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A key problem with the 'logic' behind the disability welfare cuts - that disabled people are better off in work - is that disabled people often have higher costs to participate in work (from personal support to specialised tech) *and* the TUC notes, they are also paid less; the disability pay gap is around 20%
Being paid less, but with higher costs, means for many disabled going to work will (often) make them worse off
But Starmer & Reeves don't care about that!
#disability #politics
h/t FT
And here are some examples of the costs & difficulties people have at work... given that these stories come from MPs in the House of Commons, perhaps Keir Starmer & Rachel Reeves might therefore know of some people impacted exactly in the way the TUC suggests disabled workers are....
Will that change their mind about disability benefits cuts? I doubt it...
@ChrisMayLA6 Furthermore, if it's anything like in the US and I suspect it is, both schools and workplaces resist any legal obligations to be accessible.
It is a constructed Catch-22. They will not create accessible schooling, training, or workplaces. And they will treat disabled people as "cheaters" and "scroungers" if inaccessible schooling and workplaces keep them out of careers. #Ableism #Capitalism
@ChrisMayLA6 The structure of society has always been the same. The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate. Obviously it has to be kept that way so, hey ho, “difficult choices”.
Quite right, One of my clients is a non-emergency medical transport provider. There are lots of ways achieve cost savings with disabled people -
- but you have to ask them how. Just taking a disabled person to work and back, cheap as dirt if you do it right. Yes, there's paperwork and permissions, there always is - but it gets these people on payrolls.
That's just a start....
The vast majority of disabled people in my country are unemployed (myself included). Not sure what the stats are elsewhere, but all these far-right social darwinists are doing the same thing everywhere.
They want us out of sight so we can't make their "costs" rise.
@TyrionTargaryen @ChrisMayLA6 we live in a minimum wage world. Those employers will definitely not pay to employ a disabled person as it's too expensive from access, to suitable toilets, to suitable work stations to health flexibility.
yes, I think that's right & of course another cost of our low-wage economy
@ChrisMayLA6 generally speaking I think it is the "economy" and/or the "country" that is perceived as being better off. Although this is usually unsaid.
@ChrisMayLA6 there is no logic to the cuts, they are based entirely on neoliberal political dogma.
Cuts are good, any cuts, no matter the harm caused: because they believe "cuts make magic number go up".
The tortured 'logic' they use to sell the idea is only for the sales pitch.
This is why debating them on those terms is pointless.
Yes, I'd agree (which is why logic was in quotes)
@ChrisMayLA6 Starmer & Reeves assume that disabled people don't want to work, are happy leading "lazy" lives at taxpayers' expense, & that cutting their benefits will force them into work. It WON'T - it will force them into the cemeteries. The work isn't there - there is disability discrimination in the jobs market & the workplace, even for those disabled people able to work.
Sadly all too clear to most people outside the Westminster Village (oh and the press-rooms of the Right)
Labor the people are heading labor today are basically mercenaries for US billionaires.
Everything that they are promoting right now is in distinguishable from the economic policies of Americans right wing and especially especially the guys out of Silicon Valley.