If you ever needed confirmation that the UK is not run by a shadowy cabal of sinister plotters but a bunch of chinless fucking idiots then the upcoming Digital Economy Bill is a good place to start.
As well as massively increasing personal information sharing amongst government departments, the proposed new laws will seek to ensure that all pornographic content available on the internet in the UK carries an age verification system. The bill will also introduce new copyright legislation which could mean that simply sharing or retweeting an internet meme, such as the one that accompanies this post, could mean prosecution with a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment. Really.
According to the government age-verification is necessary to protect children from the danger of online porn. And wouldn’t it be nice if it were that easy. The reality is that this bill will do nothing to stop teenagers accessing porn but will create a potentially chilling effect on all creators of online material which could be said to be adult in nature. If this legislation is successfully implemented then it is unlikely to end there. If seeing sex on the internet is banned for under 18s then why not violence, or swearing, or anything else that government censors decide is unfit for young minds?
Of course this legislation will not be successful because it was drafted by a bunch of dickheads who don’t appear to have ever used the internet. They can’t even decide what internet pornography is, insisting that anything which would normally carry an 18 certificate, and which is designed to sexually stimulate, should be covered by the law. So content creators will not even know that they need to provide age verification until some state-appointed literal wanker decides that they are pornographers. The new laws will also apply to content which is sound only, ominously bringing the written word under censorship laws. Sites hosting ebooks with erotic content may find themselves falling foul of the legislation. We could be heading back to the days when someone faces legal sanctions for publishing Lady Chatterley’s Lover in an audio format.
At a protest this week outside parliament, feminist and queer porn producers warned this law will shut them down leaving only the big mainstream porn companies able to afford the age verification software that will be necessary to comply with the law. And astonishingly this software does not yet exist – the government has decided that the market will somehow invent a solution. Anti-privacy campaigners have warned this will lead to the creation of giant databases detailing the UK’s porn watching habits, with all the risk that entails of that information being released to the public. Of equal concern is that there is a shitload of adult content on sites like twitter, tumblr and wordpress, potentially meaning that social media and blogs may also be required to implement age verification.
None of this will have any impact on the availability of online porn, most of which is not produced in the UK. These sites will only face the possibility of the government asking credit card companies to refuse to process payments from the UK. They may well tell the government to fuck off. And it is unlikely that the large number of youtube style porn sites, who are largely funded by advertising, will give a shit either. All this legislation is likely to achieve is the annihilation of an industry catering to sexual minorities and massive insecurity for anyone making edgy or erotic content who could face sanctions if they accidentally give a government censor a hard-on.
The new copyright laws are equally draconian. The Open Rights Group, who campaign to protect free speech and privacy online, warn that simply sharing a well known image online could lead to prosecution, using the archetypal image of the Vietnamese child suffering napalm burns as an example. Millions of social media users may soon find that many of their posts are technically illegal. The group also caution that these new laws could affect teenage file sharers, with a new threat of prosecution for anyone uploading to torrent sites. The same government that wants to protect young people from seeing sex is quite happy to terrify them with the threat of prosecution and jail if they impact even in the slightest way on the profits of the giant entertainment corporations.
What these laws are attempting to do is change the culture of the internet in the UK. Most of the internet is not in the UK though and will carry on as normal. Meanwhile those of us here will face complex censorships rules and petty legal action – such as the recent attempt by police to prosecute a man for having a video of someone dressed up in a tiger suit having sex. A government which introduces laws which will affect millions of its citizens is a dangerous thing. That they seem to be doing it by accident is even more chilling. Much like the police, don’t assume that just because they are stupid it means they aren’t dangerous.
You can sign a petition aimed at stopping this bill at: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ensuring-personal-privacy-and-sexual-freedom
I’m back by the way, but will be some time before I’m up to full speed. DWP/benefits stuff is coming up.
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“HOW THE DWP, (NOW EXPOSED AS A ROGUE DEPARTMENT), CHEAT, STEAL, DENY JUSTICE AND TELL LIES TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION”
WE ALL KNOW THE DWP IS RUN BY A BUNCH OF CROOKS, THE MOUNTING PILE OF WELFARE CARNAGE TELL US, BUT THE LEVEL OF CORRUPTION IS REACHING NEW HEIGHTS.
MANDATORY RECONSIDERATION IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SYSTEM OF APPEAL BY THE BENEFIT CLAIMANT TO CHALLENGE A DECISION.
THE DWP HAVE NOW ADMITTED THAT THEY ARE AUTOMATICALLY TRIGGERING THE APPEALS PROCESS THEMSELVES, NOT INFORMING THE CLAIMANT THEY ARE DOING IT, DENYING THE CLAIMANT THE RIGHT TO SUBMIT ANY REVISED MEDICAL EVIDENCE, THUS DENIAL OF THE RIGHT TO JUSTICE……………………………………
THE FOLLOWING FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS TO THE ROGUE DWP HIGHLIGHT THE BREACHES OF HUMAN RIGHTS THAT THEY IGNORE ON A DAILY BASIS;
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The government’s response to the UN inquiry into the UK which found that disabled people’s Human rights were being gravely and systematically violated states that “This is mandatory prior to applying for an appeal, allowing the decision to be reviewed and new evidence to be presented. Statistics published in 2016 showed the average clearance time for WCA MR applications to be 9 days. Access to justice is not therefore denied or significantly delayed as a result of this process. “
1. With MRs for PIP we are finding that the process is being triggered without people asking for it to be so that they do not know a MR is taking place and are not able to submit any extra evidence. Why is this happening as it is denying disabled people access to justice?
Yours faithfully,
G Ward
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mandatory_reconsideration_un_rep#incoming-910569
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Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I am writing to ask you to provide me with the following information:
1) How many mandatory reconsiderations have been received in the North West in the 12 months to November 2016?
2) How many of those were overturned after a mandatory reconsideration?
3) How many of those went on to a tribunal, and how many were successful at those tribunals?
4) What is the DWP’s explanation for these figures?
Yours faithfully,
John Quigley
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YOUR BASIC HUMAN RIGHT OF ACCESS TO A FAIR TRIAL IS BEING BREACHED BY THE DWP UPON INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE TORY GOVERNMENT………………………………
Therefore, the Dwp activate an appeal process that the claimant has no knowledge, no input and no recourse to future justice.
They are now judge and jury without any claimant involvement whatsoever, a dictatorship that overrides the basic principles of Human Rights Article 6.
I would challenge you on your assertion that the rogue Dwp are corrupt, Geoff.
The actions of the Dwp are “CRIMINAL”, and should be investigated immediately by Law Enforcement Agencies / Human Rights / War Crimes Organisations beyond the borders of our Dictatorship.
The world has a right to know how the UK government treats it’s most weak and vulnerable. This is an outrage!!!
……….THE FREUDIAN SLIP
“THE CULL BEFORE THE STORM”
………THE LEGACY OF LORD DAVID FREUD IN HIS QUEST TO HAND THE WELFARE BENEFITS OF THE UK TO HIS BACKERS IN THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY………………..
ONE MANS GREED, HOW MANY LIVES LOST?
More than 2,300 died after fit for work assessment – DWP figures
27 August 2015
From the section UK
Some 2,380 people have died after being found fit for work and losing benefits, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures show.
Between December 2011 and February 2014 the equivalent of about 90 people a month died after their Employment and Support Allowance claim was ended.
Campaigners have called for the “tragic” figures to be investigated.
The DWP said no link could be assumed between the deaths and claimants being deemed fit for work.
‘Tragic’
The figures – and the time frame they cover – were released after the Information Commissioner ruled the government should release the statistics, including mortality rates for benefit claimants, in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.
The data does not contain a breakdown of how the people died.
The 2,380 people who died had received Work Capability Assessments (WCA) to decide if they were eligible to receive ESA, which replaced incapacity benefit, income support and severe disablement allowance in 2008.
Of the 2,380, 1,340 died after appealing against their decisions, though it is not known what proportion of those appeals were successful or failed.
Learning disability charity Mencap said the numbers appeared unusually high for people of working age who had so recently been declared fit.
The charity’s Rob Holland, who co-chairs the Disability Benefits Consortium, a consortium of charities and other bodies, said: “These tragic figures are concerning and warrant further investigation.
“We know the fit for work test is failing disabled people, with devastating consequences.”
The figures said 2,017,070 people were given a decision following their WCA between May 2010 and February 2013, with 40,680 dying within a year of that decision.
But the data showed a decline in the mortality rate of all benefit claimants – the number of deaths per 100,000 people – from 822 to 723 between 2003 and 2013.
This was slower, proportionally, than the decline in the mortality rate of the general population, which fell from 305 to 240 in the same period, according to the statistics.
…………….KEEP LOOKING IN THE PAPERS LORD FREUD, THE NOOSE IS GETTING RESTLESS
“DWP INSTRUCTED CLAIMANTS DOCTOR TO STOP WRITING SICK NOTES, HE DIED”…………………….
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/netherley-dad-dies-10-months-12379703
Netherley dad DIES 10 months after DWP tell his GP not to write any more sick notes
James Harrison’s furious daughter says Job Centre bosses interfered in the doctor-patient relationship
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Daughter’s fury after DWP tell doctors not to write sick note for dying father
A seriously-ill Netherley dad died just 10 months after Department for Work and Pensions bosses advised his GP not to write him any more sick notes.
James Harrison was declared fit-for-work after a controversial Work Capability Assessment – despite suffering from a serious lung condition combined with depression and anxiety.
The 55-year-old, who worked for 30 years before losing his job at a community centre and then falling ill, died of heart failure in November.
His furious daughter Abbie, 23, a PHD student at the University of Liverpool , uncovered the letter when she demanded to see her dad’s medical records.
She came forward with her story as part of a campaign to highlight benefits injustices, launched by a Scottish film director and backed by the ECHO’s Glasgow-based sister paper The Daily Record.
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Abbie said: “Dad had been ill for a few years before he lost his job. He had a serious lung condition and he developed a hernia.
“He had worked at a local community centre since leaving school, but the place shut down as a result of the austerity cuts and his health went down hill from there. As well as his other conditions he developed depression and anxiety which left him a shadow of his former self.
“He had worked all his life and wasn’t the kind of guy who knew anything about benefits. But as his health deteriorated there just wasn’t any chance that he could do a job.”
James Harrison
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) letter advising against giving James sick notes was sent to his GP, Dr Kabir, by Birkenhead Benefit Centre manager Julia Savage on January 28.
“THIS IS MURDER”
“BBC TO BE SHAMED IN SCOTLAND FOR POLITICAL BIAS”
These billboards are about to pop up all over Scotland, and the BBC will sh*t a brick
Campaign group Inform Scotland is about to release a huge billboard campaign across Scotland, and the BBC will be less than pleased.
The pro-independence group describes itself as follows:
We are ordinary people, tired of the distortions of ‘news’ reporting on BBC Scotland where ‘spin’ and opinion have long replaced fact.
After two other billboard companies refused, ClearChannel agreed to run a revised version of the campaign:
These billboards will first appear on Monday 16 January and run for two weeks across Scotland. As well as the static posters, advertising vans will be circling around major Scottish cities denoting the original campaign image:
The posters are funded by a crowdfunder, which raised £9,000 in a week from other people also concerned with BBC coverage of Scotland. More than 400 people donated to the project in six days.
The campaign seeks to highlight the group’s website to people who cannot be reached through social media. The website hosts an array of articles claiming to document the BBC‘s misinformation during the independence referendum and on BBC Scotland in general. Additionally, the billboards will contain QR codes so people can use their mobiles to scan the code and access the site directly.
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/09/billboards-pop-scotland-bbc-will-sht-brick-images/
John Currigan The Jewish also queued like this for food. The Na?is were in power then, and are in power again. When will we ever learn?!
“Voter Apathy” NOT VOTING got them into power. Only voting them OUT, can save us… Because, if we don’t, the Tory Government will revoke the human rights accord. Then, the welfare state will get abolished, the political power will always be in their hands, because they’ll introduce new laws to deny political opposition… Dictatorship!
14 · 19 hrs
Subyatee Bertram
Subyatee Bertram I’ve not got much to say about this, as anything i do say falls on deaf ears . THE REVOLUTION IS NOW ! I could go on about forming a mass movement and taking to the streets and march as a form of direct positive action but nobody wants to hear about that . So this is like when there’s a incident on the street and the police turn up everyone as something to say they have a little moan then go back into their houses , shut the door and carry on with their lives watching Coro or Eastenders because that’s what’s important .
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Suzanna Meakins
Suzanna Meakins Yep, history’s warning signs are being ignored and the poor are dehumanised like the jews were and then they will try to convince us that they are sub human and don’t deserve compassion orempathy and are vermin/parasites whilst the real parasited party and brag about their wealth!
7 hrs
John Gorton
John Gorton Walking a thin line to revolution beware the hungry don’t have anything to loose…
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Kevin Mcarthur
Kevin Mcarthur Ffs thats shocking -a changed my mind we are mental we let millionaires dictate to us
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Victor Rolt
Victor Rolt Tory scum
UNUM, PETER LILLEY AND THE WELFARE MURDERS
Paul Foot on the Insurance Company Unum and Cuts to Disability Benefit in Private Eye from 1995
Paul Foot, the journalist brother of Labour leader Michael Foot, had a regular column in Private Eye until his death. Entitled ‘Footnotes’, this documented the abuse of corporate and political power, and Right-wing attacks on welfare, the poor, the disabled, minorities and the working class. After his death it became ‘In the Back’, and is one of the features that lift the Eye above being merely another humour magazine making cheeky comments about politicians and celebs. One of the companies standing behind the Coalitions cuts to disability benefit and the welfare state is the American private insurance company, Unum. Paul Foot turned his gaze on the company way back in the Eye’s issue for the 16th June 1995, when they were hired by Major’s Social Services Secretary, Peter Lilley. The article went as follows:
Doctor on Call
To help him in his bid to save £2 billion a year by slashing the benefits of disabled people, Peter Lilley, social services secretary7, has hired the vice-president of a big multinational insurance company which is usinig the benefit cuts to boost its sales.
Overcoming the xenophobia to which he so often gives voice at Tory party conferences, Mr Lilley has appointed an American.
Founded in Portland, Maine, in 1848, the Unum Corporation describes itself as “the world’s leading light in disability insurance”. Unum Ltd, its British arm, is based in Dorking, Surrey. It issued its annual report last September, when chairman Ward E. Graffam enthused about “exciting developments” in Britain.
He explained: “the impending changes to the State ill-health benefits system heralded in the November 1993 Budget will create unique sales opportunities across the entire disability market and we will be launching a concerted effort to harness the potential in these”. In January, the full extent of Lilley’s plans to replace invalidity benefit with incapacity benefit revealed to the Commons. Estimated “savings” for the year 1995-1996 were £410 million; for 1996-97 £1.2 billion; and for 1997-98 an astonishing £1.7 billion.
Obviously, with so much less government money going to sick and disabled people, the opportunities for private disability insurance were enormous. No longer could people rely on benefit income if they became ill or disabled. They would have to fend for themselves. Accordingly, UNUM Ltd, as its chairman had promised, “launched a concerted effort to harness the potential”. In April this year, a glamorous and expensive advertising campaign coincided with the new rules for incapacity benefit.
One UNUM ad warned: “April 13, unlucky for some. Because tomorrow the new rules on state incapacity benefit announced in the 1993 autumn budget come into effect. Which means that if you fall ill and have to rely on state incapacity benefit, you could be in serious trouble”. Lurid tables estimating weekly outgoings for an average family at £276, and benefit under the new rules at £100, urged people to “protect yourself with a Long Term Disability policy from UNUM”.
Crucial to the new rules were tougher medical tests to find out if people really are incapacitated. The Benefits Agency Medical Services (BAMS) recruited a new corps of doctors to carry out new “all-work tests”. The basic change in the tests was simple. In the past, disabled or sick people were entitled to benefit if they could no longer do their job. From now on, people are entitled to benefit only if they can do no work at all.
The new medical tests were fundamental to the “savings” Lilley hoped for. If the tests were too lax – if doctors were allowed to slide into sentimental slackness in assessing peoples’ ability to do any work at all – the whole purpose of the tests would be thwarted. So Lilley’s department set up an “incapacity benefit medical valuation group” to “monitor and validate the quality standards for the doctors involved in the all-work assessments”.
The most famous member of the group is Dr John Le Cascio, second vice-president of the Unum Corporation, who has recently been seconded to the company’s British arm. Dr Le Cascio was also invited last year by Lilley’s department to help in the extensive training of doctors in the new techniques of testing. The DSS stresses that “the doctors don’t decide the incapacity benefit – that is done by an adjudication officer”. No doubt; but the officer makes a decision on the expert medical information provided by the tests.
No press release was issued about Dr Le Cascio’s appointment. No one told taxpayers that the DSS is shelling out £40,000 to Unum Ltd for D Le Cascio’s services in the year from October 1994 to September this year. A DSS spokeswoman explained: “this comes down basically to a daily rate of £440 a day. That’s cheap for a consultancy, actually.”
The Eye asked Dr Le Cascio if he agreed there was an absolutely obvious conflict of interest in his position as validator and monitor of tests for a benefit, the cutting of which was being exploited to the full by the advertisements for his company. He replied:
“Well, I don’t feel that way of course, and if I did I wouldn’t have accepted the job. I was brought in for a specific reason, and that is to teach some of the medical principles which are contained in the design of the new test – that’s what I do, that’s my area of expertise. I’m a technical person and I can do that. To me, there is no sort of conflict as long as I do that job. I feel comfortable doing it, and I assume that those n the department feel comfortable with my contribution. The reason they’ve turned to me is because the commercial insurers have been working with this sort of valuation system for a long time and that’s where the knowledge lies”.
And in that article you can see the origins of the whole modern benefits system. The use by the government of a private company, in this case Unum, that stands to profit from cuts to the welfare system and the recruitment of new corps of professionals by BAMS to make the tests more difficult. The only difference is that BAMS has now gone and been replaced by ATOS. It’s another example of the way Blair merely inherited and developed a system that was put forward by the Tories.
“TYPICAL TORY SCUMBAGS, GIVING HMRC CARTE BLANCHE TO RUMMAGE YOUR EBAY ACCOUNTS WHILE THERESA MAY’S SHARE INVESTMENTS ARE HIDDEN”
……………….DESPITE HAVING BEEN GIVEN NUMEROUS REAMS OF INFORMATION LIKE THE PANAMA PAPERS, THE HMRC ARE SHIT SCARED TO VENTURE INTO THE CORRUPT WORLD OF OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS.
HMRC ARE BUT CHAMPIONS OF THE ELITES ILL GOTTEN GAINS.
Whilst you are i are sent a bill for pennies, the rich continue to fuck the system……..
How many of our so called businessmen stash their earnings in foreign fields but are afforded the right to reside here?
This mornings news that our Prime Minister, unelect, Theresa May, has the priviledge to hide her investments in a trust, came as no shock.
Having links to G4S and continual tory governmement in this firm has to be a CONFLICT OF INTEREST……………..
Big brother can hack and plunder the social lives of the minions while those in power enjoy complete secrecy.
At each and every step of this vile conservative regime our very basic human rights are being breached under the very noses of the commission who sit all day and say fuck all.
Politicians should be made to disclose their very last pennies. But what have they got to hide?
………………Everything, it seems
“LORD FREUD’S DISABILITY THIEVES AT THE DWP”
Among the PIP claimants who have passed their details to DNS is Abbie Marshall, from South Yorkshire, who has described how the Atos nurse who assessed her wrote in her report that she had carried out a full physical examination – when no such test took place – and missed out all but one of her medications and a list of side-effects.
As a result of that report, Marshall was found ineligible for any PIP at all, when she had previously been receiving DLA middle rate care and low rate mobility.
Following an appeal, she was granted the PIP enhanced rate of mobility and standard rate of daily living (worth more than £110 a week).
The brother of another PIP claimant, who recorded the home assessment carried out by Capita without the nurse’s knowledge, described how, although his sister explained that she had not been to her local shops since October 2013, the assessor wrote in her report that she visits her local shop every day.
The nurse also said in her report that the claimant spoke to family and friends on the phone every day, even though she does not possess a mobile phone or a landline.
As a result of the assessment, she was awarded zero points for both daily living and mobility, and therefore found ineligible for PIP by a DWP decision-maker.
It was only after her brother sent DWP a transcript of the assessment that she was awarded enhanced daily living and standard rate mobility for PIP (worth more than £100 a week).
The nurse who assessed Celia Cullum at an Atos assessment centre, again in South Yorkshire, described in her report how the claimant was lying down on a couch and then lifted her legs as part of an examination, even though there was no couch in the assessment room.
Cullum took her orthoses and prostheses and walking aids to the assessment, including an ankle foot orthosis (AFO) which wraps around her leg and has a carbon fibre plate that fits in her shoe to support her foot so she can walk.
She told DNS: “I can’t wear it for too long as it is too uncomfortable for the sole of my foot and causes diabetic foot ulcers.”
But the assessor failed to mention any of this in her report and wrote instead that she was able to dress and undress unaided, even though she needs to use the AFO, an orthotic insole or a prosthetic foot to be able to wear shoes.
The nurse also wrote in her report how Cullum, who has a part-amputated right foot, crouched down to the floor and then stood up as part of a physical examination.
But she said she was never asked to do this, and that it is an action she is unable to do because of the amputation.
She told DNS: “I was shocked when I read a copy of my assessment at so many things left out and things made up. I thought it was dishonest.”
She had previously been receiving PIP standard daily living and enhanced mobility, but as a result of the assessment, she lost all of that support. When she appealed to a tribunal, she was awarded standard rate daily living but no mobility support.
When she complained to Atos, she said, the company admitted that “some errors occurred in regards to documenting accurate information and this will be fed back to [the nurse]for future professional development”.
Another PIP claimant, Mary*, who had a home assessment carried out by Atos, said her assessor “lied about almost everything” in her report.
The nurse claimed that Mary had had no contact with the specialist NHS service she receives treatment from for three years, whereas she had had at least 16 contacts with that service during that time, as a result of severe and debilitating ME.
When she tried to explain this, the nurse “dismissed anything I tried to say” and cut her off when she was speaking.
The nurse described Mary’s appearance as “well kempt” and wrote that she had been wearing “soft trousers, top and a cardigan”.
In fact, she had been unable to wash her greasy, straggly hair for over a week, and was wearing pyjama bottoms, a vest she wears in bed and an old cardigan that was two sizes too small and had two buttons missing (having had to spend much of the last three years in bed she has put on weight, so few of her clothes now fit her, and she is rarely well enough to do any clothes shopping, even online).
Mary said: “Almost the entire Atos report is lies. Or things being twisted. Wilfully misunderstood.
“I have so much anger from the way I was treated by this process. The ‘nurse’ from Atos should be struck off from working in any sort of healthcare job.
“She was very fast and hurried. I couldn’t keep up – and kept telling her this.”
She said the nurse was “bullying and heavy-handed” and “kept twisting things and putting words in my mouth”, and “dismissed anything I tried to say”.
She was found ineligible for PIP and had intended to appeal but “overwhelmed by the level of detail requested by DWP” and its impact on her impairment, she conceded defeat last summer.
Patricia Wohl’s husband, Gerhard, witnessed the PIP assessment carried out on his wife by a Capita nurse in their home in Bridgend.
When his wife was asked to stand up, he said, she “struggled to get up, she needed help from her walking stick and the arm rest of the settee, then she needed to stand for a time (30 seconds to a minute) to find her balance, then after two steps she fell forward to the right against the stone wall in our living room.
“I jumped up to stop her falling to the floor because I expected something like this.”
When his wife tried again, the same thing happened, but in the report the Capita assessor said she had risen and walked six metres in a straight line without any help.
She had previously been claiming the higher rate mobility and lowest rate of care under DLA, but lost all support under PIP as a result of the assessment report. A tribunal eventually awarded her standard PIP rates for both mobility and daily living.
Peter’s* wife has told DNS how both she and her husband told the Atos nurse who assessed him several time that he needs someone with him when he leaves the house, because he becomes confused and can easily get lost, but this information was omitted from her report.
When Peter was asked to stand and make various movements, he was unable to do so, and fell against the wall. But the assessor stated in her report that Peter had a full range of movement in both his upper and lower limbs.
His wife said: “Her levels of honesty in compiling the report were, on a scale of 0 to 10, 0.
“She came across as very helpful and trustworthy, approachable and friendly. No reason not to trust her, until we saw the report, which I did initially think was someone else’s.”
Peter had previously claimed middle rate care and higher rate mobility under DLA, but now receives standard rates for both with PIP. Their appeal was unsuccessful. They say the tribunal ignored their claims that the assessor had lied in her report.
Another claimant, Fazliabbas Raffiq, was assessed by Atos in his home in London, but in her report, he said, the nurse ignored his visual impairment, his fibromyalgia and his depression.
He told the nurse that he has to take 23 different medications every day, and handed her a repeat prescription form to prove it, but she referred only to five in the report.
He had previously received the highest rate of care and mobility under DLA, but following the assessment he was awarded just the PIP standard rate for both daily living and mobility.
One of the cases that sparked the DNS investigation was the assessment of Sarah Goldstein, from Derbyshire.
The Capita nurse who assessed her wrote that Sarah could go to the shops and bring back shopping, when in fact she has to shop online, with help from her husband, who puts away the shopping when it is delivered.
As a result of the assessment, Sarah was found ineligible for PIP, a decision approved by DWP’s mandatory reconsideration process. When she appealed, a tribunal awarded her the standard rate for both daily living and mobility (more than £75 per week in total).
None of the facts above from the eight cases have been disputed by DWP.
“TOTAL SCUMBAGS OF THE DWP”
……….another day, another victim
“RIP JOHN DAVID ROBINSON OF EASTFIELD, SCARBOROUGH”
………..ANOTHER NOTCH ON BARON FREUD’S BELT
JOSS, AS HIS FRIENDS CALLED HIM, WAS UNKNOWN TO BARON FREUD, YET THEIR PATHS CROSSED AS HE WAS LED FROM HIS COUNCIL HOME IN A ZIP UP BAG TWO DAYS AGO…………
JOSS WAS A BIG BLOKE BUT A GENTLE GIANT. HE HAD BEEN PLAGUED BY A LITANY OF HEALTH PROBLEMS AND TOOK THIRTEEN TABLETS EACH DAY.
HE COULD NOT STOP HIS HANDS SHAKING, WAS DIABETIC AND SUFFERED AN ENLARGED HEART. BENDING WAS A PROBLEM DUE TO PAINS IN HIS KNEES AND HE HAD RECENTLY UNDERGONE SURGERY TO PUT A PLATE IN HIS ANKLE THAT WAS COLLAPSING FROM AN OLD INJURY.
JOSS WAS MY FRIEND, MY SHOULDER, MY ROCK. A MAN WHO WAS WELL LIKED BY ALL.
DESPITE HIS ILL HEALTH HE WAS CONSTANTLY HOUNDED BY THE DWP TO ATTEND BACK TO WORK COURSES ORGANISED BY THE FRAUDULENT A4e COMPANY WHO ARE WELL KNOWN FOR FALSE ACCOUNTING AND THEFT.
THE TUTORS WOULD TURN UP IN SOFT TOP VEHICLES AND SET ABOUT THOROUGHLY DEMORALISING THE CLAIMANTS UPON INSTRUCTIONS FROM THEIR PAYMASTERS.
JOSS WAS PUT THROUGH THE DEMEANING TASKS OF PRODUCING A CV AND INSTRUCTED ON HOW TO WRITE A LETTER TO A MAKE BELIEVE EMPLOYERS.
A4e STAFF GAVE THE CLAIMANTS RIDICULOUS MEANINGLESS TASKS IN ORDER TO BREAK THEIR WILL, A COURSE OF DEHUMANISATION THAT IS A FAVOURED TORTURE OF THE DWP AND IT’S CARCINOGENIC BACKERS.
LITTLE BY LITTLE THEY REMOVED EVERY PART OF HIM THAT WAS HUMAN AND TRANSFORMED HIM INTO A HUMAN WRECK.
SO MUCH SO HE COULD NOT SLEEP AND SUFFERED RECURRING FLASHBACKS OF ABUSE HE RECEIVED AS A KID.
UPON APPROACHING HIS GP HE WAS PRESCRIBED ANTI PSYCHOTIC DRUGS AND HE MIXED THESE WITH CHEAP CIDER IN ORDER TO FIND A REMEDY TO JUST GET FORTY WINKS.
NOT HAPPY WITH JUST HUMILIATING HIM THE GOVERNMENTS OTHER LITTLE TORTURE WAS APPLIED, THE BEDROOM TAX……
JOSS WOULD GET VISITS AND THREATENING LETTERS OF EVICTION FOR NONE PAYMENT. HIS MEAGRE £48 PER WEEK WAS ERODED FURTHER BY THE TAXATION ON THE SPARE BEDROOMS THAT WERE LEFT VACANT FOLLOWING HIS TWO KIDS COMING OF AGE AND LEAVING THE NEST.
JOHN DAVID ROBINSON, (AKA JOSS), DID NOT DESERVE TO DIE, ALL HE WANTED WAS THE CHANCE TO ENJOY THE CONFINES OF HIS RESTRICTIONS THAT ILL HEALTH HAD PLACED BEFORE HIM.
JOSS WILL NEVER APPEAR ON THE TV, NOR IN ANY HEADLINES.
“JUST ANOTHER TRAGIC VICTIM OF THE ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS PERPETRATED BY THE TORY GOVERNMENT AND A FAILED BANKER, BARON FREUD”
TWO CHILDREN WITHOUT A FATHER, A FATHER WHO WILL NEVER SEE HIS CHILDREN AGAIN.
JOHN DAVID ROBINSON, MAY THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR DEMISE BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE AND THE HISTORY BOOKS REFLECT THE INHUMANITY IMPOSED UPON THOSE LEAST LIKELY TO FIGHT BACK.
YOU WILL BE SORELY MISSED, MY FRIEND, THE WORLD HAS LOST ANOTHER ANGEL…………..
Use the FREE TOR browser which anonymises your identity or download a copy of the FREE Opera browser which allows you to connect to the web via Opera’s FREE and unlimited Virtual Private Network (VPN). (Actually it’s more like a proxy service than a VPN but works well enough anyway.) There’s always a way around any kind of tracking and/or monitoring if you’re technically savvy.
Mandelson failed miserably to stop file sharing and similar when Labour was in power with his version of this shite and so will May and her crew of killjoys today,
Fuck ’em!
You need to be very careful with tor because the government agencies compromise some nodes to gather information and track you down. That said it’s a very small risk but a risk nonetheless. I have the Opera Browser with the VPN/proxy service but have not used it yet. Must try it out sometime!
It makes me laugh that our rulers are so paranoid about the citizens they rule over yet constantly tell us we live in a free and democratic society and they are our servants and have our interests at heart. Yeah! pull the other one!
Yes. If you use TOR don’t do banking or anything really sensitive on it (because you can’t be 100% sure how your data packets get routed) and always update the browser as soon as a new version is available. Opera is quicker and easier but isn’t perfect and can leak you IP address to servers which you can stop with this add-on.
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/webrtc-leak-prevent/?display=en
No free solution is 100% effective but either TOR or Opera make you much more difficult to track, identify and observe than doing nothing.
You would have to be nuts to do your internet banking through TOR. Besides, your bank would probably also block the connection. Your comment also demonstrates one of the major drawbacks to using TOR/VPNs in that you can’t do the ‘sensitive’ stuff like online banking, online shopping or anything that involves electronic payment through these networks, so regardless you leave an electronic paper trail of who or whom you bank with, online retailers etc. for the Government, State Security, Police, DWP… to peruse at their leisure. The very stuff you most likely want to hide you can’t hide!
TOR encrypts up until the exit node, traffic (passwords etc.) leaves the exit node in ‘plain sight’. Banks uses secure end-to-end connections though, so you would expect a connection made through TOR to be secure from end to end. It would be a great big red flag to a bank though. If you could attempt it it would probably raise a security alert and result in the account being frozen. Of course it might depend on what type of transactions you were trying to action. Withdraw money from a TOR connection!?
Your not paranoid if they really are out to get you and under the Tories government departments like the DWP really are out to nail your hide to the wall if they can. Oh! And when using the Opera VPN set your location to Germany or the Netherlands, both of which have very much stricter digital privacy laws than non-EU countries like Canada and the USA.
Switzerland is even better as there are specific laws that make it illegal to track people’s activity on the internet. Companies are not even legally entitled to track torrent users. But Germany and the Netherlands do have much better protection for their citizens using the internet than post Brexidiot Britain, which is renowned for being one of the countries where online censorship and surveillance is significant.
Funny how in spite of being the most innovative browser Opera has always had the lowest market share! And spyware crap such as Google Chrome has the highest market share!
Opera was the first browser to introduce all sorts of features that later got copied by others, e.g., tabbed browsing. The latest Opera has got a VPN, built-in speed dial, built-in advert blocker, built-in malware and animalware protection, and a built-in battery saver for those using laptops or battery powered devices. It also has a unique feature called Turbo which when enabled compresses data while you browse to speed up website loading if you’re surfing on a slow network. The browser also boasts lot’s of other frills and goodies, e.g., tab previews, and when you put all of this together you end up with a cross platform Scandinavian browser which leaves the competition in the shade.
Where Opera goes today other browsers go tomorrow.
Give it a go folks – it’s free – and see what you reckon.
It appears to be the case that having VPN enabled on Opera chews through bandwidth, something to bear in mind if you if you are on a limited tariff, or you are wondering where your bandwidth is going since enabling Opera VPN : “In general, it’s hard to connect with a VPN, and they tend to be slow because they simulate a dedicated secure pipe by encoding IP packets within a secure wrapper, he added. “The wrapper consumes bandwidth — so you really don’t want to use a VPN on a slow connection.” Opera Turbo, however, is supposed to conserve bandwidth.
http://hiiloaded.com.ng/operas-free-vpn-now-secures-your-internet-privacy/
VPNs can add overhead to a connection, and a VPN that’s on all the time may burn up a lot of data on a user’s data plan, Jude pointed out.
Still, using the VPN “will be the purview of power users,” IDC’s Hilwa told LinuxInsider. or those with big data plans 😉
If the UK outlaws TOR, VPNs and proxies that will being us up there with China and Iran!
If the UK outlaws TOR, VPNs and proxies that will bring us up there with China and Iran!
Via Opera VPN
“Your IPv4 Address Is:
185.137.19.130
Your IP Details:
ISP: SurfEasy
Services: Suspected Network Sharing Device
City: Cagayan De Oro
Region: Misamis Oriental
Country: Philippines”
Fuck you, Big Brother 😀 😀
I use Opera and consider it the best browser available. Users can make it better and more secure by installing the add-ons called “HTTPS Everywhere” and “Privacy Badger” made available by the much respected Electronic Frontier Foundation: the first add-on ensures that you always connect to websites using secure sockets when possible (encrypting data in the same way as when shopping on line etc) and the second gets rid of any tracking cookies which can be used to monitor which websites you’ve visited. Both are 100% free and 100% safe and make surfing the web more private and secure. You can get HTTPS Everywhere and Privacy Badger for Firefox and other browsers too. (Not for Microsoft’s Edge but why would you be using a piece of crap like that anyway?) Both add-ons are well worth having.
EFF should remove that damned “EFF has no sources of funding so here’s a quick reminder that you can help ensure it continues by making a donation.” button.
I don’t hardly use Edge as adblock plus on it no longer works. I mainly stick to the latest Firefox version, since anyway I have massively tweaked the about:config for maximum privacy, security and internet network speeds.
Adblock plus does work on the edge browser now. I am guessing that Microshit got so much grief from people trying to use the browser they gave in. I installed it on 2 work computers using edge yesterday
Firefox is a nice browser with pretty much universal compatibility as far as websites go, more even than Edge at the moment, I’m not that mad on the Australis interface myself but the guts of the browser has always been top quality.
Opera is the most compliant browser as far as the ACID tests go, but it is websites that are not compliant with Opera which let Opera down even though it wasn’t Opera fault and Opera was 100% web compliant unlike the shite Billy G churns out from his arse. Opera has had to abandon a lot of their best features, Opera notes to name one, re-invent itself and become a clone of Chromium just to survive. And we have shit from Microshit dominating the browser world.
Websites were too busy making themselves compliant with Billy G and the shit offerings from Microshit even though Microshit browsers weren’t web-compliant. A cynic would think it was an attempt by Microshit to force competitor browsers out of the market. And Internet Exploder wasn’t even from Microshit, it was developed i..e stolen from an already existing browser, Melon!
That’s true. The original Opera browser based on Opera’s own Presto engine was fantastic and still the only version of the browser available for 32-bit Linux. When Opera was 100% Opera it blew away the competition and was the fasted browser out there. Like Google’s Chrome the new generation of Opera browsers moved away from Presto and are now Webkit based but still head and shoulders better than other Chromium derivitives like Chrome, which eat up power on a laptop like nobody’s business. I wish Opera would bring back the Wand password keeper though: I’m not mad on having no master password set locally by me to encrypt passwords stored by any browser. That would save me from having to use Keepass to manage a lot of my passwords.
Personally I still use Opera.
It’s simple, does the business, is as secure as any browser can be, and boasts a shitload of innovations, improvements and extras that leave Chrome standing. I can’t imagine why Google’s Chrome has become the go to browser for so many with a vastly superior sibling like Opera out there.
Opera’s built-in ad-blocker does a sterling job too! Don’t see any other browsers blocking ad out-of-the-box. The roaring success of Google Chrome compared with the low uptake of Opera just goes to show how thick the general public are.
Opera used to make money of the pre-populated entries in bookmarks. And now it has moved onto the pre-populated entries in the speed-dial! Not exactly in the same league as spyware Google Chrome though!
Yes. Opera does get backhanders from commerce to help cover costs. For example Opera sets the search engine in its search box on the speed dial to Google and won’t let you change it. Easiest thing to do is to disable the search box altogether if you don’t like Google, which gives you more room of the speed dial, and set you default search engine via Opera settings to whatever search engine you like and do searches using the combined search and address bar – another browser innovation first introduced by Opera which was later copied by the world and his wife. The “Suggestions” Opera makes, i.e., adverts, appear right at the bottom of the speed dial and are relatively unobtrusive. Opera’s speed dial groups are great! You can drag separate tiles together to form groups of related tiles which is very handy. With Chrome you’d need to add several extensions to do stuff like this while Opera has these features better implemented out of the box.
The author of adblock plus takes back handers to whitelist commercial adverts so that the extension doesn’t block them. If you use that add-on you need to click on the ABP icon in your browser, select “Filter Preferences” and uncheck “Allow some non intrusive advertising”. That’s for Firefox.
Yeah, it was Mandelson and his fellow New Labour knobheads who tried to push this Digital Economy Bill crap through just at the last minute on the very last day of their term in office as they were literally getting turfed out of the Parliament building.
How much p2p file sharing did it stop. Zilch. And how many p2p people got threatening letters from their ISPs threatening to cut off their internet access. Not many. When video recorder became cheap enough to own I remember there was a big fuss about people recording films and programmes shown on TV and breaking copyright by doing so and such like: in the end the powers that be couldn’t stop it happening, stepped back, and let people use the equipment as they wanted because the copyright issue was unenforceable. Same with the web. Politicians don’t understand the internet at all.
Many happy memories of taping the Top 40 on Radio One. It was as really as annoying as fuck though when they played that ;Raaaaaaaaaaddddddddiiiiiiiiiiiiiooooooooooooo One jingle right in the middle. Loved it when they played a single from intro to fade out at the outtro uninterrupted 🙂 But a single would have to have been on there way out of the top 40 before they did that 🙂
They DJS fucking KNEW we were fucking taping 😀
Yeah, they don’t understand why customers of ISPs PAY for unlimited bandwidth and fast connections. They just don’t get it do they?
In fact, they don’t get why we PAY for internet access in the first place! Can they really be THAT fucking stupid!?
Do these fucking knobheads think that if they got there own way that ISPs would be left with any customers PAYING just so they can get on universal fucking jobmatch!? What are they fucking smoking?
Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it!
UJM – Here to get you there …
Yeah sure, shirleynott, like we are paying £arm-and-a-leg out of our own pockets for internet access to sit on that pile of donkey poo universal fucking jobmatch for 35 hours a week… 😉
UJM – Here to get you sanctioned …
Hopefully Universal Jobsnatch: Here today/gone soon.
“And how many p2p people got threatening letters from their ISPs threatening to cut off their internet access.” It’s a rock and a hard place for ISP because they KNOW what their CUSTOMERS are PAYING them for – FREE SHIT! Movies, music, books, software, Bill Gates operating systems….
I wouldn’t waste my bandwidth downloading bootlegged Microsoft garbage. Unless I have to use some flavour of Windows to run some software for which there is no similar open source equivalent I use Linux for everything. It’s free, secure, has no MS back doors built in (like Windows 10), doesn’t suffer from virus or malware woes (doesn’t need an anti-virus), isn’t fragile and easily corrupted like Windows (with its fucking registry slowly filling up and growing stagnant like a cesspit) and is way less likely to go wrong than the hardware hosting it. Check out Linux Mint Cinnamon or Linux Mint Mate for a Ubuntu based foolproof Linux with a lovely Windows-like desktop.
“Meanwhile The Guardian is currently using nine trackers on its site to look over the shoulder of those using it.
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lol the privacy-consciousness Guardian is really back for trackers, up to 140 ‘hits’ already and counting…
What the Guardian site connect to:
discussion.theguardian.com +
hits-secure.theguardian.com −
ophan.theguardian.com −−−
http://www.theguardian.com +
facebook.com
graph.facebook.com +
staticxx.facebook.com +
http://www.facebook.com −
facebook.net
connect.facebook.net +
google-analytics.com
http://www.google-analytics.com −
googleadservices.com
http://www.googleadservices.com −
gu-web.net
beacon.gu-web.net −
guardianapps.co.uk
api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk +
guim.co.uk
assets.guim.co.uk +
avatar.guim.co.uk +++
i.guim.co.uk ++
imrworldwide.com
secure-au.imrworldwide.com −
krxd.net
cdn.krxd.net −
ophan.co.uk
j.ophan.co.uk +
outbrain.com
widgets.outbrain.com −
scorecardresearch.com
sb.scorecardresearch.com −
sonobi.com
mtrx.go.sonobi.com
All these privacy apps are a right royal pain in the arse. We shouldn’t have to resort to use them to protect our privacy! Where is this? Russia? China? Iran? fff And what’s it with that Opera ‘VPN’: “VPN cannot connect. Opera is resolving the problem.” If the Guvmint wasn’t monitoring our connections we wouldn’t have to bother with this shit!
Probably too many folk trying to connect to Opera’s surfEasy servers at the same time. If demand outstrips supply Opera might set limits on user access. Hopefully this won’t happen though.
If Opera’s VPN can’t connect using its “optimal location” pick another from those on offer. Canada usually works for me some reason.
Opera VPN is complete. You don’t even know if you are connecting through a VPN since the icon is always orange. It might be something to do with Void readers downloading Opera in the last 24 hours. But if a feature doesn’t work why function properly why no just remove it and throw it in the trash? Why waste people’s time with a load of garbage?
I would ask fr your money back if I were you.
Even the Opera forums are saying the VPN is utter garbage! 0/10! Total junk!
Request a refund.
You can still access torrents sites without that fucking ‘error-site blocked’ horseshit message, so maybe it connect to the VPN when you load a site or something.
If you are using TOR expect to come up against Cloudfare and their crap ‘roadblock’ often: “Just a moment while you complete this impenetrable fucking caption”
If you are using TOR expect to come up against Cloudfare and their crap ‘roadblock’ often: “Just a moment while you complete this impenetrable fucking capcha”
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This is ‘Theresa May’s (she, as we all know was the answer to the Tory’s answer to Hitler – seconded only by Margaret Thatcher – a Tory Home Secretary who, in reality (and always have) wanted to spy on the private communications of ‘everyone’ in the British Isles who is in any way digitally connected) Britain in this day and age – a ‘Britain that has never ever been so spied upon – from CCTV to Internet usage’ – THEY WANT TO KNOW AND RECORD EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY (IF YOU INDEED HAVE ONE!). Theresa May now ‘runs’ the present Tory administration – her back benchers are too weak even to consider – but – HER FRONT BENCHER CABINET (mark my words!) will be her eventual downfall – they are half behind her and half against her.
This is indeed now a ‘one-party state’ – the Tories now actually control EVERYTHING in our country today – this, in effect, by a default state – created by a broken LABOUR party, a totally broken and discredited LIB-DEM party and far too many votes for the now broken and almost completely bankrupt UKIP party.
Theresa May may be ‘home and dry’ – but, given certain political falanderings, not too far down the line – she could be out on her ear – AND SO COULD HER TORY GOVERNMENT BE ALSO!
The citizens of the UK are the most spied upon in the world. YOU are under surveillance – you just don’t know it… 😉 In terms of surveillance the UK outstrips even Russia, China and Iran!
THERESA MAY HAD BETTER GET HER ACT TOGETHER – AND SOON!
“Philip Hammond goes to war with Theresa May over ‘foreign students'”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-immigration-theresa-may-philip-hammond-cabinet-split-foreign-students-a7370316.html
UKIP facing bankrumptcy as leading donor ‘threatens to walk away’
GOOD – GOOD – GOOD – GOOD – GOOD – GOOD – GOOD – GOOD –
(and a million other GOOD’s!)
FUCK NIGEL FARAGE AND ALL THAT THE BASTARD STANDS FOR!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-bankruptcy-arron-banks-biggest-donor-nigel-farage–a7368876.html
When Kippers like Farage and Nuttall can’t milk the EU for MEP salaries and live the high life on EU lavish expenses, I would imagine it won’t be long before they disappear back into the woodwork. Farage himself is the cunt of cunts. Best thing he can do is fuck off to the south of France and give us all a good laugh as per his choice of retirement location. What a complete and utter homegrown arsehole.
THERESA MAY – SHE IS ALREADY A ‘BROKEN’ PRIME MINISTER! –
Totally ineffectual and non-decisive about ‘anything’ – including ‘BREXIT’
(AND SHE IS ONLY ABOUT 4 MONTHS IN TO HER PREMIERSHIP!) 😦
“Theresa may hints that Britain could miss 2019 deadline of leaving the EU”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-theresa-may-article-50-negotiations-extension-eu-latest-two-years-more-2019-2020-2017-a7369466.html
I’m surprised at May. Watching her do PMQs I’m struck by how wobbly, jittery and uncertain she seems to be. To be honest she looks like someone over promoted and not up to the job she has been given: May has never worked in the treasury or foreign office and although she’s spent a long time in the home office is rather an unfinished, incomplete politician. Not the kind of person you really want in Downing Street with all the banana skins lying around post-Brexit. It is possible to likely that she will drop the ball and become a complete disaster.
May used to present Bake Off and appeared on ‘Strictly’, if that’s not qualified for the job of PM don’t know what is!
JV,
Nice to see you back – hope things are okay with you and yours.
As for Thatcher Mark 2.0 T.May, I never worked directly for HO but do know some who do and they all called her “Witch May”…
There’s a message there if staff call her that.
Her transport of choice was always chauffeur driven broomstick so they say.
She is just elderly & not in great (physical) health. Unfortunately though, her deeply unpleasant brain still appears to be working overtime.
I’m sure if we ask for her teeth to be checked she will turn out to be 105.
Mrs May is apparently only sixty… although by the look of her that must be in dog years.
And then – to add total insult to injury – it was reported today that in the Witney by-election tomorrow (Thursday) – the Tories could lose out to the LIBERAL DEMOCRAPS. Fucking hell – David (Pig-Fuck!) Cameron should be ashamed of himself. WITNEY, OF ALL PLACES – A PAST TORY ENTRENCHMENT! – BUT (PERHAPS) – FOR NO MORE!!!!?????
MARK MY WORDS – I RECKON THAT BY MARCH 2017 THERESA MAY WILL NO LONGER BE THE TORY PRIME MINISTER!
It has to be top down. Start with MPs and imprison them for lengthy periods. Then we can elect some proper ones who will behave responsibly.
Franklin Percival – Yes – I agree with you entirely.
Also, it has come to my notice that there is an advert running on TV now –
Ken Loach’s film – “I, Daniel Blake” – in Cinemas now from 21st October 2016 – “If you do not see anything else this year – then please see this”!
……………….ever noticed how the kiddy fiddling paedophile hunt goes cold with every government elected head of the historic child abuse inquiry suddenly deciding to call it a day……………
Three have already jacked in at a cost to the taxpayer of umpteen millions.
When the inquiry started to put two and two together the big political names, judges and senior police officials involved decided it was time to pull the rug……….
The very people who purport to be squeaky clean are the very perverts that come up with all the laws to sanitise the rest.
Cunts like Vieth Kazz want turning upside down and a bottle of bleach up their arses followed by a pull through with a christmas tree.
About half the government are bent in some form or another and the Royal Family a minefield of in breeding and debauchery.
If you can’t get the real thing in pictures you will be tempted to go for second best thing, human contact…….
Rapes will increase accordingly as the pent up release their hormones elsewhere.
………..No wonder they call them whips.
…………and all the photographs, witness statements and dossiers of high ranking officials with connections to the most vile subhuman acts ever perpetrated on UK soil suddenly, mysteriously vanish from view.
And a few weeks later the governments propaganda arm, the inglorious BBC, reports that those who were accused have been found to be whiter than white with the wife of the aforesaid usually demanding an apology.
Every week we hear tales of somebody with rank who purports to be in charge of vice or social services having child porn on their own computers, even headmasters at kids schools.
Some people even get kicks watching injured people die, i call them DWP.
………..and the biggest wanker ever to set foot on our planet, LORD FRAUD.
the guest list for elm house guest house
is on line..
curious how cliffy richard is on the guest
list as ‘ kitty ‘…must be a miss print
:devil: Johnny Void appears to have risen from the grave :devil: :devil: Welcome back to the land of the living dead :devil:
👿 Johnny Void appears to have risen from the grave 👿 👿 Welcome back to the land of the living dead 😀 😀 👿
Rising from the dead is a piece of piss, Count. Even I can do it. No sweat.
Oh come on! You’ve only done it once and probably can only do it on a Monday with help from your dad. Stop bigging yourself up.
If enough people tell the government where to go, then the Bill will die a death. Yes, there *is* some porn that is genuinely evil-child/baby porn and stuff involving (real) animals. But the thing to do is to go after that, not anything that people find sexy.
People try to stay on topic!
IP Law correctly interpreted means “imaginary property” not “Intellectual Property” There is nothing clever or intellectual in putting Culture and Knowledge behind paywalls for life plus 70 years. This is called extortion in all other aspects of life and should be regarded as such by all. Knowledge and culture are meant to be shared so that all may be enlightened and education is open also for all not just those who can purchase it. Copyright in it’s modern form is just another rehash of full censorship used to keep rich and powerful gatekeepers and middlemen fed with an unending supply of cash from the poor and exploited of the world. The original reason for copyright was so that creators could have a right to control distribution for “Limited Times” in order to encourage more creation. Copyright now can be passed on after death to other family members and or corporations to continue to exploit others even though they never created anything themselves. It’s an absolute disgrace by any reasonable persons standards. As for the destruction of free speech and the internet did anyone really believe our masters and benefactors (sarcasm intended) would continue to allow people to think for themselves? Such a dangerous notion never crossed their minds. They know full well that a free and open internet undermines their power base, and indoctrination and control cannot succeed when governments cannot manipulate public opinion to support the spread of greed, war, and hatred. Take a look at the complete hypocrisy of the reporting of the war in Syria as an example. All Russian airstrikes are apparently targeting civilians but USA airstrike that kill civilians are somehow collateral damage or an accident. Do me a favour!!!! Just how dumb do they think we are. Well obviously very dumb, or this piece of legislation would have been binned ages ago. As a footnote remember the Labour Party supports this shit as well as the Tories so the lesson is beware of all politicians and be alert. As for the governments measures they will be about as successful as the war on drugs or the war on terrorism. So don’t worry too much just carry on as usual.
They think ‘we’ are distracted by cheap alcohol promos, C5 & now by increasing levels of xenophobia/job insecurity.
Come back Eric Blair, all is forgiven.
Don’t miss the upcoming series “Benefit Claimants do the funniest things”, “Benefit Claimant Big Brother” and “Benefit claimants win prizes” on Channel 5 over Christmas.
Not to mention ‘Benefit Claimants make you laugh out loud’
As far as really nasty pornography goes it’s the sites and the site owners that should be attacked not individuals that sometimes want access to acceptable sexual material online. (Personally I don’t see that watching adult human beings performing consensual sexual acts, which don’t involve coercion, violence or cruelty, is a bad thing.) In point of fact many ISPs already require customers for proof of age before allowing them to access adult material. A so called “adult lock” is common with mobile broadband for example and can be unlocked by means of a credit card number, or, in the case of Giffgaff a driving license number, or whatever. Sadly for ISPs you can easily get around a “lock” like this via TOR or Opera, or a VPN, or sometimes a proxy server which most teenagers know about and probably do all the time defeating in one bound this kind of “protection”. Politicians are not normally technically expert and seem to be being poorly advised.
I don’t have a driving license and don’t feel ok putting my financial details online in case they get stolen.
If you pay for an internet connection your ISP more than likely already possesses your financial details in some form or other.
Tor doesn’t let you play flash video and isn’t much good if you want sound and motion pictures. Opera does and using any browser over a VPN does.
These tools are all intended for, and marketed at oppressed countries though; ones where the Guvmint monitor, filter and block their citizens connections. For instance, in the UK you can’t even visit a torrent site without having to use a tool to tunnel out to the ‘free world’. The UK is a totalitarian shit-hole of a country if ever there was one!
To reduce the likelihood of being snooped by intelligence you could follow the lead of the Russian intelligence service and use manual typewriters. Or you could live in a Scottish croft with no internet access. For the rest of us, we will have to accept that snooping by intelligence agencies is a fact of modern life.
Instead, I suggest you have a clear data management policy, collecting only the data that you actually need and then for only as long as you need it, destroying the data you don’t need. Maybe you should then encrypt the data you do want and hope that the NSA hasn’t finished building its encryption cracking quantum computer. Any better ideas?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/20/nsa_gchq_and_even_donald_trump_are_all_after_your_data/
Manual typewriters – way more aesthetically pleasing but a challenge to multi-taskers everywhere.
this government as most government’s track its people, government’s want to know your every move, what your looking at what your talking about what your dong where you are ect ect ect.
they can track you by your mobile phone track you via your internet, they track you with a ni number, bank accounts ect.
they insist your registered to vote just another cynical way of keeping tabs on you!!.
this government wants to know where you are and what your doing 24 hrs a day!.
if they had their way we would all be fitted with a micro chip at birth!!.
all our freedoms have bee eroded , freedom to do what you want when you want has vanished for ever.
its our own fault we let it happen we let them do this to us.
the words FREE COUNTRY AND DEMOCRACY are now resigned to the history books. you can all write your whinging moaning posts in here but your achieving nothing! we all know what needs to be done we all know what we have to do .
PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS ALREADY IN THE HANDS OF THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY
……………AND WHEN THE TORY’S FUCK UP THE NHS, MILLIONS WILL BE HIT BY ASTRONOMICAL HEALTH INSURANCE QUOTES
Care.data was expected to cost £50 million and the government had already spent £7.5 million before it was scrapped.
Given the brutality of the Tory attacks on the NHS, it seems almost inevitable that universal access to health care will be abolished and replaced with a US style system of private medical insurance if they get their own way. If such a system comes about, and the private insurance providers built themselves databases of “re-identified” private medical records, it is easy to see how millions of people with complex medical histories, or family histories of illness could be hit with astronomical insurance fees, or get outright blacklisted from the health service.
ON THE SAME DAY THE CHILCOT INQUIRY WAS RELEASED OUR CORRUPT GOVERNMENT SLIPPED THIS OUT QUIETLTY HOPING NOBODY WOULD NOTICE
A controversial scheme to share the health records of everyone in the country has been quietly scrapped by the government on the same day as the Chilcot report was published.
Under the care.data scheme, the medical notes of everyone in the NHS were to be pooled in a vast central database which could be accessed by doctors, researchers and pharmaceutical companies.
Medical experts and charities backed the database claiming it would help them understand the causes of disease, spot side effects to new drugs and detect outbreaks of infectious diseases.
The Department of Health was also criticised for failing to inform people they would be automatically opted into the scheme and would need to fill in a form if they wanted their medical records removed.
BUT THE UK GOVERNMENT HAVE ALREADY RELEASED 47 MILLION OF YOUR PERSONAL RECORDS
However, a report by a major society of actuaries discloses that it was able to obtain 13 years of hospital data – covering 47 million patients – in order to help insurance companies “refine” their premiums.
The report by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries details how it was able to use NHS data covering all hospital in-patient stays between 1997 and 2010 to track the medical histories of patients, identified by date of birth and postcode
Public lacks trust over medical records because too many lies in past 04 Mar 2014
It boasts that “uniquely” they were able to combine these details with information from credit ratings agencies, such as Experian, which record the lifestyle habits of milllions of consumers.
The calculations were used to advise companies how to refine their premiums.
The report advises that levels of illness among most customers below the age of 50 were found to be higher than previous calculations had found.
As a result of the work, insurers were likely to increase premiums for this group, experts said.
The 274-page report describes the NHS Hospital Episode Statistics as a “valuable data source in developing pricing assumptions for ‘critical illness’ cover.”
………….THE UK GOVERNMENT IS IN THE ARSE POCKET OF THE PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANIES
………..NO WONDER THAT GOOGLE WAS GIVEN TAX SWEETHEART DEAL
Google handed patients’ files without permission: Up to 1.6million records – including names and medical history – passed on in NHS deal with web giant
Google agrees new data share deal with Royal Free NHS Trust in London
Internet giant is developing new app to help care for kidney patients
But Google can access complete medical records – not just kidney data
Campaigners unhappy Google will have free access to all patient records
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3571433/Google-s-artificial-intelligence-access-private-medical-records-1-6million-NHS-patients-five-years-agreed-data-sharing-deal.html#ixzz4NdO7NXBv
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The data given to the internet giant would include patients’ complete medical histories, including whether they had been diagnosed with HIV, depression, suffered from drug or alcohol addiction, or had an abortion.
The Google app is being developed by its subsidiary company DeepMind, which was bought for £275million ($400m), to alert doctors when patients are at risk of a form of kidney failure caused by dehydration. The app will process blood test results and immediately inform doctors in charge of their care if they are at risk.
But neither Google nor the Royal Free could explain why the data of so many patients was needed for the software to be developed.
The project is a pilot and if it is deemed a success, other hospitals may ask Google to develop similar apps and pass on medical files.
Concerns: Experts say the deal between Google and the Royal Free NHS Trust could set a precedent for patient data to be routinely passed on to private firms
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Concerns: Experts say the deal between Google and the Royal Free NHS Trust could set a precedent for patient data to be routinely passed on to private firms
Under the arrangement, Google’s DeepMind has access to the details of all patients who have stayed overnight at Barnet, Chase Farm or Royal Free Hospitals or attended A&E over the past five years. It is not clear exactly how many patients this covers. The company will also be given information on a monthly basis relating to all inpatients and those attending casualty until 2017.
Although patients can theoretically opt out of their information being passed on in such a way, they would firstly need to be aware such arrangements exist. They would then need to contact the hospital’s data protection officer in writing to make a specific request.
…………AND THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY JEREMY CUNT IS FUCKING UP OUR BELOVED NHS
I like Google-but I don’t want it to have my medical records.
Even if it works does everybody have a smart phone on which to use the app? Presumably it only runs on the Android operating system?
NAT WEST BACKS DOWN ON FREEZING RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCY RT, AS MOSCOW THREATENS TO SHUT DOWN BBC
A state-owned British bank appears to have backed down from its threat to close the account of a television station accused of running propaganda for Vladimir Putin.
NatWest, a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), sparked an outcry in Moscow after it sent a letter to to Russia Today which announced the closure of the broadcaster’s British bank account. No reason was given.
It is understood that Moscow responded to the threat by claiming it would freeze the BBC’s finances in Russia and report Britain to international watchdogs for violating Russia’s right to freedom of speech.
Over the next 24 hours, the bank appeared to change its mind and announced in a later statement that the decision to close Russia Today’s account was under review.
“These decisions are not taken lightly,” an RBS spokesman said. “We are reviewing the situation and are contacting the customer to discuss this further. The bank accounts remain open and are still operative.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/18/natwest-backs-down-over-threat-to-freeze-russia-todays-bank-acco/
………….I wish Nat West would shut down the BBC as well
Geoff – Yes, that would be a good thing. Good for Russia for threatening to shut down the BBC in Moscow!
Also (off topic now”) if anyone on here can have a look at a re-run of Channel 4 News (7 PM) this evening, there is a really good interview with Ken Loach (re the film I, Daniel Blake) and Tory MP for Spelthorne, Kwasi Kwarteng. Ken Loach did a sterling job in explaining what happens re the bullying/sanctioning/1 million+ foodbank handouts and cruel benefits system that we now have in Britain. Kwarteng meanwhile, largely (but not wholly), pooh-poohed what Loach said and made out, as usual, that the Government was running the economy well, employment was up and it is now ‘not as bad for people as in 2012, during the previous ‘downturn’.
Kwarteng obviously doesn’t know much about what is happening and, largely through his loft position as a pampered M.P. – he probably does not really give a tuppeny shit anyway.
It’s so funny to think that the majority of the UK public believe either RT or BBC are telling the truth. The fact is all news is propaganda in some form or other. All governments and their corporate lackey’s who run the so called free media pump out the agenda of the day. Did anyone see the fuss made over the Russian Aircraft carrier going through the North Sea on its way to the med. It was hilarious to hear what a terrible threat this is. The Russian navy with one old aircraft carrier is a threat to the USA with 10 aircraft carriers. Who are they trying to kid? You only have to do a quick search on fighting capacity of Russia and USA to see the USA has them at a huge disadvantage with conventional weaponry. The problem begins when the war kicks off and one side is defeated, has nothing left to lose and only has nuclear weapons left.
If anyone wants to see how low the bottom feeding concerning IP can get check out:
https://popehat.com/2013/11/06/another-hammer-drops-on-prenda-law/
https://popehat.com/2016/05/25/fbi-actively-investigating-prenda-law-team-for-fraud/
The Saga is long and involved: Fraud on Federal Courts, Id theft & Fraud, shakedowns, threats, all the lovely stuff shady lawyers do…
Most amusing:
https://popehat.com/2015/05/04/prenda-law-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-appellate-argument/
Enjoy…. I do.
Kwarteng’s career in politics – of course he knows fuck all about the benefits system. He’s a right-wing Tory MP in a Surrey constituency and he also went to Eton! Says it all really does’nt it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwasi_Kwarteng
Even this prick admitted on Channel 4 news last night that welfare reform had led to “some cases of hardship” but that, despite the fact that Labour and Ed Miliband had kicked up a stink about the food bank explosion, the people had re-elected the Conservatives, with a majority, and so tacitly approved of the Tory welfare agenda even if led to millions queuing for nourishment at food banks and similar. “We’re not perfect,” Kwarteng admitted talking about his party “but the government is creating jobs.”
He was appearing with Ken Loach to talk about the release of “I, Daniel Blake” – which has garnered rave reviews – in cinemas despite the fact that he hadn’t actually seen the film. I thought it was significant that even he didn’t try to claim that all was well with the benefits system and that the welfare changes were the best thing since sliced bread and were “getting more people into work and keeping them in work longer” than the system which preceded them.
http://uk.watsupeurope.com/news/ken-loach-life-in-austerity-britain-is-consciously-cruel/
Catch the interview here if interested:
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/201016/clipid/201016_LOACHPAB
“ALL THAT GOVERNMENT HYPE ABOUT LOWEST CRIME FIGURES”
Violence soars with 681 UK murders in just one year
CRIMES involving violence have rocketed by a shocking 24% to more than a million cases in the past year.
Published 20th October 2016
VIOLENCE: Crimes involving violence have rocketed by a shocking 24% to more than a million case
Police forces across Britain recorded 30,000 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument, up 9% on the previous year.
And firearm incidents also climbed by 7% to 5,244, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed.
The 24% rise in overall cases of violence was the highest figure since present recording standards were introduced in 2002.
There were 6.4million incidents of crime, including 681 murders.
………………….but bicycle theft is down
……….but crime figures would rocket if the police followed up Tory election fraud, hidden kiddy fiddlers and the role of IAIN DUNCAN SMITH, DAME CAROL BLACK and LORD DAVID FREUD in claimant deaths…..
It’s a well known fact that countries where the general population is treated with respect and poverty is low with good welfare and health provision are safer, with less crime and better health. However for the greedy people who support the Tory system that would mean giving up a very small portion of their excessive wealth in order to bring this about, and that won’t happen as exploiting and looking down upon others is at the very core of their existence.
Welcome back JV. Really sorry can’t make any reasonable comment about the ‘Internet – New Porn and Copyright Laws Could Criminalise Millions’ stuff as I’m on som new anti-depression meds that blank my mind. I feel like like a zombie.
Hi, SHY. You haven’t written like a zombie. Hopefully this feeling will lessen as your system gets used to them 🙂
Thanks Dissidentdiva,
Second that emotion.
(Off topic!) Now the Tories are after the chemists/pharmacies.
Continuing Tory cuts – is this a plan, by the back door to further weaken health services to the public in order to privatise them!??
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hundreds-chemists-face-closure-tories-9091579
(Off topic!) Marvellous! – another Tory MP, Alan Duncan, with his snout in the financial trough!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/alan-duncan-pay-off-50000-oil-company-minister-tory-mp-a7371796.html
Duncan has previous form. He’s a very dodgy gay Tory.
“THE TORY MAGGOT”
historydoctor
On 8 January 1994, Alan Duncan resigned as Parliamentary Private Secretary after it was revealed that he had acquired a council house at a reduced price by exploiting a government programme to increase home ownership by the underprivileged. (Wikipedia – Back to Basic campaign)
Within weeks it emerged that he had lent his elderly next door neighbour money so that he could buy his home under the right-to-buy legislation.
The neighbour bought the 18th century council house at a significant discount and sold it to Mr Duncan just over three years later. In the ensuing furore, Mr Duncan resigned from his ministerial position.(Daily Telegraph)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5304976/Alan-Duncan-claimed-thousands-for-gardening-MPs-expenses.html
“TORY CUTS FUEL HUGE RISE IN A&E ADMISSIONS”
Tory cuts have led to a 72% rise in A&E admissions for mental health problems.
Policies such as the benefits cap and Bedroom Tax have plunged needy families into poverty, sparking an epidemic of depression and self harm.
Hospital emergency units, with budgets already slashed to breaking point, had to deal with an extra 67,000 psychiatric patients in 2015.
And police are now spending over a third of their time on mental health incidents with call-outs up 8% last year.
One suicidal woman was left in A&E for 19 hours because not a single mental health bed was available in the entire country.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brutal-tory-cuts-lead-massive-9093021
Geoff – 5,000 mental health nurse jobs
have been cut by the Tories since 2010.
“TORY MINISTERS, MORDAUNT AND GREEN TELL LIES ABOUT PIP IN THE COMMONS BUT REFUSE TO APOLOGISE”
In the space of just 20 minutes, work and pensions secretary Damian Green and minister for disabled people Penny Mordaunt both misled the House of Commons about how personal independence payment (PIP) was affecting disabled people.
The first House of Commons work and pensions questions after the break for party conferences saw about 20 questions from MPs across the main parties with concerns about the way PIP was operating, far more than for any other issue.
In one answer, Mordaunt told MPs that under PIP – compared with disability living allowance (DLA), which it is replacing for working-age claimants – “more people are entitled to use the Motability scheme”.
But Motability’s own figures show that of their customers who have been reassessed for PIP so far, 44 per cent have lost their entitlement to the scheme and have had to hand their vehicles back.
Responding to another question on PIP, Green told MPs on Monday that “many more people are eligible to receive PIP than were eligible to receive disability living allowance”.
But the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) own figures from June showed that only about seven in 10 disabled people who were previously claiming DLA were being found eligible for PIP.
The DWP figures showed just 71 per cent of DLA recipients who applied for PIP were successful with their claim in April 2016, once withdrawn claims were excluded.
PIP was introduced with the intention – announced by chancellor George Osborne in his 2010 emergency budget – of cutting the number of working-age claimants by 20 per cent.
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2016/10/21/ministerial-duo-face-questions-after-misleading-mps-over-pip/
Al Doyle @aldoyletweets
#Child #Refugees don’t look young enough. #Disabled people don’t look disabled enough; #Poor people don’t look poor enough: These are bases for policy.
#Affluent people don’t look affluent enough (yet).
“ATLANTIC HOTLINE BUZZING AS RUSSIAN WARSHIPS GAZE DOWN ON OUR DEPLETED NAVY DEFENCES”
……………Who left those canoes out?
The mandarins in Whitehall will be in panic mode as the flotilla of Russian naval vessels casts a big dark shadow upon our miniscule coracles of mass destruction………..
Yankee pro war experts will be monitoring and advising on each and every possibility with the possibility of a Belgrano move that could lead to an all out war……….
It didn’t matter that the Belgrano was outside the Falklands territorial waters exclusion zone when Thatcher realised her claim to world fame was knocking on the door.
A single stupid error could trigger trigger the beginning of Armageddon and the Yanks are just the right people to do it.
Trident missiles would take out the South coast, the Channel islands and Normandy, what a marvellous deterrent………..
…………BREXIT COULD COME QUICKER THAN ANYONE THINKS
“MOD PROPAGANDA”
Machine guns at the ready, terrifying armed soldiers stare at Dover locals from on board a Russian military ship just off the British coast today.
As these extraordinary photographs show, the Russian personnel were clad in bullet-proof vests and helmets as the pointed their automatic weapons towards English soil.
……MUST HAVE BEEN USING HIGH POWERED BINOCULARS
Geoff – Propaganda indeed! In the footage that I have seen, there seems to be no ‘imminent threat of action towards the British Isles from these Russian vessels – including the carrier’!
A ‘typical’ task group traversing a stretch of water, en-route to somewhere (as supposed, most probably the Meditteranean to take part in action in Syria) posing no ‘threat’ as such to anyone along the way!
Their 2 ‘versions’ of the ‘American’s F-15’s are parked on the forward end of the flight deck – if they were ordered to become airborne, they would need to traverse the entire length of it first!
It’s just lucky that they have not gone anywhere near the coast of the U.S.
The U.S. would probably have opened fire on them first and asked the relevant questions later. Uncle Sam is very trigger happy, as we have seen in so many ‘wars’ over the years – mostly though affecting other Countries territories!
“DWP REALIZE THAT IF YOU CAN SQUEEZE SOMEONES THUMB, YOU HAVEN’T GOT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS”
……The miracle finding of a 21 hour disability specialist induction course using role players.
A severely disabled mum-of-two who struggles to walk more than a few metres has had her mobility allowance axed – because she can squeeze someone’s THUMB.
Mel Wiseman, 43, suffers from debilitating multiple sclerosis (MS) and is unable to walk unaided for more than five metres.
She qualified for disability benefits but has now had her £87-a-month personal independence payment (PIP) cut.
Assessors from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) visited her at home in July and decided she was no longer eligible for PIP.
Bizarrely, the decision was made after Mel, from Leicester, demonstrated to officials that she was able to squeeze someone’s thumb.
http://swns.com/news/mum-who-suffers-from-ms-has-benefits-cut-because-she-can-squeeze-someones-thumb-76513/
A DWP spokesman said: “Decisions on personal independence payment are made following the consideration of all information provided by the claimant, including any supporting evidence from their GP or medical specialist.
“A claimant who disagrees with the outcome of their assessment can appeal and if their situation changes, can ask to be reassessed.”
………….”KEEP ON BURYING YOUR MISTAKES”
The porno sites (and any others using an age-verification for access) will see there (UK) traffic fall through the floor. Once a potential visitor comes up against a ‘roadblock’ which hinders their access they will just close the browser or go to another site.
The age verification being talked about is almost certainly via ISPs, i.e., you prove your age to your ISP once and request any “adult lock” to be removed after which you can view pretty much any material available online. I can’t see any other way this could be affordably done. So I would imagine your ISP would need a credit card number (debit cards can be had by under eighteen year olds and won’t do), or a passport number, or driving license number, or, I suppose a national insurance number, or whatever to cross match you identity to your chronological age. If they get really pissy you might have to take documentary evidence to a local shop or office to be inspected, copied, and verified.
Annoying but not the end of the world, As somebody mentioned earlier this is already common practice with mobile broadband services. Here’s an example:
https://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Data-on-the-go/Content-Control-How-can-I-get-it-removed/td-p/400914
They tried this shit before. It was to be a case of an automatic opt-out for ‘adult’ content and if you wanted access to ‘adult’ material you would have to ‘phone your ISP and ask to be added to the ‘pervert list’. There was such a furor that the Government had to back down and leave it to ISPs to offer optional ‘parental controls’ which only a tiny minority of customer opt in to in any case. So the Governement is only really re-visiting the same old shit then. The never give up, do they.
“Hi, is there any other way apart going to a shop to remove the Content Control on my mobile dongle, I called up vodafone but as I only have debit cards, and not any credit cards they told me they could not remove it, thanks.” – A lot of the ‘adult’ population don’t have a credit card!
This is the ONE reason that a lot of peeps don’t bother with mobile broadband. Do the mobile broadband providers realise how much business they are losing because of this shit!?
On the off chance that anybody reading these words wants to use unrestricted mobile broadband I know for a fact that Three comes without any adult lock. So if you’ve got an unlocked dongle (or a Three dongle) stick a Three SIM in it and away you go! And if you don’t register it and only top it up with vouchers bought in garages and shops nobody will know who is using it. A lot of the Three network is already 4G so if you’ve got a forth generation device it’s bloody fast too.
Yeah, having to ID yourself to have an ‘adult lock’ removed kind of defeats the whole point of pay-as-you-go… 😉
“HERMES WORKERS PAID £1.50 MORE THAN LORD FREUD WANTED TO GIVE THE DISABLED”
“I feel like we are now being listened to,” said one Hermes courier in Manchester, Marie, 42, who estimates she earns £3.50 per hour after expenses. “My customers are asking me if it’s true I am earning less than the minimum wage and when I say ‘Yes’, they are disgusted.”
Reblogged this on Wessex Solidarity.
“DWP START TO TWITCH AS EXTENT OF DOCTORED PACE TRIAL STUDIES EMERGE”
…….BENEFITS REFUSED BECAUSE OF TAINTED EVIDENCE
Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
UK tribunal orders release of data from controversial chronic fatigue syndrome study
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court caseA tribunal in the UK has rejected an appeal by Queen Mary University of London, who sought to reverse a previous order that they release data from a controversial 2011 paper in The Lancet about chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
The decision is one in a long series of judgments about the so-called PACE trial, which reported that two treatments — known as cognitive behavioral therapy and graded exercise therapy — helped alleviate the symptoms of the condition. But ever since The Lancet article and follow-up papers have been published, patients and critics have questioned the conclusions and clamored to see the raw data.
The main criticisms: The findings may prompt some to believe chronic fatigue is a mental, not a physical, disorder, and the PACE program could actually be harmful to patients by encouraging too much exercise. These criticisms were recently bolstered by a re-analysis of the evidence by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which downgraded its original conclusions about the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy and graded exercise therapy.
In March 2014, Alem Matthees petitioned Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) — home of some of the authors of the PACE trial — to release the anonymized patient data behind The Lancet paper, under the UK’s Freedom of Information Act. QMUL refused, citing concerns doing so would “prejudice its research.”
http://retractionwatch.com/2016/08/17/uk-tribunal-orders-release-of-data-from-controversial-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-study/
FOR THOSE NOT FAMILIAR
…….THE UK GOVERNMENT PAID £6 MILLION TO FUND RESEARCH INTO CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME.
THEY TOLD THE SUFFERERS IT WAS ALL IN THE MIND.
THE NHS OFFERED CBT, (COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY), GET YOUR MIND RIGHT LUKE………..
It has long been the theory of a group of psychiatrists who call themselves the “biopsychosocial” school of medicine that CBT, combined with graded exercise (together called CBT/GET) does not simply help patients with this disease – it CURES them. The theory is based on the assumption that the symptoms experienced by the patient cannot be explained by physiological evidence. Rather, the patient has “false illness beliefs” that are reinforced by deconditioning caused by “playing the sick role.” For two decades they have claimed that ten weeks of CBT, to teach the patient she really isn’t sick (and it is always a “she”), combined with ten weeks of graded exercise to get her back into condition, will return the patient to normal functioning. [In recent years they have dialed back both the conviction that a cure will be achieved in ten weeks, and that all patients can be cured by it.] At the same time, CBT/GET has become the ONLY treatment offered by NHS, with unfortunate consequences for many patients (in polls, over 70% of CFS and ME patients who have undergone CBT/GET have said that it made them worse, often permanently worse).
