Craig Lowe

Currently in limbo, formerly operations and law; I was a Tank Commander once, and a poster model for the Army!

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

If this ad has made you curious about Team Paltrow’s politics, I refer you Gwyneth’s other major intervention this week: reputation laundering an AI missile manufacturer on her podcast show

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

Disabled people are not "living off the state". Many are being kept barely above collapse by a system that already underpays, delays, reassesses, disbelieves and exhausts them. Cutting that further is not reform. It is cruelty.

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

DWP deaths overshadow every other British scandal for decades, MPs are told
#DWP #DWPdeaths
@CommonsWorkPen
https://t.co/Q20gtKl1nc

[LurgeeLiz @LurgeeLife]

1st set of 'real world' data on DWP 'Employment Support' for those too ill/disabled to work shows it's predictably failing

Just 1,600 out of 14,000 have "started in a job"

11.4%: exactly as predicted

Remember 8% find work on their own so it's actually only a 3% impact not 11%

[Thomas H. 💙 @THemingford]

Disability benefits do not create comfort. They barely touch the costs disabled people cannot avoid. The real scandal is not that support exists. The scandal is how far below real disabled living costs that support now falls.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

In the UK, sitting peacefully opposing genocide is deemed terrorism whilst burning houses, rioting and targeting minority groups is considered ‘protest’

[Wheelie MS Advocate - #PoweredByWheels - ♿️ @WheelieFUMS]

Today is my Universal Credit review.

I don't know if this review was triggered by routine checks, online reports, or something else entirely.

What I do know is that for months I've had people threatening to report me simply because I'm disabled and I work.

The review started months ago.

The DWP asked for evidence.
I provided it.

Then I waited.

March.
April.
May.
June.

Four months of uncertainty.

And that's the part of the welfare system that politicians and much of the mainstream media never talk about.

The waiting.

The anxiety.

The sleepless nights.

The feeling that your financial security is sitting in somebody else's inbox.

If I ignored the DWP for four months, there would be consequences for me.

Yet disabled people are expected to sit and wait indefinitely for answers.

Behind every welfare statistic is a real person trying to pay their bills, manage their health, care for loved ones and live their life.

Whatever happens today, that's a reality worth talking about.

Have you ever been through a UC review? Let me know your experience below 👇

#UniversalCredit #UCReview #DisabilityRights #DisabledPeople #WelfareReform #BenefitsSystem

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Privately contracted DWP assessors face no consequences for putting disabled people at risk

In a new report, the DWP admits that there were 767 concerning incidents reported in the first six months from September 2024
https://t.co/b6ilrW0PDj
https://t.co/b6ilrW0PDj

[michelle maher @mmaher70]

Report by Gov show £37 bn cut to welfare since 2010 to 2021
Pat McFadden first interview with GBNews, since Mandelson emails !
But all press points out rise taxes, to pay welfare
£37 billion cut since 2010 to 2021
He has all the reports in front of him since 2010 on very strict criteria for receiving welfare
Cuts support didn't increase working, but the opposite Suicides
Unimaginable fear disabled people and their carer's #carers #PMQs
https://t.co/amuiVWtBot https://t.co/fRzjDy31Oy

[Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union @BenClaimant]

PIP and UC assessment companies received 767 complaints over 6 months

🔸301 incidents of mishandled data
🔹238 complaints against assessors
🔸152 safeguarding incidents
🔹76 incidents classified as 'other'

O cases resulted in disciplinary action.

https://t.co/PVnMIu6LNf

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

@DPJHodges Actually, it's worse than that. There's a constant pattern: inflammatory rhetoric -> violence -> "violence proves why our policies are needed". It's the MAGA method: set the fire, then claim that only you know how to put out the flames.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Exactly this.... 👇👇👇

[DPAC @Dis_PPL_Protest]

#TimmsReview
#PIP

DWP & Timms Review committee have failed to get their story straight on how many responses were received to the reviews Call for Evidence on PIP, with the DWP claiming over 250% more replies were received than Timms says was the case.

https://t.co/HHhYbV7vpx

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

The ‘Great Israeli Real Estate Event’ is to be held in London this Sunday.

This disgraceful event will involve the sale of land stolen from Palestinians in illegal Israeli settlements.

Today, I called for the Government to ban this event.

[Jen Wood - est optimum simpliciter @unojen_wood]

So you lose your job to AI then you have to speak with a chat bot to find a job that isn't there becuase they are being replaced with AI. How many redundancies at the DWP will this ridiculous plan generate as well.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

There are only 8 Reform MPs and they have a combined wealth of over £70,000,000.

They have consistently voted against every single improvement to workers rights and plan to scrap legal protections left right and centre.

They are funded by the bosses to rip up your rights.

[michelle maher @mmaher70]

McFeddan says taxpayer's paying for welfare, cut welfare
Each household is paying;
£5 000 interest to banks on Interest Qualitative Easing (see video)
£500 direct to profit for energy firms
Higher mortgages, loans, food costs, etc
#CostofLiving #disabilitybenefits
https://t.co/9cgexW0QAC
https://t.co/XRIE4RHRjh

[michelle maher @mmaher70]

Welfare they scream

£ 5 000 each household is paying to banks on interest on Qualitative Easing, when we bailed banks out
Also paying higher Interest on mortgages, and loans,
Bank's has had 2 tax cuts 2023
'December 2021 – Mid-2025: Combined pre-tax profits exceeded £136.8 billion'
#disabilitypayments #Labour #QE
https://t.co/XRIE4RHRjh

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Tory Legacy

1980 onwards govts sold council homes at discount.

Many tenants sold cheaply acquired houses. Some made profit of £200,000+

41% of the 2.8m houses cheaply sold now let in the private market

Home ownership down from 71% in 2003 to 64.5%.
https://t.co/pOUoJsmCE9

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

...which is why he's keeping a low profile