Budget Day protest & Thur 27 Nov event

We’re taking part in the Unite Community Day of Action against Benefit Cuts and Sanctions with other claimant groups (more details here)

Today: Wednesday 26 November

TIME: 12 noon onwards

WHERE: outside Houses of Parliament.  Meet College Green, SW1P 3JX

Nearest step-free tube – Westminster

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Actions in other cities and places include:

** Manchester Wed 26 Nov https://www.instagram.com/p/DQuOP-OjAr4/ ·      

** Swansea Saturday 29 Nov https://dpac.uk.net/2025/11/protest-the-budget-in-swansea/

We say:

·       We all have the Right to Live! – disabled & older, immigrants, asylum seekers, people of colour, Palestinians, the natural world… 
Welfare Not Warfare! NO to genocide in Gaza targeting babies and mothers, NO UK benefit cuts, attacks on refugees, assisted dying Bill.

·      Labour’s insulting attack on sick and disabled people, mothers and other family carers and young people under 22 – calling us “economically inactive” and cutting Universal Credit disability payment, threatens our survival.  In austerity and the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of people have died from benefit cuts and neglect.  Around 90 people a month die after being found fit for work. 

Since 2022, in the forced move to Universal Credit, 381,440 claimants did not complete a claim, including 17,000 ESA claimants — how are people surviving? This is a very dangerous and urgent situation. We defend everyone’s right to benefits and to healthcare, to financial recognition of our caring work and other contributions.

Thurs 27 November 6-8pm

Unite London & Eastern Region – Disability History Month in-person event

At: Unite, 33-37 Moreland Street, London EC1V 8BB

Remembering Sean McGovern.

Claire from WinVisible is one of the speakers. More info and book on Eventbrite here.

“Join Unite London & Eastern as we celebrate Disability History Month and grow our campaigns for Disabled people, paying tribute to late disabled trade unionist Sean McGovern.

Hear from guest speakers including Ellen Clifford (author of The War on Disabled People), Claire Glasman (founding member of Winvisible, a grassroots multiracial disabled women’s group), and Martyn Gwyther (Unite Executive Council Disabled Members’ Rep)(TBC).”