Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
- Comment on Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes 3 hours ago:
However, a central option under consideration for young people is removing the health element of universal credit for claimants under 25, which has already been almost halved to £217 a month, and offering intensive support for people to get into work. The possibility of removing it for existing claimants – not just new ones – is being looked at.
One possible plan is for a separate regime to apply to the under-25 agegroup, with reduced or withdrawn entitlements – although those with the most severe and debilitating disabilities would not lose any money.
Officials have also been returning to the idea of cuts to the Motability scheme at a future budget, after axing tax breaks worth £300m. The scheme allows disabled people to use their Pip benefit to lease new cars for three years.
I don’t think I have to say this, but PIP is not a benefit linked to employment, age or income. The reason being it’s to combat the costs disabled people face over a led people. It’s about fairness. Putting conditions on it inherently creates an unfair system.
The idea that restricting it for under 25s is pure discrimination. I happen to know a lot of people in their 20s with disabilities that prevent them from working. How exactly does it make sense for you to cut their lifeline to encourage them to work?
You can say “most severe and debilitating disabilities would not lose any money”, but who will be the judge of that? “Sorry, we don’t believe your disability is severe enough for you to receive support”. Disabled people should not have to sue their councils and governments to get access to the care they need, yet that already happens even before these changes come into effect. This will only make it worse.
- Comment on Sixteen English councils spend more than 80% of core funding on social care 1 day ago:
One interesting note: sometimes disabled people are kept in housing that is not accessible for years, requiring social care that they would not otherwise need.
You could reduce the amount of spend on social care by building accessible social housing and offering it to disabled people.
- Half of Reform voters think Britain should have closer ties to the EU, poll showswww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 day ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 10 comments
- Comment on Galop urges action for trans abuse victims after Bridget Phillipson says she would not allow trans access to women's refuges 1 day ago:
Unfortunately these resources are typically granted by charities, rather than the government, so they don’t have a lot of money to start with.
- Comment on ‘We have to bring the benefits bill down’: Healey signals return to welfare reform 3 days ago:
Trying to make it easier to get jobs is good and all, we definitely need more and better entry-level jobs, but there are some people who cannot work because they are carers, parents or disabled.
This administration has continued to talk about cutting support for disabilities, after doing exactly that under Starmer. What that does is make disabled people homeless as they have to choose between housing and medicine or food. They are unable to make it out fo the house anymore, so they can’t work. Its way more expensive than just giving people support.
People with mental health issues, the ones most targetted, have their help taken away or denied, preventing them from being able to recover and hold a job.
If the administration really wanted people to get back to work, they would vastly increase the funding and availability of mental health services and the NHS. They would make easier to get benefits and housing so you don’t get stuck in a beurocratic spiral instead of getting better.
A healthy public is a productive one.
- Comment on As per my last email 3 days ago:
What’s the longest single word your can type with that keyboard? Best I can do is “yucky”.
- ‘We have to bring the benefits bill down’: Healey signals return to welfare reformwww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 3 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 12 comments
- Comment on Andy Burnham announces new homes scheme for first-time buyers 4 days ago:
Yeah I put money in a Help To Buy ISA for 8 years, only to find out that the government scheme only applies for first time homes under £200k… How many homes nowadays are under £200k?! Mine sure wasn’t.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 5 days ago:
Hey, we’re only 1/4 through the 21st century so far. It’s too early to call it. The Grapes of Wrath reboot doesn’t come out until 2040!
- Comment on Baroness Cass wants to push age for starting transitioning to 25 (NHS Adult Gender Identity Clinics) 1 week ago:
Who could have seen this coming? /s
First it was children, then teenagers, now young adults. Transphobes will not stop until trans people are eradicated.
Don’t. Give. One. Inch.
- Comment on Courts continue attacks on transgender rights 1 week ago:
Trans prisoners are not only vulnerable to abuse by other prisoners, but by the system they have no power over. Decisions can be made like this unilaterally with no recourse, and no one will care as prisoners are treated as less than human.
- Comment on Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people 1 week ago:
On my other post, no less!
Yeah, I think they have been fairly wishy washy on things so far. They do feel like an “MPs do their own thing” party so far, but maybe they’re trying to change?
Maybe they’ve been like this for a while but they’ve not gotten much air time so it’s hard to tell.
- Comment on Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people 1 week ago:
I’m not holding my breath, given the lack of interest from party leadership so far under Burnham, and the plain complicity under Starmer.
- Comment on Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender people 1 week ago:
Well, no party apart from the Greens have outright come out in support of trans people before now, sadly, and I’m not sure that any of them have outright challenged the Supreme Court ruling.
Individual Labour, Lib Dems and Green MPs have come out against the EHRC guidance, but the Labour government under Starmer blocked a debate that would have allowed the guidance to have been formally rejected.
The Lib Dems legitimately are, in aggregate, pretty good on this issue. The Greens are too. That said, I haven’t seen any new bills or ammendments yet to actually resolve this issue. I hope they are in the works.
- Lib Dems reject ‘discriminatory and unworkable’ EHRC guidance on transgender peoplewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 1 week ago:
But think about all the business people we enriched! That was really worth it imo. /s
- Comment on UK train operator nationalised by government after 30 years of privatisation 1 week ago:
Lets hope it improves, though I’m not holding my breath.
- Comment on Feeling ‘forced out’ by Badenoch? Lib Dems conference welcomes young Tory defectors 1 week ago:
They do feel like a loose coalition of random local councillors focused on their own constituencies issues, but with no overarching policy or direction.
- Feeling ‘forced out’ by Badenoch? Lib Dems conference welcomes young Tory defectorswww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
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- Comment on Finally, the EU got a partner more into action and less into "negotiating" (i.e. demanding and whining and not reciprocating). 1 week ago:
If it were up to Farage, we would go even further. He’d put us in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and surround the entire country in barbed wire if he could.
- Comment on I need a new alarm app. 2 weeks ago:
I also use this one. It’s available on F-Droid here: f-droid.org/packages/com.best.deskclock
- Comment on Green energy 2 weeks ago:
So like you do in Oblivion with Skooma?
- Comment on UK Lawyers for Israel Want Doctors Without Borders Branded a Terror Group 2 weeks ago:
UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) is a pro-Israel activist group in the United Kingdom. UKLFI is known for launching numerous legal claims against what it sees as anti-Israel activities, sometimes described as “lawfare”.[1] It challenged the UK Government over its suspension of 30 arms export licences to Israel and raised a complaint about the International Criminal Court’s seeking of arrest warrants against Israeli ministers.[1]
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- Comment on The UK charities sending nearly £2 million to illegal settlements 2 weeks ago:
Ah, you’re right, I thought the article ended earlier than it did. It pivoted in the center so I thought I was reading something elae.
- Comment on The UK charities sending nearly £2 million to illegal settlements 2 weeks ago:
The article does not list the names of these charities.
- Comment on Stop Sex Matters spreading transphobic hate 2 weeks ago:
“Protect everybody’s human rights” they are literally a hate group. They don’t stand for any rights, only against the rights of others and for bigotry.
- Rail passengers get automatic right to switch operators for free when trains are cancelledwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
- Comment on Reform given record-breaking £72m by two crypto billionaires 2 weeks ago:
Do people voting Reform ever wonder why the ultra rich put all their money behind Reform and Restore?
Do they not see that if the group of people who hoard all of the wealth to the detriment of voters, its probably so they can hoard more wealth, therefore making their conditions worse?