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“UK will fund my death before they fund my wheelchair” Assisted dying/ Suicide Bill Vote No ❌ #AssistUsToLive
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Liz Carr @thelizcarr outside Parliament for todays vigil & protest against the Assisted Dying/ Suicide Bill Photo via @paulapeters2 Vote No❌ #AssistUsToLive
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We stand against the dangerous & impactful narrative of Isabel Oakeshott's views on disabled people who claim benefits "These people are,frankly,parasites"She said The narrative is dangerous Such language directly fuels, incites & instigates hate crime towards disabled people
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#WelfareNotWarfare Get your facts straight Reeves! Personal independence Payments (PIP) Is to meet a disabled person’s Additional costs as a disabled person is not means tested Stop calling it an out of work benefit. That’s an outright lie
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The language used here “ if you have a health condition or disability but don’t want to be written off we will offer you a pathway back to work” @UKLabour Really ? Thread 🧵
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#DisabilityBenefits This is absolutely horrendous. From a Freedom of Information request, 87% of disabled people currently in receipt of PIP 1.2 million who score 2 points across the board will lose the daily living component of pip under Labour’s proposed changes to PIP
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#PIP The vile & toxic DWP are sending out a horrific survey asking disabled people how they spend their PIP money 1. DWP have no legal right to ask & you have no legal obligation to fill it in 2. if you send a letter of opposition tell them what you think of their vile cuts
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“Survival is a deeply political act Survival is an act of resistance” Liz Carr @thelizcarr #BetterOffDead
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#DisabilityBenefits DPAC know that across the UK disabled people are terrified about govt proposals to cut disability benefits DPAC are mounting campaigns to resist & fight back We need you Join us Let’s build a big disabled people’s movement & push the govt back✊🏼📢
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Assist us to live Don’t coerce us to die Humans not burdens No to eugenics “Humans nor Burdens” Vote No ❌ #AssistUsToLive #DPAC
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In solidarity with SOAS Liberated Zone today we supported building & installation of wheelchair ramp making the space more accessible for disabled activists there. There’s no liberation worth the name without the liberation of disabled people. Or without the Palestinian people
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15 disabled people spell out a stark message on yellow background red lettered individual placards Vote NO ❌ #AssistUsToLive
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#DisabilityBenefits The second reading of The Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill will be on Tuesday, 1st July 2025 This is when MPs will vote on disability benefit cuts It’s vital you contact your MP and keep piling the pressure on.
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#DisabilityBenefits Didn’t consult disabled people properly with the welfare reform bill. The concessions have NOT been consulted on disabled people have had no say. We will not accept concessions we’ve had no input on. Bin the bill start again MPs ❌Vote NO on Tuesday
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#DisabilityBenefits Abstaining on primary legislation on benefit cuts will not save MPs seats. Do the only thing, Vote these benefit cuts down and stand up for your constituents. Disabled people are watching and we are watching if you vote Yes or abstain
Ministers scramble to avoid Labour rebellion on disability benefit cuts Backbenchers may be allowed to abstain, a major climbdown from previous votes when rebels were suspended from the party Labour MPs worried it could cost them their seats theguardian.com/politics/202…
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#WelfareNotWarfare The updated Map Graphic of all local actions including the london action taking place on Wednesday 26th March 2025 A big thank you to everyone who is organising an action and follow on actions from 26th March ✊🏼
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#WelfareNotWarfare Protestors with Israeli flags tried today disrupt our protest. They didn’t like our placards which had welfare nor warfare on them We formed a circle of support around disabled people by the joining of hands We were called parasites and worse
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#WelfareNotWarfare Why have the police got cops on horseback for a disabled people’s protest?
