Nowhere in the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s latest stupid report do they ackowledge the real cause of poverty – which is the relentless theft of our labour and land by a capitalist class whose wealth and power grows ever greater.
In fact this atrocity, which condemns us to a lifetime of drudgery, servitude, poverty and need, is presented as a perfectly natural, and even desirable state. Which of course it is if you’re some chinless wonder paid a fat salary to toss yourself off at some liberal think-tank all day whilst the people you write reports about do the work that makes your lifestyle possible.
If JRF were serious about ending poverty they would not asking employers to try not to use zero hour contracts quite so much, or pay the living wage – just if they can afford it of course. They would be throwing every resource they have into supporting those working class people fighting back, whether that was the recent Deliveroo strikes, or the bold, and successful actions taken by grassroots union United Voices of the World.
They would not be asking faith groups, and social entrepreuners, and housing associations to all have a big think about how to help the poor. They would be calling for rent strikes, and occupations, and mass direct action to force concessions from the parasitic rich. Because it is only through determined, collective and bold acts that the poor have ever won any significant changes in their lives.
Of course you’re not going to get that from the bunch of Ned Flanders wannabes at the JRF. But you might have hoped, at the very fucking least, that they would not support solutions which will make people even poorer.
The support for ‘in-work conditionality’ is perhaps their biggest treachery. This means the lowest paid workers facing brutal benefit sanctions if they do not constantly search for more or better paid work in the hours they are not working. JRF may say that non-financial sanctions should be used first, whatever that means, and that they should be less severe. But they are fully behind using poverty as punishment to incentivise low paid workers to try harder to stop being so poor.
It is no longer acceptable to be a part-time cleaner, care worker or labourer and to expect decent pay for that work, even if that is the only work available. You must now work “as much as society expects” according to the JRF. How much that is they don’t tell us. The working class weren’t invited to that meeting. But you must do it, and more importantly you must constantly compete and be punished if you don’t. And if the jobs you are competing for don’t even really exist it doesn’t matter. Benefit sanctions and enforced competition are the method, the object is to change the soul.
It is these toxic assumptions that have created the conditions where ever more poverty – where hungry children and suicidal disabled people – are normalised and accepted. The belief endures that it is the poor, really, who are to blame. That if everyone just passed their GCSE’s and tidied up their CV then low pay, exploitation, slum landlords and criminal bosses would all disappear. The poor would have enough to eat, the rich would keep getting richer, everyone would know their place and the people running the JRF could stop feeling so guilty next time they shell out the price of a normal family’s annual food budget on some voluntary sector vol-au-vent munching piss up. Or a conference as they are known in the industry.
Astonishingly the JRF do not even call for the scrapping of many of the recent social security cuts that have created such a crisis amongst those with the lowest incomes. Instead they demand some minor changes, such as an exemption from the Bedroom Tax for those with special housing needs who want to move but cannot due to a lack of suitable properties. And whilst there are calls to reverse cuts to Universal Credit, slightly raise Jobseeker’s Allowance rates and delay the upcoming slashing of sickness benefits, there is no substantial objection to many of even Iain Duncan Smith’s most vicious welfare reforms. What a difference five years makes. The Bedroom Tax and Benefit Cap are the new normal, even the UK’s leading anti-poverty think-tank is too craven to call for them to be scrapped.
Instead what we are left with in this report is the usual tinkering round the edges backed by a delusion that these recommendations will fix poverty at a time of cut-throat capitalism. That a prosperous neo-liberal paradise is just around the corner, we just need to upskill, work hard, and do the right thing And if we all do our bit then surely bosses, bankers and landlords will agree to do the same. Because that is how capitalism works in the minds of those at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. All of us working together to help the rich stay rich, in the hope of a pat on the head one day from the powerful. It’s just like a big cuddle really, now stop complaining and fill out those job applications. You fucking mug.
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Many part time workers also save the fucking state thousands per year in care home nursing costs etc by ruining their own health being on 24/7 call for elderly sick relatives caring for every need maybe not getting even decent nights sleep being harassed paying bedroom tax affected shortly by lower/no housing benefit. If they go to Adult social care they are fobbed off wherever possible as no budget or care available so trudge on trying to run part time job to get WTC to put food on table for family while they do without running off to tend to oldsters probably sat in urine for hours waiting for them to arrive. Assuming claimant gets a full time job then who cares for oldsters paying £18 per hour for local authority care that is 5 mins each end of the day sat on inco pads rest of time food delivered in takeaway trays if lucky and hardly see same face twice in careers due to local authorities using agencies employing dubious characters not speaking coherent English or even fit to be trusted with purses wallets and welfare of vulnerable people.
Just how much does this actually save? Why should folk doing such be expected to rely on food banks to feed family when saving state thousands in care costs and what affect is this going to have on youngsters raised under such stress?
Indeed. How do folks expect good careworkers, when said care workers are treated like garbage? Just take a look at the hours and pay rates on offer at most care homes for most staff, and the cleaner vacancies, etc. It is utterly appalling. And the points about home carers, those who look after their family members having to be forced to either look for work, or do workfare, etc, or take low paying min wage work, that can’t possibly support them, are very true ones, but folks in Power don’t see that, or if they do, don’t care about any of it. We used to expect better attitudes from JRF lot, but as Johnny Void shows us, sadly, too often now, they are just as bad as the tories. They are worse in fact, as they pretend to care, when it’s obvious, they don’t.
” who look after their family members having to be forced to either look for work, or do workfare etc, or take low paying min wage work, that can’t possibly support them, are very true ones, but folks in Power don’t see that, or if they do, don’t care about any of it.
If you are just claiming Carers Allowance there are no conditions attached into looking for work, but £62.10 a week is disgusting if you looking after someone at home which works out at over 100 hours a week. There is a petition, if everyone could sign it.
“Increase Carers Allowance in line with the Living Wage”
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/163203
JSA claimants can have a whole bunch of arbitrary rules place upon them. That is why there a re so many getting sanctioned. Sometimes it simply comes down to the person the other side of the desk being hassled by the supervisor! Folks who have no idea how the system works these days would be astonished if they heard the half of it…..And some do her it, but simply refuse to believe it as it sounds so far fetched…..It is that very attitude , the Regime is using to get what it wants.
Yes and the really stupid thing is that the old state run elderly care homes were cheaper to run than the privately owned, but of course under the Capitalist philosophy even old age must be exploited for a huge profit. Back in the 1970s care workers in the state sector were paid in comparison a better wage than now, but of course they were allowed to have a trade union to back them up then. Now it’s a case of work for this crap wage or starve and most of the time the poor bastards are doing both as the wages are so low. My Grandmother was in a state/council run home many years ago and it was really good, but the private care homes are on the whole, but with a few exceptions much worse. We were all told by the Tories way back in the 1980s how inefficient and costly the state was at providing care but this was as usual another big lie thought up by those rich businessmen who saw another golden opportunity to exploit someone, namely this time the Elderly and Sick. Well you can all see for yourselves the results. Elderly people being looked after by low paid and exploited staff and the home owners reaping huge profits from the tax payers and living the high life. Once again the poor are subsidising the rich and the fools still go out and vote Tory at election time and then complain when the Tories give them another financial kicking for 5 more years. Ever noticed how many workers in shit jobs still walk off to work with a copy of the Sun or Daily Mail tucked under their arm. I have lost count of how many times I have had to listen to some think bastard quoting propaganda from these Tory rags as if it were gospel truth. Then they all trot of home to be brainwashed further by the TV/Radio, so called news, and watch soap operas which are also full of subtle and not so subtle brainwashing. Its’ enough to make one cry in despair
Workers are still allowed to join unions, but as they are usually doing low paid part-time work, most mainstream unions aren’t really interesting in having these workers are members, and anyway, most mainstream unions are pretty crap, and would probably sell out the workers to the bosses anyway. Johnny points out the United Voices of the World, which would be a good choice, as would the Industrial Workers of the World, which is the union that influenced the United Voices of the World – they both have a similar outlook, and are democratic, grass-roots unions run by workers, for workers that won’t sell you out to the bosses.
It’s vital that workers join together to improve their situation, and also begin to challenge those colleagues who unthinkingly spout the pre-digested crap that is fed to them by the mainstream media. All that is needed, is to help them open their eyes so that they see that what they are being told is a lie.
Yes under the law workers are still allowed to join unions and Bosses still find other ways to get rid of those that do, or make there lives a misery for doing so. Do the blacklists in the Construction industry spring into your memory at all? It’s untrue that most trades unions sell you out. You need to take into account that the more members in a single place of employment the more clout you have. It’s the employees that won’t join and undermine any industrial action that are the problem. One of the main complaints in the 1970s when I started work, was that many workers were happy with the protection and wage rises the unions negotiated but wouldn’t join or stand shoulder to shoulder with their fellow workers. Those creeps should have turned down those pay rises and good conditions if they were not prepared to support those that gained them on their behalf, but like typical working class Tories they were happy to crap on others and take the easy route whilst others did the hard work for them. Under the old closed shop agreements of the 1960s and 70s the employers had no choice but to negotiate. Now with those outlawed they have the upper hand thanks to Thatcher and her cohorts. And quite simply that’s why we have all the poverty and social injustice today.
Of course I’m aware of the blacklisting in the construction industry, as that’s something that had a very long history. My comment about mainstream unions is mainly to point out that it isn’t ordinary workers who do the negotiating, but paid professional negotiators, who get a salary paid out of the (needlessly inflated) dues paid by workers..0
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And agreed, some employers will try and victimise workers who join unions, but by and large these are the small employers who generally treat their workers badly. It has always been difficult to organise the workforce of small employers, as it is in some other industries that are traditionally badly exploited, such as cleaners and social care, who are low paid, and by and large ignored by mainstream unions as they are both hard to organise, and do not yield substantial amounts of money in terms of dues. This is where unions such as the IWW and UVW predominantly organise.
Unions like the IWW and United Voices of the World operate on a grass-roots basis, and don’t have paid staff, and are driven completely by the needs of their membership. Paid staff have a place, but you’ll find that where there is a need seen by unions like the IWW and UVW, great care is taken to ensure that paid staff have no executive powers. Mainstream unions do often do deals with employers, and though in theory it is the members who make final decisions, it is often the case that pressure is brought to bear to accept the deals negotiated by union officials and employers. Furthermore, with unions under the TUC most unions maintain links with a political party, something that neither the IWW or UVW have, both being apolitical, as like religion, politics can be divisive, and workers should stand together over issues that affect the employment of everyone.
Of course, any union membership is better than none, but ask shopworkers what they feel about USDAW and you’ll get the picture.
“JUDGE ANDREW BARTLETT QC and CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM (FOI COMMISSIONER)”
AKA THE DWP’s DYNAMIC DUO OF HIDING WELFARE CLAIMANT DEATHS.
NOTHING WILL STAND IN THEIR WAY OF OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE AS THE DWP CONTINUE TO HIDE PATIENT DATA ON SEVEN BENEFIT RELATED SUICIDES……….
A tribunal judge has hinted that he may order the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release vital information from 49 secret reviews it carried out into the deaths of benefit claimants.
Judge Andrew Bartlett QC was chairing a three-person tribunal panel that was hearing an appeal brought by Disability News Service (DNS) against DWP and the information commissioner.
DNS has been trying since August 2014 to obtain information contained in the 49 so-called “peer reviews”, to find out what actions ministers have taken following deaths linked to the withdrawal or non-payment of benefits such as employment and support allowance (ESA), and to the discredited work capability assessment.
DWP first insisted that it held no information about such deaths, but later admitted that it carried out internal reviews into some deaths and serious and complex benefit-related cases, and that it had conducted 49 reviews of deaths between February 2012 and the autumn of 2014.
DNS appealed to the information commissioner after DWP refused to release any of the information from the peer reviews, but was forced to appeal to the information rights tribunal when the commissioner ruled in favour of DWP.
……………..EVERY ADDITIONAL BODY TO THE DWP MORTALITY DEATH HEAP IS AUTOMATICALLY CLEANSED BY THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS WHO SEEK TO KEEP THE SKELETONS IN THE CUPBOARD.
All these carefully chosen chess pieces like Judge Bartlett and yes boy Graham are the states final barrier to real justice in a corrupt society. A secret little conclave of premeditated decisions made in corridors prior to any case reaching the courtrooms.
Each will have been warned not to rock the boat, to go with the party line, or else.
The “else” will have several connotations depending on what areas of blackmail the security services has dredged over the years.
One may, perhaps, have gone over the remit of the traditional decency menu and chosen something that would be repulsive to you or i.
Similar to the carnal pleasures of the flesh enjoyed by Keith Vaz who sits on several committees and purports to uphold standards that he, himself, sees fit to ignore.
Our pawns are readily waiting to topple the Queen and all the dross at her immediate disposal.
“SENIOR DWP CIVIL SERVANT LINKED TO 53 LUCRATIVE REAL ESTATE COMPANIES”
RAYMOND JOHN IAN LONG of the DWP
http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/2504476/RAYMOND-JOHN-IAN-LONG
…………..AND LINKS TO PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES LIKE BUPA
RING ANY BELLS AS TO WHY THOUSANDS HAVE DIED IN A MOVE TO SELL WELFARE TO THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY?
“WIKILEAKS EXPOSE HILARY CLINTONS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS BUT THE BBC SEES FIT TO BLOCK COVERAGE”
JULIAN ASSANGE (Who Hilary said needs killing with a drone), stood triumphant on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy yesterday, announcing that Wikileaks had intercepted Clinton’s missing emails and letters to the big financial corporations like Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.
Assange said the first tranche of leaks was released on to the net and more would be released on an ongoing daily basis.
Bernie Saunders must be laughing his cock off!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3827926/Julian-Assange-warns-WikiLeaks-expose-Google-promised-release-significant-disclosures-company.html
………….but where are our beloved state propagandists of the BBC in making reference to this news?
Hiding behind the wishes of the corrupt City of London financial tentacles that are a growing cancer, no doubt………….
What is the purpose of The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, I ask this on Twitter regularly and get no responses?? I see people I like and respect on Twitter posting their stuff, I stopped following them some time ago. I believe that disabled people don’t come out well in this report, why am I not shocked by this!! Where do they get their funding & I bet their top people are on big salaries,
According to Wikipedia Joseph Rowntree was a Quaker, philanthropist and social reformer, as was Cadbury and Bournville. But what started off as good intent has been taken over, infiltrated and bastardised into something that would be unrecognisable to their founders. That’s what happen when you aren’t around to keep an eye on things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rowntree_philanthropist
Yes, I think the old saying is “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions”.
It’s not a Quality Street.
It is now too clear, the Joseph Rowntree lot no longer really care about the poor. They seem to have no clue about anything anymore. We wonder, how, and why that has come about.
The unfortunate ting about it, is that a lot of folks, still put a lot of trust in this failed, and now, disgraced group of anti poor polity supporters.
It is time we had this wretched bunch more openly exposed for what it now is, not what it may once have been. Bit like Labour. They keep raving about what they once did, and pretend that makes it okay to support unacceptable policies today!
Gordon please try and remember the Labour Party has also been infiltrated with people who don’t hold to the original values. Why do you think the media has been so vicious in it’s attacks on Jeremy Corbyn. The fact is whether you like him or not he is threatening to take Labour back to it’s roots and give the actual grass roots members the power they deserve and that is a big NO, to the establishment who like to have all political parties singing roughly the same capitalist song. I am not making excuses for New Labour starting this attack on the poor and sick but I do know the grass roots members were always against the Tory infiltrators who took over the party and made it New Labour or Red Tories as it should be known.
Like so many institutions after 36 years of neo-liberal hegemony, the JRF is now staffed by people who know of no alternative, and so will tend to reflect the current values of the mainstream.
JRF is a charity, and charities are supposed to refrain from engaging in politics, but it has struck me as being quite strange that both the JRF and organisations like the Salvation Army are allowed to be political at a very fundamental level: they underpin capitalism. Truth be told, they have never done anything else, but capitalism is currently showing one of it’s more ugly faces, (it’s never been attractive, but at times has succumbed to humanising efforts).
The Labour Party has always supported capitalism. Whist it is true to say that there have been socialist in the Labour Party, it’s political position has always been social democrat. Jeremy Corbyn is no raging leftie, and though what he is offering is a million times better than what any other politician is offering it has to be remembered that all he is really offering is to humanise capitalism. Of course we must support him, and his campaign, as any substantial respite from the 36 years of vicious oppression of ordinary people is to be welcomed. But we need to think further ahead. Politicians will never get rid of capitalism and it’s exploitation of us. We have to do that by expropriating the industries we work in, indeed by expropriating society.
Cameron’s notion of Big Society was one where workers worked for free in order to help further enrich the already very wealthy. We must formulate our own ideas about our own Big Society where everyone works for the benefit of everyone else, where each person is guaranteed a place to live and a basic income, as of right, and the basic freedoms that make life worthwhile.
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The Joseph Rowntree Trust, his bunch of wankers seem to have their fingers in many pies. (Just like the Sally Army, their original intentions were good – but these have, seemingly fallen by the wayside as well!)
As marionfallon1961 says above, I also would love to know where all of their funding comes from and who are the ‘wannabees’ who have risen to the top of this organisation. Just like our Political Parties – who exactly are their donors!
To start with, their own website says a lot about them.
https://www.jrf.org.uk
WHY THE DWP ARE PAYING A FORTUNE TO HIDE PACE TRIAL DATA ON M.E………………..
THE RESULT
Dawn Glen
14 October at 13:07 ·
Today after 26 years of having M.E. I feel the weight of my ill-health in a way I never have. Today I officially become a burden.
And not the “burden on the state” rhetoric that the government is so fond of pushing out, but a burden on my husband, my family and my friends. Because today is the final day of the 365 days of ESA WRAG contribution that I am entitled to, and from this day forth I am entitled to nothing.
For those unaware of how ESA works, you are sorted (with less logic and insight than Harry Potter’s sorting hat) into either WRAG (Work Related Activity Group) or Support Group. The latter is intended for those with life-long conditions; those who are unlikely to ever improve, and those whose illness is too severe for them to partake in the work related activity. WRAG is for those whose conditions prevent them from working, but who might at some time in the future be able to work again. Further to this delineation, those in WRAG are separated into income or contribution. Income is for those whose only form of income is benefits, and contribution is for those who have an income in the household (ie a partner who works). Those in contribution WRAG are entitled only to 365 days of ESA, after which you are entitled to nothing. Zero. Zilch.
The level of income which bumps you from income to contribution is ephemeral – I certainly can’t find exactly how much it is on the government’s website – however, it’s clearly indicated in the letter from the DWP which says ESA income is “not usually payable if you have a partner working more than 24 hours or more a week “.
Let’s make that clear, 24 hours per week – at minimum wage that’s £172.80 per week, or £691.20 per month – is deemed SUFFICIENT income to support not just one but two people, one of whom is disabled or chronically ill.
Luckily, or unluckily, for me I have a husband who works full time, and due to this I am no longer entitled to any help from the government – despite the fact the DWP acknowledges I am unfit for work, despite the fact I have been largely housebound for over 25 years with no improvement, despite the fact a trip to the supermarket leaves me bed ridden, despite the fact an evening sitting chatting with friends leaves me unable to speak properly. None of that matters to the cold face of the DWP.
And so, I become a burden. I am a dead weight to my spouse, as I can contribute nothing to the household pot, nor can I make up for it by running the house and keeping it clean due to my physical limitations. Today every fear I have ever had about myself as a chronically ill person comes true. I contribute nothing. All I do is drain. If that was the aim of the government, to ensure I felt this way, they’ve certainly achieved their goal.
In a country where we have “social security”, where the burden of caring for the elderly and the young and the sick is meant to be shared amongst the 30 million tax payers, I – and others like me – become the absolute burden of our families. We must find a way to make one wage cover two people; must find ways to accommodate the needs of my condition – the extra electricity of someone at home all the time, the extra heating, the taxis required for appointments, the food for someone who struggles with diet and cooking – on a single wage.
These ESA rules were meant to prevent the long term sick and disabled from “languishing” on benefits for years at time, according to Iain Duncan Smith. Let me tell you, no one was “languishing”. What we were doing was surviving, contributing, and getting by.
By removing this benefit they have crippled us in ways that our conditions haven’t. Thanks to the removal of continued ESA I am also removed from contributing not just to my household but to the economy as a whole. While I had ESA I was able to buy groceries. I was able to enjoy the occasional treat such as a takeaway or new clothes. I was able to buy my family and friends birthday and Christmas presents. Not only that, I was able to make payment towards debts (credit cards etc) I have accrued, and now I have no income, I can’t, and that burden WILL have to be absorbed by the state as I go bankrupt, as I am struggling to pay my energy bills and afford groceries.
That meagre amount of money the government decreed was the basic minimum I needed to live on, and now think is superfluous to my needs, kept me feeling like a human being and stopped me from being entirely isolated. Without it I can’t afford to take part in any part in life, and nor can my husband.
Anyone with a long-term health problem understands that one of our biggest emotional issues (besides that caused directly by our condition) is the feeling of guilt. The guilt of being a burden is the hardest thing I have to deal with – knowing how my life, my ill-health, limits not just my husband’s life but that of all my family and any friend who wants to stick around. I can’t go on holiday; I can’t enjoy carefree trips or spontaneous days out. Anything requiring energy requires careful planning, pacing and spacing it to ensure I can cope with it and don’t suffer a relapse. And now on top of that, due to the fact he now has to fully support me on his wages, my husband can’t enjoy any of the small pleasures that were still available to him – small pleasures that were vital to someone who has to care for a sick spouse. No more video games, no take-ways, no trips to the cinema, all because he’s married to someone who is too sick to work but not sick enough to be dying any time soon.
As I’ve gone through the process of migration from SDA to ESA (“migration” – as though it was a voluntary move, instead of an unceremonious picking up and dumping) I have seen my health steadily drop, with new symptoms, conditions and medications unfolding over the passing months. My body finds it hard enough to cope with day-to-day living, and it simply cannot cope under the strain of constantly fighting to get something so basic as enough money to be able to eat.
I have always had an upbeat, cheerful personality and have been lucky enough not to suffer from depression, yet now I find myself for the first time on two different anti-depressants for anxiety, sleep disturbance and emotional liability. I’ve also developed psoriasis out of nowhere – a condition affected by stress.
Yet, this process was created to prepare me to return to work, not make me sicker. After the 365 days of ESA I was somehow meant to be in a position where I could take on regular employment. A handful of appointments with a Job Centre employee was meant to cure an illness of almost 30 years, and meant to “incentivise” me to work. Because that’s the idea – that I’ve been housebound and unemployed all these years because I simply didn’t have the incentive to work. It couldn’t possibly be that I physically simply cannot work.
All this situation has done is proven how utterly unable I am to do even part-time work, because even in dire straits financially I can’t do it. It has become a witch trial – if I survive the drowning then I’m a witch, if I drown then I was innocent. The DWP doesn’t care how many people drown, as long as they “catch” the odd witch. They don’t care how many suicides are happening because people are being found fit for work, or unfit for the Support group.
I can understand the suicides completely. I am lucky enough that I have a support network and a brain chemical balance that means I am not looking down that avenue, but I can say that I have never felt this utterly hopeless in my life. I am without hope, because this is my life now for the foreseeable future until retirement age or death.
This won’t get better. It isn’t like being unemployed when you know things will be tough for a while, but you’ll eventually find a new job. I have no hope of being well-enough to work any time in the future (given I haven’t been for my entire adult life with no sign of improvement), and nor do i have hope for a change in government policy. This is it. My only “hope” is that I develop a new condition that means I deteriorate dramatically. That’s not something I want to be hoping for.
All I can see in front of me is waiting for retirement when I’ll be entitled to a pension. 25 years of struggling to pay my bills and eat; 25 years of feeling an utter burden to my husband and family who have to bail me out in emergencies; 25 years of having no independence, no self-worth, nothing to contribute; 25 years of being the burden I always feared I was.
So thanks for that, thanks for that Tories, thanks for that Tory voters. Thanks for destroying the little hope and self-worth a chronically sick person had, I hope you sleep well at night.
(This post is public, please feel free to share as so many people seem to be unaware of the 1 year ESA limit)
They also say that they ‘run a housing association’ and they are a ‘care provider’, which is called The Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.
And then – the Joseph Rowntree Charitable trust also – fancy that! – they are a ‘Registered Charity’ as well – who would have thought it!
You will find this one at: http://www.jrct.org.uk
The bigger picture.
WHAT THE TORIES WANTED ALL ALONG
Now you don’t hear this VOCALLY enough BUT are you aware, leaving the EU was what Tories needed all along to be able to being to fruition their AGENDAS ?
Mays speech is straight out of the Cameron play book and now gives them CART BLANCH. While Brexit may well be some way off, EXPECT THE UNTHINKABLE as its coming to a cinema near you soon.
Its called SHOCK DOCTRINE and heres the signs,
1a: Distraction shock and awe – impose overwhelming levels of distraction, Shock and Awe against an adversary on an immediate or sufficiently timely basis to paralyze its will to carry on … [to] seize control of the environment and paralyze or so overload an adversary’s perceptions and understanding of events that the enemy would be incapable of resistance at the tactical and strategic levels
2: Engineering catalysts for profit and change – whether true or false create or feed from highly charged situations that are impacting both physically and psychologically. War,terrorism,climate change,financial collapses,poverty,etc.
3: War chest/Disaster Capitalism Complex – profit and amass from disasters like war in order to steal assets and resources from another country and to misappropriate/steal or hide missing unaccountable public funds, climate change to raise insurance, taxes or form new ones in the wake of floods,high damaging winds,tackling Co2. Deliberate accelerated cuts and reforms disguised under an already existing catalyst that lead to an overwhelmed healthcare system,justice system,prison system,etc.
3a: Drastic changes unfamiliar to a society – regulation to justify censorship, restriction of movement, restriction of liberties, surveillance, unlawful arrest and detainment of persons and or assets, secret courts, reduced or no due process, austerity,reform,changing of legal boundaries,a reduction or change of human rights,etc and all in the name of or as a result.
3b: The removal of INFORMED CONSENT – for instance processing personal and or sensitive data, to section or carry out treatments for medical purposes contrary to current law, to spy into every corner of a persons life or an entire country, to detain and question without reason.
4a:Ostracize and insinuate – to accuse those that in the early stages whom are believed to pose a threat to the order and strategy of an agenda like accusing or insinuating an individual poses a threat to national security,economic security,conspiracist or even working inline with certain countries like Russia,China for instance, or,
4ab: Insinuate a collective group acts against the interest and good nature of a society like saying some are skivers and or fraudsters (unemployed,disabled,ill), deliberate burdens a government didn’t help facilitate (obesity,alcohol.tobacco) in order to systematically cause premeditated division.
4b: Introduce methods like nudging,sanctions/penalties,conditions,pay to play and un before known illnesses like ODD to strike down that in the early stages pose a threat to the order and strategy of the whole agenda in a manner the public believe is the social norm despite only being recently adopted.
5: An economic coup – the continuance of a transformation or introduction of a brand of economic politics like of Milton Friedmon’s work adopted earlier by Margaret Thatcher. To sell or hand over to the private for profit sector public services or public service contracts.
1b: SHOCK THERAPY – An economic term that refers to the sudden release of price and currency controls, withdrawal of state subsidies, and immediate trade liberalization within a country, usually also including large-scale privatization of previously public-owned assets.
1ba: release of price and currency controls – allowing its businesses/citizens to buy/use foreign currency freely and set the stage for a sharp depreciation of the pound.
1bb: withdrawal of state subsidies – take away a sum of money granted by the state or a public body to help an industry or business keep the price of commodities or services low.
1bc: trade liberalization – governments do not restrict (free trade) imports from, or exports to, other countries. So could remove barriers that may hinder trade include import quotas, taxes, and non-tariff barriers, such as regulatory legislation, (TTIP, TISA, ETC). This would say allow another country to FRACK the crap out of a country without consequence for maximum profit, unregulated access to market information, for example data about our farmers or medical, even welfare.
1bca: Laissez-faire – economic transactions between private parties that are free from government interference.
1bd: large-scale privatization of previously public-owned assets so for instance , welfare, healthcare, policing, justice, prisons, fire service for example.
END GAME (winners and losers) – small groups will often do very well by moving into luxurious gated communities while large sections of the population are left with decaying public infrastructure, declining incomes and increased unemployment.
So when you feel being sanctioned is unfair,YOU HAVE NOT SEEN ANYTHING YET.
Do your home work and already most of these have been instituted or carried out and the remainder are on the table in public view.
THEIR IS NO MAYBE,THEIR IS NO COMING AS ITS HERE ALREADY AND ITS PLAN IS CALLED SHOCK DOCTRINE.
If you cant mentally encapsulate this or understand then read both the rise of hitler/nazism and 1984 as i took the liberty of leaving the really scary parts out that not even Orwell could have envisioned but who knows, maybe he did have a script titled 2049.
Doug
Very True!
One thing I would like to add is that now we are leaving the EU, if the British people were to elect a real left wing Labour Government it would also not be hamstrung by EU rules and could enact radical policies to make a more equal and caring society than if we were still restricted by EU laws. It works both ways. The main problem is the general public are suckers for the most basic brainwashing and are more likely to believe the media scare stories and vote Tory. As I always like to point out Common Sense is not very Common in fact.
What EU rules do you reckon harmed the British working class? The ones on human rights? Or health and safety at work? Enabling people to refuse to work more than 48 hours a week? Which ones prevent us from realising Jerusalem?
My comment was not anti EU. There were many laws the EU implemented which held the Tories back from doing more harm. However what I stated is true. When we are out, any left wing government will also like the Tories be able to implement laws that may have been limited by EU law, it is as simple as that. It works both ways. Why do you think that many Labour MP’s of the left wanted out of the EU. The late Tony Benn a stalwart of the left and MP Dennis Skinner were also against our membership of the EU on democracy deficit grounds. Don’t try to simplify matters to suit your own prejudices against those who voted out. It would have made no difference to me if we had stayed in the EU but I voted out on the grounds of increased self determination, not for any other reasons.
Just for a start EU fucking rules dictated that we take in 20,000 Syrians – so called refugees and according the internet and press they have already found 20,000 local authority homes . copy and pasted the web page link below. It is repeated in other sites and newspapers too.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/syrian-refugees-government-secures-20000-local-authority-places-to-house-a7224291.html
Remarkable when there are many thousands more of our own people that have been on housing waiting lists for up to 30 years. Yet they can find places for this vermin.
Who the hell would employ this scum either? yet no questions asked .. their costs, medical care, benefits prioritised and paid in full as the government and liberals and EU cow tow to their ridiculous religion and customs.
That’s only tip of the iceberg as these very unwelcome people should be housed in only countries nearer to there own lands, cultures and regions.
One EU rule they don’t fucking apply…
Merkel worsened this situation by her reckless policies and it is severely impacting the whole the continent.
All of these “refu fucking gees” are only fit to be pig food in my and many other ordinary working class white British peoples opinions.
This was just a few days ago too.
I could on and on about this and similar items for hours.. .
“This vermin” – it’s ironic or maybe something more to have taken the words from outside one of the more notorious/horrific death camp from WW2 as a user name. The ‘Foreign’ People ‘Over There’ could be any one of us but for an accident of birth – would they show any humanity beyond their own shores if the roles were reversed? We can only speculate …
Population of UK: 64,000,000.
Syrians you mention: 20,000.
Percentage of difference: 20,000/64,000,000 x 10 = 0.03125%
Three hundredths of one percent! So small and insignificant as to be Totally and utterly negligible. What silliness.
Bloody Syrians! Coming over here (or not); taking our homes; sleeping in our beds … acting all … Syrian …
You can fucking do it somewhere else you clown.
lol they are not “refu fucking gees” – they are our friends, our brothers and sisters. They are professional people like doctors who bring many skills to this country. They are fleeing war-torn countries for their lives. It is not their fault that Thatcher sold off all the council homes. Do tell, who is more in need of a roof over their head – someone who has lived here all their live and who knows how to obtain support services, or someone from another country with no help or support finding themselves in a foreign land?
What difference does make about how council houses were sold off?
There would be the same amount of accommodation whether or not they’re sold or rented out by the councils. The only difference is that either someone pays no rent or higher rent.
Someone is living in them and mostly people that have lived and worked there all their lives. Some are rented out but it was for many only chance they had of getting their own property without being a rent slave.
The real reason why there is a shortage of housing is because there is a severe excess of foreign invaders most of whom should have never been allowed in and certainly not to overstay their welcome. The councils and social services flip about pandering to the needs of these “underprivileged ethnic minorities” at the expense of the native population. Similar with schools, Doctors surgeries, dentists, A & E (of course this is used a NQA free treatment centre for illegal immigrants). No one is saying that some of these people should not be helped but when it affects us then a line should be drawn and limits applied. These have gone way beyond these limits and the recent EU referendum seems to have stunned the well to do middle class socialists when they realise what the public really think.
Been away from this site for a while, while doing 6 months CWP forced labour among other things, and, boy, I see Brexit has changed the tone somewhat. Last year you wouldn’t have seen fascist bullshit like Arbeit’s (he can’t even spell it right!) on here. The fact that Johnny took 5 days to respond suggests the monitoring of comments has slacked off too but was it right to leave it uncensored? I think Voltaire’s dictum “I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it” probably wasn’t meant to cover fascists, too!
Although I supported Brexit hoping to put a brake on economic migrants, I’m sick of the assumption it was because of refugees, too. Anyone who can’t see the difference has something missing inside. Personally, I’d happily replace the former with the latter. The opportunity to come to the UK to double or triple your income does not take priority over the opportunity to stay alive…
Fuck off you cretinous racist moron. The reason people are waiting for council houses is because huge numbers were sold off to their tenants and hardly any built to replace the: the problem is caused by successive governments not by immigrants. I bet one Syrian refugee is worth ten of you. Hopefully Johnny Void will delete your pig ignorant comments ASAP. Eat shit and die you beneath the animal bastard!
The life of one British tramp is worth more than a million of these scum. I notice the Polish aren’t taking them. Neither are the Hungarians. Perhaps they’re warming up Auschwitz ready for their EU quota? You fuck off you fucking idol worshipping heathen kiddy fiddler turd. Go fuck your false God.
“non-financial sanctions” – community payback?, imprisonment?, waterboarding?, cat o’ nine tails?, the rack?, hanging?, lethal injection, beheading, crucifixion?…
How did you manage to get hold of a copy of the next Tory election manifesto? I though I told my team to keep that locked away out of sight of the proles.
Teresa May
Some photographer caught the next Tory election manifesto on camera as May was carrying a bundle of them into Downing Street 😉
It was headed the “Even Stricter New Benefits Regime”
Or, ESBR.
I think it should be named Kill Indigent Scrounging Skivers – KISS.
Our mass graves can then have “Sealed with a kiss” as an epitaph.
On a further comical note. I have been re-watching Michael Moores film Sicko and since it was made, noticed how much further down the road to the evil american system of government the Tories have taken us. It can’t be long now before we hit rock bottom and if the British public don’t wake up soon it will be too late. I know this in itself is not comical, but some of the people who come on here and criticise anyone who wants to really change the system and attacks the left wing of labour who would reverse this evil decline are the real jokers.
SWALK …
Iain Duncan Smith would love to be ‘given’ this position in Government.
As in everything else that he has had his paws into, it would soon turn to dust as always. The psychopathic bastard would be driven to an all time high ‘ego’ and would be so ‘driven’ and inept that he would order himself to be hanged instead. Good riddance I say! 😀
Surely it really is all over now for that liar and incompetent IDS, once and for all. I think finally that evil old bastard’s goose is well and truly cooked.
Sounds like a Muslim funfair!
All organizations, charities and think tanks are now linked to “Mr Big”.
Best ignore it, it`ll only wind you up.
Once again what used to be a worthy, even slightly dull, but well researched group who were the conscience of the establishment have become totally corrupted by neoliberal groupthink. The same neoliberal group think that has polluted the entire establishment from the charity “sector” to the Labour Party and the IMF and World Bank, and just about everything else too. The same groupthink that has accepted the ideology that “there is no alternative” by ruthlessly hunting down and destroying anything that doesn’t confirm. It is very sad that the JRT has finally succumbed 100% as many other NGO and political parties have. Is it any wonder that the surge in left wing members of the Labour Party are being hunted down on their hundreds of thousands to corrupt the leadership election. We need to be more focused than ever now, more clear in our intent to end this class war, and if need be sweep the board clean of the pollutants in every walk of life.
The JRF Minimum Income Standard reports are still worth a read
https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/minimum-income-standard-uk-2016
For instance, we learn that a single working age adult needs a minimum expenditure of £44.72 for an adequate diet. JSA claimant spend £27 a week on food. Compare and contrast to BBC propaganda programmes which tell us constantly the the “average family of four spend a shilling and sixpence a month on food”. Unless Auntie Beeb is just talking about supermarket spend and is missing out canteen meals, vending machines, pub meals, petrol station snacks, takeaways, eating out in which case it would be possible to have a weekly supermarket spend of £0.00.
A 32-inch digital TV with built-in Freeview is now the minimum standard TV 🙂
@EWFM
The minimum needed for a single person to basically live is around £150 per week, in other words Pension Guarantee Credit as determined by the Government.
… and what the JSA rate for a single person should be.
NHS doctors are now being ordered by chiefs to ask patients whether they have private health insurance and, if so, to ‘gently’ remind them to use it. The unprecedented move exposes the dire financial predicament the NHS is currently in, and confirms that the ‘universal’ commitment of the health service is well and truly over.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/09/06/theres-question-doctors-now-urged-ask-patients-signals-end-nhs/
The NHS will be gone soon unless the people wise up to the hidden Tory Agenda. Contrary to what most of the public think a switch to a system of medical insurance will be far more expensive then the current system. It will also enshrine in law what the Tories have always wanted a tiered Health System where those with the most expensive insurance get priority over those with less cover. What they don’t and won’t tell you is that the system we have now is one of the most cost effective in the world. The USA system is the most expensive where health insurance is so costly that it nearly always comes as part of your employment contract. Thus in the USA many elderly people of retirement age cannot afford retire or they lose medical cover. Although the USA system is not the only one on offer they all have problems and worse they all increase discrimination between rich and poor. There are abuses of the NHS that need to be tackled and they can be solved but the will to solve them from the Tories is not there. They like in every avenue of life see every opportunity as a chance to make a profit and a state health system closes that door so it will have to go. Michael Moore film sicko sums it up pretty well and can be watched on line for free on many platforms. If you want the NHS to survive then I can promise you only a Labour Government run by a real Socialist like Jeremy Corbyn (but not only him there are still a few MPs of the left) will save it. All the others are really Tories in disguise. Check out your MPs profile. If they take money from private health care industries or lobbyists they are not to be trusted whatever party they belong to.
As much as I detest the Daily Mail this story is a good illustration of what life will be like for millions of people when the Tories get rid of the NHS.
Dentistry is now out of reach for most poor people and this is what is happening. When the NHS is gone it won’t just be huge dental bills to worry about it will be people dying as they can’t afford the charges for health care
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3775311/How-toothache-costing-GPs-26m-year-600-000-appointments-patients-requiring-dental-care.html
“As Sutton’s experience shows, quite how ‘passported’ benefits are to be handled has still finally to be resolved. Universal Credit can, at the request of other departments, build in
‘hooks’ – the level of income that a claimant or family has to qualify for free school meals, or free prescriptions, or any of the other benefits that, locally, can even include fishing licences.
Councils and the NHS can then use these as qualifying conditions for the free services. But precisely how all that will work at scale is still not crystal clear”
http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/universal-credit-disaster-recovery
A paperless NHS.
NHS: Health apps to inform patient records.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37290126
TruthTeller – Very true and the last piece of your post is especially relevant! Months ago now, Geoff made a list on here of all of the, in excess of 200 M.P.’s doing just this – they were mostly, (but not exclusively) Tory M.P.’s. They were raking it in presumably because they had financial interests etc in many ‘healthcare companies’.
No wonder the Tories want the destruction of the NHS – in a private system, they would then be raking in even more (from the ‘insurance’ companies as well!)
Reblogged this on Mark Catlin's Blog.
It really upsets me to think that the people behind the report don’t even understand how Capitalism works. What they want is impossible. In order for the Capitalist system to function you have to divide people in to classes. You have to have those at the bottom of society who you can exploit and blame for the inequality it creates. When the system blames the poorest for their own poverty it is the perfect distraction for those doing the exploiting to prevent an honest analysis of the system itself. The idea that everyone can work their way out of poverty is an impossibility. Someone has to do the worst jobs for the worst pay or the whole system falls. The true free market system does not exist either, as you have to have restrictions on trade and rules to follow. A socialist system is not perfect either but it does tackle the glaring inequalities by taxing those at the top to help those less well off. The Socialist system recognises that without the working classes there is no wealth creation at all. In order for any business to make money it needs workers to function. Socialism also recognises that a more equal society where health care and welfare are generous make for a happier society overall. There is no perfect system but the one we have is founded on inequality and want, and must not be able to continue as it is. Education is very important in helping people to understand these things but our system is rigged to keep the poor in their place and restrict a good education to the privileged few. Hence the introduction of student loans and the scrapping of free higher education. Now instead of leaving university with time to put that knowledge to good use for society as a whole, youngsters are left with massive debts to pay off and need to work long hours for low pay in order to survive. This selfish society did not come about by accident it was carefully thought out by the wealthy elite of the world as they saw the effect of workers trades unions weakening their grip on the worlds wealth back in the late 1940s through to the late 1970s. They determined then to reverse workers power and you have to give them credit, as they have done it well.
What’s clear as ever that wealthy types of various strips just don’t give a fuck.
Take The Labour Civil War, while you don’t need to like Corbyn, one of the core reasons many Labour “moderates” (scare quotes intended) from top to bottom are taking a massive temper tantrum is because Corbyn doesn’t want to treat poor people like absolute shit. The “moderates” have let it slip on occasion that they’ll rather vote Tory than be nice to “scroungers” who have “generous benefits”, that in order to win over Tory voters, they need to be even tougher on those claiming. They have no other incentive/policy to appeal to the Middle Class other than saying “haha lets abuse these filthy poor scroungers.”
The worst thing is I think the Middle Classes (and upwards) in general (i.e. Not All but a vast number) are too far gone. They don’t see us as human anymore, they see us some pitiful stereotype prone to vices, violence and racism. Left, Right and Centre, I’ve been treated as subhuman by Middle Class people so it’s not a straight political divide. I’ve realised that too when I’ve had interviews, Working Class types will be fair, Middle Class types reject me instantly.
It’s not surprising something like JRF is glossing over, ignoring the problem and recommending abusive measures, it’s full of people who think we’re innately inferior but treat us like an abused dog with some vicious behavioural training, that we’ll miraculously become like them and poverty will be over. It won’t and their anger with us will increase.
Despite the constant Tory kicks, I’m wondering if protest needs to be brought closer towards society, to your average Middle Class person/area and the media, where we reaffirm our humanity, individuality (that we’re not hive minded scrounger stereotypes) and basic right not to be treated like shit.
What you say is correct but woe on the brave person who calls for an uprising. This government including the previous New Labour ones stealthily changed the laws over time to make any form of protest akin to terrorism and so entrenched the establishment so they have become almost impossible to remove. The brainwashing from TV programmes on benefit claimants and shows like Jeremy Kyle where stupid people are exploited for TV ratings reinforces the public opinion that everyone who is poor must be like these people. The hate campaign against Jeremy Corbyn has proved that this propaganda works still. Even though he attracts massive support at his rallies the majority of nonpolitical working class prefer to believe the official media portrayal. They are so dumb it’s embarrassing but that said I still feel sorry for them because they don’t realise the suffering to come upon them in the future if we don’t get rid of the Tories.
This in-work conditionality seems nonsensical to me.
If you were working 34 hours a weeks would you be expected to give up that job for one miles away that offers an extra hour more? Probably ending up worse off due to travel costs and definitely a much longer working day. And if you were juggling two or more part-time jobs, suppose one of your employers asked you to work more hours which conflicted with the hours you worked in some other job: Which employer should you please? Which job could you choose between without getting into hot water with the DWP? Suppose you wanted a better work life balance, wanted to spend more time with your children for example, could you opt to work a few less hours per week without being sanctioned by the DWP? Suppose you’re working in a job with varying hours: How will you be able to satisfy work search requirements when you have no idea from week to week, or even day to day, where, when or for how long you are going to be employed/unemployed? Could you fall into arrears as far as work search goes and have to make up the hours after the event?
I could go on… and on… and on listing potential problems and cannot see how such intrusive in-work conditionality can possibly work successfully in practice. Surely people are going to absolutely hate having their lives micro-managed like this? And with so few staff how will Jobcentres (presumably) be able to service such enormous numbers of the unemployed, sick and disabled, and part-time workers.
It’s so ridiculous it’s hard to believe that any sane government could think this fair or proportionate. What you need to remember is that the real reason for UC is to start the final decline and end of the welfare state. The government has already hinted that they would prefer Churches and Charities to handle all care of welfare payments to the poor. That would be the prelude to stopping all government involvement in welfare cost and funding. Victorian Values they call it!
“On the parish” I think it was called. I believe that people had to sell anything they owned apart from what they were allowed to keep, e.g., you were allowed two pairs of shoes and had to sell any other footwear you owned in order to help keep yourself until working. Victorian values indeed!
See also: Robert Tressell’s ‘Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’.; ‘The Water Babies’ (Charles Kingsley); ‘Oliver Twist’ (Whatsisname) – life in general @1930 …
BBC R4 news (late) last night covered DPAC protesting in London against people dying having their sources of support removed …
…. BBC R4 news this morning (6 hours later) reporting MPs planned move out of parliament while essential works are done at an estimated cost of … 4 Billion Pounds – no idea how many noughts that has to write it as a figure.
It would be ‘good’ if these items were reported side-by-side – nut no connection is made explicit although reports are in same 24hr period. To be fair to the newsreader he did pause & draw breath before giving the estimated 4 Billion cost … it was so glaringly not in sync with being told dffficult decisions have to be made; we must all “tighten our belts” and accept austerity and the NHS being cut/bedroom tax/even lower benefit c(r)ap etc.
But there’s still money enough to cut the top rate of tax, cut inheritance tax and cut capital gains tax all favouring the wealthiest. Even lowering the tax threshold favoured the rich many times more than the poor. The Sheriff of Nottingham is back in town and where the heck is Robin Hood when you bloody well need him?!
We have just fallen collectively down a rabbit hole – past perspectives now unrecognisable.
And the Red Queen is now our Prime Minister.
Much of the blame for poverty in this country is the unregulated labour market that pits one person against another and therefore drives down wages and working conditions in a race to the bottom. Put simply it’s called exploitation and you would think that the JRF would be shouting out how unfair this situation is.
Equally, the very same system actively punishes those at the bottom of society who reply on benefits. It reminds those in poorly paid work to continue to struggle working as the alternative such as JSA money can be sanctioned at a moments notice. Basically it keeps people on low wages quiet.
Social mobility is dead in this country. The system is rigged against the poor and low paid. You just have to look at the UK education system to see who benefits and who loses out. Clearly, the poor have no chance as good education is mainly restricted to the privileged rich few.
There as always been inequality in this country, but the gap between the haves and have nots as widened considerably since 1975 when the government binned the post-war political consensus.
Sadly the poor will be hurt most by this inequality whilst the JRF will stand by and try to ignore it.
JRF = Waste of space.
Exactly SHY unregulated labour market another way of implementing the so called free market economy. Sounds good, but in reality means the poor are sold in to slavery.
“SCORES OF PEOPLE PROTEST ABOUT DWP MURDERS”
Disabled protesters have shutdown a major London bridge in protest at the people they say have been killed by Tory cuts.
Demonstrators completely stopped traffic on Westminster Bridge, near the Houses of Parliament, holding moving banners showing the names and pictures of those said to have died due to welfare reforms.
The group, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) blocked off the bridge around 12noon, stopping any vehicles getting past.
The group claim cuts to disability benefits since 2010 have become so severe the UK is now being investigated by the UN for violation the rights of disabled people.
Metropolitan Police have been called to the scene and there is currently a stand off between police and protestors.
As statement from DPAC said: “Since 2010 deaf and disabled people have been targeted for cuts and seen hard won rights and freedoms taken away – and as a result, the UK is now the first country to be investigated by the UN for grave and systematic violation of disabled people’s rights.
“Through all this, while much of Labour was competing with the Tories on who could be the toughest on welfare, Jeremy [Corbyn] and John [McDonnell] stood with disabled people and opposed the cuts.
“At midday today, join DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) in solidarity in protesting benefit related deaths outside Downing Street.”
The group are using the hashtag #RightsNotGames – a reference to the Rio Paralympic Games, which begin today.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scores-disabled-protesters-shutdown-westminster-8785768
“LABOUR PARTY FIDDLING VOTES”
I am an associated member of the Labour party as I have been a lifetime member of the UNITE union, and I have already cast my vote, but my Mother, who was expecting to be able to do the same, has not received notification of her vote in any form.
I rang Unite HQ to ask why not, and they told me that Labour HQ had dictated to them that “Paid up / lifetime members” were not eligible to vote as they no longer contribute to the “Political Fund”.
My mother achieved 30 yrs as a member a few decades back. This means that she became “Non Contributory” and therefore a lifetime member without subscription.
However, she has not been notified that her previous voting status has been altered by either the Unite Union, or the Labour Party.
In my opinion this is gross misconduct by Labour Central Office, Underhand and devious to say the least… Personally I believe it is mainly because older members are old Labour and align with Jeremy far more, and so need to be kept from voting.
Following an exchange with Jeremy Corbyn on housing during which the prime minister mercilessly mocked the divisions in the Labour party – “We’re not going to let them anywhere near power again,” she said at one point.
That’s why we the Tories have created the divisions in the labour party.
Well exactly! She let a secret truth out by mistake. It’s not what you see on your TV screens that counts, it’s what is going on in the background with the establishment and secret services mobilised to make sure democracy is undermined to protect the status quo. It’s a bit like the stupid statement Teresa May made about launching Nuclear weapons. She said she would do it to protect our way of life, not mentioning that the response from Russia or China or any other Nuclear nation would guarantee no life at all for either side. This is the mentality of those obsessed with keeping power at all costs and not sharing the worlds resources so everyone benefits. Greed is a deadly sin but it blinds those in power from reality.
From Teresa May’s statement to Jeremy Corbyn yesterday you can also see how Chris Mullin who wrote the Novel, A very British Coup understood at the time how difficult it would be to elect a real Labour Government and how the establishment and the secret services would make sure it fell to protect their interests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_British_Coup
I thought you would have been a little more clued up than that, anyone with their eyes open can see its the ol “Hegelian Dialectics” in full swing.
The only truth Cameron said in his time in office was.
“We are all in this together”.
Did anyone think it was just a Tory thing.
Red pill, Blue pill, Red party, Blue party. Tory, Labour, Democrats, Republicans.
Its worse than a B movie with a very bad plot, however they are all directed by the same movie director.
Cue action…take one, scene 3.
I like watching the shills, gatekeepers, agent provocateurs and so on.
There`s plenty of em.
Will that be the John Heglian dialectic?
Joke
Question: What good can be said about Hegel?
Answer: Schopenhauer was worse.
Heh, heh, heh.
In all honesty I think Labour itself has divided and wrecked itself, I wonder what Jeremy Corbyn will do after Labour loses the 2020 general election? Do a Kinnock and stay on and try to win in 2025 or leave and let somebody else have a go? He’s 67 now I believe so reckon he’ll probably step down in 2025 myself.
He will go to his allotment & grow old(er) gracefully? Whilst not accepting offers to do ‘Strictly’.
Corbyn has already appeared on Channel 4’s ‘The Last Leg’ stood beside a limousine wearing a brilliant white glittering ‘Elvis’ suit and glaring at the camera like a demented imbecile. ‘Strictly’ as Neil Armstrong so famously said is only “one small step” away.
Ed Balls is on the current series of ‘Strictly’ for crying out loud!
I can’t wait to see Balls attempt the jive. He must be at least two or three stone overweight! I only hope he doesn’t have a stroke or something! What the heck made him agree to make such a spectacle of himself? Jesus.
Jezza would make an ideal contestant for ‘Strictly’. Maybe he is waiting for Auntie Beeb to make him an “offer he can’t refuse” what with being a good ‘Socialist’, ‘Marxist’, ‘Trot’ and all that 😉
@ shirleynott. Your case is dismissed! That is the verdict of this court!
I rest my case.
