Protest the budget in Swansea

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Nov 182025
 
DPAC Logo with text underneath "Disabled People Against Cuts" and then web address dpac.uk.net

A vector graphic with an arm holding a wine-coloured megaphone. A spikey speech bubble points to the microphone and says, in all caps, "protest the budget"

 

Saturday 29th November

1pm @ Swansea Castle

With Disabled People Against Cuts Cymru (DPAC Cymru) and others.

No disability cuts.

Hands of Motability.

Living wages.

Pension justice.

Rent control.

Trade union rights.

No to hate & division.

Make the rich pay.

 

The budget is being written by the Swansea West MP.

A photo of a mobile billboard featuring the face of the Torsten Bell MP. Text, in black on yellow, says: "Swansea West: £4,500 disability cuts backed by your MP." Text, in white on black says "11,592 disabled people here rely on that support. Torsten Bell supports these cuts. Protest disability support." At the bottom-right is the Amnesty International logo, which is black on yellow.

Disabled people defeated his Spring Statement & PIP disability cuts. Now he’s back with another anti-working-class budget. We will defeat him again.

First Bus workers are on strike over low pay.

65 student nurses have been told there are no vacancies when they graduate.

£25 million of job cuts at Swansea University.

Disabled people are still fighting cuts and Swansea women are still fighting for pension justice.

Politicians try to divide us by blaming migrants, low-paid workers, trans people & disabled people.

“An injury to one is an injury to all”

 

We want to co-organise a protest with everyone affected by the budget.

Contact Disabled People Against Cuts Cymru (DPAC Cymru)

Swansea – Protest the budget (PDF for printing)

A graphic of the DPAC Cymru logo. There is the main DPAC logo to the left, which is a red, pink, blue, and green circle being held by four hands of different skin tones, with the words "disabled people against cuts" surrounding it, and an upside-down black traingle in the middle bearing the letters D P A C. On the right is the word Cymru (pronounced cum ree) (C Y M R U) in large letters, and the background of the letters are cutouts of the Welsh flag. Above Cymru (pronounced cum ree) is written the words Disabled People Against Cuts. Below Cymru (pronounced cum ree) are the words Rights, not charity, and the equivilant phrase translated into the Welsh language.

This is a graphic advertising a protest in Swansea on the 29th November. There are striped green and red corners with the text "Swansea" along the diagonal. A speech bubble that says "protest the budget" is exiting a megaphone. There are three clasped hands of different skin tones and the text "an injury to one is an injury to all" curves around them. Large text says "Saturday 29th November. 1pm at Swansea Castle, S A 1, 1 D W." Smaller text says "With Disabled People Against Cuts (D P A C) and others." Beneath, with a ripped paper effect, is text that says "no disability cuts. Hands off motability. Living wages. Pension justice. Rent control. Trade union rights. No to hate & division. Make the rich pay."

This is a graphic advertising a protest in Swansea on the 29th November. There are striped green and red corners with the text "Swansea" and "Protest" along the diagonals, and the text "budget" in the center. Beneath, in all-caps, is the text "Sat. 29 November. 1pm @ Swansea Castle." In the centre of the leaflet is text that starts in bold with "The budget is being written by the Swansea West MP." The text continues: "Disabled people defeated his Spring Statement & PIP disability cuts. Now he’s back with another anti-working-class budget. We will defeat him again." There are then five bullet points that say: "First Bus workers are on strike over low pay. 65 student nurses have been told there are no vacancies when they graduate. £25 million of job cuts at Swansea University. Disabled people are still fighting cuts and Swansea women are still fighting for pension justice. Politicians try to divide us by blaming migrants, low-paid workers, trans people & disabled people." At the bottom, with a ripped paper effect and a pink background, is the D P A C Cymru logo - a red, green, blue and pink wheel being held by four hands of different skin tones. To the right is a blue box that asks "Your org's logo here?" and text that says "We want to co-organise a protest with everyone affected by the budget", the email D P A C dot C Y M R U at gmail.com and the website "D P A C hyphen C Y M R U dot C A R R D dot C O."

Anxious about what the Autumn 2024 budget means?

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Oct 312024
 
DPAC Logo with text underneath "Disabled People Against Cuts" and then web address dpac.uk.net

We understand that many Disabled benefit claimants will be very anxious following today’s Autumn budget.

We were told that the government will be going ahead with changes to the Work Capability Assessment in order to make savings.

We were told there will be a white paper coming out in the Autumn with proposals for how to get more people off out of work benefits and into work.

We were told there will be a new law brought in to give the Department for Work and Pensions more powers so they can directly access claimants’ bank accounts.

But we don’t have the details.

There were some positive such as more money for Disabled Facilities Grants, support for Disabled children in school and a rise in the minimum wage.

But there was no mention of any increased funding for social care. This means that the new money announced for health will be limited in its impact. And the social care situation is desperate now.

While Labour MPs cheered the budget and Tory commentators decried impacts on small business and tax rises, Disabled people are left feeling scared and angry.

We want to remind people that many of the changes will not be coming in yet and we have to find out what they will actually mean.

The legal challenge against the inadequate consultation carried out for the Work Capability Assessment changes is still going ahead with a disclosure hearing in the high court happening today (31 October) from 11.15am.

This will be limited to discussion of case law around disclosure (disclosure is where a government department defending a legal challenge hands over documents to help the claimant’s legal team prepare their case). We will then need to wait for a judgment telling both sides what papers do and don’t need to be disclosed. We will post an update after the hearing.

The full hearing will not go ahead until 10 and 11 December 2024. It will then be a while – weeks maybe longer – to wait until the judgment is handed down. This will tell us whether the consultation has been found lawful or unlawful. We won’t find out the date for the judgment until usually just a few days in advance.

If the consultation is found lawful then the government can just go ahead with layng the regulations and starting to bring in the changes.

If the consultation is found unlawful the government will have to hold a new consultation before they can go ahead.

Meanwhile Disabled People Against Cuts and our allies will carry on campaigning against cuts to social security payments.

We will carry on working with our allies including PCS union to raise awareness among politicians, the media and the public about the dangers of cutting benefits and pushing Disabled people into unsuitable work.

And we will make it clear what we think of those who do.

 

For anyone who is experiencing worry and anxiety please know you are not alone. Please do not suffer on your own.

You can call the Samaritans at any time: Talk to us on the Phone | Samaritans

SOS Silence of Suicide also provides suicide prevention and emotional well-being helpline.

We are currently experiencing problems with the DPAC email so it may be a good idea to copy any messages you send to mail@dpac.uk.net to dispplprotest@gmail.com. But please be aware that we are all volunteers living with disablement and we cannot guarantee an immediate response.