Police have got fucking horses out for peaceful protest of disabled people #WelfareNotWarfare
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#WelfareReformBill The “concessions” are a sham It will create a two tier PIP system & divide the disabled people’s community. Disabled People have not been consulted on these and there’s no information. To MPs stand firm on Voting ❌No and Bin the welfare reform bill
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If these lime bikes were blocking MP’s from getting into parliament you’d be taking immediate action @UKLabour @LondonLabour @leicesterliz @stephenctimms @DisabilityGovUK Discrimination against disabled people. Get it sorted #DisabledPeopleDemand
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#WelfareReformBill @RachaelMaskell amendment was lost. Thank you Rachael for everything you did. It won’t be forgotten
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#WelfareNotWarfare Carole from East London Unite Community Branch got arrested near downing St. she’s been taken to Charing Cross Police Station please get along there if you can. Video footage & picture from East London Unite Community branch
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#WelfareNotWarfare Tonight at @wesstreeting event with @guardian young pip claimants challenged him for backing cruel disability cuts. You can watch the video here ⬇️
🚨 BREAKING: Young PIP claimants challenge @wesstreeting for backing cruel disability cuts. We’ve been denied care, stuck on waiting lists & left to fight for survival in a rigged system. #StopTheCuts - this is life or death. We won’t let them get away with it ⬇️ #GuardianLive
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#WelfareNotWarfare A message to MPs On 1st July! ❌ Do Not Abstain. It enables the government to push the PIP & UC Bill through ❌ Vote NO vote it down & show disabled people you’re with us ❌ Vote for Cuts & not only will we won’t forget- you will lose your seat
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New low from @Keir_Starmer punching down disabled people on benefits Days away from the vote on the Assisted Dying Bill 2nd reading on Nov 29th The white paper on benefit reform is due on Tuesday 26th Nov The UK for Disabled People is brutal #PunchingDown #HostileEnviroment
TW DWP Blight? A new low today. Starmer’s attack on benefit claimants is vile and deeply ableist. Framing vulnerable folk as fraudsters stokes stigma and endangers lives. It increases hate and worthlessness. Stop weaponising poverty and disability for political theatre.
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Disabled people often have to pay for their own mobility aids and some wheelchairs can cost more than £6,000, so how are disabled people meant to save up to buy one without losing their benefits? How is that fair? #DisabledPeopleDemand
Letters: Disabled people live in constant fear we will lose our benefits – which we need to survive bigissue.com/life/letters/le…
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#WelfareNotWarfare ❌🔥Announcement 📢 Here is a graphic map of all actions across the UK on 26.03.25 With all details of times, addresses in the link here ⬇️ dpac.uk.net/2025/03/welfaren…
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#DisabilityGreenPaper Consultation runs until 11.55pm on 30th June 2025 Please read through this document and flood it with responses Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper - GOV.UK gov.uk/government/consultati…
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Unfortunately yes @TommyShakes We have spoken to disabled people who are working & turning #PIP into vouchers would mean they would no longer be to able to work Disabled People use their #PIP to support them to work It’s nonsensical Thread🧵👇
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#WelfareReformBill The entire welfare reform bill should have been binned. MPs had no idea what they voted on. Ministers in chaotic disarray. Disabled people are angry anxious and scared Now we hold MPs to account who voted for the terrible welfare reform bill
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#WelfareNotWarfare On the Day the Consult-a-sham comes to an end 📢Stop The Disability Benefit cuts 📢Monday 30th June 2025 📢Rally at Parliament Square London SW1P 3JX 📢4.30pm ❌Please spread far and wide 📢✊🏼
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Plans to monitor Disabled people’s bank accounts confirm Labour isn’t party of change | openDemocracy Disabled people are once again living under a government pursuing ever more surveillance of our lives Why Labour ? opendemocracy.net/en/plans-t…
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So if you are Disabled and unable to work you will be dismissed and/or Ignored ? "written off" is used informally to mean that someone or something is considered unimportant or not worth considering Appalling use or language or is it intentional ? #DisabledPeopleDemand
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September 25th 2024 @UKLabour  It's up to you to make the changes we need, not up to us So Labour  "Work sets you free" Now where have we read that before? #DisabledPeopleDemand
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⚠️Trigger⚠️ Reeves looks set to cut disability benefits @scope shows that it costs disabled households on ave £1,010 a month more. Extra cost of disability is the equivalent of 67% of household income after housing costs We suffer enough already; why? scope.org.uk/campaigns/disab…
#Budget2024 Reeves looks to cut sickness benefits to boost public spending archive.ph/2024.09.23-173744…
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Thank you @RichardBurgon for highlighting the injustice of current government attacks on disabled people.
