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Diary entries cover a variety of topics, some of which you may find triggering. These topics include self-harm, suicide and domestic violence.
26 Apr 2024
Diary

Nicola P

Absolutely appalled to see Rishi Sunak make such flippant comments about peoples mental health and accuse us of lying about our conditions.

The Benefits system should be there as a safety net for the most vulnerable who cannot work.

He has invested no money into the mental health budget this year and services are already broken so I’m very keen to see where he’s going to get these therapists from to get people better and saying that we can’t go to our own GP to be signed off Work is corruption at its finest let’s all face it we all know that the assessors for Pip for example lie and twist our health conditions around to deny us of money that is there to help us get better and support our medical conditions. They will just say that we are fit for work when we are not to save themselves money this will just push people into being suicidal and giving up the will to live.

As a mum who has lost a child to suicide in the last few years it doesn’t give you much hope in the way of carrying on in life as if things weren’t hard enough for me as it is I am beyond speechless, it’s not ok him to sit there and throw comments around like life’s ups and downs is completely unacceptable! That’s abusive behaviour. He’s pushed us into a corner of starvation being cold and hungry, denying us of mental health services and a crippling NHS which is on its knees. Kids running round with machetes no police when you need them and the ones that are around are all corrupt.

I actually hate this government and I actually hate to say that I’m a British citizen and I live in the UK. I hope that when a new government is elected that people do not vote for labour, conservatives or the lib dems because they are all useless and ruined this country we need a completely fresh Party to come in and sort out this mess.

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