Teenager prosecuted over £1.67 in unpaid tax on a car. A criminal conviction for an offence that happened before she knew she even owned a car. Infuriating that this kind of thing is still happening Labour has failed to fix the #SingleJusticeProcedure www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t...

DWP ministers ‘must be shown’ new research which shows likely results of ‘obscene’ plans to cut benefits www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-minister... via @johnpringdns

DWP FOI request response from @/LurgeeLife on twitter. Really useful information for those of us in the UC LCWRA group (i.e. ruled too disabled or sick to work) should be contacted by the DWP about non-mandatory appointments lurgeelife.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/d...

Next April’s cuts to out-of-work disability benefits are likely to have “devastating” consequences for disabled people’s mental health, and drive many into serious poverty, research into the impact of similar Conservative reforms has warned. #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...

Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds “No evidence that the (2017) policy improved the employment chances for people with a long-term condition or disability” www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-... via @johnpringdns

Labour cuts to out-of-work disability benefits likely to have ‘devastating’ mental health impact, research finds www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-... via @johnpringdns

Hoping that @iainduncansmithmp.bsky.social reads this research and takes note of the devastating impact these cuts had, and that he pushes for the Labour government and @patmcfaddenmp.bsky.social to think again about next April's cuts. #UniversalCredit www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-cuts-...

McFadden refuses to explain why he misled MPs over back-to-work benefits system www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-ref... @johnpring.bsky.social

McFadden refuses to explain why he misled MPs over back-to-work benefits system www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-ref... via @johnpringdns

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

We chose to go into lockdown one week before it was officially declared, like many people. I guess you can look at the Covid mortality rate difference between France and UK. There was one week difference and yes, people died who did not need to.

In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...

Universal Credit sanctions cause “avoidable hardship, worsening health, and prolonged exclusion from work.” Gov't tells us that sanctions are a last resort. A new report from @ce-lawcentre.bsky.social and Public Law Project finds the opposite, with disastrous consequences for vulnerable people.

The fall in immigration is going to do wonder for the UK economy

I'm pleased by the reaction of Bluesky people about the immigration proposals. Now I expect the same people to defend benefit and disability benefit claimants when the government is using the same rethorics towards them, using incorrect data and inappropriate language. See the similarities

Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say." But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question

Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet

I can see a lot of people being annoyed at the use of "handouts" for refugees, but it is the same kind of terminology which has been used for years about benefit claimants. It feels to me as a case of deserving/underserving poor.

I fail to understand how 38,000 people a year can tear Britain apart. I would think there are bigger issues to deal with

Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...

I in general love how living a transnational life is arguably more common than ever but policymakers still treat your needs, desires and concerns as essentially mythological middle class nonsense

This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.

“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government

The disability minister has refused once again to explain what role he played in his department’s secret programme to cut Access to Work grants. #AccessToWork #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-ref...

Sanctionable Failures: Universal Credit’s Failing Sanctions Regime And The Harm It Causes "as currently designed and applied, sanctions are frequently applied as a first resort not a last resort measure" .... www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/sanctio...

“If conditionality worked, if threatening people worked, then all of the conditionality that had ever been put in place would have worked, wouldn’t it…” Government must drop ‘economic burden’ narrative & sanctions, MPs are told - @johnpring.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-m...

Government must drop ‘economic burden’ narrative and sanctions, MPs are told www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-m... via @johnpringdns

Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”. bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...

A new “independent” investigation into the rising number of young people who are not in jobs, training or education will exclusively target sick and disabled claimants, a government document has revealed. #NEET #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-investig...

New investigation on NEETs will only target young disabled people, DWP document shows www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-investig... via @johnpringdns

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So bear in mind that when Labour are calling for these changes, what they mean is that it’s ok for some people to be treated inhumanly, as long as they’re migrants, and that some families should be destroyed, again as long as 1 or more of them is a migrant, no matter what the effect on the children

Labour has been dealt a very bad hand, after over 10 years of austerity and destruction of public services. But what I can't forgive them for is the rhetoric about disabled people and migrants. They had an opportunity to make the case for both, but chose not to, in order to chase the reform vote

Health and care funding crisis will create pressure to choose assisted suicide, MPs and peers are told www.disabilitynewsservice.com/health-and-c... via @johnpringdns

I do not understand those still attempting to defend Labour. Every day the gap between them and Reform, on immigration, trans and non-binary rights, disabled individuals etc shrinks. Human rights have to apply to everyone or they end up applying to no-one. #r4today news.sky.com/story/home-s...

Cross-party MPs have warned that ministers’ refusal to introduce a key protection into their new fraud and error bill could see a repeat of the countless deaths caused by the austerity measures of past governments. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/protection-f...

Protection failure in DWP’s fraud and error bill ‘risks further tragic deaths’, MPs warn www.disabilitynewsservice.com/protection-f... via @johnpringdns

I didn'expect a choir of survivors and families of victims of the 13 November terrorist attacks in Paris to choose to sing "you'll never walk alone", but that was very poignant for a French national living in the UK (who does not like football). A very moving and fitting ceremony. So many lives lost

17,000 employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants have, so far, had their legacy benefits claim ended after failing to migrate to universal credit (UC), according to official statistics released by the DWP. That figure is set to rise to over 26,00 by the time the process is complete.

A good example of someone using "economically inactive" to mean "available for work but choosing not to" and forgetting it covers students, early retirees, carers, severely disabled people, parents with very young children etc...

See my latest repost. And if the spike in disability benefit claims in UC were due to the staggered way DWP moved people from legacy benefits to UC, starting with Tax credit claimants (working claimants) and ending with people on ESA (by definition, unfit for work). It would explain the spike

NEW: UK confirms 15% cut to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria for its next funding round, a decision aid agenices say will result in hundreds of thousands of otherwise avoidable deaths. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

New Universal Credit statistics today show the % of claimants in the ‘no work requirements’ conditionality group has continued to rise to 49%, and the proportion in work has fallen to 33%. This is likely to be written up as ‘a rise in claimants not required to work’, but context is very important! 🧵

Un mur de béton de plus d’un kilomètre, financé intégralement par le Royaume-Uni à hauteur de 800 000 euros. A la frontière franco-britannique, on préfère ériger des barrières que de mieux accueillir. france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/hauts-de-fra...

A concrete wall over a kilometer long, financed entirely by the United Kingdom to the tune of €800,000. At the French-British border, they prefer to erect barriers rather than offer a warmer welcome.

the evidence overwhelmingly shows that if you simply give parents money… they will spend it on their children’s needs. so, you know, just DO that.

Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News. GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why Council Tax Reform Is Fraught With Difficulty www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Attacks by UKIP activists targeting migrants have been occurring repeatedly in recent months around Dunkirk, adding to the already considerable pressure. Community groups are condemning the authorities' laissez-faire attitude and fear an escalation.