Ali
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Welfare rights, Scottish rugby and Romance languages
Well here we go again and in spite of myself, I have hope - come on Scotland!!
27 days ago
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Beginning to actually feel sorry for Ireland, the team that humiliates us yearly, that’s how bad this is
29 days ago
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Edinburgh rugby, what is happening right now? where has this come from?
about 1 month ago
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That is the best try Edinburgh have ever or will ever score Andrea!!
about 1 month ago
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Perpignan finally won a game! "Carried by an immense Jamie Ritchie" with a "captain's performance"! Made up for him
3 months ago
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Celtic nations coming together with the Lions
7 months ago
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Frances Ryan
8 months ago
I’m sorry, the DWP announcing “don’t worry, the benefits u-turn means only 150,000 people will be pushed into poverty now!” is just insane. Cruel, incompetent ghouls who shouldn’t be allowed to run a bath let alone a system sick people rely on to live.
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Adam Bienkov
8 months ago
Keir Starmer's revised welfare cuts will put 150,000 more people into poverty, according to the Government's own analysis. Only down 100,000 from the 250,000 previously estimated
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Chaminda Jayanetti
9 months ago
Private Eye has found that that 281,000 PIP claimants *already in paid work* stand to lose out under the proposed cuts (i.e the four-point rule) That's 55% of all PIP claimants in paid work, according to the article (not my article but I want to flag it)
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@rosbifsrugby.bsky.social
Theo with a late bid for own-try of the season there sadly
9 months ago
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Chaminda Jayanetti
10 months ago
NEW: Internal DWP figures show 700,000 families *already* in poverty are forecast to be hit by planned disability benefit cuts That's on top of the 250k+ who are predicted to be newly pushed into poverty by the changes By me, for the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Disability benefit cuts to hit 700,000 families already in poverty, DWP forecasts show
Internal government forecasts obtained by the Guardian reveal ‘truly shocking’ effects of planned cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/07/disability-benefit-cuts-to-hit-700000-families-already-in-poverty-dwp-forecasts-show
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Chaminda Jayanetti
11 months ago
NEW: Thousands of people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases, and more than 200,000 people with arthritis are among the 1.3 million whose disability benefits are at risk from planned cuts, according to FOI data By me, for
@bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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1.3 million ill people could lose PIP under Labour's disability benefit cuts
Labour's benefit reforms could see thousands of people with cancer and more than 200,000 people with arthritis lose their PIP payments.
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/disability-benefit-cuts-pip-labour-cancer-arthritis/
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Dr Jay Watts
11 months ago
New: Roughly 1,325,250 people (45.8%) of PIP Daily Living component recipients will lose their benefit if the
#GreenPaper
proposals progress. The average annual loss would be c.£4,000, with many losing all support despite significant functional impairments. (FOI: 👏 Martin Bonner)
#WelfareNotWarfare
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Patrick Harvie MSP
12 months ago
The scale of this is grotesque, but underneath the big numbers we need to remember the devastating personal impact on everyone affected. None of this is necessary. All of it is happening because Labour refuses to tax wealth fairly.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Tom Clark
12 months ago
Disability benefits: soothing words, frightening numbers New column attempting to cut through the spin
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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The devastating reality of disability benefit cuts
The government must face the consequences of taking support from the poorest, and try to find a better way
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/policy/welfare-state/69558/the-devastating-reality-of-disability-benefit-cuts
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The Guardian
12 months ago
The Guardian view of Labour’s cruellest trick: selling welfare cuts as compassion | Editorial
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The Guardian view of Labour’s cruellest trick: selling welfare cuts as compassion | Editorial
Editorial: By defining itself as the party of work, Labour casts those unable to be economically productive – through disability or ill health – as burdens, not individuals with rights
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/the-guardian-view-on-labours-semantic-shift-its-the-party-of-work-not-workers?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1742285224
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Frances Ryan
12 months ago
“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”. My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work.
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There is a shameful tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/10/disabled-people-labour-benefits-system?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Zoe Gardner
12 months ago
Cutting benefits payments *specifically* for people deemed unable to work due to illness or disability is a genuinely shocking choice from Labour. Aside from the incredibly obvious moral horror of it, it shows how our economy is set up all wrong.
#r4today
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Chaminda Jayanetti
about 1 year ago
NEW: Labour has given its strongest signal yet that it will *keep* the Tories' planned disability benefit cuts, as it said it would re-run the consultation that was earlier today judged to have been held unlawfully The cuts would hit c450,000 disabled people by 2029
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Labour doubles down on slashing billions from DWP's disability benefits bill
Labour has indicated it will still cut disability benefits after the High Court ruled the Tories' consultation into the plans was unlawful.
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-disability-benefits-bill-high-court-ruling/
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Kitty Stewart
over 1 year ago
This is absolutely huge from the Scottish Parliament. Combined with the Scottish Child Payment it means a family with 3 children on Universal Credit will be *£7k* per year better off than if they lived in England. And we know that will make a massive difference
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...
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John Swinney to lift two child benefit cap in Budget announcement
The Scottish Government will move to scrap a policy critics say pushes families into poverty.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/john-swinney-lift-two-child-34247313
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