All of these replies proves one thing. You all deserve to live under the Tories for the rest of your lives. At some point everyone is driven to despair by the way the establishment controls everything, but just giving up and attacking everyone regardless that they might actually change things for the better is a guarantee that things won’t ever change. My Grandfather used to tell me about the apathy of working class people when he was young and how they all turned against each other because of the divide and rule tactics of the Tory establishment but when 1945 came and people were sick and tired of the continual suffering, they actually voted for Labour and what they had been told was impossible to implement by the Tories, the NHS and welfare state was created by the Socialists, despite the protestations of the rich. Since then it has been slowly dismantled and rather than try and save it, you all whine a lot, and expect things to change. Well they won’t with the Tories, and if Corbyn is beaten it’s hello New Labour again and goodbye welfare state and NHS. Good luck with that and i’ll probably see you at the soup kitchen!
Corbyn is going to be beaten badly I’m afraid mate. Labour have picked the wrong leader at the wrong time although being honest it’s hard to see any plausible alternative who could do much better. I’m not that old but could very well die before the Tories are replaced by anyone, which isn’t a good feeling but looks set to becoming a fact of life.
Mumsnet on Judge Rinder
“Lally112 Thu 07-Aug-14 23:44:15
That I’m not sure on. The English system is different from the Scottish one as we have sheriff courts and high courts here but I am sure if the person doesn’t like the decision there may be some sort of appeal process that would require going back through court.
He might not actually be a judge but he is a defence barrister so he does have legal standing but again its set in Manchester and I’m not familiar with the English system. The only reason I know about it in general is DH* is in the police and always has stories of the great unwashed (obviously once it has been through court).”
“Great unwashed”? Just who do the fuck they think they are on Mumsnet?
*Mumsnet speak for Darling Husband
“Darling Husband is is the police”, talking about the “Great unwashed” – just how fucking nauseating are these Cunts!
And we wonder why this country is in the state it is in – just read fucking Mumsnet!
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_matters/a2153236-Can-I-ask-a-question-about-Judge-Rinder
Surely Jezza will turn up eventually on the comedic quiz show circuit, following in the footsteps of such luminaries as John Prescott and Lembit Öpik? He would be ideal as straightman to Paul Merton’s funnyman on HIGNFY.
David Wedler
said:
September 6, 2016 at 9:29 pm
This is beyond biased and is clearly fraud now.. being a life time member means that one has paid enough into Labour party funds to be considered paid up for life, including into the political fund.
To exclude people from voting for being the most loyal paid up members is a basket-case insult to democracy that McNicol should be expelled and prosecuted together with co conspirators for.. Everything from mis selling to fraudulent interpretations of rules which he has taken on personal responsibility for himself (he was warned not to do this by one of the Judges in an early case as it leaves McNicol and the NEC personally liable).
“LORD DAVID FRAUD AND HIS PERSONAL PRIVATE CEMETERY BECKONS NEW MEMBERS”
14 Sep 2015 — The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) published guidance to Jobcentre officials who decide whether claimants should have their payments stopped.
The guidance says: “It would be usual for a normal healthy adult to suffer some deterioration in their health if they were without:
1. essential items such as food, clothing, heating and accommodation, or
2. sufficient money to buy essential items for a period of two weeks.”
“The Decision Maker must decided if the health of the person with the medical condition would decline more than a normal healthy adult.”
……………………………HENCE THE DWP RELUCTANCE TO FACE UP TO THE CARNAGE THAT THEY HAVE CREATED.
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Under the Freedom Of Information act I would like to request the number of recorded deaths of the UK population judged to be fit for work following assessments by ATOS/WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENTS.
This should include all deaths including “Suicides.”
Please also provide details of ongoing legal investigations into the deaths of the UK population judged to be fit for work following assessments by ATOS/WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENTS.
Yours faithfully,
A. Clerk
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/atos_deaths_6#incoming-863572
DWP + JCP = SCUM.
Work and Pensions Secretary quizzed on welfare changes
Damian Green questioned on changes to disability benefits, Universal Credit and the future of the controversial welfare cap.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/work-and-pensions-secretary-quizzed-on-welfare-changes/
It’ll be the usual pre-scripted twaddle where every frown is turned upside down. Here’s a typical answer in response to a question about the extremely slow roll-out of Universal Credit, compulsory use of Universal Jobmatch.
“Universal Credit is being rolled out more slowly than anticipated because the DWP want to do it right rather than do it quickly. Already Universal Credit gets claimants into work quicker and keeps them in work longer than before, and by insisting that work ready claimants must use Universal Jobmatch enables them to acquire essential IT skills which in turn makes them more employable…”
The real answer is:
“The glacially slow delivery of Universal Credit is because we can’t get it to work properly without huge intervention from armies of civil servants we don’t possess and we want to force people onto Universal Jobmatch so that any DWP official, anywhere on earth, can monitor claimant work-searches and discipline anyone, any time, as we see fit, in order to make them hop to and do whatever we say without query or resistance.”
The people asking and answering the questions are all equally useless.
Microsoft’s UK data centres power up cloud services.
The facilities are located in London, Durham and Cardiff. They should help the US company sell its online services to the public sector and other bodies that handle sensitive data.
The Ministry of Defence and an NHS trust are among those set to adopt the internet-powered products as a result.
Offering cloud services from within the UK may help convince clients that their data is secure!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37285667
A paperless NHS.
NHS: Health apps to inform patient records.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37290126
Jeremy Cunt is well off into crazycrazy land now (I reckon that it is to get the attention off of the ‘Junior Doctors’ story)!
Just imagine him now advising that people (in the future) would be well advised to diagnose themselves by using an NHS type app.
As far as I am aware, G.P.’s do not like the idea of their ‘patients’ looking up what may be wrong with them on the ‘internet’.
For a start, so many ailments have so many similar symptoms, – everything from minor ailments that will clear up by themselves, all the way up to life threatening and dangerous conditions such as sepsis.
(Even some A&E staff and G.P’s often miss this dangerous one!)
One patient may check up and find ‘by their symptoms’ that it is minor – then rapidly gets dangerously ill – or, on the other hand, a patient ‘concludes’ that it is really serious when it is not.
This is a minefield and if it is brought in eventually (and I suspect especially younger people will tend to do this!) – it could end up in uneccessary disasters occurring.
The Times telling us what we’ve been saying for years.
The report said: “Under nearly every stone was chaos. People burst into tears. There was one young lad from one of the suppliers who said: ‘Just don’t put this thing online. I am a public servant at heart. It is a complete security disaster.’ There was no way this could be launched as a digital service.”
Universal credit poses a major security risk
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/universal-credit-poses-a-major-security-risk-spies-tell-no-10-m87rs8qq5
I’ve seen that post before, somewhere. 🙂
It has been appearing in different forms regularly since 2013 and is still true today.
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Widespread use of zero hours contracts a ‘key challenge’ for Theresa May, says RF.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/widespread-use-of-zero-hours-contracts-a-key-challenge-for-theresa-may-says-thinktank/
Flexibility : Allowing workers to have no set hours. No defined income. No sick pay. No holiday pay. No pension.
And the big business lobby say workers prefer this “freedom”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/number-of-people-on-zero-hours-contracts-jumps-by-20-per-cent-in-a-year-a7231561.html
“
Statement on ONS zero-hours contracts statistical release
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-on-ons-zero-hours-contracts-statistical-release
Number of temporary agency workers soars 29% in just ten years.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/number-of-temporary-agency-workers-soars-29-in-just-ten-years/
THINK TANK
noun
noun: think tank; plural noun: think tanks; noun: thinktank; plural noun: thinktanks
a body of experts providing advice and ideas on specific political or economic problems.
“a think tank devoted to the study of political and economic integration”
SEPTIC TANK
noun
noun: septic tank; plural noun: septic tanks
a tank, typically underground, in which sewage is collected and allowed to decompose through bacterial activity before draining by means of a soakaway.
TORY POLICY
………….(SEE BOTH)
Think! – A ‘Government Minister’ parading before the ‘Press’ was photographed by the paparazzi carrying a ‘confidential’ memo re ‘Grammar Schools’. It seems that both Sky and the Beeb have been covering this story widely today. (Apart from the fact that normally, this ‘confidential’ memo would have been covered by the Official Secrets Act and anyone, other than a ‘Government Minister’ would have been taken to court and prosecuted for releasing classified information into the public domain) the fact remains that – “why, now has this hit the headlines?”
I am very sceptical and suspicious of our ‘National’ broadcast media – is it by any chance that they are trying to divert attention from something else that is going on? Brexit proceedings? NHS & Jeremy Cunt ? Labour’s writhings ? The Syrian refugees ? Who really knows
I am damned if I do. However, the ‘Paralympians’ have been performing well – another ‘well earned’ Gold medal!
Not all ‘disabled’ people can do anywhere near what these ‘Paralympians’ can do. The ‘public’ (and Channel 4) see the Paralympics and say – “Yes they can” – just like the Paralympians say also. I say NOT- a couple of days ago I saw two men walking along a pavement in our local town, struggling to move on two ‘sticks’ each – both, I would say were about 60 years of age. Both probably with arthritis or something like it.
These men would never be able to ‘compete’ in any ‘paralympics’!
And then, its been announced today that £10 Bn is going to be spent on sorting out the structural problems in Parliament.
(Late in the day it was announced as £4Bn – so, its been downgraded already!) The works are going to take 6 years to complete.
The poor bastards, our ‘representatives’ – our M.P’s will have to ‘decant’ to reside in the ‘Department of Health’ building nearby (that’s very convenient with the NHS apparently in shit street!) and the ‘Peers’ will have to ‘decant’ to the nearby QE2 Conference Centre. Oh dear – my heart really bleeds – the pathetic cunts.
According to tomorrow’s headline in the DailyTorygraph:
“All schools get chance to become Grammars”
Sky’s ‘paper reviews’ Toby Young of the ‘Spectator’ (a Tory Rag!) it has just been reported, set up a ‘free school’. It seems that ‘he and his wife were ‘unhappy with the local provision’ – should they move house? (he said this!)
He also said that Jeremy Corbyn & Diane Abbott both sent their sons to either ‘Grammar’ or ‘Private’ schools – one in the eye to Labour once again!
The last Grammar school it seems was set up in the 1960’s and Tony Bliar outlawed any new ones when he was in power.
Theresa May is going to do a ‘major’ announcement about this tomorrow.
It will be interesting to see what Margaret Thatcher II says on Friday!
2330: Sky Papers Review:
Toby Young (again) “If I hadn’t gone to a Grammar school – I could have been a road sweeper now, rather than appearing on Sky Papers Review”.
Yeah, Toby Young – some people HAVE to be road sweepers and bin men and bus drivers and NHS workers and ‘care’ workers and delivery drivers and supermarket workers and B&Q workers and postmen and milkmen and food distribution workers and utility workers and not forgetting – swineherds – the very workers that pay for everything that you have – you tosser! Just fuck off, you bach!
Young is a really weird little slaphead isn’t he? I always laugh when I see him on TV making hand gestures. He really overdoes them, as if some media guru has schooled him and told him to make the “rolling an invisible football in your hands” gesture when he’s in two minds about something, or “make the open hands” gesture when he wants people to be receptive to some idea.
You watch this little prick’s hand movements next time you see him on the TV, although goodness knows why anybody cares about anything he thinks or says or does.
Still, his comment is pretty revealing: he really does think of himself as a high achiever and looks down on others who have been less fortunate. A real Tory then.
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Johnny Void back on form!
Benefit claimants die as DWP staff keep failing to follow suicide guidelines
September 8th 2016 John Pring
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to consider an inquiry into its repeated failure to prevent the deaths of benefit claimants, despite the release of damning new information from nine secret reviews.
Key information from reviews into the deaths of nine benefit claimants had been requested by Disability News Service (DNS) in April – following the release of 49 earlier reviews – but DWP has only released it now after pressure from the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Although most of the information from the reviews – previously known as peer reviews but now called internal process reviews – was redacted, DWP did release the authors’ recommendations for how procedures should be improved locally and nationally.
Those recommendations show that DWP staff repeatedly failed to follow strict guidelines on how to support benefit claimants who have expressed thoughts of self-harm or threatened to take their own lives, which were introduced in 2009.
That guidance – known as the six-point plan – “sets out the framework for managing suicide and self harm declarations from customers”.
The plan tells staff to “take the statement seriously”, “summon a colleague”, “gather information”, “provide referral advice – if the situation is non-urgent”, “summon emergency help”, and “review” the incident afterwards with their line manager.
DWP managers are supposed to use this framework to create their own local six point plans
…………..each and every second of each minute, of each hour of each day, sees the welfare claimant murderer, LORD DAVID FREUD, breathing air he no longer deserves.
FREUD, BLACK, SMITH, GRAYLING, GUNNYEON and GRAHAM should be dragged screaming to a place of execution whilst the judiciary are incarcerated and the keys thrown away…………….
” SOCIAL SERVICES, SOME KIND OF JOKE, PERHAPS?”
A mum with HIV and her daughter who had been told to leave Britain may have starved to death in desperate poverty, an inquest heard.
Lillian Oluk, 36, and her two-year-old daughter Lynne Mutumba were found dead in their one-bedroom flat.
A harrowing inquest was told there was no medical reason for their deaths but various examinations suggested Lillian was suffering from malnutrition and starvation and little Lynne had been dehydrated.
They had no food in the house and no possessions other than the clothes on their back, the court heard.
Lillian was also not taking her medication for HIV and sickle cell anaemia when they were found at their flat in Gillingham, Kent, on March 14.
Coroner Kate Thomas recorded open verdicts into their deaths following the inquest at Old Gravesend Town Hall.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mum-toddler-who-starved-death-8797797?ICID=FB_mirror_main
“THE POOR DRIVEN TO CRIME TO SURVIVE”
THE study being presented in a briefing at Holyrood is the first wave of findings and shows that fraud and shoplifting are being used to alleviate extreme hardship.
BENEFITS sanctions are forcing the poor to commit “survival crime”, MSPs will be told today.
Researchers found cutting welfare payments as punishment for minor indiscretions such as being a few minutes late to a meeting with an adviser was having a devastating health and social impact.
In some cases those punished turn to shoplifting and fraud to alleviate extreme financial hardship.
The study – being presented in a briefing at Holyrood – is the first wave of findings from a study conducted by Glasgow University and five other institutions.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/shock-study-shows-brutal-benefits-8796381
Yes Geoff. That’s a good article and it should also be pointed out that the Tory system is set up to first punish the poor through sanctions and then get them to take out loans from Tory loan sharks to get them even further in debt. Those that are wise enough to spot this are then so desperate they turn to shoplifting food only to find on most occasions but not all the Tory Judges in court want to fine them, putting them even further in to debt. The Tory Capitalist system is designed to make sure the proles tow the line and can be manipulated into a form of constant servitude where they are continuously exploited with no way out. Our prisons are full to overflowing and underfunded and when prisoners are released they can’t get work and are added to the numbers in abject poverty unless of course they go back to crime and don’t get caught for a while. The whole system is truly Satanic in it’s construct but everyone just accepts it.
“DISABILITY HATE CRIMES SOAR OVER 40% IN LAST YEAR”
Prosecutions for disability hate crimes surged by more than 40 per cent last year compared to the year before, official figures show.
The Attorney General’s Office released statistics showing that the Crown Prosecution Service completed 941 prosecutions for such crimes in 2015/16 compared to 666 in the previous year. Convictions were also up by a similar rate, from 503 to 707, also around a 40 per cent increase.
Read more
Tory MP calls disabled protesters a ‘bunch of charmers sitting down’
The Crown Prosecution Service said it was trying to push up rates of prosecution and conviction for such crimes to send out a message that they would be treated seriously.
…………………and the moon is made of cheese
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/disability-hate-crime-convictions-surge-by-40-per-cent-a7232576.html
Jealous neighbours are to blame for the majority of this.It can be anything from name calling to anti social behavior,theft of belongings to physical attacks,they will use any excuse to cause trouble or make one up often involving children incite others unknown to the victim also.The police then turn around and say there’s a lack of evidence until its to late.
The Tory propaganda machine inflamed the problem stirring up hate against disabled people that some were only to willing to exploit for their own ends.
………..another DWP ploy to shaft the disabled
New legal judgment denies PIP to those facing “overwhelming psychological distress”
An important legal judgment has been issued that will likely deny an award of the Personal Independence Payment mobility component to disabled people, with conditions such as depression, panic attacks or anxiety.
The upper tribunal appeal decision – UK/313/2015 – holds that the PIP descriptor “Cannot follow the route of an unfamiliar journey without another person, assistance dog or orientation aid” concerns only the ability of a disabled person to navigate in terms of following a route.
This descriptor attracts 10 points under the PIP assessment point’s scheme and so leads on its own to an award of the standard mobility component (worth £21.80 per week).
The new judgment overturns a previous decision – CSPIP/109/2015 – that allowed that where someone is so prone to anxiety they need accompanying they may qualify for one of the “planning and following a journey” PIP mobility components.
You can get satnavs for under £20 nowadays that can be used in ‘pedestrian mode’. Why should come be given another £20 odd knicker a week a a free ‘motability’ car from the public purse because they claim to be suffering from ‘depression’, ‘anxiety, ‘stress’… ?
Hi
My son and I had a PIP assessment and now have the outcome.my son suffers from spastic cerebral palsy and has just turned 16. Al throughout the assessment he was prompted by me and needed help answering the questions. He struggles to walk and uses a wheelchair for long distance and a crutch to walk short distance. He is unable to prepare food for himself and could not go to somewhere on his own. He has been assessed as able to make his own meals and find his way somewhere following a map.
He has not been awarded the enhanced mobility category as the has been assessed as being able to follow a map. He has also been stated as having 3 meals a day which he would not have if I didn’t make them! Has anyone else had experience of he assessor putting something different to what was discussed ?
Hi Jane, documented reports of at WCAs it’s happened/people are advised to get permission ahead & record assessments as evidence.
Genius!- why has no-one else thought of this? … Answers on a postcard (placard?) please, to the above Mother of invention …
You can get satnavs for under £20 nowadays that can be used in ‘pedestrian mode’. And yhy should someone be given another £20 odd knicker a week a a free ‘motability’ car thrown in from the public purse because they claim to be suffering from ‘depression’, ‘anxiety, ‘stress’… ?
Need accompanying on an unfamiliar route? And how often does this happen exactly? Most of us travel EXACTLY the same routes every single day. Drive along a road, or even down your High Street – 99.999999% of the motorists/pedestrians will have traveled this same route over and over again. How many people do you see with a map or reading from a satnav. The PIP payment is also another £21.80 a week! Does the ‘accompanying person’ get paid? Are these some sort of professionals? Another £1133.60 a year for ‘navigating unfamiliar routes’, eh? If you look at this from the perspective of a reasonable, unbiased person who judges each case on its own merits and doesn’t automatically jump down the throat of the DWP/Tribunal/Judge you have to (reluctantly) agree that the Upper Tribunal has called this one correctly. Moreover, it is this sort of inappropriate use of public money that it bringing the benefits system into disrepute and allowing genuinely disabled persons to suffer!
……………perhaps you forgot what a disability is?
This activity looks at your ability to work out and follow a route safely and reliably.
Questions relevant to sight loss
The legal tests are:
Cannot follow the route of an unfamiliar journey without another person, assistance dog or orientation aid.
Points: 10
Cannot follow the route of a familiar journey without another person, an assistance dog or an orientation aid.
Points: 12
More information to help you answer the questions
This activity applies to you if you cannot work out where to go, follow directions or deal with unexpected changes in your journey
If you need to walk with a guide dog, use an orientation aid or have someone there to guide you, you will satisfy the tests. An orientation aid is any specialist aid designed to assist disabled people to follow a route safely.
The questions look at familiar and unfamiliar routes. You score more points and are paid at a higher rate if you have difficulties following a familiar route.
You should only be considered able to journey to an unfamiliar destination if you are able to use public transport. So – if you have difficulties using public transport you will satisfy this test.
Top tips
When answering the questions think about –
Needing assistance and guidance
Do you need someone with you for at least some of the journey?
Can you follow the route of a familiar journey if there are road works or changes to bus stops?
Do you need sighted assistance to cross the road?
Can you cross the road safely?
Can you cross the road at a controlled pedestrian crossing (a traffic light) without sighted assistance? If so, can you see the ‘green man’ or do you rely on the tactile rotating cone?
If the rotating cone was not working, would you need to ask for sighted assistance?
Do you need aids to go out?
What aids do you use? A cane? A guide dog? A monocular? A talking navigation app on your mobile? Anything else?
Do you need help to know when steps begin and end or read road signs or get in and out of buildings?
Can you visually identify and avoid hazards such as lamp posts, bollards or A-boards?
Help with navigating
Do you get lost?
If you do get lost, are you able to navigate back to your chosen route or would you have to ask for sighted assistance? Do you need help to plan a route?
Do you need help with navigation?
Taking public transport
Can you use public transport? Do you need help to identify the bus you need, find the right bus stop or platform, use prepaid ticket readers, find an empty seat, recognise where to get off?
Do you require public transport information, e.g. timetables, in an alternative format like large print, audio or Braille?
Do you need customer assistance to enable you to find your bus stop/stand or train platform?
Other factors that affect your ability to go out
Does the weather (e.g. bright sunlight) affect your ability to carry out a journey?
Does the time of day (e.g. in dark evenings) affect your ability to travel safely?
If you need to complete an unfamiliar journey and wish to do so without sighted assistance, would you require training from a Rehabilitation Officer for Visual Impairment to do this?
Are you able to negotiate crowded areas without assistance, e.g. shopping centres or busy railway stations? Do you feel that it would take you longer to complete a journey because of your sight loss?
Would planning and following an unfamiliar journey cause you to feel stressed or anxious?
…………….easy to criticise from the standpoint of an able bodied ignoramus who obviously has reservations about making the plight of another less fortunate, more equal.
Give MAXIMUS, CAPITA or ATOS a ring, they are shouting out for persons like yourself, to make the lives of the weakest and frail more intolerable…………….
Good grief! Is there no end to this ‘Largesse’?! – Next thing we know, people will start demanding swimming pools en masse, eexclusive use of a helipad (within an airfield) and back to the future-style time travel in order to get around.
Give ’em an inch …
Inappropriate! That’s what it is!! (Moreover).
Moreover … of course there’s only one ‘right’ (proper & reasonable) way to be: see above to confirm exact type/model/specifications.
Should anyone feel an overwhelming urge to be different – in any way – then can they please keep this to themselves as raising awareness of difference within the general population can cause alarm, fear & justifiable resentment/envy. And may also scare the horses.
Please note the PM’s upcoming Parliamentary Bill recommends a return to Victorian values including chimney sweeps aged 6 and upwards, table & chair legs to be covered (if not completely straight), Institutions re-opening: Bedlam/Debtors’ Prisons & the dis-invention of anything which may resemble a Motability vehicle/additional support payments in cash or in kind. These will only encourages those who claim & (fraudulently) receive them to participate in society/various fields of activity & even get from ‘A’ to ‘B’ (far too easily). We all know where that can lead – no, not just referring to you Baroness TG Thompson & Hannah Cockroft – paralympic medallist, all being well.
Moreover, that’s a new one, moreover, as long as it is used appropriately! (Moreover!)
“I should like to add … that, furthermore, whomsoever … undeserving … & (non) PLU, henceforward …”
Moreover, will moreover find its way into the JV lexcion: “Moreover, The Working Class Is Back In The Game, Let’s Make Sure We Fucking Stay There”
Moreover!
“Moreover, Whomsover, The Working Class Is Back In The Game, Furthermore, Let’s Make Sure We Fucking Stay There, Henceforward”
Maybe Andover could chart this week, as in:- “The working classes are witnessing the fruits of their Labour being stolen, Andover Fist …?
😀
“IGNORANT BASTARDS”
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Central Freedom of Information Team
[DWP request email]
Our reference: FoI 2927
Date: 9 September 2016
Dear Mr Wrapson,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 11 August
2016.
You asked “How long should it take for ESA to be re-instated once an appeal
has been successful? Please provide specific legislation, regulation and
guidance which gives timescales for the reinstatement of the above benefit”.
Response:
The information you have requested is not held.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/351087/response/865479/attach/html/3/WDTK%20response%202927%20Wrapson.pdf.html
“MAXIMUS BOSS, RICHARD MONTONI, NEEDS A BIGGER YACHT MAYBE?”
………….After all the hype and spin about MAXIMUS taking over REMPLOY.
Remploy bosses have failed to deny claims Sunderland’s office is under threat.
A Remploy worker contacted the Echo to say the John Street office, which helps disabled people find work, was one of three under threat.
Over the coming weeks we will consult with the trade unions and employee representatives on how the changes can be implemented and to mitigate any potential job losses.
Remploy spokesman
………………WITH SO MANY CLAIMANT DEATHS AND THE DWP’S RELUCTANCE TO RELEASE INFORMATION THAT LINKS 7 SUICIDES TO ACTIONS TAKEN BY THEM, THE GENIE IS STARTING TO ESCAPE FROM THE BOTTLE………….
Montoni’s latest money spinner was supposed to help disabled persons back to work.
Sunderland office must have been rushed off it’s feet with all the crippled/maimed rising from the dead like Lazarus after receiving benefit knockbacks in the form of false medical reports issued from within the same group.
Perhaps it’s now become apparent that the 0.07% of benefit cheats that the dwp decided to ethnically cleanse were well and truly disabled.
Hence the need to cut back on the Sunderland scam that steals from the deserving to hand to the greedy.
“DISABLED ACCESS TO TOILET FACILITIES IN JOBCENTRES”
DWP has an obligation to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality
Act 2010 for disabled customers. For some of these customers coming into a
Jobcentre or DWP office may prove more difficult if their disability includes
incontinence issues and/or mobility related problems.
Given that all of our Jobcentres are unique it isn’t possible to design a generic
approach for the customer use of toilets on our premises that will ensure we
meet our obligations. It is therefore important that each Jobcentre or DWP
customer facing office risk assess the impact of granting our customers
access to toilets for their particular office and handle these situations and
issues on a site by site basis. Customer access to toilets must be factored into
the Jobcentre Customer Facing Risk Assessment (JCFRA) process for each
site. To be clear the use of toilets is not for general customer use but
considerations must be in place for every Jobcentre/ DWP customer facing
office so staff are prepared for when these situations arise.
We have no recorded information regarding the access to drinking water.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/354216/response/864362/attach/html/3/WDTK%203086%20FOI%20response%20Ms%20Baddams.pdf.html
The mis-job centres once again breaching the rights of the disabled (in-employed) people by refusing them full and proper toilet facilities within those depressing buildings. I quote here from another website –
” Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA)
It is unlawful under the DDA for healthcare providers and social services, such as doctors’ surgeries, dental surgeries and hospitals to subject disabled people who wish to use those services to disability discrimination; this includes failing to comply with the important duties to make reasonable adjustments and to provide reasonable ancillary aids and services, such as, where needed and where it is reasonable to provide it, sign language interpreters, hearing loops and publications in different formats”
Un-quote
I would see that toilet access in any establishment government or otherwise is a reasonable adjustment and that the DWP (social services) by refusing this basic need to disabled jobseekers are in said breach of the DDA act. Not all job centre buildings even have full wheelchair access ramps or the main entrance is wide enough to cater for wheelchairs. Before my job centre was modernised some years ago (don’t laugh) (when the DWP re-branded all offices as jobcentre plus and a horrid green colour motif sign) there was NO disabled access means whatsoever – no ramps or automatic doors.
Either force all JCP’s to comply with the DDA act and bring in disabled customer toilets, or shut them down for good.
On another point of interest, JCP staff won’t let their customers eat or drink anything whilst they are waiting to sign on, and yet when I used to have to do this out-dated cobblers, especially on a hot day I saw some members of staff openly drinking bottled water and eating snacks in-between claim appointments.
At least in my line of work our company management do allow us staff to have non-alcoholic only drinks bottles with us in the production sheds when we saw-machine operatives and timber stacking operatives are working.. Whenever there is a slack moment (machine breakdown or between completing an order and starting a new order) most of us will have a quick drink in those brief few moments.
……….with so many shithouses under one roof Fen?
“MAN SANCTIONED BY DWP FOR 5 MONTHS HAS TO HAVE LEG AMPUTATED”
A diabetic man left virtually penniless after being sanctioned for five months by the Department for Work and Pensions, claims his leg had to be amputated after his health deteriorated.
David Boyce, 59, from Weaste, was left without enough money to meet his basic health needs and even had to sell his belongings. But David says he still couldn’t afford to eat healthily, which is an essential part of the management and treatment for diabetes.
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David was a photographer who used to own a business, but was forced to give up his work because of ill-health. A dispute with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over “issues with paperwork” led to David’s benefits being sanctioned fourteen times.
However, it’s clear that the sanctions happened because of a flawed decision-making process on the part of the DWP, as he later won an appeal which successfully overturned every sanction, with support from Salford’s Unemployed and Community Resource Centre. He was eventually awarded the money that had been wrongfully withheld from him.
The government have claimed that benefit sanctions are an “incentive” to “help” people like David into work. However, David has been pushed even further away from the job market, because he now has been left with a greater degree of disability: horrifically, the sanctions have cost him his leg.
David said that by July, complications from diabetes had already caused irreversible damage. His health deteriorated because he had no money to live on: he couldn’t control his insulin intake and was unable to follow his strict diabetic diet.
Subsequently he suffered diabetic ulcers and was diagnosed with the flesh-eating infection, necrotizing fasciitis, and doctors were forced to amputate one of his legs.
He told the Manchester Evening News: “I suffered from depression and mental anxiety. I’m not a rich man. I had to sell everything to eat.
You don’t tell anyone, it’s embarrassing, that’s what they prey on. You go into a depression. You lock yourself away.”
David Boyce’s tragic case was revealed as protesters gathered to demonstrate against the extremely punitive and irrational Jobcentre conditionality rules and welfare sanctions.
Campaigners gathered at Eccles Job Centre this week to protest against the immoral benefits sanctions. They said that scores of people were being left depressed and on the verge of suicide.
David’s horrific experience is not an isolated case, sadly. Many campaigners have reasonably demanded an inquiry since the death of former soldier David Clapson, who also had diabetes. He died of ketoacidosis, caused by a lack of insulin in the body, after being sanctioned for missing a single Job Centre meeting. He was also unable to afford to maintain an electricity supply to keep his fridge running, where he ordinarily safely stored his life-saving insulin.
The government have been presented with many other cases of extreme hardship and suffering because of sanctions, but they simply deny there is any “causal link” between the negative impacts, distress and deaths and their policies, despite the ever-growing and distressing evidence to the contrary.
There is no evidence that there isn’t a “causal link” either. To establish such a link requires an inquiry and further investigation of the already established correlation between the government’s policies and adverse impacts. If the government are so confident that their claim is right, then surely an inquiry would be a welcomed verification.
As it is, the government’s refusal to research and investigate the link is simply oppressive, and their claims fly in the face of established research and longstanding empirical evidence, which shows that punishing people who are already experiencing hardship cannot possibly “incentivise” them to look for work. It’s also clear that if someone cannot meet their basic survival needs (such as the physiological necessities of food, fuel and shelter), then they cannot meet higher level psychosocial needs, including looking for work.
Salford Unemployed and Community Resource Centre manager, Alec McFadden, said the DWP had imposed “unachievable” requirements for those in receipt of benefits.
McFadden added: “Illegal benefit sanctions need to be stopped and we will continue to use the law against these dangerous and illegal actions that bringing stress and the threat of suicide to so many people.”
A DWP spokesman said: “Sanctions are an important part of our benefits system and it is right that there is a system in place for tackling those few who do not fulfil their commitment to find work.
They are only used in a very small percentage of cases, and the number of sanctions has fallen substantially in the last year.”
………………………..KILLING FOR FUN
“ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT”
There is no evidence that there isn’t a “causal link” either. To establish such a link requires an inquiry and further investigation of the already established correlation between the government’s policies and adverse impacts. If the government are so confident that their claim is right, then surely an inquiry would be a welcomed verification.
…………HENCE THE DWP’S RELUCTANCE TO PUBLISH REPORTS OF SEVEN CLAIMANT SUICIDES
Geoff – Thank you for putting on all of your posts – very succinctly and very directly exposing what has been happening for so many years now. It is seemingly not getting any better – in fact it may well be getting worse in the future, especially under the ‘in-work conditionality’ of Universal Credit.
What I (and many others also) would really like to know is – where is any justice in all of these ongoing atrocities by this virtually unelected and almost ‘non-accountable’ one-party state Tory administration?
This Government is a total shambles. Many of the population of this once great country is a shambles – living on a day to day basis, not giving a total shit about what is happening – their thoughts and ideas – largely controlled by a complicit and mainly Conservative supporting Sky News and the Beeb (whom we pay for through our TV licence fee).
It has now been proved (beyond reasonable doubt) that the DWP’s policies (especially through Iain Duncan Smith) has caused the deaths of so many unfortunates (far too many for me to count now!) including David Clapson etc, etc.
Months ago now, Police Scotland were informed of possible transgressions (in law) by Iain Duncan Smith (the ex-Minister for Work & Pensions) and Chris Grayling (the ex-Employment Minister)
Apparently, so far nothing has been done and nothing has changed!
The United Nations, (in October 2015) concluded it’s investigation into the alleged violations of the ‘Rights of Disabled People’.
Apparently, so far nothing has been done and nothing has changed!
Months ago now, a possible criminal investigation was launched by various U.K. Police Forces into allegations that many Tory M.P.’s had not fully declared their ‘Election Expenses’.
This was, at the time described by Channel 4 News as an ‘Election Expenses Scandal’
Apparently, so far nothing has been done and nothing has changed!
I am not directly saying that the whole system is corrupt – but it is extremely suspicious that, through all of the ‘evidence’ that has seemingly been presented to the ‘Authorities’ – nothing seemingly has changed – at least publicly!
And – I forgot to mention – all of the Coroner’s Reports also!
So far nothing has been done and nothing has changed – once again!
But – don’t stay up to watch ‘Sky News’ or their ‘Newspaper Reviews’ – Sky News (and the BBC also) will make more than sure that they cover absolutely NONE of it! 😦
People need economic rights in the same way that they have political and other rights. If everyone had a right to housing and enough money for the basics, employers would have to offer a lot more to get people to work for them.
Universal Basic Income, with no conditionality attached.
The Disability War On The Disabled
The DWP effect medical conditions, not in a helpful way but in a destructiveness on health & well being from using disability as a tool to generate £billions in corporate world wide companies. DWP Assisted Suicide policy means the DWP get a suicide bonus to get out of murder of thousands of disabled people. The shares are going down, more disabled people need to die with rules of slavery to just keep you alive with a work coach to finish you off on £30,000 a year. £20 billion spent to cover up DWP deaths. Tax payers paying for the disability killings with profits in corporate companies. More tax for the tax payers because the disabled have cost £20 billion & that needs to stop so we can money laundering the £20 billion around the world with no Income Tax. Since the DWP are in the corporate world, the DWP now have to pay Income Tax on profits. So the DWP are making a loss, still means the DWP pays Income Tax. The income tax paid on the DWP / Atos contract. The DWP now ranting about DWP Assisted Suicide.
I got a job to expose the DWP for disability corporate manslaughter & no lawyer is going to help you DWP. Who needs a lawyer with the DWP`s own admittance of guilt.
If you don`t comply the DWP will send the police round. Who is suicidal the DWP. The DWP making medical judgements when they have no knowledge about medical issues. There is no need for a DM Decision Maker just get the DWP switchboard to be the medical experts on suicide bonuses.
FRAUD !!! DISABILITY FRAUD !!!
Equality Act 2010
Guidance on matters to be taken into account in determining questions
relating to the definition of disability.
Doug over at Ipswich unemployed action is currently going through it and will inform us all what it means.
60 pages
Click to access disability-definition.pdf
This also
http://unemploymentmovement.com/forum/chat/3067-looks-like-they-ve-got-something-else-lined-up-for-us.html
“Thirteen hope to be the delivery partner in the Tees Valley to work with DWP on an exciting pilot which is at the forefront of UK research on psychological interventions and employability, and is one of five contract package areas throughout the country.
From January 2017 DWP will run a series of Wellbeing and Work Trials to test out the Jobs II group work programme in the UK. This trial follows on from an initial feasibility pilot and will increase the understanding around cost effectiveness and scalability.”
Error with the first !
Equality Act 2010
Guidance on matters to be taken into account in determining questions
relating to the definition of disability
7
Part 2: Guidance on matters to be
taken into account in determining
questions relating to the
definition of disability
Section A: The Definition
Main elements of the definition of disability
A1.
The Act defines
a disabled person as a person with a disability. A
person has a disability for the purposes of the Act if he or she has a
physical or mental impairment and the impairment has a substantial
and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal
day-to-day activities (
S6(1)
).
A2.
This means that, in general:
•
the person must have an impairment that is either physical or
mental (
see paragraphs A3 to A8
);
•
the impairment must have adverse effects which are substantial
(
see Section B
);
•
the substantial adverse effects must be long-term (
see Section C
);
and
•
the long-term substantial adverse effects must be effects on
normal day-to-day activities (
see Section D
).
This definition is subject to the provisions in
Schedule 1 (Sch1)
.
All of the factors above must be considered when determining whether a
person is disabled.
…………………….BUT THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS DIE EACH YEAR SINCE LITTLE KNOWN CROOKS, DAME CAROL BLACK AND LORD DAVID FREUD DECIDED TO TRANSFER DISABLED CLAIMANTS BENEFITS TO THE PRIVATE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY………………
True Geoff.
“THE WORK CAPABILITY CROOKS OF ATOS, CAPITA AND MAXIMUS”
Louise today led a debate in Parliament on the Work Capability Assessments and the private providers who run them.
A report released by the National Audit Office last month found that under Maximus – the new providers of Work Capability Assessments – while cost has almost doubled, the performance against a range of measures continues to be poor.
Louise brought evidence from constituents and evidence she had seen from across the country which suggested an alarming trend of rejecting cases of vulnerable people based on factual errors or falsification.
There remains a backlog of some 280,000 cases and the average cost of individual assessments has now risen to £200 with individuals still having to wait an average of 23 weeks for decisions to be made on whether they will be entitled to Employment and Support Allowance.
Louise also raised the issue of Maximus’ previous record in the United States, where they were charged for fraud, and questioned the Government on how they could possibly have decided to contract with Maximus if – as they claim – they have rigorous protocols in place.
“MO STEWART EXPOSES KILLER DAVID FREUD”
It didn’t take this former healthcare professional too long to expose the BPS model of assessment promoted by Waddell and Aylward as being critically flawed, and guaranteed to cause preventable harmful. Described as a ‘functional assessment’, the WCAwas used to demonstrate a claimant’s physical capabilities, with the emphasis placed on rehabilitation and a presumption that one million people claiming Incapacity Benefit were fit to work.
Staff conducting the WCA do not have access to the claimant’s medical history,fail to consider diagnosis orprognosis, as claimants with serious health problems were refused benefit and told to get a job. Doctors working for corporate giants on behalf of the government have ‘total immunity from all medical regulation’ according to the General Medical Council, and the WCA started taking its toll aschronically sick and disabled people in the UK began dying in their thousands.
This included the 2007 report by former banker David Freud, whose report Reducing Dependency, Increasing Opportunity identified many ways to reduce the DWP’s welfare budget by the reduction of meagre benefits provided for the poorest people in the land. Freud continues to influence government welfare policies in his capacity as the unelected and appointed Minister for Welfare Reform, first in the Coalition government and in the new Conservative government, elected in May 2015. The excessive use of benefit sanctions, as recommended by Freud, sees chronically ill people in receipt of the ESA having their entire income removed, for failing to be well enough to attend a work interview at the local Jobcentre. So, they are forced to access the nearest foodbank as Rickets, a disease from the Victorian age, is now witnessed again in C21st UK and diabetics who have been sanctioned, and are unable to eat due to destitution, arrive in casualty departments in a coma.
……………LORD DAVID FREUD, FAILED BANKER AND KILLER OF THE DISABLED……
Freud is an ex-banker and businessman, dilettante and amateur with no medical knowledge or any idea whatsoever in respect to social security. The 2007 report mentioned was written for the LABOUR government – which led to Purnell and Cooper’s welfare reforms – and Freud spent a mere THREE WEEKS on it without consulting experts! The whole British social security system has been reorganised and ruined at the whim of this never-elected person with compliance by successive governments composed of Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrat MPs.
Only in politics can someone with no expertise have convulsed and ended so many lives without being brought to book. And this dreadful character is still doing it today! Is still ruining and prematurely ending human lives all to no good purpose.
What I don’t understand is why the media isn’t redolent with reporters and agencies exposing this absolute horror. Why aren’t people shouting it from the roof tops and trying to put an end to this dreadful man’s catastrophic political career?
How can this possibly have been allowed to g on for so long?
The ‘gig economy’ is just a new name for an old way to shaft the workers.
The return to Victorian working practices.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gig-economy-just-new-name-8819671
“HMRC USES US BULLY TO STEAL FROM OUR POOR”
…………..Whilst pretending the Panama Papers don’t exist……..
MPs have been deluged with protests from low-income families that an American company hired by HM Revenue and Customs to root out tax credit cheats are wrongly cutting their payments. Ministers face demands to tear up the contract with Concentrix, and MPs will press for an emergency debate in the Commons this week. Frank Field, the chairman of the work and pensions select committee, said: “Decent people’s lives have been turned upside down as a result of Concentrix stopping their claim.” The company, which is part of a multi-billion pound business services group, secured its contract when HMRC outsourced fraud and error detection.
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/politics/us-firm-wrongly-cutting-tax-credits-poor/
Concentrix were exposed on this site ages ago. The agents are given 10 seconds to ‘process’ a claim. They get a ‘bonus’ for each claim they deny. They just click a ‘check-box’: “Living to together” hit ‘Enter’ and the next claim pops up on their screen. That’s why millions of tax credit claims have been stopped. It is a national disgrace but what we have come to expect from UK Plc.
“BBC NEWS BLACKOUT ON TERRORIST INCIDENTS AT DOEL NUCLEAR POWER STATION (BELGIUM)”
………..could it be that incidents at DOEL could have influenced the go ahead of Hinkley Point?
Belgium has been left without half of its nuclear capacity, as GDF Suez subsidiary Electrabel confirmed that its Doel 4 nuclear reactor has been shut down due to sabotage.
Reuters reports that a GDF Suez (Euronext: GSZ) spokesman confirmed Belgian press reports about suspicion of sabotage. “There was an intentional manipulation,” he said, adding that somebody had tampered with the system used for emptying oil from the Alstom-made turbine at the nuclear power plant.
Doel 4
He said no outsiders had penetrated into the plant but declined to say whether an employee could have purposely caused the leak, as has been reported in some Belgian media. He said Electrabel had filed a complaint and that the Belgian police had started an investigation.
Repairs being carried out on the major damage inflicted on a steam turbine, which caused an oil leak at the site, means it most likely won’t be reactivated until the end of the year, a situation that could lead to Electrabel losing 40 million euros a month on net recurring income.
The firm say the main damage is to the turbine’s high pressure section.
The closure of Doel 4 takes place after two other reactors – Doel 3 and Tihange 2 – were forced offline because of fractures in steel casings housing their respective reactors. The closure of all three takes 3 GW off the Belgian grid, more than half its total nuclear capacity.
The implications of all that is that the Belgian government may have to consider boosting its interconnection capacity with neighbouring countries over the winter in order to prevent a potential blackout.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/doel_nuclear_power_station#incoming-863915
On 25 March 2016, a G4S security guard for the National Institute of Radio-elements (IRE) in Fleurus died in a shooting when he walked with his dog in Charleroi.[28][29] His security cards were stolen.[30][31][32] The cards, which give access to nuclear sites in Belgium, were deactivated shortly after the killing was discovered.[28][29] Belgium denied that the guard’s death was terror related.[33] A few days later it appeared the rumors were false: the guard didn’t work for the nuclear sector and thus no access badge was stolen.[31][34]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doel_Nuclear_Power_Station
“WHY DON’T THE BBC WANT YOU, THE LICENSE PAYERS, TO KNOW HOW MANY OF THEIR STAFF ATTENDED THE RIO JOLLY UP?”
………….OR HOW MUCH IT COST?
MANY FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS BUT NO ANSWERS
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/350240/response/857420/attach/html/3/RFI20161466%20Response.pdf.html
THE BBC’S RELUCTANCE TO ANSWER SHOULD INFLUENCE IF YOU PAY YOUR ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION TO THEM…………
“WHAT IS THE REMIT OF TV LICENSING/”
…………….THE BBC FAIL TO ANSWER SIMPLE QUESTION
Mr. M. Whitfield 17 June 2016
Delivered
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Please can you supply any information that would help the Public understand the official remit of TV Licensing?
Specifically:-
1. Any official/published statements made by the BBC on the remit of TV Licensing.
2. Any internal references to, or discussion of Legislation (or lack thereof) concerning the remit of TV Licensing.
3. Any information pertaining to TV Licensing and the compliance of its activities and remit with Article 8 of the Human Rights Act.
4. Any further information, not covered above, relating to the withholding of similar information during the BBC/BBC Trust response to a complainant within the BBC Trust CAB rulings dated Oct/Nov 2015, page 38 (where Legal Privilege was cited).
Yours faithfully,
Mr. M. Whitifeid
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/what_is_the_remit_of_tv_licensin#outgoing-578488
IT’S ABOUT TIME THE BRITISH PUBLIC CAME TO THEIR SENSES.
THE BBC IS NOTHING BUT A GOVERNMENT TOOL TO ADMINISTER GENERAL LIES TO THE PUBLIC USING YOUR FUNDS TO ACHIEVE IT.
“THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE KNEW FULL WELL ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF ANTIMALARIAL DRUGS, LARIAM/MEFLOQUINE, BACK IN 1997.
SO WHY WAS IT GIVEN TO OUR TROOPS KNOWING THE SIDE EFFECTS COULD BE HARMFULL?
COULD IT BE THAT THEY ARE CLASSED AS JUST CANNON FODDER THAT MIGHT NOT RETURN ANYWAY?
bridget coldwell 12 August 2016
Delivered
Dear Ministry of Defence,
In response to Rebecca Long-Bailey’s question on 9th June, Mark Lancaster, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence, admitted that a review of archived policy documents indicates that the MoD was aware of the possible psychotic side-effects of Lariam (Mefloquine) “from at least 1997”. Under the Freedom of Information Act, I request sight of the policy documents Mr Lancaster refers to.
Yours faithfully,
Bridget Coldwell
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/archived_policy_documents_which#incoming-866407
…………..HOW MANY HAVE DIED IN THE FACE OF COMBAT OR ARE SUFFERING AT THIS VERY MOMENT FROM THE POST TRAUMATIC EFFECTS?
“THE FAILED BANKER, LORD DAVID FREUD”
The Government wants to shrink the State and reduce public expenditure via privatisation, and private health insurers want to maximise profitability by not having to pay out for any claims. (The agenda being to deny “illness” and its associated needs.)
Let us not forget the funding of the 1.6m UnumProvident Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University, and appointing Mansel Aylward (the former DWP Chief Medical Officer and co-author of the DWP biopsychosocial model) as Director…
Or David Freud, main pusher of the BPS (and former investment banker) taking all of 3 weeks to come up with a draft plan for welfare reform, despite admitting he “didn’t know anything about welfare at all”.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/biopsychosocial-basis-for-benefit-cuts-is-cavalier-unevidenced-and-misleading/
“OWEN’S DIRTY LABOUR PARTY”
The Labour purge is in full flow. Thousands of members have already been rejected from the party and stripped of their right to vote in the leadership election. And with no signs of stopping, the purge now looks likely to expand. The party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) is planning to enhance its workforce, and is offering a candidate £34,061.77 a year, plus expenses, to help them ‘purge’ their own members.
As advertised on the Labour Party website, the NEC is looking to “recruit two Compliance Officers – Investigation, to work as key member[s] of the Compliance team”.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/09/13/nec-wants-pay-34000-year-help-purge-labour-party-members/
“PURGED FROM THE LABOUR PARTY FOR SUPPORTING CORBYN”
Nephew of Attlee purged after calling on members to vote for #Corbyn: ‘Like so many others, Macdonald will have to wait until after the leadership vote to appeal this decision. This latest incoherent action, combined with the widespread purge of other Labour members, would provide ample reason to heed Macdonald’s call for the suspension of the Labour Party’s General Secretary Ian McNicol, and an immediate review into the electoral integrity of the party.’
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/09/12/labour-party-just-purged-great-nephew-clement-attlee-called-members-vote-corbyn/
“BBC TRIES TO BURY SYRIA PROPAGANDA LIES”
For nearly a year, the misleading reports have been read and shared by BBC licenSe fee payers, yet the broadcaster’s correction was buried so deep as to make it almost impossible to find.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/09/12/the-bbc-tried-to-bury-this-correction-but-now-the-whole-country-is-reading-it/
……………….What a stunning coincidence, 400 pages linking the UK with Israel and it’s nuclear weapons programme have recently been found to have gone missing from national archives…………..
Anyone would think there was a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice?
More than 400 government documents have gone missing from the National Archives in the last four years.
They include Foreign Office files from the 1970s on “military and nuclear collaboration with Israel” and a 1947 letter from Winston Churchill.
One MP from the parliamentary group on official archives told the BBC he was “concerned” by their loss.
The National Archives said it was running a “robust” programme to locate the documents.
A response by officials to a Freedom of Information request from the BBC showed that 402 historical files remain unaccounted for since 1 January 2012.
They include more than 60 Foreign Office files, more than 40 from the Home Office and six from the official records of former prime ministers.
………………..the stench of corruption permeates the halls of Westminster.
“CONCENTRIX”
All the hype from HMRC about ending the reign of US bullyboy tax credit hunters of the poorest is just claptrap……….
They are carrying on hassling our most vulnerable until May of 2017.
………..but the overseas hidden stashes of the tax fiddling uk rich go completely from the map.
Here’s more info.
‘Reign of terror’ tax credit company loses HMRC contract
US firm Concentrix heavily criticised by Frank Field will not be given further work by tax collector
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/sep/13/reign-of-terror-tax-credit-company-loses-hmrc-contract
(From benefitsandwork website) DWP/ATOS/MAXIMUS in a total spin now!
It cannot be covered up any longer (please send this one far and wide!)
“DWP panic and cover-up after claimant death publicity, WCA medics warned ‘we cannot defend you’ ”
http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/3549-dwp-panic-and-cover-up-after-claimant-death-publicity-wca-medics-warned-we-cannot-defend-you
“DWP COVERS IT’S OWN ARSE AS LITIGATION REARS IT’S HEAD”
……..THE FOLLOWING SINGLE SENTENCE SAYS A THOUSAND WORDS;
“If you follow the guidance then we can defend you should a tragic incident occur. If you do not follow the guidance we cannot.”
WHAT THE DWP ARE TELLING THE BOGUS HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS OF ATOS, CAPITA AND MAXIMUS, IS THAT THE SHIT IS ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN AND YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN NOW…………..
If i was either a DWP Decision Maker (SOMEONE HAVING NO MEDICAL TRAINING), or an ex bedpan washer turned Disability Denial specialist,
“TRANSFER YOUR ASSETS IMMEDIATELY”
Geoff – Very true and they are all shit scared – no amount of money is going to be able to protect them eventually. The chickens are slowly coming home to roost and the encroaching net of guilt and eventual justice is gradually, but inexorably tightening around the money grabbing bunch of bastards. If I was a ‘HCP’ now, or in the past for that matter, I would be extremely scared of legal litigation starting!
The ship is gradually sinking and it will eventually take all hands with it.
Tories say ‘NO’ to Universal Basic Income – but they will continue to spend billions of £’s on the traincrash that is Universal Credit!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universal-basic-income-uk-tories-tories-unaffordable-damian-hinds-labour-green-snp-a7307476.html
CAPITA – who in their right senses would leave this money hungry shower of crap to be involved with our NHS!
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/14/gps-decry-capitas-privatised-backup-services-as-shambles
……………Strange how the biggest crooks in disability denial, the USA PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY OF UNUM, have links within CAPITA……….
Susan Ring, Chief Operating Officer
Susan Ring
Chief Executive
Susan is Chief Executive for Capita Employee Benefits.
She joined Capita in May 2011 as Regional Managing Director for the south, managing both financial and operating performance as well as client relationships for approximately 15 key corporate partners.
Prior to joining Capita, she was CEO for Unum Limited, the market leader in Group Risk, for eight years whilst also being a member of the Unum Group executive team with responsibility for overall company strategy and performance. Susan was a member of the Unum Board and five other subsidiary boards. Previous roles included Chief Operating Officer and Director of Risk Management.
Susan is a graduate of Warwick University and a Chartered Company Director.
…………………AND UNUM HELPED THE DWP TO FORMULATE THE WELFARE REFORMS THAT KILL CLAIMANTS…………………….
………………Susan probably thinks that 10,600 deaths within a few weeks of being found fit for work, is an acceptable figure to enable mega profits for directors and shareholders alike………
Zero hour contracts – they may just be on the way out – at long last!
