The Labour List website  has updated its list of Labour MPs who have openly said they will vote against the Pathways to Work Green Paper cuts.  There are now 27 MPs who say they will do so, up from 12 just a few days ago.

Another seven Labour MPs have expressed opposition to the cuts, but not yet said they will vote against them.

For MPs to put their heads above the parapet this long before the battle begins takes a certain amount of courage.  They will undoubtedly come under huge pressure from Labour whips to back down before a bill to change the PIP points system and cut the universal credit health element for new claims is introduced in May.

If the bill is certified as a money bill, the Lords will not be able to amend or delay it for more than a month, meaning the cuts could be on the statute book by the end of July, ready to be implemented next year.

But with 27 Labour MPs now openly rebelling and one Labour MP having started a petition against his own party’s plans, not everything is going the government’s way.

You can check if your MP is on the list here.

If they are, perhaps send them an email to offer your support for their stand. 

If not, and you haven’t already contacted them, now is the time to do so.  Getting MPs to come out against the Green Paper cuts is undoubtedly the best way of defeating them. 

There’s more on contacting your MP and many other steps you can take on our What you can do page.

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    · 6 days ago
    Any advance on 27 Labour MPs?
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    · 13 days ago
    My MP is Rachel Reeves. 
    I feel there is little point writing to her. 
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      · 5 days ago
      @Swede Share an email anyway. Noting that there are stock answers they sent. Challenge the rubbish with alternatives tax rich,  inaccurate govt figures +. So you pre-empt her stockpot of hubble...
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      · 12 days ago
      @Swede She used to be my MP too. Now live in a different constituency with a better MP who is voting against the green paper.
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      · 12 days ago
      @Swede Bad luck...in every way.  Hope ypu didnt vote her in? 
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    · 14 days ago
    my mp is Graham Stringer and trying to get a hold of him is like wanting to meet the king. their all useless!!! as long as their all rich and powerful they won’t care!!! but the public needs to keep pushing and pushing till we are all heard 
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    · 15 days ago
    I posted the letter I wrote in reply to my spineless ratbag Labour MP here about a week ago; it was well received, thank you.
    He finally replied to it... with word for word exactly the same letter that he sent me the first time. Even though we were clearly in an email chain.
    Absolutely disgusting disrespectful behaviour. 

    Clearly every time a concerned constituent contacts him he just fires off his template piece of crap "14 years of Conservatives..." "removing the barriers for disabled people to get back to work..."

    I would send him a scathing reply if I thought he would actually read it. I'm hopping mad.

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      · 10 days ago
      @Lucy Steve Race, Labour, Exeter, is exactly the same. It's pretty dire. Will probably vote Green in the local elections. However, given our parliamentary voting system, and the three parties, Liebour, Cons and NoReform, I'm far from hopeful for the future. And by the time all this is in place I will be over 60. Retirement looks increasingly grim.
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      · 14 days ago
      @Lucy It is just like an AI bot answering not a real person My MP changed last election to a Labour one due to boundary changes Plus my former MP had become a quadruple amputee due to sepsis So could not stand My new MP was parachuted in and she is thought to be a possible future high flyer within the Labour party So I expect a similar outcome to yours
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    · 15 days ago
    I wrote to DWP a couple of years ago about a change in my circumstances , telling them I was getting worse , it took months but then I got a phone call to say braid my age and condition of my health they knew I wasn’t going to get any better just worse so I didn’t need to report it any more and my benefits would be ongoing .  I gave now received a letter from them telling me I have to have a telephone interview to see if I’m getting the right amount of benefits and to have bank statements etc handy, why ? So they can try to take money from me ? 
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      · 11 days ago
      @Jules It's a routine review, which are picked at random. They can do them at any time during a claim.
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      · 13 days ago
      @Jules Ask for everything in writing.  And go thru Citizens Advice or Welfare Rights if you can.  Always regard what they do with a dose of suspicion and cynicism.  
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      · 15 days ago
      @Jules This is the problem. They tell you one thing, then act against it. Maybe it's just a courtesy review. I'm sorry.
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    · 15 days ago
    Cuts to PIP will likely force people who are disabled and work part-time, out of work. Disabled part-time workers are not able to work full-time and after cuts to PIP will be unable to manage on part-time wages. 
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    · 15 days ago
    My local MP is Rachel Blake and she openly told me she supports these sickening cuts , when I went back to her after her response, she got one of her minions to reply,  
    Evil doesn't sum up the description of the woman or party 
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      · 6 hours ago
      @Gazilla I was about to write and ask to meet in person, but after reading your comment I’m going to redirect my energy to independent organisations like DPAC. It seems that collective action may be the only remaining option in what feels like an empathy-vacuum!
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      · 12 days ago
      @Lucy I think closer to pea-sized, Lucy.
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      · 15 days ago
      @Gazilla She's my MP too, I contacted her weeks ago and had the same experience. 'labour' never again. OUT with them!!
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      · 15 days ago
      @Gazilla
      My MP is enthused about the cuts too. He thinks it's marvellous that the poor widdle disabled people will no longer be held back from being able to work!
      Brain the size of a plum.

