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There’s nothing fair or decent in slashing the money that goes to help disabled people.

When you use those savings to cut taxes for the wealthy, you really are tipping over into the callous and cruel.

But that’s what the chancellor George Osborne is trying to do.

He wants to take more than £4 billion of Personal Independence Payments from the pockets of some of those most in need in our country today.

If he gets away with it, that would mean disabled people on average losing £3,500 a year.

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In his budget on Wednesday , George Osborne set out how he wants to cut the support disabled people get to use a toilet, shower, and get dressed.

These cuts would make it even harder for hundreds of thousands of disabled people to lead a life you and I take for granted.

In effect, Osborne is demanding that those with disabilities, who want to lead the most independent lives they can, pay for cuts in corporation taxes and capital gains taxes for the richest.

No one with an ounce of humanity can stand back and allow this to happen, and Labour won’t.

So today, with the Mirror, we are launching a petition to demand that Osborne and the Conservative government withdraw their cuts to the disabled.

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This is a chance for you, your family and friends to tell this government that like me, you’ll not stand back and watch the most vulnerable be treated in this way.

Faced with the scale of opposition to these shameful cuts, government ministers have started to talk about consulting before they push them through.

That’s not enough, and we will force a vote in parliament.

Our strength as a country has always been the help we give to one another.

Let’s make sure George Osborne hears the voices of the majority - and together let’s defeat his ugly plan to attack support for disabled people.

Jeremy Corbyn MP is the Leader of the Opposition.

You can sign Labour's petition against the benefit cuts here : labour.org.uk/pip