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/14/everyman-cinema-chain-is-next-to-drop-zero-hours-contracts
Just heard on the news tonight that the UE rate is at an all time low!!! Where are they getting all these mysterious jobs from eh? I tell you all these con charity shops and the like must be packed out with customer service assistants bumping into each other! Tell you what? If it keeps going like this there’ll be no one listed as UE and claiming benefit soon. There you go, just like that! Full employment.
Someone posted a few months back that they were one of a group of 100-odd all collecting trolleys in a God-forsaken B& Q car-park under the ‘auspices’ of the community work placement (CWP). So there is 100 ‘jobs’ accounted for 😉
Yeah ONS you’re dead right and how many of these things are on the go up and down the country? What a bloody sleight of hand con job. Do the people of the country actually think about this and say ‘No way this is just not credible!’ Or are they blinded by all the lies and BS?
Raining – As in your case, when I heard these figures yesterday, I thought ‘how on earth can they say this’? Earlier in the day apparently it was being reported that ‘unemployment had fallen once again’ and later in the day it was being reported that the ‘claimant count’ had gone up.
The ONS seem to be lying, the Tories seem to be lying and I am more than sure that both SKY & the BBC are lying and distorting the truth also.
It’s all done to show that ‘the economy is booming’ and ‘the population have never had it so good’ under this atrocious Tory administration.
For some maybe, this is probably true – but for most of the population this is plainly wrong – but most of them believe The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Torygraph, Sky News and the good old BBC (the lying bastards)
Yeah Paul there’s no way this is right, no way. If these people have been found ‘jobs?’ then they’re not real jobs. They’re like ONS said; people wandering about a car park aimlessly because they’ve been told to go there by JCP. Then they knock them off the claimant count and they’re not unemployed any more. That along with these so called charity shops that have tons of assistants that have suddenly appeared out of nowhere. You never hear the ordinary muppet in the street questioning these lies and these faked figures. They just read it and say ‘That’s great! The country’s doing really well now!’
It makes me bloody mad that people can be so stupid and easily duped. You’re right that it’s a conspiracy to promote good news to try to make out everything’s great. Meanwhile back in the real world all i see and hear is things getting worse for real people as opposed to these thousands of people that they manage to manipulate around on paper in order to make their figures look good.
The average intelligence of the general public is quite low when it comes to wisdom and discernment like sifting government propaganda and looking for the truth or concentrating on serious social issues. Apparently 18,000 people have signed a petition because of the BBC losing a crappy cooking programme to Channel 4 but you try getting 18,000 people to sign a petition to stop the government killing the sick and disabled and they could not care less.
These are some of the fuckers still involved in ‘work experience’:
Co-op
British Heart Foundation (BHF)
Poundland
BT
DWP
Shelter
Barnardos
Boots
Coyle Personnel
Pizza Crolla
………….it was only a year ago that BOE boss Mark Carnage, promised that interest rates would rise as unemployment levels came to a respectable level.
The Office for National Statistics and the forecasters are but a joke sideline of the corrupt government, twisting figures to suit themselves, the media spinning the shit.
The only statistics to watch are the poverty levels, the repossessions and the body count, carefully distorted by the BBC and SKY to appear insignificant.
Cash Not Care: the planned demolition of the UK welfare state Paperback – 14 Sep 2016
by Mo Stewart (Author)
Cash Not Care: the planned demolition of the UK welfare state Kindle Edition
by Mo Stewart (Author)
………..AND NEVER FORGET WHAT THE DWP REPORT INTO MICHAEL O’SULLIVANS DEATH SAID;
“FIT FOR WORK”
https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/michael-osullivan/.
PART 31.
A decision that a claimant does not have Limited Capability for work, or Limited Capability for Work Related Activity, is colloquially referred to as a decision that the claimant is “FIT FOR WORK”. However, what this actually means is that the claimant does not meet the functional descriptors set out in the ESA Regulations for LCA or LCWRA.
“IT DOES NOT REPRESENT A FINDING ON WHETHER OR NOT THE CLAIMANT IS EMPLOYABLE OR WHETHER THE CLAIMANT WILL BE ABLE TO FIND WORK”
……………START WORRYING DWP, THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSIONER, CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM, CAN ONLY COVER FOR THE MOUNTING STENCH OF DEATH FOR SO LONG………….
……………but the Judiciary are always available to pervert the course of justice……
.
“UNIVERSAL CREDIT, THE DWP’S FLAGSHIP WELFARE REFORM”
……………….ARRANGING DECKCHAIRS ON THE DECK OF THE TITANIC..
THE EXEC in charge of pushing through the Government’s chaotic Universal
Credit benefit programme has been signed off sick.
Howard Shiplee, the former construction director for the Olympics, has been
away from work at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) since before
Christmas, it has emerged.
The news comes almost a year after Terry Moran, a former exec in charge of the
programme, retired after spending months on sick leave.
Another involved in trying to overhaul the scheme, Philip Langsdale, died in
January last year after just four months as chief information officer at the
DWP.
Earlier this afternoon, Work and Pensions minister Iain Duncan Smith boasted
that Mr Shiplee was an example of how DWP had the “right people” running the
project.
………………………….THE LOTTERY OF DEATH
A DWP spokesperson said: “Howard Shiplee has been unwell, but is recovering
and will be back to work as soon as he is better. He continues to be closely
involved with the ongoing work on Universal Credit.”
………..and Lord Lucan is made of cheese
“RICHARD MONTONI, MAXIMUS PARASITE, HAILS THE END OF DISABILITY AS WE KNOW IT”…………………..
BOGUS MEDICAL REPORTS A PANACEA
15th September 2016 http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/
“Very disturbing” new government figures show a steep fall in the proportion of disabled people being found eligible for out-of-work disability benefits.
Disabled campaigners fear the figures show the government is cutting spending on disability benefits “below the radar”, after being forced to abandon its attempts to reduce expenditure on personal independence payment (PIP) in April.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) statistics, released this week, show the proportion of disabled people applying for employment and support allowance (ESA) who were placed in the support group – for those with the highest barriers to work – plunged by 42 per cent in just three months.
For assessments completed during November 2015, 57 per cent of claimants were placed in the support group; but by February 2016 that had dropped by 24 percentage points to just 33 per cent.
During the same period, the proportion of applicants found “fit for work” – and therefore ineligible for ESA – rose from 35 to 49 per cent, while those placed in the work-related activity group (WRAG) increased from 8 to 17 per cent.
Fresh cuts to disability benefits spending will see a loss of nearly £30 a week for new ESA claimants placed in the WRAG from April 2017.
Disabled researcher and campaigner Catherine Hale, who wrote a well-received review in 2014 on the failure of the ESA system to increase the number of disabled people in paid work, said the new figures showed “a very worrying trend” which “suggests that the policy of cutting spending on disability benefits is continuing below the radar”.
She said the “sharp drop” in support group awards, combined with the planned WRAG cuts, “will see big reductions in ESA spending, especially from 2017”.
Hale said: “It seems that the government realised that it had exhausted public support for impoverishing disabled people when it lost the moral high ground in the PIP fiasco.
“But it seems to be continuing its austerity agenda via the back door, through unofficial targets.”
She added: “If the back to work programmes for the WRAG really were about removing barriers to the labour market and increasing employment prospects, disabled people wouldn’t fear it.
………………….BURYING THE DEAD, DWP’s FAVOURITE PASTIME
“DWP PLANS TO SCRAP REGULATION 35”
REGULATION 35
Certain claimants to be treated as havi
ng limited capability for work-related activity
35.
—(1) A claimant is to be treated as having lim
ited capability for work-related activity if—
(a)
the claimant is terminally ill;
(b)
the claimant is—
(i)
receiving treatment by way of intravenous, intraperitoneal or intrathecal
chemotherapy; or
(ii)
recovering from that treatment and the Secretary of State is satisfied that the claimant
should be treated as having limited capability for work-related activity; or
(c)
in the case of a woman, she is pregnant and there is a serious risk of damage to her health
or to the health of her unborn child if she does not refrain from work-related activity.
(2)
A claimant who does not have limited capabilit
y for work-related activity as determined in
accordance with regulation 34(1) is to be treated as having limited capability for work-related
activity if—
(a)
the claimant suffers from some specific di
sease or bodily or mental disablement; and
(b)
by reasons of such disease or disablement, there w
ould be a substantial risk to the mental
or physical health of any person if the claimant were found not to have limited capability
for work-related activity.
The number of claimants placed in the ESA support group because of regulation 35 has seen a fall from 9,500, for claims that started in April 2015, to just 3,000 for claims that began in December 2015.
DWP slashes funding for disability supported housing and homeless hostels
The Government has announced an “unexpected” cut to funding for disability supported housing and homeless accommodation – arguing that the services need to make “efficiency savings”.
The supported accommodation services and others like them are mostly funded by housing benefit payments, administered through the welfare system.
Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green confirmed on Thursday that the DWP would cut the rent that supported housing providers – mostly charities – can claim back from the benefits system.
The changes, which will see an annual, rolling 1 per cent reduction in the rent payments for three years, will cost providers millions, with budgets already under pressure from years of sharp cuts to local councils.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-disability-cuts-supported-housing-mencap-womens-refuges-homeless-hostels-a7309466.html
Two Apparent Irregularities Involving UNUM, ATOS, And DWP
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Sep 152016
Many thanks to George Berger @Georgeberger
Debbie Jolly, Jonathan Rutherford, and Mo Stewart have discussed the influence of UNUM on the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) [1]. Here I study relations of UNUM to DWP and ATOS that implicate Professor Sir Mansel Aylward and a UNUM employee in apparent irregularities [2].
I begin with some history. Sir Mansel and others worked on the All Work Test (AWT) for a new Incapacity Benefit (IB) from 1993 to 1995. It was the first ‘functional capacity evaluation’ tool to use descriptors to assess ‘capacity for work,’ what one can do. The Social Security (Incapacity For Work) Act of 1994 placed them in a new regime intended to make access to disability benefits more difficult. The Act came into force in 1995 [3]
http://dpac.uk.net/2016/09/two-apparent-irregularities-involving-unum-atos-and-dwp/#st_refDomain=www.facebook.com&st_refQuery=/
“HUMAN RIGHTS EQUALITY HELPLINE CONTRACT HANDED TO CORRUPT G4S GOONS”
………..no fucking wonder UK human rights abuses are hidden from view
A minister is facing accusations that she misled the House of Lords over the government’s “devastating” decision to allow a security firm with “an appalling history of abuse and mismanagement” to run the national equality advice helpline.
The Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) was set up in October 2012 to replace the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) own helpline, and the government has now handed the contract to G4S.
But a report by the House of Lords Equality Act 2010 and disability committee in March concluded that EASS – currently run by the outsourcing giant Sitel – should be returned to the EHRC, “either in-house or as the contract managers for a tendered-out service”, a conclusion that was strongly supported by the EHRC.
Despite that support, the government’s response to the report claimed the EHRC “did not express an interest” in taking the service in-house.
A petition calling on the government to reverse its decision to hand the service to G4S and allow EHRC to run it instead has so far attracted more than 60,000 signatures.
And more than 40 disability, equality and human rights organisations – including Inclusion London, Equal Lives, Liberty and Sisters of Frida – have written to the parliamentary chairs of the joint committee on human rights and the Commons women and equalities committee to express their “profound concern” at the award of the contract to G4S, which they said had “earned a reputation for serious, systemic mismanagement and discrimination”.
FoI reveals EHRC chair’s ‘conflict of interest’ over welfare reform inquiry
The equality watchdog’s new chair, who is set to lead an investigation into whether Tory welfare reforms breached disabled people’s human rights, worked for the government on key contracts at the heart of those reforms, Disability News Service can reveal.
David Isaac was appointed by the government to chair the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) earlier this year, despite concerns raised by two parliamentary committees over “serious potential conflict of interest” caused by his work as a partner of law firm Pinsent Masons.
He specialises at Pinsent Masons in providing advice on “major public and private sector UK and global commercial and outsourcing projects”, and his own profile on the firm’s website previously stated that he “leads teams of lawyers on major projects” for, among others, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), although the reference to DWP has since been removed.
But his appointment as EHRC’s new chair came as the watchdog announced that it was to investigate the human rights implications of DWP’s welfare reforms on disabled people.
…………..the DWP, AS BENT AS A NINE BOB NOTE……….
“DWP TRY TO SWEEP DEATHS UNDER THE CARPET BY ENGAGING PROMINENT LORDS WELFARE SUPPORTER TO COLLATE INFORMATION TO EHRC”
There are also existing concerns over the voting record of Lord [Chris] Holmes, the watchdog’s disability commissioner and a Conservative peer, who voted in the House of Lords in favour of the government’s welfare reforms and cuts and will also play a leading role in the EHRC’s investigation.
CHOOSING THE RIGHT STOOGES TO BURY THE DEAD
“OPERATION CHAOS”
The ongoing saga of the move from the working age disability living allowance to Personal Independence Payments has once more shown the DWP’s incompetence. In August 40,000 letters were sent out to benefit claimants informing them their DLA would be cancelled and they had 28 days to apply for PIP. Then the computers crashed.
On the 28th of July the systems crashed for 5 hours. Claimants were unable to contact anyone and handlers could receive no calls. Less than a fortnight later, on the 9th of August, the system crashed again, leaving another four hours where desperate claimants couldn’t contact anyone. The system involved was CAMlite, which has previously made headlines for the Universal Credit failures.
A Serco whistleblower, speaking to the Disability News Network, has described just some of the appalling problems. The phone lines were constantly busy. At times there were upwards of 300 people in the queue, even at quiet times there were still 100s. Wait times often stretched past 20 minutes. User satisfaction was around 20% lower than for other claimants.
The whistleblower seemed dismayed with the system, outsourced to computer giant Hewlett Packard. They pointed to repeated technical faults leaving people unable to process any claims for several hours. This happened at least once a month, requiring staff to ask claimants, who had limited time and resources, to call back later.
If a claimant fails to lodge a new claim within a 28 day period then their claim will be terminated. This necessitates a significant amount of time and money being wasted re-assessing and reinstating the claim, not to mention the cost to personal wellbeing.
Termination of claims can also cause other issues. A large number of DLA and PIP claimants undertake courses at colleges, these are funded due to their status. Without that benefit claim the students may find themselves suddenly liable for up to £2000 in fees. This can be hugely disruptive and very costly.
There have also been concerns, going back over several years, that the DWP’s letters do not make it clear how these cancellations work. This lack of clarity has led to several claimants failing to meet deadlines and being sanctioned.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/waiting_times_and_hung_up_calls#incoming-868087
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I would like to know, for the last 12 months the average waiting time callers have been on hold whilst attempting to speak to someone at the PIP helpline.
I would also like to know, again for the same period, the number of callers who hang up before their call is answered.
I would also like to know the number of operatives on duty answering the phones for these calls.
This is because, I routinely wait well over 30 minute for my call to be answered.
Yours faithfully,
Barry Rennie, Bath
“HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS BRED IN A FIVE MINUTE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT TO STEAL BENEFITS”
The document has been produced as part of a training programme for approved Healthcare
Professionals (HCPs) to carry out WCA’s. All HCPs undertaking these assessments must be
registered medical or nursing practitioners who in addition, have undergone training in disability
assessment medicine and more specific training. The training includes theory training in a
classroom setting, supervised practical training, and a demonstration of understanding as
assessed by quality audit.
……………….I THINK IF I WAS A HCP I WOULD BE TRAINING ON HOW TO RETAIN MY POSSESSIONS WHEN LITIGATION STARTS…….
THE DWP HAVE DUMPED YOU ALREADY……..
“ATOS DEATHS”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Under the Freedom Of Information act I would like to request the number of recorded deaths of the UK population judged to be fit for work following assessments by ATOS/WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENTS.
This should include all deaths including “Suicides.”
Please also provide details of ongoing legal investigations into the deaths of the UK population judged to be fit for work following assessments by ATOS/WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENTS.
Yours faithfully,
A. Clerk
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/atos_deaths_6#incoming-863572
P.S. WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR THE INFORMATION ON 7 DWP RELATED SUICIDES THAT THEY ARE FRIGHTENED TO RELEASE……
WILL ANYONE PUT UP LORD DAVID FREUDS BAIL MONEY?
PERHAPS UNUM WILL OBLIGE…..
Tories forced to do a ‘U-turn’ after continued pressure from Charities and Labour MP’s. (Re exemptions to the Housing Benefit Cap)
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/15/housing-benefit-cap-exemptions-hostels-supported-housing-uk-government
Remember this dickhead! Justin Tomlinson – he used to be Cameron’s ‘Minister for the Disabled’! One law for ‘them’ and another law for ‘us’!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/isnt-mp-facing-criminal-investigation-8848798
Some people in Britain are doing ever so well – thank you very much!
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/15/british-firms-paid-out-record-44bn-bonuses-last-year
Corporate excess may become a thing of the past – Ha! That’s a sick joke!
Look who is suggesting the clampdown – Theresa May.
The cows have been left out to gorge themselves on the spring grass!
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/15/select-committee-to-launch-inquiry-into-corporate-excess
Sanctioned by the Samaritans. for being honest.
“I was sent for a CWP placement interview at a Samaritans charity shop. Due to my health issues, the store manager decided that I wasn’t suitable. On returning to Interserve I was removed from the CWP program and ended up with a four-week sanction”.
So a claimant who replies honestly about a health condition is alleged to be ‘negative’? Given that the upcoming Work & Health Programme targets claimants with disabilities and long-term health issues, we’ll greet this with a shudder and then get very, very angry.
‘Old’ news now, but these 534 bastards should not be forgiven or forgotten about for what they took part in! Look out for more possible shameful behaviour by these ‘Charities’, ‘Companies’ etc when the new ‘Work & Health Programme’ starts (eventually!). They will be after more money and more plaudits no doubt from the Tories and the DWP also.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefits-department-for-work-and-pensions-mandatory-work-activity-government-major-companies-free-a7163646.html
……….EVER WONDERED WHY BBC QUESTION TIME IS BIASED?”
I was proud to wear uniform of Bullingdon Club, admits David Dimbleby
Being a former member of the Bullingdon Club is nothing to be ashamed of, David Dimbleby, the BBC broadcaster, has insisted. However, he claims that the exploits of his day did not resemble the “disgusting, disgraceful” behaviour of Boris Johnson.
The veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby, pictured here as a student at Oxford, chose Havana cigars as his luxury item on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs.
The veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby, pictured here as a student at Oxford, chose Havana cigars as his luxury item on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs.
Dimbleby, who graduated with a third class degree from Christ Church, Oxford, said he had “loved” being elected to the club and was “really proud” of his uniform.
Insisting his cohort “never broke windows or got wildly drink”, he dismissed opinions claiming that he ought to be ashamed of his membership. The Bullingdon Club, a select society of Oxford students, is known for the riotous exploits of its members at its dinner parties. Its alumni include members of the Cabinet including the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, as well as Mr Johnson, the Mayor of London.
Speaking to the Radio Times, Dimbleby disassociated himself with the politicians’ well-publicised youthful exploits, but added: “I loved being elected to the Bullingdon Club and I’m very proud of the uniform that I can still get into.”
“We never broke windows or got wildly drunk. It was a completely different organisation from what it clearly became when Boris Johnson, David Cameron and George Osborne joined, who seem to be ashamed of it, pulling their photographs and so on. But we never did these disgusting, disgraceful things that Boris did.”
Earlier this year, Mr Johnson confessed that he looked back on his Bullingdon days with a sense of “deep, deep self-loathing”, despite keeping up the tradition of still greeting members with a cry of “Buller Buller Buller”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/10083081/I-was-proud-to-wear-uniform-of-Bullingdon-Club-admits-David-Dimbleby.html
“DWP TELLS CLAIMANT THAT HIS PIP APPEAL HAS FAILED, EVEN BEFORE HE KNEW OF INITIAL DECISION”
……….CORRUPTION AS LEAKS OF PREDETERMINED OUTCOMES EMERGE….
DWP to disabled man: We’re sticking with the Mandatory Reconsideration we did without you. No PIP for you
http://www.katebelgrave.com/2016/08/dwp-to-disabled-man-were-sticking-with-the-mandatory-reconsideration-we-did-without-you-no-pip-for-you/
Samuel Miller on September 1, 2016 at 04:24 said:
A human rights lawsuit should be filed against the DWP in conjunction with a UN CRPD “grave and systematic” violations finding.
“UK GOVERNMENT FIDDLES DATA ON PACE TRIALS ON CFS/ME IN AN EFFORT TO REDEFINE WELFARE CHANGES”
……………..CHEATING THE SYSTEM TO JUSTIFY CUTS
CHRONIC FATIGUE MAY BE REVERSED WITH EXERCISE
………………..FAKING MEDICAL REPORTS AND NOW FAKING PATIENT MEDICAL TRIALS AND YET THE GMC SIT BACK AND SAY NOTHING?
jimells says:
September 12, 2016 at 6:16 pm
The PACE researchers and their supporting institutions have committed a massive fraud that has directly harmed many patients. I am confident that proper examination of the raw data will reveal the extent to which patients were harmed by their “treatments”, and this is why they have spent 250,000 pounds to hide the data.
It will take a class-action lawsuit to correct the injustice. I very much look forward to watching White and pals squirm under the heat of a vigorous cross examination.
Conclusion
The media reports about the PACE Trial are false and misleading. There is no evidence that anyone involved in the PACE Trial or their institutions have taken action to correct this wholesale misrepresentation of their research.
It appears that PACE Trial participants have been exploited by being involved without their knowledge or consent in misleading the media, medical professions and the public. The PACE Trial publicity has concealed from patients, professionals and the public, the ‘clinically important’ outcome of the research which ‘Positive Outcome’ and ‘Recovery’ were specifically designed to provide. Given the evidence that ‘Normal Range’ is clinically meaningless and that its contrivance has made the PACE Trial an example of ‘How Not to do Research’, the glaring contradictions of the PACE authors’ explanations, and the lottery-winning coincidence that ‘Normal Range’ just happened to fall in the exact spot to create the appearance of a treatment effect – the whole project looks like a huge waste of time and money. But worst of all, it appears to have betrayed the trust of participants.
Peter Kemp MA
Sept 2016
……….AN £8,000,000 BUNG FROM THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY TO THE DWP TO FALSIFY MEDICAL TRIALS”
“WORK IS GOOD FOR YOU, BUT IT’S FAR MORE REWARDING TO THOSE WHO PULL OUR GOVERNMENT STRINGS IN THE COURSE OF DISABILITY DENIAL PAYMENTS”
n contrast, the British mental health experts have focused on non-pharmacological rehabilitative therapies, aimed at improving patients’ physical capacities and altering their perceptions of their condition through behavioral and psychological approaches. The PACE trial was designed to be a definitive test of two such treatments they had pioneered to help patients recover and get back to work. British government agencies, eager to stem health and disability costs related to the illness, had committed five million pounds—close to $8,000,000 at current exchange rates–to support the research.
*During the study, the PACE team published a “participants newsletter” that included glowing testimonials from earlier trial subjects about how the “therapy” and “treatment” had improved their lives. An article in the same newsletter also reported that the U.K. government’s newly released clinical guidelines for the illness recommended the two rehabilitative treatments under investigation, cognitive behavior therapy and graded exercise therapy, “based on the best available evidence.” (The article didn’t mention that a key PACE investigator also served on the U.K. government committee that endorsed the two PACE therapies.) The testimonials and the statements promoting the two therapies could have biased the responses of the 200 or so remaining participants, about a third of the total study sample.
………………..THE UK GOVERNMENT, AS BENT AS THEY COME…….
http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2015/10/trial-by-error-the-troubling-case-of-the-pace-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-study-investigation-by-david-tuller-21-october-2015/
“SICK ENOUGH TO ENTER A GOVERNMENT PACE TRIAL, BUT ALREADY FIT BY THE TIME THEY COLLATED THE INFORMATION”
Among the findings:
*The trial included a bizarre paradox: Participants’ baseline scores for physical function and fatigue could qualify them simultaneously as sick enough to get into the trial but already “recovered” on those indicators–even before any treatment. In other words, the thresholds for being “recovered” demonstrated worse health than the scores required in the first place to demonstrate the severe disability needed to enter the trial. This anomaly meant that some participants could get worse on physical function and fatigue during the trial and still be included in the results as being “recovered.” Data obtained by a patient through a freedom-of-information request indicated that 13 percent of the participants were already “recovered” for physical function or fatigue, or both, when they joined the study—a fact not mentioned in any of the published papers. (In the 2011 Lancet paper, participants who met these unusual thresholds were referred to not as having “recovered” but as being “within normal range.” In the 2013 Psychological Medicine paper, the same thresholds were re-purposed as indicators of “recovery.”)
…………….IS THERE ANY WONDER PEOPLE ARE DYING?
Yes Geoff, the underground conversations are pointing the finger at Scientology and their “Dianetics” with the role of an “Audit” doing what is known as “Clearing”.
It takes 30 days to become an “Audit” bypassing 6 years of training to become a qualified therapist.
Be very aware of the brand new shiny “therapist” being installed in JCP.
Scientology believes illness and disability are psychosomatic, and all you need is a little bit of “Dianetics” to cure you.
Its not just Hollywood dumb-fucks that are converted, its here!! and its very real.
Major money is made from this, running into billions.
Plus it fucks your mind up, win-win all round for the “Boss”.
Next thing will be the Billy Graham lot, with the “laying on of hands”.
I an`t joking.
Calling all the Reiki therapists, the DWP needs you.!!!!!!!!!
And bring ya crystals to fix those disabled Chakras.
Killing of disabled girl “wholly inappropriate” and “extremely troubling” says Autism group
The euthanasia of Nancy Fitzmaurice, a severely disabled child who was not dying, has made international waves with disability advocates especially outraged. Nancy’s mother had requested that her daughter be killed and was granted approval by the British legal system. While the 12-year-old Nancy had significant disabilities, she was able to breathe on her own and did not require life support.
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Following the starving of Nancy through the withholding of fluids, the Autism Self Advocacy Network [ASAN] has released a statement slamming this decision, calling it “troubling” and “concerning”.
They said that:
The decision constitutes an extremely troubling legal precedent, representing the first time the British legal system has allowed a child breathing on her own, not on life support and not diagnosed with any terminal illness, to be killed by the medical system.
Euthanasia of people with disabilities is an extremely dangerous and wholly inappropriate solution to inadequate pain management. In cases where painkillers are insufficient, a number of alternatives for pain management exist. A policy of euthanasia targets vulnerable people, particularly when it is applied to children. People with disabilities who experience chronic pain should have same access as others to life-sustaining medical treatment.
http://dailyrecords.us/killing-of-disabled-girl-wholly-inappropriate-and-extremely-troubling-says-autism-group/
“BILL GUNNYEON, EX DWP CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER WHO JUMPED SHIP TO MAXIMUS, FINDS INFLUENTIAL POSITION AT N.I.C.E. AND DWP STAKEHOLDERS IOSH”
Dr Bill Gunnyeon CBE, IOSH Chair of Board of Trustees
Dr Bill GunnyeonDr Bill Gunnyeon CBE was appointed Chief Medical Adviser, Director for Health and Wellbeing and Chief Scientist at the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions in 2005, leading the health and work agenda within government for nearly a decade.
During his time at DWP he developed a deep understanding of health and safety regulation from six years as director level sponsor of the Health and Safety Executive, overseeing the Government response to the Löfstedt review of health and safety legislation and playing a key role in the development of the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
Dr Gunnyeon was confirmed as IOSH Chair of Board of Trustees at a meeting of the chartered body’s governing council in February 2016.
In the role, he will be instrumental in shaping the future of the safety and health profession, working with IOSH members to deliver a new strategy for the leading professional body.
……………..AND HE WORKS FOR MAXIMUS?
https://www.iosh.co.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/Our-leaders.aspx
Geoff – What the fuck!
This wholesale chameleon, Bill Gunnyeon seems to be able, (with very little effort) to position himself to be able to enter more and more prestigious (and probably more lucrative!) positions. What the hell is going on here I have to ask myself. This man seems to have so much control nowadays that he seems to be almost invincible.
The first thing that comes to mind is – does he have very good friends in high places – (for a start at least!) probably so.
Is he able to deflect any ‘criticism’ of him by some form of ‘fleet of hand’, or indeed ‘fleet of mouth!
There is, no doubt something very wrong which is going with this particular individual.
And of course, and as always and for ever, our MEDIA could possibly look into and perhaps expose what is going on with him.
As usual, (as regards the more right-wing press) they probably do not want to look into what is going on, or even that they may have been paid off to turn a ‘blind eye’. After all nowadays, our British Political and also our Judicial system seems to be corrupt and totally rotten to the very core.
The ‘high-ups’ can get away with almost everything.
As for the rest of us – THEY expect always that there will be NO opposition from the ‘little man’.
I am just surprised that Gunnyeon is not yet a High Court Judge in the Old Bailey – (well, with the way that this cunt is going, then that may well be just around the corner as well)!
Channel 4 Dispatches 7.25pm on Monday 19 September. exposé set to air on Monday sees reporter Gesh Mohammed spend six months working undercover with Momentum, the grassroots movement that supports Corbyn.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/momentum-dispatches-channel-4_uk_57dd4d22e4b0d584f7f148cc
Jeremy Corbyn supporters should complain to the BBC about alleged media bias against the Labour leader, Ken Loach has said.
Speaking at a debate organised by the left-wing Media Reform Coalition, the Kes director urged the audience to call the broadcaster and leave a complaint about its coverage of Mr Corbyn.
He read out the BBC complaints line number twice and said: “It’s worth it. it makes you feel better. Give it a whirl,”
Mr Loach is well-known for his socialist views and his films, such as The Wind That Shakes The Barley and most recently I, Daniel Blake, often address themes of poverty, unemployment and the failure of the state to help people in need.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/ken-loach-jeremy-corbyn-bbc-complaints-media-bias-call-supporters-labour-leadership-latest-i-daniel-a7314011.html
The BBC spokesperson told PoliticsHome: “The BBC is editorially independent and our news adheres to clear impartiality guidelines.
“Our coverage of Labour remains impartial whilst airing views from both sides of the party’s ongoing divisions.”
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/79009/ken-loach-urges-jeremy-corbyn-supporters-flood-bbc
From ‘The Sunday Times’ on the front page:
“Scandal as war hero’s charity millions vanish”
Treasury gave away funds “without checking”
“Senior figures in the armed forces, charity workers and the medical profession are calling for an inquiry into a fund set up by George Osborne to help war veterans”.
The paper claims that millions of public money from the LIBOR fund has disappeared into Charities also have ‘vanished’ or ‘simply not been delivered’.
CHARITIES – who would have them! – these despicable cunts who ‘register’ with the ‘Charity Commission’ and because of their Charitable status, hence pay no tax whatsoever and also ‘use’ workfare fodder because they do not have to pay anything to them at all!
If they have a ‘shop’ they pay no business rates either. Who benefits from all of this crap – well I never – look to the CEO’s!
I say “Fuck off to all of you Charities” – you are the shit of our society that are even lower than the scum that is “The Sun” newspaper.
“INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH”
………A registered charity?
Don’t be fooled by the connotations of it’s title that this is an organisation that supports health and safety at work……….
It is a lobbying group that poses itself as a stakeholder in matters of welfare reform but is a front for the PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY to pursue it’s own ends, namely the destruction of the welfare state.
BILL GUNNYEON, ex DWP Chief Medical Officer, sits at it’s helm, not a bad position for someone who was one of the highest paid civil servants that mutinied and crossed over to work for MAXIMUS (The renown disability killer that took over from ATOS)
If yo follow Gunnyeon’s career carefully you will be aware that he fronted several seminars of the British Insurance Industry and was a more than keen advocate of DAME CAROL BLACK and LORD DAVID FREUD’ S attacks on the most poor and vulnerable……..
Even Gunnyeon’s previous positions at CAPITA and the FACULTY OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE (The faculty that issued certification to healthcare HCP’s to examine the mentally and physically disabled at work capability assessments).
Bells should be ringing but the DWP keeps pretending that no deaths have occurred due to their draconian policies.
GUNNYEON is the mouthpiece for the Insurance industry that is trying to decimate our welfare system.
He was under investigation when he flipped from the DWP and crossed to MAXIMUS just at the time that MAXIMUS had been awarded the mega bucks contract to steal disability benefits.
The DWP are about as low as anyone could get and Gunnyeon is it’s star pupil……………
Ask yourselves who are the stakeholders that the DWP don’t want you to know about?
THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND THUGS LIKE GUNNYEON ARE THE ROOT OF ALL THE WEFARE MORTALITY STATISTICS THAT THE DWP ARE FIGHTING TOOTH AND NAIL TO HIDE……….
https://bhwa.org.uk/news/dr-bill-gunnyeon-cbe-appointed-iosh-chair-board-trustees
“WHY IS THE BBC REGISTERED AS A DUTCH SHELL COMPANY?”
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
In the BBC Charter review there was reference to the opaqueness of BBC Worldwide accounts.
Having studied their recent accounts I can find no reference to their ownership of
BBC Worldwide Holdings B. V which I’m led to believe is a dutch shell company.
Could you tell me if:
a) This account exists
b) What is it used for.
c) Why doesn’t it appear on BBC Worldwide list of companies.
Yours faithfully,
A. Clerk
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bbc_worldwide_holdings#incoming-866795
“WHERE DOES THE BBC DERIVE IT’S INCOME?”
……………IF NOT A PUBLIC OWNED CORPORATION?
Michael Williams 15 September 2016
Delivered
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Please could you put in context the percentage of revenue which comes from the license fee paid by householders and businesses.
This is to understand whether the BBC should be considered to be publicaly funded.
Please summarise other key sources of income, from the UK and abroad which fund the BBC’s services.
Yours faithfully,
Michael Williams
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/licence_fee_as_a_percentage_of_t#incoming-868228
………..HILARY BENN SENDS A LETTER OF CONDOLENCE”
…………….62 Allied soldiers killed by the American dream machine that can deliver laser guided precision bombs accurate to within a few inches
and/or
The act of a lunatic pissed with power losing control of his new toy?
One thing is for certain is the old adage that when the yanks bomb, everybody ducks, is still as prominent today.
But i wonder if the UK ambassador for murdering foreigners on far away fields in events that we should never be involved, will be penning letters of apology on behalf of our very close friends over the pond?
Michael Fallon’s private war reached new heights as the will of our populate was totally ignored in favour of pursuing the Israeli agenda against their known enemies, the Syrians……………
Try making a speech for those who fell because of your support for blinkered policies you ignorant cunt!
…………but business as usual as the UK government ignore our illegal sales of weapons and ammunition to the arab’s that are used in ethnic cleansing of Yemen.
Wouldn’t want to tip the overseas trade statistics would we Mrs May ?
The Tory Grim Reaper pledges £1.1Bn of UK money to a Global Aid Fund.
They have always got to look good to other Countries – whilst at home, their cruel austerity and ‘welfare reforms’ are killing claimants. It really sucks doesn’t it!
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/18/priti-patel-justin-trudeau-uk-11bn-global-fund-aids-tb-malaria
“HOW THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURER, THE HEAVILY FINED AMERICAN GIANT, UNUM, INFLUENCED OUR WELFARE REFORMS”
GEOFFREY REYNOLDS (Account suspended) left an annotation (26 January 2013)
Extracts from the Report of the Physical Function and Mental Health Technical Working Groups.
Commissioned by DWP sept 2006.
There is still work to be done,to test the proposed new assignment in a live environment. This will be done by asking ATOS MEDICAL SERVICES DOCTORS to complete a PCA on incapacity benefit claimants.
Among the experts cited at being present at the meeting;
Sue Godby-UNUM PROVIDENT
Dr Angela Graham-ATOS ORIGIN
Dr Paul Stidolph-DWP
Ann Spaight-Chair of DISABILITY ALLOWANCE ADVISORY BOARD
Dr Peter Dewis-UNUM PROVIDENT
………………….THE SAME COMPANY, UNUM, WERE FINED RECORD SUMS FOR CONSTRUCTING FAKE MEDICAL REPORTS TO ESTABLISH DISABILITY DENIAL IN THE USA…………..
THEN THE DWP, LED BY THE SHITHEADS, GUNNYEON AND FREUD, INVITED THEM TO SHAFT US…
“BLATANT LIES FROM THE DWP”
Our Reference: FOI 4266-5116
24 January 2013
Dear Mr Reynolds
Freedom of Information Act – Request for Information
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request which we received on 24/12/2012.
You asked:
1. Have executives of U N U M corporation sat on mental or physical, technical working
groups on behalf of any British government?
2. Have executives or staff, from either U N U M, or A T O S, acted in steering any
favourable decisions for contracts for themselves?
3. Have A T O S, who funded the Biopsychosocial Research department at Cardiff
University, now distanced themselves from this department?
4. Does the department above, still do classes and accreditation for A T O S HCP
personnel?
5. Could this cosy relationship be defined as a “Conflict of interest” that is clearly apparent,
blatant and reprehensible, given the magnitude of the effects of their policies inflicted on
the disabled?
In reply to Qs 1, 2, 3 & 4 DWP does not hold any information on these subjects, as they are not
connected to the DWP Medical Services Contract.
In response to Q 5 the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act is about the supply of recorded
information held by the Department rather than explaining things or confirming whether your
assumptions are correct or not, therefore this question is not, under FoI a valid request.
Yours sincerely
DWP Business Management Team
Health & Disability Assessments (Operations)
“LORD KIRKWOOD, INSTIGATOR OF BENEFIT CLAIMANT DEATHS AND A FUNNEL FOR UNUM TO INFILTRATE THE WELFARE SYSTEM2
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope
A previous Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Work and Pensions, Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope, is listed in the House of Lords Register of Interests (Session 2006-2007) as the Chairman of the Unum Customer Advisory Panel for which he received payment from Unum and additional payments for other work for Unum.
ARCHIBALD JOHNSTONE KIRKWOOD, THE STENCH OF DEATH IS ON YOUR COAT TAILS…….
“CHRIS GRAYLING AND HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE DISGRACED INSURANCE COMPANY UNUM”
Chris Grayling: The work capability assessment was developed in 2008 with the assistance of technical working groups. As you may be aware, the Government consult widely with stakeholders and sources of public and private sector expertise, to ensure that its policies are evidence-based. Two Unum employees, a doctor and an occupational therapist, were invited to join the technical working group that carried out the review of the personal capability assessment. As with all members of the technical working group they were appointed as recognised experts in benefit assessment and in supporting return to work for people with disability.
I can confirm that since the initial review of the personal capability assessment as part of the technical working groups, that representatives of the company, Unum, have not been involved in either the administration or review of the work capability assessment.
The Department of Work and Pension has also not engaged with Unum in the design or administration of the appeals process.
…………..AND UNUM ENGAGED WITH THE DWP IN THE DESIGN AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE APPEALS PROCESS?
A PRIVATE HEALTH INSURER CONSTRUCTING WELFARE APPEALS POLICY?
“ALL IN IT TOGETHER”
Geoffrey
.. Dig deep into the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (registered as an independent charity) and you will find that they too are a member of the same Atos family along with their partner the Royal College of Physicians of which the FOM is a faculty member of, and living rent free in the same accommodation.. By both groups distancing themselves and pertaining to be a different organisation from Atos/Unum they can gain additional seats on government advisory panels, give support to policies, and be additionally consulted on new legislation to give strength to the intended changes., all whilst being part of that same group.
In 2009 the FOM held their 30th Anniversary celebration at the House of Lords supported by their sponsors Serco and Atos Healthcare..
Occupational health services serving more than 1,000,000 Government and private employees had achieved SEQOHS accreditation by October 2012. this is managed by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) on behalf of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FOM). Staff working for some of the country’s biggest employers are receiving occupational health advice and support from accredited services; this includes 1,000,000 staff looked after by ATOS healthcare. A hint came from Cameron when he said “We are all in it together.”.
A FEW THOUSAND DEATHS IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG.
“LORD DAVID FREUD AND UNUM”
The Countess of Mar Deputy Chairman of Committees, Deputy Speaker (Lords)
To ask Her Majesty’s Government (a) on how many occasions they have met officials from UNUM Provident; (b) on how many occasions officials from UNUM Provident have been members of advisory committees or working groups of the Department for Work and Pensions or the Department of Health, and (c) which other insurance companies have been involved in similar activities.
Hansard source
(Citation: HL Deb, 16 November 2011, c158W)
An extensive search of recent records within the department was carried out following receipt of your question, and details of meetings between department officials and representatives of UNUM Provident, details of membership of advisory committees or working groups, and details of similar activity with other insurance companies, are listed below. However, it should be noted that there are approximately 100,000 officials within the department and it would not be possible, except at disproportionate cost, to ask each of them whether they have engaged in any such discussions.
(a) on 14 February 2011, UNUM Provident officials met with officials involved in the independent review of sickness absence in Great Britain to discuss a research paper. In February 2011, the Government commissioned the independent review to explore the current sickness absence system, and examine whether the costs associated with sickness absence are appropriately shared between the state, individuals and employers. The independent review is being jointly led by Dame Carol Black and David Frost CBE; andon 18 October 2010, a representative from UNUM Provident, who was part of a delegation from the UK Rehabilitation Council, met with the Minister for Welfare Reform and department officials.
A full list of ministerial meetings with external organisations is available at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/ corporate-publications/ministers-meetings-overseas.shtml.
The Minister for Welfare Reform has also attended a round table on 5 October 2010 at the Conservative Party Conference which was jointly hosted by Demos and UNUM.
(b) two working groups were set up in 2006 to review the personal capability assessment for incapacity benefit. One of these groups reviewed the physical descriptors within the assessment, and of the seven meetings for which we have a record there were four meetings which the UNUM Provident representative definitely did not attend; the other looked at the descriptors which assessed mental function, and of the five meetings for which we have a record, the UNUM Provident representative was not recorded as being absent from any of them; and Jack McGarry, CEO of UNUM UK, was nominated to sit on the independent review of sickness absence in Great Britain expert panel by the insurance industry body.(c) As part of the evidence-gathering process for the independent review of sickness absence in Great Britain, department officials, as well as the independent reviewers, have met with or had contact with a number of insurers in the course of this work-the Association of British Insurers, Aviva, BUPA, Genworth Financial, Legal and General, SwissRe, and GRiD-Group Risk Development.
Ministers and officials meet with representatives of the insurance industry on a regular basis to discuss issues arising from compulsory employer liability insurance.
“MORE DAMNING EVIDENCE THAT FREUD AND BLACK COLLABORATED WITH THE INSURANCE GIANT, UNUM PROVIDENT TO REWRITE UK WELFARE POLICY”
“THE REASON WHY THE UK GOVERNMENT FIDDLED THE OUTCOME OF PACE EXAMINATIONS WITH PATIENTS HAVING M.E.
……….because private health insurer, UNUM, was having to pay out claims.
4. The incidence of ME/CFS is rising alarmingly. In order of insurance costs, one of the major medical insurance companies (UNUM Provident) reported in 1993 that ME/CFS came second in the list of the five most expensive chronic conditions, being three places above AIDS. In August 2004 the same company issued a Press Release reporting a 4,000% (four thousand) increase in claims for symptom-based syndromes, including ME/CFS. No other disease category surpassed these rates of increase. UNUM’s “CFS Management Plan” states: “UNUM stands to lose millions if we do not move quickly to address this increasing problem”. The latest estimate (January 2007) of the economic impact of ME/CFS in the US is between $22-$28.6 billion annually; in Japan it is $10 billion annually.
“THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EXCELLENCE, N.I.C.E., BEGINS MOVES TO ROB CLAIMANTS OF M.E. BY FALSIFYING AND RECLASSIFYING EFFECTS”
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
6. In defiance of the substantial biomedical evidence submitted to its Guideline Development Group (GDG), NICE is recommending an inappropriate and potentially dangerous behavioural modification regime as the only management strategy for those with ME/CFS.
7. NICE’s recommended management regime is promoted by a group (mainly psychiatrists) who have undeclared but undeniable competing financial interests. Their influence has resulted in a biased and unrepresentative consideration of the international peer-reviewed evidence upon which NICE is relying to support its national Guideline that purports to be “evidence-based” when it is nothing of the sort.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhealth/503/503we79.htm
“THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CARE AND HEALTH EXCELLENCE”
……WHAT A FUCKING JOKE
EVERY TIME THEY KNOCK BACK A LIFESAVING DRUG THEY ARE DANCING TO THE TUNE OF THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY……….
14. The advisors upon whom NICE relies have been shown to have undeclared vested interests: These psychiatrists and their adherents are heavily involved with the medical insurance industry, including UNUM Provident, Swiss Life, Canada Life, Norwich Union, Allied Dunbar, Sun Alliance, Skandia, Zurich Life and Permanent Insurance, as well as the re-insurers Swiss Re, at which Peter White is Chief Medical Officer. For the way in which these psychiatrists deal with ME/CFS claims, see http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/Notes_on_the_Insurance_issue_in_ME.htm. For an exposition of their commercial conflicts of interest in relation to the Department of Work and Pensions,
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhealth/503/503we79.htm
“THESE ARE PARLIAMENTARY RECORDS THAT ARE KEPT QUIET WHILST YOUR LOVED ONES ARE DENIED THE TREATMENT THEY DESERVE, KOWTOWING TO THE INSURERS……….”
“OFWAT WANT TO OPEN UP THE WATER MARKET AND GIVE YOU MORE CHOICE TO SELECT YOUR SUPPLIER WHICH IN TURN COULD BRING DOWN PRICES”
………Using the BBC, the tory government are attempting to make the water market as complicated as possible for a future Labour Party to re-nationalise the once, public utility that charges fortunes for a commodity that falls free from the sky………….
Ofwat, a group of specially chosen bandits that are hellbent on protecting staff and shareholders mega profits have no interest at all in bringing prices down.
It was also the BBC that were used to espouse the idea that fracking would lead to cheaper gas bills.
Funny how the BBC are always ahead of the game when propaganda is released, you would almost imagine them sitting in our dodgy governments arse pocket.
Executive Directors
The Executive Directors are Senior Civil Servants. Their remuneration are set out in their contracts and subject to annual review in line with awards recommended by the Senior Salaries Review Body.
These contracts can be terminated by the standard process as set out in the Civil Service Management Code. The arrangements for their early termination are made in accordance with the service contract of the relevant individual. Each contract provides for a payment in lieu of notice on early termination based on the provisions of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.
Each Executive Director participates in a bonus scheme, which is in line with the Senior Salaries Review Body recommendations. The bonus is paid on the individual’s performance. Bonus payments are non-consolidated and non-pensionable.
………………THEY ARE PAID A BONUS WHICH IS DIRECTLY LINKED TO PROFIT MARGINS
………AND THEY WANT TO BRING YOUR BILLS DOWN
“WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT”
Suicide £200 Suicide – Bonus on switchboard medical Suicide Bonus £200 – Through the system as a £24,000 suicide bonus. Suicide Cash Cow. Suicide £200 Suicide now £400 Suicide £600. Buzz word for generating money – DWP Assisted Suicide PLC.
I have just generated £26,000
10 more people to make suicide the talk & that`s £288,000 generated.
100 people as suicide at £26,000 a suicide cash cow head & that`s £2.6 Million generated. So I now fit into ATOS & MAXIMUS WCA !!!
Going up to £50,000 a suicide for suicide risk assessment. Now let the healthcare professionals do their DWP Assisted suicide.
The more I can use suicide the more money is generated. My job as a suicide risk assessor is to make my wages bigger by getting target bonuses which means the more I can get people to be suicide the better. Funny that since your only the DWP switchboard doing medicals & making medical judgements over the phone. So the DWP are undercutting Maximus & Atos by doing a WCA over the DWP phone call, just like Universal Credit !!!
Make suicide where suicide does not exist, is the guidance for suicide working. So the DWP taboo of suicide is a DWP suicide risk assessment on DWP Assisted Suicide !!!
DWP do you really want to be arrested & charged for wasting police time !!!
Keep an eye on this one! Some of the so-called HCP’s had better look out – when even ‘ordinary’ people can launch Court cases to try to prove that they are right.
“Jeremy Hunt acted illegally over junior doctors, court hears”
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/19/jeremy-hunt-acted-illegally-junior-doctors-contract-court-hears
These so-called ‘HCP’s – employed by ATOS/MAXIMUS etc comprising lowly physiotherapists, etc etc, who know ‘everything’ about ‘all’ of a claimants life and conditions/diseases that the claimant suffers from!
Just take a look at these cunts! And look at the bottom of the page too!
MAXIMUS – UNITED KINGDOM
http://www.maximusuk.co.uk/health-programmes/independent-health-assessments
“Jeremy Hunt has ‘no power’ to ram through NHS junior doctor’s contract, the Court hears” (Final verdict due on Wed, Sep 28th, 2016)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-hunt-no-power-ram-8878026
All other ‘websites’ that copies this original ‘article’ of Johnny Void’s – please now copy all of these posts to your own website and thence, spread it all as far and wide as possible!
‘HCP’s from now onwards should be regarded as ‘endangered’ persons – the ‘Private Companies (if I were in their shoes!) would not really like to employ any of them – unless ‘they’ (the HCP’s) were prepared to sign away off all of their assets and ‘all’ of their everything that they own.
It is now very clear that unless these ‘HCP’s ‘correctly’ followed their procedures, then the DWP (and certainly not their ‘Employers’) would not be able to protect any of them!
‘HCP’s – from now on – please consider yourselves to be under ATTACK
If anyone (via the ‘Media’) can kindly explain what has been happening to very deserving disabled people can, from now on, do this – then it would be greatly appreciated. The very concept that disabled people can be trampled completely into the ground should NEVER be accepted.
These, so-called ‘Health Care Professionals’ (HCP’s) – the very lowest dross and the very low life of the ‘Health Care Assistants’ (who are WELL above these ‘Health Care Professionals’) are far above the ‘Health Care Professionals.
The ‘Health Care Assistants’, in my humble opinion are, by far more able to professionally able to loom after THEIR patients.
The ‘Health Care Assistants’ actually look after their ‘disabled’ and their ‘elderly’ patients and clients – THEY ARE NOT PAID HUGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY TO STRIP DESERVEDLY DISABLED PEOPLE OF THEIR WELL DESERVED BENEFITS.
(COR) ‘look’ after THEIR patients
Who performs your assessment??!!
http://www.atoshealthcare.com/pip/who_performs_your_assessment
Who performs your assessment??!!
http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-/esa-glossary/1484-healthcare-professional
‘HCP”s – From this – it is now very much more than clear that you are not actually (generally) ‘qualified’ to be able to decide anything about ‘claimants’ ‘mental-health’ and/or ‘physical’ health ailments – unless, by good ‘Medical Certification’ then you are able to prove it.
Not to forget – the ‘great’ Company that is CAPITA!
http://www.trainedtodo.co.uk/why-join/overview
And then – when it all goes wrong – CAPITA will, no dobt sort it all out for you!
http://www.capitamedicalreporting.co.uk/our-services/medical-reporting/clinical-negligence#.V-G4hfkrLIU
HCP’s – As I said before, please consider yourselves, from now on – to be under ATTACK
‘HCP’s – Prepare yourselves for very possible legal litigation – it is on the way up and you cannot go under the ‘radar’ for ever
Jrf complete waste of time. Only the brain dead need to listen to those bloated rich kids funded by Tories so they too can get sanctions themselves.
How many of them claim tax credits and family allowance. Shit heads won’t say about their own staff on benefits. Just as bad as channel 4benefits.channel 5vers worth of benefit.
“HOW THE DWP HAVE PLACED THE BLAME FOR BENEFIT CLAIMANT DEATHS FIRMLY ON THE HCP’s SHOULDERS”
……..WE WERE ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS HAS SUDDENLY BECOME A NO GO AREA……..
The previous guidance stated that someone who is a suicide risk should be placed in the Support Group. The new guidance, effective from January this year, states instead (see p252 here): “If you conclude that finding a claimant fit for work would trigger risk of suicide or self-harm then you need to consider whether there are factors that would mitigate the risk if the claimant were found fit for work.”
The DWP spokesperson told i in relation to this point: “Healthcare professionals who carry out the Work Capability Assessment are trained in all aspects of their role including the application of risk. They are also issued with written guidance on all aspects of the Work Capability Assessment including the application of risk.”
………………..WHAT AN INCREDIBLE MOVE, THE DWP ARE TRYING TO SHIFT THE ONUS OF THE HIDDEN WELFARE MORTALITY COUNT ONTO THE EX BED PAN WASHERS WHO TOOK THE KING’S SHILLING TO DENY BENEFITS TO THE MOST FRAIL AND VULNERABLE……….
NICE MOVE DWP, BUT TRY EXPLAINING ALL THE DEATHS OF THOSE THAT DIED WITHIN A SHORT TIME OF BEING CLASSIFIED AS FIT TO WORK………
……….LUCKILY, MY DWP DECISION MAKERS HAS SIGNED ALL MY DOCUMENTATION THAT DEPRIVED ME OF MY “LIFETIME” DISABILITY AWARDS…..
