Gillian MacDonald 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@gillianaustin) 's Twitter Profile
Gillian MacDonald 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@gillianaustin

Respiratory & Pulmonary Rehab Physio. All views my own

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Recovery in the Bin (@ritb_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There is uniformed thinking that MH claimants do not have any costs as compared to people needing mobility aid, this is something you need to convey in the public consultation. Many of us have difficulties with food, getting out, paying for support we don't get from the nhs

Frances Ryan (@drfrancesryan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Drastic cuts to PIP will affect as many as 1 million disabled and ill people, pushing them into severe hardship, worsening health, and isolation. There is no credible argument for pulling help from people shouldering the high costs of disability. Cruelty dressed up as reform.

Gillian MacDonald 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@gillianaustin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Making it harder for the disabled to receive PIP will not lead to more disabled people being ABLE to work. More likely the reverse. People will go under. For many PIP helps them stay in work. Isn't life already hard enough for disabled people without making them poor as well?

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 (@adamfare1996) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"No one is targeting genuinely disabled people" Yes... Yes they are. Firstly, their definition of "genuine" is ableist & ignorant. Secondly, ANY tightening of criteria or benefits will disproportionately harm the most vulnerable.

Dr Jay Watts (@shrink_at_large) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’ve been campaigning against disability benefits cuts for 10 years. There are people on here who have been campaigning on this for 20 years. When does this end?

Saul Staniforth (@saulstaniforth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PIP is paid to disabled people so they can meet the additional costs of being disabled, and this allows many disabled people to work. On #BBCBreakfast Liz makes the point that by stopping disabled people getting PIP it won't help them into work. It will have the opposite effect

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 (@adamfare1996) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To be clear… again. Taking money from those unable to work, won’t make them able to work. It’ll just kill them. #WelfareNotWarfare

Dr Jay Watts (@shrink_at_large) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You were not elected to DOUBLE the #DisabilityBenefits cuts the Tories had proposed. You were not elected to go after those medically assessed as at ‘substantial risk’. You were not elected to try to redefine mental health as a less legitimate disability. #WelfareNotWarfare

Rae (@raea_smith) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Peter Stefanovic Your severely disabled child reaches adulthood, they can never work, they can’t even wipe their own face, or change their own clothes, they’ll be expected to live on half of what someone else with similar issues is determined as needing now? How do they survive Rachel Reeves?

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 (@adamfare1996) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some people who claim PIP do work. Some people who claim PIP don't work/can't work. It's not specifically an out-of-work benefit. It's not an in-work benefit. It's to contribute towards the additional costs of being disabled, and it's nowhere near doing that even.

Dr Jay Watts (@shrink_at_large) 's Twitter Profile Photo

8.8 million people in the UK experience anxiety or depression each week. Just 361,000 get PIP for it. PIP isn’t for the ‘worried well’—it’s for those with serious, disabling illness. Labour knows this. They’re counting on the public not to. #WelfareNotWarfare #DisabilityBenefits

Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 (@adamfare1996) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Government: “Get Britain Working” Also Government: “We’re cutting Access to Work” Also Government: “We’re cutting benefits that help people who can work, work” Also Government: “We’re cutting NHS budgets, meaning more will be sicker for longer” It’s not about work, or money.

Dr Jay Watts (@shrink_at_large) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kendall says reform of PIP assessments starts today. Labour has repeatedly briefed that mental illness and neurodivergence are “overdiagnosed.” PIP already discriminates against mental illness and other fluctuating conditions. Mental health organisations need to be on this— now.

Anne Greensmith 💙 (@snowleopardess) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Stop for a minute and really think about what Kendall, Reeves and Starmer are doing. Kendall talks fervently about "getting the sick and disabled into work". It's the politics of Victorian Britain. The morality of the workhouse. #DisabilityBenefits