This is all actually a disgusting attack on vulnerable people that could easily be avoided if the government actually taxed big corps and billionaires fairly
🚨 NEW: The Government is considering each of the following in a 'radical overhaul' of the benefits system
- Stricter eligibility for Personal Independence Payments (PIP), particularly for mental health conditions like anxiety and depression
- Requring claimants to provide routine medical evidence instead of an assessment for PIP
- Requring the long-term sick to look for work with a reduction in sickness benefit payments to encourage this
- Abolishing the 'Limited Capability for Work or Work-Related Activity' (LCWRA) category, potentially cutting £5,000 per year for claimants
- Scrapping the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) and aligning with PIP assessments
- Shifting from regular PIP payments to one-off payments or means-testing
- Introducing a 'duty to engage' with employment services, including job preparation and training
Vouchers for specific equipment or aids instead of cash payments have been ruled out
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I'm rereading the Temeraire series by @naominovik and I just got the edn of Empire of Ivory on the train to the studio and I need to scream about it with someone
I don't think anyone streaming anything non BBC (including Amazon and YouTube) should have to pay a fee that funds the BBC... especially when it's so high
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I wrote about Gisele Pelicot, whose husband spent 10 years drugging her & soliciting men to rape her.
She thought she was with a “good man”. She didn’t know until it was too late.
Her courage inspired me to start telling my own stories. Merci Gisele:
https://t.co/1XKd3ZYv41
yeah well if my husband committed suicide and much of the public response was “hell yeah that means she’s single!” i would do something much worse than deactivate my instagram
🚨 NEW: The £1.7bn raised from VAT on private school fees will not be ring-fenced to fund state schools, despite Rachel Reeves promising it would last weekend
[@Telegraph]
If you’re going to CHOOSE silence in real life - if you’re turning away when you know someone is being hurt - the bare minimum you can do is not inject yourself into conversations to yell over us.
You want to be silent - be silent. And consider how you’re proving our point /2
Guy from “not all men” brigade asks me how he can be a better ally.
Me: “If you see a woman being harmed - speak up. Stand up. Help her.”
Him: “No that might not end well for me.”
It NEVER ends well for us. We don’t get a “choice” to walk away.
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I wish more people understood there is a big difference between a low symptom day vs a high symptom day.
On a low symptom day my symptoms are manageable. I can work, do housework and be a functioning human.
On a high symptom day you won’t even see me outside.
Chronic illness: “You have a new symptom”
Sick person: “Okay, so is this a new symptom of an illness I already have, or should I go to the doctor?”
Chronic illness: 🤷🏻♀️