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE LITIGATION TO START……
The DWP control suicide & that`s even before you have contact with the HCP. DWP medical judgements cutting corners & not involving HCP`s. The DWP blaming HCP`s yet the responsibility lies with the DWP. The DWP have even less wiki medical training than the HCP`s. When it comes to suicide the DWP feel it`s time to call the police & create a Crime Incident Number that is on record. The way the DWP waste police time is becoming a problem for the police & are pissed off the DWP are abusing the system. The reason the DWP are cutting corners & making medical judgements without a medical is failing behind the DWP targets imposed by the idiots in power AKA Tory Dictatorship AKA Human Rights Abusers & Disability Killers.
DWP Medical Department. Buzz words – Suicide & Terrorist. The DWP are trying to put disabled under the Anti Terrorist Bill. DWP failure means DWP Arrests aka Lord Fraud charged for 100`s of illegal actions. DWP off shore tax havens Lord Fraud.
“IS WORK GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH AND WELLBEING?”
WRITTEN BY GORDON WADDELL AND KIM BURTON AT THE CENTRE FOR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITY AND RESEARCH CENTRE AT CARDIFF UNIVERSITY………..
The DWP claim that they commissioned the authors to write this independent review yet the Cardiff Centre was funded by the UNUM PROVIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY (FINED 31.7 MILLION DOLLARS IN THE USA FOR RUNNING A DISABILITY DENIAL SCAM)
What is constantly overlooked is that both these influential reports were commissioned by the DWP. They were both produced when Aylward and Waddell were funded by Unum Provident Insurance at the Unum Provident Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University, with funding by the American corporate insurance giant, Unum Provident, from 2003-2009. Aylward is listed as the DWP Chief Medical Adviser until April 20058 and is identified as being appointed as the new Director of the Centre from 2004.
The LiMA IT programme used for the Work Capability Assessment was designed by Atos Origin IT Ltd, the parent company of Atos Healthcare, for exclusive use for DWP assessments.
……….but wait a minute, didn’t the DWP sack ATOS ?
Yet so many have died, thousands and thousands, in fact.
Which must go a hell of a long way to disprove the theory that work is good for you.
“TEN YEAR OLD YEMENI GIRL PLEADS WITH THE WEST TO STOP ARMING THE ARABS WITH ILLEGAL WEAPONS”
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-09-06/10-year-old-girl-makes-her-pitch-western-powers-peace-yemen
…………..but THERESA MAY looks the other way as the UK built arsenal of illegal arms goes into hyperdrive………….
EMBARRASSED MAY THEN DECIDES TO DO THE PROPER THING AND SENDS MORE AID TO YEMEN……….
SO WE PROVIDE THE TOOLS TO MURDER THEM AND HAVE THE AUDACITY TO OFFER THEM HELP
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/22/uk-increases-aid-yemen-amid-calls-inquiry-war
“AMBER RUDD, UK HOME SECRETARY, TAX FIDDLER AND BAHAMA FUNDS DIRECTOR”
It could only happen in the cess pit of Tory politics……
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/21/bahamas-leaks-reveal-amber-rudd-involvement-offshore-firms
The files name Rudd as having been a director of two Bahamas companies, Advanced Asset Allocation Fund and Advanced Asset Allocation Management, between 1998 and 2000.
Records at Companies House also identify her as a director of Monticello plc, which became the centre of an investigation into share ramping after one of her co-directors, Mark O’Hanlon, gave an interview in January 2000 in which he made false claims about the company’s prospects.
Bahamas files leaks expose politicians’ offshore links
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Monticello’s share price subsequently skyrocketed and trading on its shares was suspended. Rudd resigned as a board member five months later, two days before she also resigned as director of Advanced Asset Allocation Management.
The episode led the Department of Trade and Industry to investigate, and in 2007 O’Hanlon was convicted of making a false statement and sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment. He was jailed again in June 2013 following an unrelated fraud conviction.
Prior to Monticello, Rudd was involved in a number of other ventures. The Guardian can disclose she was:
The executive director of Kensington Resources, a company headquartered in Mayfair in London that financed diamond prospecting in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Appointed president in 1994 of another mining company, Siberian Pacific Resources Inc. Rudd raised 500,000 Canadian dollars for a joint venture with a group of Russian geologists searching for diamonds in Siberia.
A director of The Zinc Corporation plc, a company exploring a new technique for zinc extraction. In 1997 the company hoped to go public on the lightly regulated stock exchange Ofex. However, the plans were dropped after it misplaced a cheque for £12,500, according to an interview in which Rudd was quoted. Shortly after the company was bought by Monticello.
Shares in both Kensington and Siberian were traded on the Vancouver Stock Exchange, which prior to its closure in 1999 had a reputation for being poorly regulated. A report commissioned by the finance ministry of British Columbia described a small number of successful enterprises “overshadowed by the continuing occurrence of shams, swindles and market manipulations”.
…………….as bent as they come
“AMBER RUDD, TORY CRUD”
When interviewed on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show after Cameron admitted he had previously held shares in Blairmore, Rudd said: “I think the key thing is here that the prime minister and his family paid the correct amount of tax that they were due.”
When asked if she had money in any offshore trusts herself, Rudd replied: “I don’t, no. But I’m pleased to say that all MPs have a very transparent system. They have to disclose their funds, their income, and of course famously a very clear expenses regulatory system.” She did not mention her previous role running a Bahamas fund.
ALL THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR A HOME SECRETARY IN CORRUPT UK……….
Amber Rudd – Another Tory offshore tax-haven player!
There are now calls for her to explain it all – no doubt, like Cameron, they’ll say that ‘she’s done nothing wrong’ – as always!
Politicians are like Teflon frying pans – nothing ever sticks to them! – Even Police investigations into them seem to be stalled or eventually come to nought!
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/22/amber-rudd-facing-calls-to-clarify-involvement-in-tax-havens
Sorry – that should read: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/22/amber-rudd-facing-calls-to-clarify-involvement-in-tax-havens
“THERESA MAY DECIDES TO USE COUNCIL HOUSE BUILDING CASH AND STOLEN DISABILITY BENEFIT MONEY TO BUILD IN ETHIOPIA”
Britain, the European Union and the World Bank have announced a plan to create 100,000 jobs in Ethiopia to help tackle the migrant crisis.
Two industrial parks will be built in the country at a cost of $500m (£385m).
Ethiopia, which proposed the plan, will be required to grant employment rights to 30,000 refugees.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May said the project would be a model for how to support poorer countries housing large numbers of migrants.
Ethiopia hosts more than 700,000 asylum seekers, mainly from South Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia.
South Sudan refugees reach one million mark
The deal, which was announced on Wednesday at the UN summit on refugees in New York, will be funded by loans from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and grants from the UK and the World Bank.
As part of the agreement Ethiopia will grant refugees employment rights, which many currently do not have.
A number of the new positions will be reserved for Ethiopia’s growing number of young jobseekers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-37433085
……………..The thought of zero hours contracts, workfare and provision of foodbanks have been welcomed by a village spokesman. No mention of a joint enterprise with a Chinese consortium as yet.
ISIS/DAESH/TALIBAN on standby waiting to demolish the ill fated project.
“MAJOR ICE CREAM PRODUCER DENIES LINKS TO WALLS OF CALAIS”
………Emperor Hadrian to give advice on construction of Donald Trump’s vision of world harmony.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37421525
‘Fit for work’ suicide man’s sister tried to take her own life after DWP ordeal
DNS – 22nd Sep 2016
The sister of a man driven to suicide by the “fitness for work” system tried to take her own life after being “treated like a criminal” by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) over her benefit claims.
Eleanor Donnachie believes her brother Paul (pictured) was a victim of DWP’s failure to ensure the safety of people with mental health conditions in vulnerable situations who apply for employment and support allowance (ESA) through the work capability assessment (WCA) system.
She told Scottish journalists earlier this year how DWP had ignored her brother’s need for support and instead punished him for missing appointments for a face-to-face assessment by sanctioning his benefits.
Now Eleanor, from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, has spoken for the first time about her own struggles with DWP and how fighting for ESA and personal independence payment (PIP) drove her to attempt to take her own life earlier this year.
She told Disability News Service (DNS) that she feels she has been treated “like a criminal” by DWP, just as her brother was.
And she has joined the family of another victim of the UK government’s social security policies in backing calls for former Tory DWP ministers Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling to face a criminal investigation by Police Scotland for their failure to make the WCA safe.
It came as the disabled president of the Liberal Democrats, Baroness [Sal] Brinton, also backed calls for an inquiry – and possibly a criminal investigation – into the failings of Duncan Smith and Grayling.
Paul’s body was discovered in January at his home in Glasgow, but he is believed to have taken his own life in November after losing his ESA.
His sister believes DWP had failed to contact Paul’s GP to ask for detailed information about his mental health, and ignored its own guidance by failing to send someone to his flat to talk to him face-to-face about his support needs.
He had previously claimed jobseeker’s allowance and filed a complaint because of the way he had been treated by his local jobcentre. He was sanctioned several times and fell deeper and deeper into debt.
She says DWP knew that Paul attended mental health support groups and counselling sessions, and that he was taking anti-depressants.
But the department removed his ESA when he failed to attend a WCA on 30 June last year – the second or third assessment he had missed. His benefits were stopped and the withdrawal of his payments was backdated by four weeks.
DWP also contacted Glasgow City Council, so his housing benefit and council tax benefit were both stopped.
Eleanor believes that by this stage Paul was so ground down by fighting DWP that he stopped opening his post.
The council wrote to him on 19 November to say there had been a mistake and that his housing benefit was being reinstated, but the letter arrived too late. He never opened it, and may have already been dead when it arrived.
In a final indignity, Eleanor’s much-loved younger brother was sent a summons for a £3,000 council tax debt by Glasgow City Council in January, after his body had already been discovered.
Eleanor believes DWP should have treated him as someone in a “vulnerable” situation.
She said: “They didn’t do anything to help him. They should have arranged a home visit, but the only time that happened was when the council sent the bailiffs round to kick his door down. And that’s when they found him.
“They hounded him to death. They have taken my brother’s life.
“They are driving people to suicide. I have told DWP that I hold them totally responsible for my brother’s death.”
Extracts from secret DWP reviews, published earlier this month by DNS, have revealed that its staff have repeatedly failed to follow strict guidelines on how to support benefit claimants who express thoughts of self-harm or threaten to take their own lives.
Eleanor said she was fully behind attempts by the Scottish grassroots group Black Triangle to persuade Police Scotland to launch a criminal investigation into the refusal of Duncan Smith and Grayling to act on a letter written by a coroner weeks before the 2010 general election that warned ministers that the WCA process risked causing further deaths of people with mental health conditions.
The family of another victim of the WCA, David Barr, have also backed calls for a criminal investigation into the failure to ensure that further medical evidence is obtained before an ESA decision is reached in such cases.
The cases of Paul Donnachie, David Barr and a third ESA claimant, Ms D E, who also died as a result of a failure to secure further medical evidence, have been submitted to Police Scotland in a dossier put together by Black Triangle.
Eleanor told DNS: “They should be prosecuted. Also the workers that work for them, they should be prosecuted as well.”
Baroness Brinton said the failure of the two ministers to act on the coroner’s letter, which then led to further deaths, would be more serious than deaths that happened because a minister had made a particular policy decision.
She said: “There should be an inquiry. I am not proficient in saying if it should be a criminal inquiry…
“Absolutely, if the coroner said this needed to be looked at and it wasn’t looked at, at the very least the department was negligent in not carrying that forward.”
As well as fighting for justice for her brother, Eleanor is also fighting DWP, just as Paul did.
Her own WCA took place on 14 January, the day before police officers told her that her brother’s body had been found.
She has now spent months fighting DWP for both ESA and personal independence payment (PIP), and although she has finally been found eligible for ESA, she has been turned down for PIP.
Eleanor has a number of complex health conditions, including fibromyalgia, vertigo, high blood pressure and depression.
After many years working in social care, she passed college courses that saw her accepted by Glasgow University onto a sociology and history degree, but had to leave the course last year when her health worsened and was causing her concentration and memory problems.
Despite those serious health problems, she was found fit for work, and after she applied a second time for ESA – after being diagnosed with vertigo in January – and was again found fit for work, she told her local jobcentre that she was going to take her own life, “the same as they had forced my brother to do”. Police officers were sent to her house to check on her welfare.
Despite her high support needs, she was given zero points in both her WCAs.
She was only finally placed in the ESA support group days after telling DWP that she was going to tell the media how she had been treated.
Despite the ESA award, her PIP has been turned down, a result confirmed during the mandatory reconsideration stage and at tribunal, even though DWP was told she had attempted suicide.
The tribunal refused to accept a letter written by her doctor, supporting her PIP claim, because it was not written on headed paper.
The letter describes her “complex conditions which limit her ability with tasks such as sitting, standing and going on journeys unaided”, problems with co-ordination, concentration and short-term memory, and vertigo.
The impact of her impairments means that she often forgets she has left pans cooking on the stove, while her chronic fatigue frequently leaves her too tired to get out of bed and dress herself.
She has told DWP that she has twice attempted suicide since becoming ill. She says her latest attempt was the result of her treatment at the hands of DWP, and that she believes the department is doing to her what it did to her brother.
She said: “I couldn’t take it anymore. It was terrible. They treat you as if you are a criminal.
“When I tried to do it, I just felt it was the final straw. I still have suicidal thoughts but I just tell myself, ‘Don’t let them win.’
“I am a fighter, I have always been a fighter. Now I’m fighting for Paul.”
When approached about Eleanor Donnachie’s ordeal, and that of her brother, DWP said PIP was awarded on the basis of how someone’s condition affects them day-to-day rather than just on the condition itself.
A DWP spokeswoman said: “The decision on whether someone is eligible for PIP is taken after consideration of all the supporting evidence from the claimant’s GP or medical expert.
“If someone disagrees with a decision they can challenge it, including appealing to an independent tribunal.”
She said that fitness for work decisions were taken following “a thorough independent assessment, and after consideration of all the supporting evidence from the claimant’s GP or medical specialist”.
And she said that if a claimant’s circumstances change, then their eligibility for benefits can change too.
She added: “Suicide is a tragic and complex issue, so to link a death to someone’s benefit claim is misleading.
“We are fully committed to ensuring that people who are too sick to work get the support they need.”
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/fit-for-work-suicide-mans-sister-tried-to-take-her-own-life-after-dwp-ordeal/
…………so the DWP have decided to enter pastures new with the overspill of suicides now affecting the immediate families of those they initially murdered………
All of these pesky deaths that they try to brush under the carpet are the sole responsibility of the DWP who took it upon themselves to ignore warnings of what would happen.
The only way the welfare reforms would pass parliamentary scrutiny was to omit to do a thoroughly researched risk assessment. Lord DAVID FRAUD, ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE LOBBY, DECIDED THAT A FEW THOUSAND CLAIMANT’S LIVES WERE WELL WORTH THE PERSONAL BUNG THAT WAS NESTLING IN HIS OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNTS……………
THE REST IS HISTORY
People need to know that this has happened & is happening; ‘I Daniel Blake’ should (in a just world) be given the levels of prime time media coverage that Helen’s story, (representative of women who experience coercive control/domestic violence) received over the past few weeks – crimes which are comitted by individuals.
Democide/people in ‘high’ places willingly following policies leading to tragic consequeces for individuals is not likely to be subject to an (official) attempt to raise awareness – but many more people are becoming aware. It’s a slow process for all those already affected – like deaths in custody (for eg) – it’s not on a vast number of people’s radar; not part of their own experience & ignorance is bliss.
“In a final indignity, Eleanor’s much-loved younger brother was sent a summons for a £3,000 council tax debt by Glasgow City Council in January, after his body had already been discovered.” – well, just throw it in the bin, shred it, incinerator or use it to line the bird-cage, like everyone else on benefits does. All the Sheriff fucking Officers can do is grab ~ 3.65 a week from his benefits. Just file it in the trash along with all the other shite like “TV fucking Licensing”…
File 13.
“NOTICE HOW THE DWP TRY TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM THE STUDY BY WADDELL AND BURTON THAT WORK IS GOOD FOR YOU
IS WORK
GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH
AND WELL-BEING?
Gordon Waddell, CBE DSc MD FRCS
Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research, Cardiff University (UNUM FUNDED), UK
A Kim Burton, PhD DO EurErg
Centre for Health and Social Care Research, University of Huddersfield, UK
The authors were commissioned by the Department for
Work and Pensions to conduct this independent review of
the scientific evidence. The authors are solely responsible
for the scientific content and the views expressed which
do not necessarily represent the official views of the
Department for Work and Pensions, HM Government
or The Stationery Office.
!0,600 DEATHS AND COUNTING
“PARAGRAPH HIDDEN AT THE END OF WADDELL AND BURTON’S REPORT”.
A PARAGRAPH THAT THE DWP DO NOT WANT ANYONE TO SEE.
“Only then was it apparent that all of the evidence retrieved to that point was about the impact of
work or unemployment on people who were, by definition, healthy. It did not address the
question of whether or not work was good for
people who were sick or disabled. An additional
search was therefore made for reviews about the impact of work on the health of people who are
sick or disabled; this came from a different, largely clinical literature.”
WHICH, IN TURN, EXPLAINS THE THOUSANDS OF DISABILITY CLAIMANT DEATHS.
…………WHICH MAKES THESE PEOPLE WHO FORMULATED THE IDEA THAT WORK IS GOOD FOR YOU, GUILTY OF THE CRIME OF PREMEDITATED MURDER OF BENEFIT CLAIMANTS”
v
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Keith Palmer and Christopher Prinz for their careful review of the final draft
of the report.
We thank the following colleagues for their helpful ideas and comments, and for pointing us to
useful material during the course of the project: Kristina Alexanderson, Robert Barth, Jo Bowen,
Peter Donceel, Hege Eriksen, Simon Francis, David Fryer, Bob Grove, Bill Gunnyeon, Elizabeth
Gyngell, Bob Hassett, Camilla Ihlebaek, Nick Kendall, Rachel Lee, Chris Main, Fehmidah Munir,
Trang Nguyen, Nick Niven-Jenkins, David Randolph, Justine Schneider, David Snashall, Holger
Ursin, Keith Wiley, Nerys Williams, and Peter Wright.
Finally, we thank Debbie McStrafick for archiving the data and providing administrative support.
The Guardian, Wednesday 12 September 2012 21.00 BST
“DWP CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICERS ATTEND SEMINAR SPONSORED BY THE WORLDS LARGEST MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANIES”
This week the sixth International Forum on Disability Management, IFDM 2012, takes place at Imperial College London. It is sponsored by some of the world’s largest medical insurance companies, Unum among them, and speakers include DWP chief medical adviser Dr Bill Gunyeon and Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, formerly DWP chief medical adviser and director of the Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University, which was sponsored by Unum from its inception in 2003 until 2009.
Unum’s website states that during this sponsorship period “a series of papers was published, identifying the range of factors that determine why some people become long-term absentees”. The Cardiff papers advocated a “biopsychosocial model” of disability which Unum says “informed its approach to medical underwriting”. It is the same approach upon which the current Atos work capability assessment (WCA) is based. Concomitantly, the company were advising the UK government on welfare reform.
“DID YOU GIVE THE DWP CONSENT TO USE LIE DETECTION AND ANALYTICAL PROCESSING?”
Pat James 22 September 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions, please provide all codes of practice and training manuals associated with the use of Lie Detection Equipment and Voice Risk Analytics as mentioned by Lord Freud in is letter to Lucy Powell MP, which have been in use (including trials) with DWP and any partner organisation.
Yours faithfully,
Pat James
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/cop_detection_analysis_equipment#incoming-871611
Shouldn’t surely big companies like Krispy Kreme doughnuts (Peterborough) be recruiting the unemployed, rather than be promoting and selling their business in a job centre, to recruit. And pushy job centre advisors, hard selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts to me , although I couldn’t afford them. Advisor..at Peterborough job centre, I wouldn’t be surprised you got free doughnuts and the job centre staff too. Anyway, they had free doughnuts for us job seekers to see if we thought there doughnuts were great. Well, I said, yeah anything does when ya hungry. Now I could be facing a sanction. How the job centre has changed over the years, o well .
Council ‘pays Capita to cut care packages’
DNS – 22nd Sep 2016
A local authority has employed the outsourcing giant Capita to clear a backlog of annual reviews of its service-users’ care packages, in an apparent attempt to cut costs and help fill a hole in its budget.
The “pilot project” has so far resulted in an average cut of seven per cent in disabled people’s support packages.
One service-user who contacted Disability News Service said that Capita was “blitzing” all of the disabled people receiving support through direct payments, on behalf of Southampton City Council (SCC).
The Capita employee who carried out the assessment admitted cutting the direct payments packages of more than half of the disabled people they had assessed so far, and said that the aim of the exercise was to cut costs.
The service-user* said they were particularly concerned that the review was being carried out by a company with an appalling record of assessing disabled people for their eligibility for the disability benefit personal independence payment, on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Read More:
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/council-pays-capita-to-cut-care-packages/
Government rule change shuts thousands out of disability benefits
inews.co.uk – 21st Sep 2016
The number of people being refused disability benefit has soared to the highest level for three years after key changes to how applicants are assessed were introduced in January. Figures published earlier this month https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-september-2016 revealed that the success rate among people applying for the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) – the main out-of-work disability benefit – fell sharply from the start of this year. The news is likely to reignite the controversy over the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), the government-backed test that is used to judge how severely disabled someone is, in order to decide how much benefit they should receive.
The government deny that the rules have changed. However, there has been new “guidance” on how to interpret the rules. The WCA is used to assess how much disability benefit a claimant will receive. Applicants are placed in one of three groups: Support Group Higher level of benefit for severely disabled people who cannot work Work Related Activity Group Lower level of benefit for disabled people who might be able to work in future, and usually have to engage in activity such as practice interviews; they can be sanctioned if they do not Fit for work The applicant is judged to be able to work and receives no benefit Suicide risk regulations At the heart of the sudden collapse in successful disability benefit claims are regulations 29 and 35. These rules partly refer to people whose mental health would be at risk if they were denied benefits or told to engage in work-related activity. It specifically includes people at risk of suicide or self-harm. The government always assumed these rules would only be used sparingly, but it became much more common over time – it was the basis of more than half of all Support Group benefit awards in 2015. Changing rules The government responded by issuing new guidance to staff carrying out WCA tests on how to interpret the regulations – although it insists there has been no change to the rules. A spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) told i: “There has been no change in policy – this guidance makes clear that if there is a substantial risk to a claimant’s mental health by being placed in the Work Related Activity Group, they should be placed in the Support Group. “The legislation underpinning this area of ESA hasn’t changed since 2013 so would not affect the data which was published [earlier this month].” It is true that the legislation itself, and the wording of the rules, has not changed. But the DWP guidance – which tells WCA assessors how to interpret and apply the rules – has changed.
Read More:
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/politics/government-rule-change-shuts-thousands-disability-benefits/
Official Statistics
ESA: outcomes of Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals: September 2016
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/esa-outcomes-of-work-capability-assessments-including-mandatory-reconsiderations-and-appeals-september-2016
So suicide is the DWP`s policy to cut costs. Let`s make everyone suicidal.
So people classed as suicidal have no Human Rights. Classed is the correct term. DWP are now medical experts to cut costs & the best way is to kill off disabled people. DWP you are heading for admitting 49 benefit deaths.
It’s about time the police got involved and started to check the accounts of Gunnyeon, Black. Freud and Ayward, who have been pushing the welfare blitz upon the disabled to feather their own nests.
You do not have to be a genius to put the pieces of the puzzle together to work out who would gain from claimant disability denial.
The private health insurance industry are bankrolling prominent figures to skew bonafide medical reports and present biased information to the ever so willing parliamentarians that are also on the take.
Corruption is rife in the UK, but the police are held to a vow of silence while the state legitimised murders carry on.
WPP DMA Referral Quality Assurance Framework
This QAF is being introduced as part of a number of continuous improvement activities across the Labour Market Decision Making processes within the WP.
The aim of this QAF is to support providers to make referrals at a consistently high standard enabling the Labour Market Decision Makers (LMDMs) to make a decision. It is a tool for use by Managers to use to identify and address staff training needs which in turn will lead to:
DWP`s new tactic.
DWP Disability Hate Crime – Resulting in DWP Assisted Suicide.
DWP DHC needs a DWP Lawyer. How about getting Capita as the DWP`s Lawyer. Hiding behind corporate companies DWP & the money is going to run out. The DWP are more important than the police budget to hide illegal DWP actions. Now the DWP have to hire more corporate companies so the UK`s budget is now all going to the DWP`s cover up off genocide of the disabled in a clean sweep called Welfare Reform. IDS got out before the shit hit the fan. The blame game in genocide or is it the DWP blame game in the DWP committing DWP Assisted Suicide !!!
IDS has a bad cough though … it’s as if he’s got something stuck or has a very dry throat whenever he pops up to pronounce on something of great importance & be the (croaky) voice of authority. He sounds a bit haunted – a bit like Dorian Gray somehow.
The Tory Party have put the Disabled under the Anti Terrorist Bill.
FACT. So disabled people have to get Human Rights through the Anti Terrorist Bill.
Bullshit.
Gunnyeon is the key player in the mortality deaths scenario. He was a director of CAPITA, the Chief Medical Officer of the DWP and now works for MAXIMUS.
He is the prime rotten apple in a barrel of rotten apples and has many links to the insurance industry.
“HOW THE DWP LIE IN FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS”
Dear Mr Reynolds
Freedom of Information Act – Request for Information
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request which we received on 24/12/2012.
You asked:
1. Have executives of U N U M corporation sat on mental or physical, technical working
groups on behalf of any British government?
2. Have executives or staff, from either U N U M, or A T O S, acted in steering any
favourable decisions for contracts for themselves?
3. Have A T O S, who funded the Biopsychosocial Research department at Cardiff
University, now distanced themselves from this department?
4. Does the department above, still do classes and accreditation for A T O S HCP
personnel?
5. Could this cosy relationship be defined as a “Conflict of interest” that is clearly apparent,
blatant and reprehensible, given the magnitude of the effects of their policies inflicted on
the disabled?
DWP ANSWER;
In reply to Qs 1, 2, 3 & 4 DWP does not hold any information on these subjects, as they are not
connected to the DWP Medical Services Contract.
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
………..AND YET;
GEOFFREY REYNOLDS (Account suspended) left an annotation (26 January 2013)
Extracts from the Report of the Physical Function and Mental Health Technical Working Groups.
Commissioned by DWP sept 2006.
There is still work to be done,to test the proposed new assignment in a live environment. This will be done by asking ATOS MEDICAL SERVICES DOCTORS to complete a PCA on incapacity benefit claimants.
Among the experts cited at being present at the meeting;
Sue Godby-UNUM PROVIDENT
Dr Angela Graham-ATOS ORIGIN
Dr Paul Stidolph-DWP
Ann Spaight-Chair of DISABILITY ALLOWANCE ADVISORY BOARD
Dr Peter Dewis-UNUM PROVIDENT
THE DWP ARE UP TO THEIR DIRTY LITTLE NECKS WITH UNUM PROVIDENT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY AND ARE WILLING TO LIE TO TRY AND ERASE ALL CONTACT.
“AUSTRALIANS TAKE ON THE DWP CORRUPTION DOWN UNDER”
Centrelink could be sued over ‘privatisation’ of job schemes
Union says work-for-the-dole jobseekers are increasingly reporting that welfare payments have been unfairly suspended
Newspaper job ads
Legal action canvassed by the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union seeks to examine the behaviour of private companies managing employment programs, and making decisions on Centrelink’s behalf.
Centrelink could face a wave of legal action from Australian jobseekers over what employment groups say is a “growing crisis” arising from penalties or abrupt suspensions of welfare payments imposed by private employment companies.
The legal action is being canvassed by the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union and seeks to examine the behaviour of the private companies to which the government has given the task of managing employment programs.
Sure, unemployment is down but plenty of people would like to work more
Greg Jericho
Greg Jericho
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The potential legal action could challenge Australia’s heavily privatised employment scheme, which relies on companies effectively making decisions on behalf of the welfare provider, Centrelink, about the conduct of participants in the “work-for-the-dole” scheme.
The president of the AUWU, Owen Bennett, said jobseekers were increasingly contacting the union with stories of abrupt suspensions or penalties to their unemployment or disability allowances. He said some of these decisions were made unfairly, without natural justice and without the companies providing a reasonable opportunity to allow those affected to respond.
“This is pushing these people to a point where they’ve really got nothing to turn to, and it pushes them over the edge in many cases,” Bennett said. “They’re putting people in very vulnerable positions to the point where their health and generally their wellbeing is being placed under threat.”
A spokesman for the Department of Employment acknowledged that private contractors played a role in assessing the behaviour of income support payment recipients, but said it provided clear requirements and training on how to appropriately monitor them.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/22/centrelink-could-be-sued-over-privatisation-of-job-schemes?CMP=share_btn_fb
………..SOUNDS ALL TOO FAMILIAR
“MAX SOLUTIONS, PRIVATISING AUSTRALIAN WELFARE BY THE BACK DOOR” (MAXIMUS)
MAX Solutions is a national organisation that delivers employment, health and training services, best known for its work as the employment service provider, MAX Employment.
Since opening in 2002, MAX Solutions has offered proven solutions to support individuals, business and the Australian Government achieve outcomes that benefit the community. Operating from more than 250 locations, MAX Solutions is an industry leader focused on innovation for improved performance and results – giving every person every chance.
Employment Solutions
Specialising in Employment Services, MAX Employment assists Australian job seekers under contracts with the Australian Government, these include – jobactive, Disability Employment Services, Remote Jobs and Communities Program and Indigenous Employment Programs. Using an integrated approach we address barriers to employment and provide job seekers with relevant health and training interventions. We also work with employers to find and recruit the right candidate.
“CENTRELINK AUSTRALIA TELLS WOMAN WITH 16 DISABILITIES THAT SHE IS NOT DISABLED ENOUGH”
………….ring any bells?
A BROWNS Plains woman planning to move to the United States has been told she will have her Disability Support Pension frozen despite suffering from 16 disabilities and illnesses.
Lisa Okungbowa, 49, has been receiving a disability pension since 1986 but she said a recent Centrelink hearing ruled her condition was deemed “not severe enough” for unlimited portability of a Disability Support Pension required for her to receive payment overseas for more than four weeks.
Last Friday she presented a second hearing with a medical report showing she had diseases and injuries to her legs, feet, lungs, pancreas, eyes, digestive system, back, neck and mental health illnesses.
Ms Okungbowa said her cost of living was cheaper in the United States and the decision was “ridiculous”.
“I can’t even walk to my letterbox half the time without falling over.”
“What do I have to be, dead?”
http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/logan/centrelink-has-told-a-logan-woman-claiming-numerous-disabilities-she-must-work-30-minutes-a-week-or-have-her-payments-suspended/news-story/1ae4d6a56b308028194f4abcee12e833
“PURGED LABOUR PARTY MEMBER CHALLENGES MCNICHOLS WARPED EXECUTIVE”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/09/21/latest-twist-labour-purge-truly-astonishing-images/
Salford children are suffering malnutrition and Victorian diseases as poverty tightens its grip on the city
Foodbanks run out of supplies
Fresh cases of Victorian illnesses have been reported in Salford in shocking report
The number of malnutrition cases in Salford has DOUBLED – with many of the victims children.
Victorian illnesses such as rickets and beriberi – thought to be long eradicated – are on the rise due to food poverty according to a shocking new report/
The number of people being admitted to hospital with the condition doubled over a four year period.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/salford-children-suffering-malnutrition-victorian-11919776#ICID=sharebar_twitter
and everywhere else in the world.
“You haven’t yet signed your updated CC, to except it, just call us by .. until you call you also need to keep doing the things you have agreed in your CC, if you don’t call us your UC claim will close, so please do get in touch as soon as possible”
What is that has been added to the CC?
“I will copy ……..@dwpgov into my job applications or I will print off copmpleted (dwp’s own spelling mistake) application forms that I complete, this is so I can receive advise and support as to why I am not securing many job interviews”
This person is securing job interviews, the most recent – this morning.
Meanwhile this person is waiting for a date to go to a tribunal.(Lately the DWP have tried their hardest to get this persons phone number)!
Any thoughts?
Breaking News: Theresa May’s Government is showing further cracks it seems as ‘Treasury Minister Lord O’ Neill quits Government’
Jim O’ Neill (Baron O’ Neill of Gatley) worked for most of his time at Goldman Sachs from 1995 to April 2013 as their Chief Economist.
Theresa May’s administration is already crap and it’s getting worse!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37449627
The Sinking Ship of Welfare Reform AKA Tory genocide. IDS & Cameron had the right idea & got out before the shit hit the fan. The Headmistress will have no Tory pupils left so may or maybe will be left to carry the 49 benefit deaths of her watch. The corruption shit is hitting the fan & no Tory Genocide lawyer can help you because you never listened to your lawyers in the first place. Tory suicide watch – next victim !!!
Tory suicide to cover up DWP Assisted Suicide. So no one is in charge just like corporates that no one runs it. The responsibility seems to be missing like the boss. So suicide runs the Tories genocide plan on the Welfare Reform. If you can`t take your own medicine, don`t give medicine.
The official wording is DWP Assisted Suicide in a court of law. So DWP stop wasting police time which in itself is a criminal offence. The DWP are relying on the police to cover up DWP Assisted Suicide. The police are now pissed off with the DWP for crying wolf all the time to save the DWP`s arse.
The only way the Tories can get out of Human Rights Breaches is to retire from poll a tricks otherwise the 49 benefits death will be their to haunt you & destroy the Genocide Tory Party.
RIP Tory Party.
That does not stop criminal charges brought against these disability hate crimes that lead to other charges.
So all fuck off to the USA with Maximus & UNUM.
Failing Care Of Duty again !!!
You now feel I am suicidal to save your Tory arses in slander & death Threats from the DWP.
Our Disabled Hero`s is the message. Para me para !!
I have just cost the Tories & Tax payer £100,000 in lawyers fee for my so called rant.
The way the DWP get out of Care Of Duty is to call everyone suicidal. Care Of Duty on DWP suicide watch.
Tory breakdown.
Suicide – suicide – suicide – suicide.
I am not part of the Tory genocide so I will leave the suicide to the Tories & the DWP.
Now for the swearing – I am fucking dangerous to the Tories.
“OUTRAGE AS CAPITA/MAXIMUS.ATOS UNQUALIFIED THUGS GIVEN GREEN LIGHT TO FORCE CLAIMANTS ON SUICIDE REGISTER INTO WORK”
COMPLAINT TO BE LODGED AT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, (COMPLAINTS KEYBOARD NOW MANNED BY G4S BOUNCERS)………
https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/9426/outrage-campaigners-benefit-denials-suicide-risk-claimants
LORD FREUD MUST BE ON A SUICIDE BONUS
OrangeCat
Sat, 09/24/2016 – 07:49
“Remember that there is good evidence that people in work have better health outcomes and are at lower risk of suicide”
So what does the evidence say about people out of work, who have already been identified as at risk of suicide, who have little or no realistic prospect of finding work (not least because they are so unwell as to be potentially suicidal) and who then have their sole means of survival taken away? On an intuitive level I would say the risk of someone in that situation becoming suicidal would increase significantly and I would challenge the DWP, or anyone, to produce evidence to show otherwise.
What does this evidence amount to anyway? Is it more than that Chris Grayling once met a woman who worked one morning a week in a charity shop and said it had helped improve her health? That seemed to be the basis when they started claiming it.
There was a DWP poster up in our local medical centre a while back that claimed the evidence showed two thirds of people experienced improved mental health from being in work. So that means there is a one in three chance that someone with mental health issues who is placed in work will see either no improvement or a worsening of their mental health. That is a very significant risk to the individual to be adopting this as policy on the basis of statistical averages.
Of course there is also the major factor that while the DWP glibly talks as if there are two outcomes, being eligible for benefits or being in work, the reality is that for most of the people these guidelines apply to, the two outcomes are being out of work and eligible for benefits or complete destitution. At best the likely outcome is going to be being places on JSA and unable to deal with the demands imposed by the “job seeking” regime and thus being sanctioned.
“UK HUMAN RIGHTS CHAIRMAN DAVID ISAACS IS A DWP GOVERNMENT STOOGE”
……….what else did you expect from a corrupt government?
Isaac takes EHRC chair, despite concerns over DWP ‘outsourcing’ work
David Issac
The new chair of the equality watchdog has taken up his new post, despite question-marks over potential conflicts of interest arising from his legal firm’s work for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and other government departments.
David Isaac took up the post of chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) this week, as the watchdog prepares to investigate whether Conservative welfare reforms have breached the human rights of disabled people.
But Isaac is a partner at law firm Pinsent Masons, which has a “significant amount of business with the government”, including DWP.
And he has specialised in his work at Pinsent Masons in providing advice on “major public and private sector UK and global commercial and outsourcing projects”, although the company has refused to say which outsourcing projects he has worked on for DWP.
This week, he refused to comment when asked by Disability News Service (DNS) how he could head an investigation into the human rights implications of DWP welfare reforms on disabled people, when he appears to have been involved himself in delivering some of those reforms at Pinsent Masons.
He took up his post after two parliamentary committees, the joint committee on human rights (JCHR) and the Commons women and equalities committee, appeared to back down over their concerns that his appointment would cause a “serious potential conflict of interest”.
http://www.disabledgo.com/blog/2016/05/isaac-takes-ehrc-chair-despite-concerns-over-dwp-outsourcing-work/
Isaac works at the EHRC “one to two days per week” and is paid £500 a day.
Disability denial specialists elected to all key positions…………………
“DWP STOOGE IN HUMAN RIGHTS CHAIR”
……..NO FUCKING WONDER SO MANY CLAIMANTS ARE ALREADY DEAD AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION SITS BACK AND DOES ABSOLUTELY ZILCH……….
G4S ARE MANNING THE HELPLINES……….
ONE ALMIGHTY STITCH UP OF OUR HUMAN RIGHTS………
FoI reveals EHRC chair’s ‘conflict of interest’ over welfare reform inquiry
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By John Pring on September 15, 2016 Benefits and Poverty
The equality watchdog’s new chair, who is set to lead an investigation into whether Tory welfare reforms breached disabled people’s human rights, worked for the government on key contracts at the heart of those reforms, Disability News Service can reveal.
David Isaac (pictured) was appointed by the government to chair the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) earlier this year, despite concerns raised by two parliamentary committees over “serious potential conflict of interest” caused by his work as a partner of law firm Pinsent Masons.
He specialises at Pinsent Masons in providing advice on “major public and private sector UK and global commercial and outsourcing projects”, and his own profile on the firm’s website previously stated that he “leads teams of lawyers on major projects” for, among others, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), although the reference to DWP has since been removed.
But his appointment as EHRC’s new chair came as the watchdog announced that it was to investigate the human rights implications of DWP’s welfare reforms on disabled people.
Isaac, Pinsent Masons and DWP have previously refused to say which welfare reform projects he worked on for the government.
But DWP has now been forced to respond to a freedom of information (FoI) request that was submitted by Disability News Service (DNS) nearly five months ago, following pressure from the Information Commissioner’s Office.
The freedom of information response shows that DWP projects Isaac led on included, from July 2013, providing “legal services” for terminating the contract of the much-criticised outsourcing firm Atos to provide work capability assessments (WCAs).
The controversial “fitness for work” test has been implicated in hundreds – and possibly thousands – of deaths of disabled people, and in causing significant harm and distress to tens of thousands of others.
Isaac’s team at Pinsent Masons was also involved in legal work surrounding the appointment of the outsourcing company that replaced Atos as the supplier of WCAs, the equally controversial US company Maximus.
And Pinsent Masons was involved in providing legal services in relation to “contracts with third party suppliers for the delivery of services” connected with personal independence payment (PIP), from November 2013.
PIP is gradually replacing working-age disability living allowance, and is again at the heart of the government’s plans to cut spending on disability benefits.
It is not clear what services these “third party suppliers” were delivering, but DWP has told DNS that they were not the main contracts to deliver PIP assessments, which had been awarded the previous year to Atos and fellow outsourcing giant Capita.
PIP has already seen tens of thousands of disabled people have their support cut or removed completely, while disabled activists have described the benefit as “rotten to the core”, and have pointed to growing evidence of the “shoddy nature” of PIP assessments.
DWP’s freedom of information response means that Isaac, through his work at Pinsent Masons, has been closely involved in two areas of the government’s welfare reforms that will be examined by the EHRC inquiry.
There are also existing concerns over the voting record of Lord [Chris] Holmes, the watchdog’s disability commissioner and a Conservative peer, who voted in the House of Lords in favour of the government’s welfare reforms and cuts and will also play a leading role in the EHRC’s investigation.
LORD CHRIS HOLMES, TORY MP WHO SITS IN THE LORDS AND VOTED FOR WELFARE CUTS
There are also existing concerns over the voting record of Lord [Chris] Holmes, the watchdog’s disability commissioner and a Conservative peer, who voted in the House of Lords in favour of the government’s welfare reforms and cuts and will also play a leading role in the EHRC’s investigation.
……………….HIDING CLAIMANT DEATHS
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Re: UN investigation into the abuse of the human rights of the disabled / and deaths, caused by the UK government’s “welfare reforms”.
Please provide a copy of the UN’s report.
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
P. Smith
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/un_investigation_into_abuses_of#incoming-872474
“LAW FIRM THAT DAVID ISAACS WORKS FOR, DELIVERED DWP CONTRACTS WITH ATOS AND CAPITA”
…………….. and this cunt is human rights chair?
And Pinsent Masons was involved in providing legal services in relation to “contracts with third party suppliers for the delivery of services” connected with personal independence payment (PIP), from November 2013.
PIP is gradually replacing working-age disability living allowance, and is again at the heart of the government’s plans to cut spending on disability benefits.
It is not clear what services these “third party suppliers” were delivering, but DWP has told DNS that they were not the main contracts to deliver PIP assessments, which had been awarded the previous year to Atos and fellow outsourcing giant Capita.
“UNITED NATIONS PERIODIC REVUE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM”
SCROLL DOWN PAGE TO ACCESS REPORT
https://www.bihr.org.uk/news/hrcheckreportnews
“95.5% OF RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL IN 2012 TOTALLY IGNORED BY UK GOVERNMENT”
https://www.bihr.org.uk/news/hrcheckreportnews
WHAT ELSE DID YOU EXPECT OF BENT TORY CABAL
More4 “Location, Location, Location” Programme has, in the last half hour reported that “The average Brit spends £4000 per year (i.e. £76.92p per week) dining out – that is one fifth of the average take home wage” (i.e. £20,000 per annum).
According to them the ‘least expensive’ is a ‘mid-range’ Liverpool restaurant = 3 course meal in a restaurant would be around £20.
Take out curries are costing the average family around £1300 per year (£25 per week)
Yeah – what about a family that is sanctioned – they are living on fuck all!
One life (and expenditure) for them – and another life (and expenditure) for us – less mortals!
And in the ‘Coffee Shop’ (according to them), £7.9Bn was spent in 2015 – presumably this is the total national spend in 2015 to the likes of Starbucks & Costa Coffee etc!
Obviously, their ‘customers’ have got a whole lot more money than sense!
According to ‘Sun’ readers no doubt!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-leadership-results-live-jeremy-corbyn-owen-smith-british-public-poll-a7327686.html
According to ‘Sun’ readers no doubt!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-conservatives-popularity-ratings-public-support-a7327726.html
All of this shit really encompasses the ‘great British public’s’ total ‘understanding’ of politics in 2016. The general population really believes that Theresa May’s re-formulation of Cameron’s shitty Government will really lead to ‘all of the population being equal and all of the population earning equal wages/salaries’. This is never going to happen under present circumstances. The ‘great British public’ is now, so far ground down by the Media’s propaganda and our M.P.’s/Government’s propaganda, than all that they think is ‘if I ‘work’ really hard than I can achieve – (in the past, this was indeed the case), but not any more.
If, nowadays you are a youngster – then you are, seemingly, much more likely to achieve everything that you want by ‘knowing the right people’ who can ‘direct you down the right path’ rather than ‘leaving school’ with ‘few qualifications’ – in this case you’re most likely ‘route’ then is to go down to your local JCP – get into their corrupt system and then, take it from there.
A possible LIFE then awaits you of ‘training’ or ‘charity’ work or CWP or MWP (under the new Work & Health Programme which is on the way)
Of course – the great British public will say ‘serve you right you lazy and unkempt sherker (via the Sun/Daily Mail readers & Sky viewers) – you have got exactly what you have deserved.
Fuck off – many of the ‘British’ public are demonstrably totally stupid – but not ‘all’ of them are!
I, for one at least am really scared now. Now that Corbyn has won – that is really good – but, in the background, there will STILL be the Blairites – they are not going to give up their ‘dreams’ of ‘power’ to concede to a ‘lefty’ Politician from the mid -1980’s. Corbyn may well have fought Thatcher tooth and nail from the back benches then – but now? I am still unsure that Corbyn really has the confidence and total balls to go ‘head to head’ with the ‘over confident’ Tories and to thence eventually to overthrow them.
There are now just two alternatives – draw together and ‘support’ Corbyn whatever happens, – or, if not. then the Labour Party will split – if they split then they are dead as a political force or as an official opposition. I sincerely hope that it is the first option!
I don’t think Labour will split or win a general election under Corbyn. Hopefully it will however now that Corbyn is secure as leader the party will rally and oppose the Tories more successfully and vigorously than previously and challenge pernicious Tory policy both past, present and future, particularly as far as housing and social security are concerned.
Incidentally Labour isn’t going to lose the next general election only because Corbyn lacks the mass appeal needed to win, but also because of duds he has selected for significant posts in his shadow cabinet. For example who the heck in their right minds would welcome the utterly hopeless Dianne Abbot as Secretary of State for Health for goodness sake?!
Or the aggressive, cerebrally challenged and unpleasant John McDonnell as Chancellor of the Exchequer?
The Tories very own (and extra) ‘Grim Reaper’ in the form of Priti Patel is presiding over another ‘disaster’ of death of epic proportions.
Not that the ‘Aid-budget’ will help ‘other countries’, but it may well be hived off into other Government Departments.
Meanwhile, many of our much more deserving claimants in Britain are still finding it necessary to top themselves due to this cruel Tory Government’s totally unnecessary ‘sanctions’, ‘austerity’ and ‘welfare reform’ policies.
Theresa May’s Government will never publicly admit to this – the DWP will never publicly admit to this – MAXIMUS, CAPITA & ATOS will never admit publicly to any of this. But – it is coming – the law will catch up and however,
be at it’s may – litigation over these preventable suicides is on it’s way – have no doubt about this whatsoever.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/24/more-than-a-quarter-of-uk-aid-budget-to-fall-prey-to-rival-ministries-by-2020
“DWP CREATE BULLSHIT DEMANDS NOT RECOGNISED IN LAW”
JOB SEEKERS ALLOWANCE TWADDLE
Dear DWP Strategy Freedom of Information,
Thank you for your reply
I would like to address your 5th paragraprpgh.
Policy is nothing to do with legislation or law i.e jobseekers act, welfare reform act, HAVE TO CONFORM WITH WRITTEN LAW, REGULATION PASSED THROUGH PARLIAMENT. You state: policy decision was made to move from a jobseeker’s
Agreement to a jsa claimant commitment, as a means of recording claimant requirements. Therefore, jsa claimants need to agree and sign a jsa claimant commitment.
THE WORD NEED IS NOT A CONDITION OF LAW.
THIS IS NOT TRUE PLEASE WITHDRAW THIS STATEMENT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: YOU’RE GIVING OUT FALSE INFORMATION.
This is just your personal opinion made up policy, policy can be made up by anyone. What law states it’s mandatory to change your existing jsa agreement to claimant commitment?
The jsa claimant commitment does not require anything of the claimant over and above that of the existing jobseeker’s allowance regulations and in particular, fully conforms to the legal content of a jobseeker’s agreement outlined in regulation 31 of the jsa regulations. There for, it is not a condition for jobseekers allowance.
Your statements must comply with law not policy or personal opinion.
I was under the impression that freedom of information is separate from the dwp yet I feel your replies are biased.
SEE CASE: CJSA/5376/2014 – JSAG/CC ARE COVERED BY CONTRACT LAW, IF YOU HAVE A JSSA AGREEMENT IT REMAINS IN FORCE YOU CANNOT BE FORCED TO SIGN A CC
Yours sincerely,
MR JAMES EDWARD
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/jsa_agreement_to_jsa_claimant_co_3#incoming-872734
“DWP ATTEMPTS TO BLOCK A CLAIMANTS RIGHT TO REPRESENTATION”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
What guidance prohibits naming a representative over the telephone?
I am in receipt of DLA and wanted to name my representative over the phone but it has been refused to acknowledge despite my identity check.
I would appreciate clarification what law or guidance prohibits that.
Yours faithfully,
Joerg Thieme
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/representation#incoming-872743
“THE NATIONAL TRUST SLAVE TRADERS”
………..ABUSING WORKFARE TO ADORN PALACES OF THE RICH
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_national_trusts_role_in_forc_2#incoming-872742
“MORE TWADDLE FROM SANCTION DIRECT”
DWP Response:
Whilst Jobseeker’s Allowance claimants cannot be mandated to present a CV
at the jobcentre, they can be mandated to create one as a means of
improving their chances of finding employment, by issue of a Jobseeker’s
Direction.
The use of Jobseeker’s Direction is supported by Section 19A of the
Jobseekers Act 1995, which can be found at the following internet address,
via the DWP Website:
Click to access a11-0101.pdf
Legislation does not make reference to whether claimants can be mandated
to provide their CV to the jobcentre, or whether the jobcentre may keep a
copy.
However, claimants are required to provide evidence of having undertaking
the activity required of them, in order to satisfy their Work Coach that they
have complied with the Jobseeker’s Direction. In the absence of any other
evidence, this may be in the form of the CV itself, which the claimant may
choose to provide clerically, or by email.
THEY NEED YOUR CONSENT
“G4S AWARDED CONTRACT TO RUN HUMAN RIGHTS HELPLINES”
…bit like Boston strangler running children’s services
Rt Hon Harriet Harman
QC
MP
Chair
Joint Committee on Human Rights
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA
,
Award of the Equality Advisory Support Service to G4S
We are writing to express our profound concern at
reports
i
that the
Government Equalities
Office has
awarded security firm G4S the contract to deliver the Equality Advisory Support
Service (EASS). Given
the
serious and longstanding
concerns about the competence of
G4S expressed by Members of Parliament across the House and several
parliamentary
committees, we urge you to initiate a parliamentary investigation into both the tendering
process and the suitability of G4S to deliver this vital service. We understand that the service
is due to become operational on 1 October and run for three years, with the option of a two
year extension.
The matter is therefore urgent.
The EASS provides advice and assistance to individuals on issues relating to equality and
human rights, across England, Scotland and Wales. In
October
2012, it replaced a helpline,
previously run by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which provided a
vital resource for individuals affected by discrimination.
In a March 2016 report, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Equality Act 2010 and
Disability
ii
recommended
that the EASS either be
returned to the EHRC
or managed by the
EHRC.
In its response to the report
, the EHRC
strongly supported the recommendation that
the EASS
be returned to its control and asked the Government whether it could run the
EASS or manage it.
In its response to the r
eport the Government rejected this
recommendation, apparently without explanation.
Click to access Joint%20NGO%20letter%20to%20Parliament%20re%20G4S%20EASS%20contract%20Final.pdf
“HARRIET HARMAN, A VOICE ON HUMAN RIGHTS?”
…….you must be joking
she proposed that employers could discriminate on race or gender
Equality bill
Main article: Equality Act 2010
As part of a proposed Equality Bill, Harman announced a consultation on changing the existing discrimination laws, including options for reverse discrimination in employment. Under the proposals, employers would be legally allowed to discriminate in favour of a job candidate on the basis of their race or gender where the candidates were otherwise equally qualified. Employers would not be required to use these powers, but would be able to do so without the threat of legal action for discriminatory practices. The white paper also proposed measures to end age discrimination, promote transparency in organisations and introduce a new equality duty on the public sector.[47] These changes, if made, could face a challenge under Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights,
ISAACS AND HARMAN, ANOTHER COMEDY DOUBLE ACT
MPs’ expenses
In January 2009, Harman proposed a rule change to exempt MPs’ expenses from the Freedom of Information Act. Her parliamentary order aimed to remove “most expenditure information held by either House of Parliament from the scope of the Freedom of Information Act”. It meant that, under the law, journalists and members of the public would no longer be entitled to learn details of their MP’s expenses.
“THE GOVERNMENTS JOINT COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS”
…More like a day trip from the Lords. Not one of these fuckers has ever had to miss a meal or live in the street. THEY REPRESENT NO ONE BUT THEMSELVES, EACH SNOUT FIRMLY IN THE PROVERBIAL TROUGH.
