1) We don't have a welfare system in the UK. We have a dystopian system that punishes the most vulnerable citizens by the systematic removal of support - sanctions and cuts - because successive governments see the system as potential pocket money for the rich. 2) The system violates fundamental human rights, such as the right to an adequate standard of living. Each successive government has cut the level of welfare support which has resulted in the deaths of many of our most vulnerable citizens.

1) If people have a PIP award, it means they went through an assessment and frequent review processes that are designed to award PIP to as few people as possible. During the assessment, evidence of medical conditions is required from GPs and consultants. 2) An assessment also requires a detailed and lengthy application form of more than 30 pages to be completed. At assessment, as well as submitting evidence, answering questions and undergoing a physical examination, you are casually asked things to trip you up.

1. Speaking on Today Programme, Rachel Reeves lied about reforms to disability support, saying: “This is about reforming the system to get more people into work, to have fulfilling careers & have more money in their pocket.” Cutting PIP is more likely to see people LOSE their job 2. PIP isn't an out of work benefit. Many people are in work who claim. PIP is support to meet the high costs of being disabled. It's supposed to help people maintain independence and to be included in society. Reeves is another cowardly liar who thinks it's ok to punch down

1) Starmer has openly stated that his justification for the proposed extremely punitive cuts on disability support rests on 'behavioural change' THEORY. Behavioural economics has other names: Libertarian Paternalism', 'Nudge'. 2) The political application of Nudge on sections of the population is EXPERIMENTAL. One thing we must take into account is that Libertarian paternalism is itself founded on ideology. In the UK, it is almost exclusively used on the poorest citizens.

1/ Universal Credit is financial support for people in work, as well as those seeking work. Many people claiming Universal Credit are actually working. People who can no longer claim state pension because the pension age was raised also claim Universal Credit 2/ The 'rise' in disabled people claiming Universal Credit is because of 'migration' from legacy benefits which have almost ended. The DWP asked people on ESA and other legacy benefits to claim Universal Credit. That migration process is almost complete

1/The whole privately contracted assessment system is rigged to award as few people as possible any disability support. Seriously ill people have died because they didn't get an award, some of those were sanctioned because they were too ill to meet DWPs job seeking conditionality 2/ Successive governments made claiming increasingly difficult. An insurance company notorious for denying claims was consulted by governments to design the assessments. Unum was not allowed to operate in several US states because of their illegal denial of insurance claims.

1/ Starmer is calling cuts to disability support 'behavioural change'- Nudge. Illness is not a 'behaviour'. It's spectacularly & absurdly cruel to claim further cuts to support to meet basic survival needs will cure people & 'help' them into work. Dangerous, cruel pseudoscience 2/ Nudge is pseudoscientific bullshit that can't cure illness & disability. 'Libertarian paternalism' isn't a policy. It's an ideological tool used by governments to nudge people deeper into poverty, handing out the money 'saved' to billionaires.

1/ I'm wondering how the Labour Party can tally their current treatment and narratives about ill & disabled people with the their own Human Rights Act and the Equality Act. 2/ For example, forcing someone who is too ill or disabled to work when they are unable to perform the necessary tasks or duties is considered discriminatory and violates the Equality Act 2010.

1/ When the Tories cut disability support, introduced PIP, made it much more difficult to get an award, reassessed people with chronic, incurable degenerative illness every couple of years, they used exactly the same phrases & language as Labour. 2/ Disabled people carried a disproportionately large burden of austerity cuts. Phrases like 'parked on benefits, 'helping people into work' (by cutting their support..), 'many want to work' (doesn't mean they are well enough to work). We were also referred to as 'stock'.

@1kilroywashere @premnsikka @paulapeters2 @WheelieFUMS @DPACSheffield @RandolphTrent @SusanChubb1 @PeterStefanovi2 @BadPutty @vamroses Given that this will most likely target those most likely to have medical issues, I think the legalities of the trial will need to be addressed before it goes ahead. Because there is a very real risk of potential serious harms being inflicted on those people. @1kilroywashere @premnsikka @paulapeters2 @WheelieFUMS @DPACSheffield @RandolphTrent @SusanChubb1 @PeterStefanovi2 @BadPutty @vamroses 1) The Nuremberg Code is a set of 10 principles that outline what is considered acceptable medical experimentation on human subjects:
Informed, voluntary consent. The subject or their legal representative must give their consent before the experiment.

1) Nakba - Palestinian "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm"'). It describes the destruction of the Palestinian society & homeland in 1948 and onwards, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian Arabs. 2) Nakba is used to describe both the events of 1948 & the ongoing occupation of the Palestinians in the Palestinian territories (occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip), as well as their persecution & displacement in the Palestinian territories & in Palestinian refugee camps

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1/ Techniques of neutralisation are language strategies used to switch off the conscience & remorse when someone plans or has done something to cause harm to others. They can also be used to switch off the conscience of others by perpetrators. 2/The idea of techniques of neutralisation was first proposed by David Matza and Gresham Sykes during their work on Edwin Sutherland’s Differential Association in the 1950s.