THIS BEHAVIOURAL CLAPTRAP SCIENCE WAS PUSHED BY NONE OTHER THAN THE DETESTABLE, LORD DAVID FREUD, TO PARLIAMENT…….
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL SCIENCE IS THE FOUNDATION OF WELFARE REFORM EXAMINATIONS THAT HAS BEEN USED TO STRIP BENEFITS FROM THE DISABLED, FIND THE SICK FIT FOR WORK AND KILL CLAIMANTS.
THE ONLY treatment offered by NHS, with unfortunate consequences for many patients (in polls, over 70% of CFS and ME patients who have undergone CBT/GET have said that it made them worse, often permanently worse).
…………BUT IT SAVED THE TREASURY A FORTUNE IN DISABILITY DENIAL ON AN EPIC SCALE
……………AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE UK GOVERNMENT DO,
GET EVIDENCE FROM A SKEWED SOURCE
DISTORT THE FINDINGS
PRESENT IT AS FACT TO PARLIAMENT
FUCK THE CLAIMANTS OVER, BIG STYLE
WITHHOLD COMPLAINTS TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
DIRECT THE JUDICIARY TO IGNORE HUMAN RIGHTS/EQUALITY AND DISABILITY CASE LAW
SIT BACK AND HIDE THE MORTALITY FIGURES
BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL CLAPTRAP WAS DEVISED BY THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY TO DENY BENEFITS TO PERSONS SUFFERING WITH ME AND OTHER ASSOCIATED AILMENTS.
UNUM PROVIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY WAS FINED IN EXCESS OF $34 MILLION IN THE US FOR DISABILITY DENIAL.
THE DWP ARE USING THE SAME DISCREDITED FINDINGS TO STEAL UK BENEFITS.
The Supreme Court in Pakistan has ruled that schizophrenia is not a mental illness, paving the way for the execution of a paranoid schizophrenic man convicted of murder.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37731083
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37731083
The Supreme Court in P*akistan has ruled that schizophrenia is not a mental illness, paving the way for the execution of a paranoid schizophrenic man convicted of murder.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37731083
lol P*akistan is on the ‘naughty’ word list 😀
IDS cannot bear to see further ‘hardship’ being foisted upon Universal Credit claimants – I don’t believe it – there must be something in it for him!
“Theresa May faces backlash over planned cuts to in-work benefits”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/21/theresa-may-tory-backlash-cuts-in-work-benefits-universal-credit
From executioner to angel, the act of a very frightened man Paul….
Geoff – Yes, exactly the same thought crossed my mind as well!
It’s only the working poor they’re worried about. As far as the non-working poor are concerned, well, let’s put it this way, if we have a bitterly cold winter that cuts a swathe through the unemployed, sick, disabled and single parents it would be welcomed privately, by many a Conservative, as a natural cull by the elements of non-working benefit claimants, who probably wouldn’t end up joining the ranks of the “hard working” any time soon. From Iain Duncan Smith’s perspective deaths like these would probably be regarded as an act of God rather than any failing in social policy.
Reblogged this on Citizens, not serfs.
Whilst the Nation goes indescribably mad about the ‘acts’ on Strictly Come Dancing and the X-Factor and some unknown ‘actress’ places one teddy bear in amongst a host of other ‘teddy bears’ outside of the gates of Parliament, to represent those poor unfortunate children who have been killed (by both and all sides) in the current ‘war’ in Syria – please do not forget also those poor unfortunates in this once great Country – who by the actions of private Companies, such as ATOS, MAXIMUS & CAPITA and their despicable ’employees’ – their so-called ‘health-professionals’, – who are comprised of a truly mottley crew of, in particular, ‘physiotherapists’, and lowly ‘nurses’. A murderous crop of shite indeed, wanting not only to make their shameful names with their respective ‘Companies’, but also to fully support their ‘Employers’ and their proxy & phony friends – the DWP – (another bunch of murderers of the innocent – fully supported by ‘Lord Freud and his Conservative paymasters) and in the process, to make as much money as possible in ‘bonuses’.
Further, – it is also being repoited this evening that UKIP’s paymaster Banks is going to fully support Naseem Kazeem (?) – a right-wing ‘adviser’ to Nigel Farage to become the next ‘leader’ of UKIP. The ‘Daily Express’ will, no doubt be jubilant at this ‘welcome’ (for some!) news.
In Britain today (unlike what the Tories, The Sun & The Daily Mail will have you believe) – there are people who are virtually starving – through terribly unfair DWP & Tory policies (austerity!) and they are having to go to foodbanks to survive – many are still topping themselves.
Still – not to worry – the ‘Nation’ is still very much engrossed in their weekly Saturday evening fare of Strictly Come Dancing & The X-Factor, whilst also supping their beers and munching on their massively giant takeaway pizzas, whilst waiting eagerly for their next ‘week of work’ to start on Monday of next week!
“OUR NHS IS DEFINITELY UNDER THREAT FROM THE TORIES”
Honestly and in all conscience, do you really want to see OUR NHS PRIVATISED INTO A ‘NOMINAL’ FORM OF THE U.S. BASED ‘OBAMACARE’ – OR A ‘SMITHGLAXOKLEIN’ TYPE OF SUBSIDIARY –
IN THE FUTURE COMPANIES SUCH AS SERCO, CAPITA/ AND/OR G4S COULD SUPPLY YOUR AMBULANCE (NOT TO MENTION ALSO ANOTHER LOAD OF OTHER ‘CHANCER’ AMBULANCE COMPANIES?
In a ‘totally’ privatised N.H.S. Scenario – this is exactly what could happen to you:
Call ‘999’ (Nay – ‘911’ now in the year 2024!)
“What service do you require? – “Ambulance Service please!”
“OK – Is it you, or someone else that requires the Ambulance Service”
It’s me – I’ve got chest pains – I may be having a heart attack!
“Is your Health Insurance valid & can you give me the expiry date on your Health Insurance”
“Fuck off – I don’t know, I am alone and I am in a lot of pain”
“OK – Have you got your Credit Card details and it’s expiry date?”
“Fuck off – I don’t know – I am in a lot of pain and my arm and chest hurts –
the paramedics will have to check me out when they come – I don’t know!”
“OK – Ambulance is on the way – make sure you give them your ‘financial’ details when they arrive at your door”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/21/shocking-nhs-privatisation-plans-hidden-public-now
(P.S. – You definitely wont hear any of this from SKY or the BBC!)
Sorry – that should read “GlaxoSmithKlein”.
The populace of Britain is slowly, inexorably sleepwalking into a time of “Privatised Healthcare”. (very ably supported by our M.P’s/Ministers whom are so fully involved with the ‘Healthcare Companies’ that even if anyone asked them directly, they could not give them a direct answer – as normal!)
Our ‘NHS’ is now definitely and increasingly up for grabs by the biggest and most lucrative of the “Healthcare Companies/Conglomerates” – our G.P.’s are going to be steadily ‘underfunded’ so that in the future (just like Dentists – and who can really blame them – due to their NHS patient cuts in funding – most of them are now private!) they will go more private too – the ‘patients’ who can pay the most will get the ‘best’ treatment and it is these that will be ‘prioritised’ to get the best and the most effective treatment possible.
If you are low paid or you are ‘out of work’ – then you will, most probably just have to either ‘put up with it’ and medicate yourselves the best that you can and then, hope for the best.
“I can’t afford the antibiotics to tackle the infection that I have – but, if I am lucky, my bodily defences will overcome the infection – or, if not, sepsis and/or blood poisoning will occur and then I will slowly, but surely die”
Incidentally, it is also totally shameful (in a so-called ‘democracy’) that so many M.P.’s (More than 245 of them in the House of Commons alone – of various Parties, but by more than any other – the Tories) have so many interests/shares/consultancies/company interests in “Healthcare Companies” – NOT LEAST, THE CURRENT CONSERVATIVE HEALTH MINISTER – JEREMY HUNT AND ALSO THE CURRENT CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER PHILIP HAMMOND.
The Conservatives want to see our NHS privatised – and at the moment, there is really absolutely nothing to stop them from doing just that.
THE OTHER ‘PARTIES’ ARE A HORSECART LOAD OF SHITE THAT CANNOT, AT THE PRESENT MOMENT STOP THE TORIES FROM TOTALLY PRIVATISING OUR MOST PRIZED SERVICE – THE NHS.
Since when the fuck was so-called NHS dentistry free? You have to pay a ‘contribution’ i..e the full cost. Got screwed for over £233 knicker for a fucking crown on the NHS. Thank fuck for our much cherished and ‘free’ NHS. What a crock of shit.
And that’s a gold one. It costs £335 knicker for a ‘tooth-coloured’ one even in a front-facing tooth – on the fucking N-H-fucking-S! Thank fuck the ‘free’ NHS.
And don’t even think about going fucking ‘private’, This country is like fucking America. You have to take insurance – only it doesn’t cover jack-shit. It’s the same in fucking Oz. Had a relative with a screwed up gallbladder. The only way to get it fixed is ‘elective surgery’ i.e. you/the surgeon choose, in other words a non-emergency/non-life threatening situation. The only way to it treated for ‘free’/through insurance is when you are at writhing in agony/deaths door and the procedure will likely kill you. The NHS will leave you in agony too, say your condition is ‘un-treatable’ or whatever. The NHS is not all it is cracked up to be!
Just to underline – medical insurance does not cover ‘elective surgery’. Its all a great big crock of shit!
The same thing will happen with ambulances like what already happens in Poland (and no doubt other places). The ambulance crew do deals with the undertakers. It is a race to get you in the back of the ambulance and snuffed out. It is like when Working Links entered the welfare sphere. And nobody cared about their shady business practices… well, because they weren’t unemployed. Of course peeps were saying at the time that in the near future we would see Medical Links spring up with the same ‘business ethics’ applied to medicine. And this is what is happening the same anything-for-a-quick buck that has long since been over-riding practice in the welfare-work-industry is now like a parasite taking over healthcare. If you want a glimpse into the future of your ‘healthcare’ take a look at how Working Links and any of the other welfare-to-workfare parasite operate.
“A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PSYCHOTIC KILLER”
Duncan Smith wrote: “I was very sorry to read of your father’s death. I offer my sincere condolences to you and your family at this time.
“I know nothing I can say will do anything to ease the pain of losing your father, but I’d like to explain why the Government’s reforms to the sickness benefits system are so important and how much work we’re doing to make the process as fair as possible.
“I know this will be a difficult time for you and I’m grateful this was brought to my attention.”
Iain Duncan Smith blasted on Question Time over Kieran McArdle
The letter is machine- printed on DWP paper, with the only sign of humanity an illegible scrawl – presumably Duncan Smith’s signature
Kieran had hoped for an apology and an explanation for his dad’s treatment that would have given hime some closure.
Brian was left paralysed from a stroke on Boxing Day last year. But he was still ordered to an Atos “work capability assessment” – part of the Con-Dem Government’s bid to cut billions in benefits.
A month later, Brian got a letter telling him he would lose his disability benefits on September 26. The day after his benefits were axed, Brian collapsed and died.
……………..THE POLICE HAVE BEEN TOLD TO LOOK AWAY
Geoff – That ‘letter’ really says it all.
IDS – a repentant psychopathic murderer who, in all intents and ‘his’ morality is doing nothing to recompense this poor family as to what they have gone through – IDS’s real intent is ‘TO SAVE MONEY TO THE PUBLIC COFFERS’ (by killing people, but not admitting to it!) and to save his friend George Osborne any embarrassment at all)
THE FUCKING BASTARD THAT IS THE PREVIOUS DWP ‘MINISTER FOR WORKS & PENSIONS’ – ‘IAIN GEORGE DUNCAN SMITH’ is still, nevertheless, being ‘investigated’ (together with his friend and confidant, Chris Grayling) by Police Scotland – for ‘Derelictions in his Public Duty’ by, allegedly, ignoring a ‘Coroners Report(s)’ into the alleged ‘deaths of claimants’.
IAIN GEORGE DUNCAN SMITH CANNOT, IN ANY WAY, GET AWAY FROM HIS ‘LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES’, WHILST HE WAS AN OFFICIAL CONSERVATIVE MINISTER FOR WORKS AND PENSIONS FOR THE ‘CLAIMANTS’; UNDER HIS OFFICIAL DEPARTMENT’S ‘CARE’.
He, and he alone, is (in law) responsible for any deaths under his ‘stewardship’ of his ‘DWP’. That is, and will always remain, until his eventual ‘death’ – ‘his’ and ‘his alone’s’ responsibility.
“G4S SERIAL ABUSERS GET PAID A BONUS”
Senior managers at a privately run children’s jail received bonuses this year despite the prison being taken out of their hands following allegations of abuse. The managers received performance-related pay awards in April, weeks after the chief inspector of prisons said that “managerial oversight failed to protect young people from harm at the jail”.
https://www.facebook.com/ATOSM/
“YET ANOTHER LYING CAPITA HEALTH PROFESSIONAL”
……21 HOUR CLASSROOM EXPERT
A benefits assessor working for the outsourcing company Capita repeatedly “lied” in her report, after carrying out a face-to-face assessment of a disabled nurse which was observed by her husband, a retired GP.
The disabled woman and her husband have asked not to be named – so their claims have not been put to Capita or the Department for Work and Pensions – but they have provided proof to Disability News Service (DNS) that they are both on their respective professional registers.
They believe the behaviour of the Capita assessor, herself a registered nurse, makes her unfit to remain in her profession.
Although DNS has received a string of credible reports from disabled people who say their benefits assessors lied in reports written after face-to-face medical assessments, this account is particularly credible because the behaviour was witnessed by both a nurse and a doctor.
The woman, Mrs A, lodged a complaint with Capita even before she knew the result of the test because she and her husband were so appalled that last month’s assessment at their home in south Wales was so rushed, impersonal and poorly carried out, and ignored key questions.
……..NO WONDER THE DWP TRY THEIR UTMOST TO STOP CLAIMANT RECORDINGS
“HOMELESS MAN FOUND DEAD IN TENT IN CHURCHYARD”
Sadly the 48–year–old’s body was found in a tent by Northumbria Police on Sunday.
A spokesman said: “On Sunday, October 16 police were informed that a man had been found dead inside a tent in the churchyard of St Nicholas’.
“No third party is believed to have been involved,
“A report has been prepared for the coroner.”
Michael had become a popular figure within the community.
One resident, who did not wish to be named, had befriended Michael and helped him get a tent and the bike he was often seen riding round on through local charity Community Corner.
She said: “Michael was very popular and lots of people stopped to speak to him.
“Everyone in Boldon knew him or knew of him, whether it be the sandwich shop, the barbers or in the pub
“It really saddens me to think that in this day and age people are dying alone in tents.
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/homeless-man-found-dead-inside-a-tent-in-church-graveyard-1-8192235
………….THE NORTHRN POORHOUSE
“DWP SHUNS EASY QUESTION”
Trudy Baddams 24 September 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
What is the percentage of wrong disability decisions in the UK in 2015/16
Yours faithfully,
Trudy Baddams
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/what_is_the_percentage_of_wrong#incoming-875214
(Off-topic) – Insider (myself) military (Royal Navy) intelligence!
Well – is this really a surprise? – No – of course it is not!
The U.K. & the U.S. sells masses of arms annually to Saudi Arabia.
Both of these Countries are the Saudi’s friends (NOT TO FORGET OIL!)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/saudi-arabia-yemen-conflict-bombing-latest-uk-training-pilots-alleged-war-crimes-7375551.html
SKY NEWS re Mosul – Do not believe what you are told – it is very likely that ISIL are putting up a huge resistance. It is also very likely that ISIS are holding very many civilians as a so-called human shield.
The so-called (in my own opinion – tomorrow Sunday – and most probably Sunday night!) a major ‘offensive’ on MOSUL will, most likely involve a massive ‘COALITION AIR STRIKE’. They will bomb them to hell. Just you wait and see!
THIS IS BRITAIN 2016
Beautiful music. Ugly truths.
Anyone know how to rig or re-program a clocking-in palm scanner so it not only scams the company out of thousands but also so it can work in my favour?
Woah there, Tiger! work pissing you off?
“THERE IS NO LINK TO CLAIMANT DEATHS AND DWP POLICY”
‘We were wrong’: Government admits it should not have axed disability benefits of Asperger’s sufferer who starved to death just five months later weighing five-and-a-half stone
Mark Wood, 44, weighed 5.5st when he died after Atos cut his benefits
Had more than 7 illnesses including Asperger’s but told he was ‘fit to work’
Ordered to find employment and given just £40 a week to live on
Died of malnutrition after 5 months, his GP claims benefit cut ‘pushed him’
Today Department for Work and Pensions told family the cut was ‘incorrect’
David Cameron branded case ‘tragic’ and backed urgent review into Atos
……………………YET THE GOVERNMENT ADMIT THEY WERE WRONG …
“HOW TO KILL A BABY”
…………A DWP NEW LOW
A baby bank founder has posted an emotional video Online after receiving a heartbreaking call from a Coatbridge mother who had no food for her two-year-old.
Bernadette Murphy, who established the Lanarkshire Baby Bank, shared the tearful video with her Facebook friends.
She said: “I just took a really sad call from a mum who has a two-year-old and she has absolutely no food for him.
“She is actually sitting in the Citizens Advice office just now in Coatbridge because she has got no food, nappies- anything for this wee boy.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14817854._This_is_breaking_my_heart___Emotional_video_makes_desperate_plea_for_food_for_Scots_toddler/?ref=fbshr
“Her benefits have been sanctioned for four months and I just felt so sorry for her.
“COMMENTS ON A DWP PIP MEDICAL EXAMINATION REPORT”
OBSERVATIONS
SHE BROWSES THE INTERNET, WATCHES A MOVIE, SHE HAS ONLINE BANKING.
…….AND ALL UNDER THE HEADING OF “HOBBIES”
ABLE TO REMEMBER THREE OBJECTS FIRST TIME (NORMAL)
……….a fascinating insight into the disability denial computer programme favoured by the DWP to steal bonafide benefits.
Ministry of Defence accused of deliberately providing soldiers with shabby housing
……….GIVE THEM A SHIT HOLE AND THEY WON’T BE FUSSY ABOUT LEAVING AS WE SELL THE MILITARY HOUSING STOCK TO OUR FRIENDS IN THE CITY.
The Ministry of Defence has been accused of deliberately providing poor quality housing for soldiers and their families – so it can save money by moving them out.
MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan said the MoD was letting family accommodation “degrade”, so that a planned new system of housing looks more attractive.
Speaking in the House of Commons, she criticised plans to move armed forces personnel and their families into privately-rented homes, or to help them buy their own home.
It would mean that the MoD provided funding to pay their housing costs, rather than directly providing housing at a highly subsidised rent as it does now.
Mrs Trevelyan, Conservative MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, said the policy was an attempt to save money.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/ministry-defence-accused-deliberately-providing-12057974
The land is one of dozens of sites sold by the MOD in the past five years to help the Government fulfill its promise to build thousands of new homes to address Britain’s housing crisis.
But a Dispatches investigation into why so few of those promised homes have been built revealed that fewer than half of those former MOD sites have planning applications.
A MOD spokesperson told Dispatches: “We’ve already made £500 million through land sales and around 5,000 houses are currently being built on that land. Sometimes we sell land without planning permission. That’s so we stop spending taxpayer money on maintaining a site we don’t need and spend it on things like our new fighter jets or aircraft carriers instead.”
Discussing why the MOD had sold some of its land so cheaply, Mr Redman said: “That really smacks to me that either they’re going too fast, and trying to sell too quickly, or they’re not using the kind of commercial expertise that is necessary in the property world to try and get the best value for the land for the taxpayer.”
The MOD claim to have sold off enough land between 2011 and 2015 for an estimated 39,000 homes, but Dispatches found only 64 had been completed and that less than a quarter of the homes to be built will be affordable.
Property developer makes £4million after buying Bath land undervalued by Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence to sell Middlewick Ranges near Colchester
Ministry of Defence to sell RAF Henlow and two other WWII airfields
RAF Alconbury and Molesworth to be sold off for housing by Ministry of Defence
etc etc etc
…………..ALL THESE PROMISES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON THESE SITE. WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT….
“HOW TO BEAT THE PIP COMPUTER GENERATED CLAPTRAP”
http://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/docs/pdf/g/guideclaimpip.pdf
Shocking rise in Brits being admitted to hospital because they are MALNOURISHED
……….ALL PART OF THE TORY MOVE TO HIVE OFF THE WELFARE STATE TO THEIR COLLEAGUES IN THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY
The number of people so malnourished they need hospital treatment has QUADRUPLED in 10 years.
In a shocking indictment of the nation’s food poverty , more than 16,000 cases of malnutrition were reported in hospitals in England last year, an average of 45 every day.
More than 900 of these cases were classed as severe – meaning patients were in danger of starving to death.
But these alarming NHS figures are just the extreme tip of an iceberg of misery and deprivation as GPs treat thousands more poverty-stricken patients for malnutrition.
Campaigners blame spiralling food prices, falling wages and ruthless benefits cuts and sanctions.
Simon Capewell, professor of public health at Liverpool University and vice president of the Faculty of Public Health, said: “It is a national scandal.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shocking-rise-brits-being-admitted-9106672
“DWP CLAIM EXEMPTION ON RELEASING INFORMATION REGARDING UK WELFARE POLICY AND ITS EFFECTS”
UN investigation into abuses of human rights of the disabled through government “welfare reforms”
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#comment-73761
“WHAT ARE THEY SO DESPERATE TO HIDE?”
Why the privacy conscious should NOT use Microsoft Windows.
http://www.techworm.net/2014/10/microsofts-windows-10-permission-watch-every-move.html
“DWP USING EVERY DIRTY, TRICK IN THE BOOK TO WITHHOLD PACE MEDICAL TRIAL INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC”
PACE TRIAL STUDIES ARE THE BASIS OF WELFARE REFORM WORK ASSESSMENT TESTS
MAIN RESEARCHERS HAD LINKS TO PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE INDUSTRY
“IN THE EXPECTATION OF RECOVERY”
|
THE PoLITICS oF DIST
oRTED RESEARCH
A REPORT FROM THE CENTRE FOR WELFARE REFORM
22
The Politics of Distorted
Research
Ongoing attempts to dismiss concerns and avoid
releasing data
Troubled by the way results from the PACE trial were released, patient organisations
made a joint Freedom of Information request for the results of those outcome measures
laid out in the trial’s protocol but not published in the trial’s initial paper.
[20,37,69]
The
response to this stated that the results for the protocol’s recovery criteria were exempt
from the Freedom of Information Act as they would soon be published in an academic
journal.
[66]
This turned out not to be true. A later FOI request for these recovery results
was refused by stating that the PACE team had not calculated these results and therefore:
“the requested data relating to the recovery rates and positive outcomes do not
exist
THE UK GOVERNMENT, LED BY A TEAM OF PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE REPRESENTATIVES, CONCOCTED MEDICAL EVIDENCE THAT STOLE DISABILITY BENEFITS.
THE DWP HAVE PAID UNKNOWN THOUSANDS OF POUNDS TRYING TO KEEP THE PACE TRIAL EVIDENCE A SECRET.
http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/uploads/attachment/492/in-the-expectation-of-recovery.pdf
“THREE CROOKS WORKING ON BEHALF OF THE PRIVATE INSURANCE INDUSTRY, FALSIFIED MEDICAL RESEARCH IN ORDER FOR THE DWP TO STEAL DISABILITY BENEFITS”
Conflicts of Interest
The failure to release results for the pre-specified analyses laid out in the PACE trial’s
protocol is of particular note as concerns had already been expressed about the
ideological biases of the trial’s three principal investigators. All three have built their
careers upon the development of biopsychosocial interventions for CFS, and the two who
had been part of the Chief Medical Officer’s CFS working group both resigned because
the active biopsychosocial approaches of CBT and GET were not endorsed over ‘pacing’
in the way that they had wanted.
[84-86]
The trial’s protocol reported that “all staff involved
in the PACE trial recorded their expectations as to which intervention would be most
efficacious”
[37]
, and while this data has yet to be released it seems reasonable to assume
that the trial’s principal investigators favoured CBT and GET.
All three principal investigators also reported conflicts of interest involving the
insurance industry.
[20]
There has long been concern about private insurance companies
influencing changes to the UK welfare state, a system of social insurance that they must
compete against.
[8,87-90]
These concerns seem likely to continue following reports of
David Cameron’s interest in encouraging individuals to fund their own unemployment
or sickness benefits privately through financial products.
[91,92]
When Michael O’Donnell
was the Chief Medical Officer at Unum insurance (and before he moved on to Atos, and
then Maximus
[90]
), he wrote an internal document promoting the biopsychosocial model
and claiming that Unum’s thinking, along with that of their close associates, was driving
government policy.
[93,94]
More recently Unum funded a report from the think-tank Demos
which encouraged the UK government to use private financial products to supplement
social welfare.
……………THE RELEASE OF THE PACE TRIAL INFORMATION WOULD MEAN THE DWP COULD BE SUED AND ALL SEIZED DISABILITY BENEFITS PAID BACK TO CLAIMANTS…….
THE DWP ARE FIGHTING TOOTH AND NAIL FOR NON DISCLOSURE…
“WORK IS GOOD FOR YOU”………according to the private health insurance companies who funded the UK governments research…
A REPORT FROM THE CENTRE FOR WELFARE REFORM
In 2006 a Parliamentary All Party Group inquiry into CFS/ME claimed that:
“There have been numerous cases where advisors to the DWP have also had
consultancy roles in medical insurance companies. Particularly the company
UNUM Provident. Given the vested interest private medical insurance companies
have in ensuring CFS/ME remain classified as a psychosocial illness there is
blatant conflict of interest here. The Group find this to be an area for serious
concern and recommends a full investigation of this possibility by the appropriate
standards body.
ON THIS MORNINGS BBC NEWS IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE ACADEMY OF ROYAL MEDICAL COLLEGES SAY THAT IT IS UNNECESSARY FOR PEOPLE WITH LOWER BACK PAIN TO HAVE X RAYS.
……………..THE ROYAL MEDICAL COLLEGES ARE THE VERY CULPRITS WHO FIDDLED THE PACE TRIALS THAT THEY ARE SO DESPERATE TO HIDE.
HALF A MILLION POUNDS ALREADY SQUANDERED ON LEGAL FEES TO KEEP THE RESULTS FROM THE PUBLIC.
THEY DONT WANT YOU TO HAVE X RAYS FOR LOWER BACK MUSCULO SKELETAL CONDITIONS BECAUSE IT WOULD GIVE YOU THE EVIDENCE YOU NEED TO PURSUE A DISABILITY CLAIM……
THEY ARE ALL PISSING IN THE SAME POT.
THE ACADEMY OF ROYAL MEDICAL COLLEGES ARE RELATED TO THE FACULTY FOR OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FACULTY FOR OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE USED TO BE BILL GUNNYEON WHO WAS CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER FOR THE DWP
GUNNYEON REGULARLY GAVE SEMINARS SPONSORED BY THE BRITISH PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE INDUSTRY.
THE THEME OF ALL THE SEMINARS WAS HOW TO GET THE DISABLED BACK INTO WORK.
DAME CAROL BLACK, THE INSTIGATOR OF THE FIT NOTE AND UMPTEEN GOVERNMENT REPORTS ON DISABILITY IN THE WORKPLACE, WAS ALWAYS PRESENT.
THE FACULTY OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE WERE THE BODY THAT RECRUITED AND CERTIFIED “HEALTH PROFESSIONALS”, THE ATOS, CAPITA AND MAXIMUS, UNQUALIFIED NURSES THAT DO WORK CAPABILITY TESTS ON BEHALF OF THE DWP.
BILL GUNNYEON HAS JUMPED SHIP FROM HIS PRIME POSITION AT THE DWP AND NOW WORKS FOR MAXIMUS.
GUNNYEON WAS ALSO A FORMER DIRECTOR OF CAPITA.
………….AND NOW THE SAME SORDID BUNCH DONT WANT YOU TO HAVE YOUR SPINAL X RAYS BECAUSE THE BIGGEST CAUSE OF DISABILITY CLAIMS ARE MUSCULO SKELETAL LOWER BACK INJURIES…
Geoff – Here is the Mirror’s article on this from today, which lists all of the 40 illnesses/diseases/accidental injuries etc – this is just shocking and it certainly smacks of ‘saving money in the NHS’ – not necessarily for the sake of ‘better patient care’!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/less-can-more-doctors-name-9115412
……there was a crooked man
EX DWP CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICERS LINKS TO THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY
Mansel Aylward
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Professor Sir Mansel Aylward is Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Research, Occupational and Physician Health at Cardiff University School of Medicine.
He was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours. He was made a Freeman of the Borough of Merthyr Tydfil in 2013. He was born in the Ex-servicemen’s Club in the town in November 1942.[1]
He is Chair of Public Health Wales.
From 1996 to April 2005 he was Chief Medical Adviser, Medical Director and Chief Scientist of the UK Department for Work and Pensions and Chief Medical Adviser and Head of Profession at the Veteran’s Agency, Ministry of Defence.[2] He was on the board of the Benefits Agency Medical Service in the 1990s. His wife Angela was then involved in setting up a company called Mediprobe, trading under the name Nationwide Medical Examination Advisory Service Ltd., which arranged for the agency’s doctors to work for insurance companies.[3] He was involved in the establishment of the new Work Capability Assessment test. When he left the department he headed the UnumProvident Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research, at Cardiff University,[4] He has been attacked as giving academic credibility to the biopsychosocial model which was said to be the basis of the Cameron government’s disability benefits crackdown.[5]
He is Chair of the advisory board of HCML a provider of rehabilitation and case management services to insurance companies and the corporate sector.[6]
SO FAR UP THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY’S ARSE, HE COULD BE A RECTAL WART………
“40 MEDICAL TREATMENTS THAT ARE UNNECESSARY”
………..MEDIA FLURRY OVER CONTROVERSIAL CONCERNS ABOUT HEALTHCARE
AN AMERICAN INVENTION TO PREVENT SPENDING ON THOSE WHO CANNOT AFFORD PRIVATE HEALTHCARE INSURANCE…..
TYPE IN THE WORDS; CHOOSE WISELY CAMPAIGN
AND YOU WILL FIND THAT IT IS PART OF A USA BASED STRUCTURE CALLED THE ABIM FOUNDATION…………
THE ABIM FOUNDATION IS A MONEY MAKING RACKET THAT LETS DOCTORS DO EXAMINATIONS TO BOLSTER THEIR ACCREDITATION AND TITLE SO THEY CAN PURSUE BETTER JOBS USING THE QUALIFICATIONS THEY HAVE GOT.
AS ALWAYS, THE FOUNDER MEMBERS ARE MAKING A FORTUNE SELLING QUALIFICATIONS…………….
………………AND WHAT DOES THIS REALLY MEAN?
“DON’T SEEK MEDICAL ADVICE UNTIL YOU ARE ON THE VERGE OF DEATH, IT SAVES THE GOVERNMENT MONEY”
“MOD PLAYS IGNORANT ON UK SUPPLIES OF CLUSTER BOMBS TO ARABS”
Oliver Sprague 8 June 2016
Delivered
Dear Ministry of Defence,
I am requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act.
I am asking for relevant documents in the form of departmental minutes; submissions; briefing notes; written statements; correspondence electronic or otherwise and / or any other relevant information available on the replacement, destruction or removal of stocks of BL-755 cluster bombs in Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates following the entry into force of the Cluster Munitions Convention 2008. (CMC)
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/available_documentation_relating#incoming-885442
You wrote to me on 5th July stating that you required an additional 20 working days to further determine public interest balance test on my request. You then wrote again on 3rd of August outlining a further delay whilst more consideration was given, but stated in that letter that you would inform me of progress by the end of August 2016. I received no update from you and wrote on 19th September to request an update. I’ve now waited a further month for any further response from you. Whilst I do not wish to place additional burdens on your department, I would hope that a decision on my request could be forthcoming as soon as possible, as it is already long overdue.
………..DON’T WANT TO UPSET OUR ARAB FRIENDS
“MOD RELUCTANT TO RELEASE ANY INFORMATION ON HYDROGEN BOMB TESTS ON EASTER ISLAND IN 1958”
British Nuclear Tests – Christmas Island
Dave Whyte made this Freedom of Information request to Ministry of Defence
Response to this request is delayed. By law, Ministry of Defence should normally have responded promptly and by 14 October 2016 (details)
Dave Whyte 17 September 2016
Delivered
Dear Ministry of Defence.
In 1958 during the series of Hydrogen, and Atomic bomb tests at Christmas Island, I was ordered to drive a ‘Road Roller’, on presumption that this was to make the road ready for surfacing with tarmacadam, to the Southern end of the Island where the Hydrogen bomb Ground Zero was situated.
Can you please supply me with the following information.
1. How many days did I travel this route (It was in excess of One week)?
2. What information was obtained from the concealed instruments?
3. Why was I, a non-plant operator, chosen to drive the Road Roller?
Yours faithfully,
David Whyte
………ABOUT AS LOW AS THE DWP
HOW MANY VETERANS HAVE NOW DIED OF CANCER RELATED AILMENTS CONNECTED TO THESE TESTS?
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/british_nuclear_tests_christmas#incoming-883295
“THE ELECTORAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE”
……………….BENT AS A NINE BOB NOTE
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The body responsible for the way elections are conducted took the Conservative party to court to obtain documentation the party had failed to provide, so it could carry out an investigation. However, earlier this month the commission withdrew their action against the party, stating that:
“The Electoral Commission has today (15 July) announced that as part of its investigation into the Conservative and Unionist party campaign spending returns it launched on 18 February 2016, it has withdrawn its application to the high court for an information and document disclosure order. This means that there will be no hearing regarding the order. The commission has made this decision because since issuing its application to the high court on 12 May, it has received sufficient material from the party to proceed with its investigation.”
……….EVEN THE OLD BILL ARE QUAKING IN THEIR BOOTS AS THE MASONS APPLY EXTERNAL PRESSURE TO THE SECRET HANDSHAKE BRIGADE, AN EXTENSION OF THE UK JUDICIARY……….
“RICHARD HORTON OF THE LANCET HELPS DWP EXTERMINATE DISABLED BY PRINTING FALSE PACE RESULTS”
……..LORD FRAUD NEEDED SOMEONE ON THE INSIDE TO PRINT BULLSHIT.
RICHARD HORTON OBLIGED………
“The Lancet has not explained how this piece of nonsense could possibly pass peer review. It has not even acknowledged that it published a paper with outcome thresholds lower than entry criteria, so that you could be simultaneously “within normal range”–one of the study’s measures for improvement–and disabled enough to qualify the study. That is not hidden or tucked away! It right there in the study. It should have been noticed by anyone who read the study carefully. For a paper to include this analysis is absurd. For a journal to publish it and then not acknowledge such a fundamental flaw after it has been pointed out repeatedly, including in correspondence in the journal itself, is also absurd”.
……………….IT’ ALL IN THE MIND HORTON, AND IN YOUR HIDDEN BANK ACCOUNTS, PROBABLY……………
………….BUT HORTON IS NOT REALLY BOTHERED BECAUSE THE DWP AND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSIONER WILL DO THEIR UTMOST TO COVER UP THE CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE DISABLED IN AN EFFORT TO HAND THE WELFARE STATE TO THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURERS THAT CROSS THEIR PALMS WITH SILVER REGARDLESS OF WHO DIES TO ACHIEVE IT……
JOBS VANISHED ON UJ ?
where have all the jobs gone on uj…
there used to be 40 pages for each
job..now theres a page for many basic
jobs like cleaner,etc..is it something to
do with the ddos attack on october 21 ?
cos it has only been like that for the last
four days..?
The DWP probably removed all those jobs on purpose and left just a few behind to get as many sanctions as possible
Channel 4 News at 7PM this evening.
A report on the ‘fine’ handed to the Labour Party by the Electoral Commission over the Ed Miliband ‘Ed-Stone’ (and others) – Election Expenses ‘not declared’ in 2015.
Re the Tory 2015 ‘non-declared’ 2015 Election Expenses it was reported that the Electoral Commission “refused to say when it’s findings will be delivered”
The Country and it’s population (especially the poor) is still suffering under continuing Tory austerity – but there will be plenty of money available to do the expansion of Heathrow Airport! What a farce!
…………PRITI PATHETIC has been given the nod to cream off our overseas aid budget Paul, i think we give about £4 BILLION….
The new london bridge with the flower beds will probably get the nod as well…………….but child poverty in the uk is on the up and up.
Shouldn’t be too long until a Tory think tank (cess pit), formulates policy on limiting child numbers.
The tossers have already tinkered with child benefits.
……….meanwhile, Labour druggy and rent boy user, KEITH VAZ has got on the commons justice committee, unopposed.
no wonder all kiddy fiddling inquiries reach an abrupt end with pervs like him protecting the powdered wig brigade and bent coppers.
VAZ shouldnt be anywhere near justice but he probably holds some sordid secrets over the secret handshakers and Westminster sex offenders.
Geoff – Yes, you are indeed right in what you say – the whole of the ‘Establishment’ seems to be totally corrupt and twisted to the very core.
For years, our ‘Government’s’ condemned such countries as Italy & Zimbabwe as being corrupt – what a cheek!
Meanwhile, here is the Priti Awful Patel article (it seems that it’s £12Bn per Annum) (the exact same figure that they wanted to trim off of the ‘welfare budget’ I seem to remember!)
One of the most cruel ministers in May’s government, it’s just like putting a psychopath in charge of a much used British foodbank!
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/oct/25/priti-patel-warns-aid-organisations-must-provide-value-for-money-or-face-cuts-development-secretary-post-brexit
And then, on top of (his pig!) and every (Brexit) thing else – it is being reported this evening on Sky papers review that Cameron is soon going to write his Autobiography – that should make good reading for a lot of the pundits and the newspaper hacks – it’ll also add a whole new tranche of cash for him to put into one of his very own offshore bank accounts.
One of Britain’s biggest millionairres will soon be adding some more ££’s!
I, Daniel Blake – Extended Trailer
This film only preaches to the already converted and the converted probably cannot afford to go and see it.
I can only imagine that some sadistic colonial retard that resides somewhere at Westminster would see this film as a “joy to watch”, for whatever perversions they may have with the “cattle”.
I did notice from the trailer that the Agenda 21-30 is already in place by displacing “The Family”, separating children from extended family and moving people far away from family and friends.
I thought the NWO was a myth, watching this, apparently not.
As long as they keep kids out of it, they should allow adults do what they want
“MURDERING CLAIMANTS IS DUNCAN SMITH’S HOBBY”
Why are up to 28,960 people were left without funds
often for periods of between 6 and 8 weeks,”
with no access to Hardship Payments?
How long will it be before someone dies whilst waiting for a
Mandatory Reconsideration?
Mandatory Reconsideration(MR) is the first stage in appealing a WCA (Medical examination) which you must pass if you are going to be eligible for (Employment and Support Allowance) sickness benefit .
You cannot proceed with an appeal until this stage is completed!
Published in December 2014, Citizens Advice stated they saw
“8,530 people about mandatory reconsideration from Jan – June 2014.
2,740 (32%) of these people also reported being left without funds due to their reconsideration.
If we were to extrapolate this to the 90,500 Mandatory Reconsideration requests over the same time period this would suggest that:
Up to 28,960 people were left without funds
often for periods of between 6 and 8 weeks “
If you have been found fit for work at the Work Capability Assessment
(Medical examination)
You can:
Request a Mandatory Reconsideration
(contest the claim that you are fit for work.)
and
Go to Jobcentre Plus to sign on and state you have applied for a Mandatory Reconsideration
You could restrict your hours and the type of work you could do and hope that you will not be sanctioned if you are too sick to find work
BUT
Confusion amongst Jobcentre Plus staff means:
You may not be allowed to sign on to Job Seekers Allowance as they think you are too sick
or
You may be redirected to get advice from an Advice Agency
or
You may decide to continue with your Mandatory Reconsideration and not sign onto Jobseekers Allowance
BUT
As your Employment and Support Allowance (Sickness Benefit) claim has been closed.
As you have not be able to open a Jobseekers claim
you do not have an open claim,
making you ineligible for Hardship Payments
If you are not claiming benefit, you cannot claim hardship payments!!
Up to 28,960 people could have been left without any means to feed themselves.
There is no difference to The Public Purse as both Jobseekers Allowance and Employment Allowance (during the assessment period) are paid at the same rate of £73.10pw!
How is it OK for this Government to starve its citizens into not being able to exercise their legal right to challenge being found fit for work?
This must stop today
The connection between the junior doctors’ contract and the American corporate takeover of the NHS
What is going on right now?
The latest assault on the NHS involves the imposition of a new contract for junior doctors that will see their salaries slashed by 30% with a requirement for evening and Saturday work.
The excuse used to justify this change is to provide a seven-day service and improve patient outcomes on weekends.
The reality is that more qualified staff are being driven out in preparation for the de-skilling that is always part of healthcare privatisation and corporate takeover. For the UK, this is mapped out in the Five Year Forward View by Simon Stevens, the head of NHS England. Stevens used to be an executive of the US based private health care company, UnitedHealth.
What all junior doctors – and the rest of us – need to know
Many junior medics – which means all doctors not yet senior enough to work in consultant positions – have been stirred into action, but it is crucial for them to understand the context of their current predicament to mount an effective campaign to protect patients, restore decent treatment of staff and block the completion of the privatisation of the NHS.
But first, a little history lesson…
Conversion from the NHS model, a publicly funded, provided and universal system, to a private insurance model has been proposed for decades.
In 1968 Arthur Seldon, later Margaret Thatcher’s privatisation policy adviser, produced a pamphlet for the Institute of Economic Affairs called After the NHS, explaining the aspiration to “improve the NHS” by abolishing it so as to build profit opportunities insurance industry.
Further incarnations of this same plan to enable the insurance industry to increase its profits in the UK by destroying the NHS surfaced in the 1980s. This included Health of Nations by the Adam Smith Institute and, in 1988, Britain’s Biggest Enterprise: Ideas for Radical Reform of the NHS, a version articulated by current Conservative Minister of State for Government Policy, Oliver Letwin MP in the NHS privatisation manifesto he wrote with John Redwood MP, published by the Centre for Policy Studies, a Thatcherite think-tank.
The stealth privatisation of the NHS had quietly begun under the Thatcher administration and has continued unabated ever since. The sole attempt to bring the plan out of the shadows, its presentation to a Conservative cabinet in 1983, was so roundly rejected that the decision was taken to complete the privatisation by covert means, under a series of false narratives to distract the public from what was really going on.
From outsourcing of non-clinical services, introduction of market bureaucracy, splitting up of the hospital network into independent Trusts and the usurious Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme for creating an opportunity to gouge the public purse through inflating the costs of funding new hospital building.
PFI started on John Major’s watch and continued under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Blair’s New Labour government continued with the privatisation project, while maintaining the deceptions contained within successive pointless top-down reorganisations which actually took the NHS further down the privatisation road, precisely following the steps laid out in the Health of Nations NHS privatisation plan.
http://koshh.org/the-connection-between-the-junior-doctors-contract-and-the-american-corporate-takeover-of-the-nhs
“APOLOGY TO THE DWP BY OBSERVER”
I would like to publicly apologise to the Department of Work And Pensions for an inaccurate statistic in my Observer article yesterday on the grim reality of the welfare system in what was once ‘Great’ Britain.
“In my article I stated that 2,400 people had died shortly after their Employment Support Allowance had been severed, having been (clearly wrongly) judged as Fit To Work.
“The DWP informs me that the correct figure is in fact 2,380.
“As they are so keen on accuracy, and transparency, I thought I should provide the rest of the stats.
“Between December 2011 and February 2014, 50,850 people who were claiming ESA, died.
“Of these, 7,200 had been judged as ‘able to return to work in the future’ and placed in the ‘work group’ category of ESA to undergo regular gruelling testing in order to continue to claim the pithy pittances they needed in order to stay alive. (For avoidance of doubt, humans do generally need food and shelter to survive.) Spoiler alert- THEY DIED.
“On top of these, 2,380 people who had been stripped of financial support and judged fit to work, subsequently DIED.
“Seeing the DWP are so very keen on accuracy that they send bollocking letters to my editor, I expect they will be now opening the case files of the 9,580 people in a 2 year period who DIED having been judged as ‘fit to work’ or ‘fit to work in the future’. God forbid I make 20 mistakes in the face of your 9,580.”
You can read the Observer article here. The relevant passage states: “Comply or starve. Comply and die, such were the cases, over a two-year period, of 2,400 people who died after their claim for employment and support allowance ended because they were declared ‘fit to work’ by DWP. I wrote in 2013 that my three-year-old could pass an Atos assessment. It doesn’t mean I should have sent him to stack shelves in a supermarket.”
The mention of “2,400 people” is quite clearly a rounding-up because, if you click on the link that has been inserted on that very number, you can visit the original Guardian article quoting the DWP’s response to a Freedom of Information request for the exact number of deaths.
“ANOTHER SUICIDE IN THE MAKING”
………..TAKEN FROM MIKE SIVIERS BLOG
I moved from Lancashire to Norfolk in June to be closer to family for support, I’m closer to suicide now more than ever, has anyone had to transfer from. ESA to UC? Nightmare!! Iv been told ( by the most ignorant up her own arse ) work coach that what happened in Lancashire stays in Lancashire, I now have to go through their process to attain whether I’m fit for work r not, ignore my medical records that the new doctor has said on a fit note that I’m unfit for work, I still have to go to the jobcenter ever 2 weeks to look for work until I’m deemed unfit by them, 4 months later I’m still not been accesses by them, I’m disabled I have DLA a blue badge, fit notes off my doctor but according to them none of it counts until Iv been accessed ,, really am losing the will to live here,they make is so frustrating and demoralising for the genuine claimant,
More Concentrix Tax-Credits balls-ups!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tax-credit-victims-accused-having-9130787
(Off-Topic, but no, I am not making this up!)
“Michael Gove is back! Tory backstabber wins plum seat on Westminster’s new Brexit Committee”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/michael-gove-back-tory-backstabber-9131443
“MOVING THE GOALPOSTS”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Could you please verify the fact that a woman born in the 50’s who then married in
the 70’s had the option of paying the reduced married rate of NI or could opt for
continuing to pay the standard rate enabling her to claim her pension in her own right
at the age of 60 instead of waiting for her husband to reach pension age.
Yours faithfully,
Trudy Baddams
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/please_clarify_womens_national_i#incoming-887548
“THE COST OF WRITING FAKE MEDICAL REPORTS”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
With so many ESA claims failing and ending up in court to appeal, how much is this action costing the taxpayer? the judge, the venue, the solicitors, the doctors, the staff etc., ?
Yours faithfully,
Trudy Baddams
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/how_much_does_it_cost_2#incoming-887549
………….THE DWP CLAIM THIS INFORMATION IS SECRET……….
THEY WOULD DO, CONSIDERING THE THOUSANDS WHO HAVE ALREADY DIED WHILST THE POLICE LOOK AWAY……….
UN investigation into abuses of human rights of the disabled through government “welfare reforms”
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-887541
…………..THE DWP ARE CLAIMING THAT THE INFORMATION THEY HOLD IS NOT IN THE PUBLICS INTEREST?
………..WHAT IS THE HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION FOR?
PROTECTING THE BASIC FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF HUMAN BEINGS OR GIVING THE DWP AN ALIBI TO CARRY ON KILLING?
“THE MURDERERS RESPONSE”
The scope, nature and process of UN inquiries are confidential. This includes any
documentation that the UK Government may or may not have received. The information
requested is not available, under the Freedom of Information Act as Exemption 27 – which
sets out that information is exempt if its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice
relations between the United Kingdom and any other state or any international organisation or
court.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Strategy FoI Team
(ROUGHLY TRANSLATED……….WE DONT’T GIVE TWO FUCKS ABOUT ANY ESTABLISHED LAWS BECAUSE WE CAN DO AS WE FUCKING LIKE AND HAVE THE JUDICIARY AND POLICE IN OUR POCKETS)
“DWP REFUSE TO COMPLY WITH COURT OF APPEAL DECISION TO NAME THE SLAVE TRADE FREELADERS OF WORKFARE”
………………THE DWP ARE ABOVE THE LAW, THE VICTIMS UNDER THE SOIL OR IN AN URN……….
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The Department was recently ordered to release all the names of Mandatory Work Activity providers by the Court of Appeal:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/3…
I am seeking information on the National Trust’s involvement in all DWP schemes which the Master of the Rolls Lord Justice Lloyd Jones pointed out are ‘collectively referred to as “workfare”.’
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/…
1. Please disclose the name of each workfare scheme in which the National Trust participated.
2. Please disclose the number of individuals who have participated in each scheme.
3. Please disclose whether each scheme is still operating or not.
Link to previous rejected request:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/t…
Yours faithfully,
D Moore
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_national_trusts_role_in_forc_2#incoming-887199
ESA Claimants: A New Trick From The DWP.
If you have worsened after failing an ESA test and claim ESA again, they can now make a new ‘assessment’ just a couple of days after your phone claim, without waiting for your new evidence.
They say they can ‘assess’ you on the basis of the previous evidence. They say that this counts as a new full Work Capability Assessment. Unfortunately, a judge has recently decided that they can do it, oh dear.
read more.
https://samedifference1.com/2016/10/27/esa-claimants-a-new-trick-from-the-dwp/
Not yet Daniel Blake?
1. Give to a “clothes bank”
Donating to food banks (including giving sanitary towels) is a simple way of helping people struggling through benefit cuts, but it’s worth searching your local area to see if you have a “clothes bank” near you too. Bedding, old school uniforms and warm clothes are always needed.
4. Become an appeal advocate
When people are rejected for benefits, an appeal is their only hope. But, with welfare advice centres cut and Citizens Advice under huge pressure, many have no one to support them at what’s an exhausting time. If you have legal knowledge or can simply help at filling out forms, search online to see if there are any groups in your area you can volunteer with (or start your own).
https://samedifference1.com/2016/10/26/you-might-not-be-daniel-blake-but-heres-how-you-can-help-him/
Fraud Act 2006 –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/35/contents
Misconduct in Public Office –
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/misconduct_in_public_office/
Medical Act 1983 –
Penalty for pretending to be registered –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/54/section/49
Penalty for pretending to hold a licence to practise –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/54/section/49A
Conspiracy to Defraud –
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/s_to_u/sentencing_manual/conspiracy_to_defraud_(common_law)/
Abuse of Vulnerable Adults –
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/194272/No_secrets__guidance_on_developing_and_implementing_multi-agency_policies_and_procedures_to_protect_vulnerable_adults_from_abuse.pdf
Care Act 2014 –
Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/23/section/42/enacted
Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 –
Ill-treatment or wilful neglect: care worker offence –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/2/section/20/enacted
Ill-treatment or wilful neglect: care provider offence –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/2/section/21/enacted
Criminal Attempts Act 1981 –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/47/contents
ABH/GBH/Attempted Murder
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/offences_against_the_person/
Homicide: Murder and Manslaughter
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/h_to_k/homicide_murder_and_manslaughter/.
Serious Crime Act 2007 –
Part 2 – Encouraging or Assisting Crime –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/27/part/2
Assisting an Offender – section 4(1) Criminal Law Act 1967 –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/58/section/4
Accessories and Abettors Act 1861 –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/94/crossheading/as-to-abettors-in-misdemeanors
Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 –
Corrupt or other improper exercise of police powers and privileges –
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/2/section/26/enacted
Perverting The Course of Justice –
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/p_to_r/public_justice_offences_incorporating_the_charging_standard/
I agree with you, however the bigger the so called “Big Society” gets, the smaller the state will help out, if good hearted folk keep donating and digging deep with cash, sooner or later the government will hand over responsibility to the charities.
I bet they can’t wait, all those rich MPs attaching themselves as “Charity bosses”.
In 2010 Cameron, Osborne and IDS proudly boasted that they where going to fix a broken welfare system.
Is it fixed yet?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall………..you know the rest.
Foodbanks and Sanctions etc – Oxford University study report (2012-2015)
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-10-27-strong-link-between-increased-benefit-sanctions-and-higher-foodbank-use
Foodbanks and Sanctions – The Guardian’s article regarding this study:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/27/benefit-sanctions-food-banks-oxford-university-study
The Tory M.P’s and Ministers should en-masse, be totally stripped of all of their positions, their salaries, their ‘expenses’ and any other ‘income’ either legal or illegal – be sent down to some isolated JCP to find ‘any’ job – and if not, then they should be ‘sanctioned’ – left without any money at all to live and then, not for 2 weeks or so be told about any ‘hardship payments’ or that there may be a foodbank in their area. This, it seems is often what seems to happen to people using JCP ‘customer services’.
Then and only then may they just begin to understand what sort of effect their Government’s policies have on deserving claimants.
It sounds like Toby Young (of the ‘Spectator’ and the occasional ‘Sky News paper reviewer’) who is a total twat, should be given this treatment as well!
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ken-loach-i-daniel-blake-toby-young-life-on-benefits-rings-true-mark-steel-a7383461.html
And now – the Mirror’s article. All of these should be sent to the U.N. (for what good that is!) and to newspapers all over Europe as well, so that other ‘Europeans’ can see exactly what this cruel Government is doing to it’s own people.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cruel-benefit-sanctions-force-half-9134530
“CORONER PETER BEDFORD”
BERKSHIRES DWP DISABILITY DEATH DENIAL SPECIALIST
Entrance to DWP’s Caxton House HQ
‘Grave concern’ over coroner’s refusal to hold inquest into Maximus WRAG death
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By John Pring on October 27, 2016 Benefits and Poverty
A coroner has refused to hold an inquest into the death of a disabled man who had a fatal heart attack an hour after being told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was threatening to stop his benefits.
Alan McArdle, who had previously been homeless but was living in council accommodation in Slough, Berkshire, told the friend who had read the DWP letter to him: “They’ve sanctioned my money,” before he collapsed.
The discredited government contractor Maximus had reported him to DWP for failing to attend appointments intended to move him towards work, as part of the Work Programme, despite being told about his severe ill-health.
Despite his deteriorating health – he had alcoholism, a serious heart condition and diabetes – he had been placed in the work-related activity group (WRAG) of employment and support allowance (ESA), designed for those found “fit” enough to carry out some work-related activity, but not yet well enough for a job.
McArdle had attended the first couple of Work Programme appointments in the Maximus offices with the support of a local charity, but his health and mobility had continued to deteriorate.
The impact of the diabetes meant he had no feeling in his arms and legs, and could hardly move.
After a fall, he had to be admitted to hospital, and asked a manager at the charity to explain to Maximus why he had not been in touch.
But when she called Maximus, she was told: “He hasn’t come in, so we will get him sanctioned.”
He had just come out of hospital when the letter from DWP arrived on 29 August last year.
McArdle was with a carer, who read the letter to him. It is believed the letter stated that he needed to provide evidence to DWP to prevent his benefits being sanctioned.
When it was read to him, he apparently went “a deathly grey colour”, complained about pains, and collapsed. Within an hour, he was dead.
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND……..
“TWO EMINENT EXPERTS ON SUICIDE REFUSE TO SPEAK ON WCA ASSESSMENTS ON WHICH THEY HELPED TO CREATE”
………………………IGNORANCE IS BLISS
The previous version of the guidance was written by DWP with “external input” from Professor Peter White, a consultant psychiatrist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, and Professor Keith Hawton, director of the University of Oxford’s Centre for Suicide Research.
……………………….HELPING THE DWP TO TAKE MORE LIVES…
“DWP TO EMPLOY 86 NEW ROACHES TO SCUPPER TRIBUNAL WINS”
……….NO LEGAL AID FOR CLAIMANTS WHICH IS A BREACH OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ITSELF….
86 new presenting officers are being recruited around the country to help the DWP try to reduce claimants’ success rates at PIP and ESA appeals.
But perhaps even worse than that, they are also going to be identifying cases which can be appealed to the upper tribunal.
This means that, for many hundreds of claimants, the months of stress will not end when they win their appeal. Instead they will then have to face the misery of more months of uncertainty whilst they wait for an appeal to the upper tribunal to be heard.
If the DWP’s further appeal is upheld then, at the very least, that will mean a return to another first-tier tribunal to try to argue their case again. In some cases, they won’t even be given the chance to do that.
We know that every presenting officer will have to meet key performance indicators. One of these is likely to be a minimum number of cases that they recommend should be taken to the upper tribunal.
If every presenting officer averages just one further appeal a month, this will still add up to over 1,000 PIP and ESA claimants a year affected.
http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/3567-26-october-2016-update?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Benefits+and+Work&utm_content=v1+26+October+2016+newsletter
……………SHOULD SPIKE THE DWP CLAIMANT DEATH TALLY
“USE OF FOOD BANKS AND BENEFIT SANCTIONS RELATED”
……….SKY NEWS SHAMES THE BBC
Benefit sanctions, whereby social security claimants have their payments stopped for at least a month as a punishment for supposedly breaching strict jobcentre rules, are a key driver of hunger and food bank use, according to a study carried out by Oxford University academics.
The study, which mapped official sanctions data against food bank referral figures, concluded that a “robust link” existed between increases in the number of benefit sanctions handed out and rising numbers of adults receiving food parcels.
Ministers have persistently refused to accept that welfare reforms are connected to the explosion in food bank use in recent years, despite a number of studies that link sanctions and benefit processing delays to financial crises which leave individuals and families reliant on food parcels.
But the Oxford study found that every three-month increase of 10 sanctions per 100,000 of the population over a four-year period was associated with around five more instances of adults being referred for charity food parcels, suggesting a “strong, dynamic relationship” between the two.
“These findings show clear evidence of sanctions being linked to economic hardship and hunger, as we see a close relationship between sanctioning rates and rates of food bank usage across local authorities in the UK,” said the study’s lead author, Rachel Loopstra.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/27/benefit-sanctions-food-banks-oxford-university-study?CMP=share_btn_fb
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesperson said: “The reasons for food bank use are complex, and it is misleading to link them to any one issue.
………..as he collected his star for achieving the highest number of sanctions within his fellow staff
“FIT FOR WORK, I THINK NOT”
John’s world was torn apart on a Monday morning three weeks ago. First came a text message that read: “We will ring you within 2-3 hours to discuss the outcome of your work capability assessment.” Then the phone went. A “decision maker” at the Department for Work and Pensions told John he’d been judged fit for work – despite his extreme pain, despite all his doctors had said. One of the benefits he needed to live on – employment and support allowance – would stop immediately.
Maximus fit-for-work tests fail mental health patients, says doctor
Read more
You may have seen the new film I, Daniel Blake; John is living it. Just like Ken Loach’s character, he’s in his late 50s. He too is in no condition to hold down a full-time job, yet has been told by his own government that he must find work. His story tells you that the nightmare depicted by Loach and the scriptwriter Paul Laverty is neither fictional nor historical – but is being visited right now on our friends, our neighbours and us.
Just like Daniel Blake, John is slowly being crushed between the twin forces of a lumbering, unsympathetic, tick-box, brown-envelope bureaucracy, and a Tory government hellbent on slashing social security. The result is that a disabled man is today being forced to look for jobs that he can’t possibly do, purely to get benefits that won’t even keep a roof above his head.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/26/fit-for-work-disability-cuts-bureaucracy-daniel-blake?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I Daniel Blake is definitely just “… a fictional film”. The director of the award-winning masterpiece was clearly reminded by the (V.Nasty) Tory party representative on #BBCQT last night To His Face!
In iDB, ex-DWP Minister of Doom IDS is very briefly but very clearly condemned for his part in making the above ‘story’ reality for people up & down the country. Daniel is one of them; Katie & her children are others. Anyone who has had reason to make a claim in recent times or knows someone who has had to, knows this. It is out there – Writ Large & now can’t be ‘unseen’ so the facts has to recast as allegory or just ‘great drama’.
An admission on the BBC that this film is social realism from a master craftsman, telling the story of another master crafts/every/man would be an admission of guilt. So instead there will be hand-wringing &:attempts to heap accolades on the hard-working volunteers working in foodbanks everywhere …
“I am not a dog. I am a citizen; nothing more, nothing less. Thank You”
Oh – yes, it was the business secretary so he can clearly differentiate between fict & faction. Ken can retire now & not worry any further.
Too right shirleynott, Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake is right up there with Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott in terms of science-fiction masterpieces. I, Daniel Blake aka 2016: A DWP Odyssey.
Spoiler Alert!
The best part is when an alien jumps out of Daniel Blake’s chest during his ESA assessment! Jesus Christ! The audience were lead to believe that Daniel was having heart problems when in actual fact he had been infected by alien lifeforms on his recent trip to planet Prometheus.
When Daniel opens the brown envelope & slime oozes out … oh no, wait …
The ever-present, unearthly, ethereal sound that is Vivaldi’s Four Seasons -constantly playing in the background to show that we are not in Newcastle any more …
Wonder why the London council didn’t send Katie and here kids to one of the Moons of Jupiter. Europa would have been ideal! No chance of damp out there in among those radioactive fields and seas of liquid methane . Newcastle does seems a strange choice.
Are your Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley?
Ken Loach On BBC Question Time Accuses Tory Government Of ‘Conscious Cruelty’ Over Benefits Sanctions.
With Government minister Greg Clark on the panel, he said:
“People are living in fear, and it’s an absolutely intolerable way to live. There’s a conscious cruelty to the way the benefits system is being imposed. The Tory Government knows exactly what it is doing.”
“We know that the Government knows it’s wrong because if you appeal against the assessment you will almost certainly win. They know they are teasing people in a very cruel way.
“When you’re sanctioned your life is forced into chaos and people are going to food banks – there was 1.1 million people getting food parcels. People who would starve otherwise.”
He concluded:
“How can we live in a society where hunger is used as a weapon?”
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/question-time-ken-loach-accuses-government-conscious-cruelty-benefits-sanctions_uk_581275f3e4b0672ea6885246
Tory who says that the homeless should be ‘grabbed by the scruff of the neck’ and ‘eliminated’
http://evolvepolitics.com/tory-councillor-says-that-the-homeless-should-be-grabbed-by-the-scruff-of-the-neck/
IDS is showing his real ‘caring’ side after all – BOLLOCKS!
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/28/iain-duncan-smith-challenge-theresa-may-universal-credit-cuts
I did not see this last night – but:
Ken Loach has told the truth – the Tory M.P.’s face on the panel really tells it all. Dimbleby’s face is also a picture – “Why the fuck did my Employers (the BBC) let him on here!”
“I – Dimbleby – as a genuine and true staunch Tory supporter, totally repudiates and is in total disagreeance to what Ken Loach has said”
KEN LOACH HAS TOLD THE TRUTH (BUT THE TORIES WILL NOT ACCEPT IT – THE FUCKING BASTARDS)
(Please – if you can – spread this one as far and wide as possible – by social media to the rest of Britain (and other European countries also!)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ken-loach-attacks-tories-putting-corporations-before-poor-how-about-economy-people-who-zero-hours-a7384471.html
Jeez, not another Ken Loach rant about “women-only railway carriages”. I, Daniella Blake and Women-Only Railway Carriages – what a load of shite that movie was!
SPOILER ALERT!!
Still it was quite sad at the end when Daniella Blake lost her fight for “women-only railway carriages”. The scene at the end as we watched her stepping into a railway carriage alongside men had the cinema in tears. I, Daniella Blake – My Fight and the Struggle for Women-Only Railway Carriages, one of Loach’s finest!
THIS – is an absolute fucking disgrace!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/boy-born-half-heart-disability-9147644
“TAKE THE BASTARDS ON”
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DeanStockton
The family should appeal and ask for the attendance of the HP who did the assessment and the decision maker plus anyone the decision maker asked to verify the report. They should ask question like, ” What are your qualifications? If the claim DISABILITY ANALYST then counter with “what medical body recognises DISABILITY ANALYST as a recognised qualification? Even if they email the assessment company and DWP requesting they attend they won’t turn up so ask for the report to be thrown out, they probably won’t so go to work on the medical person on the panel. All they can give is the same as the HP, OPINION, the clincher maybe the following question ” Tell me on the report what is opinion and what is FACT in the report.” HP’s are known for taking parts of replies and putting that as the answer to questions DECISION MAKERS are know to take what is in the report as FACT
Thank you, Johnny. I reblogged your post here to the adult-fanfiction.org community.
“HOW THE DWP MANIPULATED THE MEDIA TO HIDE CLAIMANT DEATHS”
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The DWP has been forced to reveal how it manipulated the media to silence criticism of welfare cuts
The DWP has been forced to reveal how it manipulated the media to silence criticism of welfare cuts
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been forced to release internal reports detailing the way it manipulated media reporting of benefits cuts, following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.
The Disability News Service (DNS) first put in a request to see the department’s media evaluation reports – which are produced monthly by the DWP’s communications team to keep an eye on how it manages its press and social media coverage – more than a year ago. The DWP refused to release them, claiming they were “commercially sensitive”. But after The DNS complained to the Information Commissioner, the DWP has made them available.
Jonathan Pring from The DNS has seen the documents – and their revelations are extraordinary.
Quashing negative media
The reports reveal how the DWP’s press office worked well to quash any negative media about it. For instance, in one month of 2014 alone, DWP press officers managed to kill 44 stories.
It also quashed interest in a work and pensions committee report on benefit claimant deaths, which have caused widespread concern, and on whether sanctions were being applied fairly. The summary of the report stated:
The Committee reiterates this recommendation, originally made in January 2014 but rejected by the Government, in the light of new evidence which raises concerns about the approach being adopted in a number of individual Jobcentres, and more broadly, including concerns about whether targets for sanctions exist.
READ MORE
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/28/dwp-forced-reveal-manipulated-media-silence-criticism-welfare-cuts/
“DWP, THE MINISTRY OF DISINFORMATION AND DEATH”
Containing the story
Readers may remember the controversy that hit the DWP in August 2015. The department came under attack for using fake statements in its promotional leaflets on state benefits.
After being asked if the statements were from actual benefit claimants through an FOI request, the department took down the original leaflet. It then issued a similar leaflet with silhouettes instead of pictures and added a note stating: “The people in this factsheet aren’t real. We’ve used these stories to show how sanctions can work in practice.”
…………….LYING COMES EASY TO THESE SCUMSUCKERS
“THE TORY FINAL SOLUTION”
…………NOT SO FAR FROM THEIR MASTER PLAN ON EUGENICS/ETHNIC CLEANSING
David Heseltine, a Conservative Party Councillor in Bradford, has caused outrage during a meeting of the Council’s regeneration overview and scrutiny committee by stating that:
The tramps and drunks sleeping in doorways. What we need to do is get them by the scruff of the neck and deal with them. People have said they’d go into Bradford if they were eliminated.
……………..shouldn’t be too long before shower facilities are offered within job centres.
The chimneys will burn through the night. Not a bird in sight………..
………….almost there
Lily Allen was right when she broached on the taboo subject of what went on in Germany, the propaganda, divide and rule and the ignorance of it’s people to what was happening…………
“They chose to look away because they never thought the horrors would surface”
……….just following orders
“DO THESE LABOUR POLITICIANS REALLY REFLECT YOUR VIEWS ON THE INHUMANE BOMBING OF THE YEMEN”
………..I THINK NOT……..
Yesterday 129 Labour MPs voted to stop support for Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen. The vote was defeated by a majority of 90.
The motion called for support to be withdrawn from the Saudi government until a United Nations investigation could determine whether the Saudi bombing campaign had breached international law. The motion did not explicitly include a suspension of UK arms sales.
Over 100 Labour MPs did not vote on the motion. If all of them had voted to support it, the government would have been defeated.
The following list are the Labour MPs who abstained or were not present for the vote yesterday.
Adrian Bailey
Andy Burnham
Angela Eagle
Angela Smith
Ann Clwyd
Ann Coffey
Anna Turley
Barry Sheerman
Ben Bradshaw
Bridgit Phillipson
Caroline Flint
Catherine McKinnell
Chris Bryant
Chris Elmore (Teller)
Chris Evans
Chris Leslie
Clive Lewis (ill)
Connor McGinn
Dan Jarvis
David Crausby
David Lammy
Diana Johnson
Fiona MacTaggart
Frank Field
Gareth Thomas
Gavin Shuker
Geoffrey Robinson
George Howarth
Gerald Kaufman
Gill Furniss
Gisela Stuart
Gloria De Piero
Graeme Jones
Graham Allen
Graham Stringer
Heidi Alexander
Helen Jones
Ian Austin
Ian Murray
Ivan Lewis
Jamie Reed
Jim Fitzpatrick
Joan Ryan
John Mann
John Spellar
John Woodcock
Judith Cummins (Teller)
Julie Elliott
Kate Hoey
Keith Vaz
Kevan Jones
Kevin Barron
Liz Kendall
Luciana Berger
Lucy Powell
Madeleine Moon
Margaret Beckett
Margaret Hodge
Maria Eagle
Mark Hendrick
Mary Creagh
Meg Hillier (Paired)
Melanie Onn
Michael Dugher
Mike Gapes
Natascha Engel
Neil Coyle
Nia Griffith
Pat McFadden
Paul Flynn
Peter Kyle
Phil Wilson
Rachel Reeves
Rob Flello
Rob Marris
Roberta Blackman-Woods
Rosie Cooper
Rushanara Ali
Ruth Smeeth
Shabana Mahmood
Siobhain McDonagh
Stephen Kinnock
Susan Jones
Toby Perkins
Tom Blenkinsopp
Tom Watson
Tracy Brabin
Tristram Hunt
Vernon Coaker
Wayne David
Wes Streeting
Yasmin Qureshi
Yvonne Fovargue
“WHO DO THEY REPRESENT?”
“THE ZANI DOCTRINES ARE WORKING”
A disabled woman has told how she was called a “scrounger” and told to “fuck off” as she was subjected to a foul-mouthed tirade on a train when she asked a young couple to give up their seats.
Paula Peters, 45, from Bromley, said she was hit with the abuse after she approached a man and a woman in seats marked for wheelchair users.
She said the pair mocked her when she told them she needed to sit down as she suffered from “chronic pain” before a woman told her “fuck off, you’re a scrounger”.
Ms Peters added her disability was also questioned even though she uses a walker to aid her balance and that no passengers intervened in the row on her behalf.
……………………make mine a front seat at Dunko the Clown’s Nuremberg moment..
“WELL DONE KEN LOACH FOR POKING A STICK IN THE HORNET’S NEST THAT IS A CANCER THAT FEEDS ON GRIEF”
…………This mornings announcement on the Uk governments prime propaganda channel, the inglorious BBC, was no accident……
Hiding behind the disability parasite charity, SCOPE, it was revealed that the government are going to change the way it handles work capability assessments with a more work targeted approach.
This is the same bunch of out and out liars that declared that the chronically sick would no longer be picked on to undergo PIP tests but forgot to mention it was business as usual for all other forms of their inhuman projects such as ESA.
I have not seen Ken’s magnificent film, I, DANIEL BLAKE, but i and many thousands more are living it.
Being certified as disabled for life by real doctors and then having it all stolen by a faked medical report is the basis of countless deaths.
Faking medical reports does not make your disability go away and neither does it put you towards finding a job.
An injured animal would be left to die and this is the philosophy they pursue.
Living on £33 per week for the last four years has taken it’s toll but it has hardened my aims of bringing the culprits to the dock a lot stronger…
I worked until an accident at work took away my independence and then i was branded a scrounger and a liar in order for the corrupt state to take away the meagre pittance that helped me to overcome my insurmountable difficulties in everyday living.
It is sure easy to criticise but a huge mountain to overcome.
Disability has been branded a way of life by those who are ignorant enough not to have had one.
For all the politicians and the media outlets who criticise Ken;s film as being pure fiction…………please get in touch and i will show you the DWP own doctors reports, my doctors reports and the ATOS nurse report.
The government have to carry on the pretence of being concerned because so many lives have been taken in vain by the acts of a failed banker, LORD DAVID FREUD, to asset strip the welfare budget to make it more affordable to sell to his colleagues in the private health insurance business.
When the BBC use the term targeting it takes me back to a dark time in history that we are fast approaching.
My penalty for being disabled is to starve me in order that i take my own life as an act of complete desperation.
…………..the world has not yet seen, I, DANIEL BLAKE, but our government are complicit in a Eugenics scheme that mirrors the act of vertical moustached psychopath and a team of insane general and doctors…..
I am living evidence of the hatred bestowed on the disabled. There is no fiction, this is the truth.
Damian Green, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is poised to launch of a consultation on reform of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) test on Monday. It comes after Mr Green annouced, earlier this month, that chronically sick claimants will no longer be required to prove they are stil ill every six months.
The controversial testing process has come under intense criticisms for failing some of the most vulnerable people in society in recent years. But Mr Green is expected to say he wants his department to provide a more “targeted and personalised support” for people with disabilities while they look for employment.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-set-to-overhaul-work-capability-assessments-for-people-with-disabilities-damian-green-a7386481.html
Meanwhlle
More jobcentre recordings: We can’t help disabled claimants at this jobcentre. You’ll have to go elsewhere.
http://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/10/more-jobcentre-recordings-we-cant-help-disabled-claimants-at-this-jobcentre-youll-have-to-go-elsewhere/
“As a jobcentre adviser, I got ‘brownie points’ for cruelty”
Former jobcentre adviser Angela Neville has written a play to expose the harsh reality of the benefits sanctions regime.
Angela Neville, 48, is describing events she witnessed as a special adviser in a jobcentre that prompted her to write a play about her experiences.
“We were given lists of customers to call immediately and get them on to the Work Programme,” she recalls. “I said, ‘I’m sorry this can’t happen, this man is in hospital.’ I was told [by my boss]: ‘No, you’ve got to phone him and you’ve got to put this to him and he may be sanctioned.’ I said I’m not doing it.”
Neville worked as an adviser in Braintree jobcentre, Essex, for four years and has written a play with two collaborators, her friends Angela Howard and Jackie Howard, both of whom have helped advocate for unemployed people who were threatened with benefit sanctions by jobcentre staff.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/04/jobcentre-adviser-play-benefit-sanctions-angela-neville
Show and Tell Theatre Company: Can This Be England?
The Production
http://www.beechleaf.net/show_tell/production.html
………….some posts in support of the DWP’S new targeted approach
Denise Maguire
Denise Maguire Media of course fails to mention that the Access to Work scheme which provided support/all kinds of equipment has been reduced to a point whereby it’s virtually useless!
In addition to which retrain/educate? The Disabled Student Allowance has also been so revamped that it’s very ad hoc. Especially when educators now have a duty to provide support on their reduced budgets.
This Government are a f@ disgrace 😡😡😡😡
Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights access to work is virtually none existant, new health and work programme coming soon
Francis Cotton
Francis Cotton I had the pleasure of working in the Remploy factory at Springburn on a placement a few years ago. It was a great environment for people with disabilities to earn a crust and gain skills. I was due to do a paid placement after that with a view to getti…See more
Bernie Daly
Bernie Daly Another way to punish and control. If I was in prison in think I might be treated with more respect. We are under constant scrutiny as if we are all in some way lying or putting it on. It’s the politicians we should be scrutinising, how about we examine them in the same manner and perhaps withdraw some of their benefits.
Steve McCue
Steve McCue So it’s not about meeting needs it’s about driving, forcing, people into work. Great aim but the government are using a chair and whip approach and providing no real support to enable disabled people to work if they are able to. Might as well be on one of those old roman galleys
Ming Kerr
Ming Kerr Again. The government and media are STILL pushing the “scroungers and malingerers” rhetoric by refusing to unlink “WORK” from severe illness and disability!!!
The whole international law based ethos of disability and sickness payments is that it is in…See more
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Paul Barney Barnard
Paul Barney Barnard More tory spin.
People forget that the GP is paid by taxes but their medical expertise is overruled by the dwp also paid by our taxes. Via a private company also paid from our taxes. There will never be support. Unless starving and driving us to suicide are newspeak for support. Those that can work will find work anyway.
It’s all lies based on public ignorance and stigma fuelled by the right wing media.
Bobby Chariot
Bobby Chariot ESA is not a disability benefit, it is an incapacity benefit.
Confusing the two – deliberately or otherwise -does nobody any favours, except perhaps for the press and the government…
Sam Milligan
Sam Milligan If they didn’t remove the training schemes that were in place then “the tailored support” would still be in place. Good old torys trying to reinvent the wheel again.
Jean Stones
Jean Stones It never stops and never will under these bullies , When the Tories want to change something ( saying it will make things better ) It is all ways for there benefit and no one else
Julia Smith
Julia Smith The last time they ‘overhauled’ the system they took away our basic right to an immediate appeal…remember ? They put ‘Mandatory Consideration’ in as a barrier which effectively left us without income for up to a year BEFORE we could even appeal properly and get some justice at Tribunal….