Membership – Joint Committee on Human Rights
The Commons Members of this Committee were appointed on 28 October 2015. The Lords Members of this Committee were appointed on 25 May 2016.
Member Party
Ms Harriet Harman (Chair) Labour
Fiona Bruce Conservative
Ms Karen Buck Labour
Baroness Hamwee Liberal Democrat
Lord Henley Conservative
Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon Labour
Jeremy Lefroy Conservative
Mark Pritchard Conservative
Baroness Prosser Labour
Amanda Solloway Conservative
Lord Trimble Conservative
Lord Woolf Crossbench
………..as much a part of human rights as Alice in Wonderland.
no wonder the DWP death count goes completely ignored
“OPERATION MURDER”
Man leaves coroner letter as he fears Work Capability Assessment will kill him
Written by Kitty S Jones
The government have persistently denied any “causal relationship” between their welfare reforms and an increase in premature deaths and suicides, despite an existing correlation. Ministers have also denied a link between disability assessments and an increase in mental distress and ill health.
Figures released last year show that between December 2011 to February 2014, 4,010 people died after being told they were fit for work, following a Work Capability Assessment (WCA). 40,680 died within a year of undergoing the WCA, making a bleak mockery of any claim that the WCA is a real and valid “health assessment” of any kind. Or that our welfare system is “supportive” to those in most need, in any real or meaningful sense. Those people were clearly not at all “fit for work.” The figures were only released after the Information Commission overruled a Government decision to block the statistics from the public.
Research last year from Leonard Cheshire, a charity that works with disabled people, also showed that the assessments are making people who are ill more sick. Almost three quarters (72 per cent) said they found the assessment had a negative impact on their mental or physical health, or both. The same number described the face to face appointment as very stressful.
David Sugg would agree with those research findings. David suffered a life threatening subarachnoid haemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) because of an aneurysm (a swollen and very weakened point in a blood vessel) in 2013, and faces more life saving surgery because he has developed two more aneurysms that threatens to rupture, putting him at risk of another catastrophic brain haemorrhage. Whilst he waits for his operation, he has been told that if his blood pressure goes up, he is likely to die.
He had a Work Capability Assessment with Maximus this week. He was so afraid of the adverse health impacts that the strain of the WCA may have on him that he left a letter for the local coroner, to be opened in the event of his sudden death.
The letter said: “You may be looking into the reason for my death. I am hoping I can save you some time. This uncaring and spiteful Tory government killed me.”
He told me: “My neuro-surgeon says I mustn’t get stressed, but I have been called by the Department for Work and Pensions for an assessment even though I’ve told them about my situation.
If I don’t go for an assessment my benefits will be stopped. But I fear it may cost me my life.”
https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/man-leaves-coroner-letter-as-he-fears-work-capability-assessment-will-kill-him/
“WHY CORBYN WANTS SHOT OF TRASH LIKE YVETTE COOPER”
………Blairite Cooper seeks to defend disability killer Esther Mcvey
Speaking on ITV’s Peston on Sunday, she urged shadow chancellor John McDonnell to apologise to former Conservative MP Esther McVey for comments he made about her in 2014.
Mr McDonnell sparked a row by repeating the words “why aren’t we lynching the bastard?” – which had been aimed at the former Wirral West MP by a constituent of hers – in reference to Ms McVey during a comedy night.
In a subsequent parliamentary debate, Mr McDonnell suggested Ms McVey was playing the victim and he hoped that the electorate would “remove the stain of inhumanity” at the 2015 general election.
MOST OF THE EVIL DONE TO DISABLED WAS BY THE BONNIE AND CLYDE DOUBLE ACT OF SMITH AND MCVEY……….
THEY ARE BOTH YET TO STAND TRIAL FOR THEIR CRIMES, BUT COOPER HAS SHOWN HER TRUE COLOURS AND SHOULD BE SHOWN THE DOOR.
IT WAS NO ACCIDENT THAT MCVEY SOON WENT OFF THE POLITICAL SCENE WHEN WORDS LIKE MURDERER MCVEY APPEARED ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS,,,,,,,,,,
“NOT ANDY MURRAY THE TENNIS PLAYER, JUST ANDY MURRAY THE DISABLED”
……..ONE FILLS HIS BOOTS EACH WEEKEND, ONE HAS NO LEGS.
Andy Murray
I’ve had 2 strokes, 8 heart attacks, a quadruple heart bypass, I have Heart Failure, Peripheral Neuropathy.
Undiagnosed damage to my spine and arthrittis in my hips and hands.
Last year, I was confined to a wheelchair after both legs were amputated.
Last week, I was sent an ESA 50, a work Capability assessment form and told I may need a further medical asessment, despite being awarded top rate PIP.
Is this harassment necessary?
Can they not leave you in peace to die?
https://www.facebook.com/ATOSM/
TORY SUICIDE
BBC – 25th Sep 2016
Claims Theresa May “badly let down” David Cameron over the EU referendum campaign have been dismissed by former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith.
Mr Cameron’s former director of communications Sir Craig Oliver said in a book that Mrs May was regarded by some as “an enemy agent”.
But Mr Duncan Smith urged Remain campaigners to “get behind Theresa May instead of carping”.
Sir Craig said the book was an attempt to explain “what went wrong”.
In his book, Sir Craig claimed that Mrs May failed to back the Remain campaign 13 times and he also said Boris Johnson believed the Leave campaign would be “crushed”.
Read More:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37467502
Brexit: Stop blaming Theresa May, says Iain Duncan Smith
SUICIDE
The Tories are now in a civil war. Spring Election 2017 – Brexit 2035.
Brexit is null & void with fraud.
May Maybe May Election – Mrs May not even 6 months in the job & gone !!
May gone by October 2016.
Tory Suicide & because Suicide is the buzz word Tory Suicide Suicide Suicide Suicidal Tory Death Trap.
Mrs May gone IDS is now Tory Leader.
Going Going Gone – Give Them Enough Rope – Tory Suicide not execution !!!
Suicide Ego – Suicidal Tory Civil War.
“puppets of the system”
Here is a post written by one of the latest victims of the systemic corruption and fraud:
At my appeal I was asked questions with no relevance at all to the reasons for my appeal. When I tried to answer the questions I was rudely interrupted, then they moved on to the next irrelevant question.
The doctor asked me questions using medical terms that I did not understand, then when I told him I didn’t understand what he meant he just wrote something down and moved on.
At the end I was asked if I had anything to say, so I spoke up against the lies that had been told about me. The problem was that all three people were looking down at their papers as I was talking, not one of them had the decency to show me any respect by looking at me.
Needless to say at this point I lost all respect for them and when I returned for the decision I showed them the same respect. I told them that their attitude was pathetic, that they took no notice of the facts and had allowed the lies, discrepences and contradictions to be accepted; that is if they had bothered to read my reasons for appealing.
I know what I said was a mistake but at the time I felt angry and I thought they should hear the truth. As I was leaving the room I turned and told them, “call yourselves independent, you all piss in the same pot, it’s the government who pays you, you’re just puppets in the system”….
“MORE LINKS TO THE DWP AND SUICIDES”
…..WHISTLEBLOWER FROM DWP/HMRC BULLY BOY CONCENTRIX, TELLS OF SUICIDAL CLAIMANTS RINGING HELPLINES………….
Last week you heard that Concentrix, the chosen US bullyboy of the UK government had been told to get packing.
What the BBC DID NOT TELL YOU AT THE TIME WAS THE REASON WHY.
The BBC are the mouthpiece of our corrupt government and they are scripted to rearrange information to suit the ever so bent corridors of Westminster.
CONCENTRIX, who have been allowed to continue harassing and driving victims to suicide till next May, had been linked to threats of suicide by victims who were ruthlessly targeted and accused of tax credit fraud when they were completely innocent of any crime.
DWP and HMRC are very brave when it comes to hounding the very poorest on the totem pole of life but stay well clear of the secret enclaves of the rich and famous well documented in the panama papers, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands.
Indeed, the actual HMRC task force to root out tax evaders has been dramatically reduced.
THE DWP ARE STILL REFUSING TO RELEASE THE DETAILS OF SEVEN SUICIDES THAT BEAR ALL THE HALLMARKS OF CONTINUED BULLYING, STARVATION AND THREATS…………………
A firm used by the government to cut tax credit payments has received calls from “suicidal” clients, the BBC has been told.
A whistleblower at Concentrix’s call centre said most staff “weren’t even trained” to deal with such calls.
He said staff were not offered counselling, but were instead told: “Have a smoke… you’ll be fine.”
But Concentrix said, in the case of suicidal callers, staff were trained in accordance with guidelines from HMRC.
It told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme: “Our staff are supported as much as possible where we have encountered this type of scenario.”
‘No food’
Last week, US firm Concentrix – which is employed by HMRC to help reduce incorrect or fraudulent tax credit payments – learned it would not have its contract renewed once it expires in May 2017.
This came on the same day as the Victoria Derbyshire programme reported claims that hundreds of people had wrongly had their payments stopped.
Media captionNicola McKenzie told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she was struggling to feed her two-year-old son after her tax credits were removed
Single mother Nicola McKenzie said Concentrix had cut her tax credits after she was wrongly accused of being married to a dead 74-year-old man.
Now, a member of the company’s staff has spoken about the experiences of staff at its call centre in Belfast.
The 600 workers were yelled at “every day” by clients, he said, with “people crying down the phone to you that they’re down to their last bag of wipes, have no food in the fridge to feed their kids”.
“We were dealing with people claiming they were going to commit suicide,” the whistleblower said. “You had to try and keep them on the phone, while a manager phoned the police to get out to their address to make sure that they were OK.
“Some of the [call centre workers] that were dealing with the suicide calls weren’t given the back-up, weren’t given aftercare by our aftercare team. Most of the people weren’t even trained in how to deal with a suicide call.”
Concentrix staff received no “aftercare by our human resources team, or any sort of counselling, after a call”, he claimed, adding: “They were just told, ‘Go out. Have a smoke. Come back. You’ll be fine. Deal with another 40 or 50 calls.'”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37427990
WITH THE DWP TELLING CALL STAFF TO WAVE PINK CARDS WHEN ALERTED TO A SUICIDE THREAT AND CONCENTRIX TOLD TO GO HAVE A FAG, WHAT MORE COULD BE STRIKINGLY OBVIOUS?
MURDER BY LEGISLATION IS NOT ACCEPTABLE IN MODERN SOCIETY
Disability Denial Factory = Tory Suicide Factory. Murder children is the Tories policy. Death & morbid is the Tories hideaway from any responsibility of any care of duty. Forget child poverty it`s Tory child murder. That sorts out the problem of poverty in all aspects of dictatorship control. The policy sounds very much like genocide. The claims of their defence is guilt by omission. How stupid do the Tories think we are !!! The brainwashing of stupid makes stupid policies which is stupid because the stupid Tories are stupid. So stupid has no standing in a court of law – Stupid.
Concentrix works on a payment by results system, which, in turn means that in the event of a death the claimant will not appeal the judgement.
A suicide is a gift horse to those that terrorise the most vulnerable.
Take me to court DWP for £800,000 benefit fraud. But no the DWP are scared to take me to court as I have been saying for the past 4 years. The DWP Assisted Suicide have no place in a court of law because the courts only deal with facts & the DWP will be slaughtered in a court of law.
Run Rabbit Run Rabbit Run Rabbit.
Run Run Run
Looks like a cover up in Genocide of the disabled. Suicide may ……..
Harm the Tories. Maybe may has some thing to say in the 2017 May Election. I am trying to get arrested but the DWP & Tories are shit scared to take me to court. You the Tories have the upper hand because I have no legal aid. Set an example with me !!!
So DWP & Tories what makes me so special at doing £800,000 disability benefit fraud & gets away with it since I am not disabled !!!
Makes the Tories not fit for purpose. Just like the WCA & HCP`s.
Easy to put Tory Suicide on it now !!!
Thanks for putting that up news seeker – Very good speech.
“NO WONDER THE TORY PRESS WANTED TO STOP MOMENTUM”
Momentum has announced today a partnership with Disabled People Against the Cuts. It says it wants to put disabled people’s rights and accessibility and inclusion “at the heart of the labour movement”. In a statement it said:
Groups such as Disabled People Against the Cuts, who were instrumental in opposing the cuts to Personal Independence Payments, will be invited to advise on access requirements so that events and activities are inclusive for those with disabilities. Alongside Momentum Kids, this initiative is part of Momentum’s drive to make politics more inclusive and participatory.
Over the coming months, Momentum hopes to develop further links with disabled activists and to assist in campaigning against devastating cuts
“NICE TO SEE HILARY BENN, TORY ALLY AND ARCHITECT OF SYRIAN WAR CRIMES, WORRIED ABOUT HIS SEAT”
Mr Benn, who was dismissed by Mr Corbyn after telling him that he had lost confidence in him after the EU referendum, told a Labour First rally at the party conference in Liverpool that the party must now come together and “rise above” any abuse.
“We have won Labour parliamentary representation from Keir Hardie onwards and we do that by working together and those values have not changed and are alive and well in every single one of us in the party.
“We should celebrate the fact that so many new members have joined the party, every single one of us is a guardian of those values.
………….STRANGE HOW THE LABOUR PARTY MEMBERS THAT CHASE DIFFERENT AGENDAS TO THOSE THEY PURPORT TO REPRESENT, ARE NOW AFRAID OF FALLING OFF THE GRAVY TRAIN………
“DISABLED SILENT WITNESS STAR COMPARES DWP WITH SECOND WORLD WAR GERMAN ELITE ASSASSINATION UNIT”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/actress-liz-carr-stuns-audience-8911590#ICID=sharebar_facebook
TV star Liz Carr launched a brutal attack on Tory austerity in a spellbinding speech at the Mirror’s Labour Conference fringe .
The disabled Silent Witness actress compared Conservative welfare cuts to N??i policies, as she addressed the Real Britain Reconnecting Britain event in Liverpool.
And she revealed she faces seeing her own benefits slashed.
Liz, who plays Clarissa Mullery in the BBC drama, told guests: “I have just had a care assessment.
“I am at risk of my benefits being cut … that paid for the personal assistant that got me here today.”
Revealing why she feels a “moral responsibility” to raise the plight of disabled people, she added: “I can’t be a silent witness.”
………….which in turn will no doubt put her acting career at risk for speaking out.
The BBC obviously did not have sufficient time to threaten her position…….
And look at that other actor Warwick Davies, he is barely a foot tall yet he stars in EVERYTHING from Star Wars to Lord of the RIngs. Why doesn’t he just put a claim in for ESA?
But Liz Carr is a wheelchair user who suffers from cerbral palsy and a person who is GENUINELY disabled yet she is WORKING. Compare and contrast with that other group of ‘disabled’ people, you know the ones who claim to be ‘bi-polar’; claim to suffer from ‘stress’, ‘anxiety’ and ‘depression’ not to mention that old favourite the ‘bad back’. Back before the Work Capability Assessment it was stomach-churning to overhear these scroungers sat in the pub saying: “You know there are two things they can’t prove – a ‘bad back’ and ‘depression’ 😀 😀 ” The same lazy fuckers who ride on the coat-tails of the GENUINELY disabled clamouring for a end to the WCA, so they can go back to the days of makingtheir fraudulent claims for their ‘bad back’ and ‘depression. The WCA is going nowhere!
Liz Carr actress and disabled activist
She likened the Tory welfare cuts, which aim to move people from benefits into jobs, to the notorious “ Arbeit macht fre i” (work sets you free) sign above the Auschwitz concentration camp .
“We are told – and I’ve heard this before – that ‘work sets you free’. Where have we heard that before?’” she rapped.
“Sorry, but it needs to be said.”
Carr accused the Government of making it “shameful” to be “part of our welfare state”.
“For many people, being disabled in austerity Britain means being hated, stigmatised, demonised as burdens, drains on the state.
“It means being labelled as fraudsters and work shy.
“It’s about being segregated and excluded and oppressed and discriminated against.
“It’s about being forgotten and derided and abused and sanctioned and attacked and killed and cut and rationed and reduced and starved and homeless and hungry and fearful and terrified and alone and isolated and abandoned and denied resources and silenced and rendered invisible and made to jump through hoops to prove your worth, devalued, punished, subject to vicious attacks – both by individuals and the state.
“It’s about being inhuman, being seen us useless and the undeserving poor.
“That’s the reality for disabled people in today’s society.”
Carr claimed that suicide had become “a desirable alternative” for those hit by benefits cuts.
She added: “We are all collateral damage in this ideological war this Government is waging.”
Comedian and actor Dave Johns, tipped for an Oscar for his role in Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake , called for people to “proud of our welfare state, because it benefits everybody”.
Union activist Betty Tebbs, 98, wowed delegates as she urged them to get behind newly-reelected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn .
Only he could deliver socialism, she said.
You can fool some people some of the time but you can`t fool all the people all of the time.
SLAVERY OF DISABLED PEOPLE – RESULTING IN GENOCIDE OF DISABLED PEOPLE.
So now you’ve seen the light,
Stand up for your rights.
Tory Dictatorship. Proof is the treatment of disabled people who are seen as mad if they speak out. The Tory party spending Mental weapons to create mental problems created by a mad dictatorship making every one mad, but not mad enough to pass a WCA. The hatred the Tories have of disabled people is a cleansing machine to kill or cure disability. The disabled have been made to be outside of UK law & are their to be used as a dictators tool for more power.
The Tory Party are the Disability Hate Crime Party.
Death of the Tory Party is the only option, like the disabled death is the only option for death death death to all disabled & we can`t let any disabled live because the disabled are a threat to the Tory Party. No Tories – Human Rights are broken yet again. How can anyone believe the Flag Ship Welfare Reform is based on that idea of genocide !!! Well tories suicide !!
The defence for the Tories is I am giving out disability hate crime & the Tories will sort out any disability hate crimes in a court of law.
The Tories are now crabs in a barrel – Run Rabbit run rabbit run run run.
The only way the Tories can prolong their genocide is get IDS as leader. IDS is now ready to become the leader of the Tories to save the Tory party.
MENTAL !!!
Not really – IDS is the only one who can cover up DWP Assisted Suicide.
Is it DWP Assisted suicide or State Assisted Suicide !!!
Disability don`t come into it. State sponsored genocide.
Now who`s mental !!! Your DWP lawyers at £1,000 an hour can`t help you Tories.
Charlie Chaplin – Dictator + Nick Sasquash – Dictator Dub
Queries about Mandatory Reconsiderations.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/queries_about_mandatory_reconsid
ALL THESE PEOPLE WERE WRONGLY AWARDED DISABILITY BENEFITS BY REAL DOCTORS, LATER STOLEN BY ATOS, CAPITA AND MAXIMUS USING IMPOSTORS ONLY RECOGNISED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE
MANDATORY RECONSIDERATIONS (MOSTLY APPLIED WITHOUT CLAIMANTS KNOWLEDGE)
Total Upheld in Departments Favour
54,351 2013-14
264,398 2014-15
361,324 2015-16
179,287 2016-17
Total Overturned in Customers
Favour
39,003
106,995
69,102
34,467
40,000 + DEATHS SHORTLY AFTER BEING FOUND FIT FOR WORK.
BONUSES PAID TO JUDICIARY OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS, INCLUDING OVERTIME PAYMENTS, UP 43%.
NUMBER OF SUICIDES THAT DWP REFUSE TO RELEASE INFORMATION ON, 7.
PAYMENTS TO PRIVATISED PRETEND DOCTORS, £3.3 BILLION.
Well, fancy that. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people initially diagnosed as being disabled by real doctors only to be deemed perfectly fit by those that attended a 21 day course.
All those real doctors have a case to answer, what drove them to make so many mistakes?
Tragic as it may seem, the error of those silly qualified doctors, physicians and surgeons were only highlighted when Lord David Freud presented a document to parliament that was written on his behalf by a private health insurer.
All these ailments are fictitious, a product of the mind, he told them.
The disabled realised the error of their ways and immediately threw away their medicines, bandages and dressings, walking appliances, wheelchairs and aids, prosthetic limbs and guide dogs and came to recognise that having a disability is just a state of mind.
but the politicians and architects of disability denial, the puppets of the state, lobbyists and private health insurers, overlooked one major flaw in their quest for greed.
Not all the disabled would succumb to an early death shortly after being reassessed as fit. those who were wronged and still able to tell the tale would mount a challenge that even the bent judiciary could not block.
No end of discretionary payments, compensation or apologies could replace the lives that had been so callously stolen by the act of one failed banker.
Concentrix’s Victoria Derbyshire Radio Show – 11:25
http://bbc.in/2dlJGWj
The link above is the 6 minute version
Concentrix: Tory appointed scumbag firm putting excessive profits before people
Full Length Version 54 minutes
Damien 666 Green – 41:34
SACKED !!!
ATOS Vs TORIES
MAXIMUS Vs Tories
CONCENTRIX Vs Tories
Mrs May GO !!!
Now their kids are put into care !!! Because the hard working parents can`t cope.
I am married to Queen Elizabeth the first over 400 years ago !!! Do I need to prove I wasn`t !!!
So the HRMC are now providing 150 staff to work for CONCENTRIX
“BIOGRAPHY OF AN INSIGNIFICANT LITTLE PIMP / MASS MURDERER”
Lord Freud has apologised for his “foolish” suggestion that disabled people should not be entitled to the minimum wage, admitting his comments could be seen as offensive.
The welfare minister offered a “full and unreserved apology” for his remarks made at the Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday afternoon, but has not resigned.
Lord Freud said: “I would like to offer a full and unreserved apology. I was foolish to accept the premise of the question. To be clear, all disabled people should be paid at least the minimum wage, without exception, and I accept that it is offensive to suggest anything else.
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Why Lord Freud Was Right to Question the Minimum Wage for Disabled People
“I care passionately about disabled people. I am proud to have played a full part in a government that is fully committed to helping disabled people overcome the many barriers they face in finding employment.
But who is David Freud, and why has his career in the City been described as “morally ambiguous”?
Freud was first employed by the Financial Times as a journalist, before being hired by a firm then-called Rowe & Pitman in 1983. The minister has openly admitted that his position at the company involved “writing research on companies at the same time as taking money from them for advice” – considered illegal today.
He worked on over 50 deals and raised more than £50 billion across 19 countries, including the high-profile flotations of Eurotunnel and EuroDisney. He admitted he had felt “equivocal” about both of the deals, acknowledging that investors lost millions of pounds. By the late 1990s, he said: “If the rest of the country knew what we were being paid, there would be tumbrels on the street and heads carried around on pikes.”
At the turn of the new millennium, Freud was the vice-chairman of investment banking at the firm now known as UBS AG. He retired at 53, stating he spent most of his time “firing people” – before becoming the chief executive of the Portland Trust, a British not-for-profit “action tank” whose mission is to promote peace and stability between Israelis and Palestinians through economic development.
Lord Freud
Lord Freud was delivered an “eviction notice” by protesters over welfare changes in April 2013Getty
Welfare reform
When Freud was appointed by former Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2006 to provide a nominally independent review of the British welfare to work system, he admitted he “didn’t know anything about welfare at all”.
Despite this, he came up with a draft plan for the reform within three weeks – recommending that the private sector have expanded involvement in the welfare system and for single parents to be required to take paid employment earlier. (THE UNUM PROVIDENT WELFARE MANIFESTO)
Later, Freud was rehired as an advisor to the government when James Purnell was appointed Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2008. He was ultimately involved in producing a white paper, which was published in December that year, which would require most people receiving benefits to participate in some form of employment or prepare for future employment.
Fundamentally, his vision of welfare reform would involve removing benefits paid purely on the basis of requirement.
He wrote: “We cannot have people simply loafing about, doing nothing and expecting the state to finance their lifestyles. That is the way to the destruction of our society.”
Conservative party
Freud joined the Conservative party in February 2009, and became a life peer as Baron Freud, of Eastry in the Kent, and became a shadow minister for welfare in the House of Lords.
His first controversy in the party occurred in October 2010, when several organisations and church groups complained to David Cameron about Freud, and chancellor George Osborne’s “exaggeration” of fraud in welfare claims. They argued that such misrepresentations had the effect of stigmatising the poorest and most vulnerable in society – to which Freud replied that he and Osborne’s errors were “entirely inadvertent”.
In April 2013, thousands of anti-welfare cuts activists delivered an “eviction notice” to the Freud’s £1.9 million London home, to protest against the government’s welfare changes. He became the first minister to label the introduction of under-occupancy penalty the “Bedroom Tax”, blaming local authorities for a lack of one-bedroom properties.
Earlier this year, Freud turned his attention to the issue of food banks – stating he was unsure why people go to organisations for food. His comments caused a backlash, most predominantly with the Trussell Trust Charity, which runs 420 food banks.
“Clearly nobody goes to a food bank willingly,” he said in the House of Lords. “However, it is very hard to know why people go to them.”
Thanks sarah7
In the same year he replied: “I think you don’t have to be the corpse to go to a funeral” in response to the question of what he knows of living on less than £10 each week makes a difference.
The Tory lord plunging 95,000 into poverty with his “bedroom tax” stays in an eight-bedroom country mansion … when he’s not living in his £1.9million London home, the Sunday People has revealed.
Lord Freud was accused of being an out of touch hypocrite last night after provoking a storm of criticism this week defending the tax which will see some of Britain’s poorest families charged for spare bedrooms.
HMRC clarifies you only get a Concentrix lump sum if all your tax credits were stopped
MoneySavingExpert – 26 Sep 2016
If your entire tax credit claim was wrongly stopped by the contractor Concentrix you’ll receive a lump sum repayment, HMRC said today – but if only part of your claim was removed or reduced, you’ll have to wait to get the money back in instalments.
MoneySavingExpert.com has been inundated with horror stories from people claiming their tax credits were incorrectly cancelled with Concentrix, with some claiming they’ve been struggling to feed their family as a result. Earlier this month HMRC announced it isn’t extending Concentrix’s contract beyond May 2017 and it’s promised to prioritise helping those who’ve had tax credits incorrectly stopped.
But there’s been widespread confusion over whether those who successfully appeal against a Concentrix decision will get repayments as a lump sum or in installments.
HMRC originally told us that if your tax credits were wrongly stopped you’ll have them repaid in one go. But after a number of people contacted MSE founder Martin Lewis to complain they’re getting repayments of as little as £3/week on top of their reinstated tax credits, it’s since clarified that while that’s true if your credits were stopped, it’s not the case if only part of your claim was removed.
Tax credits are payouts made regularly by the state into bank accounts to support those with children or in work but with low income. See our Tax Credits guide for more info, and Concentrix tax credits help for how to appeal.
Read More:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/protect/2016/09/hmrc-clarifies-you-only-get-a-concentrix-lump-sum-if-all-your-tax-credits-were-stopped
Appeal using mandatory reconsideration. FAILURE.
UNUM’S LITTLE HELPER
SIGMUND’S SICK OFFSPRING
“My Lords, the policy as it stands is designed, first, to save money. We are looking to save £500 million a year here, which is within the context of the overall saving of £2 billion that we are trying to make over two years.”
Lord Freud let the cat out of the bag and admitted that the bedroom tax is not here to improve our housing system, nor is it about ‘fairness as the PM claims’. It is implemented to ‘save money’ this is a lie. The Government’s own impact statement states clearly that the bedroom tax is COST NEUTRAL to central Government.
The real cost of the bedroom tax will be bared by people on the lowest incomes who can’t pay the bedroom tax but also can’t move due to the lack of suitable social housing… but we already knew that..
TORY CONCENTRIX CONTRACT
Adviser guide
Concentrix tax credits enquiries on behalf of
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
HMRC is determined to reduce the amount of error and fraud in the tax credits system. To help tackle this, HMRC has appointed a private sector supplier, Concentrix, based in Belfast Northern Ireland, which will provide additional external resource to ensure customer claims are accurate. The extra checks will help make sure people get the tax credits they are entitled to, preventing overpayments and identifying inaccurate claims and fraud.
This guide is to help you understand the types of contact Concentrix may make to customers, on behalf of HMRC, to check that they are receiving the correct amount of tax credits and help your clients take the right action within the right time.
When and how Concentrix will contact tax credits customers
Concentrix will start contacting tax credits customers nationwide from November 2014 to check that tax credit claims are correct and up to date.
Customers may be contacted by:
letter – containing both the HMRC and Concentrix logo
telephone – Concentrix will explain that they are working on behalf of HMRC before asking security questions
HMRC and Concentrix will never ask tax credits customers to disclose personal or payment information by email. If your client receives a HMRC related phishing/bogus email, please advise your client to forward it to phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk before deleting.
Information Concentrix will ask
If your client has been contacted by Concentrix they will have been asked to confirm the information HMRC holds about them. Your client may be asked to provide further information or evidence in writing by a particular date about a range of details. This could include details about their children, child care costs, partner in the household, disability, work and hours and their income.
Please note: If your client does not reply by the date requested their tax credits award may be reviewed and changed, based on the information HMRC holds.
Read More:
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Click to access HMRC%20tax%20credits%20and%20Concentrix%20briefing%20Dec%2014.pdf
Concentrix is a high value business services company founded in 1991.[2] A wholly owned subsidiary of SYNNEX Corporation[3] (NYSE: SNX).
Virtual abolition of PIP, DLA and ESA appeal tribunals as we know them
The government is poised to bring an end to the shaming success rates at benefits appeals, but they will do so by nobbling the appeals system rather than by improving decision making.
In the future many more appeals will be “on the papers” where success rates are drastically lower, hearings that do take place will be on the phone or via Skype type links and most appeals will be decided by a solicitor (often retired) sitting alone, without a medical wing member or a disability wing member.
http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/3553-virtual-abolition-of-pip-dla-and-esa-appeal-tribunals-as-we-know-them
The right to a fair hearing, which applies to any criminal charge as well as to the determination of civil rights and obligations, contains a number of requirements
There must be real and effective access to a court (although there are limited exceptions in the case of vexatious litigants, minors, prisoners etc). To be real and effective this may require access to legal aid.
There must be a hearing before an independent and impartial court or tribunal established by law (including unbiased jurors).
The hearing must be held within a reasonable time. What is reasonable depends on the complexity of the case, its importance, the behaviour of both the applicant and competent authorities, and the length of time between the conduct in question (i.e. when the offence was committed or contract breached etc) and when the trial takes place.
The applicant must have a real opportunity to present his or her case or challenge the case against them. This will require access to an opponent’s submissions, procedural equality and generally requires access to evidence relied on by the other party and an oral hearing.
The court of tribunal must give reasons for its judgment.
There must be equality of arms between the parties, so, for example, the defence has the same right to examine witnesses against them as the prosecution has and both parties have the right to legal representation etc.
In criminal cases, there is a right to silence and a privilege against self-incrimination (although it may be possible to draw adverse inferences from suspects remaining silent).
An accused person must have the right to effective participation in their criminal trial. Except for strictly limited exceptions, an accused is entitled to be physically present at his or her hearing to give evidence in person and be legally represented.
The hearing and judgment must be made public. Hearings can, however, be held in private where:
it can be shown to be necessary and proportionate and in the interest of morals, public order or national security in a democratic society, or
it is in the best interests of a child; or
it is required for the protection of the private life of the parties ; or
it is strictly necessary in special circumstances where publicity, in the
court’s opinion, would prejudice the interests of justice.
……………BUT ALL THOSE PESKY DEATHS ARE MAKING THEM TWITCH.
“Let’s be clear, since 1979 we have had a disease that has been spreading across our society, across every community – it created unemployment, it created homelessness, it created a belief that this is the society we have to accept”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/union-chief-jeremy-corbyn-cure-disease-that-has-been-spreading-across-society-since-thatcher-came-to-a7332251.html
Now that HMRC are at war with Concentrix with Universal Credit on Working Tax Credit with hard working single parents with no money & leaving their jobs because that make them more in debt & housing rent & housing benefit being lost like evictions & now their kids are put into care. The suicides & deaths caused by the DWP & HMRC by 2020 when poll a tricks want to act means tens of thousands of suicides & deaths of ex hard working families. So something needs to be done now or the DWP deaths will rise past 100,000 by 2020. 100,000 DWP Assisted suicides & 30,000 kids in care because of the war between HMRC & Concentrix.
HUMAN RIGHTS & CARE OF DUTY IS NEEDED NOW.
Not in years or months. The cost of human lives at the cost of the tax payer will run into £ Billions. Politics ranting means more DWP Assisted Suicide deaths.
GET OFF YOUR LAZY ARSES.
Being stupid causes deaths, who ever you are in cover ups & egos. Universal Credit on hard working families means homelessness, Kids put into care where there is no money to fund – So is now called state sponsored child killing through the DWP – HMRC – Concentrix & The Tory Party.
The Tories are scared to sack Concentrix today because of breech of contract which the DWP will have to pay ten of Millions of £ in defaulting the contract. Yet the war between the HMRC & Concentrix is who defaulted on the contract while hard working families are dying with no money.
State Sponsored Child Killing on Universal Tax Credits.
State Sponsored Suicide War.
The Welfare budget is now £120 Billion because most of that is the DWP fees in lawyers & defaults payments on DWP contactors. So we need to get the Welfare budget down by making it £200 billion.
State Sponsored Suicide.
Now where`s the war !!!!
2 more DWP Assisted suicides while you are reading my piece.
Labour MPs debate universal basic income policy for the first time.
John McDonnell, Labour’s shadow chancellor, “I’m going to be accused of being a Fabian here”
“There’s an urgency about it at the moment because work is no longer lifting people out of poverty”
Mr McDonnell has previously suggested that a trial of universal basic income could be included in Labour’s 2020 general election manifesto.
The Government said, need I say any more.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universal-basic-income-labour-uk-john-mcdonnell-labour-conference-live-latest-jeremy-corbyn-mps-a7333911.html
“ESTHER MCVILE”
Irma Ida Ilse Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945)
…………Irma’s family have made it clear that the name of their lovely daughter should not be tarnished by any references to ESTHER MCVEY.
We will use the research to inform the development of the IAP for 18 to 21 year olds, to be introduced in April 2017, and to inform decisions on future policy for other age groups.’
Click to access intensive-activity-programme-trial-evidence-synthesis.pdf
Social norming – people are strongly influenced to conform to what they believe
the normal or acceptable behaviour to be. Setting out what most successful
jobseekers do creates a standard for claimants to achieve or work towards.
Nudging – positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions which aim to achieve
voluntary compliance with suggested actions for example, by asking claimants to
identify what they can do, then getting them to agree to commit to completing this
action.
Applying the quality ruler – this technique encourages people to reflect upon
and score – on a scale of one to ten – the quality of what they have achieved and
to consider how they could improve on this self-assessed quality score.
They’re not even hiding it now, a Jobseeker is now classed as a socially abnormal individual ripe for the jobcentre confidence tricksters non-mandatory bs and should be scaled from one to ten in their eligibility into the human race.
“Social norming – people are strongly influenced to conform to what they believe
the normal or acceptable behaviour to be.”
What is their actual evidence for the above statement? There are many people who could not give a monkeys about ‘normal’ (whatever that is :silly: ) or ‘acceptable’ behaviour. They just act in their own interests. I will start with MPs who behave with impunity.
‘Normal’, ‘acceptable behaviour’, as in fraud and embezzlement? What a load of old cobblers. The unemployed should take the lead from their betters… 😉
“Glasgow East MP Natalie McGarry has been charged with fraud offences.
She had been under investigation by police after a pro-independence group reported a potential financial discrepancy in its accounts.
Ms McGarry, 35, had been one of the 56 SNP MPs elected in last year’s general election.
She withdrew from the party whip when the allegations were made last November, and has been sitting as an independent MP.
The investigation into Ms McGarry centred on her involvement with Women for Independence (WFI), which was set up to campaign ahead of the referendum in September 2014.
WFI called in police after spotting apparent discrepancies between donations made to the organisation and its expenditure.
‘Embezzlement of funds’
The allegations are believed to involve a five-figure sum of money.
It is understood the charges against Ms McGarry also relate to her involvement with the SNP Glasgow Regional Association.
Ms McGarry’s lawyer, Aamer Anwar, told BBC Scotland that the MP had voluntarily attended Govan police station in Glasgow on Tuesday morning.
Mr Anwar added: “Following an interview she was charged with several alleged offences, including embezzlement of funds, breach of trust and an offence under the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013.
“She was released and there will now be a report to the procurator fiscal.”
Ms McGarry has previously insisted there has been “no wrongdoing on her part”.
Both Women for Independence and the SNP said they would not be commenting on the case.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-37487841
‘normal’ – In sales we call this the ‘sheep factor’: “But everyone else is working in Poundland for jack-shit! What’s wrong with YOU?”
“DWP ENSURES SUICIDE RATES WILL REACH NEW HEIGHTS”
….Phone call medicals, hidden trials by subserviant judiciary staff and no access to legal aid whatsoever……….
Decisions by DWP decision makers having no more medical training than the man in the moon…….
“WHY NOT JUST SEND THEM CYANIDE CAPSULES IN AN UNSIGNED BROWN ENVELOPE”
Make no mistake – this is a plan to stop people who deserve sickness and disability benefits from getting them.
It is a continuation of the old Iain Duncan Smith “chequebook euthanasia” scheme in which the very ill are denied the money they need to live, driving them to despair and suicide.
Having represented a friend at an ESA tribunal, I am certain that the only reason that person was finally granted benefits was because of the threat of suicide prompted by the government’s behaviour.
This measure is intended to ensure that such warnings never reach benefit assessors’ ears, so the government can plead innocence again.
There is a consultation running on the proposals, and you can provide your opinion here.
The Benefits and Work website, from which the following excerpt is copied, suggests that the result is a “foregone conclusion” but that doesn’t mean we should let them say there was no dissent.
The government is poised to bring an end to the shaming success rates at benefits appeals, but they will do so by nobbling the appeals system rather than by improving decision making.
In the future many more appeals will be “on the papers” where success rates are drastically lower, hearings that do take place will be on the phone or via Skype type links and most appeals will be decided by a solicitor (often retired) sitting alone, without a medical wing member or a disability wing member.
The introduction of the mandatory reconsideration before appeal system was intended to bring appeal success rates for claimants crashing down to earth. In fact, whilst it has drastically reduced the number of claimants who lodge an appeal, success rates remain sky high.
A new online system of appeals brings the twin advantages for the government that it will hugely cut costs as well as cutting success rates.
see more;
The next goose-step as the DWP’s evil agenda marches on will to have DWP ‘decision makers’ doubling up as Tribunal Judges. Now, that would slash the Appeal success rate down to zero.
“SOMEBODY JUST RAISED THE BONUS TRIGGER AT THE DWP”
……….Medically untrained Decision Makers urged to place claimants with suicidal tendencies into work.. but hey! They have evidence that forced work actually helps people with mental issues.
Its contained in the report presented by the failed banker that was handed to him by UNUM PROVIDENT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE.
How many more lives do we have to give up in order for his wife and kids to enjoy the high life while the poor starve and disabled kick the bucket?
dwp-damian-green
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) guidelines are encouraging assessors to consider the “benefit” that employment can have for claimants at risk of suicide who would otherwise be marked unfit for work.
Earlier this month, the government released figures that show the amount of successful applications to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) has been falling from the start of the year.
According to a DWP spokesperson, this is nothing out of the ordinary:
We expected the proportion of claimants placed in the Support Group to fall as the backlog of new claims reduced, due to fewer claims leaving the benefit before reaching their Work Capability Assessment.
But this drop must be considered in light of the changes in guidance that came into effect at the start of 2016.
Risks and benefits
Previously, guidance for the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) advised that someone who is a suicide risk should be placed in the Support Group. This is the higher level of benefit, for those who are severely disabled and cannot work.
Now, the guidance says something different entirely:
If you conclude that finding a claimant fit for work would trigger risk of suicide or self-harm then you need to consider whether there are factors that would mitigate the risk if the claimant were found fit for work.
According to the WCA Handbook, these factors include whether the risk to physical or mental health is “substantial”, whether the benefits of employment outweigh the potential risks, and whether “reasonable workplace adjustments or prescribed medication” could reduce the risk.
Specifically, it says:
Remember that there is good evidence that people in work have better health outcomes and are at lower risk of suicide.
http://evolvepolitics.com/suicidal-dwp-wants-go-back-work/
“BREAKING NEWS ABOUT THE HMRC”
… Westminster’s ministry that is prohibited from investigating tax affairs of the rich or setting foot in overseas tax havens…….
Only three out of 700 firms prosecuted for paying below minimum wage
More than 13,000 workers underpaid by over £3.5m since 2014, but HMRC prosecution rate remain paltry despite employers breaking law
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/28/only-three-out-of-700-firms-prosecuted-for-paying-below-minimum-wage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
According to the National Audit Office, the number of workers identified as being owed arrears more than doubled from 2014-15 to 2015-16, rising from 26,000 to 58,000.
The meagre prosecution rate emerged after Midcounties Co-op, the UK’s biggest independent co-op, admitted underpaying a newspaper delivery worker by more than £14,000.
This week 20 couriers for Hermes, which has been accused of paying rates which amount to less than the £7.20 national living wage, submitted further testimonies to HM Revenue and Customs arguing Hermes is wrong to class them as self-employed. They want to be classed as workers or employees which would guarantee them at least the minimum wage, paid sick leave and holiday and pension rights. The move is likely to increase pressure on the tax authority to launch a full investigation into employment practices at the firm which uses 10,500 couriers.
“STEALING LIFETIME DISABILITY AWARDS”
……Awarded because the disability would never get better, worsen or lead to death.
‘I feel ashamed in a way I never did before’: your stories of PIP assessment
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/26/i-feel-ashamed-in-a-way-i-never-did-before-your-stories-of-pip-assessment?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Mother hit by tax credits blunder has to turn food banks to feed her son
September 28th, 2016 – 12:12 am Kirsteen Paterson
A MOTHER caught up in the Concentrix row broke down last night as she revealed how the tax credits scandal left her having to explain to her son why the tooth fairy hadn’t come.
Annemarie Anderson’s funding was cut off when Concentrix, the US firm paid £75 million to cut tax credit fraud and overpayment, wrongly claimed that she was in a relationship with a previous tenant at her Alloa home.
She initially thought there was a problem at the bank when the money failed to land in her account, and when she learned her payments had been stopped she paid £55 for a year’s worth of bank statements to prove she had not committed fraud.
The documents were received on August 30 and passed to HMRC on September 20, with the mother-of-one advised her case would not be looked in to until October 4.
Meanwhile, she has been forced to turn to a food bank and had to face questions from seven-year-old son Nathan, who is on the autistic spectrum and has other additional support needs.
http://www.thenational.scot/politics/mother-hit-by-tax-credits-blunder-has-to-turn-food-banks-to-feed-her-son.22916
Social Cleansing right across the board unless you are the 1% Tory rich = the ones in power called a dictatorship state. State sponsored child murder along with state sponsored DWP Assisted suicide of the disabled. The word your looking for is genocide within a class system with 10th class citizens in a 3rd world country called the UK which is one of the richest countries in the world. The proof is everywhere. The only reason it has to do with poll a tricks is they think they can get away with it by being lazy.
The Welfare Bill is rising each day & now stands at over £200 billion, so there are no savings to go around. In fact the welfare bill has risen from 0.6% GDP to 5% GDP & next year it will be 10% of the UK`s GDP. A saving of genocide guilty Tories from being charge under the Human Rights Act.
The £200 billion is the over spend.
“ANOTHER BENT JUDGE SIDES WITH HIS PAYMASTERS”
SIR NICHOLAS GREEN (SAY NO MORE)
You don’t get a knighthood without a price, ask BARON LORD DAVID FREUD, THE DISABILITY MURDERER…..
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has won a High Court fight with junior doctors in England over a new contract.
The group Justice for Health mounted a legal bid arguing the contract was “unsafe and unsustainable” and Mr Hunt did not have the power to impose it.
But Mr Justice Green ruled the health secretary had acted “squarely” within his powers in what he did.
He clarified this as pushing for NHS trusts to introduce the contract, rather than compelling them.
The judge said “in principle” trusts had the freedom as employers to decide whether they did force the contract on doctors.
This prompted Justice for Health to claim the judgement had freed the profession from the “shackles” of Mr Hunt’s timeline.
The new terms and conditions are due to start being rolled out next week – and there is no indication hospitals will not do this.
Mr Justice Green also considered whether Mr Hunt’s actions lacked clarity and transparency and whether he acted irrationally in pursuing the new contract on the basis he believed it would help improve the quality of care at weekends.
On both counts, Mr Justice Green sided with the government
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37481677
“CALLING IN THE FAVOURS FROM THE KNOBBERS ON £300 PER DAY EXPENSES”
OT but important to many.
Microsoft has paid ($650) to the relative of an Alzheimer’s patient for having to scrub his PC clean of Windows 10. after threatening the giant with court action over an unwanted Windows 10 upgrade.
Worley has now encouraged other customers to take action through the small claims system if they, too, got Windows 10 without wanting it.
“They [Windows users] need to read up on their EULA and take Microsoft to the small claims court. Not many people do that or are prepared to take Microsoft because of the high probability of losing,” he said.
“A lot of folks complete the Windows 10 upgrade and didn’t like but they don’t realize that you can write a letter and get a couple of hundred dollars for the time it took to fix that.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/27/windows_10_small_claims_settlement/
Francis Ryan and The Guardian are desperately trying to find a disabled person who’s appealed a benefit decision with written evidence only (so not in person giving oral evidence at tribunal). Francis is doing it to highlight the problems with the government’s proposal to shift appeals online as advocates tell her that – as difficult as giving evidence in person is – doing it purely over paperwork severely reduces a claimants’ chance of success.
If you’ve appealed via paper/written evidence only and struggled please get in touch with Frances if you’re willing to speak about this
http://dpac.uk.net/2016/09/changes-to-the-appeal-process/
But it is a lot easier to deny a human being their benefit entitlement ‘on the papers’ as opposed to having a living, breathing flesh and blood vulnerable human being sat in front of you and having to face their reaction as you sentence them to destitution. The more removed, disconnected, faceless, distant and remote the process the easier it is to pull the lever so to speak.
“The Peoples Challenge has launched a legal bid requiring the Government to get assent from Parliament before triggering Article 50”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-peoples-challenge-legal-high-court-block-article-50-referendum-a7335201.html
“Homelessness crisis reaches new high as 19,000 private renters forced onto streets in just one year”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homelessness-crisis-new-high-19000-private-renters-forced-onto-streetsyear-a7335756.html
Record numbers left homeless after eviction by private landlords in England.
The end of an AST has rapidly become the single biggest cause of homelessness in recent years, triggered by spiralling rent rises and cuts to housing benefit support. In 2010 just 11% of homeless acceptances in England were caused by the end of an AST.
The government’s statistical release states: “Affordability [of housing] is an increasingly significant issue, as more households facing the end of a private tenancy are unable to find an alternative without assistance.”
Bob Blackman, a Tory backbencher who has drawn up a private member’s bill seeking to require councils to do more to help households at risk of losing their homes, said: “It is a national disgrace when we have the highest number of people in employment ever, we have a low rate of unemployment, that we still have people sleeping rough. Goodness knows what will happen if there is a recession.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/28/eviction-by-private-landlord-making-record-numbers-homeless-in-uk
Statutory homelessness and prevention and relief, April to June 2016: England
31 pages
Click to access Statutory_Homelessness_and_Prevention_and_Relief_Statistical_Release_April_to_June_2016.pdf
Homelessness Reduction Bill 2016-17 This Bill is expected to have its second reading debate on Friday 28 October 2016.
http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/homelessnessreduction.html
Jeremy Corbyn – This honest and worthy politician of yesteryear, derided by the Media, (whom are his enemies), including the BBC’s trumped up superbitch Laura Kuennsberg and Sky’s ‘Tory’ wannabees Adam Boulton and Faisal Islam who are finely veiled in a totally deceitful cover-up of ‘forgivedness’ for his past ‘misdemeanours’ of attacking Margaret Thatcher and Tony Bliar. Corbyn’s dreams are good, his ‘socialism’ is good – but his vocal retorick and his general confidence needs to be urgently stepped up to be with a par, at least with Cameron – otherwise, he is a lost cause.
The sleepy and workaday populace of Britain urgently needs to ‘wake up and smell the shit’ of what the Tories are inflicting on so many of them.
The upper classes and the middle classes are now very well catered for – the poorer and the poorest people are being literally slaughtered at the hand of these Tory cunts.
However, I really do think (personally) that they (the upper and middle classes and also the ‘upper working class’) will continue to think that the sun shines out of Theresa May’s and David Cameron’s arses.
If a General Election was called on 1st October, I am sure that the Tories would win once again!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-labour-party-conference-speech-21st-century-socialism-council-housing-a7335771.html
People’s Quantitative Easing.
The policy is based on ideas put forward by the political economist Richard Murphy.[7] Murphy argues it is a policy designed for use in 2020, in the event the economy remains flat despite traditional quantitative easing, with low inflation, low interest rates, high unemployment and low wages. If the economy is growing strongly, PQE would not be needed as increasing tax revenues would pay for necessary investment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Quantitative_Easing
This is a classic example of ‘war crimes’ being carried out. But! Is it Russia who carried out this/these forward air strike(s)? They will, no doubt be blamed anyway. Also to be blamed WILL be Bashir Al Assad’s forward air strikes! Is he to blame? I would say (as ex -R.N. Military!) you should more likely look to the Americans (possibly with British involvement also!) to be taking controlled air action against the so-called ‘militants’ (AKA also as ISIL). Do not believe ‘everything’ that you are told in the ‘Media’!
There could well be a future ‘plan’ to all this as regard to ‘OIL/GAS’ assets!
Under these ‘rules of engagement’ – this attack could indeed be a ‘mistake’!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-war-aleppo-pushed-even-closer-to-the-brink-as-air-strikes-hit-two-major-hospitals-a7334926.html
Also – Cluster Bombs (as seen recently in some TV footage!) – outlawed (in International Law) by all U.N. Countries excepting Russia & Israel!
As far as I know also ‘Phosphorous’ weapons are outlawed by all Countries (excepting Israel). Interesting in itself, as last week, phosphorous incendiary air to ground missiles were seemingly used in an air strike on Aleppo!
“MICHAEL FALLON ITCHING TO SACRIFICE UK CANNON FODDER”
………….America’s poodle ready and waiting………
Now that TURNIP BLIAR’S PHONEY WAR IS FINALLY OVER AND CHILCOTT HAS BANKED ENOUGH CASH TO BUY A FOOTBALL CLUB…
Albuquerque (United States) (AFP) – The United States will send about 600 extra troops to Iraq to train local forces for an offensive on the Islamic State group stronghold of Mosul, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday.
IS seized Mosul along with other areas in June 2014, but the country’s forces have since regained significant ground from the jihadists and are readying for a drive to retake Iraq’s second-largest city.
“These (US) forces will be primarily to enable Iraqi security forces, and also peshmerga, in the operations to isolate and collapse ISIL’s control over Mosul,” Carter told reporters on a work trip to New Mexico, using an IS acronym. Peshmerga are Kurdish fighters.
“Also to protect and expand Iraqi security forces’ gains elsewhere in Iraq,” he added.
………….BUT DON’T WORRY COS THERE WON’T BE ANY UK BOOTS ON THE GROUND, IT WAS AGREED IN PARLIAMENT REMEMBER?
(Fallon has probably issued them with sandals to get round it)
Keep watching the headlines for our next deployment to Iraq and all the bullshit about us being in a training role…..
Soldiers are expendable just like the disabled and payments stop when they peg it. Those unfortunate to lose limbs will fall victim to ATOS, CAPITA OR MAXIMUS to be denied the help they were assured upon enlistment………..
Well, Fallon has been true to his word. He said: “There will be no BOOTS on the ground.” No mention of SANDALS on the ground. It’s not what they say – it’s what they DON’T say… 😉
According to the BBC they are deploying ‘bunker bombs’ – known as such because they bust throw basements to kill those sheltering in them. Total and utter cunts doesn’t being to describe them.
In Aleppo.
And Steven Sackur on the BBC’s Hardtalk more or less said when the was interviewing Putin’s spokesman that it was Putin who personally gave the order for the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 to be shot. Wouldn’t put it past Putin – he looks the type!
(From this evening, on whatever article I click on!) Re: The Guardian Newspaper – as I personally use an ad-blocker (to free- up speed downloads!) ‘Google’ (I think?) ‘g’ has now informed me that I must now, from now on, pay a subscription, – or turn off my ad-blocker.
I have absolutely no intention of ‘turning off’ my ‘ad-blocker’ – so they can go and fuck themselves!
“DOCTOR ATTACKS DAILY MALE OVER SLUR ABOUT EU DOCTORS”
REPLY GOES VIRAL…………….
My senior congenital cardiac thoracic surgeon colleague DOES NOT PUT PATIENTS AT RISK when he operates on babies.
