1m people to have disability benefits cut by Labour Rachel Reeves vows to ‘get a grip’ on the burgeoning welfare bill but cabinet ministers express disquiet over £5 billion savings

1m people to have disability benefits cut by UK Labour govt.

This is wrong. There are numerous alternatives. But Chancellor refuses to inconvenience the rich.

Doesn't address causes - lack of healthcare, poverty, poor housing.

Must lead to rebellion in parliament.
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Supported as a child, abandoned as an adult The scandal of disability benefits that disappear when the recipient turns 16 – even when the need remains the same

✍️ Supported as a child, abandoned as an adult

The scandal of disability benefits that disappear when the recipient turns 16 – even when the need remains the same

By Jennie Kermode

@jenniekermode.bsky.social

💥 DOCTORS!💥

Please share.

The #LengReview is running 2 engagement webinars for doctors:

🩺 Resident doctors: 6pm, 3 April
🩺 Other doctors: 1pm, 1 April

You can sign up for both here with your NHS email:

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UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’

Oh.
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Join Andrea Jenkyns on her march against solar panels today!

Just a note team.

Steer clear of the ones with a plaque reading:

“This solar panel represents the 16,120 solar panels that provide solar electricity directly to Wakefield Manufacturing Site. Opened by Andrea Jenkyns MP 8 September 2017”

I’ll be on BBCR4 Today programme just after 7.30am discussing the Covid Inquiry’s extraordinary decision not to question a single PPE supplier this week - what an absolute whitewash.

Workers put in £31 billion worth of unpaid overtime in 2024 - an average of £8,000 a year of lost wages, research from the @tuc.org.uk has found

"Today is my 92nd birthday...we want the redress paid in full, the full 100%"

Betty Brown appeals to Post Office minister, Gareth Thomas MP, for compensation after she spent more than £50,000 of her savings to cover shortfalls in accounts.

#Newsnight

[Part 1]

NHS corridor scenes must hasten social care reform Overcrowded hospitals typically have many distressed elderly patients some of whom could be discharged if only they had a care plan

"Streeting can still speed up the social care review. Why on earth isn’t Casey reporting back this summer, with final recommendations ready in a year?"

The Sunday Times editorial today:
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If only this from the Sunday Times were new - the truth is even worse: that trusts have been advertising for “corridor nurses” for years. A horrendous illustration of how overwhelmed our hospitals are every year, all year. This isn’t “flu” - it’s flu + lack of beds + failure to address social care 🧵

Ambulance handover delays in England may harm 1,000 patients a day Exclusive: 414,137 people believed to have experienced some level of harm in last year, Guardian analysis finds

The astonishing cognitive dissonance of a health secretary who insists he'll save the NHS - yet kicks the social care crisis into touch until 2028.

1 in 8 medically fit NHS patients cannot leave hospital for lack of social care.

Of course A&E is overwhelmed 🤷‍♀️

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'It is beyond broken' - inside our terrifying NHS crisis Special report: Patients waiting in ambulances for 24 hours, exhausted and desperate staff feeling helpless and a health service now on life support

Devastating from @liamthorp.bsky.social on the hellish conditions for patients & staff alike inside our A&Es.

This is why the crisis in social care needs fixing now. Not in 2028 - now.

Because when hospitals run out of beds, the results are catastrophic 😔

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'It is beyond broken' - inside our terrifying NHS crisis Special report: Patients waiting in ambulances for 24 hours, exhausted and desperate staff feeling helpless and a health service now on life support

A man keels over in a chaotic emergency room, an 88-year-old woman waits for 24 hours in the back of an ambulance, a depressed and frustrated paramedic can’t face his job anymore

This is the reality of the state of the NHS right now and it’s terrifying 👇

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The NHS is in a perilous state right now. Emergency rooms are overflowing as ambulances wait for hours in queues to handover ill and injured patients. This should be front page news everywhere.

