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McFadden over the past year has been the go to minister Labour leadership has shipped out for morning briefings. His wife is Morgan mcsweeney (aka the Labour Dominic Cummings, aka Labour chief puppet master) number 2 and many media outlets call him the most powerful politician you’ve never heard of.

Liz Kendall was a nasty piece of work but McFadden is almost android like in comparison (when comparing human traits such as empathy and compassion - a harsh statement but those are the vibes I get)

What this move says is that the Labour higher ups didn’t trust Kendall with the second attempt at welfare cuts so have now put mcsweeneys personal assassin/well trained attack dog in charge

Basically mcsweeney is now in full control of dwp and welfare cuts have been made an even bigger priority than before (the dirty tricks of forcing through the universal credit bill in record speed may feel like child’s play in comparison to what we could have coming)

To summarise the summer is over, winter is coming and Labour leadership has deployed 2 white walker kings in McFadden and timms to deal with us disabled.

Hope everyone’s rested enough over the summer for the sequel

But as Titan has said in their comment, the current biggest worry is Reform.  If they get in 2029, we're all completely and utterly stuffed.  And that's our problem.  We have no faith in Labour, but almost every viable option is worse.  Corbyn's party will probably never get off the ground.  The Greens need to get more vocal if they are going to make inroads, and the LibDems have 70 MPs, but are doing nothing with them.

Can Reform really get a majority?  It's nearly four years to the election, and so it's hard to tell.  But it seems potentially doable.  BUT, one look (and listen) at their conference shows they are not competing with the main parties.  A two day conference is less than the so-called main parties.  Farage's speech was fine, if you don't want details on how he and his party will do anything he's promising.   He has promised to stop the boats within two weeks of gaining office - well, his friend Trump promised to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, and that didn't work so well.   And then there was Andrea Jenkyns singing a song called Insomnia - hardly the right title for a song given it was the end of a day of political speeches.  There's plenty of time for Reform to implode.  And for that reason, I don't object to the amount of airtime they are getting, as it gives more chance for them to do something stupid.  

If the polls are correct, Reform would get an 80 seat majority.  Unfortunately, I think we have to hope for Reform to screw up, as there's not much chance at the moment of Labour or the Tories bouncing back.

None of the MPs have any clue about any of the departments they run and that’s not new or limited to Labour. 

What is worrying is the support that is growing for Reform UK, they are pledging to make much greater cutbacks to disability benefits if they are elected into power. 

If the current Labour Government follows through on a more compassionate approach  vector through the Timms review (which is unlikely) it may well be a short lived victory for disabled people in the event that Labour is then voted out of power shortly afterwards. 

Reform are looking to implement even deeper cuts to disability benefits. What needs to happen, is the legislation that is agreed upon between Timms, the disability fraternity, charities and organisations working in favour of the disabled, ensures built in protection from future cuts in the event a different government is elected in the forthcoming general election. This would at least make it difficult for Reform to implement policies that are even more inhumane than the current Labour Government. Any cuts, any legislation should be protected for at least 10 years after it is agreed upon. If protection can be given through the triple lock for pensioners, then why can't disabled people have this as well?