AKA The Raspberry

FND, Seizures, Falls, ME, FMS, U-Colitis, Arthritis, MH Issues, CPTSD, Panic Attacks - Cutting my PIP won't make any of it better or magically allow me to work!

[AKA The Raspberry @raspberrytalk]

@DWPgovuk @leicesterliz
Can you explain how you justify forcing the most vulnerable into "Compulsory Debt" when migrating from ESA to UC?
Run on for ESA, HB, etc, is only 2 wks, but 1st payment from UC takes 1 mth +7 days.
We have to find min 3wks income and rent or get #DWP loan

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

What possible justification can there be to incentivise firms to employ foreign workers when we have an unemployment crisis among British citizens, especially the youth?

[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.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS SENT A DOCTOR A £180,000 BILL FOR REPORTING A PATIENT DEATH

A heart patient died at an NHS hospital. A doctor said it was avoidable. Nobody told the coroner.

That doctor was Dr Usha Prasad, the only female consultant cardiologist at Epsom and St Helier University NHS Trust.

She raised the alarm. She named it. She refused to stay quiet.

So the trust built a case against her. Forty-three clinical complaints, assembled and handed to the GMC to finish her off.

An independent cardiologist reviewed every single one. He found nothing wrong.

The GMC cleared her and revalidated her licence to practise.

The trust had thrown everything at her and come back empty-handed.

And then... they sent her a bill. Not just any bill. A £180,000 costs demand, which would be the largest ever imposed on a whistleblower at a UK employment tribunal.

Costs are awarded against claimants in fewer than 1 in 2,000 tribunal cases.

Dr Prasad apparently made the cut.

The former CEO reportedly offered her a deal: walk away, drop the whistleblowing claim, and he would make the disciplinary process disappear.

She said no.

What followed was years of hearings, cancelled proceedings, and a consultant so mentally broken by the process that she sometimes could not attend her own case.

Her colleagues described her as skilled, patient-centred, and well-liked. Nobody questioned her ability until the moment she questioned the trust.

Sources: @davidhencke (Westminster Confidential) @BylineTimes @guardian

[Raphael Dogg @raphaeldogg]

This is misleading. Rather than simply 'introducing screening for men with a higher risk,' @UKLabour is in fact *cutting* screening for other men. Oncologists Assoc said there will be deaths.

Can't remember the last time I saw a Labour announcement that was honest. Can you?

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

WATCH: Environment Department security tried to stop @Feargal_Sharkey, Baroness Jenny Jones and the Dirty Business campaigners @ashsmith43 and @watervole3 handing in their letter to Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds urging her to tell the truth about public ownership of water

[Kate Hoey @CatharineHoey]

Heat pump tumble dryers being made mandatory as U.K. adopts EU rules. I push a vote to protest the way these statutory instrument regulations are slipped through

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy

"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.

Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"

[Mike Sivier @MidWalesMike]

I've sent Pat McFadden a series of questions on PIP cuts, DWP failures, official-error overpayments and claimant harm. Read the full letter.
#DWP #PIP #WelfareReform #DisabilityBenefits #UKPolitics #TheWhipLine
https://t.co/LJFwuBiqHF

[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

[Family Education Trust @FamEdTrust]

Chief Treasury Secretary Lucy Rigby has defended the Government’s decision to not reduce interest rates on student loans, saying the money is being used to fund benefit schemes including ‘free breakfast clubs’ and lifting the two child benefit cap.

Trapping graduates in a lifetime of debt in order to fund breakfasts for children whose parents should be feeding them at home is not beneficial to anyone - children, families or young adults starting out in life.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨WE'RE BEING FORCED TO PAY FOR OUR OWN REPLACEMENT

Keir Starmer has announced that the UK Government will use British Taxpayer Cash to pay the VISA FEES for migrants and SUBSIDISE companies up to £25,000 for hiring workers from abroad.

It's just so disgusting

Unemployment in the UK is currently a massive 5%
Youth unemployment is at 13%
We should be training our own people
Instead Starmer wants more migrants

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

This convicted stalker grabbed her hair, almost sat on her and absolutely terrified her before he "asked for a kiss".

The BBC headline frames this assault like a charmingly polite request in a mutual courtship. It's a strange mistake to make.
https://t.co/zmC9D9ZVNH

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

What? Seriously? The government wants taxpayers to pay businesses up to £25,000 to bring in foreign workers? £5,000 per worker!

Whilst she has increased the cost of businesses employing British people!

unemployment is rising, graduates can’t find jobs, we have the highest tax burden in 70 years and a migrant crisis!

Taxpayer funded recruitment of foreign labour while our own people suffer is indefensible, tone deaf and insane‼️

[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

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Starmer announced a new DWP AI assistant - and it's immediately been proven to be terrible and not fit for purpose, just like the DWP

By @RachelCDailey_
https://t.co/6IYqSBIRLL

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

This

[AKA The Raspberry @raspberrytalk]

@DavidBSampson More than 10 million TAXPAYER FUNDED breakfasts have now been served through the Government's breakfast club money funnelling programme!

[Barnaclebum6 @barnaclebum6]

Timms' abysmal 'Workshop in a Box' threatens benefits & open to bogus responses. It also maybe unlawful. https://t.co/xDlqlqJMdI Once again, DWP making exercises as long winded as possible. Why do they never take the simple route? #Welfare #CareNotCuts #PIP #UC #Disabilities

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Parents whose children are diagnosed with terminal cancer "are only entitled to 5 days of unpaid leave per year"

The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world.

[Dmdav @Dmdav1]

We want disabled people to work but we will strip them of the rights that enable this .
Good thinking ….
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