LotusLight Those with disabilities need not fear that the Tories want to be rid of the welfare state. We want to keep it.
I am going to try and explain this very carefully and politely, because despite what the Tories say, they are screwing over disabled people massively.
When they talk of helping "the most disabled" it is exactly that - the most disabled, and they will be supported to have a basic existence. Anything less than terminal illness or multiple severe incapacitiating illness/disability, and no concessions made at all, or support offered. It's incredibly all-or-nothing, and thus someone such as myself who is trying to get better - and reach that ideological hallowed ground of becoming a taxpayer - is finding the journey much tougher than it would have been previously.
Firstly, mental health services have been cut, which has resulted in me being shuffled between waiting lists/taken off lists as services close or 'restructure', told I'm having treatment or support that's then been cut, and so on for almost five years. [Incidentally that's five years of benefits, amongst other costs.]
Fortunately, my - by now long - history plus a decent parting letter to support my PIP reconsideration, means I did get awarded PIP which I use to pay for private therapy. [Those with disabilities requiring paid carers will find the money barely stretches; I'm lucky in that regard.] Note I write "PIP reconsideration" - I was not awarded it at first assessment, despite providing all the evidence at this stage. Even then I do not qualify for the mobility element (did under DLA). The nature of my illness means I tend to hide away when unwell/incapable, and I budget well for the other times - but again someone with a physical disability would be forced into a really restricted life because of the high bar set for PIP, mobility in particular.
Housing benefit rules have changed too. I'm in private rented where the equivalent of 'bedroom tax' has been around for years. But it's the new under-35 rule that's been a nightmare. I have been forced to share accommodation with some deeply unsuitable people, and even become homeless as a result, considerably worsening my mental health. And I guess I was a 'deeply unsuitable' person for others to share with too! Only by being disabled enough to qualify for PIP does this restriction lift, and I am able to rent my own flat. But when I start to get better, or even before I was quite so unwell, I was not 'disabled enough' to get HB for a self-contained property, despite it being something that makes a vast difference. See what I mean about all-or-nothing?
And then there's ESA. Didn't get any points at all then got put in the Support Group on appeal. The whole sickening merry-go-round. Makes you terrified to try to improve your situaion, in case it's taken as evidence of fitness-to-work, and you're suddenly on JSA, making it impossible to make up HB shortfalls, and expected to do things you're not yet capable of with the threat of harsh sanctions and destitution should you fail. Wow, my depression has lifted just thinking about it! 
So anyway - must keep trying. Hopefully be able to work part time in a while, then can ease up to full time. That's what the disability element of Working Tax Credit is for, it kicks in at 16 hours rather than the usual 30 [soon to be 35]. But no - under Universal Credit [and there's a waste of £££'s] there is no allowance for this, no equivalent. Again, it's all or nothing, you must be too ill/disabled to work, or working full time.
Oh, and the majority of people considered "unfit for work" by the high standards of ESA are put into the work-related group. Where they can be sanctioned for not complying with various activities, including up to 30hrs a week workfare for an indefinite period. Because the Tories have redefined this kind of work as "work related activity", so can get around the "unfit to work" ruling.
Can you really not see anything completely fucking sinister a bit off with that?
Oh, and I have my plans, I am trying to get out of this, it's just that the Tories have really stacked the odds against me.