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"[...] People with severe illnesses that [fluctuate] day to day, such as Parkinson's, bipolar & multiple sclerosis, could be put onto the reduced Universal Credit rate despite being too ill to seek employment [as they would not meet the Severe Conditions Criteria]
Benefit cuts will hit severely disabled people despite ministers’ claims, say charities
Exclusive: Charities say planned universal credit changes fail to account for progressive or fluctuating conditions
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.

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July 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Feeling a bit like this little robin looks atm. Tamron 150-500
July 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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"We are deeply saddened by the Government’s decision to close @healthwatchengland.bsky.social and its network of local Healthwatch organisations" @rachel-p.bsky.social

Read the full statement: buff.ly/eeXUWMA
June 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Letter to the Guardian by Jay Watts (clinical psychologist and survivor activist) highlighting the devastating impact of Labour's benefits crackdowns and focus on "benefits fraud" on people with mental health challenges

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Benefits system should protect, not punish, vulnerable people | Letters
Letters: Labour’s focus on crackdowns and fraudsters lodges in the psyche, feeding precarity and self-doubt, says Dr Jay Watts. Plus a letter from Stephanie O’Brien
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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1/3 It’s #TimeToTalk to end the #stigma around MH is all very well & ofc needed. But it also feels invalidating & #silencing of the very real stigma & harm from poor attitudes & ignorance, those of us with long term ‘serious mental illness’ have faced. Reality check... read more
November 24, 2024 at 12:53 PM