DisabledAceSocialist

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UK government vote to go ahead with disability cuts in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Track them how?

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UK government vote to go ahead with disability cuts (www.bigissue.com)
The British government benefits department is literally training their employees for the fact there will be an increase in suicides due to the forthcoming disability benefit cuts. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Once again your opinion. Some people consider that abortion ends in someone dying. Honestly, you sound like a hypocrite and I'm tired so goodnight.

The British government benefits department is literally training their employees for the fact there will be an increase in suicides due to the forthcoming disability benefit cuts. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Suicide is not murder, except in your opinion. You realise there are many people who consider abortion murder? And it's after midnight, some of us need to sleep.

The British government benefits department is literally training their employees for the fact there will be an increase in suicides due to the forthcoming disability benefit cuts. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (5 children)

There is no need for assisted suicide to be suggested to people just because it becomes legal. It could quite easily be run dignitas style where people seek it out for themselves. By your logic abortion should be illegal and people should have to perform DIY abortions because if it's medicalised there's a danger a doctor might suggest it to a patient. But there is no point going on with this, we aren't going to agree.

The British government benefits department is literally training their employees for the fact there will be an increase in suicides due to the forthcoming disability benefit cuts. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (7 children)

So.... you want to make access to trans medications easier then, not harder. And think people should be able to pick up DIY suicide kits at pharmacies?

The British government benefits department is literally training their employees for the fact there will be an increase in suicides due to the forthcoming disability benefit cuts. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

The point is we are already being systematically abused. The disabled are already being murdered via starvation etc. It's a genocide already and it's not going to stop. So I'd rather it was made quicker and painless.

You being trans, presumably would not appreciate being told that you shouldn't be allowed to choose to have a gender reassignment because society thinks being trans is a mental illness and wants to save you from yourself. Yet that's exactly what you're supporting by being against assisted suicide. That people who want to access this service - for whatever reason, whether they're dying slowly, disabled, in chronic pain, or being completely neglected by society - should be told suicidality is just a mental illness and they should be saved from themselves by having their freedom of choice taken away.

There's been a lot of stuff in the news over the years with people claiming that some young people are being brainwashed into having gender reassignments and then regretting it, and this has been used as an argument against gender reassignments, or a tightening of access to them. How do you feel about that? Do you think it's fair that a trans person should be denied this service because anti-trans people fearmonger this way, and convince lawmakers that people who consider themselves trans need to be protected from themselves? Because from my point of view, the point of view of someone who wants to be able to access assisted suicide, this is exactly what your anti-assisted suicide argument sounds like. It sounds just like what a detransitioner probably sounds like to you. Fearmongering and trying to take away other people's right to make decisions about their own bodies and lives.

Abortion is another example. People were outraged when some American state made abortion illegal and now women have to travel to other states and spend a huge amount of money to access it, and some have been threatened with punishment for travelling across state lines for abortion. People are up in arms about this, yet this is the exact situation with assisted suicide in countries where it's illegal. A British person who wants assisted suicide must be able to travel to Switzerland, spend up to £20K and their relatives risk years in prison for helping them. What's the difference?

You either support freedom of choice, or an unwanted lifestyle enforced by the state.

Now the British government wants people to keep working even when they are dying of a terminal illness. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

No it's not.

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Petition and email to ban exports of live animals in the EU (www.ciwf.org.uk)
 

https://action.ciwf.org.uk/page/172354/action/1?supporter.appealCode=STEM_UK0625b&ea.url.id=8267960&forwarded=true

Please sign and share.

Now the British government wants people to keep working even when they are dying of a terminal illness. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I would sooner support proper and guaranteed benefits for dying people so they don't have to keep working until they drop dead.

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Now the British government wants people to keep working even when they are dying of a terminal illness. (www.gov.uk)
 

Can't just let a dying person go home and die in peace. Let's extract every bit of capitalist value we can from them first.

