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UN panel outs UK government on the spot over welfare bill Committee says it has ‘credible information’ about negative impact of the legislation on disabled people

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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The right to an education, health and care plan must be retained | Letters Letter: Jane Asher, Carrie Grant, Chris Packham, Anna Bird, Fazilet Hadi, Sally Phillips, Jon Sparkes and 100 others call on the government not to remove the right to an EHCP from children attending m...

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PM says new plan will 'fundamentally rewire' the NHS - BBC News But nurses, doctors and health experts say that more funding and extra staff are needed to make it a reality.

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The term co-production first came from the book ‘No More Throwaway People’ by human rights lawyer, political speech writer and civil rights activist Edgar Cahn. This seems particularly fitting for the welfare cuts bill. 🙏 @vickyfoxcroft

The reasoned amendment will be voted on at 7pm. If it goes through the welfare cuts bill could be dead! If it doesn’t, MPs go on to vote on the disability cuts bill

No 10 plan to avert Labour welfare rebellion in chaos amid division over scale of concessions MPs including select committee chairs express doubts that concessions agreed last week go far enough

We’re so proud to be one of the 138 disability groups backing this

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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We’re delighted to have contributed a poem to this zine. A copy will be held at the @wellcomecollection from today. It’s timed with the second reading of the UC & PIP Bill

Thanks to @disabledpeopleagainstcuts groups working together and arti0xox

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“The file is held in the UK Government National Archives at Kew (formerly known as the Public Record Office) and was understood to be closed until 2023, but this closed period has been extended until 2071, at the end of which most people currently suffering from ME will be conveniently dead” #ME

It is an established fact that the MRC has a secret file on ME that contains records and correspondence since at least 1988, which, co-incidentally, is about the time that Simon Wessely began to deny the existence of ME.

www.investinme.org/Article-358%...

Fantastic and necessary article by @richardburgon.bsky.social 🙏

Dear PM, thanks for the welfare concessions, but I still won’t vote for your bill. Scrap the whole thing | Richard Burgon

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Movement, heart rate and post exertional symptom exacerbation /malaise

Latest in our #cutscutscuts series

#poetry #poem #disabilitybenefits #stopthecuts #takingthepip

Latest from our #cutscutscuts series ✂️

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Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill Amendment intended to kill off legislation that would cut benefits could be backed by up to 100 Labour MPs including senior figures

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Millions with virus induced chronic illness have experienced this for years, decades, lifetimes. Many without the treatments and further diagnoses mentioned 👇If believed, longCovid would have far more solutions. We must ensure they’re not sidelined again now these issues are coming to light

Vital viewing to understand how we are where we are with ME, chronic fatigue syndrome and other chronic illnesses

Termed the biggest medical scandal of 21st century, the chasm between world leading services & UK (and by proxy, several countries) has been a political choice & not a medical necessity. In some cases, blocking pathways to diagnoses of underlying causes & lifesaving treatments.
#ME #cfs #PACEScandal

Microplastics and chronic disease

The politics of access to healthcare in chronic illness #ME #CFS

The scale of what has been coined the biggest medical scandal of the 21st century is enormous, encompassing numerous conditions. We are long overdue joining the dots

#ME #chronicfatiguesyndrome #EDS #connectivetissuedisorders #MCAS #POTS #fibromyalgia #postviralsyndrome including #longcovid

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The latest in our cuts cuts cuts series ✂️

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Latest #poem in our #cutscutscuts series ✂️ #disabilitybenefits