Anne Anderson
Anne Anderson I don’t like the sound of “targeted and personalised support” ….
Edward Blockley
Edward Blockley The bastards just can’t let go, they are like a bull to a red rag.
It’s about time people wake up to these fascist pigs…
Marvin Hutchison
Marvin Hutchison its been years since anybody could possibly malinger on benefits , and we all know it
Paul Barney Barnard
Paul Barney Barnard By 2040 70% of jobs will be replaced by automation. Wonder how that fits in with the Arbeit Macht Frei ideology?
Anne Martin
Anne Martin ffs not another one
John Lowrie
John Lowrie More death ,Evil bastards .
Deborah Smith
Deborah Smith What work?
………………….lots of support?
“KILLER SMITH SLATES A REPRESENTATION OF THE DEATH MACHINE THAT HE CREATED”
Senior Tory Iain Duncan Smith has launched an attack on the new film about life on benefits by Ken Loach, claiming the director has painted an unrealistic picture and treated jobcentre staff unfairly.
Mr Duncan Smith, who presided over deep cuts to benefits when the Tories came to power, claimed I, Daniel Blake focused only on “the very worst of anything that can ever happen to anybody”.
The Palme d’Or-winning film tells the story of a carpenter relying on benefits to survive after suffering a heart attack.
Ken Loach: I hope I, Daniel Blake lands because we need to fight back
He is then thrust into a Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare, designed to ensure his disability benefit payments and Jobseeker’s Allowance are almost unobtainable.
Former Work and Pensions Secretary Mr Duncan Smith said: “I did think that whilst on the one level this was a human story full of pathos and difficulty, and I’m not saying for one moment there aren’t serious difficulties and issues when you’re under pressure, when things like this happen … the film has taken the very worst of anything that can ever happen to anybody and lumped it all together and then said this is life absolutely as it is lived by people, and I don’t believe that.”
There were £15bn of cuts to the welfare budget over the five years between 2010 and 2015, during which time Mr Duncan Smith was Work and Pensions Secretary. He eventually quit over further cuts to the Universal Credit system he helped design.
Duncan Smith on benefits
He went on: “The one area I just had criticism of really was his portrayal of the jobcentre staff.
“I just thought it was unfair. I mean I have travelled round so many jobcentres talked to so many of them.
“The vast, vast, vast majority … are there to work to help people sort themselves out. They often go through their CVs with them.”
Speaking on BBC radio he added: “This idea that everybody is out to crunch you, I think it has really hurt jobcentre staff who don’t see themselves as that.”
…………….HIMMLERS NODDING DOG
Bewolf
At some point Duncan Smith must have asked Cameron “How many deaths of sick and disabled people do you think that I can get away with?” They both knew that people were going to die due to their policies.
“UK TRAILER TRASH, THE CHEAP ALTERNATIVES”
Ministers are planning a new wave of prefabricated homes in an attempt to solve Britain’s housing crisis, according to reports.
More than 100,000 pre-packed “modular” homes could be created as the government looks at ways to meet its one million homes target by 2020, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
A white paper due out next month will include measures to encourage banks to lend to firms which construct homes off-site before delivering them to their final destination, the newspaper said.
The initiative imitates the reconstruction drive which followed the Second World War as “prefab” homes sprung up across the country in an attempt to house families bombed out of their homes.
While prefabs in the 1940s were often poor quality, improvements in technology mean the new ready-made homes should be a lot better, and they can be put up in as little as 48 hours.
The Sunday Telegraph quoted a source from the government as saying: “The first and most obvious advantage is speeding up the building of housing.
“There is pretty good evidence that if you did it at scale it is cheaper.”
Housing and planning minister Gavin Barwell said: “Offsite construction could provide a huge opportunity to increase housing supply and we want to see more innovation like this emulated across the housebuilding sector.
“The £3 billion Home Building Fund will help build more than 225,000 new homes and provide loans for small firms, custom builders, offsite construction and essential infrastructure, creating thousands of new jobs in the process.”
………..far away from the leafy suburbs of the super rich but close enough to a Victorian Workhouse, no doubt.
An advanced phase in the Tory Eugenics programme where you rent is raised, housing benefit cut and you are forced into a nice shiny shoebox away from your family and friends……….
The ghetto…..
Families forced to pay for private bin collectors as funding cuts bite
Householders have been forced to pay hundreds of pounds for a private rubbish collectors after a council cut bin collections to just once every three weeks.
It emerged a businessman in Greater Manchester is charging £25 a month for his service as he claimed he is emptying 200 bins per day.
Outraged households say they have been left with no choice but to sign up for a collection that they should be getting for their contribution to council tax, the Mail on Sunday reported.
Some have raised fears of a fly-tipping crisis as cash-strapped councils are imposing the first monthly collections.
Josh Morris, a 25-year-old business man who is licensed to handle environmental waste, manages the bin collection service in Greater Manchester.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/30/families-forced-to-pay-for-private-bin-collectors-as-funding-cut/
“BENT BERKSHIRE CORONER, PETER BEDFORD, HIDES DWP KILLING SPREE”
……….just as the state needs bent judges, it also needs bent coroners….
A coroner has refused to hold an inquest into the death of a disabled man who had a fatal heart attack an hour after being told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was threatening to stop his benefits.
Alan McArdle, who had previously been homeless but was living in council accommodation in Slough, Berkshire, told the friend who had read the DWP letter to him: “They’ve sanctioned my money,” before he collapsed.
The discredited government contractor Maximus had reported him to DWP for failing to attend appointments intended to move him towards work, as part of the Work Programme, despite being told about his severe ill-health.
But despite the apparent role of both Maximus and DWP in his death, a senior coroner has decided that it is not necessary to hold an inquest.
A spokeswoman for Peter Bedford, the senior coroner for Berkshire, told DNS this week that he was satisfied that McArdle’s death was due to natural causes “and therefore an inquest would not be deemed necessary”.
……………..THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN THIS MANS LAST WORDS AND THE DWP CULL THAT BEDFORD HAS BEEN EXPLICITLY TOLD TO IGNORE.
BEDFORD SHOULD BE STRUCK OFF FOR HIS CONTEMPTIBLE STANCE THAT ALLOWS THE GOVERNMENT TO CARRY ON IT’S BARRAGE OF HATE AGAINST THE MOST WEAK.
“BEDFORD, YOU ARE A TOTAL DISGRACE TO THE OFFICE YOU HOLD”
………….AND ANOTHER ONE
Gerard Hales • 2 days ago
“Recently our friend Jose (Bitterne Triangle Southampton), was on
the phone to one of us saying how he had been complaining to The Job
Centre concerning the amount of stress that the “Job-Search” commitments
(forced on him when he lost his Disability Living Allowance and failed
in his application for so called “Personal Independence
Payment”), were causing him (he had a heart condition), when he stopped
abruptly mid-conversation, my other friend (who is clearly still in
considerable shock), went to his house only to find him lying dead on
the floor having suffered a fatal heart attack.
Jose was a talented artist of the modernist school and a “known figure”
around Portswood and Bitterne Southampton, where he had lived for
years, walking his little dog (his only house companion), which has now
lost its master (“fascisti “old comrade” fascisti!”), Rest in Peace my friend.” “Arafel” gkhales.blogspot.co.uk “The Roll of Deaths”
………..NO LINK
…………..AND THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN 10,600 DYING WITHIN A FEW WEEKS OF BEING PRONOUNCED, FIT FOR WORK…..
THEY ARE JUST A PHENOMENAL COINCIDENCE THAT ROCK THE ODDS OF SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION………..OR MURDER, TO PUT IT SUCCINCTLY…
Geoff – This cunt needs investigating under ‘misconduct by an Official in Public Office’ (he is ultimately paid for by the ‘tax-payer’)
No U-turn on benefit cuts that will take £1,000 a year off three million families, says Government
Damian Green, the Work and Pensions Secretary, will not ‘reverse what happened in the past’ – despite growing pressure from Tory backbenchers to rethink cuts to Universal Credit
On the three million people affected, he claimed: “They won’t be poorer than they are now – they will be getting more money.”
Employers will be encouraged to help stop staff with long-term conditions falling out of work, while Jobcentre Plus work coaches will direct claimants to therapy.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/no-u-turn-on-cuts-that-will-take-1000-a-year-off-three-million-families-a-cabinet-minister-has-said-a7388661.html
Work and health plan to help disabled people into employment.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/work-and-health-plan-to-help-disabled-people-into-employment
news seeker – I notice with regard to the last one (i.e the work & health plan etc) that a lot of the footnoted comments are by various ‘CEO’s of assorted ‘Charities’ and ‘do-gooding’ voluntary organisations.
These bastards should be ‘supporting’ real disabled people.
Most ‘real’ disabled people can, in now way whatsoever either ‘work’ part-time – let alone ‘full-time’ (i.e. DLA/PIP)
I would go so far as to say that I personally reckon that the present Tory Government probably ‘pays them’ in some kind of ‘slush fund’ to keep these parasitic organisations on board.
Part of the problem is that the Tories lump ALL benefits together as being ‘disabled’ benefits. Incapacity Benefit is not a ‘disabled’ benefit as such – ESA also is not a ‘disabled’ benefit as such.
The only truly ‘disabled’ benefits (as I, with my very limited knowledge of the system understands it – are both DLA & PIP)
THESE CHARITIES/VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS SHOULD REALLY,
BE TOTALLY CONDEMNING THE TORIES FOR WHAT THEY HAVE, AND ARE CONTINUING TO DO, TO REAL DISABLED PEOPLE.
Work, health and disability: consultation
Overview.
https://consultations.dh.gov.uk/workandhealth/consult/
The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper
95 pages.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/564038/work-and-health-green-paper-improving-lives.pdf
Sick pay and work assessments to be reviewed, Jeremy Hunt reveals
The system of sick pay and GP “fit notes” is to be reviewed by the government, as Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, highlighted the growing cost of long-term sickness to the NHS and suggested getting people back to work had major benefits for health.
The new review will consult on scrapping the process that puts disabled people into two groups of being unable to work or capable of some work.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/31/sick-pay-and-work-assessments-to-be-reviewed-jeremy-hunt-reveals
One GP’s Protest.
When Government Policy Abuses the Vulnerable….
https://onegpprotest.org/2012/03/17/when-government-policy-abuses-the-vulnerable/
BBC – ‘Left Wing Bias’ -You could have fooled me! “The BBC faces mass privatisation after an influential think tank accuses it of ‘left-wing bias'”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/31/bbc-faces-mass-privatisation-influential-think-tank-accuses-left-wing-bias/
“Theresa Mays’s £10bn funding boost for the NHS is an outright lie, and that’s official”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/31/theresa-mays-10bn-funding-boost-nhs-outright-lie-thats-official/
“Orgreave outrage after May ‘changes mind’ over Thatcher-era enquiry”
Theresa May – a true Margaret Thatcher worshipper!
Theresa May is up against it and she needs to go!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/battle-of-orgreave-miners-1984-amber-rudd-theresa-may-famlies-statement-comment-a7389471.html
“No U-turn on benefit cuts that will take £1,000 a year off three million families, says Government”
Theresa May is acting like a rudderless ship in a tempestuous sea!
Theresa May does not know what she is doing and she needs to go – now!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/no-u-turn-on-cuts-that-will-take-1000-a-year-off-three-million-families-a-cabinet-minister-has-said-a7388661.html
“THE DWP REGARD THE DISABLED AS TRASH”
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been ordered to pay a woman with Asperger’s syndrome a total of £70,000 after an employment tribunal found the DWP to be guilty of disability discrimination. The DWP was found by the tribunal to have subjected the claimant to harassment due to her Asperger’s. The tribunal initially awarded damages to the claimant of £54,000 as compensation for constructive unfair dismissal and disability discrimination. In a further hearing, another £17,500 was ordered to be paid by the DWP for failing to comply with a re-employment ruling. (06/03/2013)
http://www.croner-i.croner.co.uk/croner-…
“IN 2012 THERE WERE 146 TRIBUNAL CLAIMS MADE AGAINST THE DWP FOR DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION”
……….but this is fuck all compared to when the welfare litigation starts
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
You recently released information shown below;
2) How many claims of Disability Discrimination were made against the DWP
by its employees in 2012?
In 2012 there were 146 Employment Tribunal claims made against DWP by its
employees for Disability Discrimination. Of the 87 claims that have been closed,
only 9 went to an Employment Tribunal, and of these only 1 was won by the
claimant.
I would like to ask the following questions,
1/ You state that 146 employment tribunal claims were made against the DWP for Disability Discrimination. If 87 have been closed, i surmise 59 are still outstanding. Is this correct?
2/ Of the 87 claims that have been closed, how much money was paid out as sweeteners/severance agreements, over and above the redundancy payments that were forthcoming?
3/ By virtue of the fact that one person only(as of now), won their claim at tribunal for Disability Discrimination, does this indicate that you actively discriminated against a disabled employee?
4/ How many of the residual 59 have applied to pursue their case to tribunal knowing a precedent has been set?
5/ Was the victor at the tribunal re-employed?
6/ What redundancy packages are available from the DWP?
Please indicate levels across pay groups.
Yours faithfully,
GEOFFREY REYNOLDS
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/redundant_disabled_at_dwp#incoming-403068
“HOW THE DWP DEEMED A FEMALE STAFF WORKER WITH ASPERGERS SYNDROME TO BE UNEMPLOYABLE, YET ATOS FOUND HER FIT TO WORK”
……….THE INCREDIBLE CASE OF BAFFLING BULLSHIT BY YOUR FAVOURITE DISABILITY KILLERS…….
Question two is about the lady with Aspergers Syndrome being unemployable because of her disability. Please answer the question, especially why you find her condition makes her unemployable yet ATOS finds them fit for work….
I asked how many persons with Aspergers had been found fit to work by ATOS.
It would seem its a matter of dual standards when your department find somebody with Aspergers to be unemployable, yet ATOS deems them fit for work…
i therefore request an internal revue that might explain the variation in what you say and what you actually do.
Hypocrisy springs to mind!
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/dwp_treatment_of_its_disabled_st#outgoing-280015
“MURDERED SQUADDIE COMES BACK TO HAUNT DWP”
Lawyers acting on behalf of the sister of a 59-year-old ex-soldier who died in 2013 after he was ‘sanctioned’ by the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) are calling for an inquest into his death.
https://www.leighday.co.uk/News/News-2016/October-2016/Submissions-from-lawyers-call-for-inquest-into-dea
Merry Varney from the law firm Leigh Day who is representing Ms Thompson in her fight for an inquest into her brother’s death, said:
“We hope that these submissions will show the Coroner that there is a reason to suspect that David died an unnatural death and that an investigation should be opened with a view to holding a full Inquest into the circumstances of David’s death.
“Inquests and Coronial Investigations play a fundamental role in ensuring preventable or avoidable deaths are identified and that steps are taken to prevent another tragedy.
“The United Nations recently expressed their concern at the absence of due process and access to justice in the UK for those affected by the use of sanctions by the DWP and an Inquest into David’s death would be at least an initial step towards addressing these grave concerns.”
………………….THE NET IS CLOSING IN, IAIN DUNCAN SMITH AND LORD DAVID FRAUD…..
My so called work coach asked me how I have survived since my last benefits were paid.
It is only obvious what they want us to do.
ffs GEOFF!! David Clapson was MURDERED!! And everyone involved in his MURDER. From the cunt who raised the ‘doubt’, to the ‘decision maker’ who ‘recommended’ a sanction, to the ‘work coach’ who press the ‘SANCTION’ button, to that bald-headed cunt Iain Duncan Smith and his minions in the ‘Civil Service’ who devised these cruel ‘policies’ need to be tracked and hunted because the bloody paper trail is right there. Every last one of them can be hunted down. And when they are caught they should be prosecuted and spend the rest of their lives behind bars. You can apologies for these CUNTS all, dress it all you want, trot out the: “They were only following orders” mantra but at the end of the day David Clapson was MURDERED!! No ifs, no buts!!
The tide is turning GEOFF!! There are cunts out there walking free who are RESPONSIBLE for a human being’s murder, a fucking grotesque crime, a criminal act of the highest MAGNITUDE! And they CANNOT be allowed to escape. They CANNOT be allowed to evade justice. They MUST PAY THE PRICE!!
Work, health and disability: consultation
Overview.
https://consultations.dh.gov.uk/workandhealth/consult/
The Work, Health and Disability Green Paper
95 pages.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/564038/work-and-health-green-paper-improving-lives.pdf
“UK GOVERNMENT WANT TO RUN CHRONIC MUSCLE FATIGUE TRIALS ( GET YOUR MIND RIGHT), ON OUR KIDS”
…….AT THE SAME TIME HIDING CLINICAL PACE TRIAL INFORMATION ON ADULTS FROM THE PUBLIC.
ESTHER CRAWLEY, the shrink who gave her name to the trials is nothing more than an extension of the private health insurance industry who dominate the roles of the NHS.
The trials, if the same as the adult ones, will be manipulated and altered to do one thing only………..save money.
The so called medical trials are an invention that the problems associated with M.E., are all in the mind and can be cured by CBT therapy (COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY). Which in turn is roughly translated as the problem is all in your mind.
All of our welfare work capability tests are now engineered around this voodoo claptrap science developed by the private health insurers that uses the BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL theory that we all are responsible for our ailments.
If the trials are so successful as the puppet experts such as Crawley try to sell, then why are our government spending thousands and fighting tooth and nail to hide the PACE TRIALS from ever being released.
UK tribunal orders release of data from controversial chronic fatigue syndrome study
……………………………………………………………………………………….
UK tribunal orders release of data from controversial chronic fatigue syndrome study
court caseA tribunal in the UK has rejected an appeal by Queen Mary University of London, who sought to reverse a previous order that they release data from a controversial 2011 paper in The Lancet about chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
The decision is one in a long series of judgments about the so-called PACE trial, which reported that two treatments — known as cognitive behavioral therapy and graded exercise therapy — helped alleviate the symptoms of the condition. But ever since The Lancet article and follow-up papers have been published, patients and critics have questioned the conclusions and clamored to see the raw data.
………………………………………………………………………………………………
JUST AS THE DWP USE FAKE THIRD PARTY NURSES TO FALSIFY DISABILITY MEDICAL REPORTS, THE UK GOVERNMENT NOW USES FAKED MEDICAL TRIAL STUDIES TO ALLEVIATE COSTS TO THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY WHO NOW DOMINATE WELFARE REFORM…………
“DWP FAKED PACE TRIAL STUDY”
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.
http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/news/major-breaktn-pace-trial/00296.html
………….IS THERE ANY WONDER CLAIMANTS ARE DROPPING LIKE FLIES?
“DWP DENY FUNDING LEGAL COSTS TO HIDE PACE TRIAL STUDIES”
DATE: 31 October 2016
Annex A
Dear Mr Slater
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 3 October 2016. You asked:
The DWP part funded research by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), into ME/CFS
(myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome) study known as the “PACE 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?
…………………………………………………………………………..
ANSWER
We are not aware of any DWP funding for the FOIA case.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/362640/response/888865/attach/html/2/3812%202016%20Reply.pdf.html
DWP Strategy FoI Team
“DWP CHALLENGED ON WHY IT CHOSE TO FUND A MEDICAL TRIAL”
D. Benyon 2 March 2011
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please could you explain why this department was involved in part funding the recent PACE trial into the use of CBT & GET on ME/CFS sufferers?
How many other studies, with regard to particular illness’ has the DWP been involved in with funding prior to this?
If this is the first study that the DWP has helped to fund, why this trial?
Has the DWP a particular agenda with regard to ME/CFS such as disregarding the WHO classification of it being a NEUROLOGICAL disease?
Yours faithfully,
D.Benyon
…………….A GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT FUNDING A MEDICAL TRIAL?
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/part_funding_of_the_pace_trial_b#comment-16912
……………………THE DWP FUNDED THE TRIAL IN ORDER TO GET THE ANSWER THEY WANTED……..
THAT WORK IS GOOD FOR YOU………….
We believe that the findings of the trial will contribute to the
continuingly growing evidence base, which informs the development of
health and work related policy, policy based on the large body of
evidence showing that work is good for physical and mental wellbeing and
that being out of work can lead to poor health and other negative
outcomes.
DWP
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/part_funding_of_the_pace_trial_b#comment-16912
D. Benyon left an annotation (17 March 2011)
Interesting reply. From this I am able to come to the following conclusions.
The DWP part funded this trial about ME/CFS in the hope it would provide information that would help the DWP in helping sufferers back to work!
The DWP has NEVER part or wholly funded ANY medical trials before this!
WHO neurological classification is neatly side stepped by some general platitude about the illness.
The answers therefore serve to prove that the DWP DOE’S HAVE it’s own hidden agenda on ME/CFS and is targeting the illness in a way that no other illness or disability has been targeted before!
Case proven?
“Additionally, one of the secondary measures considered as part of the trial, was the impact that the trial would have on ability for employment and study.”
DWP
D. Benyon left an annotation (18 March 2011)
Thanks for the information. Strange isn’t it, how the secondary purpose is hidden?
I find it abhorant that any group of disabled and sick people can be targeted and persecuted by a system that was designed to help them live as normal a life as possible.
I wonder if there would be a public outcry if MS sufferers or people with Parkinson’s disease were victimised and stigmatised in a similar fashion by the DWP?
Disability discrimination is happening here I believe.
……….AND WHEN CHALLENGED ON HOW MANY PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM ME TYPE DISABILITIES HAD LOST THEIR BENEFITS, THE DWP CLAIMED THIS………….
In response to you questions;
I can confirm that the Department does hold some information falling within the description of
specified in your request. However this information is not readily available, particularly for the
detailed medical conditions required. The information that we do have readily available is given
below.
The Department does publish some information on high level medical conditions for
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants. The datasets used to produce these
statistics however do not contain detailed medical information. We therefore estimate that the
cost of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit of £600. This is mainly
due to the complexity involved in developing the methodology to extract the detailed
information on medical conditions from data sources not directly used for publication.
…………..STRANGE HOW THEY FUCKED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE OVER AND STOLE THEIR BENEFITS BUT DO NOT KNOW THE FIGURES……
In one month, an obscure procedural rule tweak will come into effect allowing US cops and federal agents to hack any computer in the world using a single warrant issued anywhere in America.
No one in Congress has voted on this legal update. It means a warrant granted somewhere within the US can be executed on the other side of the country – or the other side of the planet.
The change, approved by the Supreme Court, is in Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Right now, if law enforcement wants to hack a PC, they have to ask a judge for a warrant in the jurisdiction where it is located. With the rule change, they could do this to any computer anywhere in the US or the world.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/31/congress_to_act_before_fbi_global_hacking_license/
“UNUM CROOKS INFLUENCING DWP FAKE MEDICAL TRIALS”
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.
…………….AND THIS IS THE SHIT THAT LORD DAVID FRAUD PRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT AS BEING BONAFIDE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH………
Bogus crap engineered and paid for by DWP in order to steal disability benefits…….
“HAD YOUR DISABILITY BENEFITS STOLEN BY THE DWP……….READ ON”
……….THERE SHOULD BE A PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO THE DWP’S CONFLICT OF INTEREST INTO FUNDING FAVOURABLE MEDICAL TRIALS ON INSTRUCTION FROM THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY
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.
“BENEFIT THEFT ON A GRAND SCALE”
What also needs to be seriously considered is how the conflicting interests (the DWP and the insurance industry) present in the PACE trial may have influenced the results to come out in their favour. It is troubling cases like the PACE trial controversy that highlights the importance of transparency in clinical trial data so that the results can be verified by other scientists. The PACE trial researchers repeated refusals to release the data discredits them and their science.
“OH LOOK, ANOTHER DWP STUDY THAT FINDS 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, UK (funded by UNUM PROVIDENT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY)
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.
……………JOIN THE DOTS AND FOLLOW THE DEATHS
………………WITH REFERENCE TO THE DWP FUNDED REPORT BY WADDELL AND BURTON ABOUT WORK BEING GOOD FOR YOU……
THIS PARAGRAPH APPEARS NEAR THE CONCLUSION AT THE END OF THE REPORT
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. The retrieved material
demonstrated a broad consensus of opinion but
provided very little actual scientific evidence,
so separate searches were made in the three key health categories: mental health,
musculoskeletal, and cardio-respiratory conditions.
…………..VERY LITTLE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
“THE GOVERNMENTS GREEN PAPER ON DISABILITY WELFARE CHANGES”
……..DO AS WE SAY, OR DIE
GREEN PAPER comments on reforming the assessment:
(this is their proposal)
“Establishing entitlement to financial support could still be decided by an assessment, but that assessment could be used solely to determine whether an individual should get additional financial support. Decisions on whether someone should engage with Jobcentre Plus or specialist programmes could then be made through a separate process.
Work coaches could have discretion to make case-by-case decisions about the type of employment support a person is able to engage with.
Work coaches will be able to draw on additional advice where needed, from Disability Employment Advisers and Community Partners, and could access specialist advice such as occupational health and Jobcentre Plus work psychologists where individuals have more complex health conditions
That important relationship with a work coach would then continue beyond the assessment, ensuring those assessed as needing the most financial support can still access the holistic health and employment support and signposting offered by and through Jobcentre Plus.
Work coaches could have full discretion to tailor any employment support to each individual claimant.”
“A possible online psychological ‘cure’ for young M.E./CFS sufferers!” – Eh?!
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/01/young-people-me-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-treatment-trial-success-netherlands
“More than 300,000 children dragged into benefit cuts, research reveals”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/more-than-300000-children-will-be-hit-by-a-new-benefits-cap-next-week-theresa-may-george-osborne-a7389736.html
“Benefit cap will hit 116,000 of poorest families say experts”
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/01/extended-benefit-cap-hit-116000-families-housing-experts
And – from a month or so ago now!
“In Liverpool, 840 families risk losing their homes because of benefits cuts”
http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/oct/03/liverpool-840-families-risk-losing-homes-benefits-cuts
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JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is yet another shameful failure of natural justice!
Another sheep, (in the form of ‘dodgy’ Keith Vaz) is set to be let loose to further gorge on the free grass of Government Justice decision making!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bid-block-keith-vaz-justice-9168420
“Number of NHS mental nurses drops by 15% under Tories”
(Perhaps they’ve gone off to become lowly ‘HCP’s under the likes of ATOS, MAXIMUS & CAPITA!)
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/01/number-mental-health-nurses-nhs-drops-sixth-tories
Coward! “Absent Amber Rudd accused of ‘bitter betrayal’ over Orgreave”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/01/absent-amber-rudd-accused-of-bitter-betrayal-over-orgreave
“PLEASE SPREAD THIS ONE AS FAR AND WIDE AS POSSIBLE – IF POSSIBLE INTO EUROPE AND ON TO THE UNITED NATIONS AS WELL”
The bald cunt, in the form of Iain Duncan Smith is nothing less than a murderer (as so is Chris Grayling also) in wilfully ignoring Coroner’s recommendations that could have saved further lives being lost, especially by suicide etc from their cruel ‘Welfare Reform’ Tory Government policies.
Shamefully, so far they have got away with it.
A disgusting disgrace that somehow, somewhere along the line, must be avenged.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/i-daniel-blake-accuracy-ken-loach-benefits-sanctions-deaths-iain-duncan-smith-toby-young-a7384581.html
SwordOfJustice
History usually tells you the future. You seriously think this evil leopard will change its spots simply because the rhetoric is softer, more gentle?
The WCA is bent from the start, fact. Banned in the USA under UNUM but gladly used here for disability denial whenever possible by the DWP. The UN are investigating the disgusting treatment of disabled people in this country from our very own government, that in itself should speak volumes. Many, many poor people have died after being denied the rightful social security provisions they were entitled too, etc, etc, etc…
Do I feel optimistic because Green is using softer words than IDS? Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice .
Ken Loach’s brilliant film”I Daniel Blake” illustrates precisely what the Tories think of disabled people on benefits, those found fit enough to work. The system is cruel, vicious and stupid – it’s almost designed to catch out the people most in need of help, sentencing them to food banks and penury. A national scandal.
“MINISTRY OF DEFENCE REFUSES TO DIVULGE INFORMATION ON NUCLEAR TESTS ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND THAT LED TO THE DEATHS OF UK TROOPS AND CIVILIAN PERSONNEL”
Dave Whyte 17 September 2016
Delivered
Dear Ministry of Defence.
In 1958 during the series of Hydrogen, and Atomic bomb tests at Christmas Island, I was ordered to drive a ‘Road Roller’, on presumption that this was to make the road ready for surfacing with tarmacadam, to the Southern end of the Island where the Hydrogen bomb Ground Zero was situated.
Can you please supply me with the following information.
1. How many days did I travel this route (It was in excess of One week)?
2. What information was obtained from the concealed instruments?
3. Why was I, a non-plant operator, chosen to drive the Road Roller?
Yours faithfully,
David Whyte
……………….CHEAPER TO LET THE VETERANS DIE THAN PAY COMPENSATION.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/british_nuclear_tests_christmas#incoming-887974
TWO OF MY FRIENDS DIED FROM LEUKAEMIA AS A RESULT OF THESE TESTS THAT THE MOD REFUSE TO COMPENSATE.
IT’S ABOUT TIME THE GOVERNMENT CAME CLEAN ON THE TOXIC MIX OF CANCER CAUSING EXPERIMENTS TESTED ON HUMAN GUINEA PIGS.
THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, WHO WAS ON A SHIP WAS WARNED NOT TO BE IN THE AREA AT THE TIME OF THE TESTS, BUT HIS SURVIVAL WAS UPPERMOST TO THE CANNON FODDER THAT SERVED QUEEN AND COUNTRY.
“I, Daniel Blake director Ken Loach says ‘incompetent’ Tories are not fit to govern” (Comments underneath are also interesting!)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-daniel-blake-director-ken-9176668
Highly commend Ken Loach, he is telling you precisely how it is, so how come Tories are in denial, it’s not like they haven’t been told already. United Nations said UK Gov breached International Human Rights, EHRC found likewise, multi charities have told them over and over. The victims have tried to fight back, lives have been lost, many millions of others suffer. Yes please, get Tories out, they simply are The Nasty Party! Not an inch of compassion. They are vile! Don’t like that? Well try studying a little harder and you may find the truth. Can’t abide by ignorance, lies, deceit. It could be you or family affected next, use your brains! Open your eyes and start looking out for others! There is enough trouble in this dangerous world, everyone has a right to live, have roof over head, afford bills, food etc. It is all so wrong! Somebody stop them! Now!
“VILE TORY UK”
………………………..What happened to good old common sense?
Couple together for 70 years told they ‘don’t meet criteria’ to live together in care home
Ray Lorrison, 95, and wife Jessie, 85, from South Shields have spent nearly every day of their lives together since they first met in 1946 – but now must live separate lives
Jessie and Ray Lorrison have spent the last seventy years together have now been told they must live separately
Jessie and Ray Lorrison have spent the last seventy years together have now been told they must live separately
An elderly couple who have been by each other’s side for 70 years are being ‘forced apart’ by social services – as they ‘don’t meet the criteria’ to live together.
Jessie and Ray Lorrison, of South Shields in South Tyneside, have spent nearly every day of their lives together since they first met in 1946 – but have now been told they must live separate lives.
Ray, 95, is living at Westoe Grange Care Home in the town, while his heartbroken wife Jessie, 88, is in hospital after being told she ‘does not meet the criteria’ to join her husband.
Their daughter Cheryl Bates, 60, is desperately trying to reunite them in the care home.
Today she slammed South Tyneside Social Services’ treatment of her parents as “disgusting”.
Mum-of-three Cheryl said: “It is heartbreaking – and so cruel!
“Why should they be apart after all this time? What gives social services the right to play God?
“They haven’t even got that much time left together. My dad will be lucky if he gets another six months.
“Every day he says, ‘Where is your mam?’
“He’s sitting outside his room in a chair waiting for my mam. He won’t go to bed, he’s sleeping in the chair.
“I am desperate for them to be reunited so they can spend rest of their days together.”
Ray, who was a cook in the Merchant Navy and worked down the pits, and Jessie, a shop manager, met after the war through Ray’s older sister Myra.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/elderly-couple-each-others-side-9164416
………..COUPLE NOW REUNITED AFTER AN ONLINE PETITION OF 22,000 SIGNATURES EMBARRASSED THE SOCIAL SERVICES INTO MAKING A U TURN.
PEOPLE POWER IS AN AMAZING TOOL. NEVER FORGET THAT………
“THERESA MAY YOU HEARTLESS BAG OF SHIT”
“This is the biggest benefit cut that you’ve never heard of. The newspapers will waste gallons of ink on Candice Bake-Off’s lipstick and Cheryl’s apparent baby bump. But about a government policy that could disrupt the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, there is near silence.”
In a little council house in Birkenhead, Steve is panicking over how he’ll find an extra £304 rent money a month. He has just days to magic up an answer. If he can’t, he can guess what will happen. “Eviction. Come the end of November, I won’t have a roof.” As a single parent, Steve won’t be the only one slung out. His four boys, aged from three to eight, would also lose their home and probably be taken from their dad. “I’d be fed to the dogs.” Everything I’ve tried so hard for …” – a snap of his fingers – “Nothing.”
In Liverpool, 840 families risk losing their homes because of benefits cuts
Jane Corbett
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It’s not a landlord doing this to Steve; it’s our government. It’s not his rent that’s going up; it’s his housing benefit that’s getting cut. And he’s not the only one; on official figures, almost 500 households in the borough of Wirral face a shortfall of up to £500 a month.
From next Monday 88,000 families across Britain will have their housing benefit slashed. They will no longer have the cash to pay their rent. Among all those whose lives will be turned upside down will be a quarter of a million children. That’s enough kids to fill 350 primary schools, all facing homelessness.
Those figures come directly from the Department for Work and Pensions. Plenty dispute them, which is unsurprising since DWP officials keep changing their minds. Some experts believe the number of children at risk could total 500,000.
This is the biggest benefit cut that you’ve never heard of. The newspapers will waste gallons of ink on Candice Bake-Off’s lipstick and Cheryl’s apparent baby bump. But about a government policy that could disrupt hundreds of thousands of lives, there is near silence.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/31/child-poverty-theresa-may-housing-benefit-cuts?CMP=fb_gu
………..FOR MANY, DEATH WILL NOT BE AN OPTION
“LEAVING JUST £1.02p PER DAY FOR EACH FAMILY MEMBER TO LIVE ON”
To see how deep it will cut, have a look at these figures. I grew up on the outskirts of London, in a place called Edmonton. It has pockets of deprivation as bad as anything in Wirral and, on DWP estimates, around 1,200 households here will be hit by the new benefits cap. By my reckoning, this government now expects children growing up in my former home to be raised on £1.02 a day.
The basic expenses for a family with four children in Edmonton come to £399.14 per week.
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My sums go as follows:
£315.12 for rent (the allowable local rent for a three-bed home).
£33.36 for council tax (Enfield council, band E property).
£32 for gas and electric (the average weekly bill, according to government figures, with an extra 20% added for a large family).
£8.54 for water (Thames Water’s average bill for 2015, with 20% added for a large family).
£10.12 phone and broadband (BT Anytime standard package).
Taking all that from the £442.31 allowed to any London family leaves £43.17 each week left over for the family. That is £1.02 per person per day.
Of course, these figures are arguable. The family could cut down on energy use by choosing to be cold this winter. Or they could go without showers and washing up. That said, I’ve left off mobile phone calls and TV. I’ve not factored in school trips or family breaks or Christmas.
“CHRISTMAS, THE TORY WAY…………………..
In the eyes of the Tories the poor are expendable because they don’t need their votes to win an election.And much of the media isn’t interested in the plight of the poor because it is they who’ve done an excellent job in demonizing them as feckless shirkers who only have themselves to blame for their predicament.
The Tory vultures are also circling once again for yet another attack on the sick and disabled .For following Damian Green’s recent comments it’s quite clear-to me anyway-that any Tory overhaul of the WCA will be about driving down the numbers of ESA claimants placed in the Support Group and driving up the numbers declared either fit for work and ineligible for ESA or placed in the ESA Work Related Activty Group where their benefits will be slashed to JSA levels.
And so what if thousands more sick and disabled people die after being wrongly assessed even if it that includes hundreds of suicides.? The Tories won’t give a toss about them just like they don’t give a toss about ”Steve” and his kids and tens of thousands like them facing the loss of their homes because of the benefit cap.This country is getting more and more darwinian and the fact we don’t have an effective and electable opposition to the Tories at the moment depresses the hell out of me.
“Mutiny as Tory MP’s demand mercy for disabled people hit by ESA benefit cuts” (The vast majority of Tory MP’s voted for this scandallous change in the first place – what has changed I ask myself?)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mutiny-tory-mps-demand-mercy-9172543
“Jeremy Corbyn tells Theresa May to watch ‘I, Daniel Blake’ to understand the benefits system”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/i-daniel-blake-jeremy-corbyn-pmqs-esa-benefits-system-theresa-may-sanctions-a7393371.html
Now (seemingly) the Tory bastards are also after the ESA Support Group!
Damian Green is just as much a cunt as what IDS was, (and still is!).
“Arbeit Macht Frei” “Work makes you Free” IDS’s watchwords (from WWII)
Work is only very good if one is a well paid job, where one is fully appreciated. It is not good, or good for one’s health if one is subjected to 0 hour contracts, very low pay, very long hours, a shithouse of an employer and is used as nothing much more than a slave to one’s employer’s wishes to make as much money as possible off of the back of the poor slave.
B&W have produced a very good article detailing all of the things that could be on the way for the various groups/unemployed.
There is a full link at the bottom of the page to the DWP ‘consultation’ as it stands at this present time. This ‘consultation’ ends on 17th February 2017.
It can be found at:
http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/3568-government-plans-to-make-many-esa-support-group-claimants-undertake-work-related-activities
For the pampered and ‘underworked’ MP’s (& ‘Lords’) – ‘WORK’ (as far as they are concerned) consists of sitting on their fat arses all day – talking bullshit – making laws for their ‘subjects’ (any of whom have voted for them or not!), whilst at the same time raking in loads of money (all ‘tax-payer’ funded), expenses (for the ‘Lords’ £300 per day just for turning up) and any other ‘Company connections/ Directorships/Consultancies’ etc.
In a virtual one-party, and increasingly undemocratic state, a bunch of 312 or so (Commons)Tory MP’s are able to hold sway and control upwards of 67 million of Britain’s population.
What a disgusting shambles – in many other Countries – they would have been overthrown long before now!
************* IMPORTANT – THE ‘NEW’ BENEFIT CAP *******************
“What is the new benefit cap and will it affect me? The ‘disgraceful’ Tory cut explained”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/what-new-benefit-cap-affect-9173739
Forget all about Strictly Come Dancing, The X Factor, Kim Karshadian’s big arse and her stolen jewels as well as Cheryl’s ‘baby bump’ – this should really take priority in the British public’s situation awareness!
(I, for one (and many others for that matter) are certain that he is correct!)
“Vince Cable warns of a new recession next year”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/sir-vince-cable-british-economy-will-turn-nasty-next-year-says-man-who-predicted-2008-economic-crash-a7394316.html
“Worker shortages for UK food industry reach worse level since 2004”
The Eastern Europeans now really feel that they are ‘unwanted’ – the level of the £ sterling is almost at an all time low and then, – the vast majority of British workers do not really want to do these sort of jobs!
I predict that in around 1 year to 2 year’s time – there will be almost no ‘fresh’ British fruit and vegetables on sale in this Country – it will all have to be imported (whilst at the same time also pushing up our ‘trade deficit’!)
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/02/worker-shortages-for-uk-food-industry-at-12-year-low
“Sick patients may be DENIED life saving drugs if ‘hard Brexit’ happens”
(A warning from a previous Health Secretary)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sick-patients-denied-life-saving-9181698
(Sir?) Philip Green and Damian Green – are both of these cunts related!!
Both of them owe a lot of money to various groups of very deserving people – including innumerable numbers of BHS ‘workers’ and also DWP ‘claimants’. Both of these cunts should be prosecuted as soon as possible.
“What is DWP laboratory research?”
ANSWER
DWP laboratory research is a the opportunity for the sadists who work within our department to gloat over the effects of hardship, torture and death that we have unleashed upon those least able to respond, namely, the poor, the underprivileged and the disabled.
The scope of our study is to better understand how much humiliation and deprivation a human being can take before taking their own life.
Acting on behalf of our stakeholders we will assign as many chronically ill patients to positions of work that will result in a dramatic saving to the treasury as their numbers dwindle.
Lord David Freud has presented a document to parliament that proves that work is good for you. The document was the result of a study commissioned and paid for by our department in conjunction with the Cardiff University Annexe that was funded by Unum Provident Private Health Insurance Company to the tune of £10 million.
Our thanks to Mansel Aylward, our ex Chief Medical Officer who helped collate the information.
Our covert laboratory research will readily test the effects of squalor on children who in our view, should be punished because of the hardship of their parents.
As in the course of work capability assessment, the claimant will be refused the right to record any interviews that take place, but we reserve the right to record everything in order that it may be used for our later pleasure.
Copies of our studies will be made available at Coroners offices.
“In the long run there is nothing more expensive than saying to someone, ‘Here’s a benefit you can have for the rest of your life and we will ignore you,’” Damian Green told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Which benefit is this? Jobseeker’s Allowance? Universal Credit? Or is there some other benefit?
“ODE TO A FAILED BANKER”
WHEN THE FREUD’S ARE EATING TURKEY,
THE POOR WILL EAT THE SHIT,
DISABLED WILL BE DYING,
AND CHILDREN WILL BE HIT…..
TO BE A LORD IS EASY,
JUST SHUT YOUR EYES AND PRAY,
THE EVIL THAT YOU NOW UNLEASH
WON’T CATCH UP WITH YOU SOMEDAY…..
BUT IF YOU SPY MY LITTLE RHYME,
I HAVE TO MAKE IT BLUNT,
KEEP LOOKING RIGHT BEHIND YOU,
YOU EVIL FUCKING CUNT………
FOR EACH CITIZEN YOU MURDERED,
FROM EACH CLAIMANT THAT YOU STOLE,
YOUR FINAL BREATH IS COMING,
THE VICTIMS FINAL GOAL……
Holding the state to account. yes you.
Having helped many hundreds of people battle with the Secretary of State over benefit decisions which are often full of flaws, badly reasoned and which are all too often overturned by independent Tribunals allowing appeals in favour of the claimant, I am increasingly concerned about the gross erosion of access to justice following cut backs in legal aid and cuts backs in the advice sector. As a front line benefit specialist we are fully stretched in trying to help more people than our limited resources can adequately properly provide for.
I’m seeing large numbers of people turn to social media in an effort to find online solutions, its soul destroying to see so many people out on a limb and alarming that much of the advice available simply isn’t right.
So here’s a few handy hints.
What should you do if you find your benefits stopped, reduced or subject to sanction?
http://dpac.uk.net/2016/11/holding-the-dwp-to-account-and-how-to-complain-when-your-benefits-go-wrong/
reversing Robin Hood
Not so long ago, the Conservatives vowed to end child poverty. Now they are enacting laws to create not just poverty, but generations of destitution.
Tax inspectors have identified potential evasion or avoidance worth £2bn among 6,500 super-rich individuals. Of those, only two individuals have been criminally investigated, with one single prosecution. Tax inspectors have identified a variety of ways in which the very wealthy game the system: from failing to declare foreign income to investing in schemes that are sold as tax dodges. The NAO points out that hundreds of millions stand to be collected from enforcing the law. It also paints a picture in which the tax inspectors are outnumbered and outgunned by the super-wealthy and their armies of advisers.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/02/the-guardian-view-on-austerity-reversing-robin-hood
MSPs have given the UK government’s work and pensions secretary a signed copy of the I, Daniel Blake book.
It came as a Holyrood committee repeatedly challenged Damian Green over the benefit system’s sanctions regime.
Mr Green strongly rejected claims that the welfare system had driven people to commit suicide. he would wouldn’t he.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-37863161
Regarding the health and work programme.
Mind boss lies to protesters over DWP contracts
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mind-boss-lies-to-protesters-over-dwp-contracts/
Business Minister chairs meeting with leading retailers
Keep a look out for these.
A full list of participants
Aldi
Asda
ASOS
British Independent Retailers Association
British Retail Consortium
Co-op Retail
FSB
GFirst LEP
Iceland
IKEA
John Lewis
Kingfisher
Lloyds Pharmacy
Marks and Spencer
Morrisons
National Federation of Retail Newsagents
Sainsbury’s
Spar
Hutchison Whampoa Europe Limited
Tesco
Walgreens Boots Alliance
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/business-minister-chairs-meeting-with-leading-retailers
I, Daniel Blake
Kindle Edition £5.79
Paperback £9.99
https://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Daniel-Blake-Paul-Laverty/dp/1901927679/ref=sr_1_1/253-7169882-3524133?ie=UTF8&qid=1478273743&sr=8-1&keywords=i+daniel+blake+book
lol at the Cereal Killers aka the Bearded Wankers crying into their £15 bowl of cereal on Peter York: The Hipster Wankers Handbook on BBC 4 last night: “200 members of Class War appeared and through petrol bombs into our shop. They even daubed “SCUM” on the shop windows” Ha, ha, fucking ha
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/27/hipster-cereal-killer-cafe-gentrification-east-end
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b081v950/peter-yorks-hipster-handbook?suggid=b081v950
It is an interesting programme this. It shows that if you wrap up any old shite with a ‘backstory’ and a hipster theme that the gullible public will pay over the odds for the shite. One of the hipsters businesses (Mast Brothers) was even caught melting down and re-packaging supermarket ‘value’ chocolate and selling it at £50 for 6 tiny squares of chocolate.
A current employee of Mast Brothers, whom has wished to remain anonymous, although has been suspected to be none other than Ian ‘high almighty’ Duncan Smith (ex DWP monster) has stated that he is chief confectionary in charge of chopping up Twix bars and re-packing them as limited edition fun size party chunks for twice the price.
The Bearded Wankers and their rip-off cafe are on at 01:38, 04:18 and 53;24.
At 01:38 and 04:18 no chance of me being awake and up THIS early in the morning, although I do however have to be up around 05:00 weekdays getting ready for work. As for 53:24, it would be a wonky alarm clock showing this time ending up being thrown out the first floor window…
Owen Jones – Oh dear, – this particular taxi driver could well be in a whole lot of trouble! A picture of ‘him’ and his registered ‘plate’/Reg No as well!
qwerteqeqwe
On Benefits: The Baked Bean King at 20:00 this coming Thursday 10 November on…. er… Channel 5!
What the fuck is this all about? Some bloke who has been on benefits and living off of baked beans for the past 40-odd years?
BREXIT – It’s all completely going out of control – just like some NASA probe that has exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral!
Theresa May doesn’t know what’s going to happen – the Brexiteers do not know what is going to happen – the Bremainers do not know what is going to happen. (Neither does the E.U. either)
The ‘Judges’ have ‘ruled’ that ‘Theresa May does not have the right individually to trigger Article 50.
What an absolute fucking mess.
The population should have been told originally (before the Referendum) that this was not a ‘legally binding’ Referendum.
They also should not have been told the lies that ‘if we left the E.U. – then the N.H.S. would get £350m per week (instead of paying this into the E.U.)
Now – it is all up in the air – the next ‘hearing’ is scheduled for around 7th December, with the final result being announced in the first week of January 2017. Theresa May still says that she expects Article 50 to be triggered at the end of March 2017.
She could well not be the Prime Minister by then, as also, her own Tory Government may well not be in office at that time!
The only problem is :- if a General Election was called before the end of 2016 – I am damned sure that the Tories (shamefully) would be voted back in again.
Brexit is NOT going to happen!
The ‘Daily Mail’ has been accused of ‘attack on the rule of law’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-legal-challenges-judges-daily-mail-express-sun-uk-newspapers-condemned-a7396961.html
These ignorant papers (all for ‘ratings’ to sell their ‘newspapers’) -The ‘Daily Fail’, the ‘Scum’ and UKIP’s totally adoring ‘Daily Express’ (with it’s front page this morning, comprising a ‘Union Jack’ and ‘your country now needs you’). A shameful mixture of uninformed ‘papier-mache’ and cob-walled shit tabloids – living up to the ignorant right-wing ‘English’ immigrant hating psyche – fully supported by Rupert Murdoch and the other Russian oligarch in charge.
Fuck off all of you Tory supporting bastard rags – WE DO NOT NEED YOU
“THERESA MAY………MURDER SHE WROTE”
Jobcentre security guards tell a sick & disabled woman who has breathing problems that she MUST climb the stairs to attend a first-floor appointment. Their contempt for her is extraordinary. She can’t climb the stairs, but they insist.
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John Newton
John Newton It’s an offence for there not be be proper access for people with disabilities. There is a good case for them to be prosecuted but the poor lady doesn’t have money for that, nor does anybody else that goes to these places.
Gerry McCarton No thought process, no one spotted that disabled people may not make it to the first floor,but I suspect that could be the ploy,,,,” you are sanctioned ,because you did not turn up for your appointment sorry no brass for for the next six weeks,it’s your own fault ”
Chris Piper Disgusting! Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, which was replaced by the Equalities act in 2010. They are breaking the law, this is an offence. She doesn’t need money to fight it. She should go to her local CAB and MP
Nila Oldman Chambers of cruelty by a Satanic system of blind followers are Jobcentres today. Crawley Jobcentre has lifts but no chairs to sit and wait. You need a flippin password to access the lift which means getting a member of staff who is busy to access the l…See more
Jim George I was told many years ago by an ex employee that these buildings are chosen specifically for certain traits, they must be as far away from the town center as feasible, no or as little parking as possible for their clients, the must have heavy doors, n…See more
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“PETITION FROM A FRIGHTENED LADY”
https://www.change.org/p/trudy-appleby-stop-the-consultation-into-support-group-work-related-activities
..Stop the consideration of Support Group work related activities.
Trudy Appleby Nottingham, United Kingdom
Ministers have announced today they are going to make people on ESA support group go to work. Included in this group are disabled, terminally ill people.
All of us will be asked to attend work related interviews with the jobcentres. Failure to do this will result in us losing our Benefits ! Their are no exceptions. We are all being asked to work, sick, disabled and even terminally ill. How could this be even happening?
People with long term disabilities are not exempt, no one is ! After losing our benefits we will lose council tax and housing benefits too. Which will result in many becoming homeless as well as poor and desperate. Can you imagine the impact of this happening to yourself, or a family member? The impact will be horrifying to watch let alone go through. Thousands will suffer needlessly. I am afraid of what will happen which is why l am starting this petition in the hope it will stop it before it happens. I fear for the lives of so many affected by sickness, disability and mental health conditions.
I would ask one important question… Who do you think would employ us? We are all fighting incurable illnesses, some are mentally impaired, some are physically impaired. Most are a liability to any company who has the compassion to employ us !! We are a health and safety risk, the list goes on and on. I would ask again who would employ us under these conditions?
l am sure there will be lots of counseling and help to try to get us into work, which seems to me to be a total waste of tax payers money. At the end of the day we are still disabled and unable to work! There is no magic cure to make us better. Rather the opposite, all the stress the government are putting on disabled and sick people is wrecking havoc with their already frail lives.
I am just one of the thousands affected by this. It is now time to stand up and be counted as we are being hit hard in all directions. The most vulnerable of society are being abused This is surely against our human rights. No one should be made to feel this way, where every day you wake up to not only your pain and medical conditions, you wake up to a world of stress, anxiety and depression. Not knowing how or when this is going to stop.
I would ask if you feel this is wrong to add your name and comment below why you feel it is wrong.
Someone somewhere has got to stop this, with your help we can!!
Thank you for your support
Trudy Appleby.
I’m signing because I am disabled and feel we are being made to bear the brunt of the austerity cuts and the stress involved in applying for benefits leads to a massive increase in pain.
Helen Douse, Llansamlet, United Kingdom
10 hours ago
6
It’s hard enough coping with a deliberating illness, and constant pain. Without having the extra stress of being forced into work. Where some days you physically cannot move because of severe pain. How would employers cope with us constantly calling in unwell?
They’re really not thinking this through!! Pathetic!!!
Karen Bouttell, Chrlmsford, United Kingdom
10 hours ago
6
Stop bullying us! We don’t need this stress and this government won’t stop until we’re all dead or homeless. Stop messing with the benefits and treating us like a burden, we’re just like you, human!
Beth Anderson, Leicester, United Kingdom
10 hours ago
6
This heartless tory shower cannot,must not make people with chronic illness report for work,shame on their black souls
Ian McGillivray, Swansea, United Kingdom
10 hours ago
4
Stop this vendetta against the disabled.
Thomas Cochrane, Perth, United Kingdom
11 hours ago
4
Peopl are put in the Support Group because they are too ill to work, including the most disabled in our Society and those with terminal illnesses. Forcing them into work-related activities is pointless and cruel.
Kim Burns, Codsall, United Kingdom
11 hours ago
4
It will literally kill me. Scoff all you want, I’m not “workshy”, I’m not well enough to work any more, people without issues like this must get their heads around it. and I’ve worked flamin’ hard, always volunteered or been in college, and it’s caused a catastrophic breakdown, 3 relapses, suicidal thoughts which came within an inch of completion, severe joint issues, and I fall over a lot. No one would employ me, I’m a liability! I don’t need training, or be shown how to look for work! What on earth could I do to bring in the money needed to pay all the bills and live?! I need to be left the eff alone to “live” if that’s what you want to call it. Being in constant degrees of pain, extreme sleepiness, terrible harming thoughts of killing myself I can’t stop, and severe joint problems ALL THE TIME is no life. Work sets you free, eh? I know exactly what they want this to achieve, and it’s not to help us, it’s to get rid of us and they know it. Evil, evil people. This will cause a massive rise in suicides and homelessness.
Joy Dehany, Coventry, United Kingdom
12 hours ago
4
I was working full time when I had a stroke at age 47. I didn’t ask for a stroke. I didn’t want to be disabled and on benefits.
I was an Employment Consultant for a Work Programme provider. I’ve seen what my clients were put through, how they were treated and how they were thought of.
I was often told by management that I was too soft on my clients, especially the ones on ESA.
The stress of working in this environment contributed to my stroke. Human beings should not be treated this way.
Please allow those on sickness benefits some peace.
Tammy Duncan, Clacton-on-Sea, United Kingdom
11 hours ago
3
As one of the people who will be involved in this I think it’s ridiculous the way the government are getting away with this , who would want to employ a 60yr old ex nurse/childcare worker with RA,Oesteoporosis,fybromylagia , Athsma among other things , time to give concentrate in younger people that don’t have jobs and give them proper support to get working instead of picking on vulnerable I’ll people who are suffering enough
Jacqui Pirie, Glasgow, United Kingdom
11 hours ago
3
I am living in fear each and every day from this cruel government.
Penny Mead, Harlow, United Kingdom
12 hours ago
3
…………………………COMMENTS FROM THOSE THAT LORD DAVID FREUD WISHES TO ERADICATE……..
“I was working full time when I had a stroke at age 47. I didn’t ask for a stroke. I didn’t want to be disabled and on benefits.
I was an Employment Consultant for a Work Programme provider.”
Talk about bad karma 😉
Yeah, how many deaths,suicides, strokes, hardship, destitution and sheer fucking misery has this now former Working Links ‘consultant’ caused! Ha-ha-fucking-ha! Fucking DIE, DIE, DIE you EVIL FUCKING CUNT!!
There you go, see what happens when the boot is on the other foot? Their attitude soon changes towards people when it’s them that can’t work and they realize the crap they inflicted on others.
DWP + JCP = SCUM.
It’s like a Road to Damascus conversion these cunts have as soon as THEIR circumstances suddenly change for the worse: “I used to work in well-paid employment as a DWP ‘decision maker’/Working Links ‘consultant/other assorted cunts too innumerable to mention but now that I having suddenly taken ill/had a change of fortune I can now see the utter misery and sheer cruelty I was inflicting on my fellow human beings. Being on the other side of the fence now I can see how barbaric the system is. Things have to change.”
“Consultant” = Working LInks! How low can you go!?
Well it’s the lowest isn’t it? You can’t get any lower than that. They are the ‘SonderKommando’s’ of the DWP aren’t they? Brought in to organise the final cleansing of the unemployed and the sick/disabled.
As you sow, so shall you reap
— Galatians 6:7
Life plays some queer tricks, but one of them isn’t letting us get away with it.
Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights shared a group.
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DPAC is looking for people who are prepared to talk on camera about the work capability assessment (WCA). If you have been through the WCA (either as a claimant or advocate) or have extensive knowledge of the WCA, and are able to share your thoughts, please get in touch! Participants are given a list of questions, and then record their thoughts on a camera, smart-phone or similar.
For further information see these files: https://www.facebook.com/groups/555183414689757/files/
If interested either inbox DPAC, or see this group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/555183414689757/
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This callous benefit cap reduction will hit families hard this Christmas
“CHRISTMAS IS COMING, THE TORY’S GETTING FAT”
https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/nov/04/benefits-cap-reduction-families-christmas
“DWP TRY TO HIDE INVOLVEMEMENT IN FAKED PACE MEDICAL TRIALS AND FUNDING A COVER UP”
DATE: 31 October 2016
Annex A
Dear Mr Slater
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 3 October 2016. You asked:
The DWP part funded research by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), into ME/CFS
(myalgic encephalomyelitis/ 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?
We are not aware of any DWP funding for the FOIA case.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Strategy FoI Team
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………….WHEN THE DWP WRITE, “WE ARE NOT AWARE”, IT MEANS THEY ARE LYING………………
“………….WHEN THE DWP WRITE, “WE ARE NOT AWARE”, IT MEANS THEY ARE LYING………………”
Same as when the cops say: “I have no recollection”.
Try it yourself GEOFF 🙂
I am not aware that I had a change of circumstances 🙂
I have no recollection of having a change of circumstances 🙂
See GEOFF, you NEVER confess and you NEVER admit liability. And if they bury you under a tonne of ‘evidence’ you made a ‘mistake’. The DWP just play with words
DWP = SCUM
“JOHN PILGER / JULIAN ASSANGE INTERVIEW”
…..NOT TO BE MISSED
NEVER TO BE SEEN ON BBC OR SKY
AN INSIGHT INTO THE CROOKS OF THE US AND UK GOVERNMENTS
ILLEGAL ARMS SALES TO SAUDI ARABIA
UK POLITICAL PRISONERS
CORRUPT GOVERNMENTS WHO ARE PLAYING WAR GAMES BY SUPPLYING BOTH SIDES
“GUILTY OF EXPOSING THE FETID STEAMING PILE OF SHIT THAT IS THE UK GOVERNMENT”
When the truth starts to hurt, our response is to falsely incarcerate those who spill the beans. After all, we are the nodding dog of our beloved, corrupt friends over the pond.
When they shout we react…………
Hiding the truth is easy, keeping a lid on it is another thing.
John Pilger is probably the most genuine journalist in the world, feared by both the UK and US governments. His take on the illegal Blair/bush war has been carefully kept from prying eyes.
Strange how the state rallies to cover up it’s own leaks when legalising prying into ours.
Some would think they had something to hide…………
Assange, the UK’S most famous political prisoner, cleared of rape allegations that the police made the accuser invent and innocent of any crime.
Nelson Mandela was a political prisoner………..
RED BASKETBALL
John Pilger is there again, a lone journalist exposing what we should all have been told in our news. People should consider demanding their BBC licence fee is returned, after it is clearly demonstrated that they are failing to report the news to the people they represent.
Olive Fish
Julian Assange is a citizen of Australia and therefore cannot be guilty of treason against any country but Australia. Most importantly, of course, is that he is not a traitor to any country. He is sought by political criminals because he exposed, and continues to expose, their crimes.
Really!
Well, doing ‘something’ about housing is better than doing ‘nothing’ I suppose!
Tory ‘buy as you go’ plan to make renters homeowners
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/05/rising-rents-force-housing-policy-change-homes-tory
…………take no notice Paul.
It’s just a kneejerk reaction to the fact that the government are under investigation for human rights abuses of it’s poorest and most vulnerable, especially the imposition of the bedroom tax which affects a high proportion of the disabled.
The tories will move the goalposts denying the freehold at the time of maturity. Promises are like pie crusts……….
If they can steal pensions from under the noses of women by changing eligibility rules they can alter the rental duration so that those chasing a dream will never reach fruition.
The concept fits in nicely with their scenario of working you to death on a pittance, never having a time to relax in your latter years for fear of destitution.
Built on the proverbial carrot and stick approach, the whole idea of owning your own home should have no limitations on when you can pay off the tenure to gain freehold.
Fluctuating interest rates will go only one way, up. They will never be reduced even if the interest rates dive.
Signing your life away to get pipped at the post is about as low as you can get and these fuckers have a track record of theft on a grand scale.
Twenty five years is already a life sentence without the burden of losing your employment and watching your dreams go up in smoke as you are tossed onto the street.
There is nothing wrong with ordinary mortgages other than the ridiculous deposits required.
If the government really wanted you to buy a house they could waive the costly deposit and let you move straight in after finance checks verify your ability to pay.
If you project the payments on rental alone over twenty five years at the level of increases we have seen over the duration of the Conservative government, you would have paid enough to purchase a stately home.
Geoff – Yes, very true and I was wondering the same thing as you!
As you say, this is a Government who is only too happy to promise the world, then steal it all back again, sometimes without a minute’s notice.
Meanwhile, most of their M.P.’s and Ministers are corrupt/criminals (or both) and they get away with all of it – for now anyway!
“SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR HARD EARNED PENSIONS AS THE TORIES ATTACK THE PENSION RIGHTS”
………….and it came to pass…..
Only had my head on my pillow for a few hours since my last post and all my fears are starting to emerge…
The MP’s on the Social Security Committee are now plotting to further reduce the UK state pensions meagre subsistence by removing the triple lock that guarantees that it keeps pace with inflation.
There has been no mandate from the people, no mention in manifesto policies and yet they are following their hidden agenda to hand over the welfare state to the private health insurance industry in block.
Lobbying must pay attractive dividends to the few willing to jeopardise the livelihoods of the many………
FACT
Inflation is about to rocket. The government is already fiddling with statistics to try and create a better picture of a nation failing.
We produce fuck all hardly, rely on imports and embrace our bloated service industries.
Shit will happen and the only way they can see fit to address their unique fuck ups is to punish you!
Our state pension has been a long standing joke for many years in other european countries. They even made a documentary in Sweden on how the UK pensioners barely exist on their pittance…………….
You work all your lives to have the knowledge that you will be rewarded by a bit of down time on your march towards your finals.
These objectionable bastards dont just want to take away your old age vacation, they want you to work yourselves into an early grave in fear of destitution.
By lowering your earnings threshhold they can manipulate how long you continue to work towards your final resting place.
Of course, this does not affect the idle rich or MP’s with guaranteed gilt edge pensions and is to be thrust solely on those at the bottom of the totem pole of life, us plebs………..
The whole system makes me laugh with derision. All through history over and over again, when governments turn their citizens in to slaves to serve the rich it always ends in revolution. You can only oppress the workers until life becomes meaningless and they have nothing less to lose and then the fight back begins. 99% of us versus 1% of them tells the rich they need to step back and start to treat the masses with dignity or they stand to lose everything themselves.
………when i was really young i remember my old man telling me that the biggest crooks in the world are the insurance companies…
Nothing has changed…..
Dad told me to invest in my future by any other means than a pension. He was a very wise guy and had seen every investment anybody ever made with an insurance company go tits up.
He once took me into Refuge insurance company in Scarborough and he gave them a right grilling in front of lots of customers.
He had invested in some form of investment that upon maturity was not worth a wank.
As he left he shouted, “They ought to call you Refuse because all you get is fucking rubbish”
Somebody on this blog recently said that the UK government pension scheme is the biggest PONZI scheme running. All the money is non existent and the young investors are just paying for the present pensioners. The bulk of the investment has gone walkabouts, raided by successive governments but kept a secret from the public.
I believe this to be the case, hence the latest initiative using a furry animal to deceive the electorate into propping up the PONZI scheme that is starting to burn holes in the liars pockets.
Politicians have squandered the proceeds of your hard labour on every short sighted escapade humanly possible and rather than accept they have fucked up bigstyle, they carry on the pretence that everything is hunky dory.
This lady is asking what money presently exists in our UK pension pot.
Trudy Baddams 26 October 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
How much is sitting in the pension pot now, we know it was sitting at £30 billion some time back, we know it has gone up but by how much?
Yours faithfully,
Trudy Baddams
………………………………………………………………………………………………….
The DWP WILL NO DOUBT USE EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK TO GET OUT OF GIVING THE REAL ANSWER
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/we_all_know_there_is_at_least_ps#incoming-889588
…………..and the DWP will probably try to play their get out of jail free card……..
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
You can expect a reply by 23 November unless I need to come back to you to
clarify your request or the balance of the public interest test needs to
be considered.
DWP Strategy FoI Team
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/we_all_know_there_is_at_least_ps#incoming-889588
Theresa May has buggered off to India – now they ought to keep her there!
Good to see that an Indy journalist covering this story too – shocking benefit sanctions stories (including David Clapson) and general disregard for armed forces personnel once they have ‘done their duty’ – the Tories (and labour before them) should be ashamed – but it seems that they are not shamed by ANY of this – not yet anyway!
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-tories-armed-forces-jeremy-corbyn-remembrance-day-poppies-veterans-died-after-benefits-a7400751.html
That’s quite correct Paul, the tories treat our heroes like shit…………
Daily Mail online 1 June 2013
A record number of wounded war veterans have been denied disability benefits in the past year
after undergoing tests carried out by the Government’s controversial assessment company.
Hundreds of injured ex-soldiers are being declared fit for work by Atos Healthcare in spite of
physical and mental injuries they suffered in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Last night, the Royal British Legion (RBL) announced a 72 per cent annual rise in former
soldiers having their applications to receive Employment Support Allowance (ESA) turned down.
Several hundred wounded personnel were denied the benefit on the basis of physical
examinations conducted by Atos, according to the RBL.
The company is contracted by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to assess benefits
claimants’ capability to work.
In one case, Lance Corporal Mark Dryden, 35 – a former member of the Royal Regiment of
Fusiliers who, after an explosion in Iraq, lost his right arm and the full use of his left – was asked
by Atos assessors if he was left or right-handed. He is now taking his case against the DWP to a
benefits tribunal.
That case, and others, have led to accusations that Atos Healthcare is under intense pressure to
produce assessments that enable the Government to reject benefits claims.
Servicemen suffering from the mental scars of combat also complain that they have been turned
down for disability benefits.
Many injured troops have also described having to undergo demeaning physical tests by the
firm.
………….THINKING OF JOINING THE ARMED FORCES?
THINK AGAIN….
“UK SOLDIERS TREATED LIKE SHIT BY RUTHLESS CONSERVATIVES”
Ex-soldier on hunger strike after benefits axed
Written byWill Clark
MP John Thurso
A FORMER soldier who served his country for 13 years and was left disabled has gone on hunger strike after his benefits were withdrawn due to mistakes he claims were made by Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) staff in Wick.
The man, who lives in Caithness but cannot be identified for security reasons, said mistakes made at its Girnigoe Street office have left him and his partner struggling to survive.
And until he gets back what he claims he is entitled to – employment and support allowance payments – he intends maintaining his fast, surviving only on fluids.
During a meeting at the Wick DWP office in 2011, he was informed his incapacity benefit payments would be changed to the Employment and Support Allowance scheme (ESA).
The 52-year-old has received incapacity benefits since 1991 due to injuries he suffered including prolapsed discs, fused vertebrae, restless leg syndrome, dropped foot and depression – conditions verified by medical certificates from two orthopaedic consultants, a consultant psychiatrist and a GP.
He claims he was told his payments would continue as normal and he would automatically be put into the support group.
A year later, he was informed his payments of £500 a month were being stopped as he was no longer deemed eligible. As one year had passed since he was informed about the change to ESA, he was no longer entitled to appeal to ATOS Healthcare, which carries out work capability assessments which decide claims.
“In 2011, the assistant manager told me there was nothing to worry about, the dates of my payments would continue as normal and I didn’t need to do anything,” he said.
“A year on, I got a letter from the Jobcentre that my 365 days to appeal had passed and, as I am not in the support group bracket, I was no longer entitled to my allowance.
“This was the first time I was made aware that I had to appeal. I should have been in the support group since day one and have four medical certificates to prove it, but I was not asked to provide anything.”
Last month, when he went back to the Wick office, he said he was told a mistake had been made.
He refused to leave until the mistake was rectified, but ended up being escorted out of the building by police.
“The staff said they couldn’t do anything,” he said.
“I refused four times to leave until somebody sorted it out. It’s their responsibility to ensure staff are fully trained and don’t give out the wrong advice.”
As his wife works more than 24 hours a week, they are not entitled to housing benefit but they have cancelled paying council tax, water bills and their TV licence until he is paid what he claims is due to him.
“There are people who do abuse the system, but I’ve got four medical consultants who have written I’ll never work again,” he said.
“I haven’t eaten since Saturday and if it takes me to starve to death to show the incompetence of Wick DWP, that’s what I’ll do.”
A spokesman for the DWP said ESA replaced the previous incapacity benefit scheme as it was more effective to help people able to work to find employment and to support those unable to work.
…………………..”FIT FOR WORK, NO DOUBT”
“DWP/UNUM PROVIDENT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE”
The Guardian, Wednesday 12 September 2012 21.00 BST
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.
………………AND ACCORDING TO THE DWP;
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.
…………………………………………………………………..
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
UNUMS LINK TO THE DWP
MATTHEW OAKLEY AND HIS PART IN DISABILITY DEATHS
Earlier this year I wrote that government advisor, who is a specialist in labor economics and econometrics, has proposed scrapping all ESA sickness and disability benefits. Matthew Oakley, a senior researcher at the Social Market Foundation, recently published a report entitled Closing the gap: creating a framework for tackling the disability employment gap in the UK, in which he proposes abolishing the ESA Support Group. To meet extra living costs because of disability, Oakley says that existing spending on PIP and the Support Group element of ESA should be brought together to finance a new extra costs benefit. Eligibility for this benefit should be determined on the basis of need, with an assessment replacing the WCA and PIP assessment.
I think the word “need” is being redefined to meet politically defined neoliberal economic outcomes.
Oakely also suggests considering a “role that a form of privately run social insurance could play in both increasing benefit generosity and improving the support that individuals get to manage their conditions and move back to work.”
I’m sure the private company Unum would jump at the opportunity. Steeped in controversy, with a wake of scandals that entailed the company denying people their disabilty insurance, in 2004, Unum entered into a regulatory settlement agreement (RSA) with insurance regulators in over 40 US states. The settlement related to Unum’s handling of disability claims and required the company “to make significant changes in corporate governance, implement revisions to claim procedures and provide for a full re-examination of both reassessed claims and disability insurance claim decisions.
The company is the top disability insurer in both the United States and United Kingdom. By coincidence, the company has been involved with the UK’s controversial Welfare Reform Bill, advising the government on how to cut spending, particularly on disability support. What could possibly go right?
dsuoo (@das_uk) says:
November 6, 2016 at 10:19 pm
This is worrying beyond belief and leaves only two outcomes
Chronically ill and forced to work for nothing and die because
Of your illness, or be stripped of all financial help and starve to
Death or commit suicide, this has to be stopped or we must
Force this government out too many lives are at stake
The cuts to the overall benefit cap do not all begin today and the implementation is being staggered from today, 7 November until 23 January 2017.
The dates for each area and note the DWP says they could all be a week later too.
Those areas with the lowest expected number of capped households begin first and those with the highest expected number start last.
https://speye.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/benefit-cap-implementation-dates-from-7-nov-to-23-january-2017/
The UN Report into UK Government maltreatment of disabled people has been published
DPAC – 7th Nov 2016
The long awaited report from the UN about our governments attacks on disabled people was published at 4pm today
We will have a lot more to say about this in future posts but for now here are the summary of findings of the report:
http://dpac.uk.net/2016/11/the-united-nations-report-into-the-uk-government-maltreatment-of-disabled-people-has-been-published/
Summary of the findings
A. General findings
82. The facts submitted by the source were disputed by the State party. The Committee engaged in a verification exercise in which the facts that appeared to be controversial were cross-checked with data collected from a variety of sources, including parliamentary inquiries, reports of the independent monitoring body of the Convention, official statistics, reports and data originating from other government departments or units, entity governments, research institutes, service providers, academic centres, independent experts, former government officers, grass-roots non-governmental organizations, organizations of persons with disabilities and individuals. In some cases, some State party’s statements were not supported by evidence collected by the investigation. In others, the State party indicated that no data were available. The findings below are based on a comprehensive analysis of data provided by various sources.
83. The State party launched, a considerable time ago, a major policy reform to the welfare system, aimed at reducing the fiscal deficit and achieving in 2020 a surplus in its balance of payments. Various policy documents and statements by high-level ranking officers have stated that this is the most fundamental policy change to the social protection system in recent decades. The stated goals of the policy are to transform British society from a low-wage, low-employment and high-welfare society to a high-wage, high-employment and low-welfare one. The policy makes the assumption that individuals are better off in work, dependency on benefits is in itself counterproductive and perpetuates poverty and beneficiaries of welfare benefits need to move into work both through improvement of incentives to employment and through a system of conditionality and sanctions. The policy intends that sectors of society who have been dependant on benefits move into work. It has also been stated that the policy aims at protecting those people who require more support or who are “most vulnerable”.
84. Changes to the welfare system include the overhauling of a wide range of entitlements in several areas, including social and private housing sector, contributory and non-contributory benefits, tax credits and out-of-work and in-work benefits and have affected all segments of the population, including children, women, single parents, older persons and persons with disabilities. With regard to persons with disabilities, the reform resulted in the overhauling of major disability benefits, including means-tested benefits, income-maintenance benefits and benefits related to the specific and extra costs associated with disability. In the period covered by the inquiry, a large number of persons with disabilities have been requested to undergo capability assessments, with pre-implementation assumptions that a significant percentage would no longer rely on social allowances.
85. The roll out of those policies included the issuing of statements by high-ranking officers that the reform was aimed at making the welfare system fairer to taxpayers and more balanced and transparent and reducing benefit fraud. Persons with disabilities have been regularly portrayed negatively as being dependent or making a living out of benefits, committing fraud as benefit claimants, being lazy and putting a burden on taxpayers, who are paying “money for nothing”. Although the State party produced evidence of formal efforts and public awareness campaigns to improve the image of persons with disabilities, the inquiry collected evidence that persons with disabilities continue to experience increasing hostility, aggressive behaviour and sometimes attacks to their personal integrity. The inquiry also found no substantiation of the alleged benefit fraud by persons with disabilities.
86. Public sector equality duty obliges State authorities to carry out impact assessments when they plan to introduce measures, including legislative measures, to ensure that groups with protected characteristics, among them persons with disabilities, are properly consulted and any adverse impact on them is properly justified. The State party submitted evidence that it has complied with domestic legal duties for all the intended changes to the welfare system. The inquiry collected evidence that a major piece of legislation of the welfare reform, the Welfare Reform Act 2012, was not thoroughly compliant with those requirements. Similarly, a court of law found that the decision to close the Independent Living Fund was not in compliance with domestic equality duty, which compelled the authorities of the State party to carry out another equality assessment. The inquiry also collected evidence that the views of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations who had participated in consultations launched by the State party, were not meaningfully taken into account in the decision-making and had little or no influence on policy decisions.
87. Although the State party asserted that a cumulative impact assessment of the various policy measures affecting persons with disabilities was not technically feasible or practicable, the evidence collected by the inquiry indicates that a cumulative impact assessment could have been conducted with the data and information available in the State party.
88. The Committee observes that various pieces of legislation related to recent welfare policies do not fully enforce the international human rights framework related to social protection and independent living. In connection thereto, it was observed that in the field of social protection, persons with disabilities have not been properly considered as right-holders and entitled to benefits with regard to their right to social protection. Similarly, while the Care Act 2014 reflects the principles of well-being of persons with disabilities and underlines the objective of personalization of support packages, it fails to properly acknowledge the elements of autonomy and control and choice, which are intrinsic to the right to independent living as referred to in article 19 of the Convention.
89. The Committee observes the prevalence of the medical approach in assessment procedures for determining the eligibility of persons with disabilities to entitlements. The main assessment procedure for determining eligibility for out-of-work benefits resulted in persons with disabilities being classified as either unable to perform work-related activity, having limited capability to work or fit to work. The above-mentioned assessment failed to take in account the support persons with disabilities need to perform a job or the complex nature of some impairments and conditions, or reflect the human rights-based approach to disability.
