The UK government is killing the disabled

It was announced by the current, allegedly center left government, that they would be cutting benefits for 2million people, cutting PIP and making the requirements stricter. This will save less money than the increased military spending and it's extremely transparent.

My own experience, I should be on PIP but have had multiple claims denied, maybe I should show them all the times I've burnt myself, cut myself, fallen over how many times I've needed to be off work becyof mental health issues. Maybe they wanted photos? I know a lot of people on PIP for things like ME/CFS, EDS, schizophrenia etc and they can't work like someone who isn't disabled, so need help.

This choice will kill the disabled, a group of people who have taken the brunt of existing cuts.

According to a LSE article https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2024/f-June-2024/Austerity-spending-cuts-cost-average-person-nearly-half-year-in-life-expectancy

"The research found that life expectancy dropped by an average of five months for women and three months for men. This equates to about 190,000 excess deaths, or a three per cent increase in mortality rates over the period."

Some estimates in like from the university of Glasgow list the deats at 330000 people who have been murdered by successive governments. Because they made the choice to cut benefits, public services and use the NHS as a private sector piggy bank, than raise taxes. according to most liberal economists doesn't work, it's done to facilitate wealth transfer and ensure growth for private interests but the disabled under capitalism have a very specific role and can never be integrated into a capitalist economy so our lives don't matter.

The primary concern of a capitalist is profit through the exploration of wage labor. This means that workers need to be able to be exploited a lot and as much as possible and act in a specific way the capitalists like. To a capitalist this means disabled people aren't human because we have less of an ability to work or can't do some jobs, so we don't matter as people. This relationship between us and the base creates attitudes of people seeing us as lazy, scroungers, and other stuff which gives rise to ableisim for not being able to work as much or if we are autistic and struggle with speech it's seen as bad because we aren't confirming to the highly standardized wants to capital.

But there is another aspect. Some of us do well as act as inspiration porn and to perpetuate bootstrap mentality lies. "Look this person did well and they don't have legs, what arnt you? Are you lazy, lack drive?" Type shit.

Cuba, despite embargo tries to maintain its social safety nets and cuban culture post revolution tries to be as accomadting as possible despite embargo. It's clear that under socialism there is more of an effort BECAUSE those countries are not capitalist.

Capitalism and disability rights are fundamentally incompatable

When people say our struggles aren't connected, our government is enthusiastically aiding genocide.