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Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · 8d

Soon,MPs will have a final chance to amend #MentalHealth Bill.I’m supporting Mind’s campaign to improve the Bill to give people more say in their treatment,end racial inequalities and make it work for young people. I’ve emailed my MP,will you email yours too?👇🏼
campaigns.mind.org.uk/page/176593/...

Ask your MP to make the Mental Health Bill better

We’re calling on MPs to vote for changes to the Mental Health Bill and make it transformative for the 54,000 people sectioned each year.

campaigns.mind.org.uk

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

McFadden misleads The Telegraph

"Last thing we want to do is assess a snapshot...assess once & that’s the end of it”

Wrong! The WCA is a RIGOUROUS & REPEATED process

"Youngsters mustn't be abandoned on sickness benefits"

Wrong! Only 73,685 under 22s receive sickness benefits (1.6%)

#CareNotCuts

The Telegraph

Labour 'won't abandon young people to a life on sickness benefits'

New Work and Pensions Secretary pledges to put 'importance of work very much at the heart' of future reforms to welfare system

Pat McFadden has vowed to ramp up back-to-work support Credit: Eddie Mulholland

Nick Gutteridge

Chief Political Correspondent

13 September 2025 6:03pm BST

"Young people must not be abandoned to a life on sickness benefits"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/13/labour-pat-mcfadden-sickness-benefits-welfare-reform/

Interrogation of publicly accessible DWP statXplore database reveals:

February 2025: only 73,685 16-21 year olds were in receipt of an Incapacity ("sickness") benefit (LCW/LCWRA/ESA)

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk

Office for National Statistices People aged 16 to 21 years, population and employment rates (2020):

16-21 yr old population total: 4,520,201
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/peopleaged16to24yearspopulationandemploymentrates

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · Aug 27

Campaigners have warned that nearly 600,000 disabled people could be at risk from the next round of the government’s benefit cuts.

600,000 disabled people at risk of Labour's next round of benefit cuts

www.bigissue.com

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Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · 16d

I just signed the petition "No Digital ID: Stop the Surveillance State" on CitizenGO.

It's important. Will you sign it too? Here's the link:

citizengo.org/en-gb/fr/163...

CitizenGO

citizengo.org

Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · 27d

Sign & Share this #Petition to STOP the Government from spying on all of our bank accounts
: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Stop the Government from spying on all of our bank accounts

Sir Keir Starmer is pushing plans we defeated under the Conservative Government - to spy on all of our bank accounts on the premise of dealing with welfare fraud and error. It will force banks to fla...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 27d

Single-parent families are almost four times as likely to experience homelessness than those with two parents, Shelter has warned

Single parents four times more likely to be homeless

www.bigissue.com

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Elke Hausmann @drelke.bsky.social · 29d

This is PRECISELY why ME has to be universally recognised as a physical illness, so doctors can do justice to the patient in front of them - this letter shows EXACTLY how, by blurring the issue (mind/body blabla), we can do justice neither to a person’s physical nor their mental health.

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Stripy Lightbulb CIC @stripylightcic.bsky.social · 28d

We are very happy to have signed this letter and fully support this Chronic Living Therapy campaign.

chroniclivingtherapy.com/open-letter-...

#pwME

Open Letter to BACP magazine, Therapy Today - Chronic Living Therapy

A recent article in the magazine for members of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) has highlighted again the need for research, factual investigation and informed debate abo...

chroniclivingtherapy.com

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Elke Hausmann @drelke.bsky.social · 28d

‚It is an appalling failure of research, fact checking and editorial supervision that an otherwise informative and necessary piece about the experiences people with chronic health conditions has misled readers in such crucial ways and perpetuated these damaging myths.‘

#ME

Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 28d

🙏Thank you to Chronic Living Therapy for writing this important open letter to BACP about their article about gaslighting that included controversial:

👉 mind-body therapies
👉 trauma based theory
👉 neuroplasticity

LCA have co-signed
📃👇
chroniclivingtherapy.com/open-letter-...

Open Letter to BACP magazine, Therapy Today - Chronic Living Therapy

A recent article in the magazine for members of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) has highlighted again the need for research, factual investigation and informed debate abo...

chroniclivingtherapy.com

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Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · 29d

A new law could give millions of us better rights at work, but corporate lobbyists & politicians are trying to gut it. Tell the Government: protect workers, not profits!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/uk...

UK Government: Keep your promise to protect workers

Zero hours contracts, unfair ‘fire and rehire’, waiting months or even years to be able to access benefits – the world of work in our country is weighted against actual workers. It’s billionaire bosse...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Steven @lwio.bsky.social · Sep 11

Our new DWP Secretary of State.
Labour = Tories.
Curtesy of benefits and work.

WILL NEW DWP BOSS MCFADDEN BE WORSE THAN KENDALL
Last week, Liz Kendall was sacked as secretary of state for work and
pensions, and was replaced by Pat McFadden.
But will a cabinet enforcer who talks tough on welfare, but has a strong
liking for freebies and handouts, be worse news than his predecessor for
claimants?
In July 2012, just before MPs expenses rules were changed to stop them
claiming mortgage interest, McFadden moved out of his own home and
rented the house next door.
He was able to claim the £625 rent he paid as allowable expenses whilst
installing a tenant into the home he owned and charging them £700 a
month rent to cover the mortgage.
This is the same man who told Sky News last September "It's really
important that if money is spent on benefits, it goes to those who are
genuinely in need of it, and where there's fraud in the system that we try to
root that out."
Yet between March and July 2024, McFadden received gifts of football and
concert tickets to the value of £5,620.
That's more than many claimants get in benefits.

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

Full text of The Telegraph article in screenshot plus weblink below 👇

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · 29d

#CareNotCuts 💪🏼

Pat McFadden:newly appointed #DWP Secretary of State misleads telegraph with wrong statistics to ruin lives of our #disabled #YoungAdults #Youth👇🏼 #CareNotCuts

#UniversalCredit #LCW #LCWRA #WCA #ESA #WRAG #Employment #disability

LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Sep 15

McFadden misleads The Telegraph

"Last thing we want to do is assess a snapshot...assess once & that’s the end of it”

Wrong! The WCA is a RIGOUROUS & REPEATED process

"Youngsters mustn't be abandoned on sickness benefits"

Wrong! Only 73,685 under 22s receive sickness benefits (1.6%)

#CareNotCuts

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Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Sep 10

#SuicidePreventionDay
This cause is close to my heart -
please Sign/Share:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save young lives from suicide

Suicide is the leading killer of young people in the UK. Everyday an estimated 300-450 young people aged 16-35 in the UK attempt suicide, with rates now at their highest in 30 years. (Office of Nation...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨UN Special Rapporteur slams UK Gov over #UCHealth & #disabilitybenefits👇🏼

Gov must respond truthfully—unlike past lies to UN—esp. as #LCW #LCWRA #ESA face axe in #AutumnWhitePaper

Read/share urgently. Lives depend on it.
#UCBill #PIP #UCAct #CareNotCuts

Olivier De Schutter - UN Special Rapporteur on extreme povery @deschuttero.bsky.social · Sep 9

This month UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities Heba Hagrass and I wrote to the #UKGovernment expressing our concerns over the reform
process related to health and disability benefits in the UK #UniversalCreditBill #UCBill #PIP

spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...

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Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Sep 9

Great work Oliver . Much appreciated!

Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Sep 9

I just signed the petition "No #DigitalID : Stop the Surveillance State" on CitizenGO.

It's important. Will you sign it too? Here's the link:

citizengo.org/en-gb/fr/163...

CitizenGO

citizengo.org

Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Sep 5

Action on healthier working lives must begin with accessible and inclusive workplaces |
www.health.org.uk/features-and... @healthfoundation.bsky.social 👇🏼

www.health.org.uk

Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Sep 2

Reform UK are yelling “drill, baby, drill” 🙄 But fracking is reckless & won’t even cut bills. Time to end this nonsense. Tell Ed Miliband: BAN FRACKING permanently. Add your name:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...

Keep fracking out of Britain!

I live in Lincolnshire, and a new gas field has been found nearby. Reform UK are already shouting “drill, baby, drill,” and fracking isn’t banned - it’s only paused. That means they could start drilli...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Aug 27

Please share & oppose the Autumn White Paper

#disabilitybenefits #UC #LCWRA #ESA #WCA

LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚨 My new blog is about the 5 remaining Green Paper proposals likely to be in this autumn's White Paper

It looks at each individual 'Health Element' (LCW/LCWRA/ESA) proposal & the corresponding key impacts 👇

OPPOSE THE WHITE PAPER!

#DisabilityBenefits

lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/t...

The 5 remaining “Pathways to Work” proposals & the 2025 autumn White Paper: What’s the likely impact?

A blog by Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Since the Universal Credit Bill passed the House of Commons and the House of Lords you’d be forgiven for thinking the current ‘welfare war’ for the d…

lurgeelife.wordpress.com

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Aug 18

I've written a blog about the Universal Credit Standard Allowance, the probable new rates following the Universal Credit Bill, it's continuing failure to meet the cost of essentials, and the restrictive Benefit Cap

#UniversalCredit

lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/i...

Is the Universal Credit Standard Allowance really increasing enough under Labour?

A blog by Liz @LurgeeLife ——– A recent ‘boast’ post on X by a particular Government minister has reignited concern and outrage at the woefully inadequate Universal Cre…

lurgeelife.wordpress.com

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LurgeeLiz @lurgeelife.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚨 My new blog is about the 5 remaining Green Paper proposals likely to be in this autumn's White Paper

It looks at each individual 'Health Element' (LCW/LCWRA/ESA) proposal & the corresponding key impacts 👇

OPPOSE THE WHITE PAPER!

#DisabilityBenefits

lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/t...

The 5 remaining “Pathways to Work” proposals & the 2025 autumn White Paper: What’s the likely impact?

A blog by Liz @LurgeeLife ——– Since the Universal Credit Bill passed the House of Commons and the House of Lords you’d be forgiven for thinking the current ‘welfare war’ for the d…

lurgeelife.wordpress.com

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dewil89.bsky.social @dewil89.bsky.social · Aug 25

#Wales #Scotland #NorthernIreland #Ireland #England #Cornwall #UK #SavePIP #Disability #Autism #DWPinquiry #DWPfail #EndPoverty #Notmyking #UN #HumanRights #AutismWales

Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Aug 24

Create a Dedicated Minister for Disabled People Role - Sign and Share @mefoggydog.bsky.social the Petition!

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Sign the Petition

Create a Dedicated Minister for Disabled People Role

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Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Aug 26

You’re welcome my friend . Such a important petition and wish it gets the attention it deserves x

Disabledandtired @disabledandtired.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨Unsatisfactory Response from Minister regarding delay to LeDeR report - Autism Action

#Autism #Deaths #review #disability #disabled

If you haven’t already added your name in support of this work, you can do so via the form👇🏼

autismaction.org.uk/statement/re...

Response from Minister regarding delay to LeDeR report - Autism Action

In July we sent a letter to the Health Secretary, with over 40 signatures including those from bereaved families and disability campaigners. Since then, over 200 additional people have added their sup...

autismaction.org.uk