He gives them a chance to live.
I don’t call him ‘a Romanian’,
I call him Adrian.
My colleague in the paediatric intensive care unit DOES NOT PUT PATIENTS AT RISK when he manages the multitude of problems our sick kiddies have whilst trying to anticipate everything else that could potentially go wrong.
I don’t call him ‘a Greek’,
I call him George.
The medical doctor I referred sick children to as an A&E clinician DID NOT PUT PATIENTS AT RISK when he managed the plethora of conditions they presented with,
whilst smiling warmly to make the child feel cared for and to keep the parents reassured.
I didn’t call him ‘a Latvian’,
I called him Paul.
The doctor who showed me the intricacies and nuances of ECG heart rhythm traces when I first qualified, DID NOT PUT PATIENTS AT RISK when he treated them for their heart attacks.
I didn’t call him ‘that Polish one’.
I called him Pavel.
My friend who worked as an orthopaedic doctor DID NOT PUT PATIENTS AT RISK when she admitted them and assisted in mending their broken bones.
I don’t call her ‘a Greek’,
I call her Katerina.
The anaesthetist who first taught me how to protect someone’s airway and help them breathe DID NOT PUT PATIENTS AT RISK when she cared for them during surgery with minute attention to every detail of their physiology.
I didn’t call her ‘that French one’.
I called her Francoise.
He goes on to rip apart the fear and division that The Mail is trying to cause with this type of article:
You seek to foster division, engender distrust and cultivate fear of my friends and colleagues based on their nationality.
You do this whilst wilfully blinding others to the vital, invaluable service these people provide every damn day up and down the country and shielding the wealth of evidence regarding it from the public.
I won’t allow that to happen.
The post concludes:
My colleagues and I will not allow that to happen, because these people matter to us and we won’t see them dragged through the mud.
Nor will we allow the work and value of the thousands of amazing nurses, health care workers, theatre staff or other allied healthcare professionals of EU and foreign origin to be undermined in such a callous and bigoted way.
Enough is enough
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/09/28/doctors-open-letter-daily-mail-going-viral-right-reasons-images/.
……..MALE is an anagram of LAME, just like all the other crap they print…
“WHAT THE TORIES WANT FROM A PRIVATISED NHS”
six nights in US hospital just £43,000…………..
“CHILD SEX INVESTIGATION SNIFFER DOGS DELIBERATELY THROWN OFF COURSE BY THE JUDICIARY”
…………When the trail is at your door it’s always a good ruse to lay another scent trail.
For many years it has been the opinion that high ranking figures have connections to the kiddy fiddling industry and all of a sudden an eminent QC wants to curtail the scope of the investigations. This is not by chance, this is an attempt to hamper investigations to root out the cancer that lies within our highest echelons.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37500878
…………………
The most senior lawyer working for the independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse in England and Wales has been suspended from duty.
The inquiry said it had “recently become very concerned about aspects of Ben Emmerson QC’s leadership” of his team and he had been suspended so these could be properly investigated.
The BBC understands more than one complaint has been made against him.
Mr Emmerson said he was “unable” to comment at this time.
The inquiry said press suggestions Mr Emmerson was considering resigning after raising disagreements over its future direction were untrue.
In a statement, it said: “They are not a matter on which he has advised the chair or panel.”
………HOW MUCH HAS THIS FIASCO COST THE UK TAXPAYER, BUT MORE TO THE POINT, WHO IS PUTTING UP THE BARRIERS FOR FEAR OF BEING CAUGHT?
3 DIFFERENT CHAIR LEADERS ALREADY, ONE FROM NEW ZEALAND ON A PRINCES RANSOM………..
EMINENT FIGURES ARE DELIBERATELY BLOCKING THIS INVESTIGATION THAT IS AT THE HEART OF BRITISH POLITICS…..
…………The paedo’s in powdered wigs are not amused
SCAM ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A SCAM IS GOING AROUND REGARDING, HMRC, YOU GOV, YOUR BANK.
A TEXT IS BEING SENT TO YOUR PHONE APPARANTLY FROM HMRC SAYING THAT YOU DUE A REBATE, IT THEN TAKES YOU TO A BOGUS YOU GOV SITE, THEN TO YOUR BANKS HOMEPAGE.
IT THEN ASKS YOU FILL IN ALL YOUR DETAILS.
THE SITE IS YOU GOV.COM RATHER THAN YOU GOV.UK.
IT SEEMS TO BE HAPPENING WITH PEOPLE ON UNIVERSAL CREDIT.
Well we knew it would not take long before hackers got into the system. Or third party ass holes passing on your details.
Working Links were busted doing that! There ‘consultants’ used to force their ‘customers’ to hand over there bank cards (as well as birth certificate, passport, driving licence, ….) ostensibly as ‘proof of eligibility to work in the UK’. But little did their ‘customers’ know that Working Links were stealing their details and identities. First thing they knew was when the debt collectors were round smashing their door in regarding a Wonga loan. Working Links = SCUM!!
And no doubt Working Links are still doing this!
If they have your personal details such as your name, address, phone number and fact you are on universal credit a lot of innocent victims are going to fall for this. So much data breaches and hacking going on yet those job centre bastards are still ‘mandating’ jobseekers to upload their personal, sensitive and private data to the web where any low-life scumbag can get hold of it. Absolutely shocking! And of course universal jobmatch takes no responsibility if you data is stolen.
“Report on the UK Government’s failing human rights record submitted to UN”
“MEDIA DELIBERATELY UNDER REPORTING THE SHIT STORM BEING HURLED AT THE UK’S MOST VULNERABLE”
A coalition of 175 civil society organisations has raised grave concern about the impact of the government’s welfare “reforms” and living standards in the UK, hate crimes, mental health, deteriorating prison conditions, stop and search powers and the Conservative’s plans to repeal the Human Rights Act, among other issues.
The organisations include Age UK, Just Fair, Inclusion (London and Scotland), the TUC, Unicef UK, Rights Watch, The Law Centres Network, Mind, the Mental Health Foundation and Stonewall.
A report calls on the United Nations (UN) to recognise evidence from the range of civil society groups and to ensure the UK Government, and the devolved administrations, are accountable for taking appropriate action and measures to redress many raised human rights concerns. The report authors caution that a high proportion of the 132 recommendations from the last United Nations hearings in 2012 have not been implemented.
The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) announced the launch of the ‘Joint Civil Society Report’, on the 22 September. It was submitted to the United Nations in Geneva last Thursday as part of the Universal Periodic Review of the UK.
The report was produced as part of Human Rights Check UK project, which has been assessing human rights changes since the UK was last reviewed by the UN in 2012. BIHR have engaged with over 175 organisations across England, Scotland and Wales through both a call for evidence and by hosting a series of events across Great Britain. These groups range from local community advocacy groups to large national organisations, working on issues such as health, age related issues, children’s issues, justice, education, welfare and many others.
Many of the issues and concerns raised in this report of 84 pages have been under-reported in the mainstream media.
SEE MORE
http://www.welfareweekly.com/report-on-the-uk-governments-failing-human-rights-record-submitted-to-un/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+welfareweekly+%28Welfare+Weekly%29
“NEWCASTLE COUNCIL UNHAPPY WITH GOOD SAMARITANS WHO HELP THE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY”
………..They would rather let them suffer and die to project the image that all is well……….
Volunteers handing out food and clothing to the homeless in Newcastle city centre have faced criticism.
Newcastle City Council has said they will consider taking action against unregistered volunteer groups – which often set up near Grey’s Monument and dole out meals, drinks and clothing – if they do not start falling into line with council procedures.
The Chronicle understands that several unsuccessful attempts have been made by the council to give training to the various volunteer faith groups which gather at “strategic points” around the city.
At a meeting of the SafeNewcastle board on Thursday council officers said they would make “one last attempt” to bring the groups together for talks before taking enforcement action.
Christine Knox, community safety officer at Newcastle City Council, told the board: “There has been an increase in unregulated groups who have appeared in the city centre and offer goods to beggars and the homeless.
“My officers have been gathering information to try and get a picture and a flavour of how many of these groups are operating in the city, we do find that they appear in strategic points around the city such as Monument on a Friday evening.
“After these unregulated groups have been there they have found the area to be littered with drugs paraphernalia and people have reported seeing people urinating and taking drugs at that location.”
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/volunteers-who-hand-out-food-11953830
……….and Newcastle Council are attracting comments usually lodged about London……..
JohnDermott
Benefit sanctions – there are people with ZERO money – family breakdowns – there are people with no homes – immigrants – no support – people with mental health problems – let down by services being crippled by cut backs – HERE IS ONE FOR NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL – go spend £22,000,000 on some swanky restaurants for the people that can afford to eat there and let the bottom rung “eat cake” – the volunteer groups give guidance and point people in the right direction for help – a listening service NCC you are pure EVIL
“DWP DIRTY TRICKS FAILS TO DRIVE CREWE COUPLE TO SUICIDE”
A Crewe couple have been left struggling to pay the bills after changes to disability entitlements denied them access to essential payments.
Andy Halden was employed by the Highways Agency until poor health prevented him from working. As his physical and mental well-being deteriorated, he became registered as disabled.
In March this year the government stopped adults claiming DLA (Disability Living Allowance), and claimants were required to apply for a benefit called PIP (Personal Independence Payment).
PIPs are provided to help with costs associated with long-term ill-health or disability, for adults between the ages of 16 and 64.
When Andy was assessed to determine whether he was entitled to the new payment, he was declined. That left him struggling financially and increased his anxiety.
He said: “I was devastated. My physical state wasn’t good, but the stress that I suffered following that decision was unbearable.
“Some days I struggle to get around the house, and I have fallen down the stairs recently.
“The assessment just didn’t make sense. One day I was registered disabled receiving DLA, the next I was supposedly okay and not entitled to anything.”
Andy’s partner, Lisa, is employed as his care provider. When the PIP payment was declined, the carer’s allowance was also stopped, heaping further pressure on the household.
Lisa said: “I provide 35 hours of care for Andy each week. Losing that allowance made it almost impossible to balance the books.
http://www.crewechronicle.co.uk/news/crewe-south-cheshire-news/crewe-couples-nightmare-disability-claim-11952402#ICID=sharebar_twitter
BUT WAIT………..
The DWP issued the following statement: “We apologise to Mr Halden and will ensure that all benefit arrears are paid.”
………..WHICH TRANSLATED MEANS, “WE FAILED TO REMOVE YOUR RIGHT TO A LIFE, THIS TIME”
“THE NEOLIBERAL PRIVATISATION FRENZY CLAIMS ANOTHER LIFE”
91 YEAR OLD LADY DIES OF HYPOTHERMIA IN CARE HOME………..
A care home that allowed a 91-year-old woman to die of severe hypothermia has been fined £1.6m.
Annie Barritt, a resident at Oaklands Country rest home near York, froze to death, with her temperature so cold it would not have registered on a standard thermometer, a court was told.
She was found to be 25.3C (77.5F), nearly 10 degrees below the hypothermia threshold of 35C. York crown court heard the resident had not been given any hot food or drink as she spent her last day asleep in her room.
The hospital discharge papers for Barritt, who had dementia, stated that she needed to be kept warm at her care home facility. She died of hypothermia despite two nurses checking on her about 10 times on the day of her death.
The care home was fined on Wednesday for allowing what the judge described as an “accident waiting to happen”.
Following the decision, Barritt’s family said in a statement: “The last four years have been very hard for the family, coming to terms with the tragic circumstances of Mum’s death from hypothermia.
“It is hard to believe an elderly lady with dementia could be treated in such an appalling way in a care home that claimed to specialise in care for vulnerable people.
“A fine, no matter how large, could never replace a loved one: what price can you put on your mother’s life?”
Speaking at the court on Wednesday, Judge Paul Batty QC said there were “systematic, systemic failures” at the care home.
“YVETTE COOPER, BACKSTABBER AND ENEMY OF THE DISABLED”
2010
“Tens of thousands of claimants facing losing their benefit on review, or on being transferred from incapacity benefit, as plans to make the employment and support allowance (ESA) medical much harder to pass are approved by the secretary of state for work and pensions, Yvette Cooper.
The shock plans for ‘simplifying’ the work capability assessment, drawn up by a DWP working group, include docking points from amputees who can lift and carry with their stumps. Claimants with speech problems who can write a sign saying, for example, ‘The office is on fire!’ will score no points for speech and deaf claimants who can read the sign will lose all their points for hearing.
Meanwhile, for ‘health and safety reasons’ all points scored for problems with bending and kneeling are to be abolished and claimants who have difficulty walking can be assessed using imaginary wheelchairs.
Claimants who have difficulty standing for any length of time will, under the plans, also have to show they have equal difficulty sitting, and vice versa, in order to score any points. And no matter how bad their problems with standing and sitting, they will not score enough points to be awarded ESA.
In addition, almost half of the 41 mental health descriptors for which points can be scored are being removed from the new ‘simpler’ test, greatly reducing the chances of being found incapable of work due to such things as poor memory, confusion, depression and anxiety.
There are some improvements to the test under the plans, including exemptions for people likely to be starting chemotherapy and more mental health grounds for being admitted to the support group. But the changes are overwhelmingly about pushing tens of thousands more people onto JSA.
If all this sounds like a sick and rather belated April Fools joke to you, we’re not surprised. But the proposals are genuine and have already been officially agreed by Yvette Cooper, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Well there you have it in black and white print from 2010. The truth about New Labour. Now maybe all those who still make snide digs at Jeremy Corbyn will understand why it is important to have a real socialist Labour party with a Real Socialist at the helm. Ignore the brainwashing from the Tory media about Labour being unelectable. They want you to believe that as they are shit scared of real change and the rich having to pay there way again in a fairer system. Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to scrap the WCA and end Sanctions. Cap private rents to save on Housing Benefit as it is a benefit paid to the rich by the tax payer and not a subsidy for the poor as the Tories would like you to believe and build more Council Houses and real affordable houses for those who wish to own there house. So if at the next election you don’t go out and vote for him then you will just have to put up with many more years of the Tories Austerity. New Labour = Red Tory and more austerity, so Corbyn is your only chance to change things for the better.
Things they said would never happen:
Brexit – happened
Donald Trump becoming President of the USA – happened
Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister of the UK….
Brexit has not happened – Because Brexit will not happen – Well set off Article 50 then & stop moaning !!
Call Brexit God – Waiting For God O 0r is the Article 50 !!!
Tory HQ are out again with their trolls.
“Families are poorer than they were a DECADE ago due to pay squeeze and housing costs” The evidence is there – but the Tories just do not care!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/families-poorer-were-decade-ago-8943859
Also, on a different subject, Sky News has just announced that there could be a ‘Parliamentary Inquiry’ into the ongoing ‘Football Manager Scandal’ – it’s good to see that their priorities are in the right place for once! 😦
(Me being ironic by the way!)
People are poorer than they were a Decade ago due to no longer being paid for employment. amongst other things.
This is one which isn’t supposed to be seen in 2016, especially by the young, because they are going to learn that reality is the norm.
BBC news, volunteers in parks, volunteers in library’s. everywhere.
Brexit and it’s aftermath. 1hr,33 mins. working class now workless class.
“ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC INSIGHT INTO OUR ISRAELI LED GOVERNMENT, THE QUEST FOR DIVIDE AND RULE AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF A BREXIT THEY THOUGHT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN”
A MUST FOR ALL TO SEE…………………
THE JIGSAW PIECES ARRANGED FOR YOU TO CREATE AN IMAGE OF WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN THE LABOUR PARTY (NO PUN INTENDED)
Thanks news seeker for putting that up. People with a brain that works.
All the main stream media controlled by Rupert Murdoch. The Guardian does not like anything that is not Tory. I asked the question in the comments – Why is everyone having a go at Jezza – My comment is moderated & now I am banned off the Guardian. It`s all spouting neoliberalism !!! The reason Brexit can`t get on with it is Jezza`s fault. Everything is Jezza`s fault, cancer, aids, NHS chaos & the list goes on.
In fact all the Tories failures is Jezza`s fault.
So people on the left have a Mental illness. Tories so desperate now.
So people who can think for their self & make up theor own mind have a mental illness. Tory Failure !!
If you are not a Tory you have a mental illness – Tory tactics in neoliberalism !!!
The Tories spreading their own mental illness onto others with dunces, thick as shit & just watch bake off !!
A full interview with Loach will be published by DNS (Disability news service) next week. I, Daniel Blake will be released next month
Sky papers review tonight: (not sure which paper) “UK gives £750m to the Afghans” – and yet there are widespread foodbanks in Britain today!
“GOVERNMENTS PROMISE THE EARTH AND GIVE FUCK ALL”
……….HALF IT, HALF IT AGAIN AND YOU WILL BE MORE NEAR THE TRUTH.
How many times have you seen eminent figures of state promise mega funding to deprived, war torn or disaster struck areas?
Talk is cheap and every nation is guilty of falsely inflating pledges.
………….REMEMBER THIS? BANDA ACEH
The United Nations yesterday warned that huge promises of aid from rich countries to the Asia tsunami crisis might not be fulfilled as some countries use dubious methods to appear more generous than they really are.
Charities and international bodies say they fear that much of the money pledged so far to help the emergency in southern Asia may not materialise because governments traditionally renege on their humanitarian pledges.
Last night the death toll stood at more than 125,000, although the exact tally will probably never be known. More than 5 million people have been left homeless.
More than a week after the disaster, most countries in the region have given up the search for survivors to concentrate on burying the dead.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which is leading the response to the disaster, the amount promised by countries and international banks stood last night at just under $2bn (£1.1bn) after a verbal pledge at the weekend of $500m by the Japanese prime minister and $530m from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
But UN OCHA spokesman, Robert Smith, told the Guardian: “We should be very cautious about these figures. Let’s put it this way. Large-scale disasters tend to result in mammoth pledges which… do not always materialise in their entirety. The figures look much higher than they really are. What will end up on the ground will be much less.”
“UK PROMISES LIKE PIECRUSTS”
“There is definitely double accounting going on. A lot of the money will be swallowed up by the military or will have been been diverted from existing loans.”
Britain’s promised £50m to the Asian reconstruction funds will not come out of other aid budgets, the international development secretary, Hilary Benn, stressed last night. It will come from his department’s contingency funds.
PROMISING THE EARTH AND DELIVERING FUCK ALL IS TRENDY.
IT’S LIKE THE DWP BRAGGING THEY ARE SPENDING UMPTEEN BILLION PER YEAR ON DISABILITY PAYMENTS, BUT WHAT THEY FAIL TO TELL YOU IS CAPITA, ATOS AND MAXIMUS, ARE THE RECIPIENTS OF THE BULK WHILST THE CRIPPLED AND SUFFERING ARE SHAFTED AND TOPPING THEMSELVES LIKE FLIES…….
……….any promises of rebuilding and teaching are but a cover for strategic military budgets to protect oil and gas sources in occupied countries.
When it comes to piracy we have the most pedigree……
“HURRICANE MITCH, US PLEDGED A FORTUNE THEN RENEGED”
………………THEY FORGOT TO DEDUCT THE MILITARY COSTS
The worst example was Hurricane Mitch, which in 1998 swept through Honduras and Nicaragua, killing more than 9,000 people and making 3 million homeless. Governments pledged more than $3.5bn and the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the EU promised a further $5.2bn, but less than a third of the money was ever raised.
“BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, BILLIONS PLEDGED, PROMISES TO REBUILD THE AREA……………….
Then there was an outcry from the whites about blasting uncle sams money on predominantly black areas.
……………..and lo and behold, THE NORTHERN POWERHOUSE……….
Carefully targeted crumbs from the rich mans table to try and address the inequality that has gone on for years until the natives got restless.
DWP issued guidance that made suicides more likely, then ‘lied’ to cover its tracks
……….sound familiar?
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 29th 2016
or removing regulations 29 and 35, and said that such a move would provide substantial savings.
But the memo – drawn up before the 2015 election, and to be used if the Conservatives triumphed at the polls – warned that previous attempts to remove the regulations had been defeated in the courts, and that any changes in this area “carry a significant handling and delivery risk” because they would be “perceived as restricting application of the safeguards and may be considered discriminatory”.
DWP’s press office said in April that these “speculative policy formulations” were drafted by staff before the last election and “have not been raised, do not represent government policy and have never been sent to ministers”.
But comparing the latest handbook with the version issued before the 2015 election shows the regulations have been amended, although by changing the guidance rather than the rules themselves.
A DWP spokeswoman said the new guidance had been developed in conjunction with Maximus, the discredited US outsourcing giant that took over provision of WCAs in March 2015.
A DWP spokeswoman said the new guidance had been developed in conjunction with Maximus, the discredited US outsourcing giant that took over provision of WCAs in March 2015.
A DWP spokeswoman said the new guidance had been developed in conjunction with Maximus, the discredited US outsourcing giant that took over provision of WCAs in March 2015.
AND NOW THE DWP WEBSITE HAS MYSTERIOUSLY DELETED THE GUIDEBOOK (GOT TO SANITISE BEFORE THE LITIGATION STARTS)
But an archived copy of the version of DWP’s Work Capability Assessment Handbook that was published in February 2015 – which DWP now appears to have removed from its website – proves that key guidance has been significantly altered at some point in the last 18 months
“HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS HIRED BY THE DWP (AFTER ATTENDING A TWENTY ONE DAY COURSE USING ACTORS IN A CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT), CAN NOW ASSESS SUICIDE RISKS”
And asked how DWP justified asking assessors to decide if there were factors that would “mitigate the risk” of someone taking their own life if they were found fit for work, including “the benefits of employment weighed against any potential risks”, she said: “Healthcare professionals who carry out the WCA are trained in all aspects of their role including the application of risk.
“AND UK UNEMPLOYMENT IS AT AN ALL TIME LOW……………and the moon is made of cheese”
Work for the dole participants are finding it harder to get jobs. New statistics show that just 11.7% of them find full-time work three months after the program.
Of jobseekers who took part in the program between 1 July 2015 and 31 March 2016, 27.7% were in either full-time, part-time or casual employment three months later, the employment department has revealed in an answer to a question.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/01/nearly-90-of-work-for-the-dole-participants-not-in-full-time-work-after-three-months?CMP=share_btn_fb
“REPORT FOR A DWP DEATH WARRANT REQUIRED”
…………a tick box twenty minute disability denial script formulated by the UNUM PROVIDENT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY for LORD DAVID FRAUD……..
Keith Alexander Mallen 29 September 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please provide a copy of the ‘template form’, or similar, provided to ‘Medical Professionals’ that they are required to use in order to report their findings during an Assessment for ESA.
Yours faithfully,
Keith Alexander Mallen
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/standard_format_form_used_by_med#incoming-875561
No one ever got rich working for £jack-shit!
“THE DWP’S ARSEHOLE IS STARTING TO PUCKER”
….DAMIAN GREEN WILL SOON RESIGN
This mornings trivial token gesture to omit the long term disabled from further examination scrutiny is but a kneejerk reaction to the shitstorm that is about to erupt…………
The DWP are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Human Rights reports that they are trying to suppress indicate that 93% of recommendations made in 2012 have been completely ignored, the bedroom tax the main bone of contention.
At the other end we have a dedicated league of bloggers who are chasing the DWP for the findings of 7 suicide reports that inextricably link their actions to claimant deaths. Aided by a bent Freedom of Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham and a more than bent team of selective judiciary, the facts are kept concealed.
DWP are allowed to work outside of the law, the police afraid to investigate the deaths of countless thousands at the hands of LORD DAVID FREUD and his bunch of thugs who execute UNUMS policy on the most frail and vulnerable.
Green’s little gesture is a sign of a man in a corner. This futile move will not restore the benefits of those that have already been systematically robbed by 21 day doctors of ATOS, CAPITA and MAXIMUS.
Indeed, those like myself who hold LIFETIME AWARDS, have already been fleeced.
GOODBYE DAMIAN, THE WORLD WILL BE A BETTER PLACE WITHOUT YOU……….
Employment and Support Allowance: Re-tests axed for chronically ill claimants
Tens of thousands of people claiming the main benefit for long-term sickness will no longer face repeated medical assessments to keep their payments.
Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green said it was pointless to re-test recipients of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) with severe conditions and no prospect of getting better.
More than two million people receive ESA, which is worth up to £109 a week.
The change has been welcomed by campaign groups.
The reform will be unveiled at the four-day Conservative Party conference, which begins in Birmingham on Sunday.
Michelle Mitchell, head of the MS Society, described it as a “victory for common sense”.
She added: “Frequent reassessments for people with progressive conditions like MS are too often a waste of time and money; they can leave people with uncertainty and fear of having their support taken away.”
‘Unnecessary stress’
Applicants for ESA have to undergo a work capability assessment to find out if they are eligible and they are re-tested to ensure their condition has not changed. Some are re-tested every three months and others up to two years later.
Illnesses such as severe Huntington’s, autism or a congenital heart condition are among those that are likely to qualify for continuous payments without reassessment. The criteria will be drawn up with health professionals.
Mr Green said a “key part” of making sure those who are unable to work receive “full and proper support” includes “sweeping away any unnecessary stress and bureaucracy”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37526324
………… big fucking deal, they no longer want to pursue those already dying!
…………….the secrets in the title;
“THOSE CHRONICALLY ILL”
WHICH MEANS BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR LORD FRAUDS ASSASSINATION SQUAD ACTING ON UNUMS INTERESTS……….
“BUT NOW THE DWP PUT THE JACKBOOT INTO THE PENSIONERS”
…..NORTHERN PENSIONERS TO LOSE £1700 PER YEAR
Thousands of poorer pensioners will be hit by a new “bedroom tax”, despite the Government’s promises to protect the elderly from the hugely controversial benefit cuts.
They are poised to lose at least £300 a year because their homes will be deemed to be “underoccupied”, slashing their incomes or forcing them to move – away from family and friends, or to flats that are unsuitable for older people.
In some cases, the financial pain will be greater – one housing association has identified pensioners in part of the North who are set to lose a staggering £1,700 a year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bedroom-tax-pensioners-social-housing-housing-crisis-council-houses-a7340136.html
Alex Doodle
Note the UN has already stated the bedroom tax as a human rights violation. And still this government proceed now hitting the elderly. Saying they are making it fair. Do they believe there own Bulls…t?? The bedroom tax has added to the housing crisis not helped it, there are no smaller properties for people to move into.. No one has been building for 30 years just selling off housing stock … It’s caused people to become homeless the council putting them up in temporary accommodation one night costing more than there week rent.. What about that or this policy is anything but to violate human rights cause distress to people. My elderly neighbour brought her family up in her home, has lived on this street for 40 years, is well known to many. Feels safe here. Her husband died here. Her memories are here, her friends are on the street for 40 years. She can only just afford to eat. And not properly. She could not afford the bedroom tax would be made destitute. Would be moved away from family and friends. Isolated, alone without her support network.
………all facets of the neoliberal architecture of divide and rule. Set one segment against another to try and blur the big picture that emerges without anyone noticing.
Yes, Geoff, divide and rule has been escalated to to an unprecedented level, as we are far easier to control in disparate groups fighting for scraps.
Double cut – The Cronically Ill are now going to be fast tracked onto UC which means a WCA. The WCA will never pass anyone with Chronic Illness because chronic illness has been cured. It takes 2 minutes to work out the Tory Double cut policy with news that they care. It also does not say when it will happen 5 years 10 years !!!!
When the Chronically Ill are fast tracked on to UC the WCA they will have to go through is not a re assessment because it is not ESA. So the Chronically will have to be assessed on UC. Why so many people are fooling for it is amazing.
It is as yet unclear as to the full scope of medical conditions which will be made exempt from repeated assessments, but it is our understanding that the criteria will be drawn up by health professionals. There were no details about who these ‘health professionals’ will be at the time of publication, or what part they may already play in assessing benefit claimants for ESA – NHS or private sector?
Appointment of two lay members to the Legal Services Board.
Catharine Seddon, began working for the judiciary in 2002 and now sits on tribunals in the jurisdictions of social security, employment and mental health. She is a presiding magistrate in Central London and sits as a Lay Assessor under the Equality Act in county court cases.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/appointment-of-two-lay-members-to-the-legal-services-board
https://jac.judiciary.gov.uk/case-study/catharine-seddon-fee-paid-disability-member-first-tier-tribunal-social-entitlement
“SEDDON AND MAYHEW”
……………two more well paid impostors on the DWP DISABILITY DENIAL MERRY GO ROUND OF DEATH AND DESPAIR.
One an ex film maker for the biased BBC and the other a toffee nosed Oxford graduate with financial links to the city.
Two more jokers to the stacked pack of cards that refutes medical findings by real doctors in favour of 21 day trained, classroom role players
“DEFINITION OF LAY PERSON”
A layperson (also layman or laywoman) is defined as either a non-ordained member of a church, or a person who is not qualified in a given profession and/or does not have specific knowledge of a certain subject.[1]
Etymology
The word laity means “common people” and comes from the Greek λαϊκός (laikos), meaning “of the people”
…………..SEDDON AND MAYHEW ARE BOTH, NEITHER……..
……………..SURELY NOT THIS JEREMY MAYHEW WHO IS NOW A LAY MEMBER TO THE LEGAL SERVICE BOARD..
Jeremy Mayhew joins PwC’s Entertainment and Media Practice as a Senior Advisor
Published at 16:14 PM on 25 June 2012
Follow @PwC_UK
PwC is pleased to announce that Jeremy Mayhew is joining the entertainment & media practice as a Senior Advisor. In his new role, Jeremy will focus on advising our clients in the sector on regulatory and policy issues and new business strategies.
Jeremy has 20 years of experience providing strategic advice to clients, senior managers, policy makers and investors in the media and telecommunications sectors. He is currently Chairman of the City of London’s Audit & Risk Management Committee and a Member of the Government’s Regulatory Policy Committee. He is a former Board Member of the Strategic Rail Authority and the London Development Agency.
Phil Stokes, lead entertainment and media partner at PwC, said:
“Jeremy is a great addition to our entertainment and media practice and brings with him a wealth of experience. Jeremy’s focus on the media industry, advising a wide variety of organisations, over many years, means that he is ideally suited to drive further growth and development for the firm in this hugely important industry sector.”
On his new appointment, Jeremy Mayhew, said:
“I’m delighted to be joining PwC. Media markets continue to be shaped by significant changes in the competitive landscape, in consumer behaviour, and in technologies. I’m greatly looking forward to working with PwC to help clients to understand these trends and how, by adjusting their business and operating models, they can create and take advantage of new opportunities.”
……………JUST THE TYPE OF LAY MEMBER YOU NEED WHEN MAKING DECISIONS ON WELFARE PAYMENTS
……………and CATHERINE SEDDON WHO IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE AUDIT AND RISK COMMITTEEE THAT IS APPOINTED BY PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS………
………NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST HERE SURELY?
Terms of Reference for the Audit and Risk Committee
1. Appointment and membership
The Audit and Risk Committee (the “Committee”) is appointed by the Supervisory Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from the members of the Board.
“PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS LINKS TO BHS AND PHILIP GREEN”
BHS
PwC in the UK is being investigated by the Financial Reporting Council over its conduct in relation to the audit of British Home Stores (BHS) for the year to 30 August 2014. PwC completed their audit of financial statements in which BHS was described as a going concern days before its sale for £1 to a consortium with no retail experience. BHS collapsed the following year with a substantial deficit in its pension fund
………..A GOING CONCERN DUMPED FOR A QUID
THEYR’E ALL IN IT TOGETHER
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PwC office locations in British Virgin Islands
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……..FINGERS IN EVERY PIE AND ALL NO GO AREAS FOR THE HMRC WHO CAN DELVE INTO A CLAIMANTS POCKET MONEY BUT ARE SHIT SCARED OF THE TAX EXILES.
Geoff – They are certainly all in it together – it was reported a while back, – probably about a year ago now, that PwC was being paid an absolute fortune by the Tory Government for their ‘financial advice’ to them.
No doubt all being paid for by the poor Taxpayers of Britain.
The Taxpayers Alliance, in my opinion should disband – they are mostly Tories and they should never be allowed to represent the ‘General Taxpayers of Britain’!
NEWS FLASH – ESA FAST TRACKED ONTO UNIVERSAL CREDIT.
No one passes the Universal Credit WCA.
Everyone is fit for work.
Wake up you disability campaigners – You are fooling yourself with Damian 666 Green.
There is no victory – The only victory is uncovering the ESA lie.
It is also a way for the DWP to think they are getting out of a UN investigation with help to the cronically Ill.
Damian 666 Green is letting a Healthcare Professional [which they have not contracted yet] set the rules of what is a chronic illness. But wait HP`s can cure chronic illness so a saving of £million by a £50 million contract to cure chronic illness.
Social Cleansing & death for people with chronic illness is the result of the DWP`s new policy.
What a fucking joke that the Disability campaigner are fooling for some DWP shit.
“LORD DAVID FRAUD TRIPS IN STREET”
………………THAT IRON CROSS NEARLY TOOK MY EYE OUT
They will probably get rid of ESA over the next few years, that’s why they have swept away the WRAG group with the 30 quid reduction to bring it in line with the main UC unemployment rates.
Everyone will get UC unemployment rate regardless of disability, illness etc, then, if you need extra help, claim PIP.
Its back to the future, with IB and DLA. but with a much lower rate with no premiums and add ons.
If only they had the bollocks to say this from the start, then perhaps more people would have been prepared for the shit-storm and not spiralled into suicidal despair with endless pointless assessments that made no sense to the claimant.
But of course, having prepared clued up claimants was not on their agenda, they needed confusion and chaos.
PROBLEM REACTION SOLUTION.
Mrs May has hired Tony Blair’s former policy chief Matthew Taylor to carry out a review of employment practices to improve job security and workers’ rights. – to be rid of them.
Mr Taylor has been tasked with looking at whether regulations need to change in order to keep pace with what Downing Street says is a growing number of people registered as self employed, on zero hours contracts or in temporary work.
The review will look at security, pay and rights and it will also examine whether there are ways to increase opportunities for carers, people with disabilities and the elderly.
He said the review team will travel across the UK to hear how people’s experience of work affects their daily lives.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37527936
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Taylor_(Labour_politician)
Opportunities for the elderly? The Tories really do think that everybody has to work until they die, work to fill the pockets of Tories and their corporate string pullers. The noxious (Un)Priti Patel has already mooted that pensioners be made to work for their State pensions – pensions that have already been paid for by 40+ years’ NI contributions and taxes. The Tories seem to be insinuating the State pension is a “benefit” doubtless in the hope they can introduce some form of conditionality.
And then – the total cunt that is no less than Iain Duncan Smith!
IDS – A true expert, if ever there was one, in everything that is shit, is now trying to give his much needed ‘advice and guidance’ to Theresa May!
This psychopath, that is apparently still being investigated by Police Scotland (together with his ‘good friend and confidant’) Chris Grayling, thinks that by spewing forth a load of verbal dihorreah that he may be able possibly to protect himself from possible eventual litigation! Fuck him!
“Iain Duncan Smith tells Theresa May not to go on ‘bended knee’ to EU in Brexit talks”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iain-duncan-smith-theresa-may-brexit-eu-article-50-a7340521.html
Don’t worry – these totally pampered fuckers will never, in their lives, ever have to visit a foodbank (other than to totally falsely commiserate with those unfortunates who ever have to visit one!)
But, the ‘Media’ blinkered populace of Britain are totally okay with being financially screwed by their employers and everyone else (i.e. the Utility Companies etc) – they say ‘that’s just fine by me/us’!
“Canada Royal Tour 2016 Live: Kate Middleton and William set for final day out with Charlotte and George”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/canada-royal-tour-2016-live-8957342
Their false concern for ‘Mental Health’ and their sickly ‘wooing’ of the ‘Charities’ makes me totally sick. You will never, ever see these ‘Royal’ fuckers attacking the Tories about what they are doing to real disabled people.
The Tories so-called ‘Welfare Reform’ policies are killing people – but – the ‘Royals’ – as far as I personally see it, it are just like ‘Lord’ Alan Sugar – “just make as many £££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££ as possible” – or you can just go and fuck off (and die penniless)
“Theresa May & David Davis to push ahead with ‘Great Repeal Bill’ to end EU authority on day one of Brexit”
The major announcement will be made on the first day of Conservative Conference in Birmingham.
(OUR HUMAN RIGHTS COULD NOW BE IN REAL JEOPARDY)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-david-davis-great-repeal-bill-brexit-article-50-european-union-a7341116.html
“THIS IS WHAT MAY SEEKS TO GET RID OF”
Council of the European Union represents member state governments, the Parliament is elected by European citizens, while the Court of Justice is meant to uphold the rule of law and human rights. As the Court of Justice has said, the EU is “not merely an economic union” but is intended to “ensure social progress and seek the constant improvement of the living and working conditions of their peoples”.
THE TORIES WANT TO STIFLE SOCIAL PROGRESS, LIVING STANDARDS AND WORKING CLASS CONDITIONS…
WE MUST ENSURE SHE DOESN’T…………………………………..
Why on earth is the ‘Mirror’ even reporting this shit – are they now slowly becoming a ‘Tory foghorn’ as well? Who really fucking cares what the ‘royals’ wear? — I (as an original Cornishman) certainly doesn’t care – aaeeiioouugghh!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/style/celebrity-fashion/prince-george-princess-charlottes-canada-8945016
………The mirror, as you rightly say, has become the mouthpiece of tory politics.
Todays news, HEATACHE OF STRICTLY DAISY’S DUMPED DAD………..
What a crock of shit, they now have all but one of their journalists booting Corbyn at every opportunity.
Our media are guilty of hiding the truth of what is going on in the UK today.
The Mirror is not fit to wipe your arse with…….
Geoff – More Tory stuff from the Mirror! (with a few witty bits as well!)
I especially like the ‘sheep’ cushions – thast what the Tories think of most of their ‘subjects’ in Britain today!
“The 16 most Tory things at the Tory Party Conference”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/16-most-tory-things-tory-8962302
N.B: I have been ‘blocked’ by the ‘Ad-Blocker’ pop-up – so I have not been able to see the text of this article!
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/01/disability-and-illness-test-u-turn-is-a-small-victory-but-the-fight-goes-on
“ATOS/CAPITA/MAXIMUS 21 DAY CLASSROOM ROLE PLAY PRETEND MEDICS SCORESHEET”
aka LORD FRAUDS UNUM SONGSHEET
Keith Alexander Mallen 29 September 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please provide a copy of the ‘template form’, or similar, provided to ‘Medical Professionals’ that they are required to use in order to report their findings during an Assessment for ESA.
Yours faithfully,
Keith Alexander Mallen
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/standard_format_form_used_by_med#incoming-875561
“JAMES PURNELL, THE CROOK WHO HEADS BBC RADIO”
Expenses scandal
Purnell was one of many MPs involved in political difficulties following the revelations of the 2009 expenses scandal. He told the parliamentary authorities that his main home was in Manchester and claimed the “second home” allowance for his flat in London. In October 2004, he sold his London flat but told HM Revenue and Customs it was his “principal home”, not his “second home”. A spokesman on behalf of Purnell said that “Any allegation that James avoided capital gains tax is completely untrue. When he bought his constituency home, the sale of his London flat fell through, but it was sold within the period that HMRC continue to treat it as not being liable for CGT … This would have been true for any taxpayer – there was no special treatment”.[13] Also in 2004, Purnell claimed £395 for an accountant’s bill which included “tax advice provided in October 2004 regarding sale of flat”.[13][14]
Whilst renting a flat between 2004 and 2006, Purnell claimed £100 a month for cleaning expenses and £586 for repairs. At the end of the lease, the landlord kept the £2,520 deposit, claiming the flat to have been in a poor state. A spokesman for Purnell stated: “James felt frustrated that the landlord refused to return the deposit. He initially pursued the matter through legal channels but let it rest as the costs of fighting it further would far outweigh recouping the deposit”.[15] Allegation were made by a Sunday newspaper that Purnell claimed more than £1,500 a month rent for the flat although he was half of the £1,820 a month rent and his fiancée was paying the rest. A spokesman for Purnell said “Despite being entitled to claim in full for the whole rental cost incurred by him and his partner, James claimed less than the amount he himself spent. The rules of the House of Commons make it clear that an MP is entitled to be reimbursed for the rent or mortgage paid by the MP and their partner. Nevertheless, James went out of his way to ensure overall he claimed less for accommodation than he himself paid”.[16] Purnell also claimed £247 for 3,000 fridge magnets.[17]
£247 FOR 3000 FRIDGE MAGNETS……
“EUROPEAN ACT 1972”
To legitimise any repeal of the aforesaid act, there will be a vote in parliament where the MP’s will seek to overturn the will of the people with regard to the brexit vote.
May is playing for time hoping to try and find a way around going back to parliament. She knows that if the vote goes any other way than what the majority called for, it would result in a call for a general election.
In the meantime they are calling on every part of the political spectrum on which they have influence, to foulmouth the left of the Labour party because they visualise that public assent for all their kafkaesque policies is changing fast.
You can block the news to a degree but the truth always surfaces at some point………….
Even the DWP suicides will break sooner rather than later…………
Central Banks – A Rothschild Scheme For The Enslavement Of Humanity
Part 1 of 9
“THE PACE TRIALS THE DWP DIDN’T WANT YOU TO SEE”
BARON FRAUD’S FLAWED MEDICAL ASSUMPTIONS ARE COMPLETE BULLSHIT.
UNUM INVOLVED IN WRITING DWP WELFARE POLICY
ME/CFS TREATMENT FIDDLED BY NICE
Conflicts of interest
But the results of the trial also suited the aims of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), who part funded the trial, and the medical insurance industry which have connections to the PACE trial via the researchers. Four of them declared working for the insurance industry in a conflicts of interest statement: Professors Peter White, Trudie Chalder and Michael Sharpe and physiotherapist Jessica Bavington.
Conflicts of interest
But the results of the trial also suited the aims of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), who part funded the trial, and the medical insurance industry which have connections to the PACE trial via the researchers. Four of them declared working for the insurance industry in a conflicts of interest statement: Professors Peter White, Trudie Chalder and Michael Sharpe and physiotherapist Jessica Bavington.
The DWP is particularly keen on psychological explanations, a.k.a the bio-psychosocial (BPS) model for chronic ill health. Professor Tom Shakespeare says, in the Disability News Service, BPS “played a key role” in the narrowing of eligibility criteria for disability benefits such as Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). Shakespeare goes on to say BPS is used to “underpin increasingly harsh and at times punitive measures targeted at disabled people”, in an attempt by the government to cut the number of people receiving ESA.
One of the medical insurance companies White had previously done work for is called Unum Provident Insurance (UPI). They are also proponents of the BPS model of ill health as it helps them to deny disability claims. In 2003 UPI were fined $31.7 million in California for running ‘disability denial factories. In 2005 they were fined $15 million and the California Department of Insurance Commissioner said that “Unum Provident is an outlaw company. It is a company that has operated in an illegal fashion for years…”. UPI is one of the UK’s biggest providers of income protection insurance (IPI) . As a consequence of more holes appearing in the social security safety net, more people are likely to take out IPI, increasing UPI’s profits.
Sir Mansel Aylward, Chief Medical officer for the DWP, sat on the PACE Trial Steering Committee which approved the mid trial changes to the methods. Aylward has also worked for UPI and is a keen proponent of the BPS model, being very influential in promoting it to the DWP.
SEE FULL ASTONISHING ARTICLE
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/02/results-really-didnt-want-see-key-mecfs-trial-data-released/
LORD DAVID FREUD SHOULD BE DANGLING ON THE END OF A ROPE FOR HIS PART IN THE ANNIHILATION OF THE DISABLED COMMUNITY.
DAME CAROL BLACK
BILL GUNNYEON
MANSELL AYLWARD
THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRIES KEY PLAYERS IN WELFARE REFORM…………….UTTER SCUMBAGS
“how the dwp stole your disability benefits”
Investigation into PACE
In 2015, Dr David Tuller, of the University of California, wrote a comprehensive investigative report into the PACE study called Trial by Error. This report documented the many flaws that the PACE trial was accused of, including:
Violation of the Declaration of Helsinki . Researchers failed to inform study participants of conflicting interests due to paid work from the disability insurance industry
Changes to the methods protocol half way through the study. Which meant a more favourable outcome was likely to be observed for the therapies being tested.
Changes to the methods protocol left an unusual artefact. Thirteen percent of the study participants although disabled enough to get on the trial, were also scored as recovered before any treatment took place; once the revised methods were in place.
A newsletter was released to PACE participants part way through the study singing the praises of CBT and GET. It including positive testimonials from people on the trial (which didn’t indicate which treatment) saying how much the treatment had helped them.
Claims of successful treatment and recovery were based on how the patients said they felt. Measured outcomes such as – a step test, a walking test, data on finance and employment – failed to support claims of successful treatment.
Unsuitable use of statistical methods.
Frances Ryan:
‘Saturday’s announcement will not undo the suffering of the disabled people already forced through the reassessment system. It will not take back the anxiety of sleepless nights or fix the health that has been damaged. And, most painfully, it’s too late to help the people who’ve died.’
‘Most days I receive an email, letter or tweet from a disabled reader in despair. They’ve been given notice for their fifth assessment for ESA in less than three years and are too tired to understand the paperwork. Their benefits are late so they have not been able to eat for four days and social care cuts mean there’s no one to help them get out of the house to get a voucher for a food bank. Or they’ve been found “fit to work” but can barely get out of bed and are suicidal because there’s nothing they can do.’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/01/disability-and-illness-test-u-turn-is-a-small-victory-but-the-fight-goes-on
“Thousands join defiant anti-austerity march through Birmingham to fight Tories – and ‘the Blairites'” (GOOD FOR THEM!)
I would like to know though if any of this was covered by SKY or the BBC!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thousands-join-defiant-anti-austerity-8963568
It seems that Jeremy Cunt’s ‘imposition’ of ‘his’ contract is imminent.
Now he suggests “replacing foreign doctors with British talent after Brexit”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jeremy-hunt-brexit-replace-foreign-doctors-british-nhs-eu-a7341256.html
A simple equation that could break the WCA providing private companies!
1 x (“health care professional” being sued by someone for negligence/cause of someone’s death) = Publicity (x 10 to the power of 100 of “hcp’s” being sued for negligence/cause of someone’s death) – (the hcp’s “not being employed by the WCA companies due to fear of being sued”) = Publicity – WCA companies in free-fall as they lose their contracts.
It could happen, especially from now onwards!
The MSI Group are advertising lots of these jobs at the moment:
Search for ‘Medical Assessor’
“Medical Assessor
Are you looking for a new position using your experience and skills gained to date in a new challenge?Do you have at least two years current experience within the NHS or relevant health setting?We may have the ideal job opportunity for yourself as a Functional Assessor!
The position is a Monday to Friday 0900 to 1700 job, paying £72k a year.
The role of a Functional Assessor is to conduct medical assessments and examinations and produce concise reports for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) as part of a successful integrated team.
You would not be asked to make a decision on whether or not the customer should receive benefits, you would only be asked to conduct a holistic and clinical assessment on the customer, collating all the information into a report for the DWP.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:To undertake a combination of file-work and face-to-face assessments of customers in relation to a variety of benefits and provide a report to the DWP. File-work involves reviewing medical evidence in a written or electronic format to determine the suitability of a face-to-face assessment. Such assessments focus on how a disability affects a customer`s day to day life in performing work related activities. These assessments may be recorded.To use IT software programmes to support clinical decision making when undertaking file-work and examinations.To provide comprehensive reports to enable decision makers at DWP to make informed decisions regarding benefit claims.Ensure that professional practice standards and “best practice” are maintained in all areas of workTo deliver productivity and quality standards agreed between the Centre and the DWP and to respond positively to feedbackTo undertake recorded assessments where requiredTo work unsupervised and use own initiative however know limitations and ask for support where necessaryTo analyse and interpret clinical information and medical evidence and provide a report in a professional and concise mannerWork well as part of a multidisciplinary team and build positive working relationships with both medical colleagues and administrative support staffApply professional skills and manage own professional competence and accountability, in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct
If you would like any more information about the role or the benefits that are available with this position, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We would also be more than happy to pay you a referral bonus if you know any RGNs or Physiotherapists that would be interested in the position of a Functional Assessor who are successful at interview, so please do ask your friends and colleagues.
We hope to hear from you soon!MSI RECRUITMENT
Apply Now“
We would also be more than happy to pay you a referral bonus if you know any RGNs or Physiotherapists that would be interested in the position of a Functional Assessor who are successful at interview, so please do ask your friends and colleagues. 😉
“GET RID OF YOUR SHARES QUICK, MONTONI”
………..YOU MURDERING FUCKING SCUMBAG
Anyhow back to Maximus who will be paid £1.6 billion over 3 years to carry out these assessments. Way back in September 2015 the share value of Maximus plummeted by 26% as they were failing to keep to their agreed targets to assess disabled people. Between November 2015 and the following January the CEO of Maximus Richard Montoni and the President Bruce Caswell are reputed to have sold between them £11.4 million worth of shares and a quick google shows that since then most months one or the other has continued to sell off a sizeable number of shares, together with a number of other high level employees. Obviously those on the inside within Maximus can’t wait to offload their shares in the company.
In the meantime between 2014 and 2015 the average staff cost rose from £26,000 to £44,000 per annum and half of those hired never completed their training. Together with a more than 100% increase in the average wage the cost of each assessment rose by £85 each to a staggering £190. At the same time the national Audit Office found that there was a backlog of 280,000 claims with many new claimants waiting over 6 months for assessment and in fact the situation was so bad that all retesting had to be halted as Maximus could not mange to carry out the assessments.
“GET COPIES OF ALL THE DWP HOLD ON YOU”
……THAT’S RIGHT, SEND THEM A RECORDED DELIVERY LETTER REQUESTING ALL INFORMATION THAT THEY HOLD ON YOU.
THERE MIGHT BE A SMALL, NOMINAL FEE BUT THEY HAVE TO DISCLOSE ALL YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS.
MINE CAME IN THREE ENVELOPES, SEVEN INCHES OF PAPERWORK.
YOU WILL NEED THEM WHEN THE LITIGATION STARTS.
PUT IN A REQUEST TODAY, YOU WILL BE AMAZED AT HOW MUCH INFORMATION THEY HAVE.
1. The Freedom of Information Act
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) gives you the right to access recorded information held by public sector organisations.
Anyone can request information – there are no restrictions on your age, nationality or where you live.
Your request will be handled under different regulations depending on the kind of information you ask for, eg the:
Data Protection Act if you ask for information an organisation holds about you
Environmental Information Regulations (EIRs) if you ask for environmental information
https://www.gov.uk/make-a-freedom-of-information-request/the-freedom-of-information-act
“DWP REFUSE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS RELATING TO OPERATION POVERTY LAB RATS”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I note https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov….
“DWP requires research to be undertaken, in a research laboratory environment, with recipients of the Carers Allowance and recipients of the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).”.
Is the ‘laboratory research’ program, involving claimants and employees in a constrained observed environment new?
How are claimants selected?
If the program is ongoing, what topics and methods have been used in the past, and are these public?
If it is new, what are the intended topics of research that were planned that lead to the creation of this contract?
Yours faithfully,
Ian Stirling
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/what_is_dwp_laboratory_research#incoming-875543
.
…………….and lo and behold;
Today we find out why the judiciary members wanted to quit the CHILD SEX INQUIRY………
LORD JANNER
They thought it inappropriate to investigate one of their own for fear that it might turn up more revelations of kiddy fiddling amongst the powdered wig brigade who put themselves above the law.
Notice how the state run BBC broke the news in two parts to try and dilute the context of the matter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37534301
“HAMMOND TO BORROW £2BILLION”
…….Who was it who kept saying the Labour Party had it wrong on borrowing to invest in the future?
All the crap about boom and bust.
Bringing down the deficit is now forgotten as the oafs (the real plebs), have to do a Wonga because all our resources are being pushed into saving Israel from the Syrians who incidentally sit atop of some of the worlds biggest untapped gas and oil reserves.
Which part of the electorate are going to get shafted next?
High on the agenda are the pensioners who are not productive anymore, (in the governments eye, anyway).
Robbing the most vulnerable is the instant fix for the ban on fox hunting. It gives the elite a thrill to watch a creature suffering and tormented.
Every clip of ammunition and every missile deployed by the UK costs someone dearly, not only the recipients but those who are expected to bite the bullet, the taxpayers.
Fear not the City of London because your ranks are totally unpenetratable, we will bail you out for your misgivings, we always do…………
“LONDON TO GET ANOTHER INVESTMENT AS THE NORTH STARVES”
HEATHROW ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE MADE
If i was to be told that my property was to be demolished to make way for another fucking London airport i would do everything humanly possible to disrupt the build, including demolishing site huts and jeopardising equipment.
What right have a group of toffs got to site a runway on peoples heritage that generations may have lived in?
It’s not as though there is not open areas to build, it’s just that the idle bastards want to site it on their doorstep and down give a fig who they uproot in the shallow process.