90. The Committee observes that persons with disabilities who have undergone functional assessments aimed at determining their eligibility for social benefits felt that they were merely processed rather than being listened to or understood. The inquiry was informed that several measures have been adopted to make adjustments to procedures to improve service delivery, including the time frame for the assessment procedures, and ensure a better understanding of the diversity of persons with disability by assessors. The evidence collected from various sources indicates that the needs, views and personal history of persons with disabilities, and particularly those requiring high levels of support such as persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities, were not properly taken into account or given appropriate weight in the decisions affecting them.
Read More:
http://dpac.uk.net/2016/11/the-united-nations-report-into-the-uk-government-maltreatment-of-disabled-people-has-been-published/
…………looks like they broke every disability, equality and Human rights law going Razor.
Mind you, you need the backing of the parasitic none entity fake charities, the bent as a nine bob note judiciary and a host of fake pretend doctors to pull it off.
They even have a bent Berkshire Coroner, butcher Bedford…………
The DWP and Conservative clowns tell lies but the obituary columns don’t.
Watch this space as the claimant mortality reports go through the roof as the cuts bite…….
Quite looking forward to winter, the pain, the hunger, the cold and the anticipation of not waking up and facing the extra demons of living in a broken body.
UN report defends disabled people against Tory policy; Tory newsrag attacks it with nonsense
VoxPolitical – 6th Nov 2016
The Heil on Sunday is spearheading the Tory government’s campaign against the United Nations over a report attacking Conservative policy on people with disabilities. Unfortunately for both the newsrag and the government that leaked the information to it, their arguments are nonsense.
A draft of the report has been leaked to Heil reporters, two weeks in advance of its publication, along with an indication of the Tory response. We may therefore assume that it was leaked by Damian Green or one of his – for want of a better word – team.
Read More:
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/11/06/un-report-defends-disabled-people-against-tory-policy-tory-newsrag-attacks-it-with-nonsense/
Time for the UK to leave the UN – Lets have a referendum to leave the UN !!!
Vote YES to leave the UN # Vote NO to stay in the UN.
Rupert Murdoch`s only option !!! Daily Propaganda !!!
“What, or who the hell is “Conservative Woman”?
I put in a Google search and I soon found out!
http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk
http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/about-conservative-woman
Until, yesterday, Sunday morning, I had never even heard of ‘Conservative Woman’ apart from the Thatcher witch and our new Theresa May witch!
Sunday morning saw a discussion (I think on BBC1?) about Ken Loach’s new Palm D’Or film – I, Daniel Blake. They had various people on there giving their various opinions about the true reality of the film, including a ‘co-editor’ of Conservative Woman, a disabled lady in a wheelchair, a journalist/pundit (?) and an ex-Fire service lady and someone called Adam Perkins (whom I had also never heard of before).
The general consensus was that the film really did portray reality and that the DWP bureaucracy was basically stupid and out of control – apart from Adam Perkins who seemed to pour cold water on it at times and of course, the ‘co-author’ of Conservative Woman who agreed slightly at times with with the other contributors – but who mostly towed the Tory party line in agreeing with most of what the Tories have been doing with their ‘Welfare Reform’ policies. (i.e.- the taxpayer should get ‘value for money’ (!) for those on benefits). These final two really need to take a very good look at the truth that is all around them (instead of believing all that Channel 5 & the assorted Tory rags tell them!)
“DWP CRYING OUT FOR MORE DODGY CORONERS LIKE PETER J BEDFORD TO HIDE STATE MURDERS”
………the bungling Berkshire backstabber
……………….Dodgy PETER J BEDFORD prefers the easy life. He shuns publicity and also shuns his responsibilities as a coroner…………
Not interested how many people the DWP put to death, he is happy to pick up his large salary and look the other way.
Peter is part of a chain that needs to exist in order that the Conservative government can play out it’s EUGENICS fantasies on the most vulnerable, those least likely to fight back. The poor and chronically disabled.
Why create work for himself when it’s far easier to look the other way. After all, you don’t want to bite the hand that feeds you.
I would like to congratulate Peter on his stance because being ignorant of his duty will probably see him elevated to a higher position.
Well done Peter, being involved in death has probably left you much colder than the corpse you decided had not been helped by DWP welfare reform.
Keep up the good work, looking the other way is a noble part of your character……..
“THE U.N. REPORT” (Please send this as far and wide as possible!)
I truly doubt that any of this will appear either on the BBC or Sky News!
However, they WILL continue to cover all that you will ever need to know about the “U.S. Presidential Election”
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/07/uk-austerity-policies-amount-to-violations-of-disabled-peoples-rights
And now the ‘Mirror’s’ version!
Including the murderer IDS – a despicable cunt if ever there was one
(Please don’t forget to look at the comments at the foot of the page!)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-welfare-cuts-gravely-violated-9215742
A MUCH-NEEDED INQUEST INTO DAVID CLAPSON’S DEATH AT THE HANDS OF THE D.W.P.
Another of IDS’s and the DWP’s unfortunate victims
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/family-soldier-david-thompson-who-9173283
.The Urchins of May
…….IF YOU HEAR CHILDREN’S VOICES AT YOUR DOOR THIS CHRISTMAS, DON’T DISMISS THEM AS CAROL SINGERS……….
THEY MAY BE COLD, HOMELESS AND BEGGING FOR FOOD.
CHRISTMAS IS COMING
THE GOOSE IS GETTING FAT
OUR CHILDREN ARE STARVING
EVICTED FROM THEIR FLAT
THE BBC AREN’T BOTHERED
BAKE OFF TOPS THE NEWS
JUST TORY PROPAGANDA
AND BIASED SELFISH VIEWS
SKY IS JUST AS EVIL
PAID TO LOOK AWAY
THE CRIMES AGAINST THE POOREST
HIDDEN FROM THE FRAY
THE SMELL OF DEATH NOW CONSTANT
KILLING JUST FOR FUN
PEOPLE NOW NOT FOXES
EUGENICS HAS BEGUN
AND THOSE THAT MIGHT SURVIVE
CAN LOOK BACK SOON IN TIME
AND RECOGNISE THAT POLICY
WAS REALLY JUST A CRIME
IT’S NO GOOD FEELING SORRY
FOR THOSE YOU KILL TODAY
TAKE ONCE STEP BACK AND RETHINK
YOUR VILENESS MRS MAY
FOR EVERY SINGLE MURDER
YOUR PARTY DID COMMIT
THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS
WILL MAKE YOU EAT THE SHIT
SO GRAB A PIECE OF TINSEL
TIE IT TIGHTLY ROUND YOUR NECK
AND DO US ALL A FAVOUR
FOR THE LIVES YOU SOUGHT TO WRECK
Geoff – This is a very good poem – and so very true as well!
“BBC QUICKLY REMOVE STORY OF HORRORS UNLEASHED ON UK DISABLED AND REPLACE IT WITH STORY OF GAPS IN TOBLERONE CHOCOLATE BARS”
If there were any complicity on horrors unleashed on our disabled community, the BBC must be number one candidate.
Pushing every sick and twisted government welfare policy whilst completely ignoring the desperate cries of help from the most oppressed and least likely to fight back, the disabled community.
The BBC are not a publicly owned corporation, they are the voice of government policy and a shrine to Israel.
Don’t think of it as a broadcaster, consider it a tory propaganda machine.
A wealthy self promoting exuberance of the few that pisses on the bonfire of the many.
Once a national asset, now a national disgrace.
It is truly awful especially as we near the season of goodwill. You would be well advised to grab as much as the old stock of Toblerone, as much as you can carry out the shop, before the sharp-elbowed middle-classes grab it all for themselves 😉
“THE BBC MONEY MACHINE”
………..Converting TV license subscriptions into obscene wealth
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Please tell me how many grade 11 staff the BBC employed in the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
Please say also:
– what was the total wage bill for all grade 11 staff during this period?
– what was the average salary?
– how many people on grade 11 were on a salary above the ceiling of the grade?
– what was the average salary of those within the pay grade?
– what was the average salary of those above the pay grade?
Would you please say additionally how many employees on this grade are paid more than £100,000 per annum and how many more than £143,462 per annum.
This is a follow-up to RFI20160343 and RFI20160922, in which you gave the numbers to 30 June 2015.
Yours faithfully,
Spencer Count
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pay_grade_11_2015_16#incoming-891973
“THE MILLION MASK MARCH”
……………..COMPLETELY IGNORED BY THE BIASED BEEB
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Please could you supply me with the above statistics. How many protests, rally’s, marches and demonstrations were covered by the BBC in 2015 in the Greater London area.
Also what were the subjects of the said protests etc
Yours faithfully,
Pete Butcher
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/protest_statistics_covered_by_bb#incoming-889226
THE BBC ARE UNWORTHY OF THE SHIT OFF THE SHOES OF THE WORKING CLASS PEOPLE OF THE UK.
THEY STAND AS A MONUMENT TO THE NEOLIBERAL CAPITALIST THUGS THAT ARE TEARING THIS COUNTRY APART.
“WHAT IS THE REMIT OF TV LICENSING”
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST NOW 3 MONTHS OVERDUE…..
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-592947
VERY UN-HAPPY Ministers reject United Nations report that slammed them for cuts that ‘gravely violated’ rights of disabled Brits
“We already provide well above average levels of support for those living with disabilities and while we can always go further, the biased assumptions in this report don’t do anyone any favours.”
I HAVE BARELY SURVIVED ON JUST £33.60P PER WEEK FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS AFTER AN ATOS NURSE WROTE A FAKED MEDICAL REPORT ON BEHALF OF THE DWP.
AFTER BEING AWARDED A LIFETIME DISABILITY AWARD, HIGH MOBILITY AND LOW CARE, I NOW SURVIVE ON THIS MEAGRE PITTANCE.
THE UK GOVERNMENT ARE GUILTY OF THE MOST HORRIFIC CUTS TO THE DISABLED COMMUNITY.
IF ANY NEWSPAPER OR TV COMPANY WISH TO FEATURE AN ARTICLE ON THE HEINOUS NATURE OF THE TORY INVOLVEMENT IN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, PLEASE CONTACT ME.
What a country to be proud of notice the obscenely large enamel poppy May has been sporting ….does anyone seriously think that the men who died in the last two wars …. predominantly from working class backgrounds fought for their people who are old sick poor to be abused like this?
Those fuckers over at ‘black triangle’ are really fucking nauseating the way they are attempting to hijack the grotesque murder of David Clapson and manipulate his death at the hands of the DWP for their own selfish ends.
In a ‘black triangle’ ‘utopia’ where there was no sanctions for ‘disabled people’ i.e. those claiming ESA; the David Clapsons of this world would still be being sanctioned and left to die, and ‘black triangle’ wouldn’t give a flying fuck so long as the ESA group were ‘protected’.
And what’s this all about: “WinVisible won exemption from the face-to-face Work Capability Assessment (WCA) exam for many vulnerable women, and helped restore benefit to disabled women cut off for “failure to attend”.” So it should only be men that are sanctioned? Like David Clapson, eh?
‘Black Triangle’ ‘campaigning’ efforts, however, don’t appear to be amounting to diddly-squat since “on 1 November the government launched a “Work, health and disability: improving lives” green paper at disability charity Scope, which includes the proposal to make everyone subject to sanctions, including sick and disabled people in the Support Group who are currently protected.” Well tough titties!
‘Campaigning’ groups such as ‘black triangle’ don’t give a fuck about the unemployed, those on jobseeker’s allowance who are bearing the brunt of the Government’s onslaught on welfare, and who are literally being left destitute, but who cares so long as the ESA group and women are ‘protected’.
It is the world of George Orwell’s ‘Do It To Julia’. Black Triangle is acting like the middle-classes in the way they hijack other groups, pretend to be a friend of the poor and then shut up shop once their objectives are achieved. If the Government ceded to ‘black triangle’s demands they would put down their placards as quickly as you could say “free money for life” and shut up shop. The David Clapsons of this world would be left to fend for themselves.
Anyway, good luck to Gill Thompson, David Clapson in bringing the bastard Government to book.
“BRITISH GOVERNMENT SYSTEMATICALLY VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF THE DISABLED, UN INQUIRY WARNS”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/un-report-disability-disabled-rights-violating-austerity-welfare-reform-esa-pip-a7404956.html
“GOVERNMENT MUST LOOK TO END WORKING AGE BENEFITS FREEZE, IAIN DUNCAN SMITH SAYS”
Isn’t IDS really caring nowadays! However, his squirming and frightened retoric will still not protect him (and Chris Grayling) from being investigated for not preventing unnecessary deaths due to both of them ignoring Coroner’s Reports.
Both of them realise that the ‘noose’ is slowly, but inexorably tightening.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefit-cuts-freeze-working-age-iain-duncan-smith-cap-dwp-a7402551.html
“GREENS FANTASY SPENDING”
Damian Green claims that the government spends £50 billion a year on disabled people, so everything must be OK
The Institute of Fiscal Studies report on spending on benefits for disabled people says the actual spend is £36,063bn but this actually benefits that are not counted as working age disability benefits (Attendance Allowance which is for over 65s, Statutory Sick pay, Carer’s Allowance, War Pensions, Industrial Injuries Benefits and the ILF which the government has closed)
The total of those benefits not paid to disabled people is £7,908bn
So actual spend on all working age benefits for disabled people is £28,155 billion
Plus report says:
The spending on DLA/PIP is only half what it was in 1995-96
DAMIAN GREEN CLAIMS AMOUNT SPENT ON DISABILITY IS £50 BN
TRUE AMOUNT JUST £13.5 BN
HALF OF WHAT IT WAS IN 1995
EVERYTHING THIS GOVERNMENT SAYS IS A COMPLETE CROCK OF SHIT………..
Austerity has been targeted at disabled people
“Austerity has been targeted at disabled people 9 times more than the general population and severely disabled people have been targeted 19 more than the general population”
Source: page 7 of http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/uploads/attachment/354/a-fair-society.pdf
“Damian Green dismisses ‘offensive’ UN report on uk disability rights”
Damian Green is definitely no friend of claimants, the working poor, the poor, the sick or the disabled (even pensioners too now!)
Another totally uncaring toss pot to emerge from the released bowels of our present Tory dictatorship – he, just like IDS & Grayling, is on a collision course for an eventual train crash with all of the combined groups that they have been torturing for so very long.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/08/damian-green-dismisses-offensive-un-report-on-uk-disability-rights
I dunno why people are getting their knickers in a twist over this, it all aload of ol bollocks, some of us never had any faith in the UN report in the first place.
Ever since the UNs report on housing by the “Nutty Brazilian” and the affects of the bedroom tax came to absolutely nothing, why on earth did people pin all their hopes on this report,its only going to get ignored just like the last one.
Mind you there are some MPs who salivate at the thought of a good photo shoot with the “Disabled”.
OOOOh we care……… yeah like fuck you do.
“SNP CONDEMN VILE TORY ATTACKS ON DISABLED”
The SNP have echoed the findings of a damning UN report that criticises the UK government for its policies that have disproportionately affected disabled people and called on the UK government to end its “ideological assault” on disabled people in the UK.
The UN report was commissioned after a call by campaigners who issued a formal complaint to the international body about potential violations of disabled people’s rights by the UK government.
The findings in the report claim that measures implemented by the UK government since 2010, including the bedroom tax and cuts to disability benefits, have disproportionately affected disabled people.
The UN report also condemned the government for bulldozing ahead with the changes to social security knowing they would have an adverse impact on disabled people and calls on the UK government to carry out a study of the impact of all spending cuts on those with disabilities.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/snp-condemn-tories-ideological-assault-on-disabled-people/
“The UK government cannot simply turn away from the findings of an internationally respected organisation which explicitly states that the rights of disabled people have been violated.”
http://www.welfareweekly.com/snp-condemn-tories-ideological-assault-on-disabled-people/
Council house waiting lists all around the country are going to get even longer when the benefit cap bites, Them Londoners are gonna to have to live somewhere.
Apparently Pre-Fab accommodation is very much in vogue at the moment, disused cargo containers are being converted into bedsits.
Coming to a street near you very soon.
That`ll upset the daily wailers.
First they came for the disabled but I did nothing because Channel 5 and the Daily Mail tell me they’re all on the fiddle and lazy.
Then they came for the immigrants but I did nothing because they all want to come here and blow us up and have suspicious beards.
Then they came for the working poor but I did nothing because they should just work more hours and learn to manage their finances better.
Then they came for a quarter of the children in the UK but I did nothing because it decreases the surplus population.
Then they came for the protestors but I did nothing because they are just the great unwashed.
Then they came for the paralympians but I did nothing because they don’t need any help if they can break world records.
Then they came for the single parent households but I did nothing because everyone knows they just have kids for the benefits and a council house.
Then they came for me and my pension. Bastards! WHY DOESN’T ANYONE CARE?!?!?!?!
Then they cancelled X Factor and the entire UK erupted, tweeted, made front pages, we all talked about it, signed petitions, wept.
And my faith in community spirit was restored.
Courtesy of Atos Miracles
“FRANK FIELD, THE THATCHER ADMIRER WHO WANTS TO STEAL YOUR PENSION”
A cross-party committee has announced plans to cut state pensions, claiming that the British economy has become “heavily skewed” in favour of the baby-boomer generation.
Part of this program of cuts would see the “triple lock” on state pensions, which guarantees rises of at least 2.5% a year, scrapped by the end of the decade. But the committee, chaired by veteran right-wing Labour MP Frank Field, has also made it clear that benefits given to all pensioners, such as winter fuel payments, should not be “off limits” to government cuts.
In 2014-15, an estimated 43,900 excess winter deaths occurred – mostly amongst those of pensionable age. Cuts to winter fuel payments would see this number soar.
For Blairites like Field, who buy wholeheartedly into the malicious logic of austerity, this is a necessary sacrifice:
http://evolvepolitics.com/arch-labour-blairite-heading-committee-proposing-savage-cuts-to-pensioners/
…………..THE TAILORS DUMMY WHO HAS NEVER DONE A DAYS WORK IN HIS LIFE……..
None of this is surprising when you know something of Frank Fields’s background. Field was a close personal friend of the hated Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and, today, sits on the advisory board for the pro-privatisation think-tank Reform. In 2008, Field was included in the Telegraph’s “Top 100 Right Wing Thinkers”.
…………..GET RID OF THIS CUNT
Field is also an outspoken critic of Jeremy Corbyn, as are the other Labour MPs who sit on the Committee for Work and Pensions: Karen Buck, Neil Coyle and Steve McCabe.
The fact that Frank Field is a Labour MP reveals much about the persistently right wing character of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Before Labour can be truly transformed into a party for the 99%, reselection contests will need to take place to ensure that the party reflects the views of its new members. The sooner we can pension off the likes of Frank Field, the better.
“CAPITA PARAMEDIC HEALTH PROFESSIONAL”
……..what next, deckchair attendant doctor?
A nurse with 25 years’ experience who worked for assessment company Capita until earlier this year has claimed assessors do not necessarily have the right skills when it comes to some disabilities.
He did not want to be identified but told the programme: “A paramedic is very well designed to do the job of a paramedic. Have they got a lot of experience of somebody with MS, for example?
“Perhaps somebody with a very physical condition like MS should be assessed by somebody like an occupational therapist, or physiotherapist.
“Somebody with severe mental health difficulties by a psychiatrically trained person – but that doesn’t happen.”
Capita said staff were suitably equipped and supported to carry out assessments and on-going training was provided.
The Department for Work and Pensions said in a statement: “Assessments for PIPs are carried out by qualified health professionals who combine their clinical knowledge with an understanding of the fact that not everyone with the same disability is impacted [upon] in the same way.
……………..hence the thousands that died within weeks of being certified as fit for work
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-37900898
As you know from my previous posts on this site I have been saying this for ages. Labour needs to get rid of all the Tory infiltrators and become a real socialist party or we will never have justice for the disabled and unemployed.
Spot on Truth. It’s the only way. Getting rid of Tory minded idiots like Field would be an epic start. Where did these people crawl out from? They are never Labour people with their ideas, never.
SURPRISE, SURPRISE! – NO MENTION OF THE U.N. REPORT AT ALL!
Why the fuck do we pay our TV licence – IMPORTANT news is not reported!
BBC 6PM News this evening: (These in running order as follows):
Firstly – 13 and a half minutes regarding the U.S. Pres. Election – then –
A piece about child sex abuse/murder in ‘High Places’ of British Gov’t(s).
A letter written by Prince Harry about his new girlfriend Meghan Markle (complaining about how the ‘Press’ coverage had badly treated her).
Dame Lowell Goddard (Re recent dropping of child sex abuse inquiry).
A British banker has been jailed for the murder of a girl in Hong Kong.
SNP (Nicola Sturgeon) debate in Scottish Parliament re Brexit.
Marks & Spencer store restructuring, stores closing (incl Intntl) & profit loss.
then – for the remaining 5 mins or so – back to the U.S. Pres. Election.
IT’S GOOD TO KNOW THAT THE BBC REALLY CARES ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN BRITAIN WHO ARE BEING KILLED BY IT’S OWN D.W.P.
AND IT’S VERY OWN GOVERNMENT’S ‘WELFARE REFORM’ DISASTER.
“FOLLOWING IN THE NAZI’S FOOTSTEPS”
DPAC are very pleased that the publication of the UN inquiry into the grave and systematic violation of disabled people’s human rights has vindicated our complaints to the UN. The committee’s damning report clearly demonstrates that the Tories were well aware of the negative impact of their actions and policies on disabled people. Yet they went ahead with these attacks, regardless.
The Tories attitudes and actions can only be compared with those of politicians in 1930s Nazi Germany. The Tories should be deeply ashamed of their actions. But they won’t be. Like Aktion T4 the actions of this government in relation to conscious cruelty against disabled people is now a matter for international public record.
http://www.thecanary.co/…/uk-government-just-slammed-viola…/
The Tories attitudes and actions can only be compared with those of politicians in 1930s Nazi Germany. The Tories should be deeply ashamed of their actions. But they won’t be. Like Aktion T4 the actions of this government in relation to conscious cruelty against disabled people is now a matter for international public record.
DPAC are very pleased that the publication of the UN inquiry into the grave and systematic violation of disabled people’s human rights has vindicated our complaints to the UN. The committee’s damning report clearly demonstrates that the Tories were well aware of the negative impact of their actions and policies on disabled people. Yet they went ahead with these attacks, regardless.
The Tories attitudes and actions can only be compared with those of politicians in 1930s Hitler’s Germany. The Tories should be deeply ashamed of their actions. But they won’t be. Like Aktion T4 the actions of this government in relation to conscious cruelty against disabled people is now a matter for international public record.
http://www.thecanary.co/…/uk-government-just-slammed-viola…/
…………..Erectors required for new wall project. Must have xenophobic tendencies.
KKK members preferred. Tax optional.
Skills required;
BASIC CARPENTRY CRUCIFIX ASSEMBLY
FIRE STARTING
Ex Orgreave Police welcome
Jane Atkinson
Following a 13 month battle, the DWP have finally been forced to release secret documents illustrating the tactics they use to control and manipulate the media.
The documents reveal that the DWP monitors and analyses both mainstream and social media to reduce and manage negative coverage.
And even more worryingly, the documents show the DWP have managed to kill hundreds of stories by making sure that they are not reported on.
“DWP MEDIA REPORTS”
HOW THE DWP DEMONISES DISABILITY CLAIMANTS IN THE MEDIA
Street sign showing Parliament Street and Whitehall
DWP blocks publication of reports on impact of private media briefings
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By John Pring on November 20, 2015 Activism and Campaigning
Disabled activists are calling on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to release secret reports which could prove whether it has been engaging in a propaganda campaign to demonise disabled people in the media.
DWP has told Disability News Service (DNS) that it will not release documents compiled by its own communications department that describe the impact of its briefings to the media on disability benefit reform.
DWP initially denied that any such documents existed, but DNS has discovered that a monthly report is compiled describing the impact of its press releases and other media briefings.
These reports could reveal how DWP has briefed mainstream newspapers – including the Daily Mail, the Sun and the Daily Express – on its social security reforms, and how it judged their subsequent coverage.
Disabled activists and opposition politicians have repeatedly raised concerns that ministers or civil servants have briefed newspapers in a way that encourages them to report inaccurate and misleading articles with headlines such as “75 per cent of incapacity claimants are fit to work” and “Disabled benefit? Just fill in a form”.
After DNS lodged a freedom of information request in August, asking “whether the department keeps a record of which actions by DWP communications have led to the publication of welfare stories that appear in the media”, DWP initially insisted that no such reports existed.
SEE MORE
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-blocks-publication-of-reports-on-impact-of-private-media-briefings/
Duncan Smith protested then that he was unable to control how the media covered welfare reform stories, but promised DWP would improve the way it dealt with statistics on disability benefits.
Just 24 hours later, he provided quotes to selected news organisations – including the Mail – suggesting that thousands of disabled people were receiving disability living allowance they were not entitled to.
Howdy 😀 😀
Two down: Brexit – check; Donald Trump, President – check. One to go: Jeremy Corbyn, Prime Minister ?? 😀 😀
Election 2020: Theresa May has now called it a night and congratulated Jeremy Corbyn who will soon be the new Prime Minister. What a night and what a stunning victory this has been for Corbyn as Labour sweeps to victory on an unprecedented landslide First we had Brexit, then we had President Donald Trump, now we have Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn. Once again, how have the polls got it soooo wrooong? Well, it’s been a long night. Thank you for staying the course. Goodnight!
Trump has won the x factor, and delivered his NWO speech.
The elites will be feasting on lost souls and supreme power from now on, Ms Clinton also got her congrats on helping Trump convince the USA that rich twats are the way to go regarding the roll out of the ultimate destruction of the “old world”.
All in it together, nothing will stop their “God like” goal.
lol at Theresa May: “I congratulate Donald Trump on his victory and look forward to building on our shared values of self-reliance, hard-work, initiative, thrift and enterprise.” 🙂
“THE JUDICIARY DECIDES TO BACK OFF IN LIGHT OF DAMNING HUMAN RIGHTS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST CONSERVATIVES!
Woman with spina bifida and a couple who look after their severely disabled grandson win supreme court appeal against bedroom tax……….
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bedroom-tax-rulings_uk_58231d8ee4b0c2e24ab1d82c
It’s unbelievable that this has to go to the Supreme Court for a judgement in the first place. Look at the people in the photograph, what kind of sick twisted people are they in our government to treat severely disabled people in such brutal manner?
Here is the Independent’s article with regard to this welcome news – it’s a shame that they did not rule that all of it was illegal, but at least it may just now have set some sort of precedent for future action!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bedroom-tax-appeal-ruling-disabled-campaigners-government-acted-unlawfully-iain-duncan-smith-a7406951.html
Post Office accounts to receive benefits are being phased out in 2018. You will need a bank account to continue claiming benefits.
“DWP PLAN DISCRIMINATORY IMPOSITION OF GOVCOIN ON CLAIMANTS TO FURTHER BELITTLE THEM AND MONITOR SPENDING PATTERNS”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Could you please send me the technical specifications and scopes pertaining to the Department of Work and Pensions trial of Govcoin distribution ledger technology (also known as “blockchain” technology), along with any documents detailing the desired measurable outcomes of the project?
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
James Flint
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/technical_scope_and_specified_ou#incoming-877345
…………THE DWP PLAN IS TO TREAT CLAIMANTS AS A PARIAH GROUP, HAVING NO ACCESS TO REAL MONEY IN A FURTHER TWIST OF THE KNIFE.
BY EXCLUDING THE GROUP FROM MAINSTREAM SHOPPING METHODS THEY SEEK TO CONTROL AND HUMILIATE.
……….ANOTHER SICK IDEA FROM THE DWP NUDGE UNIT…
DWP and GovCoin aim for UK citizens to be amongst the first to benefit from the use of
distributed technology based, consumer centred applications.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Strategy FoI Team
Where appropriate, DWP encourages Universal Credit claimants, via Personal Budgeting
Support, to move on to banking facilities. Research shows very few claimants should be
unable to access traditional bank accounts or basic bank account facilities, particularly with
current on-going work to improve basic bank accounts and make them more widely available.
“DWP is working closely with financial institutions to develop banking products for all claimants”,
irrespective of their financial history or circumstances. The Department sees the use of a
transactional bank account as a key enabler to preparing people for the world of work and
enabling them to budget effectively.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Strategy FoI Team
BANKING PRODUCTS FOR ALL CLAIMANTS?
…………THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL WILL BE INFORMED OF THIS FURTHER ATTACK ON THE POOR AND DISABLED….
Iain Duncan Smith & the Daily Mail’s Editor Paul Dacre –
these are just some of the shitsters at the ‘top’ raking in the money and with their snouts in the troughs of E.U. giveaways!
From ‘John’ on Independent ‘comments’ wrote this as follows:
“Will Mother Theresa be matching the £159,000 CAP subsidy/benefit that Iain Duncan Smith received for his country estate last year when we leave the E.U.?
E.U. hating Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre pocketed £4.6 million for his 20,000acre shooting estate in Scotland last year from the E.U., has he been offered a deal from the Tory government too!”
The CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) is the biggest (EU) scam going which allows knobheads such as baldy bastard Iain Duncan Smith to trouser large sums of hard -working taxpayers ££cash££ for NOT planting crops, NOT having cows on your land….
CAP is intended to create an artificial shortage of food so as to maintain artificially high prices for consumers in the shops. It is as mad as butter mountains and wine lakes, food being dumped at sea, milk being poured down the drain. It is not the case that Mother Earth doesn’t produce enough food, it is rather the case of Mother Earth producing to much food for the Capitalist pig to maintain high profits. It is even madder when you consider that human beings right here in the UK are being reduced to relying on foodbanks and literally starving to death. You have to ask yourself WHY are human being right here in the UK STARVING TO DEATH. Does anyone see empty shelves at the supermarkets? No! Most of the produce is being thrown onto a tip! Madness, absolute , madness!
“Three ‘defeats’ for this Tory pile of shite today (in more detail!)
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/09/everyones-looking-trump-theresa-may-just-suffered-humiliating-defeats/
Sorry – that should read:
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/09/everyones-looking-trump-theresa-may-just-suffered-humilating-defeats
“While the US is in turmoil, UK judges have quietly declared war on Theresa May’s government”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/09/us-turmoil-uk-judges-quietly-declared-war-theresa-mays-government/
“DWP CONTINUE TO WRITE BULLSHIT COMMENTS”
JULY 2014
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I refer to your publication “Mandatory work placements:
a guide for potential host organisations” accessible at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sy…
which says in part:
“Most of the participants may have the
wrong attitude to the government’s
plan for getting work experience to get
a job. However by the end of the four
weeks, 95% of the participants want to
remain on the placements.”
Community Centre Manager
1. From your records, please advise the name of the person quoted and the Community Centre concerned.
…………..THE DWP SEEM TO BE HAVING PROBLEMS PROVIDING THE INFORMATION REQUESTED
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/community_centre_where_95_of_the#incoming-892608
“ANOTHER CORKER FROM DAMIEN GREEN, THE POVERTY QUEEN”
……….WORK IS GOOD FOR THE CHRONICALLY ILL
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
SoS for W&P Damien Green was recently quoted in the Independent newspaper http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol… (and other national outlets too) as suggesting ““We know the right type of work is good for our physical and mental health,”. I’d like to see upon what evidence he bases this statement please.
Yours faithfully,
Bill Kruse
…………..AND THE PROOF IS IN THE THOUSANDS OF DEATHS THAT THE DWP ARE DESPERATE TO HIDE…..
“THE MILITARY COVENANT” ……….an imaginary promise to cannon fodder of the UK
A homeless ex-soldier died hours after he was evicted from a city centre squat.
Known only as George, the 82-year-old is believed to have passed away from bronchial pneumonia, a support group for veterans has revealed.
He had been living in a disused building in Manchester with 12 other homeless ex-servicemen before they were all evicted.
His ‘band of brothers’ walked with him to Salford Royal Hospital after he was taken ill and he died with four of them at his bedside.
Salford Armed Forces Veterans Network (SAFVN), which is in contact with the group, say they know little about George, but said his death was a damning indictment on support services available for homeless ex-service personnel across the country.
He is believed to have proudly worn his military service medals at all times and been homeless for around 20 years.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/homeless-ex-soldier-82-dies-6851677
Re: GOVCOIN
(Let alone the Human Rights and Privacy issues involved – I would imagine that the Data Protection aspect could also be a nightmare – trust Lord Fraud to be involved in this crackpot and not thought out, idea)!
This, from a BBC report by Rory Cellan ones on 14th July 2016.
“BLOCKCHAIN AND BENEFITS – A DANGEROUS MIX?”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36785872
………………..sounds about right Paul……….
IF FREUD IS INVOLVED IN ANY WAY WITH DISABILITY IT’S ALWAYS TO PUT THE BOOT IN.
HE HAS AN INBUILT LOATHING OF THE MOST VUNERABLE AND WOULD BE BETTER SUITED AS A CREMATORIA SENTRY GUARD.
He also has a theory that the trial – though billed as a way for claimants to manage their money better – could also be “a potentially efficient way for DWP to restrict, audit and control exactly what each benefits payment is actually spent on, without the government being perceived as a big brother”.
WHEN LORD “KILLER” FREUD MENTIONED CLAIMANTS AS STOCK AND QUOTED THAT DISABLED SHOULD BE MADE TO WORK FOR £2 AN HOUR, HE SHOWED HIS TRUE COLOURS…….
LIKE HIS ANCESTOR SIGMUND AND RELATION CLEMENT THE PAEDO,HE ALSO HAS SIGNAL BOX PROBLEMS……..
“When is an “independent” M.P. not an “independent” M.P.”?
Zac Goldsmith should now be able to answer this question!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/zac-goldsmith-richmond-park-by-election-independen-tory-mps-campaigning-heathrow-lib-dems-a7410211.html
“DWP PLAN TO INCREASE CLAIMANT SUICIDES”
DWP to roll out jobs advisers for mental health patients
10 November, 2016 By Joe Gammie
Employment advisers will be integrated into the government’s flagship talking therapy service as part of new plans to improve recovery rates for mental health patients.
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Kay Blades
I’m sorry but I’ve suffered mental illness for the last 20 years of my life. Guess what…. I can’t recover. It’s not something you recover from. It’s a monster that is always with you and you always fight. The “medication” is just a band aid for them emotions and some people (like myself) won’t talk to people which then makes them give up on you. I won’t even look at someone I don’t know never mind talk to them!!!! I freaking hate how people say you can “recover” from mental illness. No you can’t. Hide it/medicate it/whatever but it’s always there
We are beginning to see the results of several years of campaigning against unjust welfare reforms that target disabled people. But Atos attempting to pull out of its contract (Report, 22 February) represents only a partial victory.
Other private corporations are already lining up to take over. So long as the work capability assessment (WCA) regime continues, so will the misery it causes to disabled people and their families, and to the workers involved in implementing a system they don’t agree with.
The WCA should be replaced immediately with a rigorous and safe system that does not cause avoidable harm to disabled people or those with chronic health issues or terminal illnesses.
The UK government and opposition should follow the Scottish government’s pledge* (see footnote ~ BTC) that private for-profit companies are removed entirely from having anything to do with the assessment of disabled people.
This area of public policy belongs firmly within the NHS and the public sector.
The PIP contract must be removed from Atos with immediate effect: targets in its handling of the WCA have affected thousands of disabled people, leading to hastened deaths, waits of up to a year, and leaving people without income or food.
BBC News right now criticising Trump for his right-wing views yet have spent years sucking the juices out of our Conservative government’s arse and allowed thousands and thousands of disabled people to be murdered and/or have their lives reduced to less than subsistence while ‘Aunty Beeb’ has mostly kept silent.
#BBCShame #ToryMurderers
“THE DWP ARE TRYING TO CHEAPEN AND CHEAT CLAIMANTS OUT OF A FAIR RECOURSE TO JUSTICE”
THEY PLAN TO FLOOD APPEAL COURTS WITH DWP STOOGES TO BLOCK APPEALS AND ARE EVEN CONSIDERING APPEALS BY PHONE.
THEY ARE TOTALLY EMBARRASSED BY THE NUMBERS OF SUCCESSFUL APPEALS WHICH MAKES THEIR SO CALLED, HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND DECISION MAKERS TO BE THE LIARS THAT THEY REALLY ARE……….
PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/dwp-changing-the-tribunal-process
TO STOP THE DWP OF BREACHING YOUR BASIC HUMAN RIGHT OF A RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL…………
UN’s conclusion that UK violated disability rights is ‘vindication’ for activists
DNS – 10th Nov 2016
Disabled activists who persuaded the United Nations (UN) to investigate serious breaches of rights by the UK government say their four-year journey has been vindicated, after a report concluded there had been “grave or systematic violations” of the UN’s disability convention.
Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) – led by its co-founder Debbie Jolly – first approached the UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) four years ago, and lodged a formal request to investigate the allegations the following year.
Now, more than four years after the first contact from DPAC, CRPD has published its report into the allegations.
Read More:
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/uns-conclusion-that-uk-violated-disability-rights-is-vindication-for-activists/
“””DPAC and other disabled activists, including Black Triangle co-founder John McArdle, were also furious that the government leaked the UN report to a right-wing tabloid, The Mail on Sunday, and attempted to rubbish its conclusions before it was published the following day.
A string of leading campaigners have signed a letter written by McArdle that will be sent to the UN to ask it to condemn the UK government’s “unacceptable” behaviour, which they say was an attempt to “discredit and delegitimise the report”. “”””
Debbie Jolly RIP
The Tories just love it when there is a ‘distraction’ to what they are doing – and this time around – it is the U.S. Elections!
THIS IS THE SORT OF THING THAT WE NEED TO LOOK OUT FOR!
“The bad news that the Government released during the week of the US election”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-bad-news-the-government-released-during-the-week-of-the-us-election-a7412071.html
Would you like your elderly mum or dad to be looked after by this bunch of ‘contract-chasing’ cowboys? – I, for one certainly wouldn’t!
“Virgin Care wins £700m contract to run 200 NHS and social care services”
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/11/virgin-care-700m-contract-200-nhs-social-care-services-bath-somerset
“How bad is childhood poverty in your neighbourhood? Use our interactive tool to find out”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-bad-childhood-poverty-your-9243027
URGENT – MICHAEL PAGE RECRUITMENT DATA BREACH!
“Personal details of 700,000 jobseekers with recruitment firm Michael Page hacked in massive worldwide data breach”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/personal-details-700000-jobseekers-recruitment-9241022
IDS talking total bullshit as per usual for this ‘clown’ twat!
DO NOT FORGET THOUGH, IDS – IT IS YOU, AND YOUR PAL CHRIS GRAYLING, THROUGH YOUR TOTAL IGNORING OF CORONER’S REPORTS RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HAVE RESULTED IN SO MANY COUNTLESS CITIZENS OF BRITAIN DYING AND COMMITTING SUICIDE DUE TO YOUR OWN (AND YOUR OWN TORY GOVERNMENT’S) ‘WELFARE REFORM’ POLICIES. SHAME ON BOTH OF YOU BASTARDS.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/donald-trump-special-relationship-uk-iain-duncan-smith-a7409816.html
IDS – THIS SNEERING CUNT – HE SHOULD BE SHOT AS DAWN BREAKS
Decided to have a go on the child poverty meter to see just how bad the area where i live has become.
54% of kids in my area are living in poverty…………..
54% of young human beings living in fucking squalor and nobody gives a flying fuck!
With cunts like prancing puff Frank Field sat on Tory expedition forces, what more do you expect?
Every MP is privy to the highest pay in the land, the best expenses and a gilt edge pension for life.
This is hush money for doing exactly the opposite of what the electorate are asking them to do. All following a completely different agenda to what the voters want and handing more power and greed to the multinationals that bung hideous amounts of lobbying poke into their arse pockets.
Branson has not one piece of goodness in his whole fetid body, a representation of what is a cancer eating away at the medical protection afforded by our good old NHS.
Whoever handed this Dick Turpin of the privatisation cult the £700 million contract ought to be made to sit at the grave sides of those that they have just kicked into touch and who will inevitably suffer.
This weeks media focus has been on the wanton waste of expensive drugs on extending the lives of the chronically ill. What a bunch of completely sick fucks we have in power.
Poor people are expendable whereas the rich are worth every second of breath…….
………………Frank Field sat on a Conservative committee think tank plotting how to raid the meagre pocket money pension pots of the retired?
The only agenda this mystery fairy is pursuing is a hand written script from the private health insurance industry who oil his creaking frame with coin.
………and who of the electorate gave a mandate for MP’s to even go there?
ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOBODY!!!!
DEATH, DESTRUCTION AND CHILD POVERY ARE THE BEDROCK OF DODGY FRANK FIELD’S PROPERTY PORTFOLIO.
The NHS is stealthily being privatised bit by bit. It will soon be known as the VHS – Virgin Health Service 😉
‘work programme’ advisors/consultants are fond of saying: “It is not us who sanction you, it is the DWP who sanction you 😀 😀 “. And in the case of a JCP cockroach they will lay the blame for a benefit stoppage on a ‘decision maker’.
It is a common misconception that DWP ‘decision makers’ issue sanctions/stop your benefits, but they don’t and more importantly can’t. DWP ‘decision makers’ can only recommend a sanction: “I recommend a sanction” It is your cockroach/’advisor’/’consultant’ who decides whether or not to apply a sanction.
In a “Changes to you Jobseeker’s Allowance” letter this would read as: “We cannot pay you Jobseeker’s Allowance… We have decided that a sanction is no longer applicable.” In other words the ‘decision maker’
has recommended a sanction but the roach has decided not to apply the sanction/benefit stoppage. It still counts as an adverse decision though and you can still Appeal it and have the decision overturned but your benefits won’t have been stopped.
Cockroaches/’advisors’/’consultants’ like to distance themselves from the sanction/benefit stoppage process by blaming a (DWP) ‘decision maker’) but it is the person sat on the other side of the desk who pulls the lever so to speak and is directly responsible for your benefit stoppage.
“THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NOW FIDDLING FUNDING LEVELS FOR FREE NURSERY PLACES”
……..everything the Tories touch goes septic.
The information commissioner has told the DOE to come clean about how the funding levels were arrived at but the crooks in charge have passed the parcel onto the accountants, Deloitte, saying they have the info, not us….
The commissioner has told them that this is not plausible.(rich mans tongue for lying bastards)
Is there nothing that the conservative scumbags will not poison in their favour?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-37953055
“Romanian Rent boy sodomist and druggy, VIETH KAZZ, now under investigation by the old bill”
seems they have finally plucked up enough courage to confront this pillar of human standards that now sits on the UK justice commitee.
But they better be careful in the long run as he is in a position to hit them in the butt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37957991
“THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN CLAIMANT SUICIDES AND DWP POLICY BUT…………………………….”
As you have stated, current guidance advises qualified Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) that
‘where there is evidence of a previous suicide attempt, suicidal ideation or self-harm expressed
in the ESA50/ESA50A, the HCP must request further medical evidence (FME).’ It further
advises that a HCP can obtain FME from the claimants GP, specialist or other health
professional.
As a result of this review I therefore find that the original response dated 6th October 2016 was
correct and that all the information that DWP are able to supply to you has been supplied.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review you may apply directly to the
Information Commissioner’s Office for a decision.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/358619/response/889437/attach/html/3/IR%20432%20J%20Slater%20WDTK%20FINAL%20response.pdf.html
………………..MURDER SHE WROTE
ANOTHER MARKER TO SEND TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
DWP’S refusal to accept that welfare policy is driving food bank usage
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Does the DWP deny that welfare reform is responsible, at least to some degree, for the exponential increase in the use of food banks by British citizens since 2010 to the present day?
I am not asking for a detailed explanation in respect to every driver responsible for the explosion in food bank usage in the United Kingdom, only whether the DWP denies that welfare reform itself plays a role in compelling British citizens to resort to food banks in ever greater numbers.
Welfare reform either plays a part in respect to this phenomenon or it doesn’t.
If the department doesn’t deny that a causal relationship exists between welfare reform and food bank usage the only possible conclusion is that it affirms it. If the department doesn’t know whether the welfare reforms it has implemented exacerbate food bank usage or not the only possible conclusion is that the DWP itself is irresponsible and incompetent.
Concerning a matter as serious as food poverty and starvation in 21st century Britain, a straightforward and candid answer would be appreciated.
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Toy
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/welfare_reform_and_food_bank_usa#incoming-893953
“HUMAN RECYCLING, MAXIMUS AUSTRALIA”
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/02/23/4183437.htm
I, Daniel Blake screenwriter stunned by wall of notes left by movie-goers at Edinburgh cinema : Daily Record.
PAUL Laverty is amazed by display at the Cameo with many messages left by people who have suffered at hands of the benefits system like the movie’s main character.
IT’S the film that has had the whole country talking. And crying.
But the depth of feeling evoked by I, Daniel Blake, is perhaps best summed up by an amazing collection of notes pinned to the wall of an Edinburgh cinema.
The display at the Cameo, penned by people who have suffered similar experiences to the movie’s main character, left screenwriter Paul Laverty stunned.
And cinema staff were so impressed with the reaction that they launched a charity collection, which has raised £2500 for a food bank.
I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach, tells the story of a Geordie carpenter who is unable to work after suffering a heart attack – only to be passed fit by a Work Capability Assessment which leaves him sanctioned and facing starvation.
And Paul believes the message in the film is striking a chord with movie-goers.
He said: “I had no idea of the impact. Staff at the Cameo had been stunned by the reaction – it was an example of beautiful empathy.” One message in the foyer reads: “I am less afraid of dying than of a WCA.”
Paul added: “To be more scared of an assessment than dying? I suppose dying you just have to accept. But the humiliation of going through this test – there is something so cruel about it.
“The Government have changed their rhetoric but have not budged one inch and last week they announced the new benefit cap.”
Cameo assistant manager Corin Christopher added: “It’s amazing to see the reaction of people coming out so moved.”
“CANADIAN PROVINCE TO START EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT OF PROVIDING £773 PER MONTH”
One in five children live in poverty in Canada, according to Unicef, and a recent poll found two-thirds of Canadians open to the idea of basic income
A Canadian province is to run a pilot project aimed at providing every citizen a minimum basic income of $1,320 (£773) a month.
The provincial government of Ontario confirmed it is holding public consultations on the $25m (£15m) project over the next two months, which could replace social assistance payments administered by the province for people aged 18 to 65.
People with disabilities will receive $500 (£292) more under the scheme, and individuals who earn less than $22,000 (£13,000) a year after tax will have their incomes topped up to reach that threshold.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canadian-province-to-give-every-citizen-1320-income-boost-to-overcome-poverty-a7411281.html
MEANWHILE UK GOVERNMENT STARTING PROJECT TO SEE HOW MANY CLAIMANTS THEY CAN KILL IN RUN UP TO CHRISTMAS…………
……………SAW THREE YOUNG PEOPLE TONIGHT HUDDLED IN A SHOP DOORWAY, SLEEPING BAGS DRAPED AROUND THEM, BEGGING…….
THE POLICE WILL, NO DOUBT MOVE THEM ON…..
OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND, THE TORY ANSWER TO POVERTY ON OUR STREETS…….
“WHAT A SHOWING UP FOR THE DWP”
Mr Segal confirmed that participation in the project, which is due to launch in spring 2017, will be voluntary and promised “no one would be financially worse off as a result of the pilot”.
One in five children live in poverty in Canada, according to Unicef, and a recent poll of some 1,500 Canadians found two-thirds of those polled were open to the idea of basic income.
A similar project was tested in Dauphin, Manitoba, between 1974 and 1979, with families below the poverty line receiving over $3,000 (£1,757) a month. Over 1,000 citizens were said to have benefited from the scheme.
……………….IN SCARBOROUGH, N.YORKSHIRE, 54% OF CHILDREN ARE IN POVERTY
“EX UK SPECIAL FORCES MAN TALKS ABOUT DWP AND FOOD BANKS”
………..MILITARY COVENANT, IS THIS A JOKE?
Two weeks ago I met Matthew (the stigma of foodbank use meaning that’s not his real name). Former Special Forces, then self-employed carpenter and joiner, he was referred to us by the jobcentre after life-threatening illness and emergency surgery left him unable to work. Despite huge difficulties with mobility, and recently diagnosed with PTSD, he had been found ‘fit to work’ and denied Employment Support Allowance, and so an income.
This tall, broad-shouldered, ‘real-life’ Daniel Blake fought back tears as he talked about what he’d experienced:
“Until it happens to you, you don’t realise how bad life can be. I’ve paid my taxes since 1980, but it was still a pride thing for me to actually put my hand out and say I need help. The DWP can be very abrupt and you have to chase them. You have to fight. But every time I seemed to turn a corner, there’d be a wall. The world just becomes a dark place, a really horrible place. I’ve stayed in bed for days, because you don’t get hungry in bed, when there’s nothing in the cupboards.
“People and the government and the DWP need to know the work that foodbanks do, and need to know the position that people are put in. People have to realise that foodbanks are here for a reason now, because of what’s happening; because of the situations people face through no choice of their own, like me.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sarah-chapman/i-daniel-blake-true-debate_b_12894118.html
Policy
Armed Forces Covenant
From:
Veterans UK and Ministry of Defence
The Armed Forces Covenant is a promise from the nation that those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. We’re working with businesses, local authorities, charities and community organisations to support the forces through services, policy and projects.
Find out what the Armed Forces Covenant can do for you and how you can get involved.
…………….NOT WORTH THE FUCKING PAPER IT IS WRITTEN ON……….
CAPITA, ATOS OR MAXIMUS, DISABILITY AND PTSD COMPLETELY IGNORED…
DIRECTIONS TO A FOODBANK
Fucking hell!
The DWP can be very abrupt and you have to chase them. You have to fight. But every time I seemed to turn a corner, there’d be a wall. The world just becomes a dark place, a really horrible place. I’ve stayed in bed for days, because you don’t get hungry in bed, when there’s nothing in the cupboards.
ex special services on remembrance sunday
Which one do you believe?
From:
Veterans UK and Ministry of Defence
The Armed Forces Covenant is a promise from the nation that those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. We’re working with businesses, local authorities, charities and community organisations to support the forces through services, policy and projects.
Gulf veterans injected with a cocktail of drugs and suddenly their medical records go missing as they fall ill.
Dear Ministry of Defence,
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
With regards to the long running Gulf Veterans’ Medical Assessment Programme (GVMAP) https://www.gov.uk/guidance/gulf-veteran…
Please furnish the following information.
1. Please name all stations this assessment programme is reporting back to with their clinical findings.
2. What measures have been taken to remedy the complaints stated by many veterans that their medical records regarding service on OP Granby have been deleted /gone missing from their medical service records, in particular with regards to the cocktail of experimental inoculations that they were ordered to take at the time ?
3. Please confirm if there are any policy’s in existence (apart from the GVMAP programme) that are designed to monitor the long term health issues of 1st Gulf veterans for the rest of their life’s, if so, why has this been deemed to be necessary ?
Yours faithfully,
Alvin Pritchard.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gulf_veterans_medical_assessment#incoming-891520
MOD hide medical histories of Gulf war veterans
a ploy to refuse compensation to our service personnel human guinea pigs that were willing to give their lives for Queen and country
M Thompson left an annotation (16 October 2016)
I had to wait nearly two years for my MAPS report it arrived with blank pages covering things over in parts. I can only assume that it is my report as the DOB is wrong. On my return from MAPS my Doctor called me in to tell me “nothing is wrong” I felt like an MOD guinea pig who never gave informed consent. I’ve recently been diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning (lead uranium antimony etc etc) and other complications. I have recently paid for a copy of my NHS file and found that on the day of seeing my Doctor following MAPS I have 5 years missing from my file. I requested my MAPS report from the MOD I was sent to 3 different departments in the end I had to complain to the ICO.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/gulf_veterans_medical_assessment#incoming-891520
“They don’t want the American public to know what is happening”
It’s called the Survive, Hide, Interrogation, Terrorise and Evade phase and it’s the most secretive part of the entire Claiming JSA process.
God, it was tough. I didn’t know my own name by the time I’d got out of the Job Centre. That’s how intense it was.
ANT
“Well said Gordon”
Gordon Keane 2:22am Sun 13 Nov 16
It is not acceptable the UK tory regime can so lightly dismiss an authoritative UN report like this, then itself, rave against any other nation for its Human Rights abuses. I watched the Glenda Jackson demolition of Esther McVey the then IDS side kick the other day. This was while both were still at Parliament. McVey point blank refused to accept that vulnerable ppl were being unfairly sanctioned. Then goes on to admit over 1000 folks on ESA are sanctioned in a single month. Now folks on ESA are those deemed unfit for work, otherwise they would not be on that particular benefit to begin with.Why then are they being sanctioned, when DWP staff already knew they were vulnerable ppl?
And how do they expect those more able bodied to deal with a benefit sanction,when they are left with absolutely nothing?
To say these could get Hardship Payments with a mere shrug was unacceptable too, as they don’t get any money for 4 full weeks.
The regime know well what they are doing. Now we have Damian Green, the new DWP Secretary doing his utmost to outdo the deplorable Ian “D” Smith, with suggestions that those who are deemed most ill and infirm, totally incapable of any kind of work, most still be in touch with jobcenter staff, or lose benefits….. For what purpose?
And all this talk about helping folks back into work, just how do they expect the ill and infirm, and various disabled folks to get back into work, when….. A. most can’t actually do work, and B. employers wouldn’t want them, nor would most employers want those disabled folks who might be able to do some kind of work in too many cases?
Then there is the lack of jobs to begin with, and the fact the UK Govt. has been taking mobility cars away from those disabled folks who did have work, making it impossible for them to continue with work.
To hear Damian Green’s dismissal of the suicides caused by his Government’s own polices was disgraceful. And Nicky Clegg’s Lib Dems must not be let off with it either, as many of the polices we have today were only made possible with their support. Labour under Miliband, also supported most of this, it must also be pointed out.
The new PIPs replacement for DLA is difficult to impossible for most folks to get. Deliberately so. The Assessments by the likes of ATOS and MAXIMUS, again, done in such a way, folks who are ill are treated appallingly. The assessors often lying, and a almost none of them medically trained. Their mere opinions often over riding a professional doctor.
Then we have some practical difficulties in asking folks to jobcenters, that have no WCs facilities for public use, when some of those attending will have medical needs, and not even so much as a water dispenser for them. None of this is acceptable.
Government in London can dismiss the recent Ken Loach movie all it likes, but it is not only realistic, but tame in comparison to what is really happening out there.
A water dispenser was the only thing not 100 percent real in I Daniel Blake.
JCP- here doesn’t such a level of luxury but perhaps they’ve gone all out in JCP-‘s further up north (Newcastle). It’s such a basic thing to not have.
“UK DISABLED TO CONTACT BAN KI MOON OVER DWP BREAKING HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS”
Now campaigners are writing to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon asking him to “censure” the UK Government for its “unacceptable behaviour” in trying to discredit the report.
The letter, which will be submitted early this week, has been backed by more than 50 signatories including Paul Laverty, scriptwriter of “I, Daniel Blake”, several SNP MPs and disability and poverty campaigners.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14884362.UN_urged_to_act_over_UK_Government__39_s___39_unacceptable__39__dismissal_of_report_on_disability/
“MAXIMUS SHARES READY TO TUMBLE”
………RICHARD MONTONI ON VERGE OF CANCELLING DWP CONTRACT TO MURDER DISABLED CLAIMANTS.
HCP’S WORKING FOR UK GOVERNMENT WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSORS WARNED ABOUT CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS OVER FAKED MEDICAL REPORTS.
CAPITA STOCKS SET TO NOSEDIVE.
Geoff – both of these stories are really good news. The pursuit of these cruel and murderous bastards has to be tenacious and totally relentless – until these stupid ‘Welfare Reform’ policies/WCA/PIP assessments are drastically changed for the better, or (even better), completely scrapped altogether.
The Ken Loach docu-drama Cathy Come Home is on tonight 13 November at 22:30 on BBC 4.
The SNP’s Mhairi Black is trying to make a difference re ‘sanctions’ – let’s hope that she succeeds! But she also needs everone’s support!
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/14/mhairi-black-wants-reform-welfare-system-cunning-plan/
Mhairi Blacks’ Bill wouldn’t have made one iota of difference to David Clapson since he wasn’t in a ‘vulnerable’ group. It wouldn’t have made one iota of difference to Daniel Blake either. Mhairi Black is a feminist and this Bill is primarily aimed at removing single parents (women) from the sanctions regime. And all by shamefully hijacking the cruel death of David Clapson at the blood-soaked hands of the DWP. And the ‘disabled’ (those on ESA) also see a chance of securing ‘protection’ from sanctions for themselves. Mhairi Black, ‘disability groups, women’s groups don’t give a flying fuck about the David Clapson’s, Daniel Blake’s of this world – they are a means to an end.
This Bill should NOT be supported by the ‘mainstream’ unemployed. i.e. those on JSA and not in a so-called ‘vulnerable’ group. Going down this road will make it even harder to secure and end to sanctions – without exception. Exempting so-called ‘vulnerable’ groups e.g. single parents and the WRAG group of ESA from sanctions will make life a damned sight harder for the David Clapson’s and Daniel Blake’s of this world as they are cut adrift, forgotten about and left to die.
It is to be hoped that Gill Thompson (David Clapson’s sister) sees through the shenanigans of all these self-interested groups. shenanigans.
There was a report issued recently that stated that Home Office officials who were against the death penalty advised the Home Secretary of the time to allow the execution of Derek Bentley with the desired intent that it would sway opinion against capital punishment and speed up the process of abolition. And it was probably the case with Ruth Ellis. Although too bad if you happen to be the sacrificial lamb to the slaughter for the ‘greater good’
On the surface it may sound kind of twisted but the same logic can be applied to the campaign for a abolition of sanctions – without exception. Once you start creating so-called vulnerable group who are exempt from sanctions, it is game over. The ‘non-vulnerable’ groups are going to be cut adrift to suffer in isolation and silence. Creating ‘vulnerable’ groups wont prevent David Clapsons and Daniel Blakes dying at the blood-soaked hands of the DWP. It like the twisted, psycho hangman Albert Pierrepoint said: “You can make an omelette without breaking an egg.”
‘Benefit delays’ according to Frank Field (but absolutely no mention of sanctions or deaths caused by them!) He missed his chance, once again!
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/14/spike-food-bank-usage-blamed-delays-benefit-claims-frank-field
Is the BBC right-wing/Conservative biased? – surely not!!
(Amongst other non-reporting, I have not heard one mention of the ‘UN report being released’ yet – and what’s more I no not expect to hear anything about it – either on the BEEB or on SKY for that matter!)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/13/marine-le-pen-bbc-right
Paul! In answer to that question, is the BBC right wing/Tory Biased. The answer is yes and no. The BBC just has it’s own agenda mixed with the official establishment line. During this week Chemical weapons (chlorine gas) were fired at Syrian Army soldiers. No mention; Black Americans in some states were pulling whites from there cars and beating them up for voting Trump. No mention. The videos are/were on youtube so proof is there. There were celebrations in some states at Trumps victory. No mention; There were small protests against Trumps election, lots of coverage. People wake up!!!!! All news is biased toward the agenda of the ruling class and the establishment line whichever country you go to. I am no fan of Trump as I am a socialist but I am always willing to be honest and call out bullshit when I see or hear it, whatever the political persuasion of the media’s target.
Are NHS England/Conservatives being ‘secretive’ about their ideas for the transformation of OUR NHS into a ‘full 7 day service’ – you bet they are – even down to refusing to answer FOI requests (ever heard of that one before somewhere?!)
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/14/patients-and-staff-shut-out-of-nhs-transformation-plans-says-thinktank
They promised £350m per week for the NHS – where on earth is it?!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/350m-nhs-brexit-promise-bus-junior-doctors-chris-grayling-a7415286.html
“Micro living” – want an ‘affordable’ home? This may be some of the sorts of ‘prefabs’ that may be on the way to help with the ‘housing shortage’!
http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/property-news/affordable-housing-crisis-could-this-50k-modulhus-be-the-future-of-new-homes-for-firsttime-buyers-a105836.html
“NHS e-mail to all 1.2 million employees crashes system!”
And they expect ‘patients’ to trust their ‘data-handling/patient records & files’ systems! Oh, dear! Just imagine if it was all ‘Privatised’!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-email-all-staff-employees-accident-system-crash-a7416781.html
This is an interesting article – recently put on here and courtesy of Ipswich Unemployed Action.
https://intensiveactivity.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/work-and-pensions-committee-concerns-over-policemen-work-coaches-and-work-and-health-programme/
The cruel and uncaring Tory M.P.’s & Ministers have no idea how most people survive, let alone ‘live well’ in Britain – all they seem to care about is Company profits, Multinational’s profits and their very own ‘profits’ (by whatever means possible), not to mention the ‘expenses’ and corrupt deals that they are privy to!
“Ken Loach urges Government not to cut disability benefits”
http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2016/11/14/ken-loach-urges-government-not-to-cut-disability-benefits/
Meanwhile, today, with many people resorting to food banks to feed themselves and their families in this, the 6th richest country in the world, – a good old nosh-up has been had this evening by Theresa May (last year it was George Osborne) and her wealthy friends and compatriots at the Guildhall in London.
No doubt only also with the very best champagne, wine, venison and duck cruets, complete with a vichysoisse sauce as well!
Also – the alleged ‘Tory Election Scandal’ rumbles on – now Theresa May’s chief of staff has been drawn into it!
http://www.channel4.com/news/pms-chief-of-staff-drawn-into-election-expenses-scandal
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Homes Under the Hammer – to move to 11.15am!
From Monday 5 December , Homes Under the Hammer will move, for the first time in 10 years, to a new slot at 11.15am.
Fucking hell!
WTF! That is going to knock benefit claimants out of their ‘comfort zone’!
Damian Green – A supremely out of touch idiot that is determined to try to roll back time to the Victorian & Georgian ages – you work – or you die – another fucking rich bastard from the Tory party’s rancid bowels.
Another one to keep a wary on and to report to the U.N.!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-gig-economy-damian-green-speech-holiday-minimum-wage-sick-pay-hours-a7421071.html
“These Tory MP’s just begged their own government to delay ESA disability benefit cuts”
“The risk of damage is high. The financial cost is low. What kind of a government do we want to be?”
Oddly enough, even some Tory MPs are against these terrible cuts to ESA.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-mps-just-begged-government-9279778
And now -the Guardian version (more detailed) of the same story!
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/17/tory-mps-call-for-welfare-cuts-rethink-after-pause-motion-passed
‘Crowdfunding’ campaign set up today to try to fund an inquest into David Clapson’s death (It’s already hit half of it’s £10,000 target)
(Although SKY & the BBC will not cover this story!), please let’s get justice done at long last for poor David and his family.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/family-ex-soldier-david-clapson-9274292
Jobs of the future may not have stable hours, holiday pay, sick pay, or pensions, DWP secretary says
Damian Green describes development in the labour market as ‘exciting’
…………..HITLER’S TWISTED HENCHMAN APPROVES MORE DWP KILLINGS….
Jobs of the future may not have stable hours, holiday pay, sick pay, or pensions, the Work and Pensions Secretary has said.
Damian Green described the trend in employment practices towards the so-called “gig economy” as “exciting” and said the changes had “huge potential”.
The Cabinet minister’s endorsement of the approach comes a month after an employment tribunal found that drivers for the Uber car service should in fact get the minimum wage and paid holiday. The tribunal dismissed the taxi company’s claim that its drivers were in fact self–employed and not entitled to these rights.
Mr Green said in a speech at the Reform think-tank on Wednesday morning: “Just a few years ago the idea of a proper job meant a job that brings in a fixed monthly salary, with fixed hours, paid holidays, sick pay, a pension scheme and other contractual benefits.
“But the gig economy has changed all that. We’ve seen the rise of the everyday entrepreneur. People now own their time and control who receives their services and when.
“They can pick and mix their employers, their hours, their offices, their holiday patterns. This is one of the most significant developments in the labour market. The potential is huge and the change is exciting.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-gig-economy-damian-green-speech-holiday-minimum-wage-sick-pay-hours-a7421071.html
“DAMIAN GREEN, KILLING IS FUN TORY MINISTER”
LETTER FROM A DISABLED CLAIMANT
Dear DWP,
Thank you for turning down my application for Attendance Allowance on the grounds that I am not disabled enough. As you know, I had a stroke 7 months ago and have fought back from being hoisted in and out of bed to walking with a stick. If your remember my application, however, you will know that I cannot walk any great distance, cannot get on a bus and have yet to tackle a train. This is because I cannot go anywhere without being taken by car. Without support to go places, I cannot shop, attend physio sessions or hospital and dental appointments.
You might also remember that my left arm is quite weak. I have reasonable movement in my hand, but cannot use a fork and my hand jerks when it is tired. I also have a spasm in my ankle at night, although this is decreasing. I cannot hold some objects in my hand and am limited in what I can lift.
The NHS, however, have been wonderful throughout, although some of my recommended appointments have long waiting lists. It is a shame you are selling it off and awarding hefty multimillion pound contracts to companies with no experience of provision in this field. I also assume the person who assessed my application has no medical experience either and might assume a ‘stroke’ is something you give to a cat.
Finally, I still suffer from fatigue in the afternoon. This is not due to laziness or being unemployed. I worked until I was 66 and in my time have paid you a lot of tax. I am still paying tax now.
I am fortunate to have been born at a time when there was a strong sense of community, but with the knowledge that you always have to ‘fight your corner’to survive.
If I am honest, I do not need the money. My application was made as a matter of principle. There are many, many people much worse off than me. I have a home and a partner who has given me much loving support. I may never walk properly again, but I will try to do so.
There’s nothing more to say really, other than a stroke is pretty devastating, but that you appear not to understand. I trust that the Minister responsible for the DWP and any of its workers never have one, but, then, the DWP don’t see as stroke as a disabling condition, so I am sure they will all be fine.
“MORE TORY ELECTION FRAUD”
……..but what else do you expect of a government that kills the disabled?
Kent Police and the Electoral Commission are currently investigating whether the Conservative Party broke the law by failing to properly declare tens of thousands of pounds in hotel bills, including approximately £14,000 at the Royal Harbour Hotel in Ramsgate where Mr Timothy stayed.
Election law states that any expenses incurred for “the promotion of the candidate” must be declared locally and are subject to tightly defined limits. None of the expenses incurred at the Royal Harbour Hotel were declared as local expenses by their candidate, Craig Mackinlay or his agent.
A Conservative spokesman confirmed to Channel 4 News that Mr Timothy was based in South Thanet and “assisted” the team, but said he was working as a “volunteer” on the “national” campaign.
The party told the programme Mr Timothy’s duties during the campaign included “briefing policy and political work on Home Office policy, briefing party spokespeople on Home Office policy, supporting Theresa May, and working on a variety of other matters for the Conservative Party during the campaign.”
But the spokesman did not explain why Mr Timothy needed to carry out those activities from a hotel in Ramsgate.
New evidence
The new evidence obtained by Channel 4 News also suggests that Conservative staff staying at the Royal Harbour Hotel were working on Craig Mackinlay’s local campaign.
The programme has obtained a large number of press releases sent out on behalf of Mr Mackinlay by the former Conservative Party Head of Press, Henry Macrory. Mr Macrory was part of the team who were guests at the Royal Harbour.
The press releases are branded “Craig Mackinlay – Conservative Candidate for South Thanet”. They contain Mr Mackinlay’s twitter handle and Facebook page. All say “For further information please call Henry Macrory”. The press releases were promoted by his local agent.
The programme has also obtained emails showing Mr Macrory acting as Mr Mackinlay’s press officer. In one email sent in March 2016, Mr Macrory told local journalists: “I will be helping out with Craig Mackinlay’s media during the election campaign.
“Please don’t hesitate to contact me if I can assist in any way. In the next few days or so I will start sending you a regular e-mail giving you an outline of what Craig will be up to during the week ahead.”
Channel 4 News can also reveal that another Conservative worker, Sam Armstrong, who stayed at the Royal Harbour Hotel was actively involved in Mr Mackinlay’s local campaign.
Mr Armstrong registered a website called “whereisnigel.com” which highlighted Mr Farage’s absence from the constituency during the campaign. The website was launched by Mr Mackinlay, and a press release was sent out by Mr Macrory to publicise it.
In 2016 Mr Armstrong was appointed as Mr Mackinlay’s chief-of-staff at Westminster. He was arrested in October in relation to an allegation of rape.
Police investigation
Channel 4 News has obtained correspondence between officers at the Serious Crime Directorate at Kent Police and Craig Mackinlay MP.
The letters, exchanged in March, reveal detectives were trying to establish whether Conservative staff staying at the Royal Harbour Hotel, were working on the local campaign.
Detective Sergeant Brian Gilham wrote to Mr Mackinlay asking: “Whether any of those persons who stayed at the Royal Harbour Hotel were engaged on the local campaign at any time, or whether they were engaged solely on the national campaign?”
Mr Mackinlay replied: “I can confirm that nobody staying at the hotel was subject to my, or my agent’s, control or direction, any national Conservative Party staff based in the Royal Harbour Hotel were part of a national campaign team and were engaged in activities at the direction of Conservative Central Headquarters.”
Mr Mackinlay failed to disclose that Mr Macrory, Mr Armstrong and Ms Little were all “engaged” in his local campaign.
Today Kent Police told Channel 4 News: “The Kent Police investigation into this complex matter is ongoing and officers continue to follow lines of enquiry. Therefore it would not be appropriate to comment further.
“A number of police officers continue to work on this investigation. Officers from Kent Police continue to work with the Electoral Commission as the investigation continues.”
In a statement, a spokesman for Craig Mackinlay said: “Our understanding is that there continues to be an ongoing investigation into the matters raised by the ITN report by both Kent Police and the Electoral Commission. As such it is inappropriate to comment at this time. We maintain that the South Thanet general election return was both lawful and proper.”
Tory minister says private firms should play a bigger role in the welfare system.
Damian Green made the pledge in a wide-ranging speech vowing to change Britain “from welfare state to welfare system”
But quoting wartime social reformer William Beveridge, Mr Green said society had changed radically since the welfare state was set up.
“We can admire, even revere the welfare state,” he said. “But a welfare state, is not enough for today’s world. What we need is an entire system of welfare.
“The government is a necessary, but not sufficient provider of welfare. It can, and does, act as the guarantor of fairness within the welfare system to set the rules. It can also provide the backbone of the assistance system through more than 700 Jobcentre Plus offices.
“What it must not try to do is assume that it can provide all the help necessary. ”
He added: “The first principle is that a welfare state is not enough – we need a welfare system, involving many players – health professionals, employers large and small, a whole range of voluntary organisations.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-minister-says-private-firms-9274040
Benefit Sanctions inquiry.
Scope of the inquiry
To receive benefits such as Jobseeker’s Allowance or Universal Credit, some claimants must agree to undertake work-related activities which aim to help them move into work.
Not completing these activities can lead to a sanction, where a claimant’s benefit payments are suspended for a period of time.
National Audit Office report
The National Audit Office (NAO) are currently undertaking a study to examine whether the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is achieving value for money from its administration of benefit sanctions.
This includes how benefit sanctions fit with the intended aims and outcomes of DWP’s wider working age employment policy, whether sanctions are being implemented in line with policy and whether use of sanctions is leading to the intended outcomes for claimants.
Submitting written evidence
If you wish to submit written evidence to this inquiry, the deadline for doing so is midday on Tuesday 6 December 2016.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/inquiries/parliament-2015/benefit-sanctions-16-17/
“EMPLOYMENT FIGURE FIDDLING”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please could you tell me if people on any of the Govt. Work Programmes will show in unemployment figures whilst on said programme.
What category of people are used to make up the Govt. unemployment figures.
Are women being made to volunteer in charity shops or other placements whilst in receipt of JSA included in the unemployment figures.
The number of women over 60 claiming JSA
The number of women over 60 claiming ESA
If a woman is over 60, and unemployed due to redundancy or early retirement, or simply unable to get another job but not claiming any JSA or benefit, can she get her NI contributions paid until she reaches State Pension age, what is the criteria for this to happen ? Is this the same for men?
Thank you
Yours faithfully,
Lin Phillips
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/unemployment_numbers#incoming-896478
“DISABILITY IGNORANCE OF THE DWP”
………..NO WONDER CLAIMANTS DROPPING LIKE FLIES
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
1:Can I ask you for a copy of your policy on completing a health and safety assessment on your customers when transferring them to a new contract (PIP) from DLA,
2: Failing to do so does not take into account the potential risk of harm to your customers,
so can I ask can customers get access to a copy of the health and safety assessment?
3: can customers also get a copy of the R.A.M.S. (risk assessment method statement ) if they ask for one.
4: what is your policy on disclosing names of managers when dealing with the public?
I feel that a failure to disclose is a breach of contract under English contract law,
5: can you confirm that the PIP claim is a contract under the terms of English contract law?
6: can you confirm that a DLA claim is a contract under the terms of English contract law?
7: do customers get prosecuted for breach of contract when taken to court for fraud?
if not what is the charge used?
Yours faithfully,
Peter:Brewster
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/health_and_safety_at_work_act_et#incoming-895477
manipulating the unemployment figures.
The Tory government blew £100,000 of public money trying to hide a huge list of firms that used jobseekers for unpaid work.
Official claimed releasing the information would hurt “commercial interests”
The DWP is now “totally ignoring” a similar request he made for employers using the Community Work Placement scheme, which made jobseekers work for six months.
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Debbie Abrahams said: “Damian Green said the film I, Daniel Blake was ‘a work of fiction bearing no relation to the modern benefits system’.
“And yet here we have a scenario worthy of a movie plot in which a government tries to hide the truth of its own failings from the public.
“They think nothing of demonising those who need the support of our social security system, a system that is there for any one of us in a time of need, forcing them into unpaid work or using spurious reasons to sanction them to manipulate the unemployment figures.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-blew-100k-public-money-9273121
“£369 MILLION TO BE BLOWN ON OLD WRINKLY’S PALACE”
Buckingham Palace to receive multi million refit
….probably the sickest move ever by a government so immersed in corruption and acts of evil against the poorest and disabled…………..
Whilst people are being denied the right to a roof over their heads, some shamelessly uprooted, homeless on the streets, food bank usage on the rise and huge swathes denied the right to a proper life, we are presented with this crap!
This is more than an insult, this us a clear battle cry, a line drawn in the sand……..
To be penalised for having a spare bedroom and hearing this should make the blood boil.
The most idle pampered inbred immersed in more poke than would probably build a much needed hospital, times over.
Even the figure is a complete load of bollocks, the true waste of taxpayers money will be almost 3 times this amount going by the latest trends.
……………but why should the taxpayer fund the work?
She ain’t short of coin and has had the best income tax deal ever.
One thing is for certain, for every piece of remedial work done on the largely empty monument to greed…………
….MANY WILL HAVE DIED IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THIS WANTON WASTE………
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38025513
“THE TWO FACES OF CARING CONSERVATISM”
US
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.
…………………………………………………………………….
THEM
Her Majesty’s HQ
As Her Majesty’s administrative headquarters, the Queen spends a third of the year hosting events at Buckingham Palace.
When in town, she holds weekly audiences with the prime minister, and every year welcomes more than 50,000 people as guests to state banquets, dinners, receptions and garden parties.
The palace has 775 rooms, including 19 state rooms, 52 royal and guest bedrooms, 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms.
Image copyright PA
Image caption The Queen has hosted a stream of historical figures at the palace, including the Kennedys
Image copyright AP
Image caption More recently, in 2011, Barack and Michelle Obama were invited for dinner
It has served as the official London residence of Britain’s sovereigns since 1837, playing host to a stream of historical figures, including author Charles Dickens, the US Presidents Woodrow Wilson and John F Kennedy, Mahatma Gandhi – who wore a loin cloth and sandals to tea with King George V – Neil Armstrong and Nelson Mandela.
The occupied royal palaces are held in trust for the nation by the Queen but the cost of maintaining them falls on the government.
…………WE ARE ALL BORN EQUAL, BUT SOME MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS..
………………
And now this! – The queen will not be picking up the tab for this one – it’ll be the taxpayer. The biggest (royals) scroungers in Britain are at it again!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/royal-family-funding-money-increase-the-queen-prince-william-kate-harry-taxpayer-a7424641.html
Sky News (papers) have just said that one of the main beneficiaries of this Buck House refurb. will be the ‘tourists’!
Great band 😊
“SEXUALLY ABUSED CAMPAIGNERS ACCUSE MAY OF AN ESTABLISHMENT WHITEWASH”
………..what else did you expect of a government housing so many perverts afraid that the next doorbell to be rung might be theirs………..
Even the dead kiddly fiddlers are protected in the UK.
Alleged failings at Lambeth and Nottinghamshire councils; Cambridge House Boys’ Hostel, Knowl View School and other institutions arranged by Rochdale Borough Council; the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches; custodial institutions, and residential schools
“Areas of contemporary concern” including the internet, organised networks and people from outside the UK being protected from British workers abroad.