Sorry for doing this twice in one day but foot surgery update - thanks so much for the help. in c/[email protected]
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Sorry for doing this twice in one day but foot surgery update - thanks so much for the help. (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I just got back from my most recent foot surgery (debridement for infected ulcers) and they couldn't do it all in one day. It's something that's going to need ongoing, repeated treatments until September. My next appointment is July and it's at the further away hospital. My landlady won't drive all that way, I need to book hospital transport, and I need to book it by Monday at the latest. It is £26, and I will need more bandages at £12 a pack, at least 2 more packs for now, more later.

If anyone can help with this my paypal is [email protected]

If I win my disability benefit appeal they will check my accounts. If you can help, please write in the message box that it's a gift (so when the DWP check my accounts they can see I am not earning money).

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Would anyone send me a food voucher? (lemmygrad.ml)
 

I spoke in my last food request post about the issues I have with my disability benefit appeal, having no money and the difficulties of accessing the food bank.

My disability benefit appeal, according to the last letter I received from them, is estimated to be heard in January. I need help to get through these next months.

My next foot surgery is today, I'll be unable to wear shoes for weeks, and will have to order groceries for delivery, which makes it more expensive. I also have to use these gift cards to buy other essentials like toilet paper. I've got no-one to ask for help in real life.

If anyone is able, please send a supermarket gift card to my email address, [email protected]

This one takes credit card, debit card and google pay:

https://www.sainsburysgiftcard.co.uk/

This one takes credit card, debit card, and paypal:

https://www.prezzee.uk/store/sainsburys-uk-gift-card/

This one takes crypto:

https://www.bitrefill.com/gb/en/gift-cards/sainsburys-in-store-digital-uk/

I'm really grateful for any help.

REJECTED amendments for the "Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life)" Bill in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I would love nothing more than to be put out of my misery humanely. It's better than being left to starve, which the DWP have done to me, hence needing to plead for food on here so often. They are killing us one way or another, might as well choose the faster option.

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Mayor of London urges government to rethink changes to welfare, saying effect on disabled people will be substantial. (x.com)
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Would anyone help me with hospital transport costs? Need met, thank you! (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've just received the date for my next foot surgery, it's this Friday. The only trouble is, it's not at my local hospital. Because the infection is spreading fast, I'm immunocompromised and they don't want it getting as bad as before, instead of making me wait on the waiting list for months, they've given me a much sooner appointment at a hospital further across the county. While pissed off about it, my landlady has agreed to drive me but I need to pay for the petrol and parking costs. Of course I can't pay this myself.

If anyone is able to contribute, my paypal is [email protected] For the sake of proving to the DWP that I'm not earning money, if you can help please write in the message box that it's a gift.

Sorry for asking for help multiple times this month but I've got no-one else to ask.

The British government benefits department is literally training their employees for the fact there will be an increase in suicides due to the forthcoming disability benefit cuts. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I am simply speaking here of my own personal preference, from my own personal experience. Before I found lemmy/hexbear, I was starving, absolutely starving to the point of actual nutritional deficiencies and even fainted in the street from hunger. The food bank was worthless and I had no-one to help me. All because my benefits got wrongfully stopped. This was on top of the exhaustion of having cancer treatment and recovering from a stroke. I had already tried to commit suicide once but just ended up in intensive care for 5 days, it's very difficult to do, especially when you are severely disabled. So for me, yes, since the government is going to kill disabled people anyway I would much rather they make it quick and painless instead of long drawn out and painful.

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Could anyone send me a supermarket gift card? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Last month when I made a request for food aid, I had someone tell me to try the food bank. I thought everyone here knew me by now but for those that don't, I was using the food bank before finding this site. The packages mostly just consisted of tea, coffee, milk, sugar, cookies and a small loaf of bread or small packet of pasta. And it takes ages to access, you have to get your GP or citizen's advice to refer you, and then wait for an appointment, I was going hungry all the time. So for anyone who hasn't seen my posts before, that's why I've been asking for help here.

Due to going through a disability benefit appeal I have to use these food vouchers for anything else I need too, toilet paper being the other main thing. I have another foot surgery coming up and will have to order groceries for delivery then as I won't be able to get out and get things myself, which makes it even more expensive. And of course prices have gone up.

Previous financial lifelines have also been withdrawn, for example the cancer charity Macmillan used to give cancer patients a grant every two years, but they've recently decided to stop giving grants. I was due to get a £300 grant this year but now I won't get that. My local council's household support fund also got diverted to old age pensioners. So the little amount of money I had expected to get this year while I wait for my appeal to be heard, I won't be getting. My appeal is estimated to be heard in January so I will need help for months yet.

If anyone is able to send a supermarket gift card for me to get food, please email to [email protected]

This site takes credit card, debit card and google pay:

https://www.sainsburysgiftcard.co.uk/

This site takes credit card, debit card and paypal:

https://www.prezzee.uk/store/sainsburys-uk-gift-card/

This site takes crypto:

https://www.bitrefill.com/gb/en/gift-cards/sainsburys-in-store-digital-uk/

I'm really grateful for any help. And happy summer solstice!

EDIT: I've been told the gift card links are being difficult. Someone wanted to help but was unable to. If anyone would like to help but can't get the gift card links to work, my paypal is [email protected] I'm totally out of sainsburys gift cards now so I will gladly accept help in any form. If anyone uses the paypal, would you write in the box that it's a gift so i can prove to the DWP I haven't been earning money? If I win my benefit appeal they will check my bank account and I must show I haven't been working.

The British government benefits department is literally training their employees for the fact there will be an increase in suicides due to the forthcoming disability benefit cuts. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

They're training them to deal with people who phone the benefits people saying they're suicidal and desperate because their benefits have been cut. In the UK assisted suicide isn't even legal, so when they cut people's benefits the only ways out are starve to death (which has happened to many people already after their benefits were stopped, like Errol Graham and Mark Wood) or DIY suicide (like Jodey Whiting and many others). I'd prefer euthanasia for a peaceful exit, but we can't even be allowed that. We have to do it ourselves, painfully and risk botching the job. The system is designed to be as cruel and painful as possible in every way. They're just training their staff how to take phone calls from suicidal people basically. They aren't even offering them an easy way out.

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The British government benefits department is literally training their employees for the fact there will be an increase in suicides due to the forthcoming disability benefit cuts. (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Seen on reddit. Someone asked: "What happens after the welfare cuts? I feel this has not been thought through properly. There are currently over 1.6 million people actively looking for work, and around 736,000 jobs available."

Another redditor responded: "*I work in a job centre.

We are openly told by line managers there is no plan. The reforms will mean many people lose out directly (their PIP is cut), but also indirectly (carers of people with PIP are entitled to an additional rate on UC).

The main things we are being trained for is an increase in 6PP situations (suicidal claimants) and additional training on managing those with severe health conditions whilst on UC.

The Work Capability Assessment system is expected to totally collapse immediately after the reforms are implemented due to demand as people denied PIP scramble to get LCWRA classification.

Even the harshest people on my team see it as a disasterous act of cruelty, as someone put it "saying the quiet part out loud."*

What is the government hoping will happen? There aren't enough jobs already. Do they hope everyone just kills themselves? Or turns to crime like mugging and shoplifting?

No wonder the UK is the second most miserable country on earth: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/latest-updates/uk-is-officially-the-worlds-second-most-miserable-country-these-were-the-happiest-and-unhappiest-countries-of-2023/articleshow/108361220.cms?from=mdr

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Tory council leader is criticised for posting Facebook picture of luxury steak dinner and bottle of red wine with message asking: 'Wonder what all the poor people are doing?' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
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I'm so tired of the abuse I get for being a disability claimant. Need to rant. (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Well, obviously I'm not currently in receipt of it due to my appeal, but still. When I first started claiming, people were often rude and insulting towards me because of it, but as my illness progressed and I pretty much withdrew from the world, I thought at least I wouldn't have to listen to it any more. But today I'm even getting it at home from my landlady.

She gave her daughter £20K for a house deposit last year. She couldn't afford it, she put it on a credit card, at least most of it. Now she's in debt and complains about it constantly. She sucks up to her daughter and then takes her frustrations out on me. Just now she was on the phone to her daughter, and her daughter was telling her about how she has a holiday planned, after just coming back from abroad, and has just bought a new expensive bike, and been out partying, etc, all kinds of expensive things. And my landlady was cooing "Ooh how lovely!" and acting all nice about it.

As soon as she got off the phone, she started angrily having a go at me, saying when my benefits are reinstated and I've paid off the rent debt that's racking up, she's putting my rent up by 50% as she needs the money. I didn't feel this was fair and said it's not my fault she's in debt, she shouldn't have given her daughter £20K if she couldn't afford it. She started yelling, "She needs a house, and she works for her money! You don't even work for yours!"

And talking about how it's her money anyway as she used to be a taxpayer and my benefits come out of taxes. Well, I used to be a taxpayer too before becoming disabled.

It sounds pathetic but I feel like crying now. I've got no-one to talk to in real life. I haven't spoken to anyone but my horrid landlady, medical staff and delivery drivers in years. It just drives home that everyone from the DWP to the government to the general public thinks I'm undeserving of even the basic necessities of life and a burden to everyone. They act like benefit claimants are living it up, having a wonderful time, when the reality is reassessments on average every 2 years for me, appeals, and having to beg for every little thing.

If it wasn't for this site and hexbear I would have ended it by now, these are the only places I have for friendship, emotional support and financial help. But even here I have to repost over and over on mutual aid when I need something, wondering if I'll be able to get the things I need. And forget ever having anything just for fun or pleasure, or to make life worthwhile, that's a distant dream. I try to convince myself that I'll get my benefits reinstated and then I'll be able to do the online art course I want to take and join the Order of Druids, but in reality who knows if I'll win my appeal or if I'll even by able to do anything after a 50% rent increase.

I don't understand why they won't just legalise assisted suicide for the disabled, nobody wants us anyway. And I hate those stupid cancer adverts for macmillan and cancer research, showing cancer patients surrounded by caring loved ones, showered with support and given all the help they need. It's not like that at all. At first people are shocked by your diagnosis and sympathetic but as your illness wears on and you get worse people get tired of you and can't be bothered with you any more. The country doesn't want to pay for you, the NHS waiting list is a million years long so your condition ends up worse than it had to be, and everyone treats you like scum because you don't work any more.

And I get blamed for my landlady's debt, just like the disabled in general get blamed for the country's debt. The disabled are accused of bankrupting the country with the benefits bill while MPs give themselves a payrise. I get told my benefits aren't my money anyway and that I'll have to pay more while my landlady almost bankrupted herself by giving her daughter a house deposit and wasting a fortune on horses and her estranged husband's nonsense (don't even get me started on that, it's an absolutely infuriating story.)

The daughter might work for her money but she also has a life, fun, holidays, family and friends. They act like I'm so lucky I get "free money" from other people, but what has that cost me? It's cost my life - I have nothing worthwhile, no fun, no friends, no freedom and nothing to look forward to. And everyone treats me like something they found on the bottom of their shoe - I have no other use to society so I might as well be used as society's punchbag.

I try so hard to find things to live for but at moments like this I wonder why I even bother.

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My foot infection is back and I need another surgery. Would anyone help me get the post-surgical supplies? Still need help. (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Well, the foot infection has come back. They aren't even going to bother trying antibiotics and things this time since they never worked last time. I've been put forward for surgery straight away. I'm just waiting for them to get back to me with the date. I'm going to have to buy the post-surgical supplies all over again, waterproof shower boots, bandages, etc. The NHS doesn't pay for those things and I can't have the surgery without them. Due to my benefit appeal I can't pay for these things myself.

The items are £37 a pack and I need two packs. I might also need to buy extra bandages later depending on how long recovery takes.

If I get my disability benefits reinstated, they are going to check my bank account. I'm not allowed to earn money, but I am allowed to receive gifts of money. If anyone is able to help with this, please write in the box that it's a gift so I can prove this.

If you can help my paypal is [email protected]

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