Laura Trott’s recent comments about the conservative party’s latest welfare plans have are just downright bloody insulting.
Telling disabled people they have a “duty as citizens” to work, after what they have put us through in the last 13 years is an insult to everyone of us who have survived since they came to power.
Trott was happy to dismiss our valid fears about the Government’s latest attack and the harm it will cause.
Where was the conservative partys sense of duty when they imposed austerity-cuts to vital public services including:
Social Care
The NHS
Local Councils
The Independent Living Fund
Disability Benefits
Disabled Students Grant
The Access to Work Fund
And many many other vital services?
And at the same time cut benefit level and introduced the Bedroom Tax, capped benefit payments and brought in the two child limit
All of which created isolation and destitution for the lucky – and cold dark graves for too many unlucky victims of Tory cruelty.
Where was their sense of duty when millions were living in fear of the dreaded brown envelope coming through the door because of the Work Capability Assessment and the dehumanising, degrading process that meant for them?
Where was their sense of duty when they left 100s of 1000s of disabled people to die during Covid, while they stepped over the corpses on their way to their parties?
There was no sense of duty, only self interest and greed.
Well, don’t tell us what our duty is – when you so flagrantly failed in yours.
We didn’t go to the country and ask for their vote, their trust and then let everyone down.
It was your duty to respect and empower us as equal citizens with a stake in our society.
Not to take every opportunity to attack, demean and other us.
You failed in that duty.
Don’t dare to tell us what ours is.
You can stick your fucking duty up your arse.
I love how they say there are “tough decisions” to be made about benefits. You’re going to cut benefits and cut taxes, same as you’ve been doing for the last 14 yrs, and any other time you had power. Why’s it so tough? You should be really fucking good at it by now!
They are always the victim in their own minds…
Don’t protest if you’re on benefits. The police can and will share your information with the dwp.
That’s a valid point, but I think rather than a blanket “don’t” it should be more of a “be aware”, since while there are people who it would put off (which is absolutely fair enough), there are many others it wouldn’t.
At the end of the day it’s only brave people who are willing to fight for what’s right despite the risk to what little they have, that get us change.
Fuck em. I’d rather risk being homeless than bow to their authority.
Being homeless while disabled and blacklisted by the dwp?
What’s the alternative? Be forced into work I can’t do, lose the job, be put on basic UC. On basic UC I’d become homeless anyway because it doesn’t cover my outgoings
Idk. I’m very scared sbout this all myself.
Same. I’m autistic and ADHD, so can’t hold a job down for very long.
How can I help? Any protests? Actions I can take. I follow DPAC on Facebook, but I’ve mostly given up with FB because it’s 90% suggested posts.
I’m in a similar position, don’t know of any action, wouldn’t be able to participate in person if there was, so mostly spreading whatever news I see.
Whats Up with the two child Limit, did i miss something?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/16/two-child-benefit-cap-explainer
And as if it isn’t bad enough on its own - https://womensaid.scot/project/scrap-the-rape-clause-family-cap/
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having too many kids and raking in the benefits
Found the Daily Hail reader…
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I got you… it’s called “receiving financial support for having kids under late stage capitalism”.
“Raking in the benefits” is what you’d call the billions in subsidies stolen from taxpayers and gifted to oligarchs and profitable corporations under conservative/neoliberal governments.
How many kids people have is no ones business but their own, and absolutely no one is (and never has been) “raking it in” on benefits.
Perhaps you should pop to your local baby bank (like a food bank but for baby supplies, because those need to exist now) and speak to the staff to see for yourself what the reality is instead of spreading such harmful, and outright wrong, bullshit (even if you don’t mean it to be or even understand why it is, that’s what you’re doing).
At the time, people were very open about having large families and being funded for it by the state.
However I don’t disagree with the rest of your comment and it’s not the point I was making.
At the time, people were very open about having large families and being funded for it by the state.
What time? Which people? How many of these people are out there? How many kids were they having? Where they actually getting funded by the state, and if so, to what standard of living?
This idea that a family you saw on “reality” tv (aka poverty porn) or an urban legend you heard about a-friend-of-your-cousins-sister-in-law-who-knows-this-lady-down-her-street is actually proof of anything is laughable, and the fact that people consume this propaganda so uncritically to the point where it informs their reality is depressing.
Why did the government change policy then?