Allegations of child sexual abuse by “people of public prominence associated with Westminster” and claims of cover-ups
Allegations against the late Lord Janner, the former Labour peer who in 2015 was ruled unfit to stand trial on child sexual abuse charges.
The evidence given at the public hearings is expected to cover a number of other cases that have attracted headlines in recent years, including Cyril Smith and Peter Ball.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38022074
The inquiry said its work would continue with “confidence and clarity”, and Prime Minister Theresa May this week said she had absolute confidence in the inquiry’s leadership…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..and the moon is made of cheese
“TORIES BLASTED MORE THAN A HUNDRED GRAND HIDING NAMES OF WORKFARE SLAVE RECRUITERS”
The Tory government blew £100,000 of public money trying to hide a huge list of firms that used jobseekers for unpaid work.
Tesco and Asda were among household names on a list of 500 companies, charities and councils named as taking part in ‘Mandatory Work Activity’. See the full list here.
The list dates to 2011 but was only released in July – after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) launched an astonishing four-year legal battle to hide it.
Official claimed releasing the information would hurt “commercial interests” – but eventually lost in the Court of Appeal.
Now Mirror Online has confirmed the whole saga cost more than £100,000.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-blew-100k-public-money-9273121
“Ken Loach just slammed the government for its ‘brutal attack’ on the real Daniel Blakes” (Video)
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/17/ken-loach-just-slammed-the-tories-for-brutal-attacks-on-the-real-daniel-blakes-videos/
“The Tories spent £100k of public cash on a cover up of their most brutal and illegal policy” (Workfare)
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/17/tories-spent-100k-public-cash-cover-brutal-illegal-policy/
“GUILT FORCES TORIES TO DO YET ANOTHER U TURN”
…………BUT WILL HAMMOND TAKE NOTICE?
“Grave” and “systematic” violations
The problem with the motion is that it is only advisory, meaning Hammond does not have to act on it. But it will apply more pressure to the Conservative government, in the same month that a UN report slammed the UK for violations of disabled people’s rights.
As The Canary previously reported, a UN Human Rights Committee report condemned the UK government for human rights abuses over its treatment of disabled people. The report found what it called “grave” and “systematic” violations of international conventions the UK has signed up to.
The report [DOC] into the state of disabled people’s rights (the first of its kind) found that the UK government had forced through reforms with no regard for the rights of disabled people. It outlined that:
Welfare reforms have hit disabled people disproportionately the hardest.
The UK government had also helped to create a public perception of disabled people as “lazy” and “frauds”. This has increased disabled people’s persecution.
The government had violated disabled people’s rights through reforms such as the ‘Bedroom Tax’.
Measures introduced by the government were discriminatory.
Over half a million people may have had their human rights abused by the government.
A petition calling on the government to enact the 11 UN report recommendations has been launched.
Disabled people have had enough
Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) told The Canary:
It is highly significant that the government did not oppose the motion yesterday. MPs, including numbers of Tory MPs, are rightly very concerned that this cut in income to claimants who are already experiencing hardship will cause further harm to disabled people.
This cut is a further act of conscious cruelty by a government that stands accused of “grave” and “systematic” violations of disabled people’s human and civil rights. DPAC demands that the government stop the cut to people in the ESA WRAG. We also demand that a full Cumulative Impact Assessment is performed on all austerity measures that affect disabled people before any further cuts or changes are implemented.
Finally, we demand an independent inquiry into the deaths of social security claimants over the last decade and the response of the DWP to those deaths.
May’s government appears increasingly on the ropes over its treatment of sick and disabled people. And with her own MPs now turning against her, the systematic abuse of disabled people in the UK may begin to get the scrutiny it needs.
…………the noose is tightening
MPs have spent three hours debating a bid to halt damaging £30-a-week cuts to benefits for the sick and disabled.
A staggering 72 MPs including some Tories backed the bid to delay plans to slash Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) in April 2017.
The cuts affect all ESA claimants who are newly deemed fit for “work-related activity”, shrinking their payments from £102.15 to £73.10 a week.
The MPs want next week’s Autumn Statement to bring in new safeguards for those hit by the cuts – especially since the government is consulting anyway on how to help disabled people. Otherwise they want the cuts delayed.
The government did not oppose the motion – and it passed 127-0. But it was purely symbolic, so it will not bind the government into taking action.
……………..THE DWP CORPSES ARE STARTING TO HAUNT THEM, ESPECIALLY LORD FRAUD AND IDS
“Conservative MP’s just voted to hide the real impact of their devastating welfare cuts” (Video)
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/17/conservative-mps-voted-hide-the-real-impact-of-its-devastating-welfare-cuts-video/
“THIS WILL NOT BE TRUMPETED OUT BY EITHER SKY OR THE BBC!”
The Tories gradual privatisation of OUR NHS is continuing – but the majority of Britain’s population, shamefully, do not yet give a tuppenny shit about it!
They’d rather watch ‘Strictly’ or ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ – the fucking twats!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-privatisation-charges-professionals-in-house-agency-a7426966.html
What! – The queen to pay the bill – surely not! No, she won’t – the old
baggage would rather it collapse around her head and ears before she forked out the money to pay for it to be repaired!
In the same week it was announced on BBC 6PM News (WTF!) that a family with a baby who was evicted by a landlord in London that the local Council could not help them and therefore they should huddle in a street doorway! Charles Dickens Britain is back with a vengeance for sure.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/19/mcdonnell-backs-buckingham-palace-revamp-as-petition-grows
“The Duchy of Cornwall’s revenue already went to private charities” – NO, IT DEFINITELY DOES NOT – most of the revenue from this source goes to Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla Parker Bowles to top up their incomes.
“ACCORDING TO A NEW POLL ON THE EVE OF THE AUTUMN STATEMENT” (THAT WOULD BE NEXT TUESDAY, 22ND NOV 2016)
“Tories trusted on economy by twice as many voters as Labour – poll”
The ‘non-informed’ population have spoken once again – Bollocks I say!
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/19/tories-trusted-by-twice-as-many-voters-with-economy-than-labour-poll
(Off Topic)
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER – WAR CRIMES HAVE BEEN COMMITTED HERE!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/19/aleppo-hospitals-knocked-out-airstrikes
I personally do not think that this is action has been carried out by Russian warplanes – it is however, most likely to have been carried out by Bashir Al Assad’s Air Force against it’s very own people and Russia has been blamed by the West!
Really? And there is no doubt about it, the Americans are committing war crimes in Iraq but of course our media keeps that one hushed up. A few more points; there is no such thing as a smart bomb. If you happen to be close to where it goes off you die or are injured. Also there is no such thing as a moderate Islamic rebel, they are all a danger. And eastern Aleppo only had one hospital where did the others come from. According to western media they must have more hospitals per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world.
Just heard on the BBC News that another children’s hospital in eastern Aleppo has been bombed to smithereens 😦
At the rate they go through hospitals in eastern Aleppo they must have 10 hospitals per head of population 😀 😀
Truth Teller – Yes, very true and the Media again controls so much – there is also the problem of whether these are ‘recent’ reports/pictures or are they ‘library’ ones used for ‘propaganda’ purposes.
And, yes you are right – I am sure that the U.S. are probably heavily involved in the air attacks as well – but of course, these are never reported!
Right! and nearly everyone who uses this website knows that we are always being lied to by the UK government and world powers in general. The same methods of brainwashing that have been used time and time again still fool the general public into perceiving certain people or nations as an enemy so that the people can be used to fight wars against those people in order to further enrich the already powerful whilst they sit at home directing the massacre and planning how to use the spoils. Just take a quick step outside of the propaganda and think how at this very moment people in Russia or China are doing the same things as we do, going to work, looking after their children, paying for their house by rent or mortgage, worrying about if the children’s schools are good etc etc. They do not sit around planning the invasion of Europe or hoping they can have a huge war with us. No! the people just don’t want to be subjugated to the status of American puppets and obeying American imposed laws. That is not to say that there are no dangers, there are! Political Islam is a danger and if allowed to prosper many hard fought rights for freedom and women’s rights will be lost. Feminists who protest against the state of Israel should take a trip to Gaza and voice their opinions on women’s rights openly and see the response they get. And they won’t like it I assure you. Be careful who you give support to because propaganda works so well you could be caught out big time! It’s easy to single out Jews and Israel for attack over their policies toward the Palestinians but the hatred works both ways.
The great sage Chris Tarrant said the same on one of his train journey programmes: “When you travel around you realise that people don’t want to fight each other. It is politicians who start wars. It is politicians who send young men to their deaths.” or as the American journalist Jean Anouilh said: “All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.” People around the world, the UK, Russia, China, wherever are just going about their day-to-day business. They are not interested in fighting in politician’s fucking wars!
Yes true Soothsayer. I am old as well but don’t want to send the young to die in pointless wars and I still posses common sense which, by the way, ain’t common at all!
“DWP FRIGHTENED TO ADMIT HOW MANY WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENTS WERE DEEMED WRONG”
…….ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO WERE FOUND FIT AND SUDDENLY DIED….
Trudy Baddams 24 September 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
What is the percentage of wrong disability decisions in the UK in 2015/16
Yours faithfully,
Trudy Baddams
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/what_is_the_percentage_of_wrong#outgoing-598974
………..STRANGE HOW MANY MISTAKES ARE MADE WHEN STEALING BENEFITS FROM THOSE LEAST LIKELY TO FIGHT BACK…
Dear DWP Strategy Freedom of Information,
I am STILL a waiting for a response
Yours sincerely,
Trudy Baddams
19 november 2016
“MORE EVIDENCE FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL OF THE UK GOVERNMENTS DISABILITY ABUSE”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
ok, government sets the level a person nees to live on / needed to cover a persons living expenses, then why is it right that the DWP can take anything from the amount they need tlive on?
for example a person needs £71.40 to live if they are living solely on ESA or JSA but the dwp takes away £3.45 to pay the council tax, is this not leaving the claimant living below the poverty line?
for example a person needs £71.40 to live if they are living soley on ESA or JSA but the DWP sanction the claimant, meaning he loses all his money, is this not leaving the claimant to starve and freeze if there is no other income?
for example a person needs £71.40 to live if they are living solely on ESA or JSA but the DWP takes awy £20 towards a loan or benefit credit the claimant has been awarded, is this not leaving the claimant living below the poverty line?
Yours faithfully,
Trudy Baddams
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/why_if_the_government_sets_a_lev#incoming-895440
“WORK MAY PUT THE CLAIMANTS LIFE AT RISK”
QUESTION TO THE DWP
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please would you kindly provide if it exists the number of ESA claimants in either the WRAG or Support group that the DWP has found fit to work in 2016 despite having in its possession at that point a letter from the claimant’s doctor or consultant or psychiatrist or psychologist, etc that returning to work may put the claimant’s life at risk.
Yours faithfully,
Lee Jefferson
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/fit_for_work_despite_danger_of_d#incoming-896417
……….LORD FRAUDS PRIVATE DEATH LIST IS GETTING LARGER EACH DAY….
Joint – letter from the United Kingdom Disabled People’s Movement and Allied Civil Society Organisations to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2016/11/19/joint-letter-from-the-united-kingdom-disabled-peoples-movement-and-allied-civil-society-organisations-to-united-nations-secretary-general-ban-ki-moon/
Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights Force the #UKGovernment to act on the eleven recommendations of the #UNCRPD report – As a result of being investigated by a United Nations committee for not fulfilling the terms of the UNCRPD, the government have been found guilty of grave & systematic violations of the rights of disabled people as a direct result of austerity policies introduced into welfare & social care.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/172393
Petition: Force the government to act on the eleven recommendations of the…
petition.parliament.uk
Geoff – Thank you for putting this on – what a brilliant letter and so many signatories too. Surely now, the U.N. must, at last have to take some action after this latest letter to Banki Moon.
Government quietly privatises the NHS’s in-house agency staff provider
The Government is to privatise the NHS’s in-house, publicly-owned provider of agency staff, ministers have announced.
NHS Professionals, the health service’s main staffing agency, provides 90,000 health workers to around a quarter of NHS trusts, covering two million shifts a year.
In a written statement issued on Thursday as most MPs headed back to their constituencies, the Government announced it would sell off a majority stake in the orgnaisation to the private sector with the aim of “creating a profitable business model”.
Labour says the sell-off amounts to further privatisation of a key part of the health service, while the Government claims the private sector will help provide new investment.
It is understood that the Government could invest public funds in the organisation directly through the Treasury but has chosen to use the private sector instead.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-privatisation-charges-professionals-in-house-agency-a7426966.html
4 hours ago
JimW
The idea that privatisation is some kind of panacea for the health service is total and utter crap.
There was a reason the NHS was founded. That reason was because private provision failed. People went ill for long periods, they suffered, they died. That is why the NHS was brought in.
The Tories now want to make the NHS more like one of the worst health care systems in the world: the failed and failing US model.
It is a system that sees people spend more on insurance than on health. The insurance companies spend fortunes on making sure they do not pay out. It costs twice as much per capita than the NHS, yet the US has about twice the death rate before 5 years old than in the UK, it has worse health in old age than in the UK, in fact in almost every measure it is one of the world’s worst systems.
You can check all this for yourself. The WHO provides national level statistics – go the the WHO site.
Then again, the US system provides a fat healthy profit for some. And that is what the Tories care about.
IDS – Why does anyone at all take any notice of this total dickhead?
A ‘failed’ M.P., a ‘failed’ Tory Leader, a ‘failed’ Minister and a murderer of many of the sick and disabled members of our society.
All that he is afraid of now is the increasing chance of him ‘losing his life’!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-supreme-court-battle-constitutional-crisis-iain-duncan-smith-a7419656.html
“Labour backs Tory income tax cut for top 15 per cent of earners” – WHY?
What a stupid thing for him to say and do – this will certainly not help the ‘Labour cause’!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/40p-rate-threshold-cut-autumn-statement-labour-backs-tory-income-tax–a7428111.html
“While we were busy freaking out about Trump, parliament had a bonfire of our human rights”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/18/busy-freaking-trump-parliament-bonfire-human-rights/
Fucking hell!
Glenn Simpson
Is it time to track the actual signatures/IDs of the actual staff at DWP who “sanctioned” and sentenced to death so many? It would be good to see them in court. No excuses, “we was only following orders” as we all know, is NO defence, let it start to affect them and let them feel the pain, they are complicit in murderer no less.
The Nuremberg defence: “Ve vere vonly vollowing vorders.” has been found to be invalid.
Concentrix was wrong to stop tax credits in 90 per cent of appealed cases, figures show
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/concentrix-tax-credits-90-per-cent-appears-wrong-per-cent-a7430296.html
…………HMRC, SHIT SCARED OF INVESTIGATING CORPORATE FRAUD AND HIDDEN TAX HAVENS BUT HAPPY TO FUCK THE POOR……
fredi
Concentrix had only just lost a number of contracts in America for poor performance when awarded the HMRC contract.
“ONE THIRD OF HOMELESS TURNED AWAY AFTER SEEKING HELP”
Up to one in three young people seeking help from their local council because they are homeless or about to become homeless are being turned away unaided, new research has found.
Freedom of information requests completed by 260 English councils and returned to Centrepoint, the charity for homeless young people, found that only 67 per cent of 16 to 24-year-olds seeking help were recorded as getting some sort of assistance from their local authority.
That left 33 per cent – one in three – who simply disappeared from the records, with every chance that they had been turned away unaided.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-helpline-appeal-centrepoint-youth-homelessness-christmas-charity-campaign-one-in-three-a7424256.html
…………….all these human beings made to sleep in doorways, in tents, under bridges and in cemeteries,
but £396 million available to RICH BITCH, who gives not two fucks about her subjects, alive or dead…….
“RING THE SAMARITANS INSTEAD OF THE DWP”
. ………ONE GIVES ADVICE ON RESISTING SUICIDE, THE LATTER DRIVES PEOPLE TO DO IT………
The Samaritans, free call 116 123 (UK). A simple copy and paste might save someone’s life.
“THE TORY LEGACY OF HATE”
Welfare
‘Just about managing’ families to be £2,500 a year worse off by 2020 – study
The combined impact of welfare cuts will leave struggling working families – the “just about managing” households Theresa May has vowed to help – worse off by more than £2,500 a year by 2020, according to research published days before her government’s first autumn statement.
A study of 187,000 households across the UK found that policies including cuts to universal credit and the four-year benefit rate freeze, coupled with rising rents and higher inflation, would see low-income working families typically lose £48.90 a week by the end of the decade.
Will Theresa May’s ‘just about managing families’ fall for the rhetoric?
The findings have alarmed councils and charities worried that the growing financial burden on low-income families will raise poverty and homelessness levels.
The research will increase the pressure on the chancellor, Philip Hammond, to offer some relief to the “just about managing” families – or “Jams” – in Wednesday’s autumn statement. He warned on Sunday that the government is facing a “sharp challenge” in the face of the Brexit vote, but indicated that there would be some limited relief for those who are struggling.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/20/just-about-managing-families-to-be-2500-a-year-worse-off-by-2020-study
“Government axes ‘pay to stay’ plan for higher-income council tenants”
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/21/government-pay-to-stay-council-tenants-george-osborne
And – the Mirror’s version of this story!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-just-quietly-ditched-one-9305426
well guess what? i have to go on another course lets see what it says.
Description
If you have been out of work for some time, this course will help you to think about the skills you have, and how they can be used in different situations. You will consider the value of work (it’s not just about the money), think about personal presentation and how to increase your chances of having a positive impact on others. Boost your confidence and self esteem by working with others in your group.
2 weeks 4 lessons.
looks like more nlp bs to me i shall sign nothing tho i shat out on this one could off been good to put that on a cv pmsl.
Make Your Own Beauty Products
Description
On this course you will learn how to turn everyday ingredients into health and beauty products. Discover which ingredients you can use to make soap and bath products that make you feel great and save you money.
and it only takes 6 lessons over 6 weeks what sort of fkn scam is that ffs nothing but scroungers living off the unemployed.
https://www.facebook.com/adedinglos
these fuck tards need wiping off the face of the earth
Tony Bliar may be making a comeback to politics – Oh, no!
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/21/tony-blair-hoping-to-revitalise-centre-ground-with-political-comeback
“Richard Branson’s Virgin to bankroll secret Blairite campaign to stop Brexit” (Oh – and Matthew Freud – I wonder if he is related to Lord Fraud!)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-news-richard-branson-virgin-group-eu-referendum-a7430396.html
…………….he is the son of paedo Clement Fraud, part of the operation Yewtree investigations.
His second wife was Rupert Murdoch’s daughter.
You were right Paul, anything that crawls from under a rock and has links to government is part of this perverted cabal…
MATTHEW FRAUD (TONY BLAIR’S BACKER)
He is a friend of several members of the Conservative party, including George Osborne and David Cameron. Freud has also invited Cameron to many events and is part of the so-called ‘Notting Hill Set’ of influential Conservative-linked figures. During their marriage, Murdoch and Freud owned Burford Priory in Oxfordshire, and hence were also considered members of the Chipping Norton set.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Freud
TONY BLAIR, THE TORY CHOICE…….
“Tories have axed more than ONE MILLION public sector jobs since taking power”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-axed-over-one-million-9305341
(I do not usually check out the Daily Torygraph, but this is the only comprehensive article that I could find re May’s speech this morning!)
Today, in a new speech (to CBI/Business leaders) despite warning about ‘bringing down the deficit’, May it seems has plenty of tax-payer’s cash to splash around with and to give away to her (and her Government’s) ‘deserved causes’. She (as with Tories in general) despite her weasel words to ‘make Britain’s economy work for everyone’ – her main priority really is to look after big business at all costs. (She does not want them to suffer either now – or after Brexit is finally completed).
Meanwhile, on another subject, the queen is going to invite Trump over to the U.K. to have tea and cakes with her at Buck House.
Great! (Agreeing with what Geoff said in a post earlier) – Would’nt it be great if she and her family were kicked out of Buck House – re-house them all in some caravan park somewhere – then sell Buck House and use all of the vacant rooms to house the homeless of London.
Oh, dear though – I doubt that the tourists would like it!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/21/theresa-may-cbi-corporation-tax-brexit-live/
what sort of scrounger multimillionaire lives in a palace free of charge and is so tight will not pay for what they have lived in neglected and not fixed them self over the years and rather live in a place that can go up in smoke.
then want half a billion to fix it over ten years and when its done no one can ever see in side it or what it was spent on.
if you lived in a council house they would evict ur ass and if it cost half a billion to fix it they would knock it down.;)
The news film footage of the supposed state of disrepair of Buck House was captioned: “Courtesy of the Royal Household”. It is not like they even let a film crew in, suspicious that? Her Maj and the rest of the gold-plated scroungers will no doubt take the public’s cash ££££ and piss it up against the walls of Buck House on fags,booze, Sky TV and internet porn just like her fellow benefit claimants supposedly do 😉
please can somebody help me. well my Daughter!! im her DAD. shes 18 never had a job and is currently sick with anxiety and depression. she wanted o claim benefits and was put on universal credit in June 16, which is weird coz her 2 friends claim and are on eSA, but anyway. they have stopped sanctioned her for not going to a appointment at end of june yes i know,she has re complied but its wrong shes sick gotta sick note and shouldnt be made to go to job center searches etc. Anyone give us some HELP its BAD”
“sorry to say this but sick with anxiety and depression at 18 is somewhat insultive as shes got a long way to go already and theres plenty more times where stress can be worse than what really is
is there any further info you like to say that could enlighten the reason for the way she feels as we would like a little more info to be able to help
im sorry but unless theres a good enough reason then everyone should get out of bed and go sign on as its only one day that includes many more
also plenty more people out there that are in the same situation as her”
What a joke! Teenagers claiming ESA for “anxiety and depression”. Probably expecting sympathy too but didn’t get it – and quite right too. You really have to draw the line under this crap! Wonder how old her friends who are claiming ESA for no doubt “anxiety and depression”. Goodness knows how they will cope if ESA is slashed by £30 knicker a week 😦 They will barely be able to top-up their smartphone 😀
Don’t worry DPAC or Black Triangle will be along soon to put up a picture of someone in a wheelchair to falsely give the impression that everyone who claims ESA is confined to a wheelchair and arouse our sympathies: “Please don’t cut our ESA 😦 ” They conveniently ignore these blatant and shocking abuses of the benefits system like this though. Lazy, bone-idle fuckers!
What goes around comes around. I have great faith that your ignorant judgemental attitude will come back and kick you where the sun don’t shine. So a few people play the system! Tell me something new! So in order to weed out the few we consign the genuinely ill to a life of poverty and suffering. I suppose you throw a party every time someone commits suicide because they have been denied state benefits when they are really ill but of course as long as your taxes are reduced all well and good. And what idiot ever said Satan doesn’t exist! Here is a good example of the selfish attitude promoted by the greedy self serving self righteous Tories like yourself.
I work in mental health and I would like to draw a line under your ignorant selfish attitude. Maybe you should check out the figures for teenage suicides through Anxiety and Depression before you post your hatred online. I suppose you think they all took their own lives for a laugh.
………..yesterday Baroness Meacher gave an interview to the Russian news channel RT.
The focus of the interview was the UK governments involvement in sustained breaches of Human Rights against the most vulnerable…..
Later the BBC featured a few lines from the same lady, completely ignoring the crux of her interview completely.
This morning the BBC has featured numerous bullshit claims that the economy is on course and that we have no worries and the level of borrowing has miraculously dipped, just before the release of the Autumn statement……………….
All the usual suspects gave glowing opinions, the CBI, the statistics propaganda group and so on….
The autumn statement is an exercise for the Tories to drop the intended cut in benefits that has been hovering over the heads of the most poor in the country.
They will try to claim the reprieve has cost umpteen millions to the treasury and claim to be a party of the people to whom has listened. Trying to shed the Nasty party stigma that follows them like a shadow.
………..The poor and disabled will be expected to walk away thinking they have had an early christmas bonus, when the reality is a meagre pittance laughed at by our financially equal european nations.
Our rich will prosper at the peril of the poorest.
“ANOTHER ONE FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS RAPPORTEURS”
WOMAN’S BENEFITS STOPPED BECAUSE DWP ASSESSOR CLAIMS HER DEMENTIA IS IMPROVING……….
Wendy Mitchell, who has early onset dementia, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme how her benefits have stopped following a reassessment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/headlines/38056787
“DWP REFUSE TO NAME WORKFARE FREELOADERS, DESPITE BEING ORDERED BY THE COURTS TO DO SO”
Frank Zola left an annotation (21 November 2016)
“———- Forwarded message ———-
From: [redacted] @ico.org.uk
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016
Subject: FS50649293 ICO complaint against the Department for Work and Pensions[Ref. FS50649293]
To: [redacted]
20 November 2016
Case Reference Number FS50649293
Dear Mr Zola
Thank you for your email dated 18 November 2016 in which you confirm that you have not yet received a response to your request for information made on 1 August 2016.
The Commissioner will, therefore, proceed to decision notice. I would be grateful if you could inform me if you receive a response to your request in the meantime in order that an inaccurate decision notice is not issued.”
…………..THIS IS JUST ANOTHER JOINT STALLING TACTIC BY THE DWP AND THE GOVERNMENTS FREEDOM OF INFORMATION FLUNKY, CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM……..
SLAVERY IN THE UK HAS TO BE HIDDEN FROM THE ELECTORATE AFTER ALL……………
“DWP TRY TO BLUFF THEIR WAY OUT OF A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST BY INVENTING BOGUS INFORMATION”
………..FOLLOWING A STORY THAT WAS RELEASED CLAIMING THAT 95% OF WORKFARE PARTICIPANTS IN A COMMUNITY CENTRE WANTED TO CONTINUE WORKING FOR NOTHING, THE DWP WERE ASKED TO FURNISH FURTHER DETAILS……………….
I refer to your publication “Mandatory work placements:
a guide for potential host organisations” accessible at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sy…
which says in part:
“Most of the participants may have the
wrong attitude to the government’s
plan for getting work experience to get
a job. However by the end of the four
weeks, 95% of the participants want to
remain on the placements.”
Community Centre Manager
1. From your records, please advise the name of the person quoted and the Community Centre concerned.
2. How many of the participants subsequently decided to become volunteers with that Community Centre?
Yours faithfully,
Mr Harris
………………………………NOW IT SEEMS THE DWP ARE TRYING TO WORM THEIR WAY OUT BY TELLING FURTHER LIES
Various web searches do not give results of anything with the name and post code
‘Selbourne Road Community Centre’ at LU4 8NU
Yours sincerely,
Ian Wolf
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mwa_workfare_and_selbourne_road#incoming-897831
……….STILL AWAITING A RESPONSE FROM THE DWP
What is the percentage of wrong disability decisions in the UK in 2015/16
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/what_is_the_percentage_of_wrong#outgoing-598974
………THE FIGURE MUST BE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THE SKILLS OF THE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS (EX BEDPAN WASHERS DESPERATE FOR CASH BUT WILLING TO FUCK OTHERS OVER BIG TIME BY FALSIFYING MEDICAL REPORTS TO DENY BENEFIT PAYMENTS)
“HOMELESS, STARVING, CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE?”
THE DWP DON’T GIVE TWO FUCKS, HOPING YOU WILL ABANDON YOUR PHONE CALL FOR HELP. (OVER 23% DO)
EVERY MINUTE COSTS 45P, THEREFORE THEY WILL NOT RUSH EVEN IF ITS A SERIOUS MATTER……….
DWP will continue making claimants pay up to 45p a minute to call them
Created: Tuesday, 22 November 2016 12:40
Vulnerable and low income claimants will continue to pay up to 45p a minute to make calls about their benefits, the DWP announced last week. The revelation was made in response to the Social Security Advisory Committee’s (SSAC) call for free 0800 numbers to be used by the DWP. The department also revealed that “cost incentives” are part of a deliberate ploy to try to force claimants to manage their claims them online.
……………..WHICH COULD BE TANTAMOUNT TO MURDER IN LAYMAN’S TERMS
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/3578-dwp-will-continue-making-claimants-pay-up-to-45p-a-minute-to-call-them
Had to phone these DWP fuckers twice to get ‘arrears’ paid and it cost over £40!
Still, it was worth it though as the ‘arrears’ were for a few hundred quid. The fucking jobcentre won’t deal with it. They tell you to phone this ‘Benefit Delivery Centre’ and give you a cost an arm-and-a-leg phone number. They cheeky bastards start charging as soon as you go in the ‘queuing system’. What ever happened to the engaged tone? Eh, B-fucking-T?
“Scotland wins battle to end voluntary work programme sanctions”
Holyrood can exempt Scots taking part from having benefits stopped or cut thanks to newly devolved welfare powers.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/22/scotland-voluntary-work-sanctions-benefits-holyrood
Bloody hell! If the Scot Nats could stand in the whole of the UK they would probably form the next government. Lets hope Labour adopt the same policies and we can have a coalition to kick the Tories bastards out.
But why don’t the Scotch Nats stand in the rest of the UK? Why are they not on our English ballot papers? Why are they confined to Scotchland? Is it because us soft Southerners refuse to eat haggis and wear kilts?
“UKIP is almost finished”!
“UKIP downgraded from a ‘political party’ to an ‘aggravated shindig'”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/22/ukip-downgraded-political-party-aggravated-shindig/
“Farage revealed: Ukip leader wants UK to be a servant of Trump’s US”
http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/11/22/farage-revealed-ukip-leader-wants-uk-to-be-a-servant-of-trum
Also, RT are just now reporting that MEP’s have narrowly voted to set up an E.U. Army that will go into areas that NATO are not prepared to enter.
Until Brexit is finally completed, it could cost the U.K. £420m per year.
Won’t happen Paul! This is more PR bullshit to keep Russiaphobia on the front burner. The Nato countries struggle to commit 2% of their GDP to Nato so how could anyone expect them to come up with another 2% to cover the cost of this new EU army. The tight fisted bastards like hiding under the American nuclear umbrella at no cost to themselves and are just playing games to try and impress the new Trump presidency before he takes office. If the UK and European governments want to impress their own citizens for a change they could do something positive like redistributing wealth down from the mega rich to the poor bastards they have enslaved under permanent austerity. Don’t hold your breath though, because until the public start using their brains instead of swallowing the propaganda we will have more poverty and destitution, not less.
Truth Teller – Very true in what you say – as you say, the people of Britain really need to wake up – but I am very afraid that they won’t.
They believe most of what The Sun, The Daily Mail & The Express tell them and then they fulfil their nightly addiction to Strictly!
The stupid bastards!
Paul! Agreed! Yes, Strictly and Soap Operas and the Tabloid press are about the limit for the “hard of thinking”
“The Royals get a 66% pay rise and Prince Harry’s jetted off for a ‘fun’ tour of the Caribbean, but I’m the one that’s called a benefits scrounger”
“That £369m refurbishment of Buckingham Palace leaves a bitter taste in the mouth when you used to sleep on the streets”
(A really good ‘Independent’ article by Imogen Groome)
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/prince-harry-caribbean-buckingham-palace-royals-pay-rise-66-per-cent-millions-tour-antigua-benefits-a7431426.html
Who can view my internet history?
Metropolitan police force
City of London police force
Police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996
Police Service of Scotland
Police Service of Northern Ireland
British Transport Police
Ministry of Defence Police
Royal Navy Police
Royal Military Police
Royal Air Force Police
Security Service
Secret Intelligence Service
GCHQ
Ministry of Defence
Department of Health
Home Office
Ministry of Justice
National Crime Agency
HM Revenue & Customs
Department for Transport
Department for Work and Pensions
NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England that provide ambulance services
Common Services Agency for the Scottish Health Service
Competition and Markets Authority
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Department for Communities in Northern Ireland
Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland
Department of Justice in Northern Ireland
Financial Conduct Authority
Fire and rescue authorities under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004
Food Standards Agency
Food Standards Scotland
Gambling Commission
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
Health and Safety Executive
Independent Police Complaints Commissioner
Information Commissioner
NHS Business Services Authority
Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust
Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board
Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Regional Business Services Organisation
Office of Communications
Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
Police Investigations and Review Commissioner
Scottish Ambulance Service Board
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
Serious Fraud Office
Welsh Ambulance Services National Health Service Trust
SURVEILLANCE = OPPRESSION
http://yiu.co.uk/blog/who-can-view-my-internet-history/
Fucking hell!
You forgot the hackers that want your Universal Credit info, a great way to create a bogus claim while gathering your personal information about your HMRC, NI No, banking details and all the other goodies regarding your children, partner and housing details.
Yeah! Makes you laugh when our government keeps on telling us how oppressive other countries are around the rest of the world. I mean who do they think they are kidding? Just watch some history programmes on the TV about oppression in the old Soviet countries or the Third Reich and see the similarities. All those mugs who believe the old propaganda phrase “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” must feel pretty bloody stupid now or they are too damned thick to even think for themselves
http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/Public-Sector-News/universal-credit-pilot-council-calls-for-urgent-suspension-of-roll-out?dorewrite=false
Porn is just the first victim of the Government’s censorship crusade
Although only sexual material is covered in this phase of the Digital Economy Bill regulators have already muttered about other threats to society
Under the Snooper’s Charter the government can access out browser history and now under the digital economy bill, they’ll be able to control what we see. First they’ll come for your porn and who knows what they’ll come for next.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/digital-economy-bill-porn-censorship-just-the-start-a7434631.html
Spot on! That’s exactly what this is all about. “Think of the Children” is just a ruse to soften the public up for mass censorship. Governments around the world have been shaken to the core since the internet became in reach of the masses, because they lost control of the propaganda machine they had set up through controlled and compliant media outlets. Now they realise that the public can answer back, they will do all they can to bring that control back even if that means destroying the whole internet as we have it today with only opinions they approve of allowed to show up. For all those who think things are bad now I say “you ain’t seen nothing yet”! What is coming in the future will make today’s censorship look like a teddy bears picnic!
Forget about the JAM’s (the Just About Managing Families!), what about the ‘Not At All Managing’ – those that have been hit by cruel Tory sanctions?
Or those that have been made homeless, etc, etc? The Tories and especially Damian Green doesn’t give a shit about these poor unfortunates.
However, they definitely DO care about saving a stately home (Not being reported on ‘News’ programmes at present)!
“Autumn Statement – Tories pledge millions for 300-room stately home”
“It’s not only the queen that’s going to benefit from a refurb of her ‘house’ – no less than £7.6m is going to be given to ‘save’ a large stately home – Wentworth Woodhouse, (near Rotherham) Phillip Hammond announced this afternoon”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/wentworth-woodhouse-autumn-statement-tories-pledge-millions-for-300-room-stately-home-a7434061.html
The so-called JAM’s with an annual income of between £12000 & £34000 per annum. I know of very many people who are on a lot less wages/salaries than this – and many of them are only just getting by!
Not at all managing?! That will be the NAAMs 😀 😀
“While everyone’s focused on the Autumn Statement, the Tories universal credit scheme has gone seriously wrong”
“An investigation may be launched into Universal Credit by Great Yarmouth Borough Council” (this is the Canary’s version of the story that superted has kindly put on above!)
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/23/everyones-focused-autumn-statement-tories-universal-credit-gone-drastically-wrong/
Meanwhile, please do not forget this one: Crowdfunding to get an inquest into the death of David Clapson.
So far, up to this evening, the total’s reached £7,980 out of a £10,000 target, so not too much to go now (21 days left)
https://www.croudjustice.org/case/david-clapson/
Sorry – that should read:
https://www.crowdjustice.org/case/david-clapson/
“DOCTORS FORCED TO STOP PRESCRIBING FOR MINOR ILLNESSES”
………THE THIN END OF THE WEDGE
Somerset has become the latest CCG on a drive to restrict GPs from prescribing – with a ban on a raft of items for minor illnesses, such as throat-sprays, hair removing cream, and coughs and cold remedies.
The NHS Somerset CCG’s governing body has given the green light to the recommendation that GPs cease prescribing products for minor ailments more suitable for ‘self-care non-formulary’ from 1 December.
The list of 25 types of products that GPs will be stopped from prescribing also include pain killers, indigestion remedies, vitamin supplements (including vitamin D), head lice lotions, nappy rash creams and homeopathic remedies.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/clinical/prescribing/gps-told-to-stop-prescribing-for-minor-illnesses/20033304.article
…………….what a fucking sick nation we have become.
………where a radiator valve at Buckingham palace takes precedence over someones health needs…
………..where the value of a human being is diminished by their vulnerability…
…………AND THE TORIES WISH TO CUT THE NHS SPENDING BY A FURTHER £22 BILLION…..
WHEN WILL IT BE YOUR TURN TO CHECK OUT EARLY?
#PMQs
“The governments plans for the National Health Service hide £22 billion in cuts, the BMA says that risks : ‘starving the NHS of resources’.
When Dr Mark Porter calls this process ‘a mess’ where is he wrong? The Health Select Committee, chaired by a Tory, said the Conservatives have only put in £4.6 billion, not £10 billion – there’s quite a big difference there.
………..ANOTHER £14 GIFTED TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN SCOTLAND TO FIND IMAGINARY JOBS FOR THE DISABLED”
SHAW TRUST, MOMENTUM AND REMPLOY (MAXIMUS DISABILITY MURDERERS)
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Scotland’s devolved employment programme is kicking off with a £14m contract for third sector bodies to support disabled people
Third sector bodies are to deliver a £14 million programme of support to help disabled people find work in the first Scottish Government contract under newly devolved employment support powers.
The Shaw Trust and Momentum Scotland will join Remploy in running the Work First Scotland programme, which will support 3,300 disabled people to find work. The programme will be entirely voluntary and tailored to the individual, including pre-work and in-work support.
http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/tfn-news/14m-to-help-disabled-scots-find-work
………..wonder how many of the 3300 disabled will die within a few weeks of being mandated to battle their chronic illnesses?
“DISABLED AND HAD YOUR BENEFITS STOLEN?”
WHY NOT HIT YOUR LOCAL COUNCIL FOR SIX AND CLAIM UNDER THE CARE ACT 2014
“Under section 42, councils must make whatever enquiries they think necessary where an adult has care and support needs, is experiencing or at risk of abuse or neglect, and is unable to protect themselves because of their needs.”
FAILURE TO COMPLY, TAKE THEM TO COURT………..
AFTER BEING ORDERED BY THE COURTS TO SUPPLY THE NAMES OF FIRMS USING DWP WORKFARE SLAVES……………..
THE DWP HAVE NOW SAID THEY DO NOT HOLD ALL THE INFORMATION
“I apologise for the delay in responding.
I can now confirm that the Department holds some of the information you seek. However it is
not straightforward to pull together because it is held on our behalf by 70 contracted providers.
We have commissioned the information you seek from the providers, which they are currently
retrieving. This information will then need collating. We therefore aim to provide you with a
substantive response by 15 December 2016. ”
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/community_work_placements_hosts#incoming-900083
MODERN DAY SLAVERY BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS
DAMIAN GREEN’S DEPARTMENT OF DEATH……….
BURYING THE WELFARE MORTALITY DEATHS, THE IMAGINARY PIP COMPLAINTS MERRY GO ROUND…….
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please send me a e-copy of your Policy & procedure document in connection with a complaint being made by PIP claimants concerning the processes used to determine the claimants decision.
In connection with PIP only, please ensure the following answers can be clearly found within the document being requested and if not within, please provide the answers. If this information is published and available, please direct me to that information
1. Please provide the name of the Statutory Instrument/Regulations that deals with PIP complaints.
2. Who heads the Complaint Resolution Team. Please provide name, title, contact details
3. How many individuals work in the Complaints Resolution (CR)Team
4. Are staff within the CR team employed in other duties, if so what are they?
5. How many complaints have been received within the past 12 months of recorded data.
6. How many of those in (4) above, are classed as on-going, upheld, not held, thrown out, ignored.
7. How many complaint final/deadlock notices have been provided within the past 12 months of data
8. What is the average time taken to fully process complaints being made .
9. How many complaints were passed to the ICE over the last 12 months of data
10. How many complaints are overturned by the ICE & returned to the DWP, for reconsideration, reversal or other action in the last 12 month period Please state the numbers and reasons
11. How do you determine from feedback that your Complaints Procedure is effective
12. Do you regularly publish documents indicating the effectiveness of your complaint process?
13. Where is the information published in (13) above
Yours faithfully,
R Tozer
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/complaints_to_dwp_personal_indep#comment-74590
“CANCER PATIENTS HAVING TO NEGOTIATE THE BENEFITS SYSTEM”
…………HAVING CANCER AND BEGGING FOR A HELPING HAND?
DAMIAN GREEN, YOU SHOULD BE FUCKING ASHAMED….
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I am submitting a request for information on behalf of Citizens Advice Rushmoor as we have received a number of enquiries from cancer patients applying for Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
REQUEST:
1) How many people whose main disabling condition is cancer (or malignant disease) have applied for PIP since April 2013? In percentage terms how much does that account in total PIP registrations?
2) How many cancer applicants were rejected based on their first application? How many of them were still rejected after reconsideration requests?
3) How long is the average clearance time in 2016 vs 2013 for applications citing cancer as primary disabling condition for PIP claims? In percentage terms, how many applicants waited for 6 months or longer to get clearance?
Yours faithfully,
Citizens Advice Rushmoor
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pip_registrations_from_cancer_pa#incoming-900041
…………..I HONESTLY HOPE THAT THE SAME AILMENT BEFALLS YOU, YOU IGNORANT TORY PIECE OF CRUD……….
“DWP NEEDS A MONTH TO ANSWER HOW THEY WORK OUT THE MINIMUM AMOUNT A HUMAN BEING NEEDS TO SUSTAIN LIFE”
NO WONDER THE DEATH TOLL IS RISING FASTER THAN INFLATION……
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I know there has been an answer to this question before the link to which is https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/2…
However whilst it states the relevant legislation as requested by the other person, I would like to know HOW is the applicable amount set?
I would assume in the dim distant past when legislation was being drafted someone somewhere came up with a calculation/formula of some sort to set the amount at its earliest point.
1) What was that point and the calculation used?
2) When was it last updated/recalculated?
3) If it is the money the law says you NEED to live on, not want or desire but NEED as is the wording, how can any law or person legally not to mention morally be justified in stripping someone of every penny of income? Surely in some way that breaks the law???
Yours faithfully,
Paul Billanie
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_amount_the_law_says_you_need_2#incoming-899863
Some crafty legislator put this wording in as a “protection” for claimants. It is so that your income cannot fall below the actual JSA or whatever benefit the rate is set at. SANCTIONS are actually ILLEGAL AND CRIMINAL!! But it has never really been properly challenged.
Apparently, there was never a “LAW” that stated the how much money a person needs to live on, its made up, the same as the “Spare room subsidy”.
Labour know this, along with other pieces of made up jargon.
Never ever has Labour or county councils stood up and said,
“HANG ON A MO”. What law are we talking about, please tell me where this is written.
Never has there been a component in housing benefit that stated “we are paying you a subsidy for your spare room(s), they got away with it, and Labour never contested that.
“The amount you need to live on” is now being replaced with “your living expenses”.
Have they changed the law?
Not on your nelly, there was never a law in the first place.
It was a cash privilege from the dark masters that own you.
……..after being accused of using fraudulent statements pertaining to the amount the law says you need to live on, the DWP attempted to try and wriggle out by stating this…………
References to “the law” in letters and notifications refer to Social Security law which is a catch-
all term that encompasses the numerous Statutes and Statutory Instruments containing the
current provisions relating to social security.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact the Department quoting the reference
number above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/247167/response/612323/attach/html/2/FoI%20IR%2028.pdf.html
THE DWP KNOW THAT NO LAW EXISTS, AND IF IT DID, THEY WOULD BE IN BREACH OF IT AND OPEN TO LITIGATION………
NOTICE HOW THE DWP TRY TO WRIGGLE OUT OF THE TERM, 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.
………………..”THE CLAIMANT DOES NOT MEET THE FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTORS”
Where is George Osborne’s & David Cameron’s ‘long term economic plan’ now – it is in ashes – just like the poor suicide and unnecessary deaths victims that the Tories ‘Welfare Reforms’ have resulted in. All of the Tories ‘austerity’ policies have been in total vain – it’s all been for nothing. The deficit has not been reduced by as much as what they have said – in fact, far from it.
Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling & Lord Freud are all murderers – BUT THEY HAVE NOT YET BEEN ARRESTED – BUT IT IS COMING AND HOPEFULLY, VERY SOON.
“Aunty Beeb & Sky News can’t cover all of this up for much longer – surely.”
“This graph proves the Tories are borrowing more than ‘reckless’ Labour ever planned to.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/graph-proves-tories-borrowing-more-9326497
……..ANY WONDER PEOPLE ARE DYING?
Freedom of Information request 709/2013
Received 12 February 2013
Published
Information request
It is my understanding that
if you miss a booked appointment, you
may be sanctioned 4 weeks wo
rth of Jobseeker’s benefits, with an
opportunity to claim
‘hardship’ after 2 weeks.
I am asking for details on how many people:
*have had to relocate;
*have become in debt to a
company (gas, or electricity, etc.);
*have been made homeless
due to the fact that they we
re unable to pay their bills, rent or
mortgages.
I am also asking that if you
do not have this information, why not?
The Department for Work and P
ensions should ensure that the person
who is being sanctioned has
enough cash reserves to support
themselves in their curr
ent position whilst being sanctioned. If
not, is this not neglecting
your care of duty to the British
public?
DWP response
Unfortunately, we do not collect or
hold the type of information you have
asked for. The Department for Work
and Pensions has an ambitious agenda
of reform which aims to create a new
welfare system for t
he 21st century; to
transform the opportunity for people wit
hout jobs to find work and support
themselves and their families; and to
ensure that the mo
st vulnerable in
society are protected.
……….THE ONLY GOVERNMENT IN THE CIVILISED WORLD THAT INTRODUCE WELFARE CUTS WITHOUT FIRST DOING A RISK ASSESSMENT.
………..BUT DON’T WORRY BECAUSE LORD DAVID FRAUD, WHO SIGNED OFF THE CUTS PERSONALLY, WILL UNDERWRITE EVERY SINGLE DEATH THAT OCCURS BECAUSE OF HIS LINKS TO THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY THAT MOTIVATES HIM………
LORD DAVID FRAUD, USING A DOCUMENT THAT WAS SPONSORED BY HIS OWN DEPARTMENT, THE DWP, DUPED PARLIAMENT AND DECIDED THAT A FEW THOUSAND DEATHS WOULD PROBABLY GO UNNOTICED IN HIS QUEST TO HAND OVER THE WELFARE TREASURE CHEST TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
THE STENCH OF DEATH NOW FOLLOWS FRAUD EVERYWHERE HE GOES………
How dare IDS murder the sick, defenceless and defenceless people of our Society – even though he and his chum, Chris Grayling were warned in Coroner’s Reports that unless their ‘Welfare Reform’ policies were changed, then further unnecessary deaths would probably occur.
THEY IGNORED THESE REPORTS AND THEY DID NOT CHANGE THEIR CRUEL POLICIES AND THENCE, EVEN MORE POOR UNFORTUNATES HAVE DIED SINCE THEN.
“Brexit MPs worry that knowing more than experts makes them experts”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/24/brexit-mps-worry-knowing-experts-makes-experts/
“IS WORK GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH AND WELL BEING”
COMMISSIONED BY THE DWP, ON BEHALF OF THE DWP, FOR THE DWP, BY NO OTHER THAN WADDLE AND BURTON………
IS WORK
GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH
AND WELL-BEING?
Gordon Waddell, CBE DSc MD FRCS
Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research, Cardiff University, 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.
…………..AT CARDIFF UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR PSYCHOSOCIAL AND DISABILITY RESEARCH.
PAID FOR BY UNUM PROVIDENCE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY…….
HENCE, WELFARE DEATHS ARE A DWP / UNUM JOINT INITIATIVE ENDORSED BY LORD DAVID FRAUD, THE FAILED BANKER………..
“Autumn Statement: The reality of Brexit hits home”
And the Tories do not still, (and never have had!) a Plan ‘B’ in place to deal with this Referendum ‘OUT’ result – the stupid fucking bastards!
Unless they (eventually) manage to pull it all together, Britain is now sunk!
(Just the same now as the Royal Navy, with only 19 surface ships left!) 😦
http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/11/23/autumn-statement-the-reality-of-brexit-hits-home
……………But we could flood Buckingham Palace with workfare and disabled on £2 an hour and sit back as the contractors fill their pockets on the grief of the many, to the tune of the few.
“Trial for a basic income for all may go ahead on Scotland”
Universal Basic Income pilot for Fife
http://www.thenational.scot/news/14921161.Trial_for_a_basic_income_for_all_may_go_ahead_in_Scotland/
Overburdenddonkey – This could be the start of what you have wanted for so long now!
“WHEN LORD FRAUD SOLD THE IDEA TO PARLIAMENT THAT WORK WAS GOOD FOR YOU, HE OMITTED TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THIS PASSAGE”:
Good jobs are obviously better than bad jobs, but bad jobs might be either less beneficial or even
harmful. It is then important to consider what constitutes a good job. Under UK and European
legislation, employers have a statutory duty to conduct suitable risk assessments to identify
hazards to health and safety, and to reduce the risks to employees as far as reasonably
practicable. But health and safety should be distinguished. As well as controlling risks, it is
equally important to make jobs accommodating of common health problems, sickness and disability.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/214326/hwwb-is-work-good-for-you.pdf
“OR EVEN HARMFUL”
…….STRANGE THEY SHOULD NOT MENTION THIS?
DWP again refuses to release data on disability benefits – using the same excuse as before
…………….DESPITE CLAIMING THEY SPENT £50 BILLION, THEY ARE AFRAID THAT THE TRUTH OF WHERE THE MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT WILL COME TO LIGHT…………
THE TRUE FIGURE IS AROUND £34 BILLION, SO WHERE HAS THE MONEY GONE.
IT IS YOUR MONEY, THEY ARE BUT PUBLIC SERVANTS AND SHOULD PROVIDE HONEST ACCOUNTING…..
THE PRIVATE SECTOR NOW ABSORB NEARLY AS MUCH AS THE RECIPIENTS WHO DEPEND ON THE MEAGRE PITTANCE.
“Every household will lose £1,250 a year because of Brexit, says Institute for Fiscal Studies”
Don’t worry though – the M.P’s and the Ministers of all parties will be ‘raking it in’ as they ‘represent their constituents’ and ‘sit on their arses’ in the House of Commons’ – every day talking bullshit, before, on Thursday, ‘returning to their Constituencies’ to ‘represent their Constituents’.
Fucking bastards – a ‘REAL DAY’S WORK’ would kill them – they are not used to doing ‘any physical work at all’ – just farting out verbal diahorreah.
IS IT ANY REAL WONDER THAT PEOPLE ARE FUCKED OFF WITH THEIR M.P’s?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-economic-impact-uk-autumn-statement-debt-loss-household-1250-institute-for-fiscal-studies-a7437131.html
“DWP NOW ADMIT TO INCLUSION OF HOUSING BENEFIT INTO DISABILITY SPENDING TO MAKE FIGURES MORE ATTRACTIVE”
………..HOUSING BENEFIT IS NOT A DISABILITY BENEFIT, NOR AS IT EVER BEEN..
Rough sleeping: Great Britain moves toward criminalizing homelessness
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/367955-homelessness-great-britain-shame/
………….TORY MENTALITY, CREATE HOMELESSNESS AND THEN MAKE IT A CRIMINAL OFFENCE………..WANKERS
Whilst George Osborne made all of us suffer – through HIS ‘austerity’ policies – Gidiot raked it in – in fact, in excess of £300,000 per month from speeches – THE FUCKER!
JUST FOR ONCE, MAKE THE BASTARD ‘WORK’ FOR HIS MONEY.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/24/george-osborne-made-more-than-300000-in-a-month-from-speeches
Despite what ‘Our Prime Minister’ – (AS WHAT SKY NEWS WOULD SAY!), Theresa May says – (DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT THIS ‘THATCHERITE’ BITCH EVER SAYS – IT IS MOST LIKELY ALL LIES & BULLSHIT):
“Wages will be ‘dreadful’ for more than a decade warns respected think tank”
“IFS gives grim view of UK prospects following Autumn Statement”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-news-wages-workers-ifs-warning-autumn-statement-a7436556.html
How the fuck did this dickhead ever get into ‘The Lords’? – A ‘Conservative’ Lord? – NO LESS THAN A MURDERER EXTRAORDINAIRE AND A MAD BASTARD – THIS CUNT SHOULD DEFINITELY BE SECTIONED UNDER THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Freud,_Baron_Freud
Lord David Freud, Iain George Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling.
All of them should be arrested by the Police under suspicion of ‘causing death by misadventure’ at the very least. By these various individual’s actions, (or non-action) as the case may be – they are open to the ‘criminal’ allegations of ‘misconduct in public office’
By their ‘Welfare Reform’ policies – all of these individuals have caused the deaths of innocent citizens of Britain – this is fact and it cannot be denied.
THEY CANNOT GET AWAY WITH THIS FOREVER
Please see: http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/1 to 0/misconduct in public office
Sorry – this CPS link is not working properly!
Hello i was wondering if i could take another budgeting advance payment for uc if im already paying one back im homeless and need money to last till i next get paid ive spent all my uc on hotels and food council wont help me and my partner as were not priority.
Fucking disgraceful! Who the fuck is ‘priority’ in this shit-hole of a country.
Could someone tell me what the pension credit guarantee is please ?
I dont have the exact figure to hand but its around £155 a week for a single pensioner. That means, for example, that someone with a State pension of £117 a week and a works pension of, for example, £20 a week would get about £18 guaranteed pension credit to bring them up to £155 a week. That £155 can be higher if the pensioner is also a carer or is classed as severely disabled.
It’s disgraceful, isn’t it. Us poor pensioners having to live on custard creams and sweet tea. We would be better of in prison, at least we would get a roof over our head, three square meals a day and a warm bed.
If they don’t want homelessness, then don’t deliberately make it more common with this Universal Credit crap.
And all that spying on everyone will do is give the security services far too much work to do their jobs properly, get people in trouble for just expressing their dissent and help hackers steal people’s private information.
Strange that the BBC News at 6PM this evening didn’t cover this story at all!
“The Scottish Parliament may have the legal right to block Article 50 entirely”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-scottish-parliament-legal-right-block-article-50-a7438246.html
Strange that the BBC News at 6PM this evening didn’t cover anything about the Autumn Statement at all – let alone this one!
“Autumn Statement: Philip Hammond’s infrastructure spending to fall short by £15bn predicts Office for Budget Responsibility”
“Exclusive: The small print of the OBR’s forecast document casts doubt on full delivery of Chancellor’s vaunted £23bn capital spending boost”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/autumn-statement-philip-hammond-infrastructure-spending-fall-short-15bn-office-for-budget-a7438626.html
The BBC 6PM News this evening did cover this story – albeit very briefly!
“Theresa May will be forced to delay Brexit, the leader set for EU Council presidency predicts”
“Britain’s EU exit will end up before the European Court of Justice, Malta’s Prime Minister predicts – and could easily be ‘scuttled’ by the European Parliament”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-delay-latest-theresa-may-eu-uk-joseph-muscat-a7438301.html
We’re touring sunny Scotchland at the moment. We were lying in our hotel bed the other night to hear the TV announcer say: “This is BBC One Scotchland. And now the SIX o’clock news with…” Bert had almost taken out his hearing aid when I looked at the clock and realised it was TEN o’clock. lol
No Plan ‘A’ – No Plan ‘B’ – what a pile of utter shite the Tories really are!
It would seem that the Tories are still tearing themselves apart! Good!
“Tory splits on Europe laid bare as ex-cabinet ministers attack Brexiteers over economic damage from leaving EU”
“The Office for Budget Responsibility predicted Brexit will slash UK GDP growth by 2.4 per cent”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-splits-brexit-obr-forecasts-nicky-morgan-dominic-grieve-latest-a7437346.html
And another Tory split now being reported!
“Theresa May faces Tory backlash over £240m boost for grammar school places”
“The Prime Minister is also planning to lift the ban on completely new grammar schools”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-grammar-schools-backlash-240m-a7439716.html
More possible trouble on the horizon for Theresa May – this time from the Irish PM!
“Brexit agreement ‘impossible’ by EU deadline, says Irish PM”
“Enda Kenny says ministers will inevitably encounter ‘unforeseen’ issues”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-article-50-deadline-two-years-negotiations-impossible-irish-prime-minister-enda-kenny-a7439321.html
Another DWP balls-up combined with a hefty dollop of unfairness!
“Tax Credit error costs families with disabled children £4,400 a year”
” ‘Gap in data feed’ led to thousands of families missing up to £20,000 – but payments will only be backdated to April”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/25/tax-credit-error-costs-families-with-disabled-children-4400-a-year
“Single mum of four faces losing home after Government slashes housing benefit by 75 per cent”
“The young mum had no idea her housing benefit was going to suddenly be cut so drastically, and now fears she will have to uproot her four children from their family home”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/single-mum-four-faces-losing-9333006
Soon possibly coming to an area near you – unless these evil and cruel Tories are kicked out of power AND unless the Private Companies stop receiving their despicable ‘contracts’!
“Down and out in Victorian London: Street life in the capital in extraordinary photographs from the 1880’s”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/incoming/down-out-victorian-london-street-9316474
Huge rise in hospital beds in England taken up by people with malnutrition
The number of hospital beds in England taken up by patients being treated for malnutrition has almost trebled over the last 10 years, in what charities say shows the “genuinely shocking” extent of hunger and poor diet.
Official figures reveal that people with malnutrition accounted for 184,528 hospital bed days last year, a huge rise on 65,048 in 2006-07. The sharp increase is adding to the pressures on hospitals, which are already struggling with record levels of overcrowding.
Critics have said the upward trend is a result of rising poverty, deep cutbacks in recent years to meals on wheels services for the elderly and inadequate social care support, especially for older people.
Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, unearthed the figures in a response to a recent parliamentary question submitted to the health minister Nicola Blackwood.
“These figures paint a grim picture of Britain under the Conservatives,” he said. “Real poverty is causing vulnerable people, particularly the elderly, to go hungry and undernourished so much so that they end up in hospital.
“Our research reveals a shocking picture of levels of malnutrition in 21st-century England and the impact it has on our NHS. This is unacceptable in modern Britain.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/25/huge-rise-in-hospital-beds-in-england-taken-up-by-people-with-malnutrition
…………..FOLLOW THE DEATHS
“THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF”
………..EYE CANDY FOR THOSE WHO ARE SO BLIND AS NOT TO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING…..
Diagnoses of malnutrition accounted for 184,528 hospital bed days in England in 2015-16
“FIRST THEY KILLED THE DISABLED”
Freedom of information requests submitted to local councils in England early last year by the then shadow care minister Liz Kendall found that 220,000 fewer people were receiving meals on wheels in late 2014 than in 2010, a fall of 63%.
“DWP SANCTIONS ARE WORKING”
Worryingly, four out of five people who needed inpatient hospital care because of malnutrition were admitted as an emergency, which suggests their health had deteriorated significantly in the days before they were taken in. Not enough health and social care professionals have the time or knowledge to correctly identify malnutrition
“BUT THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT DON’T RECOGNISE HUMAN RIGHTS SINCE THEY GOT THE JUDICIARY ON BOARD”
Stephen Dalton, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents hospitals, said: “Our members take malnutrition seriously. Good nutrition is a fundamental human right our citizens can expect, and vulnerable, particularly older, people are most at risk of serious consequences if denied basic compassionate care. At a time of unprecedented demand on health and social care we need to be alert and will take seriously any reliable evidence of basic care not being delivered.”
“THE STARK ALTERNATIVE TO A THRIVING NHS”
Many excluded Americans living in fear of getting sick
http://www.itv.com/news/2016-11-22/many-americans-live-in-fear-of-getting-sick-as-they-have-limited-healthcare-options/
“JEREMY HUNT’S VISION”
I saw some of the most disturbing medical scenes of my life.
healthcare Play video
In fact as I rooted in my bag for water, trying to avoid fainting having just seen Jessica, 30, have every tooth in her head wrenched out – whilst awake – I found myself questioning what country I was in.
Is this really Obama’s America? The land of the Affordable Care Act? Or some broken nation with nothing but desperate measures left open to it?
THE BENEFITS OF NHS PRIVATISATION, A SHORTCUT TO THE CEMETERY FOR THE HAVE NOTS
……….NOTHING’S CHANGED THEN
Margaret Thatcher secretly tried to press ahead with a politically toxic plan to dismantle the welfare state even after a “cabinet riot” and her famous declaration that the “NHS is safe with us”, newly released Treasury documents show.
The plan commissioned by Thatcher and her chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe included proposals to charge for state schooling, introduce compulsory private health insurance and a system of private medical facilities that “would, of course, mean the end of the National Health Service”.
You see Geoff, people need to understand once and for all. The Tory Party is evil! There God is money! It always has been and always will be. If you take the seven deadly sins, pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. You have the makings of the Tory party. Pride is the worst and incorporates all the others. Tories are proud people they look down on the less fortunate and worship there own selves. Nothing comes in the way of making money and even if they make £1 billion it’s never enough they must have more because it’s an evil addiction and gives the illusion of power. However even with all those billions they still deny there fellow man even a modest living because that would mean less for them. This is why pride is such a huge sin and working class Tory voters have the same problem. They think they are better than those around them and lust after riches not because they want to be secure but so they can boast of how much better they are from those they left behind. I am an old guy now and have witnessed this all my life. but in my own heart I know that when I die my riches (if I had any) would be worthless to me then, so I prefer to just survive rather than become proud and puffed up. When I see someone down and out I don’t think how much better than them I am, but think “There but for the grace of God go I”!
It’s like that “I’m better than you 🙂 ” sketch in “David Walliams and Friend” on BBC One last night 🙂
“proposals to charge for state schooling” But state schooling is COMPULSORY? Who in their right mind would pay for state schooling. That’s why they call it state schooling – it is there to serve the state. There are only TWO places you are required to be by LAW, one is PRISON, the other is SCHOOL. Because that is what schools really are – PRISON. State schools are there to knock the confidence out of kids. State schools keep the working classes down. Bollocks to state fucking schooling.
State schools would be good if A, they were funded properly (the best way to guarantee this is to outlaw private schools and then the rich would pay more tax as they don’t like their kids to lose out, only ours). B, School uniform was made illegal so kids could express themselves and not be regimented and brainwashed into a life of serving the rich and powerful but could actually learn to appreciate themselves instead. Want to know why so many kids go off the rails? Simple, they have the will to live sucked out of them knowing the future holds no promise, only work till you drop to make someone else fat and rich. I know this from experience, school robbed me of my individuality, but when I left I educated myself and now I am a match for any of your so called intellectual Tory bores.
“CANCER PATIENTS FORCED TO GO THROUGH THE PIP MERRY GO ROUND, ONLY TO HAVE THEIR CLAIMS REJECTED”
………THE ACT OF A SICK MAN, LORD FRAUD
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I am submitting a request for information on behalf of Citizens Advice Rushmoor as we have received a number of enquiries from cancer patients applying for Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
REQUEST:
1) How many people whose main disabling condition is cancer (or malignant disease) have applied for PIP since April 2013? In percentage terms how much does that account in total PIP registrations?
2) How many cancer applicants were rejected based on their first application? How many of them were still rejected after reconsideration requests?
3) How long is the average clearance time in 2016 vs 2013 for applications citing cancer as primary disabling condition for PIP claims? In percentage terms, how many applicants waited for 6 months or longer to get clearance?
Yours faithfully,
Citizens Advice Rushmoor
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pip_registrations_from_cancer_pa#incoming-900041
“FORGET THE LIKES OF FRED WEST, HINDLEY AND BRADY, SHIPMAN AND SUTCLIFFE, THEY HAVE ALL BEEN APPREHENDED”…………..
THE UK’S MOST PROLIFIC SERIAL KILLER IS STILL WALKING FREE.
LORD DAVID FRAUD…………………….
As far as deaths goes, this failed banker takes the title, times and times over.
Fraud’s killing spree is completely unknown thanks to a bent DWP and a bent Freedom of Information Commissioner who work in tandem to conceal the real horrors of this vile human being.
To kill one person would be enough to kickstart a police enquiry but the police are just the nodding dogs to those that pay them, the tory government.
Fraud’s victims list reads like a phone directory, page after page of vulnerable people having their lives taken by the ambition of a nut case to hand over the biggest prize in expenditure, the welfare structure.
Somewhere along the line ministers must have held hidden talks on just how many people could be put to death to achieve Fraud’s dream, a world without broken human beings.
History holds a similar man with similar values but the world turned against him and his body was doused in gasoline in a bunker………
Fraud thought he had sold a winner when he presented tainted evidence to the nodding dog parliamentarians. He gave them what they had asked for, a blueprint to steal benefits that would save the treasury billions whilst taking lives at an unprecedented rate never ever seen in our nations history.
The document that Fraud presented was drafted and financed by the DWP and produced in an annexe of Cardiff University that was sponsored by UNUM PROVIDENT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY………..
The very same company fined millions in the states for running a disability denial scam.
Whilst the more tame prolific murderers used a weapon of choice, Freud used the ultimate weapon that was afforded to his sombre tasks, legislation………….
Our tory government have thought through all the implications of being accused of being complicit in claimant deaths, even trying to put the murder weapon into the hands of corporate parasites that feed on human grief.
MAXIMUS, CAPITA AND ATOS, the chosen trigger men selected to try and remove the onus of responsibility from Fraud.
UK deaths are poised to escalate as the murderer walks free, protected by those who needed a patsy oversee the delivery.
LOOK OUT ROYAL FAMILY !!!
YOUR PHONEY MEDALS ARE UNDER THREAT….
“A new “Walter Mitty” law should be introduced to make it a crime, punishable by up to six months in jail, for anyone to pose as a military veteran by wearing medals they have not earned themselves, MPs say.
The Commons Defence Committee warned that the lack of any legal deterrent to imposters wearing medals awarded for service and bravery is not only an “insult” to genuine recipients but could threaten public trust in the military honours system itself.”
Meanwhile the Royal Family, Britain’s most prolilific welfare scroungers, can hardly look upwards, their chests plastered in bronze and silver tokens awarded for having blue blood and improvised in- breeding
………….and what have any of the Royals ever done to wear some of the accolades of bravery?
The Queen wrestled a pair of antlers from her teeth when feasting on venison at a Banquet. She single handedly shook hands, cut ribbons, unveiled plaques to herself and was forced to wear the pick of quality clothing and eat finest cuisines…………
Walked on red carpets, regardless of the risks.
Then we have the male bloodline………
A group of dorks, chests covered in more regalia and ribbons than Mussolini’s greatcoat.
These comedy clowns have done diddly squat to earn the recognition of participating in heroic deeds, the only enemy they have ever encountered is a fucking corgi on the heat.
Medals are earned, not given as trinkets to adorn the chests of the spoilt brats that seek to influence the unwary.
The only medal that Old Bess should be wearing is a commemorative plate listing those of her subjects she signed to the dogs.
A gilded tit that the Conservative miscreants suckle upon………..
“DWP SCUMBAGS EMBARRASSED INTO REVERSING DECISION”
Disabled grandfather told to get a job has decision reversed by DWP after Daily Record story
After we told you about William Miller’s situation, the DWP reversed their decision and even increased the money he will get.
A disabled grandfather who was told to get a job after a work capability test has had the decision reversed – thanks to the Daily Record.
DWP bosses have even given William Miller more money as he battles a serious foot condition which could result in amputation.
The U-turn came after the 61-year-old, from Johnstone, Renfrewshire, was forced to make several trips to the Jobcentre after being told he had lost his Employment Support Allowance earlier this month.
William told the Record DWP assessors claimed if he could walk to his doctor’s surgery, he was fit to work.
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But the dad, who was an electrician before being struck down by a painful condition which causes his bones to break, said he couldn’t walk to the end of his road painlessly.
His daughter Lyndsey, 32, wrote to Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, demanding help for her dad.
Campaigners called for Work Capability Assessments to be scrapped in light of the case.
William was on a visit to the job centre to sign on when he received a call this week to tell him he no longer had to look for work.
He said: “I was catching my breath when they phoned. The man said the wrong decision had been made.
“They’ve moved me to a mid-rate ESA, which will give me an extra £36 a week.”
William has a condition called Charcot foot – a complication of diabetes which left his limb deformed due to bone fractures and led to a painful infection.
William with the bombshell letter
William Miller
He has been wearing an orthopaedic boot for 13 months and uses a walking stick.
He had been on ESA of £138.20 a fortnight.
His consultant had warned the illness could lead to amputation and his doctor had issued a sick line lasting until January.
He attended an assessment several weeks ago and was told his ESA had been stopped as of November 1.
Assessors watched him walk about 50 metres from the car park into the centre. Using their scoring system, they said he was able to move 200 metres and stay standing or sitting in the same spot for an hour.
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Cruel DWP bosses tell disabled dad that if he can walk to the GP’s surgery then he is fit to work
William had been told an appeal could take up to five months. But his MSP, the SNP’s Tom Arthur, asked the Record to pass on his details after his story appeared.
Arthur took on the case and told the DWP what he thought of their decision.
William said: “I want to thank the Daily Record for telling my story and Tom Arthur for the effort he made with my case. I’m very, very grateful.”
A DWP spokesman confirmed the U-turn. He said: “We looked again at Mr Miller’s claim, together with additional information he provided, and are arranging for his benefits to be paid.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/crippled-grandfather-told-job-decision-9336829
‘This isn’t civilisation’ – Politicians hit out at austerity measures fuelling homeless crisis after two killed in Chinatown fire
Politicians in Greater Manchester have blamed government austerity measures for Manchester’s homeless crisis after a devastating blaze in Chinatown claimed the lives of two people believed to have been rough sleepers.
Those found dead inside the gutted Nicholas Street warehouse were members of the homeless community.
They were found after firefighters got the huge fire under control on Friday morning.
Shocked MPs have blamed swingeing cuts to town hall and voluntary support services for the homeless crisis, with the number of rough sleepers in the city – and the region – rocketing
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-homeless-crisis-austerity-government-12232907
“FAMILIES OF DISABLED CHILDREN ROBBED BLIND BY DWP/HMRC”
………..IT DOESN’T MATTER IF WE HAVE ROBBED YOU FOR YEARS, WE ARE ONLY BACKDATING THIS YEARS ERRORS……..
Thousands of low income families with a disabled child were paid up to £4,400 too little in tax credits after data was not shared between authorities.
Some 28,000 families received at least £3,000 too little from 2011-2014 after the Department for Work and Pensions failed to inform the HMRC they were eligible for the extra money.
HMRC said it would repay the money owed for 2016-17 but not for earlier years.
It said it was up to individuals to check they received the right payments.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38113279
Great! (A bit of irony on my part!)
(Fucking hell – I hope that I do not live until I am 85 years old – perhaps under the care of MAXIMUS HEALTHCARE SERVICES OR CAPITA HEALTHCARE SERVICES – I would rather be 6 feet under!)
“Send patients to private sector to avert winter crisis, hospitals told”
“Leaked memos also reveal ban on ‘black alerts’ by NHS bosses”
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/26/send-patients-to-private-sector-to-avert-winter-crisis-hospitals-told
Not sure about this one – just take a look at all of the politicians involved with all of this!
“Bid to challenge Brexit gathers pace among pro-remain politicians”
“MP’s from across parties in discussions about forcing government’s hand on Brexit plans and ensuring single market access”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/26/bid-to-challenge-brexit-gathers-pace-among-pro-remain-politicians
They should all appeal that decision Geoff, if HMRC can reclaim tax from us going back 6 years, then it should work the other way round. They have tried to blame the families by stating it is their responsibility to check their awards are right, but they have already admitted it’s a lack of communication between departments. Good luck to them!
…………Well said Linda. Every year the con men of the DWP make an announcement that umpteen millions in benefits have not been claimed, which in turn indicates that they know who they are robbing and how much.
The announcement that they will only pay this last years errors has not been debated. Some twat like DEVERAUX will have just made the decision without consultation hoping nobody will counter it.
If money is owed, it should be repaid in full. Families have had to suffer for the Scrooge like welfare reforms that inevitably end in death in many cases.
As you have stated, the power to access what is owed should be reciprocal. If they can go back and demand repayment for six years, so should those who have been knowingly robbed blind……..
“Labour will not win a general election as UKip-lite, says Diane Abbot”
“Shadow home secretary tells Guardian her party should hold its nerve in febrile atmosphere surrounding Brexit vote”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/26/labour-will-not-win-a-general-election-as-ukip-lite-says-diane-abbott
“Labour accuses Theresa May of breaking pledge to protect NHS over £35bn black hole in spending”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/uk-news/labour-accuses-theresa-breaking-pledge-9342342
Sorry – that should read:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/labour-accuses-theresa-breaking-pledge-9342342
“Greedy housebuilders make billions while getting taxpayer subsidies – yet fail thousands of homeless families”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/greedy-housebuilders-make-billions-getting-9342409
“KEEP AN EYE ON THE MOD LAND SALES PAUL”
……….always goes to someone connected with the Tories who has made donations in the past.
That is why the UK forces have been living in complete shitholes for years and no remedial modernisation has been carried out.
“MOD sell off to TORY FRIENDS”
A total of 13 Ministry of Defence sites will be sold to provide land for up to 17,017 homes and will raise £225m, the government has said.
Defence minister Mark Lancaster said 12,565 of the homes were “expected to materialise in this Parliament”.
He acknowledged this would impact on civilian and military staff but provisions were being made, he said.
The sites include an RAF base, barracks, ex-World War Two airfields and a chaplaincy centre.
They also include two golf courses at RAF Henlow and Southwick Park in Hampshire.
Meanwhile, Network Rail has announced it will release land at almost 200 sites for 12,000 new homes by 2020.
This includes 5,000 homes in London, 3,600 homes in Manchester and the north, 1,700 homes in the Midlands and the east of England and 1,400 homes in the south of England.
The 13 military sites that will be sold by the MoD are:
RAF Henlow, Bedfordshire
Middlewick Ranges, Essex
Amport House, Andover, Hampshire, the British Armed Forces chaplaincy centre
Land at Harley Hill, Catterick, North Yorkshire
Chalgrove Airfield, Oxfordshire, a former World War Two airfield
Colerne Airfield, Chippenham, Wiltshire, a former World War Two airfield
Azimghur Barracks, Chippenham, Wiltshire
Prince William of Gloucester Barracks, Grantham, Lincolnshire
Old Dalby, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Venning Barracks, Telford
Parsons Barracks, Donnington
Southwick Park, Fareham, Hampshire
Royal Marines Stonehouse, Plymouth
“THE GREAT HOUSING SCANDAL”
DISPATCHES 2015
Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis, tonight’s Dispatches (Mon 15th August) investigates the failure of a major flagship Government plan to get Britain building.
Harry Wallop investigates the failure to build enough houses in the UK, a generation have been priced out of the property market, but instead of affordable homes being built we find plush mansions and plans for luxury hotels. Dispatches also discovers deals done with big developers which could have potentially lost the taxpayer millions.
Over the past five years we have only built half the houses needed, despite government plans dating back to 2011 to get developers building. The Government’s plan was to build 100,000 homes by selling off unused publicly owned land to private companies. The land was sold off by various government departments but the vast majority of homes have not been built.
The biggest contributor to this plan was the Ministry of Defence. The MoD claim to have sold off enough land for an estimated 39,000 homes as part of the Government’s overall 100,000 target.
Dispatches uncover:
• Dispatches scrutinized all of the sites sold by the MoD to developers between 2011 and 2015 to find out how many of the predicted homes are currently in the pipeline – for almost half of them, planning permission hadn’t been obtained.
• Affordable housing targets are not being reached in some cases and less than a quarter of the homes to be built on former MoD public land since 2011 will be affordable
• We could only find a tiny fraction of these new homes on MoD land, a mere 64, had been completed on land sold between 2011 and 2015
http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/the-great-housing-scandal-channel-4-dispatches
Ministry of Defence land for sale and development:
The Government have identified 4 Ministry of Defence sites in Plymouth which could provide space for 370 homes. One former commando base had capacity for 20 new homes, was sold for £1.7 million.
But when Dispatches visited the site there was no sign of the new homes. The land was sold to a private company who were under no obligation by the MoD to build homes on the site – which has since been turned in to offices, workshops and laboratories. Despite the absence of houses the government include this site in the official figures as land sold for 100,000 new homes.
• Dispatches found 47 sites sold by the MoD since 2011 where planning permission was needed for new homes, and only 11 of those were sold with planning permission.
• Planning permission hasn’t been obtained by developers for almost half of the sites sold by the MoD between 2011 and 2015. Often the developers hadn’t even applied for it.
“AFFORDABLE HOMES, TORY BOLLOCKS!”
Dispatches have examined every site the MoD sold between 2011 and 2015, more than half of the developments where planning has been agreed will end up having fewer affordable houses than the local council target. Overall, less than a quarter of the homes on former public land sold since 2011 will be affordable.
