As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP
DWP boss just said Universal Credit gives disabled people 'perverse incentives' not to work
Liz Kendall's shocking comments came just as a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants.
So which is it???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Liz Kendall's shocking comments came just as a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants.
So which is it???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
DWP boss just said Universal Credit gives disabled people 'perverse incentives' not to work
Liz Kendall believes people on benefits are incentivised not to work - yet a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants
www.thecanary.co
July 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP
June 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The problem for the government now is that it has to justify to its own MPs why it could u-turn for a household on £30,000 a year losing £200-£300, but not for a disabled person losing £10,000 a year, at once, because of the government’s choices.
No-one lost more than £300 a year due to Labour’s changes to Winter Fuel Allowance.
Labour’s changes to disability benefit could cost some households *more than £10,000 a year* – and the plans tabled this week do nothing to fix that.
It’s no wonder campaigners are raising alarms with MPs.
Labour’s changes to disability benefit could cost some households *more than £10,000 a year* – and the plans tabled this week do nothing to fix that.
It’s no wonder campaigners are raising alarms with MPs.
June 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Labour has been lying that PIP traps people on benefits all week, & plenty of authoritative voices on BlueSky pointing out the exact & simple reason for fundamental wrongness of that claim, there is really no excuse for any interviewer not to be prepped for this spin & able to demolish it instantly.
Stephen Kinnock is lying. People don't lose PIP when they get a job, its not an out of work benefit & plenty of people on PIP work
Kinnock knows this. What he's doing is part of a wider govt strategy to paint disabled people as shirkers & scroungers stealing from working people
Kinnock knows this. What he's doing is part of a wider govt strategy to paint disabled people as shirkers & scroungers stealing from working people
June 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
As an older disabled person, I take my disability rights without f’ing over younger disabled people.
Still #TakingThePIP
Still #TakingThePIP
June 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
As an older disabled person, I take my disability rights without f’ing over younger disabled people.
Still #TakingThePIP
Still #TakingThePIP
Today, MPs got a letter from Liz Kendall with the Government's panicked proposals for a two-tier disability benefits system, harsher and meaner to people who fall sick or disabled after Nov 2026. Not acceptable - Green MPs will vote against the Bill tomorrow #TakingThePIP #WelfareBill
June 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Today, MPs got a letter from Liz Kendall with the Government's panicked proposals for a two-tier disability benefits system, harsher and meaner to people who fall sick or disabled after Nov 2026. Not acceptable - Green MPs will vote against the Bill tomorrow #TakingThePIP #WelfareBill
On today’s Hall of Fame we have Zack Polanski.
On Jeremy Vine today, he challenged Ann Widdecombe’s claims that people abuse disability benefits. He asked her several times for evidence:
Thank you for standing up for disabled people.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
On Jeremy Vine today, he challenged Ann Widdecombe’s claims that people abuse disability benefits. He asked her several times for evidence:
Thank you for standing up for disabled people.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
August 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
On today’s Hall of Fame we have Zack Polanski.
On Jeremy Vine today, he challenged Ann Widdecombe’s claims that people abuse disability benefits. He asked her several times for evidence:
Thank you for standing up for disabled people.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
On Jeremy Vine today, he challenged Ann Widdecombe’s claims that people abuse disability benefits. He asked her several times for evidence:
Thank you for standing up for disabled people.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
In today’s Hall of Fame (politician), we have Carla Denyer, Green MP for Bristol Central.
She voted against the Universal Credit Bill because she was worried it would hurt vulnerable people, especially those with fluctuating health conditions.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
She voted against the Universal Credit Bill because she was worried it would hurt vulnerable people, especially those with fluctuating health conditions.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
August 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In today’s Hall of Fame (politician), we have Carla Denyer, Green MP for Bristol Central.
She voted against the Universal Credit Bill because she was worried it would hurt vulnerable people, especially those with fluctuating health conditions.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
She voted against the Universal Credit Bill because she was worried it would hurt vulnerable people, especially those with fluctuating health conditions.
#DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
😡Disabled benefits cuts are divisive and sinister.
#TakingThePip #WelfareReforms
Government must pull the bill and start again.
#TakingThePip #WelfareReforms
Government must pull the bill and start again.
June 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
😡Disabled benefits cuts are divisive and sinister.
#TakingThePip #WelfareReforms
Government must pull the bill and start again.
#TakingThePip #WelfareReforms
Government must pull the bill and start again.
Deputy PM Angela Rayner says the vote on the Labour government's UC & PIP cuts for disabled people next Tuesday IS going ahead.
So the big question is - will all the Labour rebels who signed the amendment against these cuts hold their nerve? Greens will.
#PMQs #TakingThePIP
So the big question is - will all the Labour rebels who signed the amendment against these cuts hold their nerve? Greens will.
#PMQs #TakingThePIP
June 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Deputy PM Angela Rayner says the vote on the Labour government's UC & PIP cuts for disabled people next Tuesday IS going ahead.
So the big question is - will all the Labour rebels who signed the amendment against these cuts hold their nerve? Greens will.
#PMQs #TakingThePIP
So the big question is - will all the Labour rebels who signed the amendment against these cuts hold their nerve? Greens will.
#PMQs #TakingThePIP
This is madness! How can Labour be creating new plans on a napkin to pass tonight? What government?
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is madness! How can Labour be creating new plans on a napkin to pass tonight? What government?
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
Anxiety and depression not serious mental health conditions worthy of disability benefits, @KemiBadenoch?
About 60-70% of people who die by suicide have a history of depression or related mood disorders.
#TakingThePIP
About 60-70% of people who die by suicide have a history of depression or related mood disorders.
