Catriona

I was young in the 80s/90s in the UK. I don’t remember my parents ever going out to eat, except when we were on holiday (in the UK). I don’t think they ever took me to a fast food restaurant, or ordered takeaway food. People today have no clue how working people lived. /1

Having ADHD shouldn't give you an automatic right to a blue badge - according to the Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander, who warned misuse of parking permit ‘undermines’ disabled people.  The number of people receiving blue badges for hidden disabilities has trebled in the past five years since the criteria was changed. Should we crackdown on blue badges?

GPs in England will no longer issue “sick notes” in NHS trials to reduce the number of people signed off work Occupational therapists and “social prescribers” who recommend job coaching and therapy like exercise or gardening will be used instead to draw up stay in work plans

Andy Burnham's Centre for Social Justice wants to remove PIP & LCWRA from 1.1m claimants - those currently assessed as too ill or disabled to work But simultaneously only expects 10% (110,000) to move into work So enforced poverty on ~1 million chronically ill & disabled people

Blue badges for ADHD…how can this be right? Like the benefits system - opening up support for mental illness or neurological conditions is being abused and exploited.

Andy Burnham's Centre for Social Justice wants to remove PIP & LCWRA from 1.1m claimants - those currently assessed as too ill or disabled to work But simultaneously only expects 10% (110,000) to move into work So enforced poverty on ~1 million chronically ill & disabled people

GPs in England will no longer issue “sick notes” in NHS trials to reduce the number of people signed off work Occupational therapists and “social prescribers” who recommend job coaching and therapy like exercise or gardening will be used instead to draw up stay in work plans

Typical of politics of envy. £247k really isn’t obscene wealth after tax if you don’t have assets. You’ll be well off but that’s about it. You certainly wouldn’t feel rich if you had a family in London.

Labour say cutting sickness, and disability support Universal Credit, from £429.80 to £217.26 per month, will get disabled to work A million disabled people were sanctioned by the DWP from 2010 -2018 53% more likely to be sanctioned if disabled National Audit Office 2016