There is hardly any fraud in the disability benefits system. In response to my parliamentary questions, the DWP says just 0.2% of personal independence payment (PIP) spending is due to fraud. Today I called for an end to the scapegoating of disabled people on benefits.
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#HandsOffDisabilityBenefits With Rachel Reeves announcing cuts to benefits Turn the anger into action and join this on Sunday 📢 Sunday 9th March 2025 2-4pm Register for the online meeting link in the meme below ⬇️
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avoid shopping @sainsburys who are supporting GB news and the man who wants to drown refugees in the Channel.
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted it launched a consultation on disability benefit cuts – that it framed as helping disabled people into work – despite having made no estimate of how many disabled people would actually find work as a result.  🤬😡♿️
"This rushed and disingenuous consultation [is] just a smokescreen for cuts." Work capability assessment proposals are motivated purely by slashing spending rather than helping people into work, warns @EllenClifford1 💷⬇️ bigissue.com/news/social-jus…
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Solidarity with all those marching, rolling, wobbling, posting, sharing & doing whatever they can the defend the right to protest. #KillTheBill
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DWP PIP changes Jobcentre staff to make decisions in PIP reviews 🤦‍♂️ “The #DWP have learnt nothing, nothing at all, not being medically qualified to make decisions on medical conditions” - DPAC Via ⁦@TheCanaryUKthecanary.co/uk/news/2024/10…
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#DisabilityBenefits The first reading of the welfare reform (cuts) bill will be on 18th June 2025 The second reading and the vote will be on 3rd July 2025
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Should have gone to @Specsavers Another reason why Starmer shouldn’t have accepted the donation of a £2500 pair of allegedly dodgy reading glasses ? 🤓🤷‍♂️ #Sausages
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Hello #MP’s are you are still undecided about your decision ? Listen to what Liz Carr @thelizcarr has to say on the subject of Assisted Dying / Suicide Liz has a very careful & well considered view & insight to what this bill is about & will lead to
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#WelfareNotWarfare It was brilliant to see disabled people who were able to support @pplsassembly March in central london We know many could not & were following from home & solidarity to you Thank you to @jeremycorbyn for showing solidarity to disabled people on the march
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MPs vote to support assisted dying bill MPs have voted 330 to 275 in support of the assisted dying bill A difference of 55 We will never give up fighting ✊
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Access denied to Portcullis House - agreement had been arranged prior We had been told we could bring in all these 650 books for MPs. We're now being told we have to post them and we can't come in. Talking to MP’s on the pavement image #TheDepartment #NoMoreBenefitDeaths
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#WelfareNotWarfare The sheer volume of protestors at Parliament against benefit cuts Video from @TheCanaryUK
The sheer volume of protestors in Westminister against the benefit cuts #WelfareNotWarfare
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"How a society treats its most vulnerable is always the measure of its humanity."
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We demand an impact assessment be made & published prior to the Autumn Budget on all #DWP changes to Disabled People's Benefits @UKLabour @DWPgovuk Not just an Equality Analysis, a full impact assessment Please Share #DisabledPeopleDemand
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Calls for #MP to resign role over fuel payment vote An MP has faced calls to resign as chair of a local charity for older people after she backed the government's plans to cut the Winter Fuel Payment. Actions = Consequences bbc.com/news/articles/cr7nr7…
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Fury as Isabel Oakeshott claims benefits claimants are ‘parasites’ | The National Dangerous rhetoric like this has seen disability hate crime rise by 50% in the past 4 years #HateCrime thenational.scot/news/246958…
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You can stick your f*cking duty up your arse DPAC @ Downing St
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Replying to @UKLabour
We know and you know that what this really means is private providers bullying disabled people into low quality harmful insecure work, just as every initiative from Labour or Tory party always has. Don't take us for mugs. We won't stand for it
