This, from a DWP press release yesterday (gov.uk/government/new…), is outrageous In two short paragraphs it peddles multiple falsehoods about the current system that will be used to justify upcoming cuts & changes Here's what MPs & journalists should be challenging... 🧵

I know it not convenient to have so many of our young people struggling with their mental health. My son James took his own life recently after a 4 year battle with his MH. He worked without any benefits. NHS services totally inadequate, never diagnosed how serious he was 🧵 1/2

Labour’s narrative “describes a country in which poverty is caused by low aspiration and disability is a choice, by people who simply aren’t robust enough to be well. This country doesn’t exist.” Thanks @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social for this storming piece. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📢New Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis There is no way to cut £5bn from PIP without affecting people with problems feeding and clothing themselves or getting around everyday A govt that vowed to end the 'moral scar' of foodbank use shouldn't leave disabled people at greater risk of needing one

There are elements of what was announced today - investment in employment support, the 'right to try' - that, along with last year's White Paper could have been a transformational agenda But crude, short-term cuts driven by HMT/No.10 will fundamentally undermine this... 🧵

Piece by me on Reform: their appeal, fragilities & why they wouldn’t change anything

You’ll hear “the disability benefits bill is soaring” a lot today but remember. Public spending on pensioner entitlements has risen from 5.3% of GDP to 6% over the last 20 years, whilst the working-age benefits bill has remained static. Consider why one of these is controversial.

Single disabled people are already four times more likely to be falling behind on their bills, six times more likely to go cold and nine times more likely to skip meals. Cuts will make things worse, writes writes Tom Clark. prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/polic…

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Ahead of Liz Kendall’s speech today – a quick thread on why the welfare state isn’t collapsing and why deep cuts to disability benefits aren’t the answer. (1/9)

In the coming days, we'll continue to hear the government say that the welfare state is at brink of collapse and that cuts are the only answer. The evidence tells a different story.

I’ve been making my way through the Welfare Reform Bill and this on the gov.uk website is genuinely disgusting. Receiving a decent disability benefits rate “encourages sickness”, does it? Funny, I thought it just enabled severely ill and disabled people to eat.

if only there were more like Sally Rooney around

This isn’t reform, it’s a con that lets billionaires buy their way out of tax while working people get crumbs labelled as fairness. A new loophole for the rich, dressed up as justice, while the real causes of inequality go untouched. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets. What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn. Thread:

Brilliant. Martin Lewis destroying the defence minister. ‘Minister can I interrupt you. You keep talking about getting people into work… but PIP is not an out-of-work benefit. I don’t know why you keep talking about getting people back to work’. #TakingThePIP

The UK spends as much on tax breaks for the wealthy’s pensions as it does on benefits for people with disabilities. One is handed out automatically. The other is fought for, often for years. If you want to see how rigged our system is, read on. 🧵

Today is sad indictment of how we make policy in this country. Our view on the disability benefits cut vote.

A moment of much appreciated sanity from Archie Bland theguardian.com/commentisfree/…