One thing is for certain, the decision was made long ago behind closed doors without the residents involvement.
“FRACKING IS COMPLETELY SAFE AND IS FRIENDLY TO THE ENVIRONMENT”…………What bollocks!
Ask BP , who are fighting to cap a leaking oil well off the Shetlands if all is well………..
We will be told, in course, that there is no threat to the environment until the dead creatures are washed up. It sounds a bit like the DWP, don’t you think?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-37535523
……wherever you drill you have a chance of disaster. Even in your living room wall……
“MICHAEL FALLON ATTEMPTS TO LEGALISE UK WAR CRIMES”
THERESA MAY CALLS FOR RETROSPECTIVE CHANGES TO HUMAN RIGHTS ACT TO CLEANSE UK ACTS OF WAR COMMITTED ON FOREIGN SOIL.
CHANGES WOULD LEAVE UK TROOPS SCOT FREE TO DO WHATEVER THEY WISHED IN COMBAT ROLES WITHOUT FEAR OF REPRISALS.
You just couldn’t make it up……….
The Tory government is seeking to legitimise Uk war crimes by trying to change parts of the Human Rights Act.
What is more worrying is they are trying to pursue an action not mandated by the public or any other political party. They believe themselves to be above the laws of the other signatories to the act, other nations that hold the articles in high esteem.
Any changes to any acts always opens up a myriad of errors that they could not have foreseen. This will be the case again.
Why change something if it is not broke?
Money is the answer to this. An Embarrassment of claims triggered by Blair’s War Crimes carefully hidden by the stage managed Chilcott Inquiry .
We would have nothing to fear if we followed the Geneva Convention and articles of war but fighting brings out the worst in a human being.
Was it only the other week we heard that our troops had forced a young lad into a canal and stood and cheered as he drowned?
This mornings news has made revelations that the UK government paid a small fortune to a company to doctor film footage of Taliban incidents….
That’s correct, spinning propaganda!
Isn’t this the prime reason that we first went to war?
……….because Blair and Bush thought it might gee their political careers as the bankers rubbed their hands with glee.
War creates debts and debts mean lots of interest repayments……..
“ANY PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT SHOULD GO TO A REFERENDUM AS IT AFFECTS EACH AND EVERY MEMBER OF OUR SOCIETY”
IT IS NOT A POLITICAL TOY IT IS THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE RIGHTS OF OUR PEOPLE…………….
……….AND IF OUR TROOPS ARE EXCLUDED FROM PAYING FOR THEIR CRIMES, SO WILL THE GOVERNMENT?
WHICH, IN TURN WOULD MAKE TYRANTS LIKE BLAIR FREE FROM PROSECUTION IN THE FUTURE……..
………..AND THEN IT WOULD BE APPLIED TO POLITICIANS WHO CREATED POLICIES IN WHICH THE UK PUBLIC DIED.
…………and 3,000,000 Iraqis have died.
Not a bad score for one mans quest for fame by inventing weapons of mass destruction hysteria…..
“MAXIMUS NURSE FOLLOWS HEARSE TO GET A SECOND OPINION”
……Wouldn’t put it past them….
“FURY AS RUTH DAVIDSON (RARE SCOTTISH TORY), BRANDS HER OWN PEOPLE AS VANDALS AND THIEVES”
Fury as Ruth Davidson compares Scots to vandals and thieves
Ruth Davidson has come under fire after joking that Scots aren’t usually invited to plush events for fear they might cause damage or steal items.
According to the Daily Mirror newspaper, The Scottish Conservative leader was speaking at an event attended by Prime Minister Theresa May when she told the audience: “I’m delighted we have such spectacular surroundings,”
The Tory MSP added: “Usually they put the Scots in a place where nothing can be broken. Or stolen for that matter!”
http://indyref2.scot/fury-as-ruth-davidson-compares-scots-to-vandals-and-thieves
…………….PERSONALLY, i think the Scot’s are the salt of the earth, warm, friendly and accommodating……
“BBC STATE PROPAGANDA ARM SHOWS UNQUESTIONABLE BIAS AT TORY PARTY CONFERENCE”
‘I had a glance at the BBC coverage of the Conservative Party Conference, and noted the reverence and respect shown to their leading politicians and party leader. I contrasted it with the disgraceful behaviour of the BBC displayed last weekend towards the corresponding leaders of the Labour Party. They cannot be unaware of this.’
Stephen Calder
17 hrs ·
Jon Eldude
i noticed that to. its obvious only to those with critical thinking capacity and time and energy to see the difference unfortunately.
Andrea Leadsom hopes young Britons will take up fruit picking jobs done by EU migrants
She hopes more youngsters can be encouraged to ‘engage with countryside matters’
Andrea Leadsom, who withdrew from the Tory leadership race in July, said she hoped more youngsters could be encouraged to “engage with countryside matters” and take up jobs and careers in food production.
She said: “There are two sorts of employee who have migrated to this country. One are permanent employees who have come here from the EU or from elsewhere in the world.
Asked if it was possible for Britons could do the jobs instead, she said: “Of course it is, that is a whole different issue.”
She added: “We could get British people doing those jobs and that tempts me to stray into the whole issue of why wages aren’t higher and so on.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-news-andrea-leadsom-young-britons-fruit-picking-eu-migrants-a7342196.html
First off Fakebook ask for passport, driving licence, ‘government ID’. If you click ‘I don’ have any of those they move on to:
“Other Types of ID
If you don’t have a government-issued photo ID, you can upload two alternate forms of ID. We accept:
Company or school ID
Library or gym membership card
Birth certificate
Social security card
Bank statement
Utility bill
Together, the two IDs should clearly show your name, birthday, and photo.”
Fakebook are getting too fucking big for their boots. What fucking right do these bastards have to demand ID to access a fucking website! Hey Fuckerberg – fuck off, you fucking knobhead!
The digital passport will soon be apon us all. we won’t be able to open any webpage if we don’t agree to it. they say it will be voluntary, but we know different don’t we.
I wanted to go on the dating site Tinder but could not as it’s linked to Fakebook.
“HOW THE DWP ASSESSORS FIDDLE PIP MEDICALS”
“NEW TORY PRIVATISATION BILL MAY COST THE LIVES OF COUNTLESS CHILDREN”
es have quietly dropped a privatisation bombshell. And this time, it’s on some of the most crucial services for vulnerable children in England.
A proposed law would see child social care and protection services opened up for private companies to run. It would also allow over 80 years of child protection law to be swept aside, in what critics are calling a “bonfire” of children’s rights. And the bill could threaten to put already vulnerable and abused children at even greater risk.
“New approaches” or a “postcode lottery” for children?
The child and social work bill, which is currently being debated in the House of Lords, intends to shake up the legal basis of child services. Currently, laws apply to every child in the country, via local authorities. But the Tories want to change this, by allowing councils to opt out from national law for up to six years. Ultimately, this means social care laws will no longer apply to all children.
The bill affects nearly all local authority-run children’s social care services. These include child protection, fostering and adoption, family support, the care system and support for care leavers, and services for disabled children.
Another snippet of biopsychosocial bullsh*t underpinning benefit assessment “reform” (research funded by the DWP):
“Obstacles to recovery and return to work are primarily personal,
psychological and social rather than health-related ‘medical’
problems.” Mansel Aylward
…………..ask the 10,600 that died shortly after being deemed fit for work.
Zi Ferret
Obviously my wife’s lack of breast tissue, lymph nodes , feeling and movement in her arm are purely social and psychological rather than down to the 4 hour surgery to perform a radical mastectomy and lymph node clearance as well as excise a 10cm invasive tumour.
Isn’t it amazing what benefit scroungers will put themselves through to scam the state out of 90 quid a week? I mean a simpler option would have been to stand for parliament. Let’s face it who wouldn’t want 70 k a year in wages and 100k plus in expenses…?
“died shortly after being deemed fit for work.” You don’t know what they died of, could have been natural causes or accident related and nothing related to their health condition, otherwise the key to immortality would be to keep working since nobody who goes to work and is fit to work by definition ever drops down dead, do they? GEOFF?
……….you seem to forget, they all had a clean bill of health
….and don’t forget how the DWP reacted when writing a report into this poor mans death……..
https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/publications/michael-osullivan/.
PART 31.
A decision that a claimant does not have Limited Capability for work, or Limited Capability for Work Related Activity, is colloquially referred to as a decision that the claimant is “FIT FOR WORK”. However, what this actually means is that the claimant does not meet the functional descriptors set out in the ESA Regulations for LCA or LCWRA.
IT DOES NOT REPRESENT A FINDING ON WHETHER OR NOT THE CLAIMANT IS EMPLOYABLE OR WHETHER THE CLAIMANT WILL BE ABLE TO FIND WORK.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Damian 666 Green is talking about genocide at the DWP. The pensioners are now being robbed & killed off to fund the Tories £20 billion for starters.
TORY DISABILITY HATE CRIMES IN FULL SWING.
GLOBAL DISABILITY PARA OYLIMPIC HERIES – BULLSHIT
Better life chances are Death.
So Welfare State has not worked in the past 6 years !!
TORY DISABLED KILLERS
“FREEDOM OF INFORMATION RESPONSE FROM THE DWP”
COULD YOU STATE, CATEGORICALLY, THAN UNUM CORPORATION HAD NO
INFLUENCE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LIMA BASES BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL
SOFTWARE USED IN ESA EXAMINATIONS?
DID MEMBERS OF THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY HAVE INPUT INTO THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THE LIMA SOFTWARE THAT IS USED DURING AN ESA
EXAMINATION?
DID MANSEL AYLWARD HAVE LINKS TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SOFTWARE.
IF SO PLEASE STATE, AND DESCRIBE HIS INPUT’?
…………………………………………………………………………………………….
In response, I can advise that neither the Department nor Atos Healthcare hold any
documentation that links the LiMA software, used for Work Capability Assessments, with Unum,
the insurance industry or Mansel Aylward.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely
DWP
……………………………………………………………………………………………….
………ANOTHER FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST TO THE DWP REGARDING UNUM PROVIDENT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY”
27 January 2012
Annex A
Dear Mr Jones,
Thank you for the following Freedom of Information request, which was received on 20
January 2012.
I would be grateful if you could provide me with information stating how many meetings
between employees of Unum (previously UnumProvident) and employees of the DWP have
occurred over the course of the relationship between these two bodies (since 1995).
Any additional information about these meetings (dates, times, places, agendas etc.) would
also be gratefully received.
………………………………………………………………………………………………..
The department does not have a central database recording meeting details. As such to
comply fully with your request would entail contacting approximately 100,000 officials who are
employed by the Department of Work and Pensions, as well as all Ministers and Special
Advisers, to find details of meetings that could relate to your enquiry. We estimate that the cost
of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit. The appropriate limit has
been specified in regulations and for central Government it is set at £600.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/101018/response/248774/attach/html/2/FoI%20236%2027.01.12.pdf.html
………..AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE DWP BECOME AWARE OF UNUMS INFLUENCE IN THE FORMULATION OF WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENTS.
Q1
The Work Capability Assessment was developed in collaboration with a range of
medical and occupational health experts. Sue Godby, of the College of Occupational
Therapists and Unum Provident, was part of the Mental Health Technical Working
Group, along with eight other professionals. Dr Peter Dewis, a disability analyst and
Customer Care Director, Unum Provident, was part of the Physical Function Technical
Working Group, along with nine other professionals.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/164266/response/405390/attach/html/3/Response%20FOI%202662.pdf.html
……………….TELLING LIES IS A FULL TIME PASTIME FOR THE DWP
If it was not for Lord Fraud the Tory Party would not be in the great state it is today – Gamian 666 Green – CLAP CLAP CLAP Standing Ovation.
Bankurpt & Reccession
I have now git very bad dellexicalled.
Abu Hamza & Abu Katada were both deported over this kind of behaviour – I say – so should Nigel Farage & David Cameron!
Nigel Farage said “I want my Country back” and then he said “I’ve got my Country back” – and then – he fucked off from UKIP. The Media, as mentioned, are also to blame.
Nigel Farage – This total hypocrite – taking goodness knows how many thousands of pounds from the EU – as a British MEP. They should now kick him out (if they have not done so already!)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-david-cameron-nigel-farage-council-of-europe-report-racist-violence-intolerance-hate-speech-a7345166.html
“Brexit Secretary, David Davis says EU referendum campaign untruths ‘not important’ ” (he would do anyway, as a leading Brexiteer originally!)
I (personally) say that ‘lies’ should not have been told to win support for either the ‘OUT’ or the ‘IN’ cause. In this, most important Referendum of our generation, anyone doing this should be brought before the Courts and prosecuted. This should be the fairest way to go in a ‘so-called’ democracy!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-davis-brexit-secretary-eu-referendum-campaign-lies-a7344611.html
Have a look at this! The ‘career’ of David Davis (AKA: David Michael Davis)
His early life is uncannily very similar to Stephen Crabb!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis (British_politician)
N.B: On clicking onto this link above, please look down the list of ‘Europeans’ and thence find him on the 3rd one down – and click on this!
UKIP IS DYING A SLOW, BUT VERY INEVITABLE DEATH!
“”Ukip leader Diane James resigns after 18 days in charge”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-leader-diane-james-resigns-latest-a7345286.html
Diane James – Another “MEP” – (NOW THEY ARE BEING WEEDED OUT!)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/diane-james-quitting-ukip-leader-8980145
Iain (Drunken Cunt) George Duncan Smith knows EVERYTHING – and knows EVERYTHING about absolutely ‘FUCK ALL’.
If this wannabee cunt had to run a ‘real business’ – then it would be bankrupt in no time at all!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iain-duncan-smith-lazy-british-businesses-uk-brexit-eu-a7341426.html
IAIN GEORGE DUNCAN SMITH & CHRIS GRAYLING – both of these total cunts are still being investigated by Police Scotland – for failing to take action after a Coroner’s report – implicating them in the unnecessary deaths (due to suicides) of poor unfortunates who have been subjected to the WCA from the various unscrupulous private contract companies of the DWP – ATOS – MAXIMUS and CAPITA.
WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN AND WILL NEVER FORGET YOU – IAIN DUNCAN SMITH AND CHRIS GRAYLING – YOU WILL ANSWER FOR YOUR CRIMES.
BY BEING THE FOREFRONT CORRESPONDENTS FOR YOUR TRULY FELT ‘CONSERVATIVE POLICIES’ – THEN BOTH OF YOU PROBABLY THINK THAT YOU HAVE ‘GOT AWAY’ WITH ALL OF YOUR ‘COMBINED’ CRIMES – BUT YOU HAVE NOT – AND YOU WILL ‘NEVER’ GET AWAY WITH IT. BOTH OF YOU WILL SOON ANSWER FOR YOUR CRIMES.
“The Greedy in this country doesn’t value the Welfare State. It is part of the Greedy British way of life.
“As Greedy Tories we believe in giving someone a sanction when they need it. This should be a hand up, not just a hand out. to hunger. and death.
“We must always be hard-headed, but we must never be soft-hearted. A Torie Government will always take away what is rightly yours when it is needed.
warning, severe crap ahead.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/new-work-and-pensions-secretarys-speech-to-tory-conference-in-full/
Oct 10th, “facebook at work” you’ll know what to do.
“TORY HOUSING MINISTER GAVIN BARWELL TELLS CONFERENCE THAT CREATING SMALLER ROOMS (GOING AGAINST MINIMUM PERMITTED ROOM SIZES) COULD BE AN OPTION FOR CUT PRICED HOUSING”
…………..WHY NOT A RABBIT HUTCH?
“INFORMAL OBSERVATION TAKEN DURING A PIP ASSESSMENT”
……..Lord Fraud should hang for this……
WAS SEEN TO BE READING A MAGAZINE IN WAITING ROOM AND WAS ABLE TO PUT IT BACK ON TABLE.
WALKED AT A SLOW PACE FROM WAITING ROOM INTO ASSESSMENT ROOM WHICH IS 20MTRS.
TOOK OFF COAT SLOWLY FOR MSO.
BECAME WEEPY TWICE DURING ASSESSMENT WHEN TALKING ABOUT CHILDREN AND NURSE TRAINING.
SAT COMFORTABLE IN CHAIR WITH BOTH LEGS AT NORMAL FLEXION.
NO OBSERVED SIGNS OF ANXIETY OR NERVOUSNESS.
…………expertly designed pre installed computer prompts to enable the Dwp to steal your benefits.
“National debt now running at just £595,000,000,000”
………..just £595 billion pounds
HIGHER THAN EVERY SINGLE LABOUR GOVERNMENT COMBINED
………….And you thought the Tories a competent alternative to run finances
Greening announces social mobility ‘opportunity areas’
………….And she wants to give my town, SCARBOROUGH, a share of £60,000,000 (which is a conservative seat)
Robert Goodwill (born 31 December 1956) is a British farmer and Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough and Whitby and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. Since July 2016 he has been Minister of State for Immigration. He was previously Minister of State for Transport and before that Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport.
…………..Yes sunny SCARBOROUGH where you are greeted upon leaving the railway station by a road full of blanked out shop windows.
A town famous for it’s vast array of competing charity shops, east european accents and street beggars.
The nightlife consists of the poorest sleeping in park shelters or under our numerous bridges, huddled in cardboard, wheezing gently………….
Once a prosperous spa town heralded by it’s own castle on a commanding hilltop fortification.
A town full of promise that boasts several industries that have chosen to employ from abroad, embracing poverty wages and where shift foremen are chosen for their bilingual abilities to communicate with the staff…..
Slot machines, sand and poverty in abundance…………….
and will Justine’s handout to our town create any new horizons?
SCARBOROUGH, THE TOWN THAT TIME FORGOT………
……………strangely, i could hear noises from outside my front door and i have just been to investigate…….
Two guys with a van have been erecting a sign on a lamp post right outside my front door.
The sign is about a foot square and says that the county council has designated this zone as an anti cold calling area.
This, of course, will deter the most hardened door to door salesperson that ever wished to breach the boundary of my humble domain.
Which in turn is a shun to all those gangs of double glazing WORKFARE initiative people that regularly ply their trade.
…………is this what JUSTINE GREENING meant by an opportunity area?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37554334
More regarding education, only it’s more about well this says it all.
Cadet Expansion Programme in schools across the UK by 2020.programme targeting schools in less affluent areas to ensure everyone has access to the full cadet experience. – decrease anti-social behaviour through an improved attitude, improved school attendance and classroom behaviour.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/defence-secretary-helping-young-people-through-25-new-school-cadet-units
Research shows
children who have been Cadets increase their academic achievement and decrease anti-social behaviour through an improved attitude, improved school attendance and classroom behaviour, and have higher self-esteem, self-confidence and organisational skills.
…………and yet,
Research also shows, cannon fodder is readily available in areas of high depression.
Kit is generally unavailable, food atrocious and body armour scarce. Vehicles are not fully bomb proofed and weaponry jammed in sandy situations and in water. Radio communications equipment is rationed as well as basic ammunition.
Many troops came back via RAF Brize Norton through Wootton Basset where crowds gathered to welcome them home in the back of a hearse.
Many troops missing limbs were robbed of their disability pensions due to being sent to ATOS. Veterans organisations lodged complaints about the way yesterdays heroes were persecuted.
Successive cuts to manpower have given way to the suggestion that part time regiments like the Green Howards could be deployed in combat roles.
Military wages and pensions have been cut and the military covenant is not worth the paper it is written on.
Schools having the least chance of pupils gaining successful positions in the labour market are a cheap source of expendable casualties that the Tory’s wish to exploit.
Nobody from the vast halls of Westminster will be within a thousand miles of the battlefield, safe in the knowledge that whatever they choose to do, none of them will even suffer a graze……………..
The toffs from rich families and went to Sandhurst got instant rank, blowing whistles that sent the commoners over the tops of the trenches into no mans land to be greeted by hails of enemy machine gun fire, mortars and barbed wire to be literally hacked to pieces.
……….nothing has changed, lest we forget……….
& Blackpool, Skeggy … all the major cities in the north – huge newly-built shopping centres/tourism guides in gold-braided uniforms strategically posted about the main shopping area – doorways full of carboard/street homeless people everywhere walking around in groups (scaring the horses/children); sitting outside mcdonalds (other fast food outlets are available).
We have one man here who started off quite big & an imposing figure. He is now very much smaller/entirely different-looking after around 12 months on the streets. We have free and PAYF cafe/food projects/deliveries of food to people who can’t access any money to live/holiday meals for children And it’ll soon be Christmas.
……and before our honest tory MP has a dig at me……….
ROBERT GOODWILL (NOT SO MUCH IT SEEMS) AND HE ALSO VOTED TO ROB THE DISABLED)
Controversy
In 2000 whilst working as a Conservative MEP, Goodwill sparked controversy when he was quoted as saying “I fly from Leeds/Bradford to Brussels and we get a set fee of around £500, but if I buy a cheaper ticket, economy class for about £160 and £250, I can pocket the difference and, as a capitalist, also as a British Conservative, I see it as a challenge to buy cheap tickets and make some profit on the system”.[18] Labour called this proof that sleaze was “alive and well” within the Conservative party whilst the Conservative Party itself condemned his actions saying “the party does not endorse the fiddling of expenses or the impression given that the system should be made available for personal profit”. Goodwill later donated £2,000 to local charities following feedback from constituents.[19]
In 2012, following changes to the MPs expenses system, Goodwill moved out of the flat he bought in Pimlico and into rented accommodation. The flat was bought in 2006 and Goodwill claimed nearly £10,000 in expenses for Stamp Duty, Legal Fees, etc. The flat funded by those expenses now appears in his Register of Interests as he now derives rental income from it under the auspices of ‘R W Goodwill, Property Division’. There has been local pressure for Goodwill to repay those expenses, but it is unknown if he has done so yet.
In 2013, following on from a review of capital gains made by MPs from their tax-payer funded second homes, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority ordered Goodwill to repay £4,963.39.
…………….HONEST BOB
Seriously ill Willesden man had his benefits stopped after he was deemed ‘fit for work’ weeks before he died.
Ricky Neacey was forced to fight the decision by the Department of Work and Pensions to axe his Jobseekers allowance before it finally did a U-turn and accepted his health was failing.
The 52-year-old, who lived in a bedsit in Park Avenue, was eventually allowed to claim Employment Support Allowance (ESA), which is given to people who are deemed too ill to work, three weeks before dying from chronic liver failure.
Mark Neacey has slammed the ‘shameful’ treatment of his brother in his final weeks.
http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/seriously_ill_willesden_man_had_his_benefits_stopped_after_he_was_deemed_fit_for_work_weeks_before_he_died_1_4261398
“DWP PLANS ALTERNATIVE CURRENCY FOR THE POOR AND DISABLED”
…..GOVCOIN, THE FOOD STAMP EQUIVALENT……..
The information you requested regarding the technical specifications and scopes pertaining to
the trial of Govcoin is commercial in confidence.
The DWP works continuously with industry partners to identify and test new innovations that
could save taxpayer money, safeguard information and better protect payments to customers.
DWP has thus worked with GovCoin to facilitate a small privately funded Proof of Concept
(PoC) including around 25 participants to explore the application of the new technology in
promoting financial education, benefit, inclusion, security and control for the benefit of
claimants themselves.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/356306/response/877345/attach/html/2/3238%20Reply.pdf.html
………….another clear breach of Human Rights and Equality laws
“DWP’S LITTLE SIDELINE”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please can you elaborate on the involvement with BPDTS Limited (Company number 10344843) which appears to be a Government controlled asset of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Questions
– What role does BPDTS Limited serve or will serve?
– What is “BPDTS” an acronym of?
– Why was BPDTS Limited incorporated?
– What offices do BPDTS Limited operate from?
– Who is/will be responsible for BPDTS Limited?
Yours faithfully,
Alan Young
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bpdts_disclosure#comment-72924
“BPDTS IS REGISTERED AS HAVING A DIRECTOR CALLED, RAYMOND JOHN IAN LONG”
………HE IS LINKED TO 53 OTHER COMPANIES
ESPECIALLY CROWN LAWN LONDON LTD
Crown Lawn Apartments offers luxury serviced apartment accommodation across Central London. Providing value to luxury rentals of fully furnished serviced apartments, Crown Lawn Apartments has over 20 years experience in medical, corporate and short stay lettings.
………SEE LIST OF OTHER COMPANIES
http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/2504476/RAYMOND-JOHN-IAN-LONG
DWP STAKEHOLDERS
……….ALL LINKED TO PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES LIKE BUPA, THE STAKEHOLDERS WHO DRIVE DWP WELFARE POLICY.
……….WHAT A BUSY LITTLE MAN……..
RAYMOND JOHN IAN LONG HAS RESIGNED FROM ALL OF THESE COMPANIES CONNECTED TO WEALTH INVESTMENT IN KEY PARTS OF THE METROPOLIS…
DWP MUST BE SO PROUD OF HIS EXPERTISE IN INVESTMENT OF STOLEN BENEFITS
DWP REAL ESTATE, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, SALES, LEASING………………..ALL FROM STOLEN BENEFITS OF COURSE
What’s happened to unemploymentmovement.com?
Server not found since this afternoon. Have they all got jobs? 😦
Or received a sanction …
………..BUT WHAT CONNECTION HAS RAYMOND JOHN IAN LONG (A SENIOR CIVIL SERVANT), TO DO WITH DWP REAL ESTATE, PROPERTY PORTFOLIO, LEASING AND MANAGEMENT?
DWP344 RAY LONG SCS2 Technology Shared Services Director Leads the Technology business partner function for Operations Department for Work and Pensions
SALARY 2015 £104,999
The “Templars” have been on a land grab since they started the Great fire of London to create the ” Crown”. owned land.
Seeing they cannot burn people out of their homes to create more land.
They invented the BENEFIT CAP.
“DWP CLAIM THAT FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTER’S MOTIVES ARE VEXATIOUS IN A BID TO BLOCK INFORMATION ON CLAIMANT SUICIDES”
John Slater 24 April 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please disclose the project assessment review reports (“PARR”) produced in respect of the Universal Credit Programme (“UCP”) following reviews completed in:
– May 2012
– February 2013
– June 2013
– March 2014
If a project assessment review was carried on the UCP in 2015 please disclose the PARR produced following that review.
If the Department is prepared to disclose some of the information it should do so whilst citing the statutory exemption it is engaging for the remaining information.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
Under section 14(1) of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), public authorities are not
obliged to comply with a request which is vexatious or a repeated request.
In this case, the Department is treating your request as vexatious/a repeated request for the
following reasons:
You have already complained about the delay and a response been has been provided. As
made clear in the repeat request, you have also already complained to the Information
Commission Office (ICO) about the delay in responding to your request for the Project
Assessment Review Reports therefore, it would be a duplication of resource to reply again
here. Accordingly we are treating your request as vexatious/repetitious and not requiring a
further response.
On this basis, the Department has decided that Section 14(1) of the FOIA applies on this
occasion.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Strategy FoI Team
………….STRANGE HOW THEY FIGHT TO HIDE CLAIMANT DEATHS SO VIGOROUSLY
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/330442/response/877397/attach/html/2/IR%20392%20Reply.pdf.html
“NO ANSWER YET FROM DWP ON POVERTY LAB RAT ANALYSIS ON HUMANS”
What is DWP laboratory research.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/what_is_dwp_laboratory_research#incoming-877596
“QUESTIONS RELATING TO DWP’S SUPPLY OF WORKFARE SLAVES TO POUNDLAND”
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/what_is_dwp_laboratory_research#incoming-877596
“DWP CLAIM TO HAVE NO INFORMATION ABOUT HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR BENEFITS TO BE REINSTATED AFTER WINNING AN APPEAL”
Dear Mr Wrapson,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 11 August
2016.
You asked “How long should it take for ESA to be re-instated once an appeal
has been successful? Please provide specific legislation, regulation and
guidance which gives timescales for the reinstatement of the above benefit”.
Response:
The information you have requested is not held.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact us quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/351087/response/865479/attach/html/3/WDTK%20response%202927%20Wrapson.pdf.html
New Reality TV Show – MP Catfights & Fistycuffs
Episode 1:
Theresa May Vs Diane Abbott
Episode 2:
IDS Vs Tom Watson
Episode 3:
Dodgy Dave Vs Nigel Farage
Is This Tory Government Even Legal?
AFairerSociety.uk – 5th Oct 2016
Election Fraud: Britain’s Conservative Party ‘Broke the Law to Win the 2015 General Election’ This is an example of the kind of headline that went around the world earlier this year.
There are currently nineteen police forces investigating twenty-nine Conservative MPs
Read More:
http://www.afairersociety.uk/2016/10/05/is-this-tory-government-even-legal/
“”””So we are faced with twenty-nine Tory MPs under investigation for electoral fraud. Fraud that if they are deemed to have committed should at least lead to their resignations as MPs. If this is the case with more than sixteen of these MPs then the Conservatives did not win a majority in 2015.””””
Police Forces Investigating Electoral Fraud
•Avon & Somerset
•Cheshire
•Cumbria
•Derbyshire
•Devon & Cornwall
•Gloucestershire
•Greater Manchester
•Kent
•Lancashire
•Lincolnshire
•Metropolitan Police (London)
•Nottinghamshire
•Northamptonshire
•Staffordshire
•Sussex
•Warwickshire
•West Midlands
•West Yorkshire
•Wiltshire
“”POLICE FORCES INVESTIGATING LORD DAVID FRAUD FOR CLAIMANT DEATHS”
ZERO…………
THEY ARE PAID TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY
Duncan Smith tells DNS: ‘I’m not going to be accused by you’ over mental health deaths
DNS – 6th Oct 2016
Iain Duncan Smith has denied responsibility for the deaths of people with mental health conditions who took their own lives after being unfairly found fit for work by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Duncan Smith was speaking to Disability News Service (DNS) at the Tory party annual conference in Birmingham about his failure to act on a coroner’s written warning in 2010 on the need to address particular safety concerns with the work capability assessment (WCA).
In the unplanned interview, which took place in a busy foyer in Birmingham’s International Conference Centre, the former work and pensions secretary claimed repeatedly that five independent reviews of the WCA commissioned by DWP under his leadership had led to a “much improved system”.
Read More:
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/duncan-smith-tells-dns-im-not-going-to-be-accused-by-you-over-mental-health-deaths/
“”””As Duncan Smith tried to end the interview – after becoming increasingly irritated with the questions – DNS asked him what he thought of Police Scotland now considering whether it would launch a criminal investigation into his WCA failings.
But he said he was “not going to get involved in the detailed questioning from you”, before turning his back on DNS editor John Pring.””””
……..dead man walking
Ministers know their WCA system is increasing suicide risk, says Ken Loach
DNS – 6th Oct 2016 by John Pring
Government ministers know their “fitness for work” system is making disabled people’s health worse, and is increasing the risk of suicides, the award-winning film director Ken Loach has told Disability News Service (DNS).
He was speaking ahead of the national release of his critically-praised new film, I, Daniel Blake, which tells the story of a man with a heart condition who becomes caught up in the work capability assessment (WCA) system.
The film, which won the Palme D’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, also addresses links between the complexity, unfairness and cruelty of the social security system and the increase in the use of foodbanks.
Loach also backed the idea of seeking a criminal investigation into the failings of former Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministers Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling.
The Scottish-based grassroots group Black Triangle – supported by DNS – is seeking to persuade Police Scotland to investigate the refusal of Duncan Smith and Grayling to act on a letter written by a coroner weeks before the 2010 general election that warned ministers that the WCA process risked causing further deaths of people with mental health conditions.
Black Triangle, other disabled activists, and the families of at least two claimants who are believed to have died as a result of those uncorrected flaws, want to see the ministers prosecuted for the Scottish offence of wilful neglect of duty by a public official because they failed to act on that letter.
Loach told DNS that such a prosecution “sounds a good way of challenging them”, although he stressed that he did not know whether there was enough evidence to justify taking such a case.
But he said: “I think they know what they are doing. They know they are making people’s health worse. They know they are increasing the risk of suicide.”
The idea for the film came, says Loach, from the “extraordinary” stories he and his writing partner Paul Laverty kept hearing about the WCA, which he said came “one after the other” in the newspapers, through online campaigns and via Twitter.
As they investigated the issue, Loach and Laverty visited about six towns and cities, including London and Glasgow, but mostly across the Midlands and the north of England, where they heard “story after story”.
They also talked to organisations like Black Triangle, and individual disabled people, which Loach said was “hugely valuable in covering the ramifications and the details of the system”.
Following that research, Laverty developed the two main characters, and then wrote the first draft of the script.
Loach said the most striking aspect of what they were told was the “perversity” of the system, which he said was the “common denominator” of people’s stories.
“You would find one route blocked off, so you would turn somewhere and go along another path to get resolution or solve a problem or get someone to speak to you and that would cut out and you would find somewhere else,” he said.
“And the hours and the effort that goes into dealing with the bureaucracy that is actually going to bring you back to square one…
“It’s snakes and ladders all the time. You go up a ladder and then you’re down a snake.
“That was the common denominator that came time and time again.”
The character at the heart of the film, who has to deal with the WCA system, is not, says Loach, “an extreme case”.
“There are so many stories we could tell, so many different perspectives, much harsher experiences than there are in the film,” he said.
“We were very conscious that we didn’t want to make it an extreme case.
“We wanted to say to people who haven’t been through it, ‘This could happen to someone like you, as well as someone who has plainly got a serious health issue.’”
He said he hoped that disabled people and those with health conditions who have been through the WCA system will feel that their experiences have been “recognised” by his film.
He said: “I would hope they would feel that somebody was expressing a little bit of what they experienced, that there is something that rings true to them, given their experience, and they feel at least acknowledged.”
And he said he hoped that it would encourage them to join people in similar situations and “make their voices heard” and campaign for change, and “just feel confident enough to carry it further”.
Loach’s films stretch back over five decades and are known for their strong focus on issues of social justice, illustrating his own socialist principles, including Up The Junction, Poor Cow, and more recently Raining Stones, Bread and Roses, The Wind That Shakes The Barley – which also won the Palme D’Or – and Land and Freedom.
But I, Daniel Blake is also released 50 years after Cathy Come Home, the hugely-influential film Loach directed for the BBC in 1966, and which led to the formation of Crisis, the charity for single homeless people.
Loach said there was a “common denominator” between the two films.
“The common denominator is a state that knows – in the 60s it was a housing issue that we made the film about – the social problems that they have created; they refuse to do anything about them to solve the fundamental issues, so they punish the people who are suffering because of it.
“It was the same in housing [in the 1960s]; they weren’t building houses, they chose not to, and they dealt with people who were therefore homeless very harshly, and it destroys families, and they would sooner do that than solve the problem.”
But Loach stressed that the film had to be character-driven, despite the many distressing stories and information they had heard about.
“You just start with the stories you hear and try and tell the truth of the situation,” he said.
“Once you have done the general research, which Paul did most of, and you have written the characters, then all the research is there to inform how you tell the story, but what’s going to drive it is the people in the film and they have to be individuals and not ciphers to make an argument.
“You just want to tell a story that gets to the heart of it, to the essence of it.
“There’s a million details and a million stories if you want to make an academic treatise of the situation, but just tell one story with a couple of people that gets to the nub of the situation if you can.”
Meanwhile, Black Triangle used a local premiere of the film in Newcastle this week to launch a new campaign, in association with fellow grassroots network Cross Border Alliance.
Their Cradle 2 Grave campaign – backed by both Loach and Laverty – highlights “the violation and systematic abuse of human rights of those unfortunately relying on the state for health and financial assistance”.
They say that “time is running out” to save the NHS, the social security system, pensions and public services for future generations, and that health and public services are “overrun by an ideology where money and profits come before lives”.
They hope to raise money through crowdfunding to launch a national poster campaign, with posters “in every town and city across the UK”. Donations can be made through the Cradle2Grave website.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ministers-know-their-wca-system-is-increasing-suicide-risk-says-ken-loach/
“DWP BULLY BOYS CONCENTRIX LEAVE VULNERABLE WITHOUT MONEY TO LIVE”
LORD DAVID FRAUD’S PERSONAL HATRED OF THE POOR AND DISABLED REACHES CRISIS POINT
In east London, at her children’s school, Sally (not her real name) is calculating with the family practitioner how much debt she and the children are in. “How much is it now? £500?” “Yes, £500 overdraft.”
It’s been a year and a half since her troubled husband left the family, leaving Sally to look after their five children alone. The youngest of the girls is only three, and 11-year-old son Connor (“obsessed with computers”) is autistic.
With the right support, the breakup of the marriage could have been the start of something better and more financially stable for them. But instead Sally has found herself getting into debt to feed her children. And all because she’s been accused of still living with her husband.
This is the human face of the Concentrix scandal. The US company with a UK government contract hit the news last month for falsely withholding child tax credits. Over the course of the past two years, the firm had sent nearly 1 million spam letters to tax credit claimants accusing them of providing incorrect information about their relationship status, working hours or childcare arrangements – ultimately leaving scores of families, like Sally and her children, to get by without the benefit.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/06/concentric-poverty-debt-child-tax-credits
DAME CAROL BLACK/LORD DAVID FREUD PRODUCTIONS
“KILLING COMES EASY”
“HMRC CONFISCATE STAFF PASSPORTS TO PREVENT THEM INVESTIGATING UK OVERSEAS TAX HAVENS”
……….BUT WORK OVERTIME HANDING POOR CLAIMANTS DATA TO CONCENTRIX (DWP EXTORTION WING)
“DISABILITY KILLER FREUD’S DISABILITY GAMES”
……..the shithouse Lord that loves to kill disabled
Woman who can barely walk up stairs has disability benefits stopped
A woman with a long list of debilitating conditions who was told her disability benefits had been stopped because she was deemed capable of working – despite barely being able to walk up a set of stairs – has welcomed news that people with chronic illnesses will no longer be reassessed.
Campaigners say Sally Rahali is just one of an ‘unprecedented number’ of disabled people to have been hit by ‘draconian’ government welfare rules in recent months.
The 42-year-old scored ‘zero’ on a work capability assessment, meaning her Employment and Support Allowance payments (ESA) of £299 a fortnight have been stopped.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/woman-who-can-barely-walk-11985670
BillKruse
PIP has nothing to do with any ability to work so I don’t know why the article would suggest it has. However, the reason so many more people than usual have recently been declared as fit to work following their ESA assessment when clearly they’re nothing like fit is probably as it forces them eventually to go to tribunals. The DWP are soon to be introducing new measures effectively knobbling these independent tribunals. The end game appears to be to make social security worthless, ie impossible to claim, and so opening up a multibillion pound private insurance market. Plenty of gravy for everyone then, politicians and businessmen alike. Nothing for the sick and disabled, like Sally above, however. Readers can get some idea for themselves of what’s going on by Googling for Unumprovident scandal. Happy reading!
“YET ANOTHER NOTCH ON DUNKO THE CLOWN’S BELT”
A bedroom tax campaigner from Runcorn took her life after struggling with depression and pain due to a chronic health condition, an inquest heard.
Michelle Bridge, 43, of Exmouth Crescent, Murdishaw, was discovered at home by a young relative and his friends in the early evening of May 16 after he had been asked to check on her.
An inquest at Warrington Coroner’s Office on Tuesday heard that Miss Bridge, who worked as a shop cashier, had suffered long-term pain due to endometriosis – a condition affecting cells around the womb – for which she had surgery, and also depression, having been on several prescription medicines.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/runcorn-bedroom-tax-campaigner-took-11982904
DROPPING LIKE FLIES BUT THE POLICE LOOK AWAY……….
@Geoff
I knew Michelle and was often served by her at her supermarket. I was gobsmacked when I found out what happened, as were her colleagues.
Theresa May trying to protect soldiers who murder prisoners and torture civilians, says top human rights lawyer
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-left-wing-human-rights-lawyers-cover-up-murder-torture-civilians-armed-forces-a7346846.html
“AFGHAN TALIBAN THREAT GROWING AFTER 15 YEARS OF US OCCUPATION”
Blair’s ill fated adventure is one reason why the poverty in the UK has hit crisis levels.
Shouldn’t be too long before Fallon decides to send in more cannon fodder to keep Blair’s adventure alive…………….
Geoff – Yes, indeed. When the ‘US forces/British forces left’ – what happens then? Taliban incursions begin! Russia many years ago were bogged down and defeated in Afghanistan – nothing has changed – the ‘forces’ move out and then the Taliban move in. And yes, also (to HELP AND BE ‘BEHIND’ our U.S. friends/best allies!) no doubt again, our British forces will be ordered back into action! Fallon, (who does not know a mortar from a Subway baguette) will be at the fore of it all – our Forces dying on HIS behalf and at the same time, not being given the support that they so much deserve. The U.K. Forces – since WWII, have always been at the mercy of the U.S. – and unless something soon changes – they will always remain so!
“NEUTRAL WHITE HELMETS WHO ROAM WAR TORN BATTLE ZONES EXPOSED AS REGIME CHANGE PROPAGANDA PUPPETS PAID BY THE US AND UK GOVERNMENTS”
…………While our own kids and poorest are left wanting, our governments have been pouring millions into a fake movement purporting to be completely neutral.
Nearly claiming a Nobel peace prize, the lid has finally come off this band of shysters.
ADVERTS SIMILAR TO THIS ARE SEEN ON THE NET
Thousands of us campaigned to get the Nobel Peace Prize for the heroic rescue workers of the White Helmets. They didn’t win it this year, but we can step in and raise the $1 million in prize money that they would have gotten. Let’s show them our love and solidarity from around the world — get the White Helmets $1 million to treat wounded volunteers and replace rescue equipment and ambulances that have been bombed.
……………WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT, A PRODUCT OF THE WESTS PROPAGANDA MACHINE
The White Helmets – here are a few facts that you need to know. Share this to your family and friends who subsist on Western corporate media:
* The White Helmets, also called Syria Civil Defence, are not who they claim to be. The group is not Syrian; it was created with USA/UK funding under the supervision of a British military contractor in 2013 in Turkey.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fact-sheet-on-syrias-white-helmets/5549760
“BORIS JOHNSON ADMITS THE UK GAVE £32 MILLION POUNDS”
…………AND WE HAVE KIDS ON THE STREETS………..
At the same time, Johnson is awfully enthusiastic about the Syria White Helmets who are “fantastically brave” humanitarians. They appear to have recently added another string to their bow as de-mining experts. Johnson is so enthusiastic, he is positively bouncing with glee as he announces the UK Foreign Office has awarded the White Helmets a further £32 million in NON-humanitarian aid, as part of a £ 65 million wider package to “remedy the Syrian crisis”.
………….always filmed carrying injured kids and handily available at so called jihadi executions to try and sell the idea that the enemy are barbarians and we are whiter than white…..
…………..REMEMBER ALL THE HYPE ABOUT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, THE YANKS EVEN PAID A FEMALE ACTRESS TO POSE IN AN AFGHAN HOSPITAL NURSE TO SELL THE IDEA THAT KIDS AND OAP’S WERE BEING MURDERED.
THE ONLY MURDERS I AM AWARE OF ARE THE WORK OF LORD DAVID FRAUD…….
Tory conference: Mowat hides from heat over social care crisis
The Conservative party has refused to explain why ministers appear to have dodged any mention or discussion of the social care crisis at this week’s annual conference.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who has responsibility for both health and social care, delivered a speech of 2,850 words, while mentioning social care just once, and even then in a fleeting reference to “joining up the health and social care systems”.
Sajid Javid, the communities and local government secretary, who also has responsibility for social care as part of his role, delivered his own set-piece speech to the conference – this time of 1,700 words – without mentioning social care.
Theresa May gave her first speech to her party’s annual conference as prime minister – 7,200 words – but also without any reference to social care.
” PACE MEDICAL STUDY DELIBERATELY HIDDEN”
DWP HIDE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES WHO PRODUCED BIASED REPORT THAT LED TO THOUSANDS OF CLAIMANT DEATHS..
FIRM PAYS £200,000 TO KEEP YOU IN THE DARK
John Slater 3 October 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The DWP part funded research by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), into ME/CFS (myalgic encaphalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome) study known as the “PACE trial”.
Results of the study were published by the Lancet (Volume 377, No. 9768, p823–836, 5 March 2011) and titled “Comparison of adaptive pacing therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, graded exercise therapy, and specialist medical care for chronic fatigue syndrome (PACE): a randomised trial.”
Recent media articles have stated that QMUL QMUL spent £200,000 on legal costs fighting a Freedom of Information case trying to prevent the disclosure of study data.
RFI1: As the DWP part funded the study did it also provide any funding for the QMUL FOIA case that was attempting to prevent disclosure of the study data?
Yours faithfully,
John Slater
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/funding_for_queen_mary_universit#incoming-878407
I do not believe this! When our SKY NEWS are reporting ISIS ‘atrocities’ in Syria – i.e: public amputations (by sword) of a 10 year old boy, – then we now have John Kerry urging an investigation into ‘Russian’ war crimes!
We all know that Syria is now so very broken that ‘only the American construction companies’ are going to be able to ‘reconstruct the Country’!
Syria has so many factions – Bashir-Al-Assad’s forces, the ‘rebels’ to Bashir-Al-Assad, ISIS fighters, the ex-Al-Musra fighters, plus – special forces (boots on the ground – not confirmed, but highly suspected!) American Special Forces, British Special Forces, Turkish Special Forces and the Kurds (that the Turkish forces hate!)
And then – air strikes from Bashir-Al-Assad, Russia, (and probably also from the U.S. & Britain).
IS IT ANY REAL WONDER THAT ‘HOSPITALS’ ARE HIT!
ACCORDING TO THE GENEVA CONVENTION ‘HOSPITALS’/’MEDICAL FACILITIES’ SHOULD HAVE ‘PAINTED ON THEIR ROOF – A ‘RED CROSS’
It has been reported (by our press) that these facilities are ‘unmarked’.
It has also been reported by the Russians, that these facilities are ‘unmarked’ and they are most certainly ‘used by rebels’.
A whole ‘fog of war’ exists in Aleppo – and I, for one think that the Americans/UK air strikes could well be responsible for this!
‘History’ may well reveal this to be the truth!
http://www.independent.co,.uk/news/world/americas/russia-war-crimes-john-kerry-syria-aleppo-us-investigation-barack-obama-vladimir-putin-a7350711.html
Sorry! – that should read:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russia-war-crimes-john-kerry-syria-aleppo-us-investigation-barack-obama-vladimir-putin-a7350711.html
These ‘atrocity’ reports are (I reckon) well designed to ‘soften up’ the great British Public to support a much greater ‘military’ involvement in all of this.
‘Civilians’ and ‘Children’ suffering in a ‘wartime’ situation is totally unacceptable (according to a ‘democratic’ society).
I could just imagine Michael Fallon (the Defence Secretary) saying “We cannot have all of these atrocities going on and do absolutely nothing about them”
“Therefore, I have decided to commit more of our ‘troops’ (i.e. Special Forces!) to the ground forces to root out these ISIS fighters, this of course also, with the help and co-operation of our American Friends and Allies”.
Just you wait and see! (I RECKON – THIS ALL HAPPENING ANY TIME FROM NOW ON, UP UNTIL DECEMBER 31ST, 2016)
IF THIS IS NOT A REAL RIGHT WING TORY PARTY – THEN WHAT IS?
“Amber Rudd was the icing on the Tory cake with calls for companies to reveal foreign workers” (And after all, she was a ‘Remainer’ originally!)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/amber-rudd-icing-tory-cake-9000261
JUST LOOK AT WHAT I HAVE FOUND:
Forget George Osborne, otherwise known as ‘Gidiot’ – Phillip Hammond is certainly a very ‘rich man’ to be reckoned with!
To the ‘ordinary’ person in the street – a ‘very nice man’! – make no mistake about it – this cunt would put his arm around you – and stab you in the back!
FORGET THE VERY POOR & THE POOR & THE LOW PAID WORKERS & THE SICK & THE DISABLED.
THE UKIP VOTERS & THE DISASSOCIATED LABOUR & THE LIB DEM VOTERS – YOU HAVE ALLOWED THIS LOT IN – ONCE AGAIN!
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-the-mystery-of-the-second-most-powerful-person-in-theresa-may-s-government-a7211346.html
“BPDTS LIMITED”
Raymond John Long
Position: Director
Occupation: Senior Civil Servant (DEPARTMENT OF WORKS AND PENSIONS)
Appointed: 24 August 2016
Nationality: British
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
Claire Lizbeth Johnston
Position: Director
Occupation: Government Lawyer
Appointed: 24 August 2016
Nationality: British
………………………………………………………………………………………….
Bpdts Limited LONDON
Founded in 2016, Bpdts, classified under reg no. 10344843 is an active company. Currently registered at Fao Company Chief Executive Officer, Caxton House SW1H 9NA, London the company has been in the business for less than 1 month. The company has not filed any account data yet, it is due on August 31 .
The firm currently employs 2 directors, namely Claire Lizbeth Johnston, Raymond John Long. The youngest director – Claire Lizbeth Johnston was born on February 1960, the oldest – Raymond John Long on August 1957. Of them, Claire Lizbeth Johnston , Raymond John Long have been with the company the longest, being appointed on 24 August 2016 and Claire Lizbeth Johnston and Raymond John Long have been employed the shortest – from 24 August 2016. As of 23 September 2016, our data shown no information about any ex employees on these positions.
RAYMOND LONG DWP CONNECTED TO 53 BUSINESSES AS DIRECTOR/ACCOUNTANT
“NICE LITTLE SIDELINE FOR DWP SENIOR CIVIL SERVANT”
http://www.crownlawnapartments.com/
ONE OF 53 COMPANIES
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please can you elaborate on the involvement with BPDTS Limited (Company number 10344843) which appears to be a Government controlled asset of the Department for Work and Pensions.
Questions
– What role does BPDTS Limited serve or will serve?
– What is “BPDTS” an acronym of?
– Why was BPDTS Limited incorporated?
– What offices do BPDTS Limited operate from?
– Who is/will be responsible for BPDTS Limited?
Yours faithfully,
Alan Young
“DWP BULLY BOYS REFUSE TO REPLY TO FOI REQUEST REGARDING IMPLIED THREATS TO STOP CLAIMANTS USING THEIR POST OFFICE ACCOUNTS”
Frank Zola 11 July 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
After someone has used a Post Office Card Account (POCA) to get many months of Universal Credit payments, should they decline any of your Personal Budgeting Support, on what legal basis can you refuse to make payments to their POCA[1] and what legal powers or sanctions can you use to require a UC claimant to open a bank account[2] and stop using their POCA
to make their UC payments[3]?
If an existing UC claimant is getting payments via their POCA and they also have a bank account, what legal powers do the DWP have to refuse to make payments via their POCA [4] and what powers do you have that requires any POCA to disclose to the DWP their bank account details [5] for the purpose of making their UC payments into and not their POCA?
Please disclose information information you hold for [1], [2], [3], [4] and [5]
Yours faithfully,
Frank Zola
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/we_dwp_can_refuse_to_let_you_use#incoming-854746
“DWP REINVESTED STOLEN BENEFITS PLC”
Lord FRAUD saw what a lucrative business plan taking valuables from relatives could be……….
Spectacle frames, hair, jewellery, shoes, paintings, property, the list is endless, but what a bright idea to reverse the roles and redirect stolen claimant benefits into a lucrative sideline for his employers…………..and who would be any wiser?
But the temptation of greed saw them trip themselves up by using the DWP corporate address to register one of many property investment arms.
Strange how some of the property deals also include BUPA and AXA, both private medical insurance firms.
………………yes, RAYMOND JOHN IAN LONG, A SENIOR CIVIL SERVANT FOR THE DWP, HAS BEEN A BUSY BOY, HASN’T HE…………..
BPDTS LTD, AND RAYMOND IS CONNECTED TO 53 COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS AND ACCOUNTANCY………..
“COSGROVE HALL, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, DESTROYED BY FIRE”
……………What a coincidence
OVERSTONE HALL, another local property was also destroyed by fire in 2014.
……………but oddly, if the council was to put money up front towards the renovation of the property a deal could be struck to allow building of dwelling houses on the private estate, which in turn would go towards the money paid out.
The Council has decided to pursue an approach to restore the site based on Historic England’s (formerly English Heritage) policy on ‘enabling development’ – this is when development normally considered unacceptable is permitted, because the resulting public benefits outweigh the harm. An example would be to build new houses where planning policy would normally prohibit them, with the profits used to pay to restore an important heritage asset.
https://www.daventrydc.gov.uk/your-council/news/council-supports-fresh-steps-towards-overstone-hall-restoration-29-07-16/
…………What a crafty way to burn down a historic property in order to get round planning laws in order to fill your pockets. One must think beyond the box when making profit from a loss……..
And if either the National Trust or English Heritage are involved in remedial work, they have been exposed as using Tory government Workfare slave labour.
A stately hall for fuck all, i may add.
