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An overturn to the hideous DLA reforms is being proposed in the House of Commons as an EDM (Early Day Motion): http://thebrokenofbritain.blogspot.com/2011/01/early-day-motion-on-disability-living.html

This is a huge step forwards to having our concerns taken seriously. If you believe that the changes to DLA are unfair, please please click the link above write to your MP and ask them to sign the ammendment. (http://www.theyworkforyou.com)

(If you do not believe that changes to DLA are unfair, try reading this: http://thetopsoil.org.uk/2011/62
or this: http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/2011/01/nowhere-to-turn-for-vulnerable.html?spref=tw
or these: http://onemonthbeforeheartbreak.blogspot.com/

Even if you believe that cuts should occur, surely, surely these are not the people we should be targeting. Surely these are people that we should be protecting. )

Comments

[chess]

Unfortunately whoever has written that EDM has made it more awkward to sign by bundling the housing benefit cap in; have made noise in the direction of my MP anyway.

[flannelcat.livejournal.com]

Thank-you for this.

I've written to Mike Weatherly, MP for Hove and Portslade; and asked for a response on this, and propogated. I'm afraid that I stole the text of this post for a chunk of the letter to him, as it sums up better than I ever could.

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. Thank you for keeping us informed.

(My MP says that as a cabinet minister, he can't sign EDMs*, but I shall signal boost.)

*In fact-checking this, I came across the wonderful rule that in an EDM, "no unparliamentary language or irony should be used." -- parliament.uk on EDMs

[arachnekallisti.livejournal.com]

Progress! I have gone and prodded my MP about this, and will repost the links.

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

Written and reposted! Thanks for letting me know :)

[the-night-wind.livejournal.com]

I've written to my MP about this.

[casparrrrgh.livejournal.com]

Done. :)

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Have written to my MP - and thank you SO MUCH for this post, and for keeping us informed. Really. I am really glad to be able to do something but haven't been following it as closely as I should.

My MP is Hazel Blears, however, so she may have already signed it anyway!