[Cherie]

250,000 people including 50 thousand children will be pushed into poverty by the end of Parliament ...and this is a Labour government, the Country is fecked

[arista]

Labour MP Clive Lewis
said he will not vote for this.

He is worried about his disabled folks
in his constituency.

Just spoke on SkyNewsHD

[arista]

She is now Live
all media.


From Downing Street
media room.

[arista]

Reeves MP

Now taking Questions.

[Cherie]

Families will be 500.00 better off by the end of Parliament they are trolling us for real, this is almost as good as a penny off a pint off beer....

[arista]

Ch5HDnews
In a community hub
Birkenhead,
The manager stated that a nice old lady
can not afford her heating.
So she stays on buses all day.

[Cherie]

From what I can see, it will be people with mental health issues that will lose their PIP as they wont reach the 4 point threshold on some of the questions, most will reach 2 but that will not be enough

800,000 PIP claimants are set to see benefit cuts as Rachel Reeves commits to a Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) change. The DWP and Labour Party government has introduced stricter eligibility criteria for those claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

According to the OBR’s March 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook, around 800,000 people are expected to lose eligibility for the daily living component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) due to the new threshold that requires scoring at least 4 points in a single daily living activity.

Birmingham Live

[Cherie]

My other question is the tailored support to get people back to work, exactly what is it apart from sounding good?

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by arista

Ch5HDnews
In a community hub
Birkenhead,
The manager stated that a nice old lady
can not afford her heating.
So she stays on buses all day.

Remember when Starmer pretended he cared ....pre election of course

He gets no freebies from the poor

[joeysteele]

As it stands..
If I was in parliament there's no way I could support this, not the changes to pip particularly.
I've battled for the sick and disabled for many years now.

I'm all for any sick or disabled helped to find work IF they can work and more to the point THEY feel they can.
I've read lots and also on here over the years, when the Cons were in, moaning about the sick and disabled getting this or that.
While yes, there's some who take advantage of the system, it's not a great number.
Even conditions like diabetes, some scoff at that.
I've seen the dangers of it, plus while some can have it controlled, others don't.
The debilitating condition it is with its many complications can even as to that, make it difficult to work.

I've also attended with others, these awful re-assessnents of claimants as to DLA, and PIP and also ESA too.
With NOT a Doctor doing them at all but a probably commission paid so called health professional, who really are nothing more than box tickers with the view of reducing or stopping benefits.

I've been with people left near suicidal after such assessments.
There's next to no compassion.

I couldn't then support these plans as they are.
The changing of the criteria to qualify for PIP.
The current criteria was too heartless in my view, raising the points level in these new plans are absolutely wrong.

This isn't clear enough as to the plans.
If things were stronger economically and you had the necessary things in place to really assist as to work.
Then that would be much more acceptable.
However someone sick and disabled are the ones who really KNOW if they can do work.
They know their bodies, they know how they feel.

Who knows as to someone sick and disabled just how much the added stress of having to work will add to the already limits from their conditions.
Certainly NOT ANY political Party.
Certainly NOT a government either.
Certainly NOT those box tickers doing re-assessing.

I don't like one bit these plans.
Not one bit at all.
I hope Labour backbenchers will think hard on them, however the sad thing is most other Parties would be looking at doing similar.
I never though expected this from this government,no way.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Cherie

From what I can see, it will be people with mental health issues that will lose their PIP as they wont reach the 4 point threshold on some of the questions, most will reach 2 but that will not be enough

800,000 PIP claimants are set to see benefit cuts as Rachel Reeves commits to a Department for Work and Pensions ( DWP ) change. The DWP and Labour Party government has introduced stricter eligibility criteria for those claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

According to the OBR’s March 2025 Economic and Fiscal Outlook, around 800,000 people are expected to lose eligibility for the daily living component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) due to the new threshold that requires scoring at least 4 points in a single daily living activity.

Birmingham Live

Have they just arrived on a dinghy? No? **** 'em then.

[Crimson Dynamo]

she is so out her depth

its staggering

[Beso]

Worst thing is, in 4 years time there no point changing cause the merry go round will just go round again. Keep labour in, its enjoyable having them to blame for a change.

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[user104658]

Originally Posted by Beso

Worst thing is, in 4 years time there no point changing cause the merry go round will just go round again. Keep labour in, its enjoyable having them to blame for a change.

I agree with that, the last year has proven that there's very little meaningful democracy left in the UK (or the US but in a very different way here). We're just picking slightly different versions of identical politics.

Some naively think that Reform would be "the answer" and change up everything but I just don't think they would. It would be again a slight variation on exactly the same thing. We don't get to "choose".

[Cherie]

Wonder how James O Blob will spin this into a positive this morning, so far he has managed to support Labour on everything...even Starmers glasses and new suits

[bots]

Originally Posted by Quantum Boy

I agree with that, the last year has proven that there's very little meaningful democracy left in the UK (or the US but in a very different way here). We're just picking slightly different versions of identical politics.

Some naively think that Reform would be "the answer" and change up everything but I just don't think they would. It would be again a slight variation on exactly the same thing. We don't get to "choose".

Changing the government just changes who gets the corrupt cash at the lower levels. The constant winners are the party donors who pick a party to donate to depending on how much they want to F things up, but they always make the money