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Unqualified in Severe Mental health Work Coaches in MH Hospitals would be an act of discrimination against disabled people Will others suffering from severe forms of physical illness also be visited by a work coach ? #Equality #DisabledPeopleDemand gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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#DisabilityBenefits To the MPs who stood up for disabled constituents who voted against benefit cuts we thank you To those who voted for cuts - campaigns are underway to hold you to account & remove you from office To the government we won’t stop resisting you & fighting
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Fury after doctors refused to resuscitate disabled man during pandemic Doctors chose not to ventilate a man with a learning disability during the pandemic. The family claim they were told “people like him” are not usually resuscitated. Read below 👇 bigissue.com/news/social-jus…
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#WelfareNotWarfare Join @Dis_PPL_Protest & allies on Wed 26 March 2025 outside Downing Street 11am with a rally & speeches then a march to Parliament As we begin the biggest resistance to labour government austerity agenda your voice matters. On the street online join us ✊🏼📢
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From the white paper published today gov.uk/government/speeches/g… “So we treat disabled people with dignity and respect” The language “Written Off” is not treating Disabled People with dignity and respect Language fail @leicesterliz @UKLabour 🤦‍♂️
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#bbcqt UK, first country to be found guilty of severe and systematic violations of disabled people's rights
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#WelfareReformBill We fought really hard and we want to say thank you to all disabled people and allies who gave everything they had over the months raising awareness and building campaigns against disability benefit cuts We are exhausted We won’t give up We will fight on
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In memory of Laura Windham 🖤 We remember Laura whose benefits were stopped by the #DWP and who was failed by Mental Health & Social services #NoMoreBenefitDeaths theguardian.com/society/2024…
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#HandsOffDisabilityBenefits Email your MP today using this template letter Invite them to DPAC Parliament Meeting Monday 17th March 4-6 Pm thatcher Room Portcullis House London docs.google.com/document/d/1… Contact your MP here: parliament.uk/get-involved/c…
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#DisabilityBenefits It’s important that you contact your MP and ask them to attend the Mass Lobby of MPs on 21.05.25 in Parliament
Disability Minister Stephen Timms insists that cuts to disability benefits will go ahead and he does not rule out making further changes to welfare
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#DisabilityBenefits Labour rush to get first vote on PIP and UC cuts over Second reading will take place on Tuesday 1st July We Ned you to keep piling pressure on MPs. Flood their post bags with letters Crash their email in boxes with emails benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/l…
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Any #MP’s receiving #PIP ? It’s not a means tested benefit so it’s possible an MP has had to have gone down the #PIP application journey, interviews, assessments etc maybe even a tribunal ? If yes What was your experience like ?
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You Can Stick Your F*cking Duty Up Your Arse Friday 24th November 6pm Downing St Tories - You failed in your duty, don’t dare to tell us what ours is. Please RT & Share #AutumnStatement dpac.uk.net/2023/11/you-can-…
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#NoMoreBenefitDeaths Protest has ended peacefully despite a slight kettle, the protest given a broad section 14 & many disabled people threatened with arrest Thank you to all disabled people & allies who participated Everyone is safe & on way home Photos @paulapeters2
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#DisabilityBenefits 📢❌ A message to MPs do not capitulate to concessions. Stand firm and vote the bill down
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“Come on Disabled, long-term sick, out of your wheelchairs! remove those drips! out of bed & smile MH sufferers! You are needed to save the wealthy from paying taxes! onwards!” Via @Danwhite1972 Left Right , Left Right , March, Keep up!
Starmer said people dealing with long-term sickness “need to be back in the workplace where they can” Come on Disabled, long-term sick, out of your wheelchairs! remove those drips! out of bed & smile MH sufferers! You are needed to save the wealthy from paying taxes! onwards!
