A week ago the Mass Lobby of MPs took place at Westminster though we didn’t see much if anything of it on the news! Fortunately the Disability News service was there taking notes and has written a great article saying the event marks an ‘important’ moment in the fight against Labour’s benefit cuts.
Neil Duncan-Jordan, who sponsored the event with fellow Labour MP Richard Burgon, told DNS he believed momentum was growing against the cuts among Labour MPs.
He said: “I think you’re getting more and more MPs feeling uncomfortable about what they are being asked to vote for, particularly because they are probably going to be asked to vote for it prior to actually having any real detail in front of them about the impact of that.
Let’s get disabled people in front of MPs, let’s get the arguments out there, let’s see the MPs respond and see whether or not they are persuaded. I hope they will be.”
He added: “It’s important that disabled people meet their MPs directly and lay out in front of them what these cuts are going to mean on a day-to-day basis, how it’s going to affect them, how it’s going to affect their lives.
Being an MP in Westminster, it’s easy to feel disconnected from the real world; it’s important that we start connecting again with ordinary people and that they tell us how our actions affect their daily lives, and that’s what I think this lobby is about.”
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