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Is Labour Unleashing PACE Trial 2.0 With the DWP?

January 27, 2025 UKR Editor GOVERNMENT 0

Is Labour unleashing PACE trial 2.0 with the DWP?

NICOLA JEFFERY

After Labour Party chancellor Rachel Reeves’ recent announcements relating to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), chronically ill and disabled people have literally been taken back in time. But instead of being described as having “yuppie flu”, or everything being ‘all in our heads’, now it’s “work-limiting conditions”.

Labour’s PACE trial on steroids at the DWP

As part of Labour’s new DWP reforms announced by Liz Kendall and Rachel Reeves, the government will be making huge changes – cuts, to you and me – to our benefit system. Clearly John Lewis was bored after Christmas.

Changes include moving the goal posts for the current entitlements that disabled and chronically ill people receive. But now, Labour are also changing the language used to describe us.

Disabled and chronically ill people are now the “economically inactive” with “work-limiting conditions”.

Wow. So, I’m clearly cured. Hi ho, Hi Ho…🙄😒

Only last week the Canary’s Rachel Charlton-Dailey predicted that not only are these DWP cuts coming but that we are being distracted from them. And of course, the Canary was right, again:

Reeves’ full announcement will be on Wednesday 29 January 2025.

It’s not just invisible disabilities, you know

Labour forcing work on disabled and chronically ill people who would currently have Limited Capability for Work or Work-Related Activity (LCWRA) is not only cruel, it’s completely unrealistic and unsustainable economically. Why? Because these jobs literally don’t exist – either accessible jobs or jobs from home.

So, disabled and chronically ill people will potentially be forced to look for non-existent work, regardless of the impact on their health. But it’s OK! Because if we can’t work or we get too sick we now have assisted suicide as an option.

Just last week the Assisted Dying Bill committee refused to hear the evidence of disabled and chronically ill people who were against Assisted Dying. For a full review, check out our Hannah Sharland’s article on Kim Leadbeater here ✊

Speaking of Leadbeater, in the past few days she’s accused disabled and chronically ill people who are against assisted suicide as being ‘abusive’ and ‘nasty’.

Obviously it is not a competition. But maybe she needs to experience living with impairments or invisible disabilities and going to medical professionals or the DWP, using a disability travel card, disabled toilets, or an adaptation or aid – and still being accused of faking it. Or simply experience the anxiety of receiving yet another envelope from the DWP about changes to benefits. This has quite literally been deadly for some.

Right on trend

Thanks to repeated mainstream media attacks on disabled and chronically ill people – like Channel 4’s Dispatches (I’ve not heard back from Ofcom BTW) – the public’s perception has changed towards us yet again:

We are no longer disabled and chronically ill people that need the rights we deserve. Nor are all of us ‘scroungers’ or cheating the system. We are instead seen as an “economic issue”, a nail in the foot of Starmer’s plan for growth.

Disabled and chronically ill people are again the “militant activists” (‘abusive and nasty’) once described by the psychiatrists behind the original part-DWP-funded PACE trial, for trying to fight for their rights and entitlements.

Why? Because both in the past and again now, instead of diagnosing, treating, and supporting disabled and chronically ill people properly (as it’s far too expensive), we have been completely thrown under the NHS bus; not just by Labour but by every single organisation, campaign group, and left-wing activist – because they didn’t want to either accommodate our needs or honestly because it doesn’t really affect them or matter to them.

Were we literally just a trend to these people? 🤔

But going back further, in an increasingly right-wing world just remember two things.

Firstly, disability doesn’t discriminate – and on a second darker note, first they came for the disabled.

If you are finding the news about benefits distressing, please listen to this advice from Dr Jay Watts:

This article (Britain Is Dying – We Need A Revolution) was created and published by The Canary and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Nicola Jeffery

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Vile Reeves Seethes and LIES When Questioned on Tax Bung to the Rich

THE CANARY

If you ignore their words and observe their actions, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer have been clear on what they intend for Britain. Their mission is to dismantle the welfare state, privatise what’s left of the public good, and direct more money to the rich. This is why this week the Labour Party simultaneously promised to attack poor, sick, and disabled people via the DWP at the same time that they ‘softened’ tax changes for non-doms.

In other words, these Labour folk are nasty pieces of work; something which was obvious to everyone when chancellor Rachel Reeves did the interview circuit on 26 January:

The all-new Nasty Party starring Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer

On 16 January, Canary writer Rachel Charlton-Dailey reported that:

On Thursday 16 January, a high court judge ruled what disabled people already knew, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had acted unlawfully in their controversial plans to reform the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). However, the DWP has also revealed that the Labour Party government is planning on going ahead with the WCA changes the Tories first tabled – but it will run another consultation, first.

Disabled activist and all-round legend Ellen Clifford took the DWP to court over a consultation which ran for just eight weeks in 2023. The department later used the evidence gathered from the consultation to make changes to the WCA, and who qualified as Limited Capability for Work Related Activity (LCWRA) – which are due to come into effect this year.

