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If you're in the UK and you're worried about benefit cuts, I know how you feel. I'm anxious, upset, and desperately angry. I'm sure a lot of you are too.

Scope, a UK based disability charity, outline the cuts and explain them here. This is kept up to date as things are discussed and changed by the government. They have a petition here.

Scope also offer advice and support for disabled people, and have a helpline for this. More information here.

Sense, another UK based disability charity, have a template to email your local MP. This is available here, and can be customised to add your personal story and why you're worried about the cuts. They email it on your behalf, so you don't need to worry about finding their email address and emailing it yourself, you just fill in the form! If you can, please share this with friends and family! The more people email their MPs, the more impact it will have. Support from Sense is available on their website.

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Changes to disability benefits: what you need to know | Disability charity Scope UK

Our analysis of the Government's benefits Green Paper

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We’re Sense, the national disability charity. We believe everyone should be able to take part in life, no matter their disability.

I will continue to update this as and when any more information or support comes to my attention. I'm sorry that we are having to fight this. I hope that we are successful. ❤️

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

hello and welcome to the uk is a fucking hell country, part 284829494

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Anti-monarchists receive ‘intimidatory’ Home Office letter on new protest laws

Home Office claims timing of new powers, taking effect days before king’s coronation, is coincidental

Ben Quinn, Rajeev Syal and Vikram Dodd

Official warning letters have been sent to anti-monarchists planning peaceful protests at King Charles III’s coronation saying that new criminal offences to prevent disruption have been rushed into law.

Using tactics described by lawyers as “intimidatory”, the Home Office’s Police Powers Unit wrote to the campaign group Republic saying new powers had been brought forward to prevent “disruption at major sporting and cultural events”.

The new law, given royal assent by Charles on Tuesday, means that from Wednesday:

Protesters who block roads, airports and railways could face 12 months behind bars.

Anyone locking on to others, objects or buildings could go to prison for six months and face an unlimited fine.

Police will be able to head off disruption by stopping and searching protesters if they suspect they are setting out to cause chaos.

Jun Pang, a policy and campaigns officer at Liberty, said: “Key measures in the bill will come into force just days before the coronation of King Charles – a significant event in our country’s history that is bound to inspire a wider national conversation and public protests. At the same time, the government are using a statutory instrument to bring draconian measures that the House of Lords threw out of the bill back from the dead, once again evading scrutiny and accountability.

“It’s worrying to see the police handed so many new powers to restrict protest, especially before a major national event. When the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act came into force, the police repeatedly misused them – in part because they simply did not understand them. Similarly, when Queen Elizabeth died, we saw police acting in inappropriate and heavy-handed ways towards protesters that violated their rights.”

Shami Chakrabarti, the former shadow attorney general, said: “During the passage of this illiberal and headline-grabbing legislation, ministers admitted that the new offence of ‘locking on’ is so broad as to catch peaceful protesters who link arms in public.

“Suspicionless stop and search is notorious for racial disparity and it is staggering that more of these provisions have brought into force so soon after Louise Casey’s devastating report [on the Met police]. The home secretary can blast ‘ecowarriors’ but this legislation may be used against anti-poverty and Ukraine solidarity protesters too.”

A statement from the home secretary, Suella Braverman, said: “This legislation is the latest step the government has taken against protesters who use highly disruptive tactics to deliberately delay members of the public, often preventing them from getting to work and hospital, as well as missing loved ones’ funerals.

“The range of new offences and penalties match the seriousness of the threat guerrilla tactics pose to our infrastructure, taxpayers’ money and police time.”

full article here

so just to sum this up, peaceful protesting can now land you in prison for a year and you might face an unlimited fine which i believe is up to £5000, and police can now stop and search you if they believe youre "setting out to cause chaos"

its specifically being put in place right before charles' coronation, but these are now considered criminal offenses so theyre not exclusive to it.

you know, a country where you can be put in prison for a year for peaceful protesting really doesnt sound like a fucking democracy to me.

[vexwerewolf]

I was in London today and you will all be amused and unsurprised to know that the Tommy Robinson flagshagger crowd were making themselves unpopular. Basically every single one of them was lurking outside every cheap pub getting shitfaced, waving flags in everyone's faces, blasting airhorns and hollering shit and also getting in the way of people who just wanted to watch the cup final, whom I suspect would otherwise have been sympathetic to them.

Props in particular to the TERF who had the Union Jack in purple, green and white and got yelled at for having a "woke flag" lmfao

[alexanderpearce]

sainsbury's in oxford 24 february 2026 aesthetic

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Brits!

Sunak says there'll likely be an election in the second half of the year

PLEASE make sure you're registered and have photo ID. If you don't have one of the forms of ID listed here: https://www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/photo-id-youll-need

you can get a free voter authority certificate here: https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate

Or you can apply for a postal vote (via the same link)

(It's a bit different for NI but there's links from the above)

Tories out!

[morganapengdragon]

Okay reading through the UKSC ruling for work and there's a few things to note:

This ruling is NOT an overarching change to the legal definition of 'woman'.

It refers specifically to the protected characteristics under the 2010 Equality Act

The purpose of the case was to decide if discrimination based on 'sex' is based on sex assigned at birth, or certified sex via GRC. The court ruled in favour of sex assigned at birth.

This means for anyone who does NOT have a GRC, legally speaking nothing has changed.

The ruling allows groups and organisations to ban trans women with a GRC from sex segregated spaces (including sports). This is the key change.

However, under the 2010 Equalities Act, you are protected from discrimination and harassment based on PERCIEVED protected characteristic or association with a protected characteristic.

This means that trans women CAN raise cases for sex based discrimination, with or without a GRC. For example, if you are denied a promotion because you are a woman, you CAN take this to court and you are not required to disclose your sex assigned at birth.

This decision is awful and reckless and speaks to absolutely disgusting levels of transmisogyny in this country.

But trans women I need you to know that you still have rights under this Act, particularly in the workplace.