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Pablo Martini (Geezer)As people clock off, disabled campaigners are just getting started.DPAC Cymru has had enough of being sidelined. They’re exposing the so-called PIP review for what it is: a betrayal. Now they’re building a movement in Wales to fight back—and calling for Timms to go.<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityRights</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DPACCymru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DPACCymru</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PIPReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PIPReview</a> <a href="https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=99668" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=99668</a>

Beverley<a href="https://beige.party/@HarriettMB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@HarriettMB</a> You're absolutely right; it's completely ridiculous.I don't understand what they hope to achieve.You mention history, but think how many times they've had to backtrack in the last year, the backlash from <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WinterFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WinterFuel</a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a>... It's as though they've got a death wish... Or do they really think they can push through a Trump-style state if they're just sufficiently determined?That said, a country that voted for <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Brexit</a>, put the likes of Johnson in power...🤷🏻‍♀️

Juggling With EggsAnd if you are wondering why the beancounters at the Treasury didn’t think they needed to consult key stakeholders(<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disability</a> organisations and charities) in their so called <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> proposals before putting it out for public consumption…well that would be because <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Economics</a> students (of whom the Treasury is composed) think their subject is amoral, morality simply doesn’t come into their decision making.

BeverleyWell, if my health tracker is to be believed, I had 3 hours 27 minutes <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sleep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sleep</a> last night.Exactly what I needed to face another day of caring and dealing with <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UniversalCreditMigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UniversalCreditMigration</a> on behalf of 'my person'.Happy Thursday everyone. Blue sky and the sun is shining, which is lovely, though I heard a piece saying reservoirs are only half-full which sounds scary. 🤷🏻‍♀️ <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> has created quite the atmosphere. Really hard to shake off the feeling of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Doom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Doom</a>

BeverleyDon't know how I'll sleep tonight. My average has been poor on a 'good' day. Today has not been a good day. As for the vulnerable person in my life... it's unlikely they'll sleep at all, going by past experience.Thank you <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LiNO</a> I was sceptical there'd be hope after your promises of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Change</a>I was not wrong.Back to who knows how many hours on hold tomorrow...<a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UniversalCreditMigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UniversalCreditMigration</a>

Beverley<a href="https://mastodon.social/@skua" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@skua</a> Thank you. I feel supported by your comments. I've been beating myself up, annoyed that I allowed myself to be baited and trying to convince myself it was 'him not me'.As any long-term carer will no doubt agree, one is exhausted in the first place without additional burdens/hoops to jump through.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UniversalCreditMigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UniversalCreditMigration</a>

Political Cartoon GalleryMorten Morland @mortenmorland on Labour pushing through its <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareReformBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReformBill</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/KeirStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KeirStarmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RachelReeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RachelReeves</a> @TheTimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Political Cartoon GalleryDave Brown @DaveBrownToons @Independent on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareReformBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReformBill</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareRebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareRebellion</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BackBenchRebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BackBenchRebellion</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Cuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cuts</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/StarmerShambles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarmerShambles</a> - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

BeverleyAWFUL, HORRIBLE experience calling the Universal Credit line on behalf of a vulnerable family member...Robotic individual who answered was extremely unhelpful, kept talking over me and eventually put the 'phone down on me!And no, I wasn't abusive, didn't swear at him... but WHAT THE F*CK?I think the atmosphere/environment created by the political class, supported by the media is at play here...So more hours on hold tomorrow as I try to resolve the situation.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LiNO</a>

BeverleyHad to switch off 'Politics Live'... then got distracted by some domestics...<a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> Cd the BBC offer presenters more blatantly biased than Vicki Young? Yarping at and interrupting Stella Creasy. SC "Are you suggesting we should use 'phone-ins as the basis for evidence...?" (Nice one!)VY "But people will be watching this who know people who shouldn't be getting PIP" (Heard of 'invisible disabilities' Vicki?)Yeah Vicki, the well-known experts down the pub! FFS!<a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a>

BeverleyLinks to other media - sorry!

🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp<a href="https://mstdn.social/@junesim63" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@junesim63</a> My labour MP voted for just chewed them out in email blaming them for deaths in suicides and poverty this will cause. I called it "poking mentally ill people with a hot rod until they either get a job or die" <a href="https://social.coop/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukpol</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/welfarereform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#welfarereform</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#labour</a>

BeverleyWatching 'Newsnight'... might have to turn it off... not sure my blood pressure can bear it...<a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> Ian Byrne 👏🏻<a href="https://mas.to/tags/StarmerIsATory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarmerIsATory</a> , he is totally inept, has no principles. It is long past time he was gone.Change? What change? He's dishing up more of the same and not even in a competent fashion!He looks like a fool and is making other people make idiots of themselves.I know I'm not coherent! So angry!

Beverley3/3(Can't bring myself to include the Farage gang.)<a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a>

Beverley2/3<a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a>

BeverleyLiz Kendall talking absolute bollocks...Something about Starmer "securing" a win... No, he absolutely did not.The 'Tories lost the election, Labour didn't 'win'.Whatever goodwill people felt has been thrown away. I can't see them coming back from this.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LiNO</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a>

Political Cartoon GalleryMorten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social Labour pushing through its <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareReformBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReformBill</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> @TheTimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Political Cartoon GalleryElla Baron on Labour pushing through its <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareReformBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReformBill</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Beverley<a href="https://beige.party/@HarriettMB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@HarriettMB</a> ... I didn't complete it, due to the concerns of my person on how the information might be used and whether it would genuinely be anonymous.The fact that they knew I hadn't completed it doesn't preclude anonymity, but it doesn't provide confidence either.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PIPReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PIPReview</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiNO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LiNO</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StarmerIsATory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StarmerIsATory</a>

Beverley<a href="https://beige.party/@HarriettMB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@HarriettMB</a> I understand cabinet responsibility, but in the case of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WelfareReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WelfareReform</a> , surely a matter of morals and integrity, I don't know how they can remain in position and sleep at night.Regarding 'consultation', I have received two letters and two telephone calls asking me to complete a questionnaire on behalf of the person for whom I care, supposedly anonymously, on how they use their PIP income. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PIPReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PIPReview</a>

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