Thread by @BlokeOnWheels

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With Hunt seemingly pushing for a return to austerity in order to balance the books which only need balancing urgently because Truss totally destroyed them, I'm worried that there will be yet more misery for ill and disabled people to come. 1

Assessments for disability benefit eligibility, such as PIP and the limited capability for work and work-related activity element of UC have been widely reported as being not fit for purpose and designed to make sure that people do not get the support they need. 2

Indeed, I remember describing them as 'like witch trials without the drowning'. But then they don't need to drown literally drown us, they just need to wait for the stress, anxiety and total lack of finances to kick in instead. I'm fortunate in that my lovely parents..3

Look after me, but if they couldn't, for whatever reason I would be completely stuffed if I suddenly have my Social Security removed. There are many people who don't have the support that I do from my family, so what happens to them if the Tories go down this route? 4

Presumably, they are risk of being left to rot like the hundreds, if not thousands of other sick and disabled people who have lost their lives since the Tories have been in power as a result of DWP callousness. The trouble is, we are easy targets, we often don't have the ... 5

Resources to speak out against the horrific policies that the government inflicts upon us. Not to mention the fact that there is a section of society which doesn't seem to believe that there is me thing wrong with treating us in this most dreadful fashion. 6

I'm not saying any of this definitely will happen and I certainly wouldn't want to scare anybody, I'm just airing my honest thoughts about where I am worried we might be heading. The Tories have done this before and so it wouldn't be totally illogical to suggest they'll try 7

again. After all, if they didn't go after us, they would have to focus on the bankers and the billionaires and there is nowhere they will ever do that! So yes, I am very worried, not just for me but for every single #Disabled person who has to claim social security. 8

I say this a lot but it's definitely worth repeating, nobody chooses to have a disability, it's not our fault that for many of us working is simply not a realistic, not because we don't try, but rather that it's just not practically possible. No amount of assessing or 9

sanctioning is ever going to change that. Now it is true that there are many disabled people who are perfectly capable of working and that is absolutely brilliant but that doesn't apply towards us and as I say, that's not our fault. We didn't choose this life but it's the one..10

We've got, and we have a right to live it to the fullest extent possible. The possibility of deciding to come after us again in order to save the government a few quid is both terrifying and shameful. Just like austerity was an ideological decision before, the same is true now 11

The question is, will people have the wool pulled over their eyes again? Will people really fall for the barefaced lie that we are 'all in this together'? I'm not sure, but it does neither if they do or not, until we have a general election, the Tories do they like..12

And that is a very frightening prospect indeed. This is going to be very rough for us all, lovely people but we must grab hold of each other tightly across the virtual world and not let go until this posh version of the Mafia removed from power for good. #DisabilityRights
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