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#WelfareNotWarfare There are millions of disabled people across the UK petrified and worried about Labour’s proposed cuts. On 30th June and 1st July at protests in London & across the UK as a movement we show them who we are; determined, angry & we will resist government cuts
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#WelfareNotWarfare 📢Keep piling the pressure on MPs. Keep emailing, calling & writing to them. The “concessions” are a complete sham. Any MP who votes for the PIP & UC Bill on Tuesday is a sell out To MPs - ❌Vote NO Bin the Bill & let disabled people have a say
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Change The Narrative towards Disabled People Government DWP Press Society There needs to be more support for disabled people, not less #DisabledPeopleDemand
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There needs to be more support for disabled people, not less @UKLabour @DWPgovuk
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Gordon Brown: improve end-of-life care rather than allow assisted dying | Assisted dying | The Guardian Former PM, whose daughter died aged 11 days, says debate is moving too fast and calls for commission into palliative care #AssistUsToLive theguardian.com/society/2024…
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STOP using the “v” word about us, it’s way past time to know that’s not acceptable Stop referring to disabled people as “vulnerable”There is nothing inherently ‘vulnerable’ about us, it is society that makes us vulnerable by failing to value & include us dpac.uk.net/2014/11/a-plea-t…
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Personal Independence Payment #PIP is not an out of work Benefit “Support” @kevinhollinrake @bbclaurak Get your facts right , spreading disinformation is harmful to Disabled People. Check the facts on the Government Website gov.uk/pip #PIP
That's not the case #KevinHollinrake - #PersonalIndependencePayment is not 'out of work' support. It is support to recognise the #extracosts sick, deaf and disabled people face inc those with mental illness And in the vast majority of cases it doesn't at all replace a salary #BBCLauraK
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Big legal victory for Disabled people: the DWP’s changes to PIP regulations were declared unlawful today dpac.uk.net/2017/12/big-lega… via @Dis_ppl_protest
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Many of us are feeling the same way. Broken, scared, outraged, anxious, a lot of mixed feelings You are not alone Voice your feelings and concerns here if it helps you We stand together ✊

ALT A pink background with a triangular yellow flag with the words solidarity written in black

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y8… @Keir_Starmer thinking people on Sickness benefits should be looking for work has just about broken me today.
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#WelfareNotWarfare 26th March 2025 will see the start of the biggest fight backs in recent years against Labour Govt horrific welfare reforms We will be outside Downing Street with allies at 11am If you can’t be there the fab @TheCanaryUK will be live-streaming
#WelfareNotWarfare On 26.03.2025 at 11am outside no.10 Downing Street, there is going to be one of the biggest fightbacks we have seen in recent years against our government's treatment of people with #MentalHealth issues, #Neurodivergent, #Disabled and the #ChronicallyIll. 1/3
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#PIP Now there’s a “surprise’ not! Major Charities who have government funding invited to participate @stephenctimms PIP review. They won’t jeopardise future funding from government- we knew this review would be a complete sham Timms can’t be trusted
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Stephen Kinnock the minister for Social Care is to lead UK assisted dying strategy if controversial bill passes This is a major conflict of interests as Kinnock is pro Assisted Dying/Suicide Can you see the slippery slope now #MP’s? #AssistUsToLive ft.com/content/09b08b1d-4b99…
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#MayDay Disabled people across the UK will be speaking at May Day rallies to highlight the impact of disability benefit cuts and the impact Please support your nearest May Day Rally if you can get there
📣 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT📣 @paulapeters2 , @Dis_PPL_Protest will be speaking at our rally. This #MayDay we say Yes to Workers Rights, No to the Far Right. 1 May | Assemble 12 noon | Clerkenwell Green #LDNMayDay #MayDay2025
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#WelfareRights Due to closures of law centres, welfare rights advice centres many had to learn to navigate the traumatising benefits system to support others who had nowhere else to turn They are not sick influencers. It’s not a crime to support another get the help they need
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#WelfareNotWarfare So, @coyleneil was so worried about disabled people leafletting outside his constituency office on disability benefit cuts he closed it then he sent two police officers to deal with “rowdy protestors” Mr Coyle has defended disability cuts & defended them
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Question @RachelReevesMP did you read this book ? You need to realise the harm and the deaths within the disabled community in cutting benefits will cause. It’s a responsibility to the disabled people of the UK for you to read this book. Learn from the past. #Accountabity
Every MP will be sent a copy of this book ‘The Department‘ By John Pring @johnpringdns Please Ask your MP if they have received a copy & an ask then if they are going to read it ? theyworkforyou.com/mp/ Please Share #TheDepartment #NoMoreBenefitDeaths 🖤
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#WelfareNotWarfare 📢Tuesday 1st July 2025 📢London Action ❌The Day MPs Vote on Disability Benefit Cuts in Parliament ❌ @Dis_PPL_Protest & allies are having a vigil & rally 📢From 1pm 📢Old Palace Yard, Westminster London SW1P 3JY Please spread the word
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Dear #DPAC followers and readers We will not risk mis-informing you on benefit reform/cuts/ changes. So we will give an update when we are sure of the facts. Solidarity ✊
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