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The Great Erasure
What happens when a person becomes invisible to the state? That’s what’s happening right now to thousands of sick and disabled people across the UK. The government’s relentless benefit cuts are stripping people not only of their income but of their very existence on paper.
Those who lose access to PIP or incapacity benefits also lose the official “marker of need” that helps them get local authority support, home care, or priority GP appointments. Without that, people are simply dropped — forgotten — by every system that should protect them. It’s erasure through bureaucracy, not bullets.
A Policy of Neglect
The politicians pushing these changes call it “reform.” In reality, it’s a calculated campaign to make the poor and disabled vanish quietly. No riots, no headlines — just the slow death of care, hidden behind press releases and spreadsheets.
This isn’t about saving money. It’s about saving face. Because when disabled lives are erased, so too are the government’s failures.
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