This..!

Yeah yeah yeah. It’s Learning Disability week and no one gives a flying doodah. Not really. Not with benefits cuts and assisted dying waiting in the wings. Not with new MH hospitals being opened and the numbers of people detained increasing. Not with human rights violations still

So why bother doing it Department for Work and Pensions?

“MPs voting on stuff they demonstrably don’t understand.” Michael Brown OBE 🌍 *Also known as simply make shit up✔️

UPDATE: according to the BBC MORE THAN 100 Labour MPs have signed the green paper amendment. Direct calls from Starmer and Reeves that were supposed to placate would-be rebels had instead "been entrenching people" to vote against the bill.🙏 #TakingThePIP tinyurl.com/msc3ffpm

CONFIRMED: I'll be presenting my petition for Wealth Taxes, Not Disability Cuts in Parliament on Monday night. That's just hours before the vote on the Disability Cuts Bill. Almost 75,000 have already signed. Let’s get that even higher by Monday. ▶️Sign chng.it/WhVycws29T

How on earth is cutting benefits only for new claimants supposed to be a concession?

Vote NO. History will remember who stood up-and who looked away. #TakingThePIP

#NoTearsForDisability

As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP

61% of local govt money spent on social care, leaves little for other services. Social care privatized since the 1980s, mainly controlled by corporations, profit margins of up to 40%. Poorest areas hardest hit. Fund social care from general taxation. local.gov.uk/about/campaign…

‘Chaotic, scary and intense’: Inside scandal-hit hospital where teen spent final days independent.co.uk/news/health/hu…

The date brutally evidences how unimportant, people with learning disabilities are viewed and (not) treated.

Chris's post about the latest disgusting Leder report is so upsetting. You can touch Chris's despair in every sentence. chrishatton.blogspot.com/2025/09/leder-…

What ‘big funding increase’ Department of Health and Social Care?????

Rest in peace Ricky. “As fighters, we tell ourselves we’re strong — we train, we sweat, we take hits, we get up. But sometimes the hardest fight happens in silence, in the mind.” Amir Khan

Starmer surrendered when he turned his back on disabled people that rely on the government for support. He surrended when he cut aid for the disabled. He surrendered the moment he called us an island of strangers. Real patriotism requires us to care. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Labour MP reveals daughter’s ‘horrendous’ experience at scandal-hit hospital independent.co.uk/news/health/ri…

Important.

Guess what. I've only fucking won the Universal Credit appeal. They'll backdate Steven's money to 15th September. Oh my, the relief.