A quick update on upcoming protests.

Missing – have you seen Rachel Reeves MP?  31 May

Assemble 10 am 

Leeds DPAC and Leeds, Wakefield & York Unite Community will be sharing the concerns of disabled people in West Leeds about the proposed cuts outside of Rachel Reeves MP’s constituency office.

More details from DPAC

 

Louth Lincolnshire DPAC  31 May

Assemble 11am Louth Market Place.

More details from DPAC

 

Milton Keynes disability protest, 31 May

Assemble 11am, outside Milton Keynes Theatre

More details from DPAC

 

Protest outside the disability cuts consultation in Cardiff, 3 June

Please note: although the consultation has been cancelled by the DWP, the protest will still take place as planned.

Assemble 12.00pm More details from DPAC

 

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    · 16 hours ago
    Details of a London protest on 7th June AND an online protest for people that can't attend (that'll be me then).


    The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing an online “rebellion” over its cuts to both Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Universal Credit. It comes in the form of a virtual protest on Saturday 7 June. This will be happening alongside a physical one in London. And the organiser of the virtual demo says that her and her friends are doing it because house-or bed-bound people ‘deserve to have their voices heard, too’.
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    · 18 hours ago
    If the DWP water down the proposals and decide that you need 12 points from the descriptors many of us will still lose out including myself as I score 11 points currently.
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      · 16 hours ago
      @Cecelia I’m in the same boat but I know I was scored lower in at least one category so I’ll be reviewing mine in the hope of getting 12 or more. Same with mobility. I’ll fight them to the bitter end . I advise anyone within their own safety and limits you can cope with to do the same. I really hope they get karma over this because it’s just evil. These people are despicable.
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      · 16 hours ago
      @Cecelia What you score currently has no bearing on future reassessment, which will likely be under new criteria and descriptors.  It doesn't really matter what any of us scored previously.  It will all boil down to the next assessment, under whatever ridiculousness the new hoops of fire entail.
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    · 18 hours ago
    Has anyone received further communications from their MP's (particularly Labour)?  As expected my MP isn't bothering to reply to my various emails. I get the impression that the new intake are keeping their heads down
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      · 16 hours ago
      @MATT That won’t help them come election day. 

      Vote them out! 
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    · 1 days ago
    heres the actual problem not the disabled, eat your words kendell, 

    "whos taking the mick" 

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      · 11 hours ago
      @Kess. last sentence missing after whos taking the mick. so ill try again as very important.

      as on panarama yesterday,  110 billion interest paid to banks every year. 
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    · 1 days ago
    Some good news today, the Government are going to consider scrapping the four points rule on one descriptor. They are going to look at the assessment criteria for the new pip assessment and potentially soften the criteria. They are looking at keeping the cumulative points system and people who score high enough could possibly still qualify.
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      · 14 hours ago
      @Dez So much out there that requires critical reading skills isn't there. And too many people purely putting up clickbait. 
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      · 15 hours ago
      @Cathedral city "But considering there's absolutely no sign of it anyway, I'm sorry to say it seems you've been fed speculation."

      *Sorry, meant to type 'anywhere', not 'anyway'. 
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      · 15 hours ago
      @Cathedral city It would help if you send us a link to where you read what you've stated in the original post. As it stands, the government are apparently only considering exempting those on the enhanced rate from the four point rule and that's about all we've heard.

      I'd also be careful trusting Reach publications anyway. They're bottom dwellers who take things that have been stated by users on websites such as this one and Scope and present it as something the government is considering when they've never stated they're considering such a thing. The whole barrage of means-testing PIP articles they put out is an example of this. Those articles were purely written from people expressing fears that PIP would be means-tested and nothing more.

      I personally think that if what you're saying is true, it would be all over The Guardian and what-not. But considering there's absolutely no sign of it anyway, I'm sorry to say it seems you've been fed speculation.
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      · 17 hours ago
      @Matt Cambridge news yesterday 
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      · 1 days ago
      @Cathedral city Potentially, possibly, maybe, might, was gonna...
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    · 1 days ago
    I agree with the premise that Universal Credit should be reformed, to get medically trained people to assess physical issues and psychiatry for people with mental illnesses to see if they are fit for work. If the body can't work then the person can't work unless they have telekinesis, no double Liz Kendall has looked into that lol. If the mind can't work then the body can't work, I will say this when grief stricken and depressed I worked through it, people thought that was an act of strength, it wasn't, I was a coward for running away from my problems, people deal with adversity differently, those who are impacted harder should always have that helping hand to raise them up.


    PIP should be left alone as it is NOT an out of work benefit, it's an umbrella benefit for disabled people to go about their daily lives, many employed disabled people use PIP for example transport or to pay for other appliances or aids to help them in work.

    Labour and the Tories have pushed this lie since March last year that PIP is an unemployment benefit, they should be held legally liable for lying on the media and in parliament!!!
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      · 1 days ago
      @Dave Dee I don't think you were a coward @Dave Dee, or running away, just getting through until you could begin living in your altered world.
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    · 1 days ago
    I don't think their will be a vote,this could all drag on for months as the government is forced back too the drawing board.
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    · 1 days ago
    Kendall was meant to have replied to the Work and Pensions Committee by today.  No sign of the publication of that letter as yet. 
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      · 1 days ago
      @Slb SLB - that's because she has to wait for Starmer to announce the U-turn on the 10 o'clock news tonight before she can reply!
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    · 1 days ago
    I'm assuming Reeves will appear before Parliament on the 11th June in relation to the spending review. After that, do I assume a vote will then take place on the Green Paper?
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      · 1 days ago
      @MATT Not on that day, I doubt.  And they'll only bring it forward if they are sure they will win.
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    · 1 days ago
    My whole post

    BBC 1, Dr Who, season 2, episode 7, Wish World, 24 May 2025:

    The disabled community:

    "We don't just sit around complaining. We have a plan. We're going to bring down... "

    They say "God"

    I was thinking more "Government".


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    · 1 days ago
    BBC 1, Dr Who,24 May 2025 :

     "We don't just sit around complaining. We have a plan. We're going to bring down... "
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    · 2 days ago
    Does anyone know the actual date of the all important vote in Parliament for the benefits revamp?
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      · 1 days ago
      @Moose I read somewhere later in June 
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      · 2 days ago
      @Moose Not yet been announced. Supposedly June, but it was also first meant to be May!
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    · 2 days ago
    @Neal, bloody great, that.
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    · 2 days ago
    Or write down y o u t u b e or google  ( 1 MIN AGO: Keir Starmer FLIPS OUT After Jeremy Corbyn Gave Him A BRUTAL REALITY CHECK ) Thanks
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    · 2 days ago
    1 MIN AGO: Keir Starmer FLIPS OUT After Jeremy Corbyn Gave Him A BRUTAL REALITY CHECK .. See Y o u t u b eLinl here  below
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      · 1 days ago
      @Neal At what point in the video does this happen?
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      · 2 days ago
      @gingin gingin ditto - though JC did look a lot younger!
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      · 2 days ago
      @Neal Dunno how I missed it - watched the whole thing and didn't see the Starmer bit. 
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