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LABOUR’S TWO-TIER DISABILITY CUT From April, new Universal Credit claimants who are too ill to work could see the health element cut to £50 a week and frozen, unless the state decides their condition is terminal or severe and lifelong with no real prospect of improvement. Government figures say 730,000 future claimants are expected to lose an average of £3,000 a year by 2029 to 2030. Charities say conditions such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, ME, long Covid, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, cancer, and learning disabilities may still fail that test, even when people are living with serious limits for years. Existing claimants keep the higher rate, which means two people with similar needs could get different support based simply on when they claim. This is how poverty gets built into policy. People who are already struggling will be pushed to prove they may never improve, while NHS delays and gaps in medical evidence make that harder. The money saved by government will be lost somewhere else, in rent arrears, food poverty, worsening health, and more pressure on families and services. Call it what it is. Source, The Guardian, 29 March 2026.

The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Heba Hagrass, have written to the UK government citing concerns over the reform process related to health and disability benefits in the UK https://t.co/vDN2rkau1w

I will never vote Labour again. Not in my lifetime. I will never forget the skeletal faces of starving children—cut off from food just beyond a sealed border. A border kept closed by choice. I will never forget the silence bought by political donations—or blind loyalty that bind Labour MPs to a policy over 100 charities and NGOs have called unconscionable. And I promise you this: as long as I live, I will never let the world forget. This is Labours greatest political miscalculation in my lifetime. Worse even than Iraq. It will destroy the Labour Party at the next election. Opening the door for Farage. The Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary belong in The Hague. This is a party complicit not only in genocide, but in the criminalization of peaceful protest—the cornerstone of democracy. Where words on signs are treated as more dangerous than bombs dropped on schools. On hospitals. On churches. All filled with children seeking shelter. This party are a true terror. For shame.

Fuck Labour! They don't matter, except for their demise. The only people that matter are the ones losing everything they have, their security, their disability rights, and their means to independent life. These Labour front benchers fought the Tories on disability cuts to help themselves into power. Anointed with power by an electorate that believed their lies, they then crapped all over them. And what we have now is a display of utter contempt for disabled people and pure pig ignorant arrogance. So yeah, fuck Labour, they won't ever be in government again, and they deserve that and then some.