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Pablo Martini (Geezer)<p>Parliament has passed the Universal Credit Bill — and with it, handed the Government power to slash support for sick and disabled people from 2026.</p><p> Despite warnings, MPs voted down all amendments that would have stopped it. </p><p>The so-called Timms review?</p><p> It’s advisory only. (Just like *brEXIT!)</p><p>Read how MPs failed those they were meant to protect. </p><p>*Pablo says, Taking a note of Tories dirty deeds, the red Tories as labour, shags us!</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UCbill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UCbill</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DisabilityRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisabilityRights</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WelfareCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WelfareCuts</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/TimmsReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimmsReview</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UniversalCredit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversalCredit</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DWP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DWP</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tories</span></a><br><a href="https://voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=98947" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">voxpoliticalonline.com/?p=9894</span><span class="invisible">7</span></a></p>
Colin-Roy Hunter<p>“<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pension" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pension</span></a> benefits for the wealthy are, on average, more than maximum <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> payments a year” <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RichardMurphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardMurphy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/28/pension-benefits-for-the-wealthy-are-on-average-more-than-maximum-pip-payments-a-year/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">6/28/pension-benefits-for-the-wealthy-are-on-average-more-than-maximum-pip-payments-a-year/</span></a></p>
devSJR :python: :rstats:<p>Today I was looking at the latest mwmbl source code changes. There I saw that <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.wales/@daoud" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>daoud</span></a></span> changed pip for uv. uv is ''an extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust'''.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/uv" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/astral-sh/uv</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Certainly sth worth to have a look at.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mwmbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mwmbl</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/uv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uv</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/pip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pip</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a></p>
Juggling With Eggs<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@rmblaber1956" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rmblaber1956</span></a></span></p><p>My friend who made the FOI request, fears <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Reeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reeves</span></a> have played a sleight of hand this week. The concession to not impact existing <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> claimants has been thrown on the bonfire with gutting the bill and leaving key decisions to after the Timms Review reports in autumn 2026…there is no guarantee that MPs will get to vote on whatever Timms proposes.</p>
Richard Michael Blaber<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@JugglingWithEggs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>JugglingWithEggs</span></a></span> Starmer hasn't U-turned on the Bill - only made a tactical retreat. The changes to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> eligibility rules will probably be reintroduced after the Timms Review. They will have to be if the Government is to get its £1billion a year cut in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>benefits</span></a> between now & 2030, & they seem Hell-bent on that.</p>
Juggling With Eggs<p>Not consulting with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disabled</span></a> organisations and charities on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> eligibility rule changes is the key reason <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>welfare</span></a> legislation was so poor that their own MPs rebelled in huge numbers against it.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> gutted the bill at the last minute because his own MPs could not support something that they knew was unworkable, unethical and would lead to the financial penury and deaths of their constituents. </p><p>Poor legislation is proposed when beancounters at the Treasury simply don’t consult.</p>
Juggling With Eggs<p>Would you have thought that before putting out a Green Paper proposing massive changes to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> eligibility rules, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> would have consulted the key stakeholders? Organisations and charities supporting the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disabled</span></a>. Especially as these so called <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WelfareReforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WelfareReforms</span></a> were not in their 2024 manifesto? </p><p>Well you would be wrong. My friend has just received this FOI request back from the DWP…</p>
Wen<p>Cartoon, Martin Ross</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cartoon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Support" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Support</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a></p>
Police State UK<p>"With his authority damaged by poor judgment, absence of leadership and a sheer lack of understanding of what the <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> party exists for, Starmer will stumble on weakened and directionless, convincing himself that sitting next to Trump and attending Nato and G7 meetings means he has a historic role to play."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Benefits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/02/labour-government-welfare-bill-democracy-party-election-john-mcdonnell" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jul/02/labour-government-welfare-bill-democracy-party-election-john-mcdonnell</span></a></p>
Mark Burton<p>I watched the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> 10pm news last night, to find out what the Starmer regime had backed down on. It was at least 15 minutes into the reporting when they actually said what. We had to hear the little grey man three occasions first saying it was an embarrassing U-turn (who knew)?<br>Dreadful standard of reporting.<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a></p>
Police State UK<p>“If you asked Keir Starmer to sit down and write on a piece of paper the three things he’d be remembered for in 50 years, what would he say? I bet he couldn’t do it.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Benefits</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/london-playbook/a-show-of-farce/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.eu/newsletter/london-</span><span class="invisible">playbook/a-show-of-farce/</span></a></p>
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>welfare</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/pip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pip</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UTurn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UTurn</span></a> "it's only on hold, the Autumn Review in October will see it back on top of the agenda". Timms is everything. 😎</p>
Jules 🍺<p>Right and wrong in UK politics<br><a href="https://youtu.be/Eg6cT4YNzoo?si=fHIGmMDJJZ7Zan3Q" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/Eg6cT4YNzoo?si=fHIGmM</span><span class="invisible">DJJZ7Zan3Q</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/pip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pip</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/pip2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pip2025</span></a></p>
Mark Burton<p>Good wishes and all power to the Labour rebels today. They won't vote to push 150,000 disabled people into poverty.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>austerity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKLabour</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a></p>
Totts<p>The g'ment officially publishes changes to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/welfarereformbill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>welfarereformbill</span></a> </p><p>•All currently receiving <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> will stay within system <br>•"Right to try work" guarantee to be introduced <br>•Adjust payment rates to protect incomes for existing health element <br>•370,000 existing PIP claimants protected </p><p>Kendall to speak in the House later today.</p>
Ian Brown 👨🏻💻<p>The arrogance of <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23McSweeney" target="_blank">#McSweeney</a> is astonishing. How DARE <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Labour" target="_blank">#Labour</a> MPs defend the interests of their disabled constituents over <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23PIP" target="_blank">#PIP</a>!
He will be gone soon enough. Then <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Reeves" target="_blank">#Reeves</a>. Then <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Starmer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> 🍿
<a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/whos-really-in-charge-labour-now-ttckhm0ns" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...</a><br><br><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/whos-really-in-charge-labour-now-ttckhm0ns" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Fury of the Labour rebels: did...</a></p>
Ian Brown 👨🏻💻<p>The arrogance of <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/McSweeney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>McSweeney</span></a> is astonishing. How DARE <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Labour</span></a> MPs defend the interests of their disabled constituents over <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PIP</span></a>! </p><p>He will be gone soon enough. Then <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Reeves" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Reeves</span></a>. Then <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Starmer</span></a> 🍿 </p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/whos-really-in-charge-labour-now-ttckhm0ns" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thetimes.com/uk/politics/artic</span><span class="invisible">le/whos-really-in-charge-labour-now-ttckhm0ns</span></a></p>
Totts<p>Rosie Jones, the comedian and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disabled</span></a> activist, makes a good point about the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/welfarereformbill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>welfarereformbill</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BBCLauraK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBCLauraK</span></a> </p><p> She says people like her are protected, and she understands that new claimants will be reassessed under a different framework, but what if she is wholly reassessed herself?</p><p>Would her <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> be torn up and reassessed afresh?</p>
Dave W<p>This is vile. And yet I know that it will successfully placate many “I’m alright, Jack” types.</p><p>Future claimants need PIP too.</p><p>And don’t be surprised when, at the point they think they can get away with it, they start a widespread “review” of PIP claimants and make us apply again, so that we can classify as “new” claimants.</p><p><a href="https://basilisk.gallery/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIP</span></a> <a href="https://basilisk.gallery/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6my6v81z4o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6my6</span><span class="invisible">v81z4o</span></a></p>
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