And what of the wider government pledge to sell off enough public land for 100,000 new homes? Well only an estimated 1,800 homes have been completed since 2011.
The plan is to build a million homes by 2020. And to help the Government has launched an even more ambitious plan to sell off even more public land…but will it do any better than the last one?
Theresa May, “Unless we deal with the housing deficit, we will see house prices keep on rising. Young people will find it even harder to afford their own home.”
THE GREAT HOUSING SCANDAL: CHANNEL 4 DISPATCHES, MON 15th AUGUST, CHANNEL 4, 8PM
Producer/Director: Jane Fellner
Executive Producers: Chris Shaw
Production Company: ITN Productions
I don’t think the UK will have much involvement with housing the EU Army and all its shenanigans, mainland Europe will be host to all that, the MoD have no need for land anymore.
Geoff – That’s very interesting and I remember recording and seeing the Ch 4 programme that you mentioned.
I have recently heard that they are also going to close RMB Chivenor, (Ex-RAF Chivenor) in between 5 and 10 years time.
No doubt, the same sort of thing will happen and they’ll sell it all off for a trifling amount to their Tory chums and not build any homes on it!
As I saw recently in one of the newspaper articles – the chap would not trust the Tories to ‘run a bath’ – let alone run the Country! 😀
Well – this is a surprise!
“Bad news for Theresa May: voters are about to punish her for the ‘feel-bad factor’ ”
“Labour is off the publics radar, making it harder for the Tories to blame them for the voter’s current dissatisfaction. If the election is held in 2020, the lost decade will be all theirs”
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-brexit-autumn-statement-philip-hammond-living-standards-drop-feel-bad-factor-general-a7438821.html
Sky News just now reporting that ‘Brexit’ keeps her from sleeping at night! – she is being supported by her husband and her well founded ‘family values’ (sounds like Maggie Thatcher to me!) 🙂 GOOD – I AM REALLY GLAD AT THIS NEWS – THE THATCHERITE BITCH SHOULD SUFFER BIGTIME!
THE FUCKING OLD COW
“Nick Clegg says Richmond Park by-election could stop hard Brexit”
“Just as the poll tax was axed, former Lib-Dem leader says the result could be a political turning point – forcing Theresa May to change course dramatically on Brexit”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nick-clegg-zac-goldsmith-richmond-park-by-election-hard-brexit-stop-a7439446.html
It should not be forgotten though that the Liberal-Democrats with that bastard Nick Clegg at it’s head – deliberately went into a Government Coalition with David Cameron and his evil and cruel Tory administration in 2010. I will, for one, NEVER forgive Nick Clegg for this betrayal – it is Nick Clegg and his Lib-Dems that kept these bastards in power, – mostly supporting all of the Tories policies – including the despicable ‘Welfare Reforms’ – NICK CLEGG – A YELLOW COWARD, JUST LIKE THE REST OF HIS COWARDLY AND YELLOW BELLIED LIBERAL DEMOCRATS.
THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING FOR WORKING PEOPLE AND HAVE SUPPORTED THE CONSERVATIVES TO THE HILT. FUCK THE LIB-DEMS.
I HOPE THAT THE LIB-DEMS GO DOWN FROM 8% OF THE VOTE TO 0% – I HATE THE FUCKERS
Agreed! We should all remember the suffering of the poor and sick and disabled under the evil Tories could not have happened without the help of Quisling Clegg and his power hungry cohorts.
The days are decreasing: 18 days only now to reach the target of £10,000
This evening’s total so far is £8,115 out of £10,000 to fund a much needed inquest into poor David Clapson’s death at the hands of the DWP and the Tory Government sanctioned murderer Iain Duncan Smith.
https://www.crowdjustice.org/case/david-clapson/
Off Topic but the death of Fidel Castro could mean the USA once again can infiltrate Cuba and turn the clock back to the bad old days when Batista the USA puppet dictator ruled the island. When the USA talk about bringing freedom to Cuba they mean Gambling, Prostitution, Exploitation of the poor and Drugs. In other words the same old shit that existed before Castro’s revolution and what we in the so called free west have to put up with.
(Off Topic) You have to feel sorry for Prince Harry! – Being trekked around on an old RFA ship (probably with a drunken crew also!) which developed engine trouble and then broke down. It’s not been a good trip for him so far, being made to feel like an ‘outsider’ at an official function, being called a ‘hothead’ by his brother William over giving ‘press’ access to his girlfriend Meghan and then having to survive on such a small amount of food that it’s been described as ‘not enough to feed a dog’. Not to worry though, he is worth a small fortune and he would not be half as hungry as some poor sanctioned claimant in this Country!
Nigel Farage is making a comical arse of himself once again
This time he is “asking Americans to ‘forgive’ British people who criticised Donald Trump, in US trip”.
This is a wannabe ‘statesman’ who is not even a ‘statesman’ as such, – in a recent American TV interview, it was reported later that the American audience thought that Farage was ‘weird’!
And he still wants to be May’s go-between with Trump – he’s off his head!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-us-elections-forgive-british-criticism-donald-trump-president-elect-ukip-a7442376.html
Someone has spray painted I, Daniel Blake onto Exeter Jobcentre
………………………perhaps it needs another coat?
http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/someone-has-spray-painted-i-daniel-blake-onto-exeter-jobcentre/story-29937995-detail/story.html
………….soon it will be written in blood
American Police shock wheelchair-bound woman with taser as she lies handcuffed on the ground
……………what a futile act, the DWP kill ours
An investigation is underway after a woman in a wheelchair was allegedly tasered, placed in handcuffs on the ground, then tasered again.
The incident, caught on video, shows Sheketha Holman, who has been in a wheelchair for two years since she injured her back, during an exchange with officials.
When she confronted deputies from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office while her daughter was being arrested at a gas station in northern Houston, Texas, the 36-year-old was shocked twice.
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Black man dies after being tasered twice by police in California
She fell out of her wheelchair after the first time.
The second time was when she was face down on the ground and in handcuffs.
She was taken to hospital, then spent three days behind bars and was charged with resisting arrest and trespassing.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sheketha-holman-wheelchair-taser-police-houston-texas-watch-video-investigation-a7439221.html
“ONE IS A DOCTOR, THE OTHER WORKS FOR THE DWP”
Josef Mengele (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ( listen); 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Mengele was a notorious member of the team of doctors responsible for the selection of victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performing deadly human experiments on prisoners. Arrivals deemed able to work were admitted into the camp, and those deemed unfit for labor were immediately killed in the gas chambers. Mengele left Auschwitz on 17 January 1945, shortly before the arrival of the liberating Red Army troops. After the war, he fled to South America, where he evaded capture for the rest of his life.
DAMIAN GREEN DWP
Damian Green almost always voted for a reduction in spending on welfare benefits
TheyWorkForYou has automatically calculated this MP’s stance based on all of their votes on the topic. You can browse the source data on PublicWhip.org.uk.
Key votes about a reduction in spending on welfare benefits:
On 19 Jan 2011: Damian Green voted in favour of scrapping the education maintenance allowance (EMA) in England.
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On 19 Jan 2011: Damian Green voted to support the Government reforms to arrangements for supporting students aged 16-19.
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On 9 Mar 2011: Damian Green voted to introduce Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments and to restrict housing benefit for those in social housing deemed to have excess bedrooms.
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On 9 Mar 2011: Damian Green voted to introduce Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments and to restrict housing benefit for those in social housing deemed to have excess bedrooms.
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On 13 Jun 2011: Damian Green voted against introducing a childcare element to Universal Credit.
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On 13 Jun 2011: Damian Green voted against a proposal to exclude up to fifty thousand pounds in an ISA from the assessment of capital used to determine if someone in work is eligible for Universal Credit.
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On 15 Jun 2011: Damian Green voted to introduce Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments and to restrict housing benefit for those in social housing deemed to have excess bedrooms.
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On 31 Jan 2012: Damian Green voted to move from a national council tax benefit to a system of local councils administering council tax reductions for those in financial need.
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On 1 Feb 2012: Damian Green voted not to increase the time people can receive contribution based ESA from one year to at least 730 days.
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On 1 Feb 2012: Damian Green voted not to make an exception for those with a cancer diagnosis or undergoing cancer treatment from the 365 day limit on receiving contribution based Employment and Support Allowance.
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On 1 Feb 2012: Damian Green voted not to exclude child benefit from the benefit cap.
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On 1 Feb 2012: Damian Green voted not to set the lower rate of the Universal Credit payment in relation to disabled children and young people at a minimum of two-thirds of the higher rate.
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On 21 Feb 2012: Damian Green voted not to add proposed exclusions from a reduction in housing benefits due to being deemed to have excess bedrooms.
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On 24 Oct 2012: Damian Green was absent for a vote on Draft Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2012 — Under Occupation Critera — Local Housing Allowance Rates
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On 21 Nov 2012: Damian Green voted to cap the total amount of welfare benefits an individual can claim from April 2013 at £350 for a single person and £500 for couple per week.
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On 8 Jan 2013: Damian Green was absent for a vote on Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill — Second Reading — Capping Increase of Specified Benefits at 1%
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On 21 Jan 2013: Damian Green voted to set the rate of increase of certain benefits, payments and tax credits at 1% rather than in line with prices at 2.2% for 2014 and 2015
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On 21 Jan 2013: Damian Green voted to cap any increase in specified benefits payments and tax credits at 1% rather allow them to be increased by 2.2% in line with prices.
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On 21 Jan 2013: Damian Green voted to cap any increase in specified benefits payments and tax credits at 1% rather than allow them to increase by 2.2% in line with prices.
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On 27 Feb 2013: Damian Green voted in favour of a housing benefit under-occupancy penalty.
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On 12 Nov 2013: Damian Green voted in favour of reducing housing benefit for those deemed to have excess bedrooms.
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On 12 Nov 2013: Damian Green voted for a reduction in housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms.
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On 17 Jan 2014: Damian Green was absent for a vote on Benefit Entitlement (Restriction) Bill
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On 11 Feb 2014: Damian Green voted not to halt further spending and welfare cuts and not to investigate the impact of austerity measures on the incidence of poverty and inequality.
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On 4 Jun 2015: Damian Green voted in favour of proposed spending cuts and changes to the welfare system and in favour of spending on new nuclear weapons.
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On 20 Jul 2015: Damian Green was absent for a vote on Welfare Reform and Work Bill — Decline Second Reading
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On 20 Jul 2015: Damian Green was absent for a vote on Welfare Reform and Work Bill — Second Reading
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On 15 Sep 2015: Damian Green voted to reduce the amounts people are paid in tax credits.
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On 20 Oct 2015: Damian Green voted in favour of an impending reduction in the amount people are paid in tax credits.
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On 27 Oct 2015: Damian Green voted in favour of reducing the amount people are paid in tax credits.
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On 27 Oct 2015: Damian Green voted to remove the “work-related activity component” from the Employment and Support Allowance.
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On 27 Oct 2015: Damian Green voted to remove the “limited capability for work” element of Universal Credit.
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On 27 Oct 2015: Damian Green voted to reduce the household benefit cap, to freeze the rate of many working-age benefits, to reduce social rents in England and for other changes to the benefits system.
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On 18 Nov 2015: Damian Green voted for proposed cuts to tax credits and against investment aimed at growing a productive economy focused on science, technology and green jobs.
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On 6 Jan 2016: Damian Green voted in favour of cutting universal credit benefits for many people in paid work
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On 23 Feb 2016: Damian Green voted to remove the “work-related activity component” from the Employment and Support Allowance.
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On 23 Feb 2016: Damian Green voted to remove the “limited capability for work” element of Universal Credit.
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On 2 Mar 2016: Damian Green voted against making the removal of the work-related activity component from employment and support allowance conditional on an impact assessment and against requiring Parliament to approve details of implementing the change.
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On 2 Mar 2016: Damian Green voted against making the removal of the limited capability for work element of universal credit conditional on an impact assessment and against requiring Parliament to approve details of implementing the change.
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On 26 May 2016: Damian Green voted in favour of repealing the Human Rights Act 1998; against plans to save the steel industry including fast-tracking infrastructure projects requiring large amounts of steel; and against a principle of the Government not borrowing to fund day-to-day spending.
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On 8 Jun 2016: Damian Green was absent for a vote on Benefit Cuts for Disabled and Ill People Deemed Capable of Work
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On 20 Jul 2016: Damian Green voted for cuts in housing benefit for recipients in supported housing.
“PRISONS COMPETING WITH DWP FOR HIGHEST SUICIDE RATES”
…………Not wanting to be left behind, the prison service has mounted a last ditch attempt to gain the accolade of being the newly privatised, killer of the year.
Not wanting to be outdone, Damian Green, with the help of Philip Hammond, are pressing the case for the Dwp to stay at number one slot….
Privatisation only has one fault, profit always comes before the service it is chosen to run.
Can anybody think of just one service that has not gone downhill since privatisation?
News today;
“ONE PRISON SUICIDE EVERY THREE DAYS”
………no need for a death penalty
A record number of inmates have taken their own lives in prisons in England and Wales so far this year, a prison reform charity has said.
The Howard League for Penal Reform said it knew of 102 suicides, the highest since its records began in 1978.
The charity said cuts to staffing and budgets had “created a toxic mix of violence, death and human misery”.
The government has pledged 2,500 extra officers and special measures for vulnerable or mentally ill inmates.
The previous highest toll recorded by the charity was 94 suicides in 2004.
However, the overall prison population has increased by about 10% since then, meaning the suicide rate was actually slightly higher in 2004.
Then, there was approximately one suicide for every 830 prisoners. So far in 2016, there has been one death for roughly every 840 prisoners.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38126646
Geoff – I notice that the News media is covering this story – but I am damned sure that they do not, (and probably will not) try to cover the uneccessary deaths and suicides caused by benefit sanctions!
“DWP RECIPE FOR CLAIMANT DEATHS”
The main sickness benefit for disabled people is Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). Eligibility is assessed via the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). The WCA is a rigid points system, that assesses your ability to carry out very basic tasks. In order to be classified as unfit for work, you need to ‘score’ at least 15 points.
John Hutton laid the groundwork for ESA in 2006 (in the interim he considerably harshened the criteria for Incapacity Benefit). By 2008, ESA had replaced incapacity benefit for new claims. From the outset, the draconian WCA caused severely ill people to be deemed fit for work. Londoner, Vincent Nestor had incurable stomach cancer, and additionally, he was waiting for a triple heart bypass operation, yet he scored zero points and was declared “fit for work”.
Despite such cases as these Yvette Cooper introduced an even more draconian WCA. A few days before the 2010 General Election, coroner Tom Osborne, wrote to Cooper, stating that the WCA had caused 43-year-old Stephen Carre to take his life, and the continued programme would lead to further suicides. The incoming coalition Tory-Lib Dem government ignored his concerns.
The WCA exists to deny benefit to as many people as possible.
In theory, it focuses on what people can do, rather than on what they cannot. This enables the DWP to ignore the reality of disability. The WCA assesses deafness by people’s ability to read, and determines blindness by people’s ability to hear.
It omits any reference to bending and kneeling, as apparently this is no longer part of the workplace. Amputees are assessed by their ability to lift empty cardboard boxes with their stumps and most bizarrely of all, WCA assesses mobility problems with an imaginary wheelchair. Consequently, if you can use a wheelchair to whatever they deem a ‘qualifying’ degree, you score zero points for mobility problems.
There are many accomplished wheelchair users (e.g. 11-times gold medal winner Tanni Grey-Thompson), but the reality is, a wheelchair does not equate to a functioning set of legs. There are many problems with using one; the main one being getting your wheelchair and yourself into a car. Other than having a carer or someone to lift the wheelchair into the boot and then help you into your seat, there does not seem to be any other viable solution. Furthermore, in my experience disabled lifts are generally locked; and finding someone to get the key takes up time and energy (or requires a carer). Using a wheelchair can also cause fatigue and pain.
The WCA does not relate to the world of work as it requires people to carry out a very narrow set of tasks such as lifting a 0.5 litre carton or using a pen to make ‘a meaningful mark with either hand’. It goes without saying that the average two-year-olds would be capable of performing these tasks. I was frequently bullied by school teachers over my illegible handwriting, however as I can make a ‘meaningful mark’ (assuming this means a squiggle or adding my name to a birthday card), I would score no points for this.
Criteria for dexterity is ludicrous: someone with Parkinson’s disease, a condition that causes shaking, could score only nine points for dexterity simply because they could push a button with one finger (once). This could ultimately deem them fit for work simply for having the same level of dexterity as a dog. The threshold for reaching is, ‘Cannot raise either arm as if to put something in the top pocket of a coat or jacket.’ I cannot find any jobs that place emphasis on reaching. Most jobs that involve reaching, tend to involve lifting as well (e.g. shelf-stacking) or co-ordination (e.g. decorating).
It goes without saying none of these ‘skills’ improve a person’s employment prospects. When I did careers advice at school, no-one ever suggested we should list the ability to operate an alarm clock on a CV or job application.
The reality is that in the world of work, people get turned down for jobs if they do not qualify for them. If a person without a medical degree applies to be a doctor, the hospital will not give them the job simply because they can take someone’s pulse.
And I’m pretty sure employers would not overlook the fact I am mostly bed-bound simply because I can pick up a pound coin.
https://sciscomedia.co.uk/work-capability-assessment-toxic-failure-disabled/
“HOW DAMIAN GREEN HELPS THE PEOPLE”
Episode 4, Lorraine talks about her Suicide Attempt as a result of being neglected by the DWP. Subtitled version https://youtu.be/pBePeH0EoNE. Please Like and Share
They ‘May’ be coming for your internet – but, an online petition calling for the repeal of the Investigatory Powers (IP) bill reached over 100,000 signatures on 26th November.
A debate in Parliament may well now be forthcoming. This is very bad news for Theresa May – this IP bill was her ‘baby’ just waiting to be born!
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/28/theresa-may-just-received-nasty-surprise-brilliant-news-british-public
“Paul Nuttall is the new leader of UKIP and he’s even worse than you think”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/28/paul-nuttall-new-leader-ukip-hes-even-worse-think/
Who is Paul Nuttall (the new UKIP leader) and what does he believe in?
It’s pretty ‘right-wing’ – he is, after all, an ex-Conservative!
I reckon they may before too long they may change their name from ‘UKIP’ to something similar to the ‘English Defence Association’!
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/28/10-minutes-footage-ukips-new-leader-doesnt-want-see-video/
I seem to remember somewhere that at the last Gen. Election UKIP polled around 4 million votes. Today, Nuttall was voted in by 19,000+ the second runner-up Suzanne Evans (an Ex-Conservative Councillor) had 2000+ (and lost her £5000 deposit) and the third candidate also had 2000+ votes and therefore, probably lost his £5000 deposit as well.
They are all still on very much on a sticky wicket!
“Secret memo suggests Britain unlikely to stay in single market”
“Memo suggests Government will pursue ‘Canada plus’ deal but securing agreement on services will be ‘difficult’ ”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-news-single-market-access-secret-memo-theresa-may-eu-a7444306.html
“Work till you die” is still on the Government’s agenda!
“Pension age may be about to rise again says former minister”
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/nov/28/pension-age-may-be-about-to-rise-again-says-former-minister
This ship should be called “HMS Duncan Smith”!
(IDS is a broken down disaster with technical issues as well!)
“1bn Royal Navy warshiip finally departs for Nato duties after being towed back to Plymouth due to technical issues”
“The Ministry of Defence has again been criticised for problems with a Type 45 destroyer”
home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/tech-news/royal-navy-hms-duncan-nato-technical-issues-11364116403507
Prove you need to see the GP: Hundreds of doctors are assessing patients in three-minute phone calls before granting face-to-face appointments : Daily Mail.
Approach is being rolled out across 180 surgeries, covering 1.7m people
Firms training staff say two in three patients need only words of advice
Concern GPs will miss symptoms they would have spotted at close hand
Family doctors are denying patients face-to-face appointments to try to reduce demand.
Surgeries are offering three-minute phone assessments instead – with proper consultations only for the seriously ill.
The approach is already being rolled out across 180 surgeries, covering 1.7million people. Receptionists take down a caller’s details and a GP rings them back to assess their case.
“PRIVATE FIRMS ADVISING SURGERIES ON NEGLECTING PATIENTS”
…………….More deaths on the way
One of the private firms – Productive Primary Care – has trained 80 surgeries covering a population of 730,000 to use its Doctor First system.
Practices pay a one-off fee of around £8,000 for several weeks of training and advice. They are advised not to offer any face-to-face appointments before 10.30am – giving over the first two hours of the day to assessing patients by phone. The firm expects to have trained 20 more surgeries by next year, covering a further 150,000 patients.
The other company – GP Access – offers a similar system and is being used in 100 practices covering a population of more than a million. The firms promise to reduce doctors’ workloads and stress levels and enable them to be more in control.
Both insist that patients can secure an appointment – no matter what the doctor thinks.
But they say that an average of 66 per cent cope with simple advice such as to take rest or paracetamol.
sadly, they bury the others
“WORK TILL YOU DIE”
……….PENSIONS AGE TO BE RAISED ONCE AGAIN
The government may be preparing to increase the official state pension age to 70 for millions of people currently in their 20s, a former minister has claimed.
Steve Webb said documents produced by the Department for Work and Pensions suggested a “more aggressive” timetable on state pension age (SPA) increases than previously planned was being prepared.
Steve Webb
Steve Webb. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA
This could affect tens of millions of workers aged under 55, and bring a pension age of 70 into the official timetable for the first time for people currently aged between 22 and 30, he added. The current official SPA for people in their 20s is 68, though under the existing schedule it could be expected to rise to 69.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/nov/28/pension-age-may-be-about-to-rise-again-says-former-minister?CMP=share_btn_fb
Dave H
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I think most people don’t grasp real truth behind the introduction of the state pension. It was infact the trojan horse that gave legitimacy to what in effect was a tax. The government wanted more tax without calling it tax. They devised the state pension where people would pay into government coffers in hope they would collect a pension upon retirement, which of course they did. The government however knew full well that most people would either die befor they collected it or at least within a few short years thereafter. Sure some would live on for many years but on the whole you didn’t. Now people are living longer so the qualifying age has to be reset accordingly so most of us die within a few years of qualification of the pension. We were never ment to live long enough to make a substantial draw on it,it’s that simple.
But we are NOT living longer, GEOFF! It is a LIE, a fiction, a great big whopper that has long been hammered into our thick skulls just ahead of the way being paved for increases to the pension age. Once they knew we had fallen for the propaganda then the solution was rolled out to ‘us all living longer’ – increase the pension age. You will be lucky if you make it to your biblical three score and ten, GEOFF. Anything after that is biblical ‘borrowed time’. Look around you, people are dropping like flies. ‘We are all living longer is pure and utter horseshit!
“Now people are living” – stop perpetuating this fucking outright lie – seriously GEOFF! You make that statement, GEOFF, but how do YOU know that we are ‘all living longer’? You don’t GEOFF! All you have heard is the complicit media parroting the lie over and over again until YOU now accept is as an indisputable fact! This is how propaganda works. This is propaganda in action. This is YOU parroting what you have been told to think by PROPAGANDA!
I agree with you entirely.
They are comments taken from a blog and the authors names are at the top.
i have merely used the comments to illustrate what you are saying and to foster debate, You are saying exactly the right thing………
We are being railroaded into thinking that we are living longer when the truth of it is, we are not.
Poor cancer treatment and diagnosis, both types of diabetes, worsening diets and poverty, are pushing UK mortality rates higher and higher.
Consecutive governments have plundered the pension schemes till they are no longer viable. They are using every trick in the book to market the blame onto the individual.
Our government is but a tool of the insurance industry…….
The BBC are part of it too. They keep telling us that so-called “superfoods” like blueberries and goji berries are a waste of money and that cheap stodgy crap are just as good for us if not even better. It is like that batty woman who keeps telling us that we can feed a family of four on a fiver a month on a diet of flour, eggs and sugar. Diabetes, here we come! Interestingly, one of George Orwell’s first jobs was with the BBC. His task was to convince housewives that offal was good for them and their families. And does anyone really think these TV-licence fee funded over-paid TV presenters are living on a diet of flour, eggs and sugar. Hell, they do. Superfoods all they way for them. You just have to look at them. They are as thin as rake, especially the news presenters. And TV, especially wide-screen make you look fatter and smaller. That’s is why you need a wide face to appear on TV 😉
Only the rich (and over-paid TV presenters) can afford to stay thin though. Poverty makes you fat – it’s a sign of malnutrition* Nobody ever got fat on blueberries or goji berries 😉
*well, there is Eric Pickles 😀
And not forgetting programmes such as Bake Off! Are they trying to sending us to another grave. And look at Mary ‘the flavour is coming through’ Berry one of the presenters of Bake Off, as thin as a rake and makes Rita Shakrabarti look fat!. She only takes a nibble. And probably throws it up. She might enjoy baking but definitely doesn’t eat it though. One sure way of ending up as fat as fuck and diabetic!
*Are they trying to send us to an early grave because it sure as fuck looks that way!
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.
This from the reviews: “The most terrible revelation he offers is when he points out that the most informed individuals (in the sense of consuming the most media) are the most propagandized (but unaware of being so). This is why this book doesn’t get more play — it would put the Massive Media and the “public relations” (aka, propaganda industry) out of business if people understood their real social role.”
The book goes into this in detail, but is is those who think that they are ‘informed’ who are the victims of propaganda. And it’s TRUE!
“DAME CAROL BLACK’S EVIL MANTRA ADOPTED BY YORK NHS TRUST”
…………If you want the word evil explained, look no further than CAROL BLACK..
The proverbial, WITCH IN THE WARDROBE, who acts in tandem with people killer, LORD DAVID FRAUD, has had her wish to play god with peoples lives, come true.
YORK HEALTH TRUST is now of the opinion that what CAROL BLACK said is true……………………………. That people who are obese and people that smoke are somewhat different to others in regards to medical intervention and must be treated as second class.
YES, THAT’S RIGHT, YORK HOSPITAL TRUST IS NOW SELECTING WHO
IT TREATS ON THE RAMBLINGS OF AN OLD HAG THAT IS SO UP THE ARSES OF THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY AS A RECTAL WART………………
……………ACCORDING TO YORK NHS BOSSES, IF YOU HAVE A FAG OR CARRY EXCESS WEIGHT YOU ARE A SECOND CLASS CITIZEN WHO SHOULD BE PUSHED TO THE END OF THE CUE.
YOUR LIFE IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN SOMEBODY ELSES…….
WE ARE NOW ONLY ONE STEP AWAY FROM FULL EUGENICS, THE AIM OF THE GOVERNMENTS CAREFULLY PLANTED SEED OF DESTRUCTION, CAROL BLACK……..
What next, blonde versus black, black versus white, religion, money?
THESE TRAITS HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY SELECTED BY THE TORY GOVERNMENT TO BOLSTER THE DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF HEALTH CARE OF THE NHS INTO THE HANDS OF THE CORPORATE GREED MACHINE.
2 September 2016 • 10:00pm
Obese people will be routinely refused operations across the NHS, health service bosses have warned, after one authority said it would limit procedures on an unprecedented scale.
Hospital leaders in North Yorkshire said that patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above – as well as smokers – will be barred from most surgery for up to a year amid increasingly desperate measures to plug a funding black hole. The restrictions will apply to standard hip and knee operations.
The decision, described by the Royal College of Surgeons as the “most severe the modern NHS has ever seen”, led to warnings that other trusts will soon be forced to follow suit and rationing will become the norm if the current funding crisis continues.
SO, IF YOUR FAT OR SMOKE, STAY WELL AWAY FROM VALE OF YORK NHS TRUST……………
THEY HAVE DECIDED THAT YOU ARE SECOND CLASS AND SHOULD BE DENIED ACCESS TO MEDICAL INTERVENTION…….
*Aey trying to send us to an early grave because it sure as fuck looks that way!
“Given the damning outcomes of the UN inquiry report released earlier this month into the austerity-led policies of the government since 2010, we can only assume that they have no sense of shame for the damage they have caused and are causing to disabled citizens in the UK.”
She added: “This contemptible disregard for the needs of both disabled and older people is all the more insulting when not only will £370 million be spent on repairs to a millionaire’s palace, but a further £7 million has been ‘found’ to fund repairs to Wentworth Woodhouse, which few have ever heard of.”
Earlier this month, a survey by the Independent Living Strategy Group (ILSG) suggested that more than half of people (58 per cent) who receive care and support services in England had seen their quality of life fall in the last year.
The disabled crossbench peer Baroness [Jane] Campbell said at the time that the survey showed that increased social care funding was needed to prevent disabled people from an “extreme risk” of harm.
Stephen Dalton, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents NHS providers and commissioners, said yesterday (Wednesday) that frontline staff would “find it extraordinary” that the government had ignored the “stresses and strains being felt in the health and social care system”.
He said that social care services were “in crisis right now”, and added: “Relying on a political rhetoric that promises to protect the NHS, but fails to acknowledge that a cut in social care results in a cost to the NHS, is an economic deception.”
The autumn statement document also confirmed that the government expected to spend £95 million this year on paying thousands of families the disability elements of child tax credit they were mistakenly not receiving.
A “data match” carried out by HM Revenue and Customs in January found that 28,000 families with a child entitled to disability living allowance were not receiving the disabled child element of child tax credit.
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“FLOGGING A DEAD HORSE THE DWP WAY”
……..DISABLED TRY TO REPORT WORSENING HEALTH CONDITIONS ONLY TO BE MET WITH SANCTION THREATS
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Employment and Support Allowance
The Department will be aware that medical conditions vary over time and that some changes could be sufficient to warrant a change in benefit entitlement or the work-related activity demanded of claimants. For example a claimant’s health may deteriorate such that they are not longer well to carry out work-related activity.
Stories are coming to light of people in the ESA WRAG trying to report a change of circumstances to their JCP work coach, often with accompanying medical evidence. The work coaches are refusing to accept or act upon the medical evidence and respond by threatening claimants with sanctions if they do not carry on with the work-related activity, even if the medical evidence states that the claimant isn’t well enough to do so.
Please disclose information about the process that JCP work coaches, or other DWP employees that deal directly with people assigned to the ESA WRAG, should follow if the claimant wants to report a change in circumstances or request a reconsideration of their work-related activity (with or without medical evidence).
Yours faithfully,
John Slater
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/esa_wrag_change_of_circumstances#incoming-902115
“DWP’s response to Yardley Jobcentre having a poster depicting successful disability sanctions”
DWP Response:
We do not have a team of in-house designers at Yardley Jobcentre Plus.
No one was hired to make the poster, neither was any artwork commissioned,
and no proof was signed off.
As we explained in our response to IR 416 (5 October 2016), The “Yardley
ESA Challenge” was the title of a performance-related poster created by a
member of staff that was on private display at Yardley Jobcentre Plus. It was
an isolated incident which was immediately removed and destroyed.
No approval was given for the poster, and a local site manager removed it
immediately they became aware of it, as we have explained in previous
responses.
No disciplinary action was taken regarding the poster.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/325991/response/901621/attach/html/3/Response%204152.pdf.html
“MORE DWP LIES TO STEAL PENSIONS FROM WOMEN”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Your dept say that letters were sent out to all women affected by the age increase for their pensions?
Can you please attach a copy of this standard letter so people in my facebook group can recognise what was sent, if it was ever sent.
Can you also please confirm you as a dept for pensions have a comprehensive list of women you sent these letters to.
Can you also please confirm the amount of letters were returned to the department unopened as no longer at the address held by your department.
Yours faithfully,
Trudy Baddams
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/your_dept_say_that_letters_were#outgoing-601166
“WHY DO THE MEDIA REFER TO JAGUAR LANDROVER OWNERS, YET HIDE THE LINK TO TATA WHO HAVE DECIMATED OUR STEEL INDUSTRY?”
…………….Yes they are both part of the Indian global empire but for some reason the car manufacturing arm are carefully divorced from the steel manufacturing side.
Tata Motors are trying to do a deal with our government that completely ignores the paying of pension funds…………..
Isn’t this the same company that still has to trump up the shortfall from the steel industry pension funds?
The media have been well educated in distorting the truth, merely a propaganda arm of the state.
………………………………………………………………….
Tata is reportedly negotiating a new deal to get rid of the £15bn British Steel Pension Scheme.
The Sunday Times says the Indian firm is believed to have opened talks with the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) and the Pensions Regulator over a restructuring deal.
The talks “hinge on using a regulated apportionment agreement” according to the Sunday newspaper. This would allow companies to put cash into a pension scheme in return for being allowed to continue trading without those liabilities.
The £700m hole in the £15bn British Steel pension scheme is seen as the obstacle to attempts by Tata Steel to find a buyer for its UK operations.
…………………………………………………………………
meanwhile
FACEBOOK fury has erupted among Jaguar Land Rover workers – with shopfloor staff accusing Indian owners Tata of ripping off their pensions to pay for a 14 per cent rise.
Scores of angry JLR workers took to the Birmingham Mail Facebook page claiming that a proposed three-year pay deal was to come out of their pension fund.
Workers and sympathisers claimed that Tata was taking £240 million out to fund the proposed rise, which had already led to a vitriolic attack from the Joint Shop Stewards Committee.
…………….ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL, ANOTHER TOXIC DEAL IN THE MAKING
The future of Tata Steel UK’s pension scheme, the British Steel pension scheme, has been a major obstacle to the future of the business. It has liabilities of more than £15bn and 130,000 members, making it one of the biggest retirement schemes in the country. The company has been in talks with the government about spinning the pension scheme off into a new vehicle disconnected from Tata Steel, which could prove hugely controversial if it is finalised.
HUGELY CONTROVERSIAL INDEED………………
“WELL DONE SUPERTED”
…………..THIS LETTER ILLUSTRATES THE NEED TO GIVE YOUR CONSENT………
WITHOUT YOUR MONICKER ON THAT SHEET OF PAPER THEY CANNOT CLAIM THEIR AMPLE REWARDS.
ALL THAT CRAP ABOUT HEALTH AND SAFETY AND INSURANCE IS JUST EYE CANDY, THEY ARE UNABLE TO CLAIM THEIR RECOMPENSE WITHOUT YOU GIVING AUTHORISATION BY SIGNATURE.
BY GIVING YOUR SIGNATURE YOU ARE ENTERING INTO A BINDING CONTRACT.
ANY CONTRACT IS AUTOMATICALLY VOID IF EITHER SIDE APPLY ANY FORM OF COERCION TO GAIN CONSENT.
THE APPLICATION OF A SANCTION ON SOMEONE WHO REFUSES TO SIGN A CONTRACT IS ILLEGAL.
Duress in contract law relates to where a person enters an agreement as a result of threats. Where a party enters a contract because of duress they may have the contract set aside. Originally, the common law only recognised threats of unlawful physical violence, however, in more recent times the courts have recognised economic duress as giving rise to a valid claim. Where the threat is to goods, the courts have been less willing to intervene, although analogous claims in restitution suggest that this position of the law may change. The basis of the duress as a vitiating factor in contract law is that there is an absence of free consent. Duress operates at common law. Pressure not amounting to duress may give rise to an action for undue influence in equity. The effect of a finding of duress and undue influence is that the contract is voidable. The innocent party may rescind the contract and claim damages.
i kicked there ass i did was same for the wp and all the other crap i have been sent on and yes no fee then fuck off basically as it has never been mandatory to sign a contract with racketeers for profit from the unemployed and now i have a gold letter to shove in the face of the jcp adviser i cant fkn wait till next week now 😉
Superted – Geoff is right in what he says.
“In law” you could definitely contest this.
You have not signed, (as they expected you to do!) so you could say, “as you did not sign anything” – they, (the DWP) cannot compel you to do anything.
The only thing that you have to sign is your own personal ‘Claimant Agreement’ to JSA (in the first instance) and then your fortnightly ‘signing on’ at the JCP.
As I personally understand it – you do not have ever have to SIGN anything against your wishes (e.g. : workfare/placements, etc)
“APPARENTLY NOW TAKEN OFF OF THE INDEPENDENT WEBSITE”
“The Sun registered as an official Leave campaign group and spent £96,000 on Brexit campaigning”
“Electoral Commission documents suggest The Sun registered as a political campaign group for Leave on 15 June – one week before the referendum”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/the-sun-brexit-registered-leave-campaign-group-money-spent-a7445426.html
I, Daniel Blake – “work till you die, you peasant fuckers” – says the Tories!
Who the fuck cares? – If you have not got a ‘family’ to cover your funeral expenses – then the Government will have to cover the expenses for them!
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/29/i-daniel-blake-just-got-real-dwp-get-real-millions-us/
You think that Theresa May is bad – you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Forget the Labour M.P. Emily Thornberry and her ‘white van man’ rant – this prat sums everything up about UKIP – (that the BBC & SKY NEWS will never, ever report)
Would you ever want this cunt to be your ‘Prime Minister’ – I do not think so!
http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2016/11/28/the-extreme-right-wing-views-of-new-ukip-leader-paul-nuttall
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THIS IS SHOCKING AND IT IS ALSO A NATIONAL DISGRACE.
“The queen has signed off the Investigatory Powers (IP) Bill and it is now LAW in the UK. The Government has ignored the public outcry”
Forget the ‘petition’ of well over 100,000 signatures – the Government will not, most likely – take any notice of it at all. THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY!
THIS IS A DISGRACE AND NOW, EFFECTIVELY, MEANS THAT THIS IS A GOVERNMENT DICTATORSHIP, UNDER THE AUTHORITARIAN REGIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II.
THE TORIES HAVE GOT TO BE OVERTHROWN – BY ALL MEANS POSSIBLE
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/29/a-horrifying-law-just-passed-in-the-uk-and-its-turned-us-into-a-world-leading-arsehole/
THIS ‘UNELECTED’ QUEEN AND HER TAX-PAYER FUNDED SCROUNGER FAMILY NEEDS TO BE OVERTHROWN ALSO – NEVER, EVER TO HAVE AUTHORITY OVER ‘HER’ ‘SUBJECTS’ – NAY, HER ‘CITIZENS’ – WHAT GIVES HER THE ‘AUTHORITY’ OVER OUR LIVES FOR FUCKS SAKE.
Please do not forget poor David Clapson (who was murdered by the DWP)
15 days to go and & £8,270 out of the total £10,000 target.
As an ex-Royal Navy Comms T/P & R/O (Teleprinter Operator & Radio Operator) I really feel for this chap, – different service – but exactly the same operating procedures) THE MOD HAS DESERTED HIM (AND MANY OTHERS) IN HIS, (AND THEIR) HOUR OF NEED.
I would like to complete the total – but I just simply cannot afford it.
I just hope that someone can finish off the total – for him – and for his sister, Gill Thompson.
https://www.crowdjustice.org/care/david-clapson/
£10,000 isn’t going to stretch very far as far as legal fees go. Us barristers spend £10,000 on lunch!
Sorry: that should read:
https://www.crowdjustice.org/case/david-clapson/
Spot on Paul…………
The UK treats it’s soldiers like shit, housing them in hovels yet affords 33 Generals to live the life of Riley in subsidised top notch housing…..
Retired Majors, Brigadiers and Lieutenants are listed alphabetically because there are so many.
General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff, pays a token rent on Princess Diana’s former apartment in Kensington Palace and can live there with his wife Caroline (above) for the duration of his time in office. The property reportedly costs the taxpayer £256,000 a year to run
Calculate in the other freeloaders from the other armed services and it will give you a clue why our fighting forces are running on empty, our arsenals depleted and shoddy kit offered to our bravest.
At the same time, many junior ranks’ accommodation resembles council estates. Some of these flats and houses are abysmal and the comparison between the treatment of those at the top and bottom ends of the Armed Forces is grotesque.
Mr Davies said politicians and civilian officials were reluctant to challenge the generals and admirals over their packages because they would have to put their own pay deals and perks under similar scrutiny.
At the end of the last Labour government a report was commissioned into these privileges. It was intended to highlight the cost of official residences and vehicles and the lifestyles but it was never published and effectively buried,’ he said.
He said: ‘All three Services are top-heavy with senior officers, even in comparison to the US military, which is hardly an example of efficiency. Many are replicating each other’s jobs.
Geoff – Yes, you’re exactly right – whilst the top brass are swanning around with huge pensions, the squaddies and ratings etc nowadays are often treated like shit. And, when on active service, if something goes wrong, the MOD often washes it’s hands of it completely.
They may repatriate the body back to the U.K., but then the families are left to pick up the pieces of their lives, often with no support.
Thank goodness though for the Royal British Legion and such organisations as SSAFA – they are often the real helpful heroes in all of this!
treason
ˈtriːz(ə)n/
noun
noun: treason; noun: high treason; plural noun: high treasons
the crime of betraying one’s country, especially by attempting to kill or overthrow the sovereign or government.
“they were convicted of treason”
synonyms: treachery, lese-majesty;
……….but what expression is used when our monarch, QUEEN ELIZABETH II, authorises her government by virtue of her signature (Royal Assent),
to start a culling of her subjects?
If the government wants everyone to work, then give companies legal quotas of groups to employ. Not as workfare slaves toiling away for what should be part of their human rights, but as workers with worker’s rights. I have Asperger’s Syndrome so only scammers would want to employ me. If the government wants me to work, give me a paid job or make someone else give me a paid job.
The Investigatory Powers (IP) bill has received royal assent and been signed into law in the UK. Its authorisation comes just days after a petition to repeal the bill reached over 100,000 signatures.
That petition could have triggered a parliamentary debate on the bill. But it seems the UK government decided to ignore that public outcry and forge ahead with the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy” as quickly as possible.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/29/a-horrifying-law-just-passed-in-the-uk-and-its-turned-us-into-a-world-leading-arsehole/
“While the IP bill will shore up other countries’ claims for similar legislation, it will hinder freedoms for UK citizens. Because the right to privacy encourages scrutiny, inquisitiveness, daring, and creativity. Without it, those important qualities may give way to conformity.
This dynamic was recognised, and exploited, by 18th-century British philosopher Jeremy Bentham. He designed the panopticon, a prison that ensured inmates could be surveilled at any moment – with or without their knowledge.
French philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault, meanwhile, describes the effect of this in his book Discipline and Punish:
“to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power… the inmate must never know whether he is being looked at at any one moment; but he must be sure that he may always be so.”
“MERRY CHRISTMAS MRS MAY”
Marilyn Sothcott writes:
‘Hi guys. I got my #PIP assessment decision today. Exactly 4 weeks after my assessment. I’m 65 and a half and I get state pension only. I was made to apply for PIP instead of DLA. You know the situation guys. I am so ill and frail. I weigh 6st 8lb. I need mobility more than any other help and I have a motability car which I have had for 10 years on DLA. This morning I received a letter full of lies about my assessment (which I was warned happens a lot but I thought my case was so straightforward that it couldn’t be misconstrued). At my assessment I impressed upon the assessor that wiithout mobility help I would be completely housebound. So my decision arrived this morning. I have lost over £400 a month and they’ve taken the car away! I haven’t been able to stop crying. I’m seriously considering just going to bed and not getting up again. I will contact the CAB later and I know I can appeal but in the meantime without the car I can’t get about so no food shopping. No means of getting out. Even if I did I will lose the blue badge which is also a necessity for me. I hope they have a merry xmas
Geoff – This is absolutely shocking – this poor lady should appeal against this, with the CAB’s help if possible. Also one idea may be to get in touch with her local M.P. – in the hope that he/she may be able to help as well.
She has got to fight this and she should not give up, however difficult it all may seem to be at present. She will only win if she fights it!
Appealing can be stressful though. And this is a merry-go-round situation since as soon as (if) she wins here Appeal she will be re-refered to Maximus who will in all likelyhood withdraw her benefits again AND get paid for it all over again.
And more Government madness attempting to save money!
“Why sanction benefits when there’s no proof the harsh approach works?”
“A NAO report shows there is no monitoring of the effectiveness of sanctioning welfare claimants. Policy must be made less on rhetoric and more on evidence”
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/benefits-sanctions-imposed-proof-work-welfare-nao-jobcentres
And now – a slightly more detailed article from the Canary about the NAO report.
“Its Official: the government has been wrecking people’s lives for no reason at all”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/30/official-the-government-been-wrecking-peoples-lives-reason-all/
The sheer hypocrisy of UKIP is unbelievable – not only this, but most (or even all of them) are MEP’s and they want to ‘leave’ the EU, whilst at the very same time continuing to take salaries and expenses by being in the E.U. Even Farage still ‘wants his cake and eat it’ when he said recently that he looks forward to going back into the European Parliament soon.
They should have none of it and kick him (and the rest of them) out!
“UKIP wants to build a new motorway -and get the EU to pay for it”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ukip-wales-eu-motorway-ireland-a7446836.html
Hunt is destroying the Ambulance Service – no wonder – he wants to privatise the NHS – as do a lot of other Tory M.P.’s and Ministers as well!
“While Jeremy Hunt obsesses over sexting, a life and death NHS scandal has erupted”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/30/while-jeremy-hunt-obsesses-over-sexting-a-life-and-death-nhs-scandal-has-erupted/
“GOVERNMENT CUTS FUNDING TO EQUALITIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION BY 70% IN AN ATTEMPT TO STIFLE CRITICISM OF HORRORS ENACTED ON THE UK’S MOST VULNERABLE AND POOR”
“TO HIDE THEIR REIGN OF TERROR”
THE EQUALITIES and Human Rights Commission, the body responsible for the promotion and enforcement and UK equality and non discrimination laws is on the brink of collapse following severe budget cuts.
According to figures from the House of Commons Library, a body that provides impartial research briefings and research services for MPs and their staff in support of their parliamentary duties, the EHRC’s budget has been cut by 70 per cent.
CUTS
It is expected that further budget cuts are in the pipeline.
The figures came to light after Brent MP Dawn Butler asked the House of Commons Library to verify claims that 70 per cent of EHRC funding had been removed since 2010.
The Library calculated that the EHRC’s comprehensive net expenditure has fallen from £55.06 million in 2009/10 to £19.99 million in 2015/16 – a headline reduction of 64 per cent.
However when adjusted for inflation, the Library concluded that this equated to around a 70 per cent reduction in the Commission’s budget since the Conservatives came to power.
Earlier this year, the government revealed plans to cut the EHRC budget with the loss of up to 30 staff.
The Government Equalities Office told Disability News Service that it was still “in the process of agreeing budgets” with the Commission, even though the new financial year had already begun
INEQUALITY
Butler, the Shadow Minister for Diverse Communities, said: “At a time when inequality and disadvantage are increasing we need the EHRC more than ever. The savage cuts mean it is facing collapse. They will put the clock back on equality and erode a decade of progress. These cuts are a worrying trend by this government in dismissing equality legislation that makes our country fairer.
She added: “With the increase in tribunal fees and the abolition of Equality Impact Assessments there seems to be no checks and balances when it comes to policy and budgets. The sheer enormity of these cuts will destroy the regulator responsible for enforcing equality legislation on age, disability, gender, race, religion and belief, sexual orientation or transgender status.”
Sarah Champion MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Women & Equalities, also expressed her concerns.
VALUES
She said: “I urge the Government to halt further cuts to the EHRC which are severely hindering its ability to effectively act as the UK’s human rights and equalities watchdog. The work of the EHRC is more important now than ever.”
Champion continued: “We must all hold steadfast to the core values and principles of our country, which protect the rights and freedoms of all who live, work and visit here.”
Posted on: 29/11/2016 04:37 PM
“£500,000 PER ANNUM DAVID ISAACS CHOSEN TO KNOBBLE UK HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION”
………..GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR SPECIALLY SELECTED BY TORIES TO BLOCK ALL DISSENT.
(HIS LEGAL FIRM CARRIES OUT SIGNIFICANT WORK FOR GOVERNMENT)
……………”YOU RUB MY BACK AND I WILL RUB YOURS”
The education secretary, Nicky Morgan, has come under fire for choosing a City lawyer with an annual income of £500,000 to chair Britain’s leading equality and human rights body.
Two parliamentary committees have written to Morgan, who is also minister for women and equalities, to warn that there could be a conflict of interest if David Isaac was appointed to the role – because his legal firm carries out “significant work for the government”.
Appearing in front of MPs, Isaac admitted that his salary as an equity partner at law firm Pinsent Masons would “dwarf” the £50,000 he would collect as chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Harriet Harman, chair of parliament’s joint committee on human rights, said there was “obviously a conflict of interest” because the EHRC often took cases against the government.
“What you should be having for the EHRC is someone who is a champion for human rights … You have to be fearless against the vested interests. You’ve got to be an agent for change,” she said.
“The lion’s share of his income will be coming from an organisation that has a vested interest. As they say, ‘he who pays the piper calls the tune’.”
“HARRIET HARMANN ALSO SPECIALLY CHOSEN TO HEAD THE EHRC”
………THE WOMAN THAT URGED LABOUR MP’S TO WAVE THROUGH TORY WELFARE BENEFIT REFORMS
Harriet Harman is facing a major rebellion after ordering Labour MPs not to block the Tory welfare bill despite vocal opposition from three leadership candidates.
Yvette Cooper, Andy Burnham and Jeremy Corbyn all said they opposed government moves to limit child tax credit to two children – contradicting the acting Labour leader.
Dozens of Labour MPs could defy the party’s official stance and vote for an SNP amendment next Tuesday blocking all George Osborne’s tax credit cuts.
…………CAREFULLY SELECTED POLITICAL FIGURES TO HIDE MOUNTING CLAIMANT MORTALITY DEATHS……
TRYING TO CROCK THE VERY ORGANISATION THAT POLICES THE ACTIONS OF THE UK TORY GOVERNMENT IS PAR FOR THE COURSE.
CUTTING PAYMENTS TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATION IN THE UK BY 70% IS A FINAL ACT OF DESPERATION OF A CRIMINAL TO HIDE HIS CRIMES……….
KEEP LOOKING BEHIND , WE ARE COMING TO GET YOU……..
“SUDDENLY THE WORK ROACH HAS TAKEN THE ROLE OF A QUALIFIED DOCTOR IN ADVISING, (AND SANCTIONING) ILL PEOPLE TO JUMP THROUGH HOOPS”
The Health and Work Conversation is a conversation rather than a tool. The conversation will consist of the following principal elements:
An opportunity for the Work Coach to get to know individuals, to build rapport and trust, and to understand more about the individual as a whole person: their background and the things that really matter to them in their lives.
A goal-setting exercise, in which the individual chooses a short-term personal goal and works with the Work Coach to plan steps to achieve their goal. This goal can be related to health or work, but does not need to be about either of these. Individuals will identify ways to overcome possible obstacles they face in their everyday lives, to increase their motivation and build resilience. Work Coaches will use discretion throughout to ensure that these exercises are used only where circumstances are appropriate.
The HWC will be followed by an action planning exercise, in which the Work Coach and individual will work together to devise a Claimant Commitment once it is introduced.
The work coach will inform the claimant about the support available to help them to improve their situation.
FUCKING WITH THE ILL IS A PRODUCT OF A WARPED MINDSET
NOTICE HOW THE DWP CHOOSE THEIR WORDS CAREFULLY;
The Health and Work Conversation is a conversation rather than a tool. The conversation will consist of the following principal elements:
WHAT THE DWP ARE IMPLYING IS THAT “NO CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT IS BINDING UPON THE CLAIMANT”, AND THE CONVERSATION IS JUST FRIENDLY BANTER BETWEEN TWO WILLING PARTIES……….
WRONG/WRONG/WRONG/WRONG/WRONG……………….
THE VERY FACT THAT YOU HAVE ENTERED ANY DIALOGUE WITH A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DWP CAN BE CONSTRUED AS YOU ENTERED A BINDING CONTRACT WILLINGLY, HENCE YOUR WILLINGNESS TO CHAT………….
ASK FOR ANY MEETINGS TO BE FILMED OR RECORDED AND TAKE A WITNESS WITH YOU.
IF A PERSON WITH DISABILITIES OR ILLNESS WAS TO SUCCUMB TO INJURY OR EVEN DEATH FOLLOWING INSTRUCTION FROM AN UNQUALIFIED SOURCE, YOU WOULD HAVE THE EVIDENCE YOU NEED TO PURSUE A LITIGATION CLAIM AGAINST THE DWP.
Nothing has appeared in any of the mainstream media regarding the tory governments attempt to stifle criticism of it’s welfare reforms that have wreaked havoc on the disabled and poorest.
Cutting funding to the EHRC by 70% is probably as low as one can get and illustrates the corruption of our society at the very top.
It proves, without a shadow of doubt, that the tory government was hellbent on doing away with the Human Rights Acts and the provision of protection for every man, woman and child.
The only problem they now face is the backlash of all their illegal policies which have been highlighted in recent, hidden from view, reports from the EHRC about the UK governments involvement in gross breaches of the aforesaid acts. The UK government and it’s judiciary are absolutely, 100%, complicit in breaches of Human Rights and it is not being challenged.
Support the EHRC strikes on 9 and 16 November
7 November 2016
Support PCS and Unite members at the government’s equality watchdog striking on Wednesday (9 November) and 16 November over cuts that PCS says would make it impossible for the agency to function.
Our union is taking action alongside colleagues in Unite after workers at the Equality and Human Rights Commission were told to expect a 25% budget cut and threatened with compulsory redundancies. This follows a 70% cut to the commission’s budget since 2010. Nineteen of the first 26 posts due to be axed are held by staff in the three lowest paid grades, meaning the government body responsible for protecting vulnerable workers is itself disproportionately targeting older, ethnic minority and disabled staff. The commission’s new structure, which would mean fewer caseworkers supporting victims of discrimination and the closure of offices in Birmingham, Leeds, Edinburgh and Newcastle, and could threaten the agency’s United Nations ‘A’ status as a national human rights institution.
The commission has refused to consider alternative sources of savings, including the high cost of employing non-payroll consultants – with almost £1.2 million last year paid to just 8 staff. It plans to issue compulsory redundancy notices just before Christmas.
Fresh staff cuts at EHRC ‘will undermine its vital work’
cuts
The equality watchdog is set to make nearly 30 members of staff redundant, in what critics say is a blow to its efforts to enforce equality laws and hold the government to account over its record on disability discrimination.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) told staff on Tuesday this week (19 April) that as many as 29 of about 200 posts were at risk, with the possibility of some compulsory redundancies.
In a consultation paper titled Moving Towards A New EHRC, the commission talks of “fundamental changes to the way in which we do our work” and says that it will “examine opportunities for sharing services with other regulators, and build more alliances with third parties”.
It points as an example of such alliances elsewhere in the public sector to the link between NHS Blood and Transplant and the dating site Tinder to raise awareness about organ donations.
It also says that it will now “focus on a smaller number of bigger projects and programmes”.
The paper mentions an “unprecedented” decade of consecutive budget cuts to public bodies.
There will now be a 30-day consultation period on the proposals.
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, which represents many of the commission’s staff, said it was “appalled” by the proposals and although it was too early to talk of industrial action said that “we would never rule it out”.
A PCS spokesman said: “EHRC has been systematically hacked back in recent years, with budgets and staffing slashed under the coalition and now the Tories.
“This would further undermine this small but vital agency, at a time when the Human Rights Act is under threat and the government’s record on disability discrimination is rightly under massive scrutiny.”
“WHAT THE BBC AND SKY DON’T WANT YOU TO SEE”
“This would further undermine this small but vital agency, at a time when the Human Rights Act is under threat and the government’s record on disability discrimination is rightly under massive scrutiny.”
THE TORY GOVERNMENT ARE TRYING TO ERASE THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF EVERY UK SUBJECT.
THE JUDICIARY ARE HAND IN GLOVE WITH THIS MURDEROUS GOVERNMENT THAT UNLEASH CUTS IN WELFARE ON IT’S PEOPLE WITHOUT EVEN DOING A RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE HARM.
YOU ARE NOW LIVING IN A DICTATORSHIP THAT IGNORES DEMOCRACY COMPLETELY AND BOLSTERS THE WHIMS OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS THAT GAIN FINANCIALLY FROM THE PAINS OF THE OPPRESSED.
The watchdog’s core budget for 2016-17 has been frozen at £17.1 million, a real terms cut, and it follows years of cuts to its funding since the formation of the coalition government in 2010.
In 2010, the commission’s annual budget was as high as £62 million.
“THEY CAN FIND £369 MILLION FOR AN INBRED WRINKLY OLD MILLIONAIRE IN A PALACE, BUT FUCK ALL TO PROTECT YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS”
“PACE TRIAL INFORMATION HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC SCRUTINY”
A PACE MEDICAL TRIAL THAT WAS PART FUNDED BY THE DWP AND LATER USED AS EVIDENCE TO STEAL DISABILITY BENEFITS FROM MUSCLE WASTAGE SUFFERERS (ME), HAS HAD NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION POUNDS THROWN AT IT TO HIDE EVIDENCE…………
THE DWP HAVE BEEN ASKED, CATEGORICALLY, IF THEY HAVE FUNDED ANY PART OF THE COVER UP.
DATE: 31 October 2016
Annex A
Dear Mr Slater
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 3 October 2016. You asked:
The DWP part funded research by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), into ME/CFS
(myalgic encephalomyelitis/ 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?
We are not aware of any DWP funding for the FOIA case.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Strategy FoI Team
………………….NOTICE THAT THE DWP ARE NOT BEING TRUTHFUL BY CAREFULLY CHOOSING THE WORDS, “NOT AWARE OF ANY”………
THE IMPLICATION OF THIS STATEMENT IS THAT THE DWP HAVE PROVIDED FUNDING TO KEEP THE RESULTS OF THE PACE MEDICAL TRIALS FROM PUBLIC SCRUTINY BECAUSE THEY KNOW IF THE TRUTH WAS EVER TO SURFACE THEY WOULD BE SUED BY EVERY CLAIMANT THEY HAVE EVER ROBBED.
THE DWP ARE CROOKS…………..
“MORE DENIAL FROM TORY GOVERNMENT AS HOMELESS FIGURES HIT SATURATION POINT”
However, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) said it did not recognise the figures and argued that official homelessness was half the 2003 peak, though it recognised that “one person without a home is one too many”.
“CATHY COME HOME 2”
More than 250,000 people in England are homeless or lack a permanent place to live, according to Shelter.
Releasing figures to mark its 50th anniversary on Thursday, the charity estimated that there were almost 255,000 people living in hostels and other types of temporary accommodation, or sleeping rough on the streets.
London is the centre of homelessness, according to the research, with the capital’s boroughs occupying 18 of the top 20 positions in Shelter’s list of the 50 places where people are most at risk of finding themselves without a home.
Child homelessness this Christmas will hit eight-year high, says Shelter
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The analysis also identified homelessness “hotspots” in Brighton, Birmingham, Slough, Bristol, Coventry, Reading, Manchester, Luton and Chelmsford.
Shelter’s chief executive, Campbell Robb, said: “Shelter’s founding shone a light on hidden homelessness in the 60s’ slums. But while those troubled times have faded into memory, 50 years on, a modern-day housing crisis is tightening its grip on our country.
“We all face the consequences when so many in our country grow up without a place to call home. It breaks up communities and wreaks havoc on family life. For the sake of future generations, we must pull together to end this crisis and refuse to rest until every child has a place to call home.”
Shelter was launched half a century ago after Ken Loach’s seminal 1966 television film Cathy Come Home, which dramatised the descent of a young couple into poverty and homelessness.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/01/shelter-homelessness-england-charity-poverty-social-housing
SANCTIONS
The evidence to the Select Committee as part of the ‘Benefit Sanctions beyond the Oakley Review’ Inquiry was shocking . We heard of the sudden rise in sanctions with 3.2m sanctions between October 2012 and June 2014, and sanctions to people who were sick or disabled on Employment Support Allowance (ESA) or Incapacity Benefit (IB) increasing five-fold.
‘The University of Oxford estimated that more than 4 in every 10 claimants leave Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) after being sanctioned, and more than 80% of those that leave have no job to go to . The NAO report today has reiterated that sanctions can lead to lower wages and increase the number of people moving off benefits into inactivity. The DWP have failed to use even its own data to evaluate the impact of their sanctions regime.’
http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/13319028
“BUNGLING DWP CLAIM THEY DON’T KNOW HOW MANY PIP ASSESSMENTS THEY HAVE DONE”
http://dpac.uk.net/2016/11/the-bungling-dwp-dont-even-know-how-many-pip-assessments-they-have-done/
………………NOR DO THEY RECOGNISE ANY DEATHS
BUNGLING DWP CLAIM THEY DONT KNOW HOW MANY PIP ASSESSMENTS THEY HAVE DONE
http://dpac.uk.net/2016/11/the-bungling-dwp-dont-even-know-how-many-pip-assessments-they-have-done/
………..JUST COUNT THE DEATHS AND DOUBLE IT!
Benefit Claimants Sanctions (Required Assessment) Bill 2016-17
Published Wednesday, November 30, 2016
This Commons Library Briefing Paper provides information on the Benefit Claimants Sanctions (Required Assessment) Bill 2016-17. This Private Member’s Bill, introduced by Mhairi Black MP, is due to have it Second Reading on 2 December 2016.
Jump to full report >>
The Benefit Claimants Sanctions (Required Assessment) Bill 2016-17 is a Private Member’s Bill introduced by Mhairi Black MP. The Bill – “to require assessment of a benefit claimant’s circumstances before the implementation of sanctions; and for connected purposes” – is due to have it Second Reading on 2 December 2016.
http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7813
“Mhairi Black proves she’s one of our best MPs, with this blistering attack on the Government (VIDEO)”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/12/01/mhairi-black-proves-shes-one-best-mps-with-this-devastating-attack-government-video/
THIS BASTARD TORY GOVERNMENT – WHAT ON EARTH WILL IT TAKE TO MAKE THEM STOP?
“The Government doesn’t car about the impact of sanctions, they want them to hurt”
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2016/11/30/the-government-doesn-t-care-about-the-impact-of-sanctions-th
IDS/DWP/GRAYLING/ATOS/MAXIMUS/CAPITA & THEIR ‘HCP’s – THEIR CRIMES WILL BE PROVED AND THEY WILL COME BACK TO HAUNT THEM.
A good start to this can be made by supporting Gill Thompson’s fundraising efforts for a Judicial Review into her brother, David Clapson’s death.
(After approaching the Coroner on 16th November, he has denied that there is a causal death between his benefit sanction and his death – THIS IS WRONG AND IT MUST BE ADDRESSED).
At £9,025 (out of a total of £10,000) raised so far, it is getting there – but there is only 13 days left to go!
(Please share this website and tragic story as far and wide as possible!)
https://www.crowdjustice.org/case/david-clapson/
VERDICT
David Clapson – UNLAWFUL KILLING
VERDICT
David Clapson – MURDER
What a superb effort has been made by everyone – when I looked on here this evening I was staggered to see just how much has been raised in the past few days! Very well done to everyone who has contributed – hopefully, this will now surely result in justice for David Clapson, his sister and also may help to prevent further tragedies from happening in the future.
“IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME”………………………
“The Atos worker added: “The claimants often have notes from their GP, who will have been treating them for years, and the information they are giving completely contradicts what the Atos assessors are saying.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/atos-whistleblower-lifts-lid-daily-9274785
“THE UK JUDICIAL SYSTEM SUPPORTS THE ATTACKS ON THE POOR AND DISABLED”
……..THEY HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED TO IGNORE HUMAN RIGHTS, EQUALITY AND DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION LAWS COMPLETELY…..
A WHISTLEBLOWER has claimed benefits test firm Atos get a “daily flood” of complaints from disabled people.
The French IT firm carry out the hated assessments for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that many have said leave them humiliated and destitute.
And one employee at an Atos call centre in the north of England, who we are not naming, has called for the Government to urgently review the broken system.
He said: “You go into the office in the morning and the switchboard is absolutely rammed.
“Everyone is complaining about their Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment and it is the same three stories that I hear over and over again.
“People are saying they feel the assessor pressurised them to say something that they wouldn’t normally, they feel the assessor tricked them, or they believe the assessor outright put something on the form that they didn’t say.
“I am not talking about a call here and there, I’m talking about a flood of complaints all day long, all saying the same things.
“All these people can’t be lying, there are hundreds of them. They make up the vast majority of the calls we receive.
“There is clearly something going badly wrong with this system and the Government need to urgently step in and take a look at this.
“Someone needs to put this stuff to the DWP because, at the end of the day, the buck should stop with them. It is their responsibility to sort this mess out.”
…………….THE JUDICIARY SUPPORT A POLICY OF SOCIAL CLEANSING
Adam Morgan
A friend of mine just lost his PIP and thus his car because apparently he didn’t turn up to an assessment (with I think Atos) for PIP (from DLA) that he had no idea about because he hadn’t recieved an appoint by phone or letter.
So it seems not only do they lie and fabricate “information” on the forms, they don’t even tell you you have an appointment, then close your claim without you knowing until it’s too late.
“My aunt is disabled, she’s suffered with brain damage and very bad epilepsy all her life.
“After a 45 minute assessment she was told that she’s fit for work and lost all of her care and benefits overnight.
“If she didn’t have the family supporting her, she would starved. She doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand what a food bank is, let alone how to ask where one is.
“We are exposing ATOS, Capita and Salus because we believe this terrible regime of testing and benefits cuts has led to the deaths of thousands of disabled people.”
“UK JUDICIARY COMPLICIT IN DISABILITY SLAYINGS”
Hundreds of extremely ill people have also died within months of being passed fit for work during assessments for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
“LAME EXCUSE”
A DWP spokesperson said: “Decisions on Personal Independence Payments are made following consideration of all the information provided by the claimant and their GP or medical specialist.
“Our PIP assessment criteria was designed in consultation with healthcare and disability experts and assessments are carried out by qualified health professionals, based on an understanding that not everyone with the same disability is impacted in the same way.”
………IN CONSULTATION WITH PERSONAL HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES WHO WROTE THE SCRIPT FOR WELFARE REFORMS AND CHOSE A WANKER OF A FAILED BANKER, LORD DAVID FRAUD, AS A MESSENGER BOY………………
“LABOUR PARTY MP’S FAIL TO TURN UP TO SUPPORT MHAIRI BLACK’S BILL ”
……………….ALL PISSING IN THE SAME POT
Mhairi Black led the debate on her Benefits Sanctions (Required Assessment) Bill and hoped to have it progress to committee stage but, despite having over 40 of the 54 SNP MPs in attendance the lack of other opposition MPs meant that bill lacked the 100 members needed to progress to the next stage in Parliament.
The Bill proposed that Department for Work and Pensions staff in Jobcentres across the UK would be required to consider whether personal circumstances such as caring commitments, whether a person is at risk of homelessness or whether they suffer from a mental ill-health condition that could be exacerbated by a benefit sanction before one can be issued.
“Apart from a handful of notable exceptions, Labour were nowhere to be seen and failed to turn up to support the bill.
“Labour MPs have no problem talking about their opposition of the hated sanctions system but sadly when we had a real opportunity to make a difference they failed to act.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/mhairi-black-fight-against-deeply-flawed-benefit-sanctions-will-continue/
VIRGIN HEALTHCARE JUST AWARDED 2 NHS CONTRACTS FOR £65 MILLION AND THEY DON’T PAY ANY TAX IN UK WHATSOVER
NOTHING
NOWT
ZERO
ZILCH
FUCK ALL
THE NEXT TIME BRANSON SMILES AT YOU, REMEMBER THE ELDERLY WAITING ON HOSPITAL CORRIDORS FOR HOURS ON END…………
“DISABILITY MURDERER LORD DAVID FRAUD, FUCKS OFF SHARP BECAUSE THE SCAFFOLD IS GETTING RESTLESS”
………………..DIE YOU EVIL BASTARD
ONE of the UK’s “coldest, most heartless and ignorant politicians” is to retire from government.
Lord Freud, who became a peer in 2009, was made Minister for Welfare Reform in 2010.
Since then he has been a key figure in the government’s controversial welfare reforms, becoming the architect of universal credit. During his time at the Department for Work and Pensions, Freud – the great grandson of Sigmund Freud – has been under fire for suggesting some disabled people are “not worth” the minimum wage and reportedly said women in violent relationships should “just flee” to avoid the rape clause, which he denied.
Announcing he will retire at the end of the month. Freud said: “At the heart of our reforms is desire to give people independence to improve their lives. For too long, people have been trapped by a Byzantine benefits system, leaving them powerless.
“This has always been my driving force – to give people back control over their own lives; to give support in times of need, but also to give a clear route out of the benefits system and into independence. That’s what universal credit does, and I’m incredibly proud of what we have achieved.”
Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green said Freud can be “truly proud” of his legacy.
……………..HE WILL BE ASKED, AT THE OLD BAILEY ON OATH, HOW HE MANAGED TO SELL A DOCUMENT WRITTEN BY AN INSURANCE COMPANY TO PARLIAMENT THAT RESULTED IN COUNTLESS THOUSANDS OF DEATHS.
PERHAPS DAMIAN GREEN WILL ALSO BE CALLED TO GIVE EVIDENCE ON WHY HE SUPPORTED THIS HOMICIDAL MANIAC?
“Lord” Freud may be gone in a few weeks time – BUT HE, JUST LIKE IDS & GRAYLING WILL DEFINITELY NOT BE “FORGOTTEN”.
HE (& THEY) HAVE MURDERED TOO MANY INNOCENTS FOR ALL TO BE FORGIVEN AND FORGOTTEN.
THE EVIDENCE IS THERE AND IT IS STILL INEXORABLY GROWING.
THEY WILL ALL BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE, BUT IN THE MEANTIME THEY WOULD BE STRONGLY ADVISED TO ‘WATCH THEIR BACKS’.
NOT TO FORGET THE NEW BOY ON THE ‘BLOCK’ – DAMIAN GREEN – ‘WATCH YOUR BACK’ ALSO’ ME OLD SON! HAHA 😀
WHERE IS AN HALLOWEEN CLOWN WHEN YOU REALLY NEED ONE?
OH, THERE HE IS – IT’S IDS – AKA DUNKO THE CLOWN – JUST LIKE MOST TORIES IN ‘POWER’, HE WILL PUT A NICE SHARP CARVING KNIFE INTO ANY ONE OF HIS ‘FRIENDS’ BACKS! HAHA 😀
‘JUSTICE’ IS COMING FOR ALL OF THEM – GET YOUR HEADS DOWN YOU BUNCH OF BASTARDS.
“THE LAST – BUT NOT THE LEAST – ‘LORD’ DAVID FREUD”
YOU WILL HAVE TO WATCH YOU BACK FOREVER, ME OLD SON 😀
“DWP USE NEW YORK NUTTY PROFESSOR TO TRY AND GET ILL BACK INTO WORK”
PROFESSOR GABRIELE OETTINGEN, A FRUIT CAKE AND ADVISOR TO THE DWP
Oettingen’s first trade book, Rethinking Positive Thinking, was published in October 2014.[15] In 2015, James C. Coyne attacked Oettingen’s book Rethinking Positive Thinking and accused her of aggressively promoting pseudoscience while ignoring other research in clinical psychology.[16][17] Coyne pointed out that as part of Oettingen’s aggressive promotional campaign for her book, her own son created Wikipedia articles about her work.[17]
…………..YOUR ILLNESS IS ALL IN YOUR MIND………
ONLY THE DWP COULD SELECT A LOONEY TUNES TO GIVE ADVICE, MAYBE HANNIBAL LECTER WAS ON VACATION……..
PS THE GOVERNMENT, IN EMBARRASSMENT HAVE DELETED THE LINK IN THE FREEDOM OF INFO REQUEST.
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Further to your reply toFoI 4157 please provide the following information:
1) Bearing in mind that claimants will not yet have been assessed, what qualifications will the work coaches be required to hold, and what training will they be given.
2) You state that “The conversation was co-designed by the DWP with BIT, health and disabled people’s charities, and front line staff. It draws on an extensive body of behavioural research
undertaken by Professor Gabriele Oettingen and others at New York University. ”
I understand that Professor Oettingen herself describes her own ideas as “offbeat” (http://www.mentorcoach.com/oettingen2/)
Please list the disabled people’s charities involved, along with details of the research undertaken by Oettingen et al which was used, and whether it was peer reviewed.
Yours faithfully,
Roy Bard
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/dwps_health_and_work_conversatio_2#incoming-903671
If Lord David Freud thinks he has missed his date with the devil by stepping down, he wants to think again.
The blood of thousands of dead claimants, many disabled, are on the hands of this crazed puppet of the private medical insurance industry.
Freud was a lobbiest plan & simple, he worked for Unum Insurance an American pvt Insurance company.
He constantly misled the H.O.L. to make sure we don’t have a functioning Social Security system.
When asked how he related to those effected by his awful ideas he responded ‘ you don’t have to be a corpse to go to a funeral’.
See http://www.whywaitforever.com for more details.
I wonder if the U.N. Investigation regarding Human Right Violations to the Chronically Sick & Disabled has anything to do with his resignation?
Lord Freud. Your system has been slammed by the UN as being responsible for ‘grave and systematic’ violations of the rights of disabled people. You remember that report don’t you? Its the one buried by the government and not debated in Parliament! Hope you are reading these comments below although I doubt a man devoid of any conscience,would be affected by the hatred that is felt for you.
Look at what happened to ‘Sydney’, ken in this ‘example’ taken from the ‘decision maker’s’ sanction guide. This should serve as a cautionary tale for any claimant tempted to give the DWP access to their universal jobmatch account – it could happen to YOU!
The sanction guide also helpfully🙂 states: A UC claimant [or any other claimant for that matter] cannot be mandated to give DWP access to their UJ account; this is a voluntary action by the claimant. The Work Coach should encourage the claimant to do so, but the benefits need to be explained fully to the claimant and it needs to be exactly clear what this means and what the access will be used for.
Note: Access to the claimant’s UJ account will help provide evidence of job search activity and the Work Coach can provide extra support [😀 will make it easier for the DWP to apply a sanction ] to the claimant by looking out for and saving jobs for the claimant in the UJ ‘Saved Jobs page’. Work Coaches can set this up as one of the claimants work search activities helping them achieve enough work related activity each week.
Post – I, Daniel Blake NOTHING has changed in the Jobcentre. It is still the same evil bastards hell-bent on throwing claimants under the bus.
“Sydney has a generic requirement on her Claimant Commitment “to apply for all jobs in the ‘Saved Jobs’ page of her UJ account” and also a specific job detailed in Section 4 of the Claimant Commitment that the work coach discussed with her and advised her she must apply for before the closing date. Sydney signed and accepted her Claimant Commitment.
Sydney does not apply for the specified job and cannot provide a good reason for not doing so. She says she forgot when the closing date for applications to be made by was and thought she had more time to consider applying for the vacancy. She stated she had spent her time during that particular week applying for 2 jobs from the ‘Saved Jobs’ page that were nearer to her home address as she thought they were more suitable for her as there would have been no travelling costs to work. As the closing
date has now passed Sydney has missed all opportunity to apply for the specified vacancy.
The DM considers the job was a suitable vacancy for Sydney. Sydney is primarily looking for work in retail or warehouse work and the vacancy was for a full time sales assistant in a newsagents in the local town.The travelling involved would have been 25 minutes by bus and there is a bus twice per hour from her village. Sydney was advised on the Claimant Commitment of all the relevant details of the vacancy, when the closing date was and the consequences if she failed to apply and the DM decides that a higher-level sanction is appropriate for the failure. As there has been no previous higher-level sanctions in the preceding 364 days of the current failure a 91 day sanction is applied to the TORP.
In the same 7 day period Sydney has also failed to meet her work search obligations. There are 20 suitable jobs in the ‘Saved Jobs’ page of her UJ account and the one specified vacancy in Section 4. Sydney applied for only 2 of the vacancies in the ‘Saved Jobs’ page which were the 2 nearest to her home address and would not involve any travel costs. She says she did check and read through the details of the other jobs in the ‘Saved Jobs’ page but did not apply for any of them and has not
done any other work search.
She says she wants to work on the local industrial estate where her friend works so she can walk to work and reduce her outgoings. Sydney’s friend has told her some jobs will be available for packers at the warehouse outlet where she works on the local industrial estate very soon.
The DM considers Sydney has not done everything she reasonably could do to look for work and give her the best prospects of getting work in the relevant 7 day period.The DM imposes a medium level sanction for 91 days as this is the 3rd sanctionable failure where a medium level sanction has previously been imposed within 365 days.
Therefore in this case 2 sanctions are imposed on Sydney’s UC:
1) a higher-level sanction for the failure to apply without a good reason for the specified vacancy and 2) a medium-level sanction for the failure to do all reasonable work search in the relevant week”.
Full guide here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/534893/adm15-16.pdf
The content of the examples in thisdocument (including use of imagery)
is for illustrative purposes only 😀
Where’s ‘Reggie Perrin’ ie. Johnny Void got to? Been away a long time.