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    · 15 days ago
    My MP isn't on the list. Probably no photo opportunity for him. I did email him though. I need to reply but I've not been well
    One thing I don't understand. When you get your council tax bill ( assuming you get a discount) it says how much the law states you need to live on. So if that's the case how can the government threaten to cut people's money? I don't get it
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    · 15 days ago
    All the proposals about getting people off disability benefits and back into work. Reeves says that people who lose out on PIP will be much better off by working and not claiming. Well, how about those who are pensioners and on PIP? How will they be better off if they lose their PIP payments. They can’t exactly go back into work…no mention or thought has been given to them by any political party or anyone else for that matter.
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      · 13 days ago
      @Martin G Their are older workers in this day and age you only have to go to your local supermarket
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      · 15 days ago
      @Martin G I’m one of these pensioners 
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      · 15 days ago
      @Martin G She is annoying people with her resolution well it ain't going to work if we all stand up to her. Put her in some shoes as not everyone is lucky to have an education let alone the skills to work in a good paying job it's a absolute headache for millions of us right now
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    · 15 days ago
    The other labour MPs had better think carefully because they have to answer to there constituencies. If they want one term and no more then don't push there luck wherever they are.
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    · 15 days ago
    Labour DOES NOT have a mandate to take survival income away from disabled people.

    NOBODY voted Labour last year to have survival income taken away from disabled people.

    These green paper reforms WERE NOT in Labour's election manifesto.

    The public DO NOT support these reforms. Starmer, Reeves, Kendall DO NOT have a mandate for these reforms whatsoever.
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    · 16 days ago
    Louise Haigh MP and Gill Furniss MP in Sheffield have stated they agree with them but do have "concerns"

    Louise Jones MP for North East Derbyshire agrees with them 
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    · 17 days ago
    I don't think the Government have considered the knock-on effects, in terms of extra resources that will be spent, in the NHS if these proposals go ahead. GP surgeries are already overstretched; this will only increase if thousands of desperate ill/disabled people turn up in material distress. The third sector - what Cameron described as the Big Society - does not really exist anymore. For example, RNIB is practically just a campaigning organisation now. Doesn't need to spend money; in the past they ran hotels for the blind, rehabilitation centres such as Manor House in Torquay; special schools such as Chorley Wood (for girls) and Worcester College (for boys).  All gone.
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      · 14 days ago
      @Matt Yes but benefits are from a different pot of money Rather than a pot which many many people would gladly see given more money As the NHS is seen as a deity to be worshiped Not from a pot that is seen by many as full of shirkers scroungers malingers and fraudsters Even If this is true or not It will end up with no savings at all While those who rely on PIP will suffer immediately and the tax payer long term
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      · 16 days ago
      @Matt All true Matt.

      But they don't care about all of that.

      They don't care.
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    · 19 days ago
    Definitely forwarding this one to my MP also:


    "DWP is not doing what they’re supposed to be doing in the way they operate,” Algernon said. “They treat an awful lot of these people with health issues in the same way that, say I found you huddled in the corner crying and rather than talking to you, I decided that I’m going to cheer you up by repeatedly punching you in the face. 

    “I’ve walked out of there under no illusion as to how claimants ended up getting lost, forgotten about, with wrong decisions and dead. My personal opinion is that two biggest cheats of the system are the DWP itself and the government.”"
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    · 20 days ago
    I sent this to our local Conservative Party.
    Dear Sir
    In view of the overwhelming distress being caused by the Labour Party's intention to stop many disabled people from claiming PIP, please can you tell me whether my MP Stuart Anderson will be voting for these cuts.
    I am asking this because looking at his website he has no interest in disabled people whatsoever.
    Thank you.

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    · 20 days ago
    My MP is backing the proposals as such a waste of any more of my time to contact him. I have had to go about it a different way. To show my objection. 

    CAB are being supportive remotely. 

    We ALL are terrified by this limited capability work being scrapped when we are housebound 

    This is going to tip a lot of us over the edge psychologically and in turn that will exacerbate the very severe physical disabilities and chronic ill-health that we are actually on benefits for. 

