UCU: The far right and disabled people

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes:
1. The rise of the far right in the election of Reform, the increasingly confident street presence of far-right activists including Tommy Robinson and the dragging in their wake of mainstream political parties poses a threat to disabled people.
2. The government increasingly echoes far right rhetoric implementing policies against disabled people, migrants, trans and non- binary people destroying elements of our welfare state
Congress believes we need to accelerate the fight to:
a. Support members facing attacks from Reform who are cutting funding for projects and services supporting disabled people and people in other equality strands
b. Stop the far right and combat the shift of UK politics to the right.
Congress instructs NEC to:
i. Continue affiliation for organisations defending disabled people and all other equality strands, against the rise of the far right
ii. Work with branches to develop and build a detailed campaign
iii. Defend and extend existing provision, campaigning for access to work, PIP and other benefits to be improved and made more accessible to disabled people with physical and/or mental disabilities.