Disabled activists travelled from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to lobby their MPs over the Pathways to Work Green paper, the Disability News Service reports.

As many as 40 MPs held meetings with constituents, including former Conservative work and pensions secretary Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Daisy Cooper, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats; and former Green party leader Sian Berry.

But others did not turn up, including Ellie Reeves, chair of the Labour party and sister of chancellor Rachel Reeves. Housing minister Matthew Pennycook was another no-show.

According to Disability Rights UK, the lobby was organised by the Coalition Against Benefit Cuts, Disabled People Against Cuts, Disability Rights UK, Well Adapt, Inclusion London and SIC.  

With over 100 people attending it was one of the largest lobbies by the disabled community in over a decade.

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      · 1 hours ago
      @rookie "For Alex Ballinger, who was elected as Labour MP for Halesowen last year, his party is about "increasing opportunities for the most vulnerable people in society".

      "We're about improving life outcomes and being ambitious for those people who maybe need a bit more encouragement," he said."

      And apparently Ballinger believes the best way to "increase opportunities for the most vulnerable in society" is to give them "a bit more encouragement" - by plunging them into dire poverty. "Labour values" indeed.
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    · 7 hours ago
    https://cathoughtsdotblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/privileged-but-unprocessed-how-elite-education-and-unacknowledged-loss-created-a-cruel-welfare-state

    Sorry if anyone is interested this link should work the last one didn't!

    Things just got personal......

    Ive written a longer piece exploring how personal histories of our leaders and elite education may have shaped decades of brutal welfare policy. Please feel free to post elsewhere.
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      · 3 hours ago
      @CaroA They don’t like weakness they despise it. You have to be thick skinned and highly confident but you still can have humanity look at Jeremy Corbyn . These automaton’s left all that behind and I  think they care more about themselves their careers than helping people. So when we deal with people like that you won’t get anywhere appealing to a better nature that isn’t there. It’s defeating them any way you can when they make errors fail or don’t follow processes properly. 
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    · 8 hours ago
    More wheeling and dealing around the child benefit cap to present themselves as having an ounce of humanity. Apparently, once disabled children grow into disabled adults they can be cast aside and left to survive on thin air. 

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/23/no-10-delays-child-poverty-plan-despite-tens-of-thousands-more-hardship
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    · 9 hours ago
    Today Liz Kendall doubled down on the cuts and said she will not 'resile' despite opposition.
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      · 1 hours ago
      @rtbcpart2 That's a terrible slur against the wicked witch community.
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      · 3 hours ago
      @tintack My own personal prediction is that the introduction of the white paper will be delayed (it was already meant to have been in May), and then just before recess for the summer they announce a change of heart - hoping it will be forgotten over the summer months when there's little to no politics on TV. 
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      · 5 hours ago
      @Cathedral city She's digging herself into a hole. She's so out of touch with reality just like Starmer, Reeves and Timms.
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      · 6 hours ago
      @Slb She does always look like that these days! Maybe it's a conspiracy of cameramen. She makes me think of the wicked witch of the west.
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      · 6 hours ago
      @Cathedral city
      If the Tories vote against the cuts, as it now seems they may well, and the Labour rebellion is big enough, they will be in serious danger of losing the vote. In that case they either back down and make some major changes or lose the whole thing. 

      There is an argument for saying that it might be better if they continue to be so bone-headedly intransigent - as this attitude seems to be antagonisng their own MPs and fuelling the rebellion, thus increasing the chance that they lose the vote - rather than trying to get away with making minor changes and then claiming that they've listened.
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    · 11 hours ago
    Just shows what senior labour members think of the importance of these cuts to disabled people by not being bothered to turn up. This mass lobby was brilliant, it's showing the government that we won't lie down and be trampled on. Hopefully the tide is beginning to turn...... 
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    · 11 hours ago
    "But others did not turn up, including Ellie Reeves, chair of the Labour party and sister of chancellor Rachel Reeves."

    How completely shocking and in no way predictable.
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    · 11 hours ago

    Well done the protesters.....👏

    Things just got personal......

    Ive written a longer piece exploring how personal histories of our leaders and elite education may have shaped decades of brutal welfare policy.  Please feel free to post elsewhere if you like.





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    · 12 hours ago
    I hope to join this demo tomorrow, it’s the only one that’s been remotely close to me. For more into see DPAC on FB. Please join if you can:

    1pm Saturday 24th May 2025

    Aneurin Bevan Statue, Queen Street, Cardiff


    Partnered with Don’t Call Me Special and Cardiff People’s Assembly

    Members of the newly formed Cardiff & Valleys Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) will be showing support on the day and letting people know about the 3rd June lobby of the Cardiff disability cuts consultation.


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      · 10 hours ago
      @Gingin There’ll also be a demo outside the consultation In Cardiff on 3rd June (info on DPAC site) and as I’m attending that I’ll prob do the demo the same day instead of tomorrow. If anyone can come, please do add to the numbers on either or both dates! 
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