If they come in, the plans would see over 400,000 disabled people lose around £416 a month, something which could lead to countless deaths – this is on top of the god knows how many deaths the WCA has already caused.

Labour have all sorts of excuses for why they’re doing this, including:

  • Cutting down fraud.
  • Helping people who can work find jobs.
  • Saving the country money.

Addressing these one by one, disability benefits fraud is close to 0% – i.e. it basically doesn’t exist. We also doubt Labour is serious about wanting to get people into work when it’s now talking about taking away benefit claimants’ driving licenses. We further doubt they want to save the country money when they’ve announced plans to go soft on taxing wealthy non-doms.

For the few, not the many

Interviewing chancellor Reeves on Sunday 26 January, Trevor Phillips asked:

The point I’m really driving at here is that for some some people, this concession, let’s call it that, to non doms, contrasts with what you’re doing to other people. And this morning, you’ve now written that you’re going to tackle… the spiralling benefits bill by taking away people’s driving licenses, getting people off the sick. Now this may be justified, but many working people will think that non doms get sympathy and people on welfare get ‘tough love’.

An angry Reeves responded:

If people aren’t entitled to benefits, they shouldn’t be getting them.

We’ve got good news for Reeves here; this is already what’s happening (bar the 0.1% engaged in Disability Living Allowance fraud, accounting for less than £1m in total). She continued:

And at the moment, we waste billions of pounds as a country every year in giving money to people who aren’t entitled to it.

No, we don’t actually, as noted above. We spend money trying to give sick and disabled people some level of support and dignity, and we spend far less on that than we should. Reeves continued again:

And what we’re saying is if you’re ripping off the state and ripping off other taxpayers, we will take money directly out of your bank account, and you risk losing your driving license. So proper penalties for people who, frankly, are getting money that they are not entitled to, and we’ll crack down on that. By the end of the forecast period, we’re gonna be raising more than £4bn a year by cracking down on fraud and error.

Again, no you’re not, you’re going to ‘raise’ extra money by making sick and disabled people destitute, as a recent court hearing demonstrated (reported by John Pring of Disability News Service):

Finding DWP’s actions unlawful, Mr Justice Calver said in his 42-page judgment that the eight-week consultation – issued by Stride in September 2023 – had failed to explain that planned reforms to the work capability assessment (WCA) would cut the benefits of 424,000 disabled people, with many worse off by at least £416 a month.

If the reforms became law, those 424,000 disabled people would also have to comply with work-related requirements and face the possibility of sanctions, while another 33,000 disabled claimants who were already in the limited capability for work group would now have to comply with even tougher work-related requirements and potential sanctions.

The same article clarified that the move wasn’t about helping sick and disabled people; it was about making their lives worse for the purpose of penny pinching:

Stride had failed to make it clear that one of the key motives for his reforms was to cut spending by about £3 billion over four years.

He and his ministers had claimed that the reforms were intended to support more disabled people into work, yet only 15,000 of the 457,000 affected were expected by DWP to enter employment.

Internal DWP documents, revealed during the legal case, showed that nearly 100,000 more disabled people could be forced into poverty.

The Scum (the newspaper, not Rachel Reeves)

Many responded to negatively to the loathsome Reeves and her appearance:

Others are criticising Reeves writing in the Scum ‘newspaper’:

People are also increasingly commenting on what an incompetent, robotic weirdo Reeves is:

Some are pointing out that the state of affairs under Starmer and Reeves was all so very predictable:

The failed economy

To be clear, Labour would need to do far more than just increase non dom taxes if they were serious about spiralling wealth inequality. As Tax Justice UK note, fairer taxation would include:

New taxes on wealth We’re campaigning for a new wealth tax: a 2% levy on individuals who own assets worth more than £10 million – it would affect 0.04% of the UK population and would raise £24 billion a year. We’re also campaigning to apply national insurance to investment income, raising up to £10.2 billion a year.

Reform existing taxes on wealth Those who get their income from stocks, shares and other assets often pay far less tax than those who work. We campaign for the tax rates on these forms of income to be equalised with income tax. So we all pay the same rates. It could raise £16.7 billion a year.

Clamp down on tax havens Hundreds of billions of pounds are lost every single year to tax avoidance via tax havens. We campaign for global action against tax havens. We’re demanding more transparency – and global minimum rates of tax, so countries aren’t undercutting each other.

Figures such as Gary Stevenson of Gary’s Economics are also highlighting the issue spiralling wealth inequality:

You don’t hear Labour talking about this because they don’t want to make things better for everyone; they simply want to keep the scam going for the benefit of their wealthy donors.

Rachel Reeves: Torynomics

Let’s not mince words – Labour and Reeves are reprehensible and incompetent politicians who are repeating the privatisation and austerity failures of the past few decades. Surprise, surprise; repeating the same mistakes isn’t going to lead to prosperity, and targeting impoverished sick and disabled people over billionaire layabouts isn’t going to fix the economy.

This article (Vile Reeves seethes and LIES when questioned on tax bung to the rich) was created and published by The Canary and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Nicola Jeffery

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