DESMOND O’TOOLE R.I.P.
“THIS STORY IS IN TWO PARTS AND STANDS AS A TRIBUTE TO A BRAVE SOLDIER WHOSE LIFE WAS TAKEN AWAY BY THE DWP OPERATING UNDER WELFARE REFORMS DRAFTED BY NOTORIOUS KILLER LORD DAVID FRAUD”
THIS STORY APPEARED IN FEBRUARY
The family of a former soldier who is terminally ill said they were devastated when he was sent a “capability for work” questionnaire by benefits bosses.
Desmond O’Toole, who served his country in the Army, is currently being cared for in a Southport nursing home and suffers from dementia.
His daughter, Libby Howells, told of the distress the government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had caused her family as they struggle to care for the 63-year-old.
In an online post, she said: “My mum received a Capability For Work questionnaire for my terminally ill dad. I’m beyond being shocked, or saddened. I’m angry. I’m fed up.
“He’s pictured here, because dementia doesn’t make you lose your marbles like you all think, this is what dementia does to you.
“Look. Look hard. My dad is 63, has served his country, as a Royal Engineer, has worked his whole life, he is now bed ridden and suffers from Alzheimer’s.”
The DWP said they had sent the questionnaire to check Mr O’Toole was receiving the benefits to which he was entitled.
The grandad-of-two is currently being cared for at the Birch Abbey care home on Alexandra Road in Southport, where Libby says he is receiving “fantastic care”.
She added: “He has had the disease for 10 years. He’s in the end stages, he cannot do anything for himself.
“He cannot talk, walk, remember his family, chew food, wash himself. Nothing. He is cared for 24/7 in a nursing home.
“The DWP have on file and know he has Alzheimer’s, they’ve been told on numerous occasions.
“However yet again they must think that somehow his brain has miraculously healed itself.
“I’m sick to death of the DWP and Iain Duncan Smith and his fat cat Tory cronies treating our terminally ill population like fraudsters.
“So yet again my mum has to fill in another 20 page form so my dad can get the benefits he needs.”
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: “We owe the men and women who have served their country a huge debt of gratitude and will do everything we can to support them.
“It’s important that people claiming Employment Support Allowance receive all the support and benefits they are entitled to, which is why on occasion we ask for questionnaires to be completed by the claimant or their next of kin.”
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/familys-anger-after-terminally-ill-10874323
…………….AMAZINGLY, THE CLAIMANT WAS DEEMED, “FIT FOR WORK”
THE SECOND STORY IS TRAGIC
“DESMOND O’TOOLE, FORMER SOLDIER, AGED 64 FROM SOUTHPORT MERSEYSIDE, HAS DIED IN A HOSPICE AFTER A LONG BATTLE WITH ALZHEIMERS DISEASE, MONTHS AFTER BEING SENT A FITNESS TO WORK FORM FROM THE DWP”
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………………DO YOU WEAR ALL THE CLAIMANT DEATHS LIKE MEDALS, LORD FRAUD?
NO WONDER YOU DECIDED TO FLEE THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR TRYST WITH THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY.
“MAY YOUR ILK ROT AND BURN IN HELL”
“YOU CAN NOW CONTACT HIS NEXT OF KIN, DWP”
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: “We owe the men and women who have served their country a huge debt of gratitude and will do everything we can to support them.
“We owe the men and women who have served their country a huge debt of gratitude and will do everything we can to support them”
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman
“It’s important that people claiming Employment Support Allowance receive all the support and benefits they are entitled to.
“Which is why on occasion we ask for questionnaires to be completed by the claimant or their next of kin.” (FEBRUARY 2016)
P.S. DO YOU WANT HIS ASHES TO PUT IN AN EGG TIMER SO YOU CAN MAKE HIM WORK AGAIN?
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THAT IT COULD NOT GET ANY WORSE!
“Blind man has benefits axed after not replying to DWP letter that he couldn’t read” (AND AS USUAL ‘NO-ONE’ IS ACCOUNTABLE)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/uk-news/blind-man-benefits-axed-after-9380033
Sorry, that should read:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/blind-man-benefits-axed-after-9380033
Great! – Now there’ll be loads of ‘railway accidents’ and none of the ‘companies’ will be accountable to anyone either!
Chris Grayling will not care – after all, he is already a murderer!
“Network Rail to be ‘stripped of control’ over Britain’s train tracks”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/network-rail-trains-tracks-chris-grayling-privatisation-a7453471.html
………………….wonderful news to the likes of Richard Branson and his offshore accountancy scams.
“Scrambling through the twisted smoke filled wreckage, sidestepping lifeless bodies strewn in all directions, that image suddenly flashed through my head”………………………..
“Should that employee in the Virgin emblazoned overalls be using a fireworks sparkler to weld together the broken track?”
Everything you do on the web is now stored for twelve months by the security services. They can hack into your laptop or phone to see what is on there without any conditions at all. Not only do they not need to convince a judge you are suspected of a crime, they do not need to even pretend to actually suspect you of anything at all. They can just decide to target you and go fishing. The UK has now zero right to online privacy and the most vicious security service powers of any democracy. Indeed when you combine powers with capability (and the security service are recruiting tens of thousands more staff to our stasi state) the UK is now the most authoritarian country in the world. The legislation. passed this week, was framed by Theresa May as Home Secretary and received no significant opposition from the UK’s complicit political class.
This mass gathering of data is nothing to do with fighting terrorism – being lost in a massive ocean of irrelevant data is actually a major hindrance to fighting terrorism. It is about social control.
Don’t worry too much Craig. The silly bastards can’t jail everyone for every imaginary crime they suspect from this data collection. You are quite right that this is about social control. There is absolute panic in the world establishment at how the internet has set people free to bypass official media and discuss and voice opinion amongst all the worlds population and now they are trying to put the genie back in the bottle. The recent setbacks in elections like Brexit, Donald Trump, and the rise of the right wing in Germany, Holland and Austria is not because the people there are becoming fascists its because they are reacting to the brainwashing of the mass media and no longer vote as they are told to. We are as a people no longer allowed to discuss taboo subjects through the controlled official media and so people take to the web instead. If the worlds governments actually allowed honest and open debate it would end with them losing control as people demand an end to corruption and the implementation of real democracy. The internet in 10 years time will no longer be as it is today because the majority still swallow the official propaganda and won’t resist. The best effect the internet has had since it’s invention is to weaken IP Intellectual Property law or as it should be correctly known Imaginary Property law. Copyright has been weakened as people share knowledge and culture which is a natural good and praiseworthy behaviour, but of course this means an end to the mass extortion of the people through pay offs for middlemen and corporations so these people have now bought and paid for new laws to bring that control back to them but with more draconian punishments than ever seen before and even if this means the end of the internet as we now have it they don’t care. So be prepared for a web of white-listed sites and mass censorship in the near future because it’s coming quickly and it will be shocking to behold.
There is a Philip K. Dick novel in which the death penalty is the punishment for internet ‘piracy’. ISPs will begin sending out ‘warning letters’ to file-sharers from the beginning of 2017. It is indeed a slippery slope.
You don’t know how close we are coming to such stupidity as stated in that novel.
https://torrentfreak.com/ten-years-in-jail-for-uk-internet-pirates-how-the-new-bill-reads-161204/
Pure evil or what?
When you use torrent you are uploading at the same time as you are downloading as part of the ‘swarm’, it is the nature of torrenting. 10 years in the slammer for using torrenting!? WTF! This cunt-try has gone MAD!
Yep, the all seeing eye (I)nternet.
99% of what is on the web (of lies) is bollocks anyway.
“Come into my parlour” said the spider to the fly.
“FREUDIAN SLIP”
OLD MEANING
A Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious subdued wish or internal train of thought. The concept is part of classical psychoanalysis.
Classical examples of parapraxes involve slips of the tongue and of the pen, but psychoanalytic theory also embraces misreadings, mishearings, temporary forgettings, and the mislaying and losing of objects.
NEW MEANING
Any death that should occur to a DWP benefit claimant as a direct result of welfare reforms introduced by Lord David Freud acting upon commercial advice of his sponsor in the private health insurance industry. (UNUM PROVIDENT)
“TELL UNUM THAT THEIR PLAN IS WORKING LORD FRAUD”
Disabled man forced out of home with his ill wife weeks before Christmas devastated that ‘nobody cares
A severely disabled man is pleading for help following an eviction notice forcing him and his wife out of their home.
Andrew Clegg suffers with Parkinsons Disease and Lewy Body Dementia which has confined the 53-year-old to a wheelchair.
Despite his illness, Mr Clegg, of Swansea, and his wife Debbie are being moved into a one bedroom council flat which his neurologist believes is insufficient.
“I am all alone in a wheelchair and nobody in Swansea cares. The organisations that are supposed to help don’t seem to care at all, I’m just fed up with the whole situation,” said Mr Clegg.
Andrew Clegg is being evicted from his home (Photo: South Wales Evening Post)
“If I was still living in London I am sure that I would be getting more help.
“Me and my wife, who is also very ill and suffers with acute Crohn’s disease, are being evicted from a property in the marina on Monday.
“In all fairness I can’t fault my current landlord. He has done a lot to help us but he has to evict us because he may lose the house if we stay.
“We are being sent to a one bedroom council flat in Blaen-Y-Maes despite the fact that my neurologist has told the council on numerous occasions that I need to at the very least be in a two bedroom property.
“I’m told that the flat is so small there isn’t even enough room for me to have a pile of books. Also the only way that I can walk is with a tripod so I will virtually be a prisoner in my own home.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-man-being-made-homeless-9389461
…………HOPE YOUR CHILDREN HAVE A LOVELY CHRISTMAS MR FRAUD.
“MR HUNT’S CORPORATE PLAN TO PRIVATISE NHS WILL COST CHILDREN’S LIVES”
Sick children moved as NHS intensive care units run out of beds
Seriously sick children are having to be transported long distances to receive intensive care this weekend because of a lack of beds in major cities.
In England, 85% of beds available in paediatric intensive care units were full on Friday night. But some units in cities including London and Leicester have been forced to declare themselves as “at capacity”. Planned operations are, in some cases, being delayed to prepare for any possible emergencies, as the system shows signs of serious strain as winter starts to bite.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/03/children-moved-intensive-care-units-run-out-of-beds
ProsecutingSolicitor
2h ago
Unless and until the Police investigate and the Crown Prosecution Service and the Director of Public Prosecutions prosecute NHS Chief Executives and other Senior managers who fail to comply with the overriding duty of care they individually owe to all patients – there will never be any improvement in patient outcomes throughout the now “free from democratic control” NHS.
It would only need one Chief Executive running the now” free from Democratic control” independent NHS Foundation Trust to be prosecuted for the criminal offence arising from his/her failure to comply with the above over riding “duty of care”, for this to result in an immediate improvement in patient outcomes far quicker than any of the so called improvements being promised by Jeremy Hunt, the Department of Health and NHS England combined.
Since the Health and Social Care Act 2012, none of the above now have any control over how the independent Chief Executives running the now “free from democratic control” NHS Foundation Trusts spend the tax payers money they are individually given – these independent Chief Executives even ignored Jeremy Hunt’s request that they individually exercise restraint on how much they pay themselves and the other Senior Managers in their organisation..
“CARING CONSERVATISM”………..an oxymoron
jimlad
3h ago
8 9
An NHS England spokesman said: “Record numbers of patients are successfully being looked after by the NHS. On any objective measure, despite these pressures, the quality of care is better than it has ever been
That’s when you can finally get into hospital to receive that care.
Figures showing that every ambulance service in England failed to meet response time targets for the past 16 months are a sign of a system-wide problem, NHS England has admitted.
And it get even more serious as
Billy Thompson lived just five minutes from Grantham hospital, but had to be taken 40 minutes in an ambulance to Lincoln.
His family followed behind – only to find out he died en route.
And even when you finally get to A&E
About 300,000 ambulances were left queuing outside hospitals last year with patients waiting to be seen in A&E, according to research by Labour.
Since the Tories took over running the NHS we’ve seen The financial meltdown of the NHS
The NHS has been plunged into its worst financial crisis in a generation, regulators have revealed.
Since March 21, 2012: The number of staff working for the NHS fell by 19,799 in 2011 – its biggest fall in ten years
Whilst Hospital A&E waiting times in England rise by a third in November
Even when you don’t need a hospital and want to see your doctor we find the NHS in crisis as doctor’s surgeries shut every 10 days
In out patients waiting times. The Kings Fund report that while all three referral-to-treatment targets are now being met, it is by narrow margins, and performance for patients yet to begin their treatment (patients still waiting) actually worsened in December.
These targets are clearly under stress and the
NHS ramped up (cheaper) day case activity in December by nearly 40,000 over December last year.
All to allow Hunt to claim waiting time have been met. Whilst leaving those with more painful problems requiring a hospital bed to suffer longer is not how it should be done.
In October 2006,
David Cameron said the NHS is safe in his hands as he brought the annual Conservative conference to an end.
Now in 2016 on every front the NHS is in crisis. Cameron’s Tories proved time and time again they cannot be trusted with any promise or pledge and if we continue giving them power it will finally bring about its demise.
Homelessness in Manchester has skyrocketed, yet the City Council is spending £330m renovating the town hall
http://evolvepolitics.com/homelessness-in-manchester-has-skyrocketed-yet-the-city-council-is-spending-330m-renovating-the-town-hall/
“DWP UP TO THEIR OLD TRICKS”
Are you in the ESA Support Group, have you been asked to go to an interview about getting work?
News Add comments
Dec 022016
We have had signs recently that the DWP are getting up to their old tricks and trying to get people in the ESA Support Group to attend a “back to work” interview at their Jobcentre.
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According to the DWP Webpage, if you are in the Support Group you “You don’t have to go to [back to work] interviews, but you can ask to talk to a personal adviser. “, which means that they cannot require you to attend, and they can’t stop your money if you don’t go.
We are going to look closely at this and do whatever we can to get this stopped, but in order to do that we first need to gather information about how widespread this is, which areas it is happening in and how long it has been going on.
So we are asking for people to come forward if you are in the ESA Support Group and have been contacted by your Jobcentre to attend a back to work interview, we would really like to hear from you.
If you have had one of these letters please fill in the form below – we will always keep your name and email address confidential unless you give us your permission to disclose it
Important note: There is another sort of interview in which you are asked to take along bank statements and documents to prove your identity – you do have to attend this sort of interview. We advise that you take a friend or relative along with you.
“YOUR PENSION, WHAT PART DO THE DWP PLAY?”
George Morley 3 December 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I would like to know 2 things about the state pension when a worker retires having paid his National Insurance contributions for (say) 44 years along with those of his employer(s).
1. What is the status of the DWP with respect to this pension ? trustee ? advisor ? administrator ? or something else ? Please give an accurate description.
2. Who owns the pension ? Please be honest.
Yours faithfully,
George Morley
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_responsibility_and_ownership#incoming-904386
Theresa May – this fucking bitch – Human Rights abuses! – What are they?
Trade deals and ‘money’ are more important to her (& her Tory Government) than anything in the world. What a terrible Government we now have in ‘Power’. (The Saudis should lock her up for her Human Rights abuses in her own Country)
“Theresa May says human rights abuses shouldn’t affect Gulf trade policy” – “There is so much we can do together”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/theresa-may-brexit-trade-gulf-states-saudi-arabia-human-rights-abuses-policy-a7455441.html
The Information Commissioner loves an ongoing ‘mystery’ – but he is not so concerned as to get to the bottom of the DWP ‘preventable deaths’!
“Information Commissioner reopens file on construction industry blacklisting”
“Concerns vetting of workers may still be rife prompt review and setting up of a ‘watching brief’ on companies”.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/04/information-commissioner-reopens-file-on-construction-industry-blacklisting
TORY DEFENCE SECRETARY MICHAEL FALLON (WHO DOESN’T KNOW AN RPG FROM A GREY PVC WATER PIPE – UNTIL IT EXPLODES IN HIS FACE!) HAS ANNOUNCED £100M TO BE SPENT ON RAF DRONES.
“100 more of taxpayer’s money to be spent on RAF drones” – meanwhile, (according to Tory idealogy) – the “poor” and the “peasants” can die in their ‘self-induced’ misery!
“Contract with California-based firm is intended to boost performance of new fleet of Protector drones”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/04/uk-defence-secretary-100m-deal-raf-drones-michael-fallon
………….the drones made from recycled copper water tanks will feature the latest jet propulsion units designed by Dyson.
Featuring the latest heat seeking UK pensioner, food bank gyroscopically controlled weapons system that can destroy a wheelchair user or rough sleeper with a pin point accuracy of 20 metres.
Developed in consultation with CAPITA/MAXIMUS/ATOS the world authority on civilian casualties, the DWP hope to live up to Lord Fraud’s expectations.
Twin 50mm cannons attached to the Citroen 2cv exhaust feature shells impregnated with the ashes of welfare suicide victims, faked medical reports and sanction appeals.
Michael Fallon, featuring a large red nose, baggy checked trousers and long shoes, said;
“The world will suddenly realise that the UK is no nation to meddle with”
“TORY GOVERNMENTS 90% DISCREPANCY ON NUMBER OF ROUGH SLEEPERS”
……….nobody will know, only the crematorium staff
Official government figures for the 2015 count were 3,569 people rough sleeping in England on a single night, up 102% from 2010. In Scotland the closest statistic is that 1,787 people slept rough the night before submitting a homelessness application in 2014. But those figures contrast with those from charity outreach workers who reported seeing 8,000 people on the streets in London alone last year.
Howard Sinclair, chief executive of homelessness charity St Mungo’s, says the true figure is 10 times that. “Rough sleeping is increasing year-on-year – and so are the needs of those people, the complex issues, the range of problems,” he says. “The degree of need, is much, much higher than it was even three years ago.”
The housing crisis, the reduction of benefits – especially to younger people – and austerity cuts hitting local councils, charities and mental health services are creating the “perfect storm” in human misery, says Sinclair.
“With all of this the numbers can only worsen, the housing crisis is not just about house prices and the shortage of social housing, but problems with private landlords. That’s the area we’re really seeing a rise in, people ending up on the streets after tenancy breakdowns.
“What you see is that strata of people who really have nothing – no money, no front door key, no friend or family. That number is growing. And you can’t just pin it all on local authorities, the health service is failing people too – 90% of rough sleepers are discharged from hospitals back on to the streets.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/04/rough-sleeper-numbers-homeless
“TORBAY TO FINE ROUGH SLEEPERS”
What is the point of fining rough sleepers who obviously wont have the money to pay the fine!? If they could afford to be anywhere else would they really be sleeping outside in freezing conditions?? Fair enough if the Torbay Mayor wants to reduce the number of people sleeping rough, good, but do that by investing in services which help those people find and retain accommodation and by investing in mental health and addiction services. I swear we are becoming more and more Victorian in our approach to those less well-off in society. No sympathy, no care, just sweep them out of the way of the well-to-do, out of sight out of mind eh? Bet he’d flung them in a workhouse if that were an option!
………WELCOME TO HUNGER GAMES
Geoff – Torbay’s Mayor is a Tory – Gordon Oliver – say no more!
“HOW THE BBC MAINTAINS IT’S PROPAGANDA STATUS”
……the most state influenced corruption of news in the western hemisphere.
When the establishment talks, the BBC are always directly available to spout the shit.
It is common knowledge that the BBC work to an agenda of not covering any public protests or demonstrations against the tyranny of the Tory government upon it’s people, often lying about demonstrator numbers to try and play issues down.
Upon being asked how many UK public demonstrations they featured during 2015, the BBC came back with this answer under the freedom of information act.
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Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Please could you supply me with the above statistics. How many protests, rally’s, marches and demonstrations were covered by the BBC in 2015 in the Greater London area.
Also what were the subjects of the said protests etc
Yours faithfully,
Pete Butcher
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AND THE BBC REPLY
If and to the extent that the BBC records the information you have requested, it is excluded from
disclosure under the Act because it is held for the purposes of ‘journalism, art or literature.’ The
BBC is therefore not obliged to provide this information to you and will not be doing so on this
occasion.
……………………THE BBC ARE NOT AN INDEPENDENT NEWS CHANNEL, THEY ARE BUT A TOOL OF THE STATE TO PROPAGATE ESTABLISHMENT POLICY TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE PEOPLE.
EVERY NEWS BULLETIN CAREFULLY CRAFTED AND BIASED TO MANIPULATE.
“YOU, THE UK LICENCE PAYERS, OWN THE BBC, BUT WHY DO THEY CONSTANTLY FAIL TO INFORM YOU OF THE SENIOR PAY SCALES?”
……………….THE BBC ARE JUST AN EXTENSION OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE UK GOVERNMENT.
THE LICENCE HOLDERS HAVE A DIVINE RIGHT TO KNOW WHERE THEIR HARD EARNED CASH IS BEING SPENT
.
AT NO TIME WAS THE BBC GIVEN A RIGHT TO WITHHOLD INFORMATION TO THE PEOPLE WHO SUBSCRIBE TO IT’S UPKEEP.
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Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Please tell me how many grade 11 staff the BBC employed in the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
Please say also:
– what was the total wage bill for all grade 11 staff during this period?
– what was the average salary?
– how many people on grade 11 were on a salary above the ceiling of the grade?
– what was the average salary of those within the pay grade?
– what was the average salary of those above the pay grade?
Would you please say additionally how many employees on this grade are paid more than £100,000 per annum and how many more than £143,462 per annum.
This is a follow-up to RFI20160343 and RFI20160922, in which you gave the numbers to 30 June 2015.
Yours faithfully,
Spencer Count
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………THIS REQUEST HAS NOT BEEN ANSWERED
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pay_grade_11_2015_16#outgoing-601706
……..MORE BBC CRITICS
David Andrew Dukes
Not to put too fine a point on it QT is a load of crap. Like everything else the tory propaganda agency does (formerly the BBC) it is heavily biased and about as impartial as a convinced atheist giving a lecture on religious faith. I don’t watch it any more, I gave up long ago. The very fact that Dumblebore allows politicians to sit there and tell bare faced lies has seen me off.
Mike Diboll
Mike Diboll Absolutely. I live in southern England, near Brighton (the ‘U’K’s San Francisco/Washington State/Seattle/’Cascadia’), and I find the BBC’s output utterly unwatchable, even its hitherto august news and current affairs ‘flagships’. It pains me even more that we are forced to pay for this shit. I’m genuinely scared by the direction that England’s being led into, not just the south or ‘Middle England’, and the sheepish complicity of ‘English’ people (I was originally a Londoner of mixed heritage). Scotland, I’m English, GET ME OUTTA HERE!
“CAN THE DWP GET THE RELEASED SANCTION STATISTICS TO BALANCE WITH THE TRUTH?”
………the truth, the DWP and statistics, some kind of a joke?
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
For each month in 2015 and 2016 , please give the number of adverse ESA sanctions decisions broken down by the Summary International Classification of Diseases (i.e. ESA Total; Other; Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Diseases of the Nervous System; Diseases of the Circulatory or Respiratory System; Diseases of the Musculoskeletal system and Connective Tissue; and Injury, Poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes) so that the total in each month matches the adverse decisions figures given in Table 2.1 in the DWP sanctions statistics release of June 2016.
Should any part of this request be undeliverable due to cost or practical considerations, please give top priority to providing the most recent figures and then work backwards month by month as far as possible.’
Yours faithfully,
Anita Bellows
“Taking unemployment benefits is the most honourable means of resisting Capitalism.”
— Karl Marx
I should think so too! – Surely if this was done, it would be Human Rights abuses once again!
“No 10 rules out forcing obese people to undergo treatment to get benefits”
“Theresa Mays’s spokesman says sanctioning obese people who refuse help is not under consideration after report dismissed idea”
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/05/report-rejects-forcing-obese-people-to-have-treatment-to-receive-benefits
Well, I’ll be damned – no wonder Wentworth Woodhouse got £7.6m for their refurbishment in the Autumn Statement – it’s Tory M.P. Jacob Rees-Moggs wife’s ancestral home. His mother in law is also one of the Trustees of the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/12/05/one-tory-mp-just-received-7-6-million-bonus-chancellor/
Wentworth Woodhouse – more info as follows (3rd Feb, 2016)
http://www.savebritainsheritage.org/campaigns/item/369/Press-release-Preservation-trust-to-acquire-Wentworth-Woodhouse
“NOT THE MARBLE IN THE MOUTH, PINSTRIPED NASAL BORE THAT FORGETS HIS CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS”
A leading Conservative backbencher has been reported to Parliament’s standards watchdog for potentially breaching the rules on declaring financial interests in the House of Commons.
Jacob Rees-Mogg spoke in four debates in the Chamber in support of the tobacco, mining and oil and gas industries without declaring that he is a founder and director of a firm with multimillion-pound investments in the sectors.
The Commons code of conduct states that MPs must disclose any financial interest or benefit they have, directly or indirectly, if speaking during relevant debates in the House. Mr Rees-Mogg is a founding partner and director of Somerset Capital Management, a firm whose funds hold investments worth £23m in tobacco companies, £3.07m in mining firms, and £2.4m in oil and gas producers.
While Mr Rees-Mogg has declared that he is a paid director at Somerset Capital in his entry in the Register of Members’ Interests – a job that has earned him more than £500,000 since 2010 – Hansard records show that he made no mention of his connection during the four debates.
…………….His family were in the coal mining business and the coke must have addled his brains.
In a letter to Kathryn Hudson, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Sheila Gilmore, Labour MP for Edinburgh East, wrote: “Mr Rees-Mogg appears to have failed to declare a relevant financial interest on a number of occasions… Given Mr Rees-Mogg’s senior position in Somerset Capital and the size of the financial interests in the industries in question, it is likely that one could reasonably think that his comments and positions on these issues might be influenced by his financial interest, in which case a relevant financial interest should have been declared. Can you please urgently investigate this apparent failure to declare a relevant financial interest and confirm whether the Code of Conduct has indeed been breached, and, if this is the case, what further steps you will be taking.”
………BUT INNOCENT OF ANY WRONGDOING (WHAT ELSE)
However, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Kathryn Hudson, decided that no wrongdoing had been committed and so no investigation would take place
……….surely not the man who fucked the post office and christmas card sales? VINCE UNSTABLE
The British government’s close ties to the arms industry was illustrated this week at a London banquet hosted by the UK’s defence and security companies.
There were 40 MPs on the guest list for a £250-a-head gathering at the Hilton hotel on Park Lane organised by trade organisation ADS, according to information provided by activist group Campaign Against Arms Trade (Caat).
Business Secretary Vince Cable was the most high-profile attendee, and gave a speech at the event.
A spokesperson said he was there to address some of the UK’s major employers, and declined to comment further.
“BORIS JOHNSON CLAIMS SAUDI ARABIA HAS NOT BREACHED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS WHEN SHELLING YEMEN”
perhaps this may cast a little light………
But the revelation that the UK neutered EU attempts to bring about such an investigation is likely to raise questions about its motives. Since the conflict began, the UK has sold more than £3bn worth of weapons and military equipment to the Saudis and defence contractors hope more deals are in the pipeline.
“Blocking attempts to create an international inquiry is a betrayal of the people of Yemen who have suffered so much during this conflict,” said Polly Truscott of Amnesty International. “It’s shocking. The UK ought to be standing up for justice and accountability, not acting as a cheerleader for arms companies.”
…………..3 billion reasons for the UK government to thwart a HUMAN RIGHTS INQUIRY
“40 MP’S WHO ATTENDED ARMS DEALERS DINNER”
MP Party Constituency ADS dinner: guest of….
James Arbuthnot Conservative North East Hampshire Guest of BAE
Margaret Beckett Labour Derby South Guest of Rolls Royce
Gordon Birtw istle Liberal Democrat Burnley Guest of SAFRAN
Nicola Blackw ood Conservative Oxford West and Abingdon Guest of ADS
Vince Cable Liberal Democrat Tw ickenham Guest of ADS and a speaker
Alun Cairns Conservative Vale of Glamorgan Guest of Raytheon
Neil Carmichael Conservative Stroud Guest of ADS
Nick Clegg Liberal Democrat Sheffield, Hallam Special Adviser Alex Dziedzan attended as guest of Raytheon
Vernon Coaker Labour Gedling Guest of ADS w ith assistant Conor McGinn
Margaret Curran Labour Glasgow East Guest of Raytheon
Brian Donohoe Labour Central Ayrshire Guest of Airbus
Gemma Doyle Labour West Dunbartonshire Guest of BAE
Philip Dunne Conservative Ludlow Guest of ADS plus Private Secretary Tom Burden
Tobias Ellw ood Conservative Bournemouth East Guest of Cobham
Graham Evans Conservative Weaver Vale Guest of ADS
Mark Francois Conservative Rayleigh and Wickford Guest of BAE
Mark Garnier Conservative Wyre Forest Guest of Airbus
Robert Goodw ill Conservative Scarborough and Whitby Guest of ADS
James Gray Conservative North Wiltshire Guest of ADS
Nick Harvey Liberal Democrat North Devon Guest of Cobham
Gerald How arth Conservative Aldershot Guest of Farnborough International
Kevan Jones Labour North Durham Guest of Marshall ADG
Ivan Lew is Labour Bury South Guest of Bombardier w ith assistant Heather Vernon
Julian Lew is Conservative New Forest East Guest of Airbus
Ian Lucas Labour Wrexham Guest of Finmeccanica
Peter Luff Conservative Mid Worcestershire Guest of Northrop Grumman
Mary Macleod Conservative Brentford and Islew orth Guest of Raytheon
Jason McCartney Conservative Colne Valley Guest of ADS
Andrew Miller Labour Ellesmere Port and Neston Guest of SAFRAN
Madeleine Moon Labour Bridgend Guest of Finmeccanica
Michael Moore Liberal Democrat Berw ickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Guest of Selex ES
Penny Mordaunt Conservative Portsmouth North Guest of BAE Systems Maritime Services
Lilian Neville-Jones Conservative Lords Guest of ADS
Chi Onw urah Labour New castle upon Tyne Central Guest of ADS
Andrew Robathan Conservative South Leicestershire Guest of Atkins
Laurence Robertson Conservative Tew kesbury Guest of SAFRAN
Alison Seabeck Labour Plymouth, Moor View Guest of Babcock
Ow en Smith Labour Pontypridd Guest of Airbus
Clive Soley Labour Lords Guest of ADS
John Spellar Labour Warley Guest of GKN
Mike Thornton Liberal Democrat Eastleigh Guest of Eaton Aerospace
Paul Uppal Conservative Wolverhampton South West Guest of ADS
Heather Wheeler Conservative South Derbyshire Guest of ADS
John Woodcock Labour Barrow and Furness Guest of BAE
Notes:
Margaret Curran MP and Conor McGinn (assistant to Vernon Coaker MP) have contacted us to say they did attend.
no conflict of interest here……………….
“BREACHING HUMAN RIGHTS, THE DWP STEP UP ANOTHER GEAR”
New targets for DWP compliance interviews.
Sometimes I’m taken by surprise. Mostly I’m not. But this is a new tactic. A new target driven tactic employed by the DWP.
For anyone claiming JSA, ESA Income Support or universal credit you might be familiar with a local service compliance interview. They send these letters out usually on a random basis or sometimes on the say so of a suspected fraud taking place. Now these interviews are compulsory and if you don’t attend then your money will get stopped.
Whilst attending one of these interviews you are normally treated like a criminal, guilty before being proven innocent, most likely innocent of any wrongdoing as you have been randomly picked in the first place. You are taken to a room which looks just like a police interview room. They record everything like the police do, only in this case you are most likely innocent. You are asked to bring with you all documentation and proof to say you are who you are. This is what happened to a local lady who will remain anonomous to prevent any harrasment from the DWP. Here is what happened.
After being admitted to hospital for an operation, she returned home to a “compliance interview” letter.Now the only “crime” that this lady committed was to become ill. She is claiming ESA and was previously claiming JSA. There has been no other change in her circumstances, but she is regarded as a criminal and will be treated as such.
The lady concerned phone up the DWP on the number provided.To ask why she has been asked for an interview (interrogation ) and to inform them that as a disabled person and therefore classed as vulnerable she will be bringing an advocate with her. Here is a summary of the conversation.
It took her a while but she eventually got through to a real person. This chap sounded quite nice apparently but wasn’t expecting any questions. People normally just comply, they don’t question the DWPs decisions he said. He sounded compassionate for a DWP worker, that he was under great pressure to perform these interviews. He didn’t say he was under pressure but I am presuming that he is because he has been told that he’s got to claw £1000 back from innocent people, people that have been claiming the correct amount of money and have committed no benefit fraud. So she is just a person on the list of targets for this clawback. He said that the DWP had supposed to have sent her a previous letter, which surprise surprise they didn’t. He didn’t argue the case for the DWP as he believed that she was knowledgeable and it was pointless doing so. She asked him why he had given her all this information… He said that he did because she had asked lots of questions and his tone wasn’t of a person happy in his job. She also informed him that she will be taking a witness into the interview and that she wants proof of all said letters from the DWP to herself that hadn’t arrived. After all it’s a well known fact that these letters don’t get sent out in the first place and the onus is on them to prove that they sent them and not on her for not receiving them.
There are several issues that need to be spoken about here. The first is that these compliance letters are now being used as a form of target for the DWP. Never before have I heard of this. We all have heard about sanction targets, but compliance targets? Wow. That’s an all time low.
The second is the fact that you are proven guilty before you are even seen and are even interviewed in police like surroundings. This is shocking because even in a court of law you are supposed to be innocent before being proven guilty. The DWP doesn’t see it this way. And now they have a £1000 target to aim for innocent victims are going to be fraudulently accused of committing benefit fraud and will be asked to repay money that they do not owe, and have never owed. After all the DWP will want to reach that £1000 target so the most vulnerable will be targeted for this.
The third is that the DWP are openly committing fraud. It’s much the same as demanding money with menaces. A very vulnerable person sitting in a compliance interview hosted by usually two very hostile DWP workers will agree to anything just to get out of the building. Their money will stop and they could well loose their home.
The fourth and the last for now because I’m sure that I could think of more is that the decent members of staff working for the DWP are being put at risk by being forced to comply to enforcing these actions. The man concerned knew it was wrong but because he most likely he knows how bad it is to be unemployed, he has had to choose to enforce it. This is very wrong. Not all DWP workers are bad but the good ones tend to be the exception to the rule these days. They end up leaving or becoming ill because they cannot stand the stress and the wrongdoings anymore.
……………will the FREUD FAMILY go skiing this christmas to avoid the claimant body count?
“DWP RELISH THE SNOOPERS CHARTER”
………….. DWP to have access to claimants internet history
Category: Latest news
Created: Sunday, 04 December 2016 21:45
The Investigatory Powers Bill, which is about to become law with virtually no opposition from MPs, gives a huge range of agencies, including the DWP, the right to see an individual’s entire internet browsing history.
Senior Executive Officers in Fraud and Error Services at the DWP will be able to see a list of every website claimants have visited in the past year, although the details will not include the individual pages that claimants have visited on a particular website.
Other agencies granted access to internet histories include:
Department for Transport
Department of Health
HMRC
Ministry of Justice
Ofcom
………………FORGOT TO WIPE YOUR ARSE?
THE DWP WILL KNOW
Priti Patel to help ‘disabled people’ – not in this Country, but in Foreign Countries, via U.K. Aid! It’s shocking, also considering that some disabled people in Britain are dying for various ‘Tory induced’ reasons!
“NGO’s surprised and ‘delighted’ at Priti Patel’s promise that Britain ‘will do the heavy lifting’ to improve the lives of 800 million disabled people”
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/dec/06/disabled-people-uk-aid-development-priti-patel
ADD International? – Another NGO! – Never heard of them before!
Tim Wainwright – A true Priti Patel admirer and no mistake!
He also used to be in the Equalities and Human Rights Commission!
(Please find the reference by working down the page)
http://www.add.org.uk/about/our-people
Tim Wainwright should immediately be ‘messaged’ via ‘Twitter’ (I am not on Twitter or Facebook) to inform him directly, via a copy of the U.N. Report of the position of Priti Patel. (She, as an Employment Minister, under the Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith) fully supported her Conservative Government’s ‘Welfare Reform’ programme. This so-called ‘Welfare Reform’ programme that has brought destitution and homelessness to so many U.K. Citizens, as well as suicides caused by ‘Benefit Sanctions’ to JSA/ESA claimants and also to so many other genuinely disabled people.
IF TIM WAINWRIGHT RECEIVED THESE COMMUNICATIONS AND HE WAS A ‘DECENT HUMAN BEING’ – HE WOULD BE TOTALLY DISGUSTED BY PRITI PATEL’S ATTITUDE TO DISABLED PEOPLE.
SHE DOES NOT, IN ANY WAY CARE ABOUT THE POOR, THE WORKING POOR, OR THE GENUINELY ‘DISABLED’ PEOPLE OF BRITAIN. SHE ONLY CARES ABOUT HER ‘POSITION AND POWER’ IN HER VERY OWN CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT AND TO MAKING HERSELF ‘LOOK GOOD’ TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE ‘WORLD’ IN GENERAL.
“NOT THE GRINNING HUMPTY BACKED PRITI PATHETIC THAT SALIVATES AS THE DWP KILLS MORE DISABLED FOLKS”
……………………..she who smirks and celebrates alongside the odious IAN DUNCAN SMITH, history’s biggest serial killer of benefit claimants……
lleist
“Where we go, others will follow,”
Like impoverishing them to the point of malnutrition or starvation, homelessness and destitution?
After her comments in the House about disabled people, sanctions, and ‘making work pay’ combined with her relish for cut, cut cut, … I remember another time that phrase, ensure that no one is left behind was used.
This is more like a PR stunt to deflect accountability regards the UN report on the serious and systemic violations of the rights of disabled persons in the UK.
“PRITI PATHETIC, THE DWP’S EQUIVALENT TO IRMA GRESE”
Survivors provided detailed testimony of murders, tortures and other cruelties, especially towards women, in which Grese engaged during her years at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. They testified to acts of sadism, beatings and arbitrary shootings of prisoners, savaging of prisoners by her trained and allegedly half-starved dogs and her selecting prisoners for the gas chambers. Grese was reported to have habitually worn heavy boots and carried a whip and a pistol. Witnesses testified that she took pleasure in using both physical and psychological methods to torture the camp’s inmates and enjoyed shooting prisoners in cold blood. They also claimed that she beat some women to death and flogged others using a plaited whip
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fairshares
I don’t know how Patel has the brass nerve to come out with these statements when she – along with her colleagues in government – are steadily stripping disabled people not only of the money they need to live on, but also their human rights. She seems to have conveniently forgotten that the UK has recently been the subject of a study by the UN, and the results of this study were not complimentary.
Development aid should be diverted to meet the needs of UK disabled people first, and whatever is left be allocated to support refugees. No doubt some of our refugees have come from the very countries that have generated refugees due to their oppressive regimes. You couldn’t make it up if you tried.
Geoff – Yes, I am truly disgusted by this bitch Priti Patel, and I agree with you that this may well have something to do with the U.N. Report.
A diversion to take away unwanted attention (and also to make them look better in the eyes of the ‘World’ and the U.N.as well).
She and IDS, Grayling and now possibly Damian Green (in case of any recent suicides!) have all got blood on their hands.
I am certain that justice will catch up with them all and hopefully, soon!
This is good though!
“Someone’s decided to crowdfund for the Queen, and its not going very well” (Not a single penny raised so far!)
http://www.canary.co/2016/12/06/someones-decided-to-crowdfund-for-the-queen-and-its-not-going-very-well/
Sorry, that should read:
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/12/06/someones-decided-to-crowdfund-for-the-queen-and-its-not-going-very-well/
“GRAVE AND SYSTEMATIC VIOLATIONS OF DISABLED HUMAN RIGHTS”
THE UK CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT GUILTY
#ScottishParliament #UNCRPD #UK Grave & Systematic #DisabilityRights Violations: Motion S5M-02407: @ChristinaSNP McKelvie, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, Scottish National Party, Date Lodged: 08/11/2016
‘That the Parliament notes the inquiry by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the impact of welfare cuts on disabled people; notes that this report assesses what it considers the detrimental impact that the UK Conservative administration’s welfare reforms have had on disabled people, and gives a damning insight into the effect that its austerity welfare cuts has had; accepts the report’s findings that “there is reliable evidence that the threshold of grave or systematic violations of the rights of persons with disabilities has been met”; considers that the UK Government’s welfare reforms have disproportionally and adversely affected the rights of disabled people; notes the view that consideration should be given to the committee’s proposals and that the UK Government should establish a mechanism to permanently monitor the impact of policies relating to disabled people’s standard of living and their ability to work and live independently; further notes the view that consideration should be given to all of the recommendations outlined in the report, including taking appropriate measures to tackle any negative and discriminatory stereotypes or prejudice against disabled people in public or in the media, including the notion that dependency on benefits is, in itself, a disincentive to employment, and further notes the view that the UK Government should conduct a comprehensive human rights-based cumulative impact assessment into its welfare reforms and to see at first-hand the detrimental impact that its reduction in social benefits for disabled people, including those in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, is having on people.’
…………let’s get Freud to the gallows
Geoff – I am personally not in a position to be able to do this (I am not on Twitter or Facebook!) but I think that this Tim Wainwright should be ‘messaged’ with a copy of the ‘UN Report’ to show exactly what this Tory Government and Priti Patel (in her position as Employment Minister (under IDS)) has done to disabled people in Great Britain – how she has supported all of the relevant legislation to support the Tory Government’s ‘Welfare Reform’ policies and how she has also overseen the deaths and suicides of benefit claimants.
IF HE WAS A DECENT MAN – HE WOULD THEN DISOWN PRITI PATEL AND ALL THAT SHE ‘SAYS’ AND BELIEVES IN REGARDING THE ‘RIGHTS OF DISABLED PEOPLE’.
More than 130,000 to be fed by food banks this Christmas – MPs urged to donate
…………..and the Queen is in her counting house, counting all her money (WHILST EXPECTING THE POOR TO FOOT THE BILL FOR HER HUGE WHITE ELEPHANT, BUCKINGHAM PALACE)
MPs from all political parties are being urged to support and donate to the ‘Hope not Hunger’ pop-up food bank when it arrives at Parliament on Wednesday.
Unite the union has announced it is teaming up with the UK’s biggest food bank operator Trussell Trust and Daily Mirror’s Real Britain to help feed over 130,000 hungry people this Christmas.
Trussell Trust is bracing itself for a surge in demand for food parcels over the festive period, as they prepare for the busiest month of the year and what could become the busiest ever.
The nationwide food bank provided 133,734 three day emergency food supplies in December 2015, which could be easily surpassed this year with the number of people in food and fuel poverty on the rise.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/more-than-130000-to-be-fed-by-food-banks-this-christmas-mps-urged-to-donate/
The call comes as a new report reveals the number of working people living in poverty has reached a record high, fuelled by the UK’s housing crisis and cuts to in-work benefits.
………….AND, AS USUAL, THE BBC ARE ALWAYS AT HAND TO BLOW THE CONSERVATIVE TRUMPET……….
Overall poverty was down, the government said.
“BBC NEWS”
Tighter expenses rules ‘harming MPs’ mental health’
11 October 2011
From the section UK Politics
The new, tougher expenses regime is damaging MPs’ “mental wellbeing”, the doctor who looks after them has said.
Dr Ira Madan told a committee looking into the system that its “frustrations and difficulties” had increased workloads but decreased rewards.
She also said MPs were tired of being the butt of jokes about their expenses.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15267426?SThisFB
“ANOTHER NOTCH ON LORD DAVID FREUD’S BELT”
Teenager took his own life after Jobcentre staff threatened to axe his benefits
A Teesside teenager took his own life after Jobcentre staff threatened to stop his Jobseeker’s Allowance benefit, an inquest into his death has heard.
David Brown, 18, an avid Middlesbrough fan, took his life the day after he was due to sign-on because of being put under “immense pressure” to find work, the Gazette Live reports.
Speaking to his mother shortly before his tragic death, David said he wasn’t surprised that benefit claimants were committing suicide, due to “the way the Jobcentre treat people”.
He had also claimed that a “woman at the dole” had been “rude and belittled him”.
Documents recently released by the Department for Work and Pensions, following Freedom of Information requests and pressure from campaigners, revealed there have been at least 49 peer reviews into the suicide of benefit claimants.
David’s body was found by his brother Adam, who had looked through the letterbox at his home after being unable to get inside.
His family told the inquest that David had been “actively” looking for work, but was told by Jobcentre staff that his benefits would be sanctioned if he didn’t do more to find employment, even though he had previously found a job only to be “scammed” out his wages.
David had been searching for an apprenticeship after completing a welding course. “He absolutely loved it and he was really good at it,” his brother Adam said.
“He didn’t want to be a burden”, his sister Grace told the hearing. “He tried hard to look for work.”
Adam’s sister Jenna said: “He was an adventurous teenager who will be remembered for his humour, kindness and courage.
“He was full of energy and had a zest for life”.
She added: “He still had so much to offer as a kind young man and we are all proud to call him a son, brother, grandson and friend.
“He made the world warmer and he will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him.”
Fans at his beloved club Middlesbrough, where he had been a season ticket holder since the age of 11, held a minutes applause to honour his memory on 3 October.
Acting Senior Coroner Clare Bailey ruled David had taken his own life.
…………..ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DEATH, BUT THE DWP SAY THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN WELFARE RELATED SUICIDES AND LORD FREUD’S WELFARE REFORMS……….
“JUST A FUCKING HUGE COINCIDENCE, NO DOUBT?”
Jane Atkinson
Jane Atkinson As a jobcentre adviser I was once told to call in a “customer” to get them on to the Work Programme. I explained that he was about to be admitted to hospital for major surgery, but I was told he must be called, otherwise he would face a sanction that could stop his benefits for four weeks. Job advisers like me were told withholding benefits would encourage vulnerable people to find a job. It turns out there’s no evidence that sanctions work. wtf
“BBC AUDIENCE PRODUCER NAMED AND SHAMED”
………Always thought audiences were rigged?
Guess you were right all along……
Step forward Alison Fuller Pedley job title ‘Audience Producer at BBC Question Time’, and member of the British Patriotic Front Facebook group. She also promotes ‘Britain First’ online.
The role of the Audience Producer is to select the people who will form the audience, as this ‘Behind the Scenes’ article confirms:
“According to the the Question Time website, the heart of the programme is its audience. “We don’t invite anyone” said Hopkin. “We have a dedicated producer who chooses a representative audience that reflects the demographic length. It is an honestly picked audience.” Every week audience producer Alison Fuller has to select the audience and, depending on the city they are in, this can mean considering more than 4,000 applications. This process involves checking the background of every applicant against their political affiliations, campaign involvements, advertising intentions, and many other factors. As the 150 people she selects are intended to embody the image of their city in the eyes of the programme’s nationwide audience, her job is one of the most important for the programme’s production.”
Her own Twitter account appears to be a muddle of BBCQT stuff and Leave endorsements.
“WE ARE NOT AWARE OF ANY EXERCISES UNDERTAKEN BY THE GOVERNMENT ON THE ADEQUACY OF BENEFITS”
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/153092/response/390642/attach/html/2/FOI%202015.response.pdf.html
Dear Geoffrey Reynolds,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received 26 April. You asked;
Has an exercise ever been done to quantify if £71 would be enough to sustain a human being?
PLEASE ANSWER, ITS NO GOOD WRITING “WE THINK ITS REASONABLE”
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DWP ANSWER
We are not aware of any exercises undertaken by Government on adequacy of benefits.
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Question 8
The European Convention of Human Rights does not give an automatic right to receive
benefit. Where a State does provide benefits, there is no right to a particular amount. The
Government has set the rate of benefits at an amount that it believes to be reasonable, and to
ensure that no individual suffers destitution. This is compatible with the Convention.
DWP
“THE AMOUNT THE LAW SAYS YOU NEED TO LIVE ON”
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST TO DWP
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I know there has been an answer to this question before the link to which is https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/2…
However whilst it states the relevant legislation as requested by the other person, I would like to know HOW is the applicable amount set?
I would assume in the dim distant past when legislation was being drafted someone somewhere came up with a calculation/formula of some sort to set the amount at its earliest point.
1) What was that point and the calculation used?
2) When was it last updated/recalculated?
3) If it is the money the law says you NEED to live on, not want or desire but NEED as is the wording, how can any law or person legally not to mention morally be justified in stripping someone of every penny of income? Surely in some way that breaks the law???
Yours faithfully,
Paul Billanie
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SHOCKING ANSWER BY THE DWP
There is no figure designated as the minimum amount required by an adult to live on. Benefits
are intended to help people who meet the conditions of entitlement and whose resources are
insufficient towards meeting their day-to-day living expenses, rather than be a replacement
income.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/372139/response/904745/attach/html/3/4388.pdf.html
“JACOB REES-MOGG – AN HILARIOUS UPPER CLASS CLOWN (BUT NOT A MURDEROUS ONE) AND ALSO A TRUE BLUE TORY STALWART OF BBC’s QUESTION TIME (AIDED AND ABETTED BY DIMBLEBY)”
“Britain could slash environmental and safety standards ‘a very long way’ after Brexit, Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg says – The MP said that ‘standards good enough for India’ could be good enough for the UK”
(TATA steel workers had better look out in the future – as also should the workers in the new ‘privatised’ railway track operations!)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-safety-standards-workers-rights-jacob-rees-mogg-a7459336.html
Meanwhile in Scotland we have this wonderful news today. Hopefully it’s just the start and they close them all down. The only down side is they say none of the ‘workers’ will lose their jobs.
https://stv.tv/news/west-central/1375030-half-of-glasgow-job-centres-to-close-under-uk-government-plans/
Raining – this is an absolute disgrace. To anyone who is unemployed/or is a claimant – the closure of these JCP (minus) Centres is terrible.
These poor people have to now (possibly) travel miles and miles to their nearest JCP+ – on a minimum payment of nothing to cover their expenses!
“Theresa May launching a fresh attack on the poor – and Scotland is the ‘guinea pig'”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/12/10/theresa-may-launching-fresh-attack-poor-scotland-guinea-pig/
Fucking hell! This will open up a whole new world of pain for benefit claimants!
Rumour is anyone who complains about a long hike to their nearest JCP will get sanctioned for 3 months for a non compliant attitude. Plus they’re telling people who can’t afford the bus far they have to walk it or get a bike. I’m serious.
“AND NOW – FOR THE REAL MURDEROUS CLOWN – IAIN DUNCAN SMITH – AN ARTICLE WRITER THAT KNOWS EXACTLY JACK SHIT ABOUT WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT” (Please also see comments under the webpage – it’s really truthful – even for the Daily Fail readers!)
HIS TIME IS COMING THOUGH – HE CANNOT HIDE UNDER HIS BACKBENCH M.P. MEMBERSHIP FOREVER – JUSTICE MAY WELL COME KNOCKING ON HIS (FATHER-IN-LAW’S) MANSION DOOR TO ANSWER FOR HIS CRIMES TO THE BRITISH POOR AND DISABLED POPULATION.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4007894/IAIN-DUNCAN-SMITH-s-crucial-judges-decide-fate-Brexit-scrutinised.html
PLEASE – will SOMEONE send a copy of the U.N. Report (via Twitter) to Tim Wainwright of ADD International – (as in my 2 posts above!). He should be informed and made totally aware of what Priti Patel is REALLY all about. How Priti Patel ‘supported’ (via her very own Conservative Government’s ‘Welfare Reforms’) and therefore supported the state sanctioned killing of the U.K.’s most poor, vulnerable and genuinely disabled benefits claimants, through suicides and unnecessary deaths (Even when Iain Duncan Smith & Chris Grayling (another Conservative Employment Minister) both ignored Coroner’s Reports into the unnecessary deaths of U.K. benefits claimants).
IF TIM WAINWRIGHT REALLY IS A DECENT AND HUMANE MAN HE WILL TAKE NOTICE OF THIS AND WILL NOT TAKE NOTICE OF PRITI PATEL.
(Royal Naval News)
‘HMS Illustrious’ is going to the scrapyard!
Our ONLY ‘fixed-wing’ aircraft carrier is soon to be scrapped. What now? – If we were to be drawn into any ‘war’ – we would have no alternative than be at the beck and call of the U.S.A. (using their Carriers!) or be at the beck and call of the French (using their Carriers!) and we are soon to be out of the E.U. anyway. SO WE WOULD OF COURSE ALLY WITH THE U.S.A.!
(As it has always have been!) and as we have been anyway since 9/11.
WE WOULD DEFINITELY USE U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIERS IN THE FUTURE. OUR FORCES ARE NOW FULLY ALLIED AND ALSO FULLY COMPLIANT WITH UNITED STATES FORCES PROCEDURES – ENDEX!!
Some daft auld bitch was on the BBC news page saying people should keep on working or volunteering until they’re at least 70! Dame somebody or other. This country is a friggin farce. Why not keep working until you die? That’ll be the next step. Doing away with any state pension and leaving you in penury so you have to keep working. I’m telling you this is what it’s all about. This is their game plan.
..”DAME SALLY DAVIES, THE £215,000 PER YEAR ADVOCATE OF WORKING TILL YOU DIE”
…………not this three times married witch, that advises the govt on obesity and drinking……….
England’s chief medical officer has called on people aged between 50 and 70 to keep working to stay healthy.
In a report on the health of the so-called baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, Prof Dame Sally Davies said the physical and mental health benefits of being employed or volunteering “should not be underestimated”.
She said working helps people feel fulfilled and less isolated.
A third of British workers will be over 50 by 2020.
Prof Davies said: “People are living longer than ever and so retirement presents a real opportunity for baby boomers to be more active than ever before.
“For many people it is a chance to take on new challenges – it is certainly not the start of a slower pace of life it once was.
“Staying in work, volunteering or joining a community group can make sure people stay physically and mentally active for longer.
“The health benefits of this should not be underestimated.”
………………………AND HAVING TO LIVE ON THIS PALTRY SUM AS WELL…
She regularly briefs Whitehall’s most senior ministers and officials, including the Prime Minister himself. As of 2015, Davies was paid a salary of between £210,000 and £214,999 by the department, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Davies_(doctor)
She exercises twice a week, eats plenty of fresh vegetables and doesn’t smoke…………………..
PS WE GET PAID FUCK ALL, EAT WHATEVER WE CAN FIND THAT IS CHEAP AND TURN TO FOOD BANKS TO EXIST……….
“DAME SALLY HYPOCRITE”
But it appears Dame Sally Davies – the UK’s ‘nanny in chief’ who only this week urged others to ‘do as I do’ – has relaxed her killjoy approach to booze at home.
New photographs show the chief medical officer clutching a half-full champagne flute in the lounge of her £3milllion London townhouse.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3431444/The-health-hypocrite-Chief-medical-officer-told-women-think-cancer-reaching-wine-pictured-enjoying-drinks-family.html#ixzz4SHVK7md8
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………..the same fruitcake that said it was ok for a dentist with HIV/AIDS to carry on working……….
Geoff & Raining – I wonder if this has got anything to do with the “Transforming Mental Health” Conference held today and being reported on this page by DPAC! I would imagine that this is the sort of thing that this stupid overpaid bitch would try to get involved in!
Also, is this in some way maybe connected to the new “Work & Health Programme” (i.e. slave labour for no pay at all!)
Making a further ‘name’ for herself whilst ‘advising’ this, that and the other to Government, the Media and various ‘Charities’ that will listen to her. It certainly makes one wonder!
Meanwhile – poor CAPITA. One has (not) to feel sorry for these contract money sucking leeches – let’s hope that this is a sign of their eventual demise! They’re getting rid of ‘human staff’ and getting robots instead!
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/08/capita-to-replace-staff-with-robots-to-save-money
DAVID LIDINGTON – LEADER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS – YET ANOTHER DESPICABLE AND CRUEL TORY M.P.
“A teenager desperately seeking work killed himself, this Tory MP’s response is disgraceful (VIDEO)”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/12/08/teenager-desperately-seeking-work-killed-tory-mps-response-disgraceful-video/
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID LIDINGTON – A FIRST DEGREE TORY ARSEHOLE, AS WELL AS AN EXPENSES FIDDLER TO BOOT!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lidington
LIDINGTON IS AN ANAGRAM OF FREUD’S WELFARE ASSASSIN…………
it’s true Paul. Transforming Mental health is put in the same category as people getting older and wanting to retire. Their idea being to keep you on working and being a slave and your mental health will somehow magically improve and you’ll find that you weren’t really depressed at all. It was your attitude that was holding you back and it was all your own fault.
The whole idea is making you feel as if you’re the problem instead of the system. The whole thing stinks. You now have daft bitches like that auld Dame butting in and interfering saying people should be working or volunteering until they’re 70. What qualifications does she possess to make that judgement. Oh don’t tell me! She’s got mental health experience as well?
Bloody farcical and so easy to see through. The government are pushing the pension age up and up and up in the hope that folks will die off before they get the chance to lift one. All the while this stupid bitch spouts this absolute shite to try to justify their wicked approach to people getting to the age where they want some peace and to be left the f—k alone. Same with this volunteering piss. Shouldn’t be volunteering and doing somebody out of a paid job. Of course this is Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ idea in action.
Raining – Very true and well said. In the future I can see these bastards trying to take people’s pensions off of them – even if they have paid into them for umpteen years and then say ‘you can keep on working till you die’ (or go and work in some shit charity shop for nothing). It’s shameful and really can only happen now in the virtual Tory dictatorship that is now Britain in 2016.
Paul: What they’re going to try to do is make pensioners work for their pension. Something along the same lines as unemployed people having to jump through hoops to keep their benefits. I’ve even heard it being suggested by some tosser MP, i can’t remember who. But it went something like “They’ll have to do so many hours per week working at this or that in order to keep receiving their entitlement to their state pension.”
Make no mistake this is their ultimate aim; a society where there is no peace in retirement. Instead we will have the undignified sight of poor elderly people having to drag their knackered bodies in and out of places of work or charity shops so as they don’t lose their pittance.
This truly is an evil regime in this country nowadays.
“FREUD’S CULL OF THE DISABLED”
Shropshire mother in call on benefits rules after work interview trauma for severely disabled son
A Shropshire mother has called for changes in the way disability benefits are awarded after her severely disabled son – who is unable to walk or talk and has the understanding of a toddler – was told he had to have a return to work interview.
………………AND THE EXPECTED CRAP FROM ONE OF MURDERER FREUD’S LITTLE ELVES:
A DWP spokesman said if the Jobcentre had known the full extent of Carl’s condition he would not have been invited to an interview.
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http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/health/2016/12/07/shropshire-mother-in-call-on-benefits-rules-after-work-interview-trauma-for-severely-disabled-son/#95UXqGkYFWSJ8Pw9.99
Terry
December 7, 2016 08:26
[A DWP spokesman said if the Jobcentre had known the full extent of Carl’s condition he would not have been invited to an interview.]
They did , the doctor told them.
It is great that this lady has great strength and is publicly speaking out and just showing what damage this system can cause.
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dallas
December 7, 2016 09:23
Can no one, absolutely no one at the DWP read? Actually I know from experience the DWP employees grasp of reading and writing is of a very poor low standard.
Money grasping DWP employees protecting their bonus by declaring unfit people able to work. Sack them all the incompetent fools. Seriously anyone working for the DWP is there because no one else will employ them. They stop monies without thought or regard for the welfare of any vulnerable person just because they’re in a bad mood as evidenced months later when its reinstated with no reason for the sanctions, they make children and their families homeless, they put vulnerable people on the street and not one of them cares about the lives they destroy as long as the DWP employee gets their bonus
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TBowater
December 7, 2016 10:29
“A DWP spokesman said if the Jobcentre had known the full extent of Carl’s condition he would not have been invited to an interview”
Erm….what?! Who referred Carl to the Jobcentre? The DWP.
Who had all the information about Carl’s condition? The DWP.
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Derp
December 7, 2016 14:09
We’ve got to ask ourselves why the Tory Party continue to treat disabled people like this. It’s not as though they’re not aware of what they’re doing or done. Actually, 2,380 disabled people died after being found fit for work: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34074557
At let us not forget, David Cameron, a multimillionaire, claimed Disability Living Allowance for his now dead son Ivan.
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“LETTER TO LORD TOFFINGHAM, REES MOGG”
Rees-Mogg has Delivered a Slap in the Face to Every Person With A Disability in the UK
Dear Mr Rees Mogg,
As a constituent (and long time disability rights campaigner), I was appalled to discover that you have been given 7.6 million pounds by the Chancellor to do up an ancestral home, while the country (and many of your constituents) suffer under austerity!
I am aware that the house now belongs to a trust, although as far as I am aware, there are family members involved, so it is still of benefit, and is a slap in the face for many of the people you claim to represent!
The fact that you think it is acceptable is the REAL issue here, just goes to prove how out of touch and elitist you are, but then, being a Tory (who has repeatedly voted in favour of Bedroom Tax, Social security cuts and caps, that continue to destroy the lives of some of society’s most vulnerable people), I’m not the slightest bit surprised!
I’d like to suggest you pay the Bedroom Tax you’re so fond of, for every one of those you are not using!
According to the latest available information, there are 424 accommodation based, council funded supported housing units within Bath and North East Somerset.
Can I also mention that people with disabilities and illness are living in fear of sanctions to vital Social Security and support, because this country (supposedly) cannot afford to give us the help we need, and yet suddenly millions of pounds are available to one MP!
That is not only despicable and unfair but it goes to prove (once again) that austerity policies are purely ideological and far from necessary!
Yours sincerely
Helen…
Superb letter – it’s straight to the point and sums it all up very well.
It would be interesting to see what his response is to this letter!
“THIS IS NOT AN ERROR, THIS IS MURDER”
2,000 disabled people wrongly declared ‘fit to work’ by DWP in just three months
Most appeals found the original decision was wrong
…………..BUT 2380 PEOPLE DIED WITHIN A FEW WEEKS OF BEING FOUND, “FIT FOR WORK”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-fit-to-work-wca-figures-3000-disabled-people-wrongly-declared-three-months-a7464166.html
Another 2380 that they can steal their pensions from as they have put them in an early grave.
“PAUL FARMER, THE WANKER THAT CHASES MONEY AS THE DISABLED DIE”
The country’s largest disability charities have been accused of “selling out” disabled people, as they look set to play a significant role in providing back-to-work services under the government’s new Work and Health Programme.
Paul Farmer, Mind’s chief executive, told protesters on 31 October (pictured) that the charity had “no contracts with DWP” and that he was “not interested in future contracts at this stage”.
His lies were exposed when a disgruntled employee leaked internal documents showing that Mind was applying to join a DWP framework that would allow it to bid for contracts.
Last month, the charity’s policy and campaigns manager, Tom Pollard, joined DWP on secondment as a senior policy adviser.
Asked whether winning DWP contracts would impact on its campaigning work, Mind told DNS last week that it “always speaks out about the issues that we believe impact on people with mental health problems, and we don’t enter into financial relationships which would prevent us from doing this”.
The DNS investigation comes as the Charity Commission confirmed that it has written to Mind’s trustees following a complaint about the charity’s close links with the government – and about Farmer’s lies – by Dr Minh Alexander, an NHS whistleblower and former consultant psychiatrist.
……………………….FILL YOUR POCKETS, YOU GREEDY HORRIBLE BASTARD……………
“PAUL FARMER, DISABILITY HARMER”
Mind boss lies to protesters over DWP contracts
http://www.disabledgo.com/blog/2016/11/mind-boss-lies-to-protesters-over-dwp-contracts/
Dear Mr Zola
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 7th December 2015.
You asked:
“Please disclose information you hold about what a ‘Universal Credit Outlet’ (UCO) is and what remit and scope they do or would be expected to have? Do any UCO’s exist and are any being piloted?
Could a UCO be run by the private or third sector or are they only envisaged as a public sector entity or a hybrid of all sectors?
What would be difference between a Jobcentre and a UCO?”
‘Outlet’ is not defined in legislation and so takes it’s ordinary meaning which is a ‘market for a product or service’.
You are free to compare and contrast with ‘centre’ which neither is defined in legislation and so also takes its ordinary meaning which is ‘an office providing a specific service.
Official Correspondence Team
People, Communication and Capability Division – Information Exploitation
and Security Directorate | Please consider the environment before
printing.
“WHAT ARE UNIVERSAL CREDIT OUTLETS”
…….CENTRES FOR THOSE NOT WORTHY OF A LIFE?
………SOMEWHERE TO REDEEM FOOD STAMPS?
…….CHECK INS LIKE PROBATION SERVICES?
………VIOLATIONS OF YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS?
………SEGREGATION AREAS?
……….GET YOUR MIND RIGHT, MENTAL THERAPY CENTRES?
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please disclose information you hold about what a ‘Universal Credit Outlet’ (UCO) is and what remit and scope they do or would be expected to have? Do any UCO’s exist and are any being piloted?
Could a UCO be run by the private or third sector or are they only envisaged as a public sector entity or a hybrid of all sectors?
What would be difference between a Jobcentre and a UCO?
Yours faithfully,
Frank Zola
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/whats_a_universal_credit_outlet#incoming-906338
………….COULD IT EXPLAIN THE REASON WHY JOBCENTRES ARE BEING CLOSED?
……….OR COULD THE OUTLETS BE CHARITY SHOPS THAT HAVE TAKEN THE KINGS SHILLING FROM THE DWP, TO FUCK OVER THOSE THEY PURPORT TO HELP?
PAUL FARMER WILL KNOW……………
Dear Mr Zola
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 7th December 2016.
You asked:
“Please disclose information you hold about what a ‘Universal Credit Outlet’ (UCO) is and what remit and scope they do or would be expected to have? Do any UCO’s exist and are any being piloted?
Could a UCO be run by the private or third sector or are they only envisaged as a public sector entity or a hybrid of all sectors?
What would be difference between a Jobcentre and a UCO?”
‘Outlet’ is not defined in legislation and so takes it’s ordinary meaning which is a ‘market for a product or service’.
You are free to compare and contrast with ‘centre’ which neither is defined in legislation and so also takes its ordinary meaning which is ‘an office providing a specific service’.
Official Correspondence Team
People, Communication and Capability Division – Information Exploitation
and Security Directorate | Please consider the environment before
printing.
Are ‘outlets’ not smaller but more of and ‘centres’ bigger but less off. i.e Jobcentre Paypoint outlet
Maybe the future plans of the DWP is to close down Jobcentres and have Paypoint outlets like your local shop doing the admin work for UC like checking your ID. You claim on-line, you have your ID checked at the same place as you are top up your gas/leccy/moby fone. You ‘sign-on’ online and an automated algorithm built-in to universal jobmatch decides whether you have satisfied the ‘work-search’ requirements or not, with the ability to automatically issue sanctions.
A good idea would be to just ‘self-scan’ your UC claim at the checkout 🙂 Bye, bye Jobcentre 🙂 Bye, bye cock roaches 🙂
“MARK SERWOTKA, UK GOVERNMENT THUG LEADER, HAS HEART TRANSPLANT”
……………I bet the surgeons took hours to find the old one, i wonder if the new one came from a welfare suicide victim on orders from Lord Freud….
One thing is for certain, he should be now fit for work just like all the rest of those that had chronic ailments that his PCS lynch men decided to victimise with their bigotry and hatred.
May your condition go downhill fast and give you the element of pain that you gave to those least likely to fight back, the vulnerable, the disabled, the poor and the weak.
Don#t expect flowers or grapes, you deserve a death sentence on a par to those you chose to kill……….
Karma is a wonderful belief.
The Department would not be able to provide any data on any further evidence held that states
that returning to work may put the claimant’s life at risk.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/371793/response/906423/attach/html/2/FOI%204355%20response.pdf.html
“what a load of bollocks”
Terrorism most immediate threat to UK, says MI6
………….Appearing on the BBC propaganda machine, Alex Younger reminded me of the comedy character, “Q”, in the James Bond movies.
The only difference was John Cleese, who he looks like, would probably exude more credibility.
When the government of the UK gets into a situation where nobody believes them, where the nation seems to be tearing at the seams, they always use the old element of fear.
Nobody believes them about our role in Syria, nobody trusts them with our bent lawlords, so they decided a dose of fear should make us sit up and listen.
The only acts of terrorism are from within, not from any pretend enemy in a far away theatre of war.
Wars have been carefully constructed by those we are supposed to trust. They are all a bunch of shysters who manipulate to reap the rewards whilst deaths go overlooked.
We are spoon fed with Bullshit from our media outlets while our own tory government breach our own human rights.
Britain is funding illegal attacks in Yemen as well as providing in excess of £3 billion in weaponry to the Arabs in the past year.
All attacks on freedoms are from within, hence the curtailment and spying on our personal phone and computer activity.
We represent a threat to our governments twisted agenda and they know it…..
Agreed Geoff. When the masses start getting restless and making noise nothing like a bit of “The terrorists are coming for us” BS to divert attention away from the real issue: that would be the terrorists who run this country and who have killed more of our own citizens than ISIS ever could.
Anyway the question needs to be asked; why are we a target for them? Reason? We keep poking our huge snouts into other peoples affairs in order to try and make money out of every war, every piece of unrest on the planet that we can get into.
The UK is such a terrorist nation they even want to kill their own citizens before they get to pension age so as they don’t have to pay them out. How sick is that? .
“In one fell swoop, this Tory MP exposes HER OWN government’s dismal record on social welfare (video)”
Sarah Wollaston on QT (8th Dec) is telling the truth – no doubt her boss, Theresa May, let alone Jeremy Cunt, are both furious about this!
(I bet Dimbleby and his producers will not be allowing her back on again)!
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/12/09/one-fell-swoop-tory-mp-exposes-her-own-governments-dismal-record-social-welfare-video/
I HOPE THAT WE DO NOT HAVE A BITTERLY COLD WINTER (OR WAR!)
China, Qatar and the Australian Bank Macquire are going to be sold the U.K.’s ‘Gas Pipe Network’ (National Grid).
The UK public will lose out and give it to foreign companies and shareholders – helped by our good old Tory dictatorship and also the vitreolic (and totally privatised!) ghost of the old witch Margaret Thatcher.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/12/09/margaret-thatcher-just-gave-britain-huge-kick-beyond-grave/
I WONDER IF SAUDI ARABIA WILL SEND A REPRESENTATIVE AS WELL!
IF THIS WAS NOT SO SERIOUS, I’D HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE!
“Repressive regimes send diplomats to launch of UK human rights report”
“Representatives of countries including Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan will attend launch of report on Britain’s human rights”
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/dec/09/repressive-regimes-diplomats-launch-human-rights-report
Sorry – that should read:
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/dec/09/repressive-regimes-diplomats-launch-uk-human-rights-report
“ANOTHER OF LORD DAVID FREUD’S OBJECTS OF HATRED”
A MAN who has been severely disabled since birth says he is set to become a prisoner in his own home after his mobility allowance was downgraded.
Alastair Wardhaugh, of Thirsk, North Yorkshire, said following a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment last month by Atos Healthcare, on behalf of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), he had been told to surrender his lifeline mobility car by December 21.
A MAN who has been severely disabled since birth says he is set to become a prisoner in his own home after his mobility allowance was downgraded.
Alastair Wardhaugh, of Thirsk, North Yorkshire, said following a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment last month by Atos Healthcare, on behalf of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), he had been told to surrender his lifeline mobility car by December 21.
Mr Wardhaugh was born with congenital hydrocephalus and a form of spina bifida, and, aged four, suffered paralysis on his left side following an injection, which left him struggling to walk.
He walks about his house using a zimmer frame for support and can manage about 20 metres with a crutch, but is unsteady.
The 48-year-old said in 1995 he was told he would receive high rate mobility payments for life, and a previous attempt to downgrade his allowance in 2014 was overturned on appeal.
His latest assessment included being watched from a second floor window while he walked to his car. It came just three months after he was released from hospital having fractured his right leg in four places after becoming unsteady and falling down stairs.
Mr Wardhaugh said: “I have survived hydrocephalus and 40 operations, but this is the worst. I will be robbed of my independence. Anybody to look at me would think I was Quasimodo’s stunt double and need my car to get anywhere, so I was absolutely devastated to learn they had exaggerated my walking capabilities. There are thousands of disabled people suffering due to Draconian measures the Government is implementing.”
He said he has launched an appeal against the decision, but that could take up to a year to conclude, and in the meantime, he would be housebound.
An Atos spokesman said: “Our team deliver PIP assessments in line with the policy and guidelines laid down by the UK Government and only the DWP can take a decision on a person’s award of PIP or benefit support.”
A DWP spokeswoman declined to comment on Mr Wardhaugh’s case. She said: “Decisions on PIP are made based on the information provided by the claimant and their GP and claimants can appeal a decision.”
…………….DWP , LORD FREUD’S DISABILITY CONTRACT KILLERS, THE SCUM OF THE EARTH……
He walks about his house using a zimmer frame for support and can manage about 20 metres with a crutch, but is unsteady.
The 48-year-old said in 1995 he was told he would receive high rate mobility payments for life, and a previous attempt to downgrade his allowance in 2014 was overturned on appeal.
His latest assessment included being watched from a second floor window while he walked to his car. It came just three months after he was released from hospital having fractured his right leg in four places after becoming unsteady and falling down stairs.
Mr Wardhaugh said: “I have survived hydrocephalus and 40 operations, but this is the worst. I will be robbed of my independence. Anybody to look at me would think I was Quasimodo’s stunt double and need my car to get anywhere, so I was absolutely devastated to learn they had exaggerated my walking capabilities. There are thousands of disabled people suffering due to Draconian measures the Government is implementing.”
He said he has launched an appeal against the decision, but that could take up to a year to conclude, and in the meantime, he would be housebound.
An Atos spokesman said: “Our team deliver PIP assessments in line with the policy and guidelines laid down by the UK Government and only the DWP can take a decision on a person’s award of PIP or benefit support.”
A DWP spokeswoman declined to comment on Mr Wardhaugh’s case. She said: “Decisions on PIP are made based on the information provided by the claimant and their GP and claimants can appeal a decision.”
“MC DONALDS MULTI BILLION DOLLAR TAX AVOIDING OPERATION TO RESITE IN THE UK”
…………UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR TAX AVOIDANCE IN EUROPE, THEY NOW WANT TO SET UP BASE HERE…..
THE UK GOVERNMENT WELCOMES TAX EXILES AND THE HMRC ARE SHIT SCARED OF VISITING OFFSHORE TAX HAVENS……
But because of legal loopholes, it is likely that McDonald’s won’t be paying any tax at all. Since Britain relaxed its rules on the taxation of companies’ foreign subsidiaries in 2012, profits earned by the overseas arm of US-registered companies are, effectively, not required to pay UK tax.
http://evolvepolitics.com/no-mcdonalds-move-to-the-uk-wont-create-jobs-itll-just-let-them-avoid-even-more-tax/
In Europe alone, it is estimated that McDonald’s has avoided paying over €1 billion in corporate taxes between 2009-2013. This is far from being an isolated case.
According to a report by the Public and Commercial Services Union, an estimated £120 billion a year is lost through corporate tax avoidance. This money would easily plug the hole in the NHS, solve the housing crisis, and make austerity a thing of the past.
But as they have made abundantly clear with their policies, the government is not interested in the wellbeing of the working class, but only in lining the pockets of the super rich.
“LORD DAVID FREUD WILL BE CELEBRATING, NO DOUBT”
Samaritans demands action as number of women committing suicide reaches 10-year high
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/12/09/samaritans-demands-action-as-number-of-women-committing-suicide-reaches-10-year-high/
We don’t know how many people were wrongly declared ‘fit for work’ – DWP figures are meaningless
Posted by Mike Sivier in Benefits, Disability, Employment and Support Allowance
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/12/09/we-dont-know-how-many-people-were-wrongly-declared-fit-for-work-dwp-figures-are-meaningless/
Three thousand children hospitalised in West Midlands in ‘self harm epidemic
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/three-thousand-children-hospitalised-birmingham-12292761
“LORD FREUD’S VICTIMS”
Former midwife reveals torment after being left nine weeks without Universal Credit
The mum can’t afford to buy a gravestone for her husband and daughter’s grave
http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/news/southport-west-lancs/former-midwife-reveals-torment-left-12288518#ICID=sharebar_twitter
“FREUD’S KILLER COWBOYS”
Watchdogs snubbed by minister after raising concerns over UN ‘violations’ report
Four human rights and equality watchdogs have been snubbed by the minister for disabled people after raising serious concerns about how her government dismissed a report that found it guilty of “grave or systematic” violations of the UN disability convention.
The UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) said last month that the UK government had discriminated against disabled people across three key parts of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
But the government responded to the report by dismissing its conclusions and all 11 of its recommendations.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/watchdogs-snubbed-by-minister-after-raising-concerns-over-un-violations-report/
Samuel Miller • a day ago
The DWP is a rogue department and its ministers are human rights violators. Their draconian welfare reforms have inflicted immense suffering and hardship and are driving benefit claimants to suicide (the most recent tragedy: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u…. Like Holocaust deniers, shameless Damian Green and Penny Mordaunt are ignoring the overwhelming evidence against the DWP, including the testimony of coroners.