    I think this is what Labour intended all along for it to impact on the majority of us to this high degree before it even reached white paper stage, we have ALL commented upon the UNLAWFUL way that the green paper was delivered, with it's deployment of tactics.

    There are NO words bad enough to describe the inhumanity that they are inflicting in every way






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    · 21 days ago
    No, what I posted was

    Rachel Thieves and the gang would be fine if they lost their salary - if their response to the electorate is anything to go by they obviously cannot read or understand signs, symbols or words at all. There's 8 points right there. As for making any budgeting decisions at all...

    Looks like an enhanced award all round, ladies! 
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    · 21 days ago
    I tried to post this before but it was cut:


    Looks like an enhanced award all round, ladies! 
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    · 21 days ago
    Wrong benefit being targeted on the most vulnerable. Pip is not a sickness benefit for starters. Universal credit and esa is given to those who are sick or out of work. But do not touch the severely disabled benefits you will cost lifes labour and have blood on your hands. Leave P.I.P alone stop targeting those that can't physically work and already struggling as things stand. Stop handing out money right left and center abroad and help the British people especially the most vulnerable the elderly and disabled. I'm disgusted that not all mps are not against the cuts. Save life's and stop the cuts now before it's to late and people end up in poverty and lose there lifes.
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      · 20 days ago
      @Neil Cook I found something out recently you will be interested in, Neil. It's possible to claim PIP by post. May be worth considering (just so some poor bugger on the other end of the phone is not subject to your wrath). Also depending where you are in the country, you can apply online. 


      When my next assessment for UC LCWRA is due, I'm going to try for PIP as well and make a paper-based claim (because I refuse to use the phone).
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      · 21 days ago
      @Sarah How about leaving UC/LCWRA alone then? There are plenty of us on that only who are gonna be in real trouble if or when that disgraceful measure happens. I'm absolutely ruddy scAred stiff and terrified right now.
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    · 21 days ago
    I'm having a major nervous breakdown with everything happening in the world.

    My Ill health
    Might lose disability support
    Cost of living inflation
    Iran war crisis
    Russia war crisis
    Trump tariffs fueling inflation
    AI existential threat
    Migrant invasion
    Talk of conscription
    Gaza catastrophic suffering
    Ukraine suffering
    Talk of WW3

    Having extreme panic attacks all day
    There is no future
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      · 20 days ago
      @The Dogmother @The Dogmother, why should you cope with it? Their failure is not your problem.
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      · 20 days ago
      @pollenpath I should clarify - I meant they are trying to control how we feel about ourselves as disabled people. Obviously the control they have over our benefits is another matter entirely and I am as devastated as the next person about the intended cuts. 
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      · 20 days ago
      @Frances @Frances They messaged me three diff days to say they'd be here between 8am-1pm and never arrived, my sis phoned the office twice to ask why and they never answered. Then when he landed out again randomly it threw me. I can't cope with it tbh. 
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      · 20 days ago
      @Anon Nervous breakdowns are caused by a person having continuous stress and or panic attacks from a situation they can not control or change over a long period of time,the Nervous system goes into fight or flight constantly and ends up in a sensitised state, the cure us to desensitise yourself,ie you must find an acceptable solution to the problem, thing is with this people can not accept what's happening and a wheel of worry forms constantly turning back to the stressor, we all must find a way to get our minds to accept a possible solution that appeased the worry,hard I know,easier said than done, I know myself exactly what I must do,but like many of us am constantly worried about making ends meet,the only solution would be for my husband to take on more work again and then I lose my ability to leave the house again after putting in so much work with  councillors ,very frustrating!!
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      · 21 days ago
      @Anon
      Trying again...

      Set boundaries. You are panicking about situations that have nothing to do with you and that you can do nothing about.

      Iran war crisis - Not your problem.
      Russia war crisis - Not your problem.
      Trump tariffs fueling inflation - Not your problem.
      AI existential threat - Not your problem.
      Talk of conscription - Not your problem.
      Gaza catastrophic suffering - Not your problem.
      Ukraine suffering - Not your problem.
      Talk of WW3 - Not your problem. WW3 will not happen.

      My Ill health - Your BIGGEST concern.

      Might lose disability support - This affects you.
      Cost of living inflation - This affects you.
      Migrant invasion - This affects you.

      You have neither the time nor energy to waste worrying. Focus on yourself. No one in Iran, Ukraine, Palestine or any other country at war cares about the proposed changes to our benefits. You do not need to care about their problems. Shun all media which keeps bombarding you with bad news. Stop putting negativity into your life that doesn't concern you. Any news about benefits you can get from this website.

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