“UNIVERSITY SPENDS £200K TRYING TO BLOCK INFORMATION ON WHO FUNDED THE PACE TRIALS”
PACE TRIAL DATA USED BY DWP TO STEAL BENEFITS
PACE TRIAL DATA ALSO USED BY INSURANCE FIRMS TO DENY DISABILITY PAYMENTS
Statement: Disclosure of PACE trial data under the Freedom of Information Act
Tuesday 16 August 2016
Tweet
Statement from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL):
A Tribunal has now concluded by a 2:1 majority that certain PACE trial data should be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act.
The PACE trial was carried out according to the regulatory framework for UK clinical trials, which aims to ensure that trial participants can be confident that their information is only ever used according to their consent, and that their data is only shared under obligations of strict confidentiality.
QMUL’s appeal against the Information Commissioner argued in favour of controlled and confidential access to patient data from the PACE trial. QMUL has shared data from the PACE trial with other researchers only when there is a confidentiality agreement in place and an agreed pre-specified statistical plan for data analysis.
This has been a complex case and the Tribunal’s decision is lengthy. We are studying the decision carefully and considering our response, taking into account the interests of trial participants and the research community.
……………….£200,000 TO HIDE THE IDENTITY OF THE THOSE FUNDING THE TRIALS
“EX DWP CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER RESPONSIBLE FOR FAKED MEDICAL TRIALS”
Major breakthrough on PACE trial
Article Author: George Faulkner
In a major breakthrough for people with ME/CFS a judge has rejected a university’s £200,000 attempt to prevent release of data from the controversial medical trial, that was the first to receive DWP funding.
An Information Tribunal has rejected an attempt to prevent the release of important results from a controversial medical trial.[1] The trial was part-funded by the DWP, and was assessing the value of biopsychosocial interventions at the same time as the DWP was using the biopsychosocial model of disability to help justify cuts to disability spending.[2,3]
Mansel Aylward, former Chief Medical Officer at the DWP, and a key architect of the last decade’s reforms, had helped to secure funding for the trial and sat as an observer on the trial’s steering committee.[2-5] The director of Sense About Science USA greeted news of the Tribunal’s decision by stating that the “PACE trial is a fault line between the way we did medicine (secretive, clubbable) and the way we should do medicine (transparent, shared)” and “PACE is turning out to be the science controversy of the decade: it indicts the medical ecosystem of review”
……………SO MANY DEATHS AND ALL THE KEY PLAYERS ARE WELL KNOWN
MANSELL AYLWARD-DWP-UNUM-CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
BILL GUNNYEON-CAPITA-DWP-FACULTY OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE-MAXIMUS.
DAME CAROL BLACK
LORD DAVID FREUD
……….AND THEIR LACKEYS, IAIN DUNCAN SMITH, ESTHER MCVEY…
Comments on the PACE trial from critics within academia:
Professor Vincent Racaniello, Columbia University: “This is a flawed study, it has to be fixed and people are being harmed by it.”[56]
Professor Arthur Reingold, University of California, Berkeley: “Under the circumstances, an independent review of the trial conducted by experts not involved in the design or conduct of the study would seem to be very much in order.”[8]
Professor Leonard Jason, DePaul University: “The PACE authors should have reduced the kind of blatant methodological lapses that can impugn the credibility of the research, such as having overlapping recovery and entry/disability criteria.”[8]
Professor Bruce Levin, Columbia University: “It calls into question the diagnosis of an illness whose patients already rate as ‘recovered’ or ‘within normal range.’ I find it nearly inconceivable that a trial’s data monitoring committee would have approved such a protocol problem if they were aware of it.”[8]
Professor James Coyne, University of Groningen: “The data presented are uninterpretable. We can temporarily suspend critical thinking and some basic rules for conducting randomized trials (RCTs), follow-up studies, and analyzing the subsequent data. Even if we do, we should reject some of the interpretations offered by the PACE investigators as unfairly spun to fit what [is] already a distorted positive interpretation of the results.”[57]
Professor Rebecca Goldin, George Mason University: “How can we judge whether the improvements seen in primary and secondary outcomes associated with CBT and GET are “real” if “recovery” does not always require clinically meaningful improvement, and if the meaning of “normal range” includes averages for people in their late 70s and early 80s?”
Dr. David Tuller, University of California, Berkeley: “This study is a piece of crap.”
…………WORK WILL HAVE ALREADY BEGUN ON SHREDDING KEY EVIDENCE FROM THE PACE TRIALS.
WE ARE ON THE CUSP OF A REVELATION THAT IS SET TO ROCK THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY AND THE DWP COMPLICITY IN FALSIFIED MEDICAL REPORTS THAT HAVE CAUSED SO MANY THOUSANDS OF CLAIMANT DEATHS……
A DWP spokesperson said: “While you are unemployed we expect you to do all you can do to find work.” How long is a piece of string?
…………and again;
“WIKILEAKS EXPOSE HILARY CLINTONS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS BUT THE BBC SEES FIT TO BLOCK COVERAGE”
JULIAN ASSANGE (Who Hilary said needs killing with a drone), stood triumphant on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy yesterday, announcing that Wikileaks had intercepted Clinton’s missing emails and letters to the big financial corporations like Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.
Assange said the first tranche of leaks was released on to the net and more would be released on an ongoing daily basis.
Bernie Saunders must be laughing his cock off!
……………and where are our beloved sultans of spin, the inglorious City of London mouthpiece that is the corrupt cancer eating away at our everyday lives, the BBC?
…………Hiding the news that yet another corruption of politics has once again been exposed for what she is.
And yet, the most prodigious position on our planet is being played out by a serial xenophobe, womaniser and liar and a woman with a closet full of jizz stained ties who says one thing and does the other…………
Sounds familiar to what’s happening back here?
Many thanks you for your support, GEOFF. If only the rest of you Brits would take your lead and get off of their lazy asses and VOTE T*RUMP FOR PRESIDENT!!
Sincerely
Donald Trump
And yet, the most prodigious position on our planet is being played out by a serial xenophobe, womaniser and liar
if the cap fits?
A honest and worth thing to do – but Witney is staunch Tory! – he does not stand any chance of winning!
(It should also be noted that the average Brit shamefully, seems to be probably more interested in who wins the Strictly crap then standing up for the poor and the underpriveleged in this Country)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/former-head-david-camerons-local-9010872
…………….”LORD HAYWARD WANTS TO JOIN LABOUR BECAUSE HE FEELS FOR THE POOR”
Lord Hayward
Category 4: Shareholdings (b)
HSBC plc (banking)
Rio Tinto plc (mining/minerals)
Vodafone plc (communications)
Diageo plc (drinks)
Royal Dutch Shell plc (energy)
Rexam plc (beverage can maker) (interest ceased 18 July 2016)
Taylor Wimpey plc (housebuilding)
Unilever plc (cleaning products supplier)
Sage plc (software)
Rolls Royce plc (engineering)
International Airlines Group (airlines)
SSE plc (utility)
Greene King (brewing and hospitality)
Category 8: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
Member attended two dinners, 7 March and 25 April 2016, paid for by Millivres Ltd (publishing and retailing)
Guest of CEO, London City Airport, 17 November 2015, at dinner in London after which funding by London City Airport was agreed for 20th Anniversary dinner of Kings Cross Steelers RFC (see category 10(e); the Member expects to receive hospitality from London City Airport that will exceed the registration threshold in the course of a calendar year)
Gift of one Rugby World Cup final ticket (Australia v. New Zealand) at Twickenham Stadium, 31 October 2015, from Mr Nigel Owens (match referee); charitable donation for value of ticket has been made by Member
Category 10: Non-financial interests (a)
Deputy Chairman and trustee, Central YMCA (registered charity)
Director, YMCA Training (registered charity)
Category 10: Non-financial interests (d)
Treasurer, Dignity in Dying
Category 10: Non-financial interests (e)
Vice President, Kings Cross Steelers Rugby Football Club
………….NEARLY ON HIS ARSE
Geoff – I bet that this bastard is not living on £33 per week, as in your own particular case. My heart goes out to him (after reading your post) – DEFINITELY NOT!
LORD HAYWARD, FRIEND OF THE POOR
“My Lords, my noble friend will be aware that I and several hundred gay rugby players were partying in gay nightclubs in Florida only last week and the week before. We are therefore very conscious of the events of the last two days. However, it is a hate crime. The target happened on this occasion to be the LGBT community, but it could have been any other community on another occasion”.
……………ONLY KIDDING PAUL
DIFFERENT TORY, SAME NAME.
Geoff – This could be Trump (only under another name!) – don’t mention his ‘good friend’ though, Nigel Farage of UKIP fame!
“FIT FOR WORK DEATH FIGURES”
………DWP PUSSYFOOTING TO RELEASE INFORMATION
A. Clerk 6 September 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Under the Freedom Of Information act I would like to request the number of recorded deaths of the UK population judged to be fit for work following assessments by ATOS/WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENTS.
This should include all deaths including “Suicides.”
Please also provide details of ongoing legal investigations into the deaths of the UK population judged to be fit for work following assessments by ATOS/WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENTS.
Yours faithfully,
A. Clerk
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/atos_deaths_6#outgoing-586576
(Off Topic)
Just interviewed on Ch 4 News: Brett McGurk (U.S. Special Envoy for Countering ISIL). According to him, the U.S. have been ‘training-up’ Iraqi Security Forces (over the last 2 years) to try to “counter ISIL and retake MOSUL”
“The U.S. has helped to liberate Fallujah from ISIS/Daesh”
According to McGurk “Iraq is still the H.Q. of ISIL/Daesh”
Reading between the lines, it really suggests to me that the U.K. is still very much involved in this ‘”struggle” in the supporting of the ‘Uncle Sam’ U.S. Forces.
One thing also seems certain as I see it. If a ‘No-Fly’ zone is eventually declared over Aleppo in Syria – the U.S. (with their AWAC’s (Airborne Warfare and Control aircraft)) would have to enforce it.
Almost certainly, the RAF would have to be involved in this too- (we are their poodle after all!)
In this circumstance, there would be the very realistic probability of a U.S./RAF controlled aircraft being given the task of taking out/bringing down a Russian/Syrian aircraft that may be infringing the ‘no-fly zone’.
The United Nations would be totally impotent as usual!
Theresa May & Boris Johnson would be totally speechless, they not knowing what to do – other than to announce ‘new’ sanctions against the Russians!
Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary would have to ‘hide’ as soon as possible!
Sorry – that should read “Airborne Warning and Control!”)
What an incredible turn up for the books – Boris Johnson is now calling for ‘demonstrations’ outside of the Russian (U.K.) Embassy over that Country’s attacks on Aleppo.
It has also been said on Sky News this evening that ‘Russia would have to ‘sign up’ to agree to a ‘no-fly’ zone to be set up over Aleppo’. THIS IS NOT TRUE – RUSSIA WOULD NOT HAVE TO AGREE TO THIS IN ANY WAY!
If a ‘no-fly zone was imposed, (by whomever) – the ‘supposed’ aggressor(s) would not have to sign up to this in any way whatsoever – a ‘no-fly’ zone would be imposed – and then they would have to suffer any consequences!
(More about ‘no-fly zones’ – From our ‘good friends and allies’ the good old U.S of A!) They are, after all – still Policing the World!
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/05/everything-you-need-to-know-about-no-fly-zones/111898/
………….my comments are being blocked Paul.
BENEFITS STREET CHARACTER DIES AFTER DWP SANCTION
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14794727.Stockton_man_who_appeared_on_TV_series_Benefits_Street_found_dead/?ref=fbshr
…………FIVE TIMES I HAVE TRIED TO PUT THE STORY ON, EACH TIME IT HAS BEEN BLOCKED.
Have you tried contacting Marmaduke Hussey, luv?
Geoff – That’s strange, but it does seem to happen on here from time to time. Meanwhile, I wonder if poor Lee’s death, once a Coroner’s report is done – will this report also be ignored by the powers that be, especially if the death can be directly attributed to the imposition of a benefit sanction!
I personally would not be too surprised if it was ignored!
“LEE DIES AFTER SANCTION”
………..BUT NO LINK TO DWP POLICY
“Lee has been claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance for the past year, living on £45 a week after being laid off by the construction company he worked for.
“Now Lee finds himself in a constant battle with both ill health and the benefits system.
“He has been ‘sanctioned’ for missing an appointment, a new government policy designed to encourage people off of benefits. He denies missing the appointment but his benefits have been cut anyway.
“KILLING IS FUN, SANCTIONING HAS NO LINK TO CLAIMANT DEATHS”
………..AND THE MOON IS MADE OF CHEESE
The conclusions are contained in 49 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) inquiry reports finally released to campaigners on Friday after a two-year Freedom of Information (FOI) battle. Some 40 of the reports followed a suicide. In 10 cases, the claimant had had their benefits sanctioned.
Although the heavily redacted reports do not draw a direct link between the death of a claimant and problems caused by their dealings with the benefits system, they highlight widespread flaws in the handling by DWP officials of claims by people with mental illness or learning difficulty.
The reports, called “peer reviews,” appear to challenge blanket claims by ministers that there is no connection between government welfare reform policies and the deaths of vulnerable claimants.
………ONE DEATH A COINCIDENCE, THOUSANDS, PLAIN MURDER……
DWP LICENSED TO KILL
Now Lee finds himself in a constant battle with both ill health and the benefits system.
“He has been ‘sanctioned’ for missing an appointment, a new government policy designed to encourage people off of benefits. He denies missing the appointment but his benefits have been cut anyway.
DWP’S DEATH TALLY
Mortality Statistics
: ESA, IB, and SDA
Published on 27 August
2015
Page
5
Information request
2
The number of IB and ESA claimants who have died since Nov 2011.
Please break that figure down into the following categories:
a) Those that are in the assessment phase
b) Those that were found fit for work
c) Those that were placed in the work
-related activity group
d) Those that were placed in the support group
e) Those who have had an appeal completed after a Fit for Work
decision
The information requested for the number of IB/SDA and ESA claimants who have
died
is shown in table
2.1.
Please note that these figures show those whose
benefit claim ended as a result of their
death.
Table
2.1 Total number of individuals who have flowed off IB
/SDA
and ESA
and
whose date of death was at the same time
(3)
, Great Britain
: Dec
ember
2011 to February
2014
Total n
umber of IB/SDA and ESA off
–
flows
with date of death at the same time
(3)
81,140
of which:
ESA
50,580
IB/SDA
30,560
Click to access mortality-statistics-esa-ib-sda.pdf
These figures, 81,400, include those found fit for work by renegade make believe health professionals working for ATOS, CAPITA and MAXIMUS.
Council’s failings mean disabled man has to be dragged upstairs to his flat
A disabled man has to be dragged up the stairs to his second-floor flat by his personal assistant because of his local council’s failure to rehouse him in safe, accessible accommodation.
Robert Carver – who is paraplegic – has also been told by his GP, nurse, occupational therapist and psychologist that he needs 24-hour-a-day care, but his council has given him just 28 hours a week.
The inadequate care package means that for two days a week he is left on his own in the inaccessible flat in Hove, Sussex – up two flights of stairs – with no access to food or water, or the ability to toilet or clean himself, even though he is incontinent.
Even on the days that he does have support from his personal assistant (PA), he is alone with no support from 5pm – or even earlier – until noon the next day.
Brighton and Hove council has been asked repeatedly over the last two years to provide him with a proper support package and find him a ground-floor flat with an extra bedroom for an overnight care worker, but has failed to act.
Carver’s flat is at the top of two flights of narrow, steep stairs, and the building has no lift, so the only way he can get to his flat when he returns from one of his many health appointments is to be dragged up the stairs by his PA.
Because of the appointments he needs to attend, he only has enough PA support for five days every week.
Carver, a former artist and designer, said he was at his “wit’s end”.
His flat is “tiny and cramped” and none of the doorways are wide enough for a wheelchair, so he has to be “pulled around on the floor like an animal” by his PA if he needs to move to another room (pictured).
The bathroom is so cramped that he has to throw himself in the bath, or be thrown in by his PA.
He said: “All of this means that I am constantly damaging my bones and joints. This damage is so bad that my doctors are refusing to embark on new treatments which could ease my condition until I have more suitable accommodation.
“No-one should have to live like this.”
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/care-crisis-councils-failings-mean-disabled-man-has-to-be-dragged-upstairs-to-his-flat/
“WHAT THE BBC AND SKY FAIL TO REPORT”
NewsPolitics
Whistleblowing NHS manager on third day of hunger strike is facing the sack
A nurse who raised serious concerns about patient and staff safety is about to be sacked and is now staging a hunger strike outside the Department of Health.
Jade Taylor, 46, has also been sleeping outside the government office, decided she had to speak out after her own parents were allegedly mistreated at Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust.
She was so angry about the poor treatment she bravely spoke out but feels she became a target by senior staff, and she took a year off work suffering with stress related issues.
Today she is expecting to be sacked by Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
To fight back against her treatment she began her hunger strike on Monday evening. Apart from a quick trip to some public lavatories she has remained in place, hoping to get a meeting with Jeremy Hunt, who has been under huge pressure for his treatment of junior doctors.
Speaking from the pavement outside the Department of Heath’s Whitehall HQ, she said: “I stayed here all night albeit opposite next to the Downing street Police for safety.
“The hunger strike continues.”
She added: “The trust I work for are saying that I have lost trust and confidence in them.
“I am not accepting that.
“I want them to properly investigate my concerns. I refuse to resign and I’m not going anywhere.”
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said: “We are unable to comment directly about Jade’s case as it is ongoing and we respect her right to confidentiality.
“However, we take concerns about patient safety and quality of care extremely seriously and have a strong culture of encouraging and supporting our staff to speak up.
“To date, all whistleblowing cases raised with us have been thoroughly investigated to the full satisfaction of our regulators, and where necessary we have implemented improvements to address any lessons learned.”
http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/whistleblowing-nhs-manager-on-third-day-of-hunger-strike-is-facin-the-sack/12/10/
“SAMARITANS CASHING IN ON INTERSERVE WORKFARE SLAVES”
……FEELING SUICIDAL, LOOK ELSEWHERE, THEY ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM…..
Though the Samaritans don’t appear on the recently released lists of workfare exploiters from 2012, we’ve had a report of a Mandatory Work Activity placement in their shop in Hove in 2014. Recently, a claimant has also contacted us about Community Work Placements at another Samaritans charity shop in May 2016. Our correspondent writes: “I would like to point out that, even though I wasn’t placed at the Samaritans, other people sent by Interserve were.”
Like some other claimants who told the truth when questioned about health considerations during an interview and were not taken on, this individual has been sanctioned.
So a claimant who replies honestly about a health condition is alleged to be ‘negative’? Given that the upcoming Work & Health Programme targets claimants with disabilities and long-term health issues, we’ll greet this with a shudder and then get very, very angry.
Tales of unpaid toil: Sanctioned by the Samaritans 1
This doesn’t seem to apply to claimants conscripted to work for free in Samaritans shops
Sanctioned by the Samaritans
I was sent for a CWP placement interview at a Samaritans charity shop. Due to my health issues, the store manager decided that I wasn’t suitable. On returning to Interserve I was removed from the CWP program and ended up with a four-week sanction.
I complained and tried to appeal but the provider Interserve and later the Jobcentre claimed that I had been very negative during the interview and refused to do the placement. This was a lie! The store manager had asked me early in the interview if I had health problems and I had only told her the truth.
The manager at Interserve admitted that it only had placements at charity shops and it knew I was unsuitable for these types of placement. Interserve had already received money for me being put on the program initially. The manager implied that because they didn’t think they could get me a suitable placement, the company wouldn’t be getting a second lot of money from the government – so it was looking for any excuse to force me off the programme. No one cared that this would put me on sanctions.
“CRAPITA USED TO SCUPPER THE NHS”
………….MULTIMILLION CONTRACT TO ACT OUT MADMAN HUNT’S DIRTY LITTLE FANTASY AS THOUSANDS SET TO DIE…
When Capita received the contract to be sole provider of NHS Support Services last year they said they aimed to ‘improve the quality, reliability and sustainability of administration support services’.
How’s that going?
GPOnline reports that nearly 80% of GPs are currently unsatisfied with the service and just last month the BMA said that failings in primary care support services were putting patients at risk.
Other problems recently have included:
In April it was reported that patient record collection deliveries from Capita were taking weeks longer than they should have been.
In July the BMA passed a motion of no confidence in Capita over those delays and a ‘patient list cleaning drive’ that involved removing people from practice lists where Capita thought they were on them mistakenly. Unsurprisingly perhaps, mistakes were made.
Last month the BMA reported that patient safety was being compromised by a series of failings in the primary care support service-run by Capita including a failure to deliver crucial medical equipment such as syringes on time.
“VIRGIN GREED PLC”
……..DOUBLE BILLING THE STRETCHED NHS
Virgin Care accused of giving patients appointments they don’t need to ‘boost their profits’
Virgin Care has been accused of putting patients at risk by forcing them to attend “unnecessary” extra appointments to get extra NHS cash.
Labour MP Paula Sherriff attacked the private health firm for “boosting their profits at the expense of the taxpayer and patient safety”.
She made the allegations in the House of Commons, where a system known as Parliamentary privilege protects her from any legal action.
Virgin Care is imposing a new system of ‘double appointments’ on patients in a bid to get cash from the NHS, she claimed.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/virgin-care-accused-giving-patients-9032188#ICID=sharebar_facebook
“10 FOOD COMPANIES PRODUCE MOST OF THE FOOD WE EAT”
……….BUMPING PROFITS AND REDUCTION OF FOOD PORTIONS ARE THE ROOT OF THE MARMITE FIASCO…..
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/marmite-shortage-brexit-unilever-brands-10-control_uk_57ff57e3e4b0e982146bf3bb?kzbk2o6r
“IGNORANCE NOT AN ALIBI FOR MASS MURDER”
You asked:
`Please tell me in what percentage of ESA assessments further medical evidence has
been sought and obtained from health professionals involved in the claimants care by
DWP or Maximus before a decision on Limited Capability for Work is made.`
In response
The individual components of the required information would be held on a claimants benefit
file. DWP would have to identify, retrieve and extract information held by different parts of
DWP and Atos Healthcare, analysing data sets to produce the required information. We
estimate that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the statutory costs
threshold and under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act the Department is not
obliged to comply with your request and we will not be processing this part of your request
further.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact us quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
DWP Central FoI Team
“MOD MUST BE USING DWP MORTALITY OBSERVERS”
….NO CIVILIAN CASUALTIES (AT ALL) IN UK’S REIGN OF BOMBINGS ON SYRIA…………………..BOLLOCKS!
BUT THE LATEST TRICKERY IS NOW TO SAY THAT THE INFORMATION IS FROM AIR LEVEL ONLY, NOT FROM THE GROUND…………….
THE UK GOVERNMENT SPIN DOCTORS ARE EVERYWHERE TELLING YOU THAT BLACK IS WHITE.
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE DEVASTATION THAT A SINGLE BRIMSTONE MISSILE CAN DO?
NOT ONLY ON THE MEN, WOMEN AND KIDS IN THE VILLAGES AND TOWNSHIPS BUT THE KNOCK ON EFFECT OF BENEFIT CUTS AND CARE CUTS IN OUR OWN BACK YARD.
“LORD DAVID FRAUD’S GANG OF THUGS”
“In one case, I submitted a (#PIP) claim for a patient with liver #cancer which had spread. The #DWP informed me their new guidance indicated patients with this condition were living much longer. The claimant died 11 days later.”
Meanwhile, he says if the terminally ill person dies before the claim is resolved, the claim “dies with them” – so their family is unable to pay any debts.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/…/cruel-government-tests-literally-…
Sandra Noble
I know a guy with severe mettle health problems. Schizophrenia, has trouble with Co ordination. Has metal plates in his ankles so can’t stand much
Went for an assessment with his 74 year old mother (she does everything for him) seen a physiotherapist who knew nothing of mental illness, and he has been put in the work program.
he can’t cope with life never mind a job it’s a bloody disgrace!!!!
“DWP NOW CONSTRUCTING FICTITIOUS MEDICALS TO STEAL DISABILITY BENEFITS”
Sue Oakey left an annotation (15 October 2016)
Thank you for the information that is posted – hope its still relevant in 2016? I have been in receipt of the Higher Rate Mobility and Higher Rate Care component of the DLA and I have just had my PIP result. The Mobility has stayed as enhanced but the Daily Living (Care) component has been dropped to standard. The Decision Maker made this decision based on a fictitious Face to Face Assessment that I have never had. I have spoken to the Department for Work and Pensions and they tried to pursuade me not to request a Mandatory Reconsideration and to push me into accepting this non existant Face to Face Assessment. I am shocked that they could either blatently lie or even worse, use another claimants assessment with my form. I take exception to being called a liar as they dismissed my form in favour of this so called Consultation. They telehoned me after I requested a Mandatory Reconsideration and tried to persuade me (rather bully me) not to. This was not the original DM that rang me. They now have sent the letter just taking out the face to face assessment bit and based it on the telephone call saying I was not in discomfort and had no anxiety?? This was not a Reconsideration letter just a rejigged letter. Can two people make a decision based on the non existent Face to Face. I am incensed as I know this has happened to other people. The man who telephoned said I should just accept the decision (even if it was a lie) as I might not get anything. I said it was the principle of the matter. Is the law still relevant now? As I have been told there is no recourse to this situation?
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/suing_the_dwp#comment-73245
……….thought they couldn’t get any lower, think again……..
“DWP PENSION PAYMENTS THEFT AND THEIR REFUSAL TO ANSWER SIMPLE QUESTION”
C. Thompson 11 October 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions’s handling of my FOI request ‘How much would a person have to save under Auto-enrolment to make up loss off state pension under the new stae pension compared to the original pension system.’.
The reason I am asking for a review is that a reply is now long overdue
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/h…
Yours faithfully,
C. Thompson
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/how_much_would_a_person_have_to#incoming-880370
“HOW THE DWP CHEAT THE DISABLED BY USING COMPUTER SOFTWARE WITH PRE FILLED PASS FIELDS”
“Employment and Support Allowance assessment reports are mainly completed electronically by
Healthcare Professionals (HCPs). The questions built into the Logic Integrated Medical
Assessment (LiMA) programme are the same as those in the clerical form ESA 85 Employment
and Support Allowance Medical Report Form.”
Please assume that I, as a John DOA, attend an ESA assessment as implemented by ATOS whereby the ‘Medical Professional’ hits the ‘submit’ button without modifying the ‘electronic copy’ of the ‘form’ they are expected to fill out and provide a copy of the results.
Once again, for the avoidance of doubt, my concern is that the ‘electronic copy’ is provided with pre-filled ‘pass’ fields which are, or may be, left in place without modification by the ‘Medical Professional’, the appropriate test was not performed, and, as a result, incorrect conclusions will be drawn by the DWP assessor.
I might also assume that there are enough copies of completed ESA85 as provided by ATOS/DWP to claimants who have requested ‘Mandatory Reconsideration’ that would reveal as much.
Yours sincerely,
Keith Alexander Mallen
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/standard_format_form_used_by_med#incoming-882252
“DWP AND THE STRANGE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING PENSIONS LEAFLET”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I have received correspondence from DWP which refers to leaflet EQP1A Equality in State Pension Age- A summary of the changes. (July 1995)
I wish to read this leaflet.
I wish to know how many were printed.
I wish to know how these were distributed.
Yours faithfully,
Carol Gibbons
……………..WEIRD THEY FAIL TO ANSWER.
ONE WOULD SURMISE THEY WISH TO HIDE SOMETHING?
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i_wish_a_copy_of_leaflet_eqp1a_e#incoming-881955
………..WONDER WHY MY POSTS ABOUT THE MAKE UP OF THE HOME AFFAIRS SELECT COMMITTEE KEEPS GETTING BLOCKED?”
6 CONSERVATIVES
3 LABOUR
1 SNP
………..STRANGE HOW THIS COMMITTEE KEEPS PLUGGING AGAINST CORBYN?
“DWP STEAL HEART PATIENT’S MONEY ONCE AGAIN”
Woman whose benefits cut during open heart surgery has PIP payments slashed again
Lyn Wright, from Colwyn Bay, had her Personal Independence Payments reinstated after Daily Post highlighted her case, but they have now been cutback again
A disabled woman who had much-needed benefits stopped because she missed appointments whilst having open heart surgery , has had her benefit slashed again.
Lyn Wright from Colwyn Bay had her Personal Independence Payments (PIP) stopped in August but had it reinstated after the Daily Post highlighted her plight .
Now, after being assessed by a Capita, the private company tasked by the DWP to carry out “work assessments” she was told she will lose her higher rate Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
The higher rate PIP entitled Lyn to a mobility car and she said she will be unable to make weekly doctor’s appointments without it.
She said vital care will have to be scrapped because of the reduction in money, from £139.75 to £55.10 a week, which came after what she described as an “inadequate assessment” in which the assessor told her she “didn’t have time” for Lyn to list her ailments.
“It’s the end of the road now,” said a clearly distraught Lyn. “I am just sick of fighting.
“I would love nothing more than going back to work and I am trying my best to get in control of my future and my finances, but I am just fed up of it all now.”
“I have been out of hospital for 14 weeks since open heart surgery and had pleurisy and inflammation of the rib cage.
“It can take six months to clear and I can’t even go to my cardiac classes for rehabilitation.
“Because I’ve got Lupus I always take longer to heal – the assessment was inadequate.”
Lyn has a catalogue of health issues which also include an underactive thyroid, congenital heart problem and she is being treated by a counsellor after health issues forced her to give up work and left her virtually housebound.
She believes her assessment on September 13 was flawed and vital information was omitted.
“I said I had more diagnoses since the last time I was assessed and she said she wouldn’t have time to go through them,” revealed Lyn.
“I thought maybe they were just going through the motions.”
She said she received a text from the Department for Work Pensions (DWP) a week later saying they had all of her information and would get back to her.
“I know they didn’t have all the information,” she said. “On October 6 I called the DWP and said I had concerns because the assessment was so quick.
“The DWP sent a copy of the medical report and there was nothing in it.
“It doesn’t even mention my heart operation. Even the information in the report was wrong.”
She said on one test, where she couldn’t lean forward and touch her toes, she told the assessor it was because of the stitches from her heart operation.
Yet it was recorded as being because she had “back pain”.
Lyn also said her need for counselling was glossed over in the report.
This week she received the letter informing her of the DWP’s decision and intends to appeal.
A DWP spokesman said: “As with all Personal Independence Payment decisions, this was made after consideration of all the evidence, including an assessment and information provided by the claimant and their GP.”
A spokesman for Capita said: “We expect all of our assessors to undertake assessments as outlined by DWP requirements and in-line with our training.
“Capita is engaged by the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) to deliver only one part of the PIP claims process in certain areas in the UK.
“Assessments are taken into consideration by the DWP alongside all other evidence submitted by a claimant.
“The DWP, not Capita, makes the decisions on whether to award a benefit or not and the level and length of those awards.”
………..AND NOT EVEN A MENTION OF HER HEART SURGERY ON THE ASSESSMENT (CULPABLE HOMICIDE)
HEARD IT SO MANY TIMES…………….
“The DWP sent a copy of the medical report and there was nothing in it.
“It doesn’t even mention my heart operation. Even the information in the report was wrong.”
She said on one test, where she couldn’t lean forward and touch her toes, she told the assessor it was because of the stitches from her heart operation.
Yet it was recorded as being because she had “back pain”.
“£80 MILLION CANCER SCAN CONTRACT HANDED TO ALLIANCE MEDICAL PRIVATE HEALTHCARE FIRM, DESPITE A £7MILLION CHEAPER BID”
MALCOLM RIFKIND SITS ON THE BOARD OF ALLIANCE MEDICAL
Conservative MP Malcolm Rifkind gets around £60,000 a year to sit on Alliance Medical’s board, according to public records.
“NHS STRATEGIC PROJECTS TEAM” (CROOKS)
The individual who led the Strategic Projects Team, Ernie Buckley, was named as the contact on procurement documents for the Stoke scanning contract. He was previously a project manager for privatisation specialist Serco.
“THE NEW WORLD ORDER”
A HOMELESS man, who died alone in his tent yards from a riverbank footpath, could only be identified by his DNA.
It was only the smell of Cardon Banfield’s decomposing body which led to him being found after a hotel customer raised the alarm.
Now concerns have been raised about the plight of rough sleepers.
Mr Banfield of no fixed abode was found dead in his tent near Worcestershire County Cricket Club by a club steward on July 5.
An inquest into the 74-year-old’s death was held at Worcestershire Coroner’s Court in Stourport on Monday.
The tent had been pitched by a footpath running alongside the river and Severn Bridge car park.
Mr Banfield, who had no known family, was found by Anthony Harris, a steward, who had been alerted to a smell coming from a tent in some shrubbery near the river Severn.
Mr Banfield had no next of kin.
Worcestershire coroner Geraint Williams said Mr Banfield’s body was so badly decomposed it was impossible to identify him initially or ascertain a medical cause of death.
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/14804151.Horrified_campaigners_speak_out_after_rough_sleeper_found_dead_in_tent/
Man with no legs claims he was told he is “not disabled enough” for adapted housing in Port Talbot
A MAN who has had his legs removed claims he was told he would not be eligible for disabled access housing because he is “not disabled enough.”
Richard Hancock, who currently lives in Port Talbot, had to have his legs, index finger and part of his palm removed over the last two years due to his diabetes.
The 50-year-old and his wife of 11 years, Susan, have been in talks with NPT Homes and are currently on Coastal Housing’s ADAPT waiting list. ADAPT is a partnership Coastal hosts with POBL, Swansea City Council and Family HA, which aims to allocate adapted properties to people in the area.
http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/tenant-claims-he-was-told-he-is-not-disabled-enough-for-adapted-housing/story-29809338-detail/story.html
In care for 17 years, Centrelink still told Andrew to prove he deserved pension
A man with severe disabilities who has been in state care since 1999, was ordered by Centrelink to prove his eligibility for a disability pension.
Andrew Johnson was diagnosed with profound autism when he was four and went into a Department of Human Services-managed group home when he was 13.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/in-care-for-27-years-centrelink-still-told-andrew-to-prove-he-deserved-pension-20161013-gs1g1f.html
“NIGERIAN WOMAN DYING FROM LEUKAEMIA IN UK, TOLD THAT HER SISTER CANNOT ENTER THE COUNTRY TO DONATE LIFE SAVING BONE MARROW BECAUSE HER INCOME IS TOO LOW”
BBC NEWS MAY BROWN FROM BOURNEMOUTH……………….
TV news about the crimes of this Tory government could be even harder to disseminate to the public in the near future due to the UK government and the USA trying to force RT off air by freezing their UK bank accounts. It appears the UK and USA they don’t like freedom of speech after all. Except of course if it agrees with the establishment view.
Here is a link to the US poodle the BBC’s coverage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37677020
……..quite correct, the government are desperate to try and close down all forms of alternative new sources…………
It’s like a one fingered person trying to stop water escaping from a colander, it will never happen.
Each and every fabric of the UK is at breaking point, the innumerable deaths carefully hidden from view.
You name it, prisons, hospitals, education, manufacturing, pensions, housing, etc, etc, is on it’s knees.
Each and every facet of our society is intrinsically linked to another in some form and when one collapses the ripple is felt elsewhere ie prisons/probation, Nhs/social care…………
The entire media industry is trying to camouflage the extent of the Tory damage by running stories of the inbreds at the palace and their molly coddled offspring or pretending to be rapturous about paralympians in an effort to hide their vile crimes to the disabled.
Brexit is a smokescreen to divert attention from the big picture, the eradication of the welfare state and it’s conveyance to the private health insurance industry that have puppets called MP’s who are willing to fuck everybody over to see their undeclared investments flourish.
Corruption is a cancer that is eating away at our once thriving little island community. He who pays the piper plays the tune………..
Our judiciary probably the most bent in all the world, the rich mans antidote to public dissent.
Couple the bent judiciary, corruption and a biased media, and you have all the ingredients of our present dictatorship.
“SHITHOLE BRITAIN”, where Prince George’s photographs bury the myriad of state crimes that go unchallenged…..
Geoff – Your’s is a brilliant post which sums all of it up so very well.
Whilst the ‘inhumanities’ continue to be committed to the poorest and most vulnerable in our once ‘great’ country – the politicians (of most, if not all persuasions do not really care and if they do, they do next to nothing), the Media are much the same (do you notice also that lately, any ‘welfare’ stories regarding any ‘successes’ in the last few weeks seem to have dried up just about completely). The last ‘good news’ was Green’s announcement of being more ‘caring’ about not calling in people for continuous ESA assessments!. Meanwhile, the population as a whole, many of whom are probably still being screwed by this present Tory adminisrtation do not really care – too interested watching the ‘Olympians’ and the ‘Paralympians’ parading ‘just how ‘fit’ they really are’ and how Ed Balls is making an arse of himself in the Strictly crap. It really is shit and seems to be getting worse, rather than better. I sometimes despair of what is happening and only wish that it will soon get better for everyone, especially for the poor, the real disabled and the vulnerable.
…………….another crock of headline grabbing bullshit by the odious Damian Green who is another twisted cog in the broken Tory gearbox of hate……..
The last ‘good news’ was Green’s announcement of being more ‘caring’ about not calling in people for continuous ESA assessments!.
………….What they did not tell the electorate is the DWP is still requiring the chronically sick to attend PIP faked examinations, a cheap attempt to take the focus of attention from themselves for the thousands of, fit for work, related deaths………..
The very fact that superkiller, Iain Duncan Smith, bit the other day whilst challenged about welfare deaths is a good indication of his guilt.
ALL THE LIES, FAKED MEDICAL REPORTS AND HIDDEN DEATHS WILL SINK THIS GOVERNMENT AS SURE AS NIGHT FOLLOWS DAY…………
Truth Teller – Your’s is a brilliant post also!
Thanks Paul, You have to laugh at the stupidity of the USA and it’s pet poodle the UK. If they get their stupid way and end up in a war with Russia, yes, the USA could defeat the Russian army in a conventional war but do they really want to try and occupy Russia when it’s all over. I mean seriously, they could not even cope with occupying third world countries like Afghanistan and Iraq without being forced out by the residents. Just think what it would be like in Russia. There are still a handful of old German soldiers that would tell them what to expect but I don’t think it would be very palatable to a dumb nation that thinks war is like a hollywood movie script.
What the hell’s happened to Void? Has he done a runner again? Over a month since his last column. Not on holiday again surely? 😉
DWP + JCP = SCUM.
Raining – perhaps he’s pushed off up to Scotland to sample some of Nicola Sturgeon’s latest ideas! 🙂
Aye lad, maybe. But something tells me he’s headed off to sunnier climes again. Must be making too much money from these donation buttons! LOL! VOID! Get back here, your holidays are supposed to be over! 😀
Health policy
No extra money for NHS, Theresa May tells health chief
………….but a never ending source of finance for overseas wars, it seems….
Fallon said today that the UK is engaged in Syrian air strikes but their are no boots on the ground.
I predict that casualties from UK forces will soon emerge and the MOD will be trying it’s utmost to hide our true involvement in Operation Benn.
“CLAIMANT WON HER APPEAL IN AUGUST BUT DWP REFUSE TO PAY UP”
…….CROOKS AND LIARS?
Jennifer Morris 17 October 2016
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Why has the dwp refused to accept my tribunal win on the 19th august 2016. They stated in a letter sent to me they were waiting for a statement of reasons from the court. Your office would have had full knowledge of what was stated only a few days later. I have been left in limbo. I was unfairly assessed by asos and the dwp which was proved in court in august. How many others have the dwp also let down? Thousands I bet. I have rang the dwp on many occasions now and dont feel as if ive been given a reasonable explanation as to why my pip has not been awarded or backdated from January. DWP are knowingly putting me through more stress and this is having a detrimental effect on my health. This should not be allowed to keep happening to me or others who are also going through the same scenarios as I myself. I would like a full explanation as to why the dwp are refusing to pay me what has been proven in a tribunal as right and lawful. The DWP I beleive are nothing more than crooks and liars. Alwys looking for a way out of not paying but are very quick to recover if owed.
Yours faithfully,
Miss J A Morris
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/i_won_my_tribunal_appeal_but_the#incoming-882862
Is the Media biased? – An interesting Mirror article re Ofcom!
And, looking at the ‘Newspaper’ coverage ‘graph’ further down the page – well, this certainly implies varying amounts of bias against Corbyn!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ofcom-dismissed-every-complaint-bias-9066027
…………..strange that the Mirror should include this line;
Ofcom’s rules say “due impartiality” must be maintained in all news coverage.
Reading between the lines, quite a good choice of words.
Of course Ofcom are correct. Did you not realise that to break Ofcom rules you have to tell the truth. All the media stories about Corbyn were typical Tory establishment lies so therefore are acceptable.
“BEN NEEDHAM SEARCH FINDINGS BY POLICE, UTTER NONSENSE”
……..just a fabrication by a senior police officer to bring closure to a costly operation…….
No forensic evidence whatsoever and a possible theory?
Ben’s mum’s hopes are still alive, as maybe her beloved offspring is too….
One of my neighbour’s, an avid metal detectorist, used to walk along Scarborough beach each evening when the tourists went home.
Every few days he would bring carrier bags of toys around for my two kids.
Most of the items were toy cars…..
Toy cars are plentiful in the gift shops of any town, especially sea side holiday destinations and what kid doesn’t like to play with cars, burying them in the garden or sand.
GRANDMA SAID THIS CAR COULD HAVE BELONGED TO BEN?
It could have belonged to any child for that matter and Kos, a holiday destination is teeming with them.
This is not closure, this is just an orchestrated response to a mystery that we will probably never know the answer to.
Ben could still be out there and the latest revelations will be of no interest to his mum who will always carry the flame of hope…….
“YET ANOTHER £1.4 BILLION TORY FAILURE”
………..The troubled families scheme, Cameron’s knee jerk reaction to the broken families that he caused.
A government initiative to help the most disadvantaged families in England has made no “significant impact”, a report suggests.
The Troubled Families Programme launched in 2012 at a cost of £448m, with £900m added as it was extended.
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research suggests it has had no measurable effect on school attendance, employment or behaviour.
But the government says lives have been “transformed” and the scheme works.
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EXTRACT FROM WIKIPEDIA
The Evaluation by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research was published on 17th October 2016. The report found that there had been “no significant impact” of the scheme.[14] A press release from NIESR stated, “we were unable to find consistent evidence that the programme had any significant or systematic impact”.[15] The Times reported the following day, “the report was published quietly last night after complaints from Whitehall insiders that it was being suppressed”
“MARK CARNEY, THE CLOWN IN AN EXPENSIVE SUIT”
Carney has stated that the Bank of England, categorically, will not intervene to stabilise the fluctuating pound, which in turn can be transcribed as they have been looking at doing it but have so far declined.
In a very short time from now the BOE monetary policy committee will call an emergency meeting to gather evidence that will lead to fiscal easing, the printing of more money to try and ease the buoyant market .
This will be an opportunity for one of the highest paid imported Canadian clowns to bid us farewell as he tenders his resignation that will make way for the inauguration of yet another in a line of fools.
Jet set BoE boss Mark Carney has totted up a taxpayer-funded £250,000 travel bill in the three years since taking control of the Bank
Carney has made 30 official foreign trips since taking role in July 2013
Governor spent £67,000 on travel expenses in his first year in his role
Carney claimed £157,000 for a ‘secure car’ to carry out business safely
His annual pay package comes to £879,000 with a £480,000 salary
……………..kids on the streets, poverty, home repossessions and pestilence, all the signs of fiscal leadership.
“£7 MILLION FOR HIM AND CONTINUED WELFARE HOOPS FOR THE CHRONICALLY ILL”
Mark Carney stands to earn £7million if he serves a full eight-year term as Governor of the Bank of England.
The Canadian, paid £874,000 a year, including a £250,000 housing allowance, said he would do the job for five years on taking the helm in 2013.
But in a sign that he may be willing to stay on for an extra three years, he has now said he has ‘so much more to do at this institution’.
“DWP REASSESSING THE CHRONICALLY ILL SO THEY DON’T QUALIFY TO BE SPARED FROM FURTHER ASSESSMENTS”
…….THOUGHT IT TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE.
NEW MURDERER ON THE BLOCK, DAMIAN GREEN, CONTINUES THE VILE ATTACKS ON THOSE FIGHTING TO LIVE…………
#1 yellowsun 2016-10-13 14:59
Since the governments announcement that those with chronic incurable illnesses will not be subjected to repeated reassessments, the dwp are rounding up all those with such chronic illnesses currently in the support group, reassessing them and giving them 0 points, thus removing them from that category. This is happening especially to those with Lupus. The way they achieve this is by telling a catalogue of lies on the medical report.
Those previously in the support group who are now deemed fit to work but cannot work, either have to sign on or be without any financial support whilst they wait for a decision on a mandatory consideration, which in many cases turn out to be a complete farce because inevitably they are often turned down.
……………CHRONICALLY ILL REBRANDED BY FALSIFYING MEDICAL REPORTS………..SOUND FAMILIAR?
It would be interesting to hear if this is happening to any other group.
………..FIRST THEY DECIDED TO INTERCEPT YOUR MESSAGES, THEN THEY SOUGHT TO CHANGE DETENTION POWERS, THEN THEY DISCRETELY REMOVED AL JAZEERA NEWS AND RT NEWS…..
DESTROYING YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVISION, STEALING YOUR HOMES. CONTROLLING THE MEDIA. RAIDING YOUR PENSIONS….
FALSIFYING MEDICAL REPORTS, HIDING DEATHS, PROTECTING KIDDY FIDDLING BUREAUCRATS, JUDGES AND POLICE, SHOOTING INNOCENT CIVILIANS AND LEAVING THE AGEING AND INFIRM TO DIE.
WHEN WILL YOU RECEIVE YOUR CONFIRMATION OF HOW THEY VOTED ON YOUR BEHALF?
ALL UK pubs are required by LAW to have one alcoholic regular who used to be a member of the SAS AND was 2nd Man On the Balcony at the Iranian Embassy. And that’s a FACT, Jack!
Ken Loach: BBC news manipulative and deeply political
Director Ken Loach has taken aim at the BBC, describing its news coverage as “manipulative and deeply political” and saying it is a “rotten place for a director”.
Prominent leftwinger Loach, who is promoting his Palme d’Or-winning film about a man’s struggle with the UK benefits system, I, Daniel Blake, said there was a need to “democratise” the corporation.
“Diversify it so that different regions can make their own dramas. And its notion of news has got to be challenged,” he told the Radio Times.
“The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people’s consciousness; this is the story you should hear about, these are the people worth listening to. It’s manipulative and deeply political.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/18/ken-loach-bbc-news-manipulative-and-deeply-political?CMP=share_btn_fb
Last month, he told an audience at University College London to complain to the corporation when they thought coverage was biased against Corbyn, and labelled the corporation a “propaganda” arm of the state adopting a “pretense of objectivity”. “The BBC is not some objective chronicler of our time – it is an arm of the state,” he said.
……….Soon the MOD will announce a total blackout on information relating to ground conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq and Syria utilising UK troops.
Any deaths will be blocked from public scrutiny in an effort to foster the ideal that no UK personnel are in ground combat roles.
If the DWP can deny deaths, the MOD will learn very fast that the establishment and judiciary will maintain the status quo.
………Hence the moves to knobble Al Jazeera and RT news agencies….
“DWP REVERSE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST NON MUSLIMS”
…………TWO SETS OF RULES DEPENDING ON YOUR FAITH
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/351658/response/856758/attach/html/3/FOI%202956.pdf.html
Our reference: FOI 2956
Date: 22 August 2016
Dear A. Clerk
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 13 August
2016. You asked:
I am constantly told to remove my cycling balaclava when attending my local
job Centre. If I refuse to remove the balaclava I am prevented from signing on
and on more than one occasion I have been forcefully ejected from the
premises.
When I pointed out people wearing jihabs etc. the response of the JC staff
was “Don’t even go there”
Please provide me with the relevant laws that gives you the right to
discriminate against me for wearing headgear but not people who’s faith
dictates that they wear Headgear at all times.
“HOW THE DWP FIDDLED TEMPERATURE READINGS TO DENY UK PENSIONERS IN FRANCE A WINTER FUEL PAYMENT”
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/winter_fuel_payment_regulations#incoming-882942
…………EVEN THOUGH IT IS ACTUALLY COLDER WHERE MOST LIVE.
1. When and why did the DWP insist on using national temperatures, contrary to the advice from the Met Office? Please provide the documents that record this decision and the reasons for it.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/wfp_withdrawal_france_context_da#incoming-881109
MS sufferer who struggles to walk has had disability allowance taken away
……….HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS, MY ARSE !!!
A mother-of-two who struggles to walk more than a few metres without help has had her mobility allowance taken away.
Assessors from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) visited multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferer Mel Wiseman at her home in Newton Burgoland in July and decided she no longer qualified for the £87-a-month personal independence payment (PIP) awarded the previous year due to her disability.
Mel, 43, and her husband Charlie, 44, have described the decision as “shameful and appalling”.
Their MP, Andrew Bridgen, has agreed to take the case to ministers in a bid to get the decision reversed.
Mr Wiseman said: “Mel was diagnosed with a rarer form of MS in 2014 and has limited lower limb mobility, which means she struggles to walk more than five metres without help.
“She was awarded the PIP last year due to mobility problems, but you have to re-submit the forms every year.”
An assessor and trainee visited the home of the couple, who have two teenage children, and decided Mrs Wiseman was sufficiently mobile not to need the special payment.
Her husband said: “All Mel was asked to do was to squeeze this person’s thumb, to touch her toes from a sitting position and to stand on one leg, which she managed to do although holding on to something.”
“SQUEEZE MY THUMB, TOUCH YOUR TOES AND STAND ON ONE LEG”
……………..WHAT A TOTAL CROCK OF SHIT TO STEAL BONAFIDE DISABLED CLAIMANTS MEAGRE PITTANCE
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/ms-victim-s-fight-for-disability-allowance/story-29809344-detail/story.html
“ANDREW BRIDGEN OFFERS TO HELP”
……..FIRST HE ROBS YOU THEN OFFERS A HAND, TYPICAL TORY PRAT…
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“North West Leicestershire MP Andrew Bridgen said: “I have been assisting Mr and Mrs Wiseman”————————–Is this the same Andrew Bridgen hypocrite TORY MP who voted for a £30 a week cut in disabled payments, but FOR giving millionaires tax cut’s? —————TORY CUT’S HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
THE TV NEWS THIS EVENING (BBC 1 & CHANNEL 4 NEWS) comprises, for the most part – Mosul, ‘child’ migrants from Calais and the ‘child’ sexual abuse enquiry – and of course, Donald Trump & Hilary Clinton “THERE IS NO OTHER NEWS THAT IS HAPPENING IN ‘BRITAIN’ TODAY! 🙂
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We all really should keep re-reading Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes by Jacques Ellul. We seem to keep falling for propaganda, over and over again, almost as if we can’t help ourselves.
THE DWP SERIOUS CASE PANEL…………………….
A COMMITTEE COMPRISED OF BENEFIT CLAIMANT MURDERERS WHO ARE PAID TO INVESTIGATE THEIR OWN CRIMES…..
Joss Bateman 25 January 2020
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please provide me with a breakdown of the duties and responsibilities of the Department for Work and Pensions’ Serious Case Panel, along with any rules, guidelines, guidance or other requirements which explain or inform how the panel is formed and how it is governed and run.
Please provide details of who the panel reports to and who is responsible for carrying out the panel’s findings and recommendations.
Please also provide details of the membership of the panel, including positions in government or elsewhere held by the members of the panel and how those members are chosen to sit on the panel.
Please provide details of any minutes of meetings of the panel that are available under the FOI.
Yours faithfully,
J Bateman
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THE DWP RESPONSE IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD PREDICT FROM A ROGUE STAKEHOLDER RUN CROWN DEPARTMENT STAINED WITH THE BLOOD OF THOUSANDS OF IT’S CUSTOMERS
DWP Response
We do hold information falling within the terms of your request; however, we need more time to
consider your request.
I wish to advise you that the following exemption applies to the information that you have
requested:
Section 35(1)(a) Formulation of government policy
Section 36(2)(b) Prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs
By virtue of section 10(3), where public authorities have to consider the balance of the public
interest in relation to a request, they do not have to comply with the request until such a time
as is reasonable in the circumstances.
The Department has not yet reached a decision on the balance of the public interest. Due to
the need to consider, in all the circumstances of the case, where the balance of the public
interest lies in relation to the information that you have requested, the Department will not be
able to respond to your request in full within 20 working days.
Accordingly, I hope to let you have a response by 18 March.
If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Operations
Freedom of Information Team
……………IN OTHER WORDS, FUCK YOU, THE KILLING WILL CONTINUE…
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/639057/response/1530519/attach/html/2/03326%20Response%20PIT.pdf.html