an out of work benefit. It is not! And that you can’t claim it till you’re 22?! Awful. I really hate this assumption that every young person has the support of well off parents who can fill this gap. Yet again, young people are being targeted.

Tell me about it! I’m turning 40 in January and I AM NOT READY.

I can’t remember if I’ve read that. It’s been a while! I do have a copy of Peake’s Progress somewhere which has some of his shorter work and illustrations in it. I’m willing to bet in there.

I have, but I think he was unwell by that point and it’s really not the same as the first two. He had early onset dementia I believe.