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Mum, wife, plate spinner. Personal ramblings.
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Labour MP Rachael Maskell said government had to "find other ways" of raising money

"whether that's loosening the fiscal rules, whether that is a wealth tax"

"one thing we shouldn't be doing is making some of the poorest people in our community pay more and that is, of course, disabled people..."
Work And Pensions Secretary Says Benefits Cuts Will Save £5bn
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall has confirmed details of major reform to the welfare system, telling MP that the changes will ...
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March 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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🗣️ "We are very worried and appalled"

Our Director of Policy, Research & Impact, Helen Barnard spoke to BBC Breakfast about the UK government's plans to cut vital disability support.
March 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So I tried to deactivate my x account but an error message keeps coming up.. 🤷‍♀️
February 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Are there any groups/individuals actively campaigning to repeal/reform the 2021 UK UC rules which effectively mean that disabled young people applying for UC who are in non advanced education have to apply for ESA that they aren’t entitled to, to prove their (in)capacity for work?
January 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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“You can tell when NHS finances are getting really bad: people start telling the truth.”

I wrote this piece seven-and-a-half years ago.

Funny old world.

www.healthpolicyinsight.com/editorial-th...
Editorial Thursday 2 March 2017: The War On Reality, the end of the market and smoking dope on a burning platform
The War On Reality is nothing new. George Orwell previewed it in 1984 [”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four]. In 2004, Karl Rove told the New York Times that people such as the journal...
www.healthpolicyinsight.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:24 PM