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CripsAgainstCuts.Scotland

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Grassroots group of crips from across Scotland, challenging the inhumane and deadly proposals to the support we depend on. Join us as we demand the UK Government stop the benefit cuts! Please use alt text on all your images! #WelfareNotWarfare

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CripsAgainstCuts.Scotland @cripsscotland.bsky.social · Jul 7

If the PIP & UC bill is passed, new universal credit health element claimants will see their UC health component halved and frozen.

We have until this Wednesday to write to MPs before the Final Vote on 9th July.

Link to generate letter
takingthepip.co.uk/write-to-you...

#BinUCBill

Write To Your MP - Taking The PIP #TakingThePIP

Use our simple tool to contact your MP about the UK Government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits. Stand up for disabled people’s rights.

takingthepip.co.uk

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CripsAgainstCuts.Scotland @cripsscotland.bsky.social · Jul 7

#TakingThePIP

Everyone! We need YOU to tell your MP to vote against the Welfare Bill again on Wednesday 9th July.

Click the link below to generate a letter for your MP 👇🏻

takingthepip.co.uk/write-to-you...

Please share as widely as you can!
@crips-against-cuts.bsky.social @bristolcac.bsky.social

#TakingThePIP

Everyone! We need to go again! We need YOU to tell your MP to vote against the welfare bill again on Wednesday. These cuts will hit the most unable to work and in need of support.

Click the link below to generate a letter for your MP

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CripsAgainstCuts.Scotland @cripsscotland.bsky.social · Jul 2

The bill has passed with amendments which are not good enough, especially for those on Universal Credit.

Keep piling the pressure on your MP!

Here are tips on what to tell your MP before before the 3rd reading on 9th July 2025
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/what-to...

SCRAP THE BILL

What to tell your MP before the third reading

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

CripsAgainstCuts.Scotland @cripsscotland.bsky.social · Jul 1

Fab response from people at our stall yesterday!

Today the UC and PIP Bill is scheduled for Second Reading in the House of Commons.

Never allow your MP to forget: if today they vote for cuts, abstain on the bill, or vote for concessions, they are gone! #WelfareNotWarfare

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CripsAgainstCuts.Scotland @cripsscotland.bsky.social · Jun 29

We'll be there from 1 to 4pm!

CripsAgainstCuts.Scotland @cripsscotland.bsky.social · Jun 29

We will be at Glasgow Buchanan street by TGI Fridays tomorrow handing out leaflets. Feel free to pop by if you want to meet us and chat!
(Look for our disability pride flag)

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · Jun 28

🗞️ LCA in @theguardian.com

"A last-minute napkin deal will not assure safety for disabled people. The concessions create an unfair two-tier system – it is unethical to only throw some people under the bus."

🙏 @francesryan.bsky.social for including disabled voices

Article👇
tinyurl.com/ms5wwxbn

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CripsAgainstCuts.Scotland @cripsscotland.bsky.social · Jun 28

Don’t let the progress pride flag on his window fool you - Chris Murray refuses to stand up for marginalised people. #CripsAgainstCuts #ChrisMurray #WelfareNotWarfare #KillTheBill #Edinburgh

Photo of a group of people and a service dog outside Chris Murray’s office holding sings.

Text reads: “Yesterday morning Crips Against Cuts joined forces with Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty to protest outside MP Chris Murray’s office”

Closeup of posters taped on the office’s window. Big posters have an image of scissors and read “say no to disability benefit cuts”

Text reads: “Chris Murray is committed to voting FOR the benefit cuts that will put our lives in danger.”

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CripsAgainstCuts.Scotland @cripsscotland.bsky.social · Jun 27

These cuts are NOT Service
dog approved!
#CripsAgainstCuts #WelfareNotWarfare #KillTheBill #edinburgh

Picture of a service dog holding one of the Crips Against Cuts leaflets.

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CripsAgainstCuts.Scotland @cripsscotland.bsky.social · Jun 19

The clock is ticking: On the 1st of July the proposed disability cuts will be debated and voted on.

We must ramp up the fight to not let them be implemented!

#StopTheCuts #TaxTheRich #DisabilityRebellion #WelfareBill #welfarenotwarfare #TakingThePIP #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #PathwaysToPoverty

“OUR LIVES HAVE VALUE! The benefit cuts must be stopped NOW, before Disabled people are forced to suffer irreversible consequences.”

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