This is what I’ve found investigating the scale of the crisis 🧵

Suella Braverman claims she has seen the 'land border' between Italy and Turkey Suella Braverman has baffled social media users after suggesting she has seen a "land border" between Italy and Turkey.

Former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman claims:

Italy has built a wall on its land border with Turkey. She went to see it. Drones patrol the wall leading to the number of migrants crossing to fall.

Problem: Two countries don't share a land border.
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Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU? A new change in Iceland’s government means that joining the EU is back on the cards for Iceland.

Phew! Published this with a few minutes to spare!

I was determined to get this finished before Xmas day.

Iceland looks like it may rejoin the EU and has announced a referendum. Here is what I believe is the authoritative account on it so far. Enjoy! 👇

UK’s number of unwanted dogs hits crisis point Opinion: revised regulation on dog breeding and ownership is urgently needed in Britain today

"Abandoned dogs overwhelm UK shelters as weak regulations fuel a welfare crisis...

Animal shelters and kennels are grappling with an increasingly desperate situation. Thousands of dogs... now face the harsh fate of abandonment, the uncertainty of rehoming or, in the most tragic cases, euthanasia."

Photograph of Gisèle Pelicot

This is the person of the year.

"But there's something that’s much more difficult to confront than the inspiration and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot. 51 men. 51 men who are #notallmen… but who are, also, quite a lot of men. 51 of them, in fact."

Exceptional opening monologue by @sophyridge.bsky.social tonight. ~AA

Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers' Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on "free speech"

Tory MPs want to scrap worker right to maximum working hours, guaranteed annual leave, holiday pay.

Oppose UK law inhibiting sexual & other harassment, as this interferes with free speech; claim employer would deal with it.

Why do workers vote for this mob?
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For Tories, Brexit was always a chance to race to the bottom, to allow employers and businesses to cut corners and costs and to scrap legislation that limited their ability to exploit us and take risks with our lives.
So relieved they’re in opposition and can’t do more harm right now.

Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers' Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on "free speech"

The Conservative MPs, which include the Shadow Business Minister Greg Smith, want basic workers' rights to holiday and annual pay scrapped.

They are also resisting workplace protections against harassment, describing them as an attack on "free speech", that will stop "banter"

The i front page: EU tells Starmer: your Brexit reset is doomed without a better offer on fish and under-30s » European diplomats warn Keir Starmer that he still needs to make major concessions to the EU if he wants new deals on trade and security - with Brussels prepared to drive a hard bargain »Leaked negotiating documents show that the EU is demanding a new fishing agreement as a precondition to the start of any talks, plus easier migration for under 30s between the two sides » Brussels wants to make the UK adopt the bloc's laws in exchange for getting a veterinary agreement which would boost British farming and food trade, a key plank of Starmer's strategy » European diplomatic sources say most EU nations are happy with the status quo - and claim they are becoming exasperated by the UK making demands without offering concessions

If we’d been shown this headline in 2016, we may have struggled to believe such a mess could be possible. But here we are, 8 years on, being asked to consider concessions on fish and opportunities for young people.
And the inescapable crappiness and tedium of it all is.. well.. just so very sad.

Oh.

I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in

Johnson posts: I call on everyone who cares about democracy - and the economic salvation of this country - to fight, fight and fight again for the freedoms the people voted for in 2016, and which they believed were secure (Picture of Starmer in earlier data holding up an EU flag)

The rest of the UK calls on everyone who actually cares about democracy - and the economic recovery of this country - to demand our govt clears up the epic Brexit mess made by this lying piece of shit. And to never allow him and his brand of populist garbage anywhere near power again.

Will never forget Kuenssberg’s response to Stephen Flynn when he commented on the NI Brexit mess.
He said, “We’re in this situation because Boris Johnson lied” to which she retorted,
“That’s quite the charge.”
No Laura. It’s the truth. And we might not be in this mess if you hadn’t helped bury it.

Why Britain's doctors are in revolt To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients...

Why Britain’s doctors are in revolt

To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients at risk. A must read from @doctoroxford.bsky.social

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Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. Please remember this