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18 Mar 2025
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Dotty M

Today I resigned my Labour Party membership after being a member for over 20 years. I am outraged at the cuts to disability benefits.



My family are disabled. It’s rough having to beg and plead your case to prove you are disabled enough. Now they think they can make it harder to apply??? I’d like to know how that’s even possible.



Instead of looking at why disabled people are having to degrade themselves to beg for the pittance they are given and addressing how schools fail disabled children, health services have huge waiting lists and don’t even cater to ND people like myself. Then there’s the rampant discrimination in employment. They think the solution is to cut the money we get to stay alive!



When will the rich start to pay their fair share?



It’s can’t be right that most people claiming benefits are in employment. Why aren’t big business having to foot the bill? After all, they are the ones who lavishly benefit from the toil of those in their employment.

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Changing Realities (2023), Dotty M. https://changingrealities.org/e/hJcux (18 Mar 2025)
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