orNe year ago, while Cheering Supporters put union jacks to celebrate Labor Landslide election, Keir Starmer walks on the street With a promise: The country voted “for change. For national change. And a public return on the public service.” Tuesday, his government will ask Parliament To get the benefits from more than 1 million disabled and sick people.
You’ve heard a lot about Westminster’s drama on the vote. More than 120 MPs in the Labor signed a change that refers to kill the bill next week, which is more said to participatelikely to burn in meaning it is not the “change” they are chosen. It is a good feeling to see such moral strength, with backbenchers and even today’s plague of government alleged threats to pursue standing for their constituents. Starmer says he “Continue forward“In cuts, that describes the rebels As “noises”, but behind the scenes no 10 said desperately trying to get MPs – including frontbenchers – back to line.
In the coming days, the papers could never be avoided what size rebellion means protesting at Starmer While itches on the pundits about the revised leave, as it all is a game and the only casualty a promise of ministerial career. We remember, what – what – and who – these are MPs to vote. With the number of people who rely on disability benefits, government plans to restrict the ability to personal independence (PIP). Which means that up to 1.2 million disabled people, most of the poorest country households, may disappear between £ 4,200 and £ 6,300 One year they should pay for additional disability costs. Under the changes, due to be introduced in November 2026, Disabled People would not qualify for Pip Unless they score a minimum of four points on an assessment designed to measure their daily activity, such as washing or getting or getting washed.
If it’s like technical jargon, just talk to Lee – a concerned reader who emails me – and the impact of the policy person can be clear. Lee has many debilitating health conditions – from waste of muscle and joint pain in depression and daily seizures – and checked in the PIP of March. He was referred to win the lowest benefit of welfare, but it did not score magic in four categories – which if MPs vote the next time he checked. That’s even though he actually needs help from his partner to bathe, cook and use the toilet. Lee “Petrified” in the loss of his disability benefits and his seizures are increasing from stress. “I can’t live without the support I received,” he said. “It’s a death sentence for me.”
not working The minister told you they wanted to take the tubes from people like Lee. There is no politician who cuts the benefits of the inconvenience saying forcefully, “we will support from people who trust it.” However, they brought to doubt the reality of the social security system and, with it, our neighbors neighbors. They say we need to give the benefits of people who “truly need them”, as not everyone receives them. They choose a “good reason” for the cutting support – a bloated worfare bill, say, or a worker trade crisis – and paint goodness and innovation.
So Government Numbers – including Starmer itself In response to rebellion – repeated claim to get cuts The disabled people at workAlthough a PIP award is not relevant if someone has a job or not.
Said that the official forecast for the employment policy impact should not be published until October – Meaning that MPs are asked to cut the benefits of people on the basis it can help them find the job without any evidence to return it. Or, as in Labor MPs Getting amendment puts it: “We are asked to vote before consultation with disabled people and prior to the effects of effect.” Facts, as if, do not make fiscal rules.
Even if some thousands of sick people get jobs as a consequence of changes, it is pale by the importance of being pushed by a person pushed by someone pushed by someone pushed by a person Analysis by Trusessell and Economics of WPI Displays nearly half a million people in disabled households will be forced to intense difficulty if the government is mainly cutting. “Tightening the moral criteria” is a smooth euphemism for preventing disabled money should survive.
Pip change is just the beginning. To the same bill, MPs due to voting of Cut top-up health In universal credit for new claims from £ 97 a week to £ 50 to, in the words of government, repair a system “that encourages the disease“- as well as scraping all for under-22s. It’s not all yet, if evaluating the job capability is eliminated, the PIP can be “gate” for this benefit, so the swathes of people lost in PIP are not eligible Benefits of unemployed also pay.
Like most, Lee received two PIP and universal credit – which means “reforms” in Labor see his two main strands support pulled. On top of that, his companion can also take the allowance to his carer, as Linked to PIP eligility also. Lee has finished math. If both of his disability benefits were stopped, he would lose precise £ 718.87 per month. That moves almost half of his income. “I told the team of crisis (these cuts) was the end of me,” he admitted. “Why do you want to continue without support or quality of life?”
That’s the matter with Westminster drama. Politics is just a game if you have the privilege of being untoed from its effects. For others, it will decide if there is enough food in the closet or when a care worker comes to help you wash your hair.
In 2015, the freshness from the coalition agreement, liberal democrats were punished by the electorate for helping conservative pushing of public expenditure cuts. Come to the next general election, the accusation is not that the Starmer labor is going to the tourists for power, but they mold them: their cruelty, their ability, their failure.
In the event of the rebel amendment of road strikes were forced to pull the vote to save the face, it could not stop making cuts in the first place. If the bill will continue, the Division Lobby will light a light is not simply as the chasms of the Labor Party, but in the midst of kindness and career, courage and betrayal.
Forget MPs rebelling the cutting benefits of people – remember the absence. This is the Labor Poll tax. Its tuition fees. Its partygate. Like Iraq’s war for Tony Blair, Disability Cuts is the moral stain that the Stillmer Government and the Party in the coming years. The severe disabled and disease of people hungry, isolated and recognizing as a result of this policy. No Labor MP returns it should be forgiven.