#TakingThePIP
July 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Anxiety and depression not serious mental health conditions worthy of disability benefits, @KemiBadenoch?
About 60-70% of people who die by suicide have a history of depression or related mood disorders.
#TakingThePIP
About 60-70% of people who die by suicide have a history of depression or related mood disorders.
#TakingThePIP
Not on here very much but its been an honour to be involved in the organising of the #TakingThePIP campaign. We must fight disability benefits cuts. Here's how you can get involved takingthepip.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Not on here very much but its been an honour to be involved in the organising of the #TakingThePIP campaign. We must fight disability benefits cuts. Here's how you can get involved takingthepip.co.uk
Brilliant. Martin Lewis destroying the defence minister on Good Morning Britain. ‘Minister can I interrupt you. You keep talking about getting people into work… but PIP is not an out-of-work benefit. I don’t know why you keep talking about getting people back to work’. #TakingThePIP
June 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Brilliant. Martin Lewis destroying the defence minister on Good Morning Britain. ‘Minister can I interrupt you. You keep talking about getting people into work… but PIP is not an out-of-work benefit. I don’t know why you keep talking about getting people back to work’. #TakingThePIP
Got the feeling I am going to have to spend the rest of my life arguing mental disabilities are as legitimate as any other. Because they are.
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
July 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Got the feeling I am going to have to spend the rest of my life arguing mental disabilities are as legitimate as any other. Because they are.
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
June 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Every disability rights fight starts the same way:
"Perhaps you've misunderstood"
"They wouldn’t really do that, would they?"
Then they do.
Then we’re told to calm down.
Then we bury people.
#TakingThePIP
"Perhaps you've misunderstood"
"They wouldn’t really do that, would they?"
Then they do.
Then we’re told to calm down.
Then we bury people.
#TakingThePIP
July 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Every disability rights fight starts the same way:
"Perhaps you've misunderstood"
"They wouldn’t really do that, would they?"
Then they do.
Then we’re told to calm down.
Then we bury people.
#TakingThePIP
"Perhaps you've misunderstood"
"They wouldn’t really do that, would they?"
Then they do.
Then we’re told to calm down.
Then we bury people.
#TakingThePIP
When…
1 in 5 people on UC and disability benefits used a food bank last month.
The Disability price tag is £1,095 a month.
The basic rates of UC don’t cover essentials.
A #WealthTax could address our deeply unequal society.
We must do better than this Bill. #TakingThePIP
1 in 5 people on UC and disability benefits used a food bank last month.
The Disability price tag is £1,095 a month.
The basic rates of UC don’t cover essentials.
A #WealthTax could address our deeply unequal society.
We must do better than this Bill. #TakingThePIP
July 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
When…
1 in 5 people on UC and disability benefits used a food bank last month.
The Disability price tag is £1,095 a month.
The basic rates of UC don’t cover essentials.
A #WealthTax could address our deeply unequal society.
We must do better than this Bill. #TakingThePIP
1 in 5 people on UC and disability benefits used a food bank last month.
The Disability price tag is £1,095 a month.
The basic rates of UC don’t cover essentials.
A #WealthTax could address our deeply unequal society.
We must do better than this Bill. #TakingThePIP
SEVERE CONDITION CRITERIA
The Green Paper is diminished, but please lobby against the ‘severe condition criteria’—a dangerous, discriminatory UC change that will push new claimants into financial + psychological precarity.
Video cuts off due to Bluesky length but ends: please lobby!
#TakingThePIP
The Green Paper is diminished, but please lobby against the ‘severe condition criteria’—a dangerous, discriminatory UC change that will push new claimants into financial + psychological precarity.
Video cuts off due to Bluesky length but ends: please lobby!
#TakingThePIP
July 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Gosh, it’s a very, very big day for disability rights and disability lives today. I am nervous. I do hope that you got some sleep. #TakingThePIP
June 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Gosh, it’s a very, very big day for disability rights and disability lives today. I am nervous. I do hope that you got some sleep. #TakingThePIP
Happy #FollowBackFriday everyone. #Starmer withdrawing the whip because some Labour MPs stood up for their disabled constituents tells you everything you need to know about him and his government.
Will follow back like-minded people. #r4today #BBCBreakfast #DisabilityBenefits
Will follow back like-minded people. #r4today #BBCBreakfast #DisabilityBenefits
July 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Oi, younger folk. This is what a Prime Minister says when they are f*cked. #TakingThePIP
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he is “very confident” he will remain PM and Labour leader amid rebellions on welfare reform
June 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Oi, younger folk. This is what a Prime Minister says when they are f*cked. #TakingThePIP
"In truth our welfare system is increasingly the state subsidising employers who pay poverty wages, landlords charging unaffordable rents, and corporations extracting vast profits - all at society's expense"
AMEN.
#WelfareReform #TakingThePip #PIP #Labour
AMEN.
#WelfareReform #TakingThePip #PIP #Labour
July 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
"In truth our welfare system is increasingly the state subsidising employers who pay poverty wages, landlords charging unaffordable rents, and corporations extracting vast profits - all at society's expense"
AMEN.
#WelfareReform #TakingThePip #PIP #Labour
AMEN.
#WelfareReform #TakingThePip #PIP #Labour
October 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Labour expects hundreds of thousands to keep PIP via appeals. But appeals destroy mental health and cost millions. So why force this ordeal? Only explanation: you want the appearance of savings, not real ones. Pure cruelty. #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip
June 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Labour expects hundreds of thousands to keep PIP via appeals. But appeals destroy mental health and cost millions. So why force this ordeal? Only explanation: you want the appearance of savings, not real ones. Pure cruelty. #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePip