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Giselle 🦋 @ascws.bsky.social · Apr 18

If you’re a Labour MP reading this:
Silence is not neutrality.
Abstaining is not harmless.
A no-show on this vote is a betrayal of disabled people, carers & families.
You were elected to fight injustice
nows the time to prove it.
#NoMoreNoShows #CareNotCuts #StandUpOrStepAside

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Paula Peters @paulapeters19.bsky.social · May 24

#WelfareNotWarfare
#TaxTheRich

Join @peoplesassembly.bsky.social
📢Saturday 7th June 2025
📢12 noon
📢BBC HQ Portland Place London
📢National Demonstration
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social are supporting the demo and disabled people will be leading the demo under the #WelfareNotWarfare banner

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · May 24

UK benefit fraud prosecutions are 23 times more than for tax offences. Tax fraud up to nine times higher than benefit fraud.

Laws against the rich are not always enforced.

Govt taking powers to snoop on bank accounts of benefit claimants. Same won't apply to tax abusers, scammers.

It is class war

Why the UK is a two-tier society where money wields power

Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich.

leftfootforward.org

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Giselle 🦋 @ascws.bsky.social · Apr 18

If you’re a Labour MP reading this:
Silence is not neutrality.
Abstaining is not harmless.
A no-show on this vote is a betrayal of disabled people, carers & families.
You were elected to fight injustice
nows the time to prove it.
#NoMoreNoShows #CareNotCuts #StandUpOrStepAside

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Giselle 🦋 @ascws.bsky.social · Apr 18

Silence is complicity.

Abstaining is not neutral, it’s siding with injustice.

If you don’t vote against Starmer’s assault on disabled people & carers, you’re endorsing it.

History will remember your silence.

#NoMoreNoShows #WelfareCuts

Marilyn of JRIMG DPO Norfolk @mheath.bsky.social · Apr 17

Abstentions are not support for disabled constituents. This is so wrong from Labour. Time to stand up for your constituents & say so! It’s simply appalling by a so called Labour Party. Vote against these appalling cuts! @ascws.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @inclusionlondon.bsky.social

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Apr 17

Ministers scramble to avoid Labour rebellion on disability benefit cuts

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Marilyn of JRIMG DPO Norfolk @mheath.bsky.social · Apr 17

Abstentions are not support for disabled constituents. This is so wrong from Labour. Time to stand up for your constituents & say so! It’s simply appalling by a so called Labour Party. Vote against these appalling cuts! @ascws.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @inclusionlondon.bsky.social

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Apr 17

Ministers scramble to avoid Labour rebellion on disability benefit cuts

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ministers scramble to avoid Labour rebellion on disability benefit cuts

Backbenchers may be allowed to abstain, a major climbdown from previous votes when rebels were suspended from the party

www.theguardian.com

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david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social · Mar 24

"Scrapping Motability wouldn’t save a penny from the benefits bill" but it would ruin people's lives...

'Why has the rightwing press turned on Motability?'
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Giselle 🦋 @ascws.bsky.social · Mar 22

“The chair of the LGAs community wellbeing board said: “A reduction in Pip could mean lower individual contributions & therefore higher LA contributions. We are still working to further understand the impact of the welfare reforms on ASC charging.”

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Councils and NHS could face millions in extra costs due to disability benefit cuts

Government plans for Pip cuts will drive up costs for local authority social care services and NHS, campaigners warn

www.theguardian.com

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Giselle 🦋 @ascws.bsky.social · Mar 22

The proposed welfare cuts will devastate unpaid carers too!

Many rely on Carer’s Allowance (already one of the lowest benefits) to survive while providing essential, unpaid care.

Carers must not be abandoned! 💜✊👊

Write to your MP today! 👇
www.carersfacingcrisis.com

Take Action - Write to Your MP Today

Urge your MP to protect carers and disabled people from devastating welfare benefit cuts. Use our simple tool to write your MP in minutes.

www.carersfacingcrisis.com

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Marilyn of JRIMG DPO Norfolk @mheath.bsky.social · Mar 15

@peterstefanovic.bsky.social @ascws.bsky.social @richardburgon.bsky.social @ellenclifford.bsky.social @paulapeters19.bsky.social @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @itvnewspolitics.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @eastangliabylines.co.uk @skynewsrss.bsky.social @theguardian.com

Marilyn of JRIMG DPO Norfolk @mheath.bsky.social · Mar 15

Around 60 disabled people & supporters from DPAC Norfolk & other local DPOs turned out last night at a labour party AMM Thanks for support from local residents & passing cars too & @labourlewis who is with us & addresses us all. A motion was going b4 the meeting against these cut

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Mar 13

Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls says plans to cut disability benefits ‘won’t work’

Influential Labour figure says cuts ‘not a Labour thing to do’, while George Osborne says when chancellor he resisted move as ‘step too far’ The former shadow chancellor Ed Balls has criticised plans for cuts to disability benefits, saying on his podcast…

www.theguardian.com

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Cathy Dean @cathypsych.bsky.social · Mar 12

@maxwilkinson.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk same goes for Lib Dems

Giselle 🦋 @ascws.bsky.social · Mar 12

@skinnock.bsky.social

Just remember that every @UKLabour MP who stays silent on these cruel benefit cuts is complicit.

If you don’t fight back, you’re standing with those attacking disabled people.

Speak up. Take a stand. Stop the cuts.

#EndBenefitCuts #LabourBetrayal

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