Dear John

Please contact your MP and urge them to oppose harmful cuts

In this week’s spring statement, the Government announced drastic cuts to Britain’s social security system which are immoral, hugely harmful to some of the country’s poorest people, and based on misleading spin.

The Government’s own figures show that this further dismantling of crucial welfare support will push another quarter of a million people into poverty. It flies in the face of Government promises and thorough evidence.

We (Stef Benstead, Sydnie Corley and Mary Passeri, pictured above) are all involved in Church Action on Poverty’s Speaking Truth to Power programme and other campaigns. We know how harmful these cuts will be, from lived experience. Together with other disabled people all over the country, we’re calling for the threatened cuts to be cancelled.

In December, we met the minister for disability, Stephen Timms MP. He told us then that disabled people would be at the heart of the Government’s actions.

Now we’re urging Mr Timms to honour that pledge. Use our simple e-action to email your MP now. 250 people have already sent a message - please join us!