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John Pring: editor/founder of Disability News Service; author of The Department, published by @PlutoPress, August 2024; disabled journalist; autistic.
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This should be headline news in MSM, this is major, so please amplify The disability minister (Timms) walked past a disabled woman who collapsed on the floor at the end of a meeting about gov plans to cut disability benefits (& never even checked) CALLOUS disabilitynewsservice.com/shock-of-activ…


We’re looking for people to create videos to share at #TakingThePip on how these proposed disability cuts would affect you. Can be short and talking to camera. We want to try and make the stories more personal we’re sharing. Can anyone help by making a video? TakingThePIP


‘Overwhelming response’ to letter to PM from high-profile disabled figures on Labour’s ‘catastrophic’ cuts disabilitynewsservice.com/overwhelming-r… via Disability News Service Will Starmer & co listen to any of the warnings headed in his direction over his denying benefits to the sick & Disabled?

Benefit cap could see countless PIP claimants left homeless after cuts, but DWP has no idea how many. No impact assessment, then. Government see our lives as somehow disposable. disabilitynewsservice.com/benefit-cap-co… via Disability News Service

Shock of activists as disability minister ignores disabled woman who collapsed on floor after cuts meeting. He's all heart. disabilitynewsservice.com/shock-of-activ… via Disability News Service


Is this what you regard as Christianity, Sir Stephen Timms?

Shock of activists as disability minister ignores disabled woman who collapsed on floor after cuts meeting disabilitynewsservice.com/shock-of-activ… via Disability News Service


An exhibition that will travel the country to celebrate the “past, present and future” of the railways will be inaccessible to many disabled people who use mobility scooters, because Network Rail has used carriages that are more than 30 years old. disabilitynewsservice.com/anger-at-netwo…


‘Access to Work showed me a working life was still possible… now Keir Starmer has put that at risk’ disabilitynewsservice.com/access-to-work… via Disability News Service

Benefit cap could see countless PIP claimants left homeless after cuts, but DWP has no idea how many #Welfare #Pip #StarmerOut disabilitynewsservice.com/benefit-cap-co… via Disability News Service