…………SO FRIGHTENED ARE THE DWP, THEY HAVE DELETED SAMUELS LINK TO THE NORTHERN LAD THAT COMMITTED SUICIDE AFTER BEING FUCKED ABOUT AND THREATENED WITH SANCTIONS…
Only the strongest MENTALLY survive the DWP Selection for Benefits process.
Survival. Hide. Interrogation. Terrorise Evasion.
You won’t even know your own fucking name by the time you get out of the Jobcentre!
…………LINK TO ANOTHER OF FREUD’S VICTIMS
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dwp-told-review-case-jobseeker-9409418
Benefit claimants die as DWP staff keep failing to follow suicide guidelines
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.
http://www.disabledgo.com/blog/2016/09/benefit-claimants-die-as-dwp-staff-keep-failing-to-follow-suicide-guidelines/
“THE TORY GAME OF DIVIDE AND CONQUER”
………..New titles invented to categorize the poorest and try to drive a bigger wedge between struggling masses of shithole UK….
LATEST CRAP TO EMERGE FROM TORY THINK TANK / DWP NUDGE UNIT.
“JUST ABOUT MANAGING” JAM
………………………………………………………………………..
How about,
GFA GOT FUCK ALL
LOTA LIVING ON THIN AIR
HEFD HAVEN’T EATEN FOR DAYS
NAF NEED A FOODBANK
TOTM THINKING OF TOPPING MYSELF
LFWUD LORD FREUD WANTS US DEAD
DATLS DISABLED AND TREATED LIKE SHIT
LOTS LIVING ON THE STREETS
RE RECENTLY EVICTED
SCC SECOND CLASS CITIZEN
DOHC DEPRIVED OF HEALTH CARE
HRAUK HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSER UK
……………………………DIVIDE AND RULE, THE ART OF INVENTIVE SOCIAL SEGREGATION THAT SETS PEOPLE AGAINST PEOPLE WHILE DIVERTING THE ATTENTION FROM THE REAL ISSUE, CORPORATE GREED…………..
“UNPAID BENEFITS AT RECORD LEVEL”
FREUD SMIRKS AS VICTIMS SUFFER
………………….All part of the DWP’s cull of the most vulnerable.
WHAT THE BBC HAVE BEEN BRIEFED TO SAY;
A total of £1.7bn in benefits was not paid to those entitled to the money in 2015-16 owing to fraud and error, a new record rate of underpayment.
An increase led to 1% of benefits being unpaid during the year, Department for Work and Pensions figures reveal.
A year ago, a committee of MPs told the government that delayed benefits meant families were going hungry.
The government said it was providing more help to claimants to provide accurate information.
Nearly 65% of underpaid benefits – the equivalent to about £1bn a year – was the result of inaccurate information from claimants, it said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38260831
…………………….ABSOLUTE CRAP
“IF THE DWP ARE AWARE THAT BENEFITS ARE UNDERPAID, THEY ARE AWARE OF WHO SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED THEM”
GIVEN THAT THE MAJORITY OF RECIPIENTS ARE POOR OR DISABLED, THIS IS INSTITUTIONALISED MURDER, nothing more, nothing less…
“The British Bill of Rights will not protect our human rights”
The Tories idea: Scrap the Human Rights Act, then replace it with a British Bill of Rights = No rights APART for people who can afford it and for Tory M.P.s/Ministers/The Media and the queen and her family and her extended family of taxpayer funded scroungers.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/british-bill-of-human-rights-day-richard-burgon-theresa-may-a7467281.html
If one has suicidal problems the DWP feel fit to class a suicidal person fit for work because the word suicide is mentioned. Suicide is not a medical issue, it is an issue to be cured by working. So suicide at work or murder all the staff & then commit suicide !!!
DWP Deaths Threats against disabled. DWP Death – Mrs May Death – Death to the Tory Party – The Tory party policy is death to the disabled. IDS death wish – David Cameron on the death hit list. NOW ACT YOU TORY TOSSERS IN DEATH THREATS ON SOCIAL MEDIA. # SCARED OF ACTING ON DEATH THREATS.
Now who is giving the death threats !!! Call you lawyers !!! Kill The Tories, Kill The Disabled, Kill The Human Rights Act. DWP ASSISTED SUICIDE – DEATH.
Let me get arrested DWP for death threats to the DWP & Tory Party. Come on I got a new job on Monday defending death threats & Tory Killers. Kill The DWP Policy. Kill The DWP. ISIS & THE IRA. Bomb Squads..G4S Blown Up.
Now piss off Tories because you are scared to act !! The Tories are so scared to be set up for money & are scared to act upon me so anything goes to do with the DWP & Tories.
Does DWP Death piss you off Tories !! It`s called DWP Assisted Suicide.
Kill Theresa May – The R Esa – Kill David Cameron – Kill the killers – New job on Monday sorting out DWP Death Threats on social media. £££££££££££££ pay day.
Can`t touch me I am suicidal & fit for work !!! DEATH WISH !!! Where are the Police DWP !!! The Communication Act being breeched. So the DWP do not do DWP Assisted Suicide !!! What is there to lose LIFE !!! Dangerous System for a Dangerous System. Sectioned at £3,000 a week. Come on DWP stop dragging your death wish !!!
“THE DWP ARE SHITTING THEMSELVES”
……….Trying to cover up their complicity in welfare claimant slayings
‘Grave and systematic violations’ minister branded ‘offensive’ after UN rights pledge
By John Pring on December 8, 2016 Human Rights
A minister partly responsible for the UK being found guilty of “grave or systematic violations” of the UN disability convention has been branded “highly offensive” after announcing that her government would try to become a “world leader” on disability.
Priti Patel (pictured) was employment minister for more than a year while the UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) was investigating her government for breaches of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), as a result of its social security reforms.
When the UN committee published its report last month, concluding that the UK government had breached disabled people’s human rights across three key parts of the convention, her government dismissed its work, with work and pensions secretary Damian Green describing it as “patronising and offensive”.
But Patel has now pledged commitment to the convention in a bid to be seen as a global leader on disability.
On Saturday, Patel – now the international development secretary – used the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) to publish plans to “lead a step-change in the world’s efforts to end extreme poverty by pushing disability up the global development agenda”.
A new paper published by her department says the UK government will “drive action to improve the lives of people with disabilities”.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/grave-and-systematic-violations-minister-branded-offensive-after-un-rights-pledge/
Only last month, CRPD was concluding that the UK government’s social security reforms had “disproportionately affected persons with disabilities and hindered various aspects of their right to live independently and be included in the community”.
Linda Burnip, co-founder of Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), the grassroots network of disabled people that persuaded the UN to carry out its inquiry, said: “The thought of the Department for International Development led by Priti Patel fighting to improve the rights of disabled people around the world is laughable, given her previous track record as minister for employment.
“The thought that someone who was part of a government condemned by the UN for the grave or systematic violation of disabled people’s human rights in the UK having the remotest interest in improving the life chances of any disabled person is highly offensive.”
“PRITI PATHETIC”
A Tory MP has caused outrage after branding harmless campaigners as a “thuggish gang”.
Employment Minister Priti Patel said that workers at her party constituency HQ, felt ‘threatened’ by the ‘thuggish’ group of elderly and disabled campaigners
………..HOW DO YOU THINK WE FEEL?
http://yournewswire.com/tory-mp-brands-elderly-disabled-campaigners-a-thuggish-gang/.
Patel visited the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) as part of her efforts to use IDPD to promote her department’s new paper.
Disability News Service asked LCD whether it had any concerns about the UK government being found guilty by CRPD of “grave or systematic violations” of the UNCRPD, and then claiming it wants to be a global leader on disability, but the charity had not commented by noon today (8 December).
Meanwhile, Remploy, the formerly government-owned disability employment business, now mostly owned by the scandal-hit US company Maximus, marked IDPD by holding a social media question and answer session… and then blocking disabled activists who tried to take part.
Remploy – which the Department for Work and Pensions has given Disability Confident Leader status as part of its newly-relaunched disability employment scheme – advertised the session with four of its disabled “ambassadors” on Twitter with the hashtag #AskUsAnything.
But when disabled campaigners took the four ambassadors at their word and started asking questions about Maximus’s links to the government’s welfare reforms – including carrying out work capability assessments (WCAs) – and the deaths of benefit claimants, they were blocked by Remploy.
One campaigner, @dinogoldie, was blocked after asking a series of questions including: “Is not a #disability employment service owned by a #disability denial factory a conflict of interest? #wca.”
@dinogoldie later added: “I asked @RemployPP some legitimate questions so they blocked me. Not very #DisabilityConfident.”
DPAC itself was blocked after asking: “How does it feel to work for a company owned by Maximus who make money from persecuting disabled people? #WCA #AskUsAnything.”
Another disabled campaigner, @otivar55, was blocked after asking: “Why did those poor people die during sanctions?”
Other than those put by anti-cuts activists, there appear to have been few questions asked of Remploy’s “ambassadors”.
A Remploy spokeswoman said that a “small number of people” were blocked on Twitter.
She said: “The Twitter Q&A on Friday was led by a group of Remploy disability ambassadors who were keen to share their lived experience on [IDPD], and support employers to create equality in employment opportunities.
“The Remploy disability ambassadors had a really productive, well-engaged discussion and we look forward to continuing to support disabled people to find sustainable employment.
“A small number of Twitter users were blocked from our account only because the questions they asked took the focus away from sharing experiences and helping employers create a more inclusive environment.
“We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.”
Meanwhile, Shaping Our Lives, the national network of service-users, marked IDPD by launching a new “charter for change” it has developed alongside the British Association of Social Workers.
The charter – produced following 18 months of discussions – aims to ensure all disabled adults and social workers work together to tackle barriers to independent living and to improve wellbeing.
Among its pledges, the charter says that both disabled people and social workers will “act like people, and not just follow mechanistic processes”, and that they will “have conversations rather than being bound by forms and procedures”.
And it says: “We will continue to work to overcome power imbalances between disabled adults and social workers leading to equal relationships and co-producing solutions.”
There is also reference to the crisis in social care funding, with the charter pledging that both disabled people and social workers will “be aware of the impact of policies across central and local government, and health and other services on disabled adults’ lives”.
Ann Nutt, a service-user and co-chair of Shaping Our Lives, said the charter “brings clarity and focuses on the development of a partnership strategy between disabled people and social workers”.
Joanna Matthews, chair of the user-led charity Unlimited Oxfordshire, said: “Some of our members have already faced cuts in their budgets or struggled to get a timely assessment.
“It really matters to have a good relationship with your social worker, so that in these times of cuts and hardship we can all work together to make a little go a long way.”
Another user-led organisation to mark IDPD was the Norfolk-based disabled people’s organisation Equal Lives, which linked with DPAC to hold a protest outside an inaccessible building in Norwich that is used by the government contractor Atos as an assessment centre for disabled people claiming personal independence payments.
Priti Patel Murderer. Priti Patel Disability Murderer. Kill The Tories.
“THE NOOSE GETS TIGHTER ON LORD FREUD’S NECK”
……….While the Freud family eat Christmas dinner, someone somewhere will be contemplating suicide…….
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By John Pring on December 8, 2016 Human Rights
Four human rights and equality watchdogs have been snubbed by the minister for disabled people after raising serious concerns about how her government dismissed a report that found it guilty of “grave or systematic” violations of the UN disability convention.
The UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) said last month that the UK government had discriminated against disabled people across three key parts of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
But the government responded to the report by dismissing its conclusions and all 11 of its recommendations.
Now the UK’s official independent mechanism (UKIM) for monitoring implementation of the convention – the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland and the Scottish Human Rights Commission – has called on the UK government to “urgently reconsider” its response to the UN report.
Penny Mordauny giving evidence to a parliamentary committee
Watchdogs snubbed by minister after raising concerns over UN ‘violations’ report
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By John Pring on December 8, 2016 Human Rights
Four human rights and equality watchdogs have been snubbed by the minister for disabled people after raising serious concerns about how her government dismissed a report that found it guilty of “grave or systematic” violations of the UN disability convention.
The UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) said last month that the UK government had discriminated against disabled people across three key parts of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
But the government responded to the report by dismissing its conclusions and all 11 of its recommendations.
Now the UK’s official independent mechanism (UKIM) for monitoring implementation of the convention – the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland and the Scottish Human Rights Commission – has called on the UK government to “urgently reconsider” its response to the UN report.
…………..YOU CAN RUN, YOU CAN HIDE, YOU CAN DISTORT THE MEDIA, BUT THE TRUTH IS STARTING TO EMERGE OF YOUR COMPLICITY IN WELFARE RELATED DEATHS…………
Who are giving out the deaths Threats !!! Priti Patel Death Threats. Mental Slavery Death so I don`t give a shit being given death threats by the Tories. Now act on my Death Threats to the Tories !!!
I you do not act I will kill the Tories !!!
If you do act I will also kill the Tories. Tory Murderers !!!
I am only joining in the DWP Death Threats. Michael Gove killed or should that read Kids. DWP medical is called RAPE & DWP Pedos.
Raping Kids down the DWP, sexually attacked at the DWP medical. Now the kids are on the game with the DWP as pimp.
So dangerous to get near the DWP & Tories down the vice den with child sex. Dangerous system for your defence DWP !!!
Why do Tories put kids on the game as their pimp !!!
Sanction Tory Child Sex !!!
The Work Coach is a pedo !!
Hang the lot of them & kill the Tories pimping !!!
So everything is politics – So it`s political suicide.
Stop playing games with kids Tories try ISIS & the IRA !!!
Since disabled people are under the anti Terrorist Bill who cares !!!
“AMAZON WORKERS PREFER CAMPING TO BEING PAID”
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon workers sleeping in tents near Dunfermline site
Hard pressed workers at Amazon have resorted to sleeping in tents close to the company’s fulfilment centre in Fife, The Courier can reveal.
At least three tents have been spotted in woodland beside the online retail giant’s base just off the M90 in Dunfermline in recent days, sparking concerns about the depths some employees are apparently plumbing to hold down a job.
The company came under fire last month from local activists who claimed that agency workers are working up to 60 hours per week for little more than the minimum wage and are harshly treated.
Amazon dismissed those allegations and said it values its employees, maintaining a “culture of direct dialogue” with them.
However, the news that some of its staff have taken to roughing it on bitterly cold winter nights has prompted renewed questions about employee welfare.
One worker, who did not wish to be named, was reluctant to speak to The Courier but did describe the firm as a “poor employer” and criticised working practices at the Fife site.
He added that he had opted to stay in a tent as it was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home in Perth, although his camping equipment had disappeared by Friday afternoon.
Another tent appears to have been abandoned, with rubbish, discarded sleeping bags and cans of cider among the items strewn around nearby.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie MSP, who has repeatedly called for the firm to improve its working conditions and its tax record, once more criticised Amazon after learning that some workers had apparently taken to staying in the woods.
“Amazon should be ashamed that they pay their workers so little that they have to camp out in the dead of winter to make ends meet,” he told The Courier.
“Amazon need to take a long, hard look at themselves and change their ways.
“They pay a small amount of tax and received millions of the pounds from the SNP Government so the least they should do is pay the proper living wage.
“The fares the company charge for transport swallow up a lot of the weekly wage which is forcing people to seek ever more desperate ways of making work pay.“
Earlier this year, Mr Rennie demanded that the multinational receive no more public cash until they could guarantee higher wages for workers, amid suggestions that some staff were paid well below the current living wage of £8.45 an hour
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/325800/exclusive-amazon-workers-sleeping-in-tents-near-dunfermline-site/
Bring it to light Tories, but wait a minute the Tories & police are scared because they need guidance from the PM Mrs May so right to the top with bullshit death threats against disabled people. Legal case will be who is the terrorist me or the Tories. Now shut the fuck up Tories & read.
Disability Genocide is called Terrorism resulting in death. Tory Policy.
Or course the Tories twist is & say I want to kill all disabled people. Tories we are not that thick to be your scape goat because your laziness shows up.
If I say kill disabled People the Tories are the first ones to defend disabled people from disability killers like ATOS, Maximus & Lord Fraud.
I the DWP work & the DWP gives me work – That is how it works.
Now call your lawyers !!! ££££££££££££
So many death threat & no action !!!
Don`t Give Death Threats If You Can`t Handle Your Own Death Threats DWP. Now for Operation Trident & Operation Yew Tree for the politicians.
What type of suicide are you talking about !!!
“The DWP handbook clearly suggests that people who are likely to commit suicide if found fit for work should be found fit for work”
Was David Brown a victim of DWP policy for claimants at risk of suicide: to PUSH THEM TOWARDS IT?
In the light of David Brown’s death, it seems appropriate to highlight the Department for Work and Pensions’ current policy on claimants who are at risk of self harm or suicide.
That policy is to push them towards suicide by finding them fit for work when they obviously are not.
Claims that people in work have better health than people who aren’t, and are at lower risk of suicide, are nonsense when dealing with a person who is off work for reasons that include suicidal ideation. Any fool can see that.
The guidance on page 252 of the DWP handbook clearly suggests that anybody likely to commit suicide if they are found fit for work should be found fit for work.
This is procuring the suicide of another, contrary to section 2(1) of the Suicide Act 1961. This used to state: “A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or attempt by another to commit suicide shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.”
Now it states: “A person (“D”) commits an offence if— (a) D does an act capable of encouraging or assisting the suicide or attempted suicide of another person, and (b) D’s act was intended to encourage or assist suicide or an attempt at suicide.
The DWP handbook clearly suggests that people who are likely to commit suicide if found fit for work should be found fit for work, so I think the intention is clear.
The attempt to excuse the DWP from any guilt by suggesting it might be healthy is, clearly, specious – apparently plausible but actually wrong.
Turning to the death of Mr Brown: Hindsight shows us he was considering suicide, from the way he discussed it with his family.
But the DWP has done what it always does – denied even the possibility that the actions of its advisors could have anything to do with the death.
The only way around this – as This Writer has explained several times – is for the claimant to make documentary evidence of his or her suicidal thinking. Best of all would be to let the DWP know, along with friends and relatives.
Did Mr Brown do this?
Is that why his Job Centre advisor threatened him with the loss of his benefits?
It seems clear his family should demand a full investigation of the DWP’s treatment of this young man.
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/12/10/was-david-brown-a-victim-of-dwp-policy-for-claimants-at-risk-of-suicide-to-push-them-towards-it/
………………EACH AND EVERY DISABILITY DEATH IS A BONUS TO THE EXCHEQUER AND A SIGNAL TO THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURERS THAT LORD FREUD’S INCLUSION WAS MONEY WELL SPENT……
Yes Geoff very funny – Suicide means fit for work – So I go to work Murder everyone at work & say that was a good days work & has cheered me up. Work has cured my suicide.
Sounds like the DWP !!!
I seem to be more dangerous than ISIS.
PPK
…….ANOTHER REAL LIFE DANIEL BLAKE
Both Brian’s doctor and his surgeon assessed him unfit to work because of his back and shoulder. But when he was told to see someone at the benefits assessment centre, they declared he was able to work.
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/lifestyle/people/foodbanks-saved-my-life/
“JEREMY HUNT, THE CALLOUS CUNT”
Dad dies after ’90 minute wait’ for ambulance to hospital just one mile from his home
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dad-dies-after-90-minute-9434076
Acutely ill children waiting nine hours for beds in intensive care
Seriously ill children are waiting up to nine hours for an intensive care bed to become available, while others are being transported up to 120 miles from their homes to receive the medical treatment they urgently need, senior paediatricians have revealed.
In the last two weeks, at least 17 children with acute illnesses requiring intensive care have had to be transported out of their regions because of a lack of beds. Some paediatric intensive care units, treating the most seriously ill children, are working at 115% of their capacity, such is the level of demand and lack of resources, according to the Paediatric Intensive Care Society. As of Friday night, there were just four beds available in England and one in Belfast.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/acutely-ill-children-waiting-nine-hours-for-beds-in-intensive-care/
No money to pay for ambulances but plenty of cash to give to the cops to waste on investigating internet ‘trolls’ and to buy tasers and other lethal toys. Cops are TOTAL waste of fucking money! Policing is nowt but a job-creation scheme for knobheads!
No money to pay for ambulances but plenty of cash to give to the cops to waste on investigating internet ‘trolls’ and to buy tasers and other lethal toys. Cops are TOTAL waste of fucking money! ‘Policing’ is nowt but a job-creation scheme for knobheads!
So the DWP are making medical judgements before a medical on the matter of suicide. That cuts costs & saves on a Medical instant results for the Tories. Suicide can cut the DWP budget. DEATH TO THE DWP !!!
Failing Care Of Duty – One for the lawyers.
The Right To Live – One for the lawyers.
What Am I Going To Do – Join ISIS.
Who are the Terrorists will be the question in a court of law.
Or get killed & shoot in Operation Trident !!!
I am getting very street wise today – To show up the Tories thinking they are street.
The Problem the UK has is Drones with bombs on them. Makes the suicide bomber not needed.
Ban The Bomb or Ban Drones !!! Not my problem !!!
The street is pretty mental !!!
“MAXIMUS CONTRACT UNDER THREAT AS DWP PLAN TO OPEN HOSPITALITY SUITE AT DIGNITAS CLINIC”
Dignitas director says he cannot provide sufficient facilities to deal with the rising UK disabilty suicides but provides link to cheap industrial Zyklon B gas derivative that could hasten Lord David Freud’s cull……..
“TORIES POISED TO SCRAP STATE PENSIONS”
………….Hence all the rhetoric recently about the benefits of working till you drop..
I’m beginning to suspect there’s a secret plan underway designed to demonise anyone of a certain age who fancies putting their feet up and doing bugger all. The propaganda has already started cascading from so-called health experts hell-bent on telling us how to live our lives “productively”.
The report, Fit For the Future, claimed that “good work” can improve our self esteem and boost brain power, and chief medical officer Dame Sally Davis (aged 67 herself) reckons that that older people should shun retirement because it will be better for their health. And, if we can’t be arsed to get a job, we should be taking up a new hobby.
What patronising bilge.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/pensions-work-healthy-stop-bullying-into-employment-janet-street-porter-a7465366.html
………..your national insurance payments have been squandered and they want to throw you to the private health insurance industry who will guarantee that you will never be paid………..
Freud’s master plan
Current list of DWP 0800 telephone numbers that claimants can use to call the DWP for free from a mobile.
0800220674 NISSA Benefit Enquiry Line for AA, DLA, Carer’s Allowance & Carer’s Credit
0800882200 DLA / AA Main Benefit Enquiry Line
0800991234 Pension Credit Application Line – TPS
08000224250 Customer First Line
08000327952 JCP New Claims Crisis Loans – English
08000556688 JCP First Contact New Claims
08000856528 Customer Payment Centre – Shared Services
08000857075 PDCS TPS Method of Payment Refor – MOPR
08000857102 Customer Payment Centre – Shared Services
08006783682 DWP Emergency Line – English
08006783717 JCP New Claims Crisis Loans
08007314811 PDCS TPS Pension Credit
08007317898 PDCS TPS State Pension New Claims
08009172222 PIP New Claims Service Line
08006783675 JCP Emergency
http://dpac.uk.net/2016/12/free-dwp-phone-numbers-and-more/
RESIST SANCTIONS.
If they make a sanction referral against you, act immediately
Submit a written statement about why you should not be sanctioned
Insist on a meeting with the manager of the Jobcentre (or the workfare provider) to argue the sanction referral be withdrawn
If the sanction referral is clearly unjustified, make an official complaint.
Claim Hardship Payments from the Jobcentre
Inform Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit so these benefits continue
If your sanction is confirmed ask for a written statement of reasons
Write to ask for a mandatory reconsideration of the decision by the DWP
If this fails, appeal against the decision to an independent tribunal
Seek solidarity from us and others – consider a demo at the Jobcentre or workfare provider if they are not listening to you
LET’S ACT TOGETHER AND MAKE SANCTIONS UNWORKABLE
Jewish people sanctioned by the DWP means the DWP are guilty of anti-Semitism. Mrs May will be the first one charged under the new anti-Semitism laws.. DWP Genocide.
When I write my CV I need to put suicide on it to get a job. Working cures suicide. How about working for ISIS as a suicide bomber !!!
Tesco has a new recruiting policy. Tesco now employs people who are suicidal. Tesco will not be employing suicidal people which makes Tesco discriminate against people who are suicidal. Tesco now owes me money for discrimination.
Who`s next !!! What corporate company shall I get a job with next.
In society I have been classed as suicidal [utter bullshit] & fit for work.
DWP Deaths Threats still continue !!! Still the DWP Deaths Continue !!!
7 million hard working families in poverty. Perhaps if they become suicidal they can cure their problems.
What a mockery !!! Make a mockery !!!
Council Tax rise for social Care is really money laundering, social care will see none of that.
I am self employed & since you said fuck off DWP I don`t pay income tax on earnings. No one believes a word I say.
I have done 25 years of benefit fraud resulting in defrauding the DWP out of £800,000 DWP act you stupid fraudsters.
One up on the tax payers.
Some of that £800,000 went to ISIS. Now lawyers what ISIS you talking about.
DWP finds people fit to work despite having proof the decision may kill them
DWP admit in 2016 they still find people fit to work even when holding evidence such a decision may kill the claimant, FoIA request reveals.
https://endpropaganda.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/dwp-finds-people-fit-to-work-despite-having-proof-the-decision-may-kill-them/
…………thought i would use the 1000TH comment to reassure LORD DAVID FREUD that we will not rest until he faces justice for the evil perpetrated on those least likely to fight back.
Until i take my last breath, my quest to see you fall will be my main priority.
“A CHRISTMAS SURPRISE FROM LORD DAVID FREUD”
55,858 Children get Tory Benefit Cap Christmas Card today – You’re homeless!
Today in 24 areas across the UK the cuts to the overall benefit cap begins. In these 24 areas (see table below) 16,741 families will be capped whereas yesterday there were just 1,741 families who were benefit-capped … 12.6 families capped today for every 1 family affected yesterday!
In these 16,741 newly capped families there will be on average 3.34 children making 55,858 children, all at acute risk of eviction and homelessness and, in short, being punished for the sins of their parent(s).
To give that some context, that is 1,862 classrooms full of children at 30 per classroom, who when their parents are evicted will probably have to move school as their new temporary ‘home’ will be wherever their local council can find an unsuitable bed and breakfast type homeless provision for them.
FREUD’S RECIPE FOR DEATH
https://speye.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/55858-children-get-tory-benefit-cap-christmas-card-today-youre-homeless/
Will ‘the Void’ ever return when the ‘donations’ run out?
“DAVID FREUD’S CAROUSEL OF DEATH AND DESPONDENCY”
A SEVERELY disabled young man who is unable to talk, read or write and needs round-the-clock care has been targeted yet again by the Department of Work and Pensions because of Tory government changes to disability benefits.
Last year The National revealed how Stuart Chester, who has Down’s syndrome, epilepsy and autism and is unable to feed or wash himself, had to prove he was unfit for work or risk losing his Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
The 25-year-old was sent a 20-page Work Capability Assessment form to fill in and his mother Debbie McKenzie, 51, said receiving the form had caused her “undue stress”.
However, she did fill in the form last August and was eventually told he would have DLA for life as his condition was never going to change.
Now the DWP has dropped another bombshell and sent Stuart a 42-page form to fill in to prove he is severely disabled and entitled to the the new PIP (Personal Independence Payment) that is replacing the DLA.
Debbie, from Glasgow, said: “I couldn’t believe it when Stuart got yet another form from the DWP, which was 42 pages long this time, asking for medical evidence to prove Stuart was entitled to the PIP which is replacing the DLA.
“It is an absolute nightmare after all we went through last year with the DWP work capability forms. We were eventually told last year that Stuart would have the DLA for life and then they go and change the DLA to PIP.
“I presumed all the information I put on his form last year with all the medical evidence of his condition on it that they could just use that and he would be transferred across to PIP, but I’ve been told I have to go through this whole rigmarole again.”
http://www.thenational.scot/news/14962036.Hounded_by_the_DWP__Mother_yet_again_forced_to_prove_her_son_is_severely_disabled/
“more freudian bullshit from the dwp”
A DWP said that because PIP was tailored to suit each individual needs it was important to get all the information to ensure people get the right support.A spokesperson said: “PIP is tailored to suit each individual’s needs, so it’s really important that we get all the information to ensure people get the right support. The evidence provided by the claimant, their carers, healthcare professionals, and information from a previous DLA claim can also help us decide if a face-to-face assessment is needed. There is support available for claimants who need help filling out the form.”
………..and a brisk answer
Harry Bickerstaff 7:20am Tue 13 Dec 16
When permission is demanded and given to allow DWP to examine medical records, why is it that they then tell the claimant (or the claimant’s carer) to get the information for them?
If PIP is ‘tailored’ to meet the needs of each individual, why is it that the allowances are exactly the same, regardless of how disabled a person is? Obviously not tailored to need, if it’s the same amount for all severely disabled people with individual, special needs
There should be a baseline (fixed at the present allowances) and additional payments added to that, to meet further special needs.
Basically (and everyone knows this apart, obviously, from the DWP), this is a scheme to get people OFF benefits and save money from the DWP budget. It has nothing to do with assistance.
Remember when it was called, National Assistance?
If this saves money paid in taxes; who pays most tax? That would be the richest, eh?
Who would benefit most from reduction of taxes? Oh, that would be the richest again, since (remember), they pay most taxes..
Surely not a scheme to benefit the richest, at the expense of the worst off?
That could never happen – could it?
Tory welfare cuts undermine the UK’s human rights record, says watchdog
Years of cuts to welfare benefits and Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act threaten “Britain’s position as a global leader in human rights”.
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Welfare Weekly –
Dec 12, 2016
Years of cuts to social security benefits and Government plans to scrap the Human Rights Act threaten “Britain’s position as a global leader in human rights”, the equalities watchdog warned today (Monday).
In a scathing and wide-ranging report to the UN’s Human Rights Council, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) criticises “a lack of progress on human rights” and warn vulnerable and marginalised people in the UK face an “uncertain future”.
The report has been sent as part of the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which scrutinises the UK’s human rights record every five years, under the spotlight of the international community, with the UK next due to be examined in Spring 2017.
The EHRC also expressed concerns with rising levels of hate crime, particularly since the EU referendum, urging the UK Government to use “new research to tackle hate crime and encourage the police and the courts to work together to stop it”.
The report “gives a worrying assessment of human rights protections across Britain”, the EHRC says, and includes a number of key recommendations. These include:
ensuring that a new British Bill of Rights does not weaken the legal protections people currently enjoy through the Human Rights Act
using new research to tackle hate crime and encourage the police and the courts to work together to stop it
carrying out detailed analysis of spending decisions to look at the overall impact on groups such as disabled people and children
ensuring that all unaccompanied and separated children entering the UK are assigned an independent guardian to help protect their interests
setting a time limit of 28 days for immigration detention and put an end to the detention of pregnant women
ensuring that in the youth justice system restraint is only used as a last resort, to prevent injuries and not used deliberately to inflict pain
Commissioner Lorna McGregor said: “These are uncertain times and we find ourselves at a crossroads, with decisions taken now deciding if we will still be seen as a global leader in human rights in decades to come.
“This report shows a worrying lack of progress, with society’s most vulnerable and marginalised in danger of being left behind.
“Our report is solutions-focused and we have made 30 recommendations that we hope the UN will accept and all governments in the UK will act on.”
Stephen Bowen, Director of the British Institute of Human Rights, said: “The Institute’s report shows that over the past four years little progress has been made to fulfil the United Nations’ previous recommendations to the United Kingdom.
“It is disappointing to see that human rights issues, such as ensuring the right to an adequate standard of living and access to justice, have become more prevalent.
“The voice of civil society is clear – repealing the Human Rights Act stands only to make these matters worse, not better. We hope the government will move swiftly to address these concerns, including dropping their plans to scrap the Human Rights Act.”
The news comes shortly after the UN accused the UK Government of “systematic violations” of disabled people’s human rights, arguing austerity measures since 2010 “amount to violations of disabled people’s rights”
However the UN’s report was dismissed by Tory Work and Pensions Secretary Damien Green, who said the report was “patronising and offensive”.
Responding to the report in Parliament, Mr Green said: “At the heart of this report lies an outdated view of disability which is patronising and offensive. We strongly refute its findings.
“The UN measures success as the amount of money poured into the system, rather than the work and health outcomes for disabled people. Our focus is on helping disabled people find and stay in work, whilst taking care of those who can’t.”
The latest report from the EHRC, and next year’s human rights review by the UN, could perhaps force the UK Government to take stock and reconsider how it is treating minority groups – most notably the disabled and those with long-term illnesses.
Penny Mordauny giving evidence to a parliamentary committee
Watchdogs snubbed by minister after raising concerns over UN ‘violations’ report
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By John Pring on December 8, 2016 Human Rights
Four human rights and equality watchdogs have been snubbed by the minister for disabled people after raising serious concerns about how her government dismissed a report that found it guilty of “grave or systematic” violations of the UN disability convention.
The UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD) said last month that the UK government had discriminated against disabled people across three key parts of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
But the government responded to the report by dismissing its conclusions and all 11 of its recommendations.
Now the UK’s official independent mechanism (UKIM) for monitoring implementation of the convention – the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland and the Scottish Human Rights Commission – has called on the UK government to “urgently reconsider” its response to the UN report.
Samuel Miller • 5 days ago
The DWP is a rogue department and its ministers are human rights violators. Their draconian welfare reforms have inflicted immense suffering and hardship and are driving benefit claimants to suicide (the most recent tragedy: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u…. Like Holocaust deniers, shameless Damian Green and Penny Mordaunt are ignoring the overwhelming evidence against the DWP, including the testimony of coroners.
“RT NEWS EMBARRASSES THE BBC BY REPORTING THE TRUTH ABOUT FREUD’S ATTACK ON THE DISABLED”
THREE YEARS SINCE THE POST OFFICE WAS PRIVATISED AND IN THAT TIME SHAREHOLDERS AND INVESTORS HAVE TAKEN OUT £650 MILLION POUNDS OF MONEY THAT BELONGED TO YOU.
IT WAS NOT THEIRS TO SELL OFF IN THE FIRST PLACE, IT WAS A PUBLIC INSTITUTION OWNED AND PAID FOR BY THE PEOPLE, THE CUSTOMERS……………
The plan to combat the Tories Human Rights Breaches was Dodgy David Cameron`s Bill Of Rights. Since that has pissed off it leaves the Tories vulnerable to Human Rights Breaches. Political Suicide at its best.
EQUALITY ACT 2010 – Breaches
Provisions relating to disability
•extending protection against indirect discrimination to disability
•introducing the concept of “discrimination arising from disability” to replace protection under previous legislation lost as a result of a legal judgment
•applying the detriment model to victimisation protection (aligning with the approach in employment law)
•harmonising the thresholds for the duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people
•extending protection against harassment of employees by third parties to all protected characteristics
•making it more difficult for disabled people to be unfairly screened out when applying for jobs, by restricting the circumstances in which employers can ask job applicants questions about disability or health
Since people in WRAG are employment figures & are working for the DWP & Atos & Maximus
•extending protection against harassment of employees by third parties to all protected characteristics
The Department for Work and Pensions says this 59-year-old Ebbw Vale man, who has early-onset dementia, is ‘fit to work’ and has had his benefits stopped
Southwalesargus – 12th Dec 2016
A BLAENAU Gwent man with early-onset dementia says he is disgusted after he was told he is fit to work.
Gavin Watkins, of Rassau in Ebbw Vale, was diagnosed with early-onset dementia five-and-a-half years ago, which means he sometimes forgets what has happened five minutes ago and can get confused with what he is doing.
However, having not worked for around 24 years due to having fibromyalgia and osteoporosis in his knees, the 59-year-old had an interview with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last month and was later told in a letter he was fit to work.
Kim Watkins, 58, who is her husband’s full-time carer, said she can’t believe this is happening to the family.
She said: “It’s a bit of a nightmare at the moment for us,.
“After Gavin had the meeting the letter from the DWP came on December 7 but it was dated December 2. It said he was fit to work and that his Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) had been cut off.
“It’s affected the family quite a lot, I can’t really work because I can only leave him a short while, and that’s if he is having a good day. “
The couple are currently appealing against the DWP’s decision, and say Mr Watkins has been given a sick notice from their local GP for the next two months which he will hand in to the local job centre.
Mr Watkins said: “It’s absolutely ridiculous, it’s like they’re just bending the truth. I’ve got quite bad osteoporosis in my knees and can’t stand for long at all, I have a stick. They [the DWP] asked me how long I could stand up for and I said not long at all but they marked it down that I could stand for an hour, which isn’t true at all.”
The family are currently stuck for money as they both relied mainly on the ESA benefits, and Mrs Watkins said that as a full-time carer for her husband, she doesn’t earn enough for all the bills.
“It’s just an awful thing for us,” said Mrs Watkins.
“We don’t want to be worrying about money at this time of year.”
A DWP spokesman said: “The decision on whether someone is well enough to work is taken following a thorough independent assessment, and after consideration of all the supporting evidence from the claimant’s GP or medical specialist. Anyone who disagrees with the outcome of their assessment can ask for the decision to be reviewed.”
George McNamara, head of policy at Alzheimer’s Society, said: “We are very aware of serious flaws in the Personal Independent Payments assessment process when it comes to people with dementia. This includes a poor understanding of the needs of younger people with dementia and limited recognition of the types of dementia that affect younger people
http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/gwentnews/14959868.Department_for_Work_and_Pensions_says_man__59_with_dementia__is____fit_to_work____and_has_benefits_stopped/
Perfect to work at the DWP.
All the supermarkets discriminate because you can only get a job there by applying on line just like Universal Credit. If you don`t have a computer or access to one or know how to use one you are deemed not in society & are discriminated against. I will get the DWP to help me fill out the on line form. The DWP put on my CV that I am suicidal & that Tesco should hired people who are suicidal because it`s part of DWP Policy.
My Work Coach says I should promote suicide which means I get more work & better pay. Tesco`s can cure suicide for the DWP & fuck the worker.
I hear Tories saying section everyone who is suicidal – Who`s paying £Billons for that !!! You the hard working tax payer !!! Another breach of the Human Rights Act. Labels suit dictatorship, like all disabled people are suicidal to cut corner & not default on their contracts with Atos & Maximus – So every ones a winner – Apart from the now on paper suicidal DWP cash cow called The Disabled. Suicide PLC trading in lives on the stock Exchange. More deaths more money.
It`s cheaper to kill the disabled & rob their benefits.
What a Tory suicide political rant by the DWP spokesperson said !!!
No the breaches of the Human Rights Act is not a rant it is law.
Guilty Tories.
The Tories spread Mental Disease. The Tories have Mental Health problems not issues.
Genocide cures Mental Health – The problem the Tories face has been cured.
I Daniel Blake part 2 is called Daniel Blake`s Suicide.
Me & Geoff will write it Ken Loach.
It will give so many disabled people a job being in that film.
Well the able bodied actors are not going to play disabled parts being an insult to the disabled.
Drop me a line Ken Loach.
Laura Kuenssberg is so biased – if Theresa May ever resigned – she could run for P.M. – (no constituency required!)
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/12/13/bbcs-kuenssberg-makes-claim-ludicrous-impartiality-youll-splutter-coffee/
This afternoon, during a debate on Syria in the House of Commons – parliamentarians, from both sides, (rightly) condemned the atrocities, the war crimes and the lack of Human Rights during the conflict.
(It is also been reported this evening that Britain has also been engaged in ‘war crimes’ in Yemen).
Whilst this has been a terrible and long drawn out ‘war of attrition’, it was very disappointing not to hear any ‘condemnation’ from any of them regarding the cruel and relentless ‘Welfare Reforms’, sanctions and the ‘avoidable’ deaths which have occurred by the actions/or the lack of actions of Lord David Freud, Iain Duncan smith, Chris Grayling, Priti Patel & now also, Damian Green.
It is shocking, in this so called ‘democracy’ that not a single scrap of this was condemned by any of them – not even in ‘brief’ passing whilst they were speaking.
Whilst I personally fully agree with their wishes to bring the perpetrators of the ‘war crimes’ in the middle-east to justice, – it should not and never will be forgotten what has been happening in the U.K – not least since the Tory/Lib Dem Coalition in 2010 and onwards and now with this latest 2015 unfettered Tory administration.
THEY CAN RUN AND THEY CAN HIDE BEHIND THEIR ‘POLITICAL CAREERS’ AND THEIR TORY PALS – BUT THEY ARE STILL GUILTY AND EVENTUALLY THEY WILL ANSWER FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST THE POOR, THE SICK AND THE DISABLED PEOPLE OF BRITAIN.
And of course, Grayling and his despicable Government would NEVER ‘break International Law’ would they?!
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/12/13/government-try-break-law-time-workers-fighting-safety/
“LORD DAVID FREUD’S POVERTY JAMBOREE EVENT”
Enough food for almost 25,000 meals was donated to Cardiff Foodbank in three days
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/enough-food-25000-meals-donated-12310669
……………..Whilst the Freud’s eat the finest, the poor eat the shit…………
Elderly couple who’ve held hands every day for 65 years to be separated due to a twat called Freud….
Ralph and Cecelia Martin have only been forced apart for hospital visits since they met in 1951 but have now been told they can no longer live together
Ralph, 89, suffers from dementia and Parkinson’s disease but vital funding which meant he could be cared for at home has now been taken away.
It means he will be forced to move from his home in Epsom, south-west London, into a care facility – leaving his 94-year-old wife behind.
Patricia Hall, the pair’s daughter, said: “Dad was in the army and worked three jobs a day to bring up a family. He never took benefits or signed on in his life.
“Mum is 94-years-old worked most of her life. They have been married 65 years. They still hold hands and want to be together.”
The couple were told the devastating news in a meeting at their home with care workers.
He is set to move into Hendford House Nursing Home in nearby Ewell next week.
Social care funding has decreased since last year and the Chancellor Phillip Hammond did not set aside any extra funding in his autumn statement.
Social care tax will be the new council tax in about 5 years time, the relaxed laws will ensure your council can charge what ever it likes.
Going back to the 1850s when poor people will get shunted around the country and only being allowed to bed-down if the local Mayor say`s there`s money in the pot to feed and house you.
No wonder they call it Devolution of councils, coz evolution is progress.
“UK unemployment in further fall” – REALLY?
“UK unemployment fell slightly to 1.62 million in the 3 months to October, according to the ONS – it meant that the unemployment rate held steady at 4.8% in the period, remaining at an 11 year low. Average weekly earnings excluding bonuses rose by 2.6% – a slight increase on the previous month”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38313110
And then – on Sky News: Damian Green on video crowing loudly about the Tory party ‘successes’!
“Underlying jobs picture ‘is resilient'”
news.sky.com/video/underlying-jobs-picture-is-resilient-10695631
It’s that time of year again!
I just wonder now what hidden ‘bad news’ is going to be quietly announced before the Tory Government retires for it’s Christmas & New Year Recess.
Keep a look out in the next few days in the more ‘trustworthy’ media!
“LORD FREUD’S IDEAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT”
…………..NOT JUST PULLING A CHRISTMAS CRACKER AND WATCHING A BROKEN WHEELCHAIR FALL OUT.
………….No this heinous sonofabitch would like to hear in the Queens speech that the last remaining disabled person was officially dead….
……spinning round the Christmas tree, his jackboots entangled in tinsel, he could then ring his sponsors in the private health insurance industry and reassure them that the gigantic pot of money in the welfare chest was now available to them………
………now the deal was done, could he have the other money promised to him…
“FREUD’S LEGACY”
……….for those of you disabled out there who are still alive, please be assured that the DWP are under constant bombardment from freedom of information requests relating to the UK governments breaches of human rights.
The DWP must have as many staff working on fairy tale replies as they have manning the exhorbitant claimant phone lines.
Take a look at the “WHAT DO THEY KNOW” website to marvel at the sick responses of a rogue organisation that steals from those most worthy of need.
Marvel in the knowledge that many claimants, homeless and sleeping rough, will have to endure lasting penury to install a radiator on the walls of the richest bitch’s Buckingham Palace.
………….join the queues as the calls to bring out your dead, echo once more on our streets as shithouse Hunt dismantles your last bastion of hope in the NHS.
“HUMAN RIGHTS”
Lee Jefferson left an annotation (13 December 2016)
The United Nations made its report findings public on 6th October 2016.
Here is a news article showing the report findings containing the link requested
https://endpropaganda.wordpress.com/2016…
The UK Government does not plan on correcting its violations of CRPD Article 6. The UK Government is also the first one in history to be investigated over its compliance of this Article.
“UK TORY GOVERNMENT BOLLOCKED TWICE IN JUST 12 DAYS FOR BREACHES OF HUMAN RIGHTS”
The government has been criticised by the UK’s human rights watchdog over its record on protecting the rights of disabled people, for the second time in just 12 days.
Last week, Disability News Service revealed how the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) had been snubbed by the minister for disabled people after raising serious concerns about her government’s response to a report that found it guilty of “grave or systematic” violations of the UN disability convention.
Now EHRC has submitted a report to the UN on the UK’s progress towards meeting its international human rights obligations across that and other conventions.
EHRC said its report – submitted in advance of the UK government being questioned about its progress by the UN Human Rights Council in May, as part of a five-yearly examination process – provided a “worrying assessment” of human rights protections across Britain.
The report says the government’s social security reforms have had a “particularly disproportionate, cumulative impact” on disabled people’s rights to independent living and an adequate standard of living.
The report also highlights how access to civil justice has “deteriorated significantly” since the UK’s last “universal periodic review” by the UN Human Rights Council in 2012.
David Isaac (pictured), EHRC’s chair, says in the report that disabled people have been hit by “a perfect storm of changes” to their social security entitlements, which the UN has found to be “in breach of their rights to an independent and adequate standard of living”.
EHRC also calls in the report – as it has on several previous occasions – for the UK government to assess the cumulative impact of such reforms when taking future spending decisions, so that life for disabled people “is not made even harder”.
Isaac said that, as a result of legal aid cuts in England and Wales – through the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO) – and higher employment tribunal fees, there was evidence that disabled people and others were being “priced out of justice”.
Since the new tribunal fees were introduced, disability discrimination cases had fallen by 59 per cent, he said.
The report calls on the UK government to commission independent research on the equality and human rights impacts of LASPO on disabled people, ethnic minorities, children and women, and to “mitigate adverse impacts” from higher employment tribunal fees.
Among other recommendations, the report calls on the UK government, and the Scottish and Welsh devolved governments, to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – and the other six “core” human rights conventions the UK has ratified – into domestic law.
It also calls on the UK government to provide regular estimates of the gaps in hourly pay for disabled workers when compared with non-disabled workers.
And it calls on the UK and devolved governments to address the “educational attainment gaps” experienced by children with special educational needs.
EHRC commissioner Lorna McGregor said: “These are uncertain times and we find ourselves at a crossroads, with decisions taken now deciding if we will still be seen as a global leader in human rights in decades to come.
“This report shows a worrying lack of progress, with society’s most vulnerable and marginalised in danger of being left behind.
“Our report is solutions-focused and we have made 30 recommendations that we hope the UN will accept and all governments in the UK will act on.”
Steve Kerry • 8 hours ago
And if the Tories tell the watchdogs to get stuffed, and treat them with the same level of contempt they have shown to the disabled, what exactly will the EHRC do? Write another report, perhaps? Fat lot of good that will do.
Graham Keeton • 12 hours ago
its all good having all these reports but UNTIL action is taken against the government then that’s all they are is reports on paper or whatever they might be on ACTION NOT WORDS is needed to solve this issue of human rights
“CAMERON’S BIG SOCIETY”
Cut after cut has left a disabled woman with nothing to live on
When a UN inquiry ruled last week that Britain’s austerity policies amount to a “systematic violation” of disabled people’s rights, it was talking about people like Bessie.
Bessie, 51, has agoraphobia, Asperger’s and complex mental health problems, and for the last three-and-a-half years she’s lived the reality of Conservative cuts. First came the bedroom tax, taking with it £12 a week. Then she was told her lifetime disability benefit would be scrapped. And now, as the latest cruel blow, Bessie – who’s received out-of-work sickness benefits since 2012 – has been declared “fit for work”. “You get over one thing and then another hits,” she says quietly. “It’s horrendous.”
I first spoke to Bessie in 2013, six months after the bedroom tax was brought in. It had been years since she had been well enough to earn a wage – before that, she worked in her late dad’s shop and then lived off some savings – and scraping by on benefits was always hard. The evidence of that was all around her then and still is today. There’s no oven or microwave in Bessie’s kitchen. No freezer either; she got rid of that to save money. When her washing machine broke, she couldn’t afford to replace it – not even with a second-hand one.
But it was the bedroom tax that meant, for the first time in her life, Bessie was pushed into debt. With her savings gone and struggling to pay the bills, by October 2013 she had six months of rent arrears, as well as for water, gas, and electricity.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/17/cut-disabled-woman-dwp
“DOCTORS NOW USED AS PUPPETS TO DEMONISE THE DISABLED”
Case study five
Someone who is not fit for work
Your patient works for an accountant, and
comes to see you with his wife. His sleep has
been poor for a month or two and he has been
feeling hopeless and miserable. You prescribed
an antidepressant for him and referred him to
the practice counsellor when he attended two
weeks ago. For the last week he has been unable
to sleep, lacks motivation and has not been into
work.
This morning he disclosed to his wife that he is
thinking about committing suicide and has a
detailed plan of how he is going to do this. You
assess that he is a risk to himself. He refuses to
go to A&E for an assessment so you arrange
an emergency psychiatric assessment at his
home and hand over his care to the emergency
psychiatric team.
He is unfit for work. You indicate on his fit note
that he is not fit for work due to depression and
complete a fit note for four weeks.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/465918/fit-note-gps-guidance.pdf
………………….THE FINAL SOLUTION?
Geoffrey S Jones
seems the Govt are desperate to either force the sick into work or their deathbeds……………..
Richard Scott
Why don’t they just change the wording of the “guidance” to…
“Unless the patient is decomposing post-mortem then they are to be declared fit for work”!
Marilyn Parker,
if they thought they could get away with it I’m sure they’d be implementing a “Soylent Green” style plan so even the dead can be used to create profits for their corporate paymasters. 😦
Seorsa Bhreanan
… Blimey, don’t give the ideas.
Not sure if you have seen this one Geoff
Extended Period of Sickness.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/extended_period_of_sickness#incoming-910079
Chris Grayling definitely needs reminding that ‘no-one’ is technically ‘above the law’ in Britain today – even him!
(Also – what’s happened to the possible Police Scotland investigation into him and Iain Duncan Smith re ‘avoidabe’ benefit claimant’s deaths?)
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/16/chris-grayling-could-face-private-prosecution-for-dooring-cyclist
…………..no charges to be brought against Keith Vaz and the remit of the Lord Janner investigation changed so he won’t be pursued…….
This govt are all as bent as a nine bob note, no wonder investigations into historic child abuse always hits the buffers.
A gentlemen’s club of pervs rooted in the highest echelons of power covering each others backs.
https://www.gov.uk/christmas-bonus/eligibility
Christmas Bonus
You must also get at least one of the following benefits in the ‘qualifying week’ – this is normally the first full week of December:
Armed Forces Independence Payment
Attendance Allowance
Carer’s Allowance
Constant Attendance Allowance (paid under Industrial Injuries or War Pensions schemes)
Contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance (once the main phase of the benefit is
entered after the first 13 weeks of claim)
Disability Living Allowance
Incapacity Benefit at the long-term rate
Industrial Death Benefit (for widows or widowers)
Jobseeker’s Allowance *
Mobility Supplement
Pension Credit – the guarantee element
Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
State Pension (including Graduated Retirement Benefit)
Severe Disablement Allowance (transitionally protected)
Unemployability Supplement or Allowance (paid under Industrial Injuries or War Pensions schemes)
War Disablement Pension at State Pension age
War Widow’s Pension
Widowed Mother’s Allowance
Widowed Parent’s Allowance
Widow’s Pension
*Like fuck! Ha-fucking-ha. You dole-blaggards don’t need an extra tenner. You are already on £73.10** of the Queen’s Gold Sovereigns a week (£57.90** sovs for 18-24). Let’s give the money to those who REALLY need it like those on DLA, PIP, Pensioners. You dolies can go and eat cake😀
**subject to arbitrary sanction😀
“DISABLED FOR LIFE AND EXISTING ON £33.60P PER WEEK ONLY FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS”
…………..FUNNY ISN’T IT
THE YANKS HAVE HAD ONE OF A PAIR OF UNDERWATER DRONES TAKEN BY THE CHINESE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS…………
IT WAS JUST TAKING WATER TEMPERATURE AND SALINE READINGS, (THE MEDIA REPORTS)
……………FUCKING LONG WAY TO GO TO TAKE SALT AND HEAT READINGS
DO OUR NEWS CHANNELS TAKE US FOR IDIOTS?
“G4S CALLS FOR HELP IN WINSON PRISON RIOTING”
………………EVERY FUCKING THING THE TORIES HAVE PRIVATISED IS NOT WORTH A SHIT.
WINTER WILL PUT LORD FREUD IN THE GALLOWS AS THE DEATH COUNT SPIRALS.
………………..meanwhile Theresa May will be hastily scribbling out a plan to ban all workers from withdrawing their labour……….
Yet another breach of our human rights in the making.
Paying peanuts, ransacking pension rights and altering employment law is starting to bite back big style.
.
……….And Branson has been running a non union recognition deal with the Tories to pick up prime medical contracts stolen from the NHS but his staff are now speaking out, withdrawing labour……….
The bearded tax exile who moves his cash to offshore safe havens deserves a kick up the arse.
Low tax rates for banks which are making eye-watering amounts of money,” said shadow finance minister John McDonnell. “This shows that this government wants to create an environment in which big firms get tax giveaways while everyone else gets spending cuts.”………………..
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-banks-taxation-exclusive-idUKKBN1452MO
The homeless in Toronto.
the Void’ – “narking off the state 2005-2016
😦 R.I.P 😦
‘Shocking rise in number of homeless children in B&Bs at Christmas’
Welfare cuts + rising rents + lack of ‘social’ and ‘affordable’ housing = A perfect storm for homelessness.
What a terrible position to be in 2016 – A Tory Government – full of M.P.’s & Ministers who do not give a fuck and is nothing, if it is not up it’s own, or up some poor unfortunate child’s arse!
The 5th richest Country in the World, headed by a well inherited ‘queen’ who looks set to get a £369 million refurbishment of her Buck. House (1.5 weeks of the U.K. contribution to the E.U.) – and ‘Lord Toffingham’, Jacob Rees Mogg – his family is due to receive £7.6 million for the refurbishment of Wentworth Woodhouse and lastly, but not least a recently announced millions and millions of pounds of refurbishment to the Houses of Parliament. IT IS INDEED DISGRACEFUL
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/17/homeless-children-shocking-rise
MORE TORY SANCTION DEATHS ON THE HORIZON
http://www.thenational.scot/comment/14972724.Mhairi_Black__Stretch_people_more_and_sanctions_will_rise/
“MESSAGE TO MAXIMUS FROM BLACK TRIANGLE”
At the start of this campaign, the DWP contacted us and asked us to remove Maximus from our posts because they only do ESA Tests, not PIP. They are correct and we want to apologise for this error.
So in an effort to clear things up, we went out and made a special STOP-PIP ESA Episode especially for them.
This tells the story of Abbie, a girl’s who’s father was Sanctioned to Death during his fight to get ESA, which we’ll be releasing on Monday.
We’re very proud to put Maximus back on the Murderer’s Row alongside ATOS, Capita and the DWP where they belong.
Merry Christmas.
Sorry, that should read:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/17/homeless-children-christmas-shocking-rise
BILL PASSED IN US CONGRESS TO MICROCHIP PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-13/house-passes-bill-microchip-citizens-mental-disabilities-whos-next
We’ve all been warned that it is coming, but as SHTFPlan.com’s Mac Slavo notes, what is disturbing is that while technology surrounds us and *some* have concerns about privacy, most shrug at the massive amounts of data they are collecting about our lives, and the incredible level of control the system now has over each individual.
This bill passed, clinging to the broadest base of “good intentions” that it could muster, i.e. caring for those with disabilities and decline with age.
But in reality, it is a nose under the tent for a system that needs the ability to microchip dissenters, and to force cooperation on the part of the general population. In effect, everyone is now under their thumb with this, because anyone could doesn’t go along with the mass conditioning will be labeled ‘mentally –––’ and branded with a track-and-control chip. Game over.
At the first sign of suspicious behavior, or troubling social media profile, or a misunderstanding during an encounter, police and medical personnel – among others – will have the authority to declare someone ‘mentally disabled’ (or incapacitated, or temporarily insane, or unsound of mind, or whatever label is handy) just because they express discontent, anger or outage at the state of the world and political affairs. “Fake news” journalists can be shut down, and “conspiracy minded” individuals controlled… and of course, it will be abused. The tactics used against parents by CPS will be forged together with the creepy total surveillance of the fusion centers, etc. Potentially a very nasty police state.
This power will expand, and try again if it is slowed down or rejected. Whether it takes the form of an implanted chip, or a tracking number that is tied to each person, they will stop at nothing short of mark in everyone with identity tied to bank accounts, etc. They will insist you be on the grid in every way… and with this bill, they just got one step closer to controlling the future. All this has been foretold, and yet it is beyond anything anyone could have imagined.
“MICHAEL SHEEN SUMS UP THE TORY GOVERNMENT, PERFECTLY”
“In the same way as the Na?is had to be stopped in Germany in the Thirties, this thing that is on the rise has to be stopped,” he told The Times.
“YESTERDAY MICHAEL SHEEN’S STATEMENT WAS ON THE BBC NEWS………………
TODAY THEY HAVE ALTERED IT AND DELETED THIS PASSAGE………..
I WONDER WHY?
Thousands with progressive and mental illnesses lose their disability benefits in cruel Tory cut
Thousands of people with progressive diseases and mental illness have lost their disability benefits in a cruel Tory cut.
Charities sounded the alarm tonight over a “devastating” shake-up which has axed or reduced 230,000 people’s Personal Independence Payments (PIP).
The fund is designed to help disabled people live independently and is replacing the old Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
Yet around 110,000 DLA claimants who were reassessed for the new benefit – 21% of the total – have been rejected since PIP launched in 2013.
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Another 121,000 – 23% of those reassessed – were given PIP but at a lower rate than their previous benefit.
Overall, 40% saw their payments rise and 12% saw no change.
The figures, covering April 2013 to October 2016 and compiled by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), were slipped out without fanfare on the government’s website today.
Woman in wheelchair waiting at station platform
Nearly half of those who were reassessed lost some or all of their disability benefit (Photo: REX/Shutterstock)
Those who lost out include many with progressive diseases – around 450 Parkinson’s sufferers, 3,069 people with multiple sclerosis and 4,450 suffering unspecified ‘malignant diseases’.
Others with progressive conditions who saw benefits axed or reduced were around 294 cystic fibrosis sufferers, 36 people with motor neurone disease and 1,617 people classed as “terminally ill”.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said those in the last group were found to no longer be “terminally ill” because they were expected to live beyond six months.
Mental health charity Mind warned 74,580 former DLA claimants with four key psychiatric disorders lost some or all of their benefits – 55% of all those who were reassessed.
Policy manager Vicki Nash said the figures were a “a huge cause for concern”, adding: “Hundreds of thousands of people with mental health problems rely on DLA and PIP to help them get the support they need to stay well.
Elderly hand holds that of a newborn baby. Stock image
Thousands of people with progressive illnesses like Parkinson’s were among the figures (Photo: Getty)
“Often we hear from people with mental health problems who tell us that they dread the face-to-face assessments which rarely take into account their mental health.”
PIP was denied or cut back for around 2,525 blind people, 570 people with AIDS, 128 haemophiliacs and 19 double amputees.
Also hit were around 20,050 people with back pain, 34,545 with arthritis, 8,084 with chronic pain syndromes and 10,725 with learning difficulties.
All figures are approximate because the DWP rounded the total number of claims for each condition to the nearest hundred.
The data came despite ministers scrapping £4.4bn in planned PIP cuts that prompted Tory welfare chief Iain Duncan Smith to resign.
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Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Debbie Abrahams said: “These figures clearly demonstrate how the government is using cuts to disabled people’s support to pay for its failed austerity agenda.
“What these statistics don’t show is that 65% of these assessment decisions are being overturned at appeal.”
Phil Reynolds, of Parkinson’s UK, warned the system has had a “devastating impact” on people’s everyday lives.
He added: “PIP was created to increase people’s independence, but people with Parkinson’s are being robbed of it by a system which is rigged against them.
“We continue to hear the most appalling stories of people with Parkinson’s who have been well supported on DLA but who are now experiencing cuts in payments and having to return much needed Motability vehicles.”
A DWP spokeswoman stressed DLA and PIP were different benefits and 34% of those eligible received the highest possible payment.
She said: “DLA was in urgent need of reform and many DLA claimants had not undergone any kind of assessment of their needs for several years.
“PIP is a better – and fairer – system designed to focus support on those experiencing the greatest barriers to living independently. In all cases, the outcome is based on individual circumstances and the needs arising as a result.”
“MICHAEL SHEEN WAS RIGHT, ALL THE TORY POLITICAL ACTIONS AGAINST THE POOR, HOMELESS AND DISABLED ARE TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM THE HANDBOOK OF A DELUDED PSYCHOPATH WITH A NARROW BLACK MOUSTACHE”
Vivienne Peake
. We need lawyers who are willing and brave enough to bring an action of Corporate Manslaughter against the Government and DWP. These cases would be for respect, decency and conscience. This HAS to stop and the Government brought to account.
Alun Hynes
Sick na?i conservatives should be sanctioned themselves and not just kicked out of power but kicked out of the country or face trial for crimes against humanity 🖕the na?i scum
…………….TYPICAL COMMENTS
“NHS PUT ASIDE £56 BILLION TO FIGHT COMPENSATION CLAIMS AS TORY GOVERNMENT DESTROY HEALTH SERVICE”
DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO COVER UP TORY MASSACRE OF OUR MOST ILL………..
HOW MANY NHS PATIENTS HAVE ALREADY DIED?
Britain’s spending watchdog is to launch an official probe into why the NHS wastes billions fighting clinical negligence claims.
The National Audit Office wants to know why £56billion was set aside for compensation last year – almost half the NHS £116billion budget.
And that is almost double the £31billion put aside in 2014.
On Monday letters from the NAO will land on the desks of members of the Society of Clinical Injury Lawyers asking for their help.
SCIL Chairman Steve Webber said: “This NAO inquiry is long overdue and critical for the safety of patients in the country”.
“Government has been looking at the issue in the wrong way for far too long.”
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Inquiry ‘long overdue and critical for the safety of patients’ (Photo: Getty)
The watchdog plans to report back to Parliament next summer.
Investigators will examine why costs are soaring and whether the NHS Litigation Authority is doing enough to manage them.
It’s tactics have been branded by Tory MP and former Solicitor General Sir Edward Garnier as “defend, deny, and delay.”
The Authority is now losing three quarters of the cases it contests. Settling them early would save an estimated £150million a year alone.
Experts say those claimants who take action would prefer a simple apology to spare them the agony of a court battle.
Jamie Sparrow only wanted an explanation for his newborn son Sebastian’s death in London’s Royal Free Hospital after a caesarean delivery in November, 2013.
The Royal Free hospital
Instead of opting to settle at an early stage the NHS drags many cases to court (Photo: Getty)
Instead he had to launch proceedings in a bid to get at the truth.
He told the Sunday People: “Families like ours must spend years simply trying to establish the facts of what happened reliving the worst moments of our lives time and again.”
The average cost to the NHS of settling at an early stage would be £2,650 but by fighting through the courts costs increase to £18,000.
Mr Webber added: “It would be sensible for the Government to focus on patient safety as the primary concern.
“If that were looked at the cost would go away, and all that pain and suffering would be reduced.
“When there are cases settle them early. Claimant lawyers can’t charge as much as if the case is fought for a long time.”
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MP Richard Bacon says many sue because they want an ‘acceptance of where the responsibility lies’ (Photo: Getty)
The Commons Public Accounts Committee which monitors government spending also wants to see action.
Tory MP Richard Bacon said: “Many people are suing not for financial reasons but because they want an acceptance of where the responsibility lies.
“If they are forced to become litigants that will make things slower, clog things up and drive further cost.”
The NAO said: “Our objective is to form a judgement on whether value for money has been achieved.”
In 2001 the NAO called for all medical negligence claims that had gone on for five years to be re-examined.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watchdog-launch-probe-56billion-lost-9476823
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/08/human-tracking-bill-passes-house/
Damian Green refuses to suspend benefit sanctions over the Christmas period.
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/welfare-secretary-damien-green-refuses-halt-benefit-sanctions-christmas-period/
“WHY THE YANKS ARE PISSED OFF BY THE CHINESE STEALING AN UNMANNED DRONE”
The SYRIAN war is nothing to do with religion, it’s all about vast swathes of untapped gas and oil reserves. The west controls the media that tells us otherwise…………….
Have you wondered what the American geology ship was doing miles away from home?
According to the 1993/94 US Geology Survey estimates, natural gas is more abundant in the area than oil. The USGS estimates that about 60%-70% of the area’s hydrocarbon resources are gas and has placed the sum total of discovered reserves and undiscovered resources in the offshore basins of the South China Sea at 266 trillion cubic feet.
State-owned oil major China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), responsible for most of China’s offshore hydrocarbon development, estimates that the area holds around 125 billion barrels of oil and 500 trillion cubic feet of gas in undiscovered areas, although the figures have not been confirmed by independent studies.
……………………Where will the next phoney war be?
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“WHY IS A SUBSIDIARY OF MAXIMUS (THE DISABILITY KILLER), BEING ALLOWED TO MAKE DECISIONS ON DISABILITY ISSUES?”
The Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA) is a subsidiary of MAXIMUS, a leading global provider of government health programmes.
……….but in a freedom of information request to the DWP;
………………………………………………………………………
Marion Fallon 14 December 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The Governments response to the U.N enquiry into the U.K , which found that disabled people’s human rights were being gravely and systemically violated states that, “The Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA) has established a Customer Representative Group of over twenty national disability organisations to discuss issues such as clinical training and communications”
1. Who are the twenty organisations ?
2. ” Is introducing a telephone service to help people complete their ESA Health Questionnaire .”
Given the high and unaffordable cost of calls to DWP services, will this service be free or if not, what will the cost of such calls?
3. “Is DWP providing disability awareness training for over 2000 customer-facing staff.”
Yours faithfully,
Marion Fallon
…………………………………………………………………..
…………………A CUSTOMER REPRESENTATIVE GROUP?
YOU MUST BE FUCKING JOKING!
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/governments_response_to_un_inves#incoming-909007
……….THE UK GOVERNMENT IS COMPLICIT IN THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF THE MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE.
LORD DAVID FREUD, THE INSTIGATOR OF THE WELFARE DEATHS HAS RECENTLY RESIGNED HOPING THE THE MEDIA ATTENTION OF HIS HEINOUS CRIMES WOULD SOMEHOW FADE………..
WE WILL SEEK JUSTICE FOR THOSE VICTIMS WHO ARE NO LONGER WITH US.
“THE FAKE MEDICAL REPORT ORGANISATION”
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About MAXIMUS
With 16,000 professionals engaged in a range of initiatives around the world, MAXIMUS helps governments, businesses and individuals to achieve their goals. We are delivering essential services to 35 million individuals, across 300 sites, in six countries.
We bring innovative thinking and a caring attitude of partnership to every project. Supporting communities through the services we provide, we are passionate about the differences our efforts make in people’s lives.
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About the CHDA
In the UK, we carry out Work Capability Assessments for the Health Assessment Advisory Service. We do this on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
These assessments are designed to develop understanding of the specific impact an individual’s long-term illness or disability has on their ability to work. They are an integral part of the process for claiming for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
We work with people who have made a claim for ESA. We are often required to meet with them in person, to carry out assessments face-to-face. It’s our responsibility to explore each individual’s unique case – their needs, circumstances and capabilities.
We deliver this important work from a network of 142 Assessment Centres across Great Britain. We report our findings to the DWP, who use the information to inform their decisions around individuals’ suitability for ESA.
Our Customer Charter defines the way in which we work. We created it to ensure everyone is treated as an individual, with dignity and with respect.
Discover more about the CHDA: click here
For further information please email clinicalcareers@maximusuk.co.uk
This deal should not be allowed to go ahead – Sky News is already too biased in it’s coverage – just imagine what it would be like if this deal was allowed to go ahead.
“The Murdochs may claim that editorial independence could be guaranteed by ringfencing Sky news, and impartiality protected by Ofcom (! :D), the regulator. But the answer to this and other deeper questions at the heart of this bid depends on trust and the conduct of the Murdoch organisation and family does not inspire trust”
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/17/murdochs-sky-deal-blocked-miliband-cable-james-murdoch-media-empire
On the one hand, just five individual Billionaires in Britain get to control 80% what you read in printed media and on the other hand, just five Internet Service Providers get to control what 87% of people get to see on their devices. Both are heavily influenced by government. It is no wonder what the public think is a misinterpretation of the truth. In fact, so far from the truth, it is more a departure from reality. Propaganda works!
Owen Jones’s book, “The Establishment and how they get away with it” focuses on how British democracy is threatened from within explained best by it’s own description;
“Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process. In exposing this shadowy and complex system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the heart of our Establishment, from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms, boardrooms and trading rooms of Fleet Street and the City. Exposing the revolving doors that link these worlds, and the vested interests that bind them together, Jones shows how, in claiming to work on our behalf, the people at the top are doing precisely the opposite. In fact, they represent the biggest threat to our democracy today – and it is time they were challenged”.
……………THE MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS COMMISSION ARE A THING OF THE PAST………………
BACKHANDERS IN THE FORM OF LOBBYING (BRIBERY OF HIGH RANKING POLITICIANS), NOW RULES THE DAY………..
http://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/how-britains-propaganda-machine-controls-what-you-think/
“WHY MURDOCH SHOULD FAIL”
Rupert Murdoch – News Corp NWSA -0.73%
Rupert Murdoch, former CEO of 21st Century Fox , the parent of powerhouse cable TV channel Fox News, may well be the world’s most powerful media tycoon. He is executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox with his son Lachlan and is also chairman of News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal and other publications. Altogether, his family controls 120 newspapers across five countries. Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal also owns 1% of News Corp, after cutting down his holdings from 6% in early 2015.
………………ONE MAN, 120 NEWSPAPERS AND A BIAS THAT CAN NEVER BE CHALLENGED
“KAREN BRADLEY, THE CULTURE SECRETARY KNOWS FULL WELL THAT WHOEVER CONTROLS THE NEWS CONTROLS THE GOVERNMENT”
…………….If negative news was broadcast by the BBC or SKY about the UK Conservative government it would topple in no time at all……..
Karen Brady will put up no challenge to Murdoch, advised by all corners to just go along with it, shit scared of the consequences of doing otherwise…………
………………ask Wendi Deng, Blair’s bit on the side, Murdoch’s ex, Jerry Hall’s predecessor and Putin’s new bird ?
“one big happy family really”
Ivanka Trump Is Vacationing with Wendi Deng
……….that’s right, Trump’s daughter and Putin’s bit on the side….
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/ivanka-trump-wendi-deng-vacation
“WHO OWNS THE UK MEDIA”
Britain has one of the most concentrated media environments in the world, with 3 companies in control of 71% of national newspaper circulation and 5 companies in command of 81% of local newspaper titles.
The hacking scandal and its aftermath demonstrated how that power has been used nationally, whilst at local level community after community is losing the means to publicly hold power to account.
Urgent reform is needed to reclaim the media in the interest of the public.
http://www.mediareform.org.uk/who-owns-the-uk-media
Men Scryfa says:
Janner Trial Update – Remember he is facing 22 yep 22 Counts of Child Rape/Assault/Buggery (his eldest son is a QC his eldest daughter is a Rabbi he lives in Hampstead and he inherited his MP seat from his father many many years ago was elevated to the Lords and must have been ‘vetted’ by MI5 and the Establishment – think about it!!)
https://www.rt.com/uk/317401-lord-janner-unfit-trial/
“NOT THE TORY HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS?”
EHRC said its report – submitted in advance of the UK government being questioned about its progress by the UN Human Rights Council in May, as part of a five-yearly examination process – provided a “worrying assessment” of human rights protections across Britain.
The report says the government’s social security reforms have had a “particularly disproportionate, cumulative impact” on disabled people’s rights to independent living and an adequate standard of living.
The report also highlights how access to civil justice has “deteriorated significantly” since the UK’s last “universal periodic review” by the UN Human Rights Council in 2012.
David Isaac (pictured), EHRC’s chair, says in the report that disabled people have been hit by “a perfect storm of changes” to their social security entitlements, which the UN has found to be “in breach of their rights to an independent and adequate standard of living”.
“DR. SARAH WOOLLASTON, PRETENDS HUGE SUICIDE RATES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH TORY WELFARE CUTS”
NO IMPACT ASSESSMENTS WERE EVER DONE ON WELFARE CUTS
LORD DAVID FREUD SIGNED OFF THE WELFARE BILL KNOWING FULL WELL THERE WOULD BE CONSEQUENCES…………
Chair’s comment
Chair of the Committee, Dr Sarah Wollaston, says:
“4,820 people are recorded as having died by suicide in England last year, but the true figure is likely to be higher. Suicide is preventable and much more can and should be done to support those at risk.
I hope to see the most important messages from witnesses to our inquiry taken into account by the Government in their renewed suicide prevention strategy. The Committee will scrutinise the updated strategy and then hold a follow-up hearing before publishing a full report.”
………….THIS SHOCKING GAME OF PRETENCE AND PASS THE PARCEL WILL SEE MORE SUICIDES AS TRUE EXTENT OF UK GOVERNMENTS BREACHES OF HUMAN RIGHTS TAKES HOLD IN THE COMING MONTHS.
Suicides are inevitable with what is going on
“LORD DAVID FREUD WAS ASKED TO STEP DOWN IN ADAVANCE OF THE RELEASE OF THE SHOCKING SUICIDE REVELATIONS”
…………..SIGNING COUNTLESS THOUSANDS INTO POVERTY HE KNEW THE OUTCOME WOULD BRING MANY CASUALTIES BUT HE WAS BEING LOBBIED BY THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY TO HAND OVER THE WELFARE PAYMENTS SYSTEM TO THEM.
IN THREE WEEKS HE PURPORTED TO HAVE WRITTEN A DOCUMENT THAT WOULD IMPLEMENT WELFARE CHANGES…….
THE DOCUMENT WAS NOT BY HIS OWN HAND, IT WAS WRITTEN BY UNUM PROVIDENT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY WHO HAD EARLIER BEEN ADVISING THE DWP.
AT THE SAME TIME UNUM BEGAN A SERIES OF TV COMMERCIALS ON UK TV ADVERTISING THEIR PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE PRODUCTS.
THE MEDIA ADS CAMPAIGN WAS DROPPED IMMEDIATELY AFTER CONCERNS WERE RAISED ABOUT THE DWP’S LINKS TO PRIVATE HEALTH INSURERS WHO WERE STEERING GOVERNMENT POLICY ON WELFARE REFORMS.
THE UK GOVERNMENT TRIED TO DENY THAT INFLUENTIAL FIGURES FROM THE MIGHTY UNUM CORPORATION WERE PRESENT IN WELFARE DECISIONS BUT THE EVIDENCE IS WELL DOCUMENTED, EVEN IN HANSARD………….
:
Welfare Reform and Work
I have read the Impact Assessment and I am satisfied that, given the available evidence,
it represents a
reasonable view of the likely costs, benefits and impact of the leading options.
Signed by the responsible
Minister
DAVID FREUD
:
Date:
25 08 2016
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/548741/welfare-reform-and-work-act-impact-assessment-for-the-benefit-cap.pdf
“LORD DAVID FREUD AND THE UNUM PROVIDENT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY”
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)
Photo of Lord Freud Lord Freud The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
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.
………….THE GOVERNMENT HAS BLOOD ON IT’S HANDS
“DWP WHISTLEBLOWER EXPOSES PUSH TO CREATE MORE SUICIDES OVER CHRISTMAS”
A whistleblower has come clean on the drive to punish benefit claimants rather than process appeals.
Bosses at Scotland’s biggest benefits centre have told staff to focus on sanctioning claimants and to forget about processing appeals until after Christmas, according to a whistleblower.
The Department for Work and Pensions employee has blown the lid on a drive to prioritise sanctions over appeals after being sickened by the management edict.
The insider, who handles claims and sanctions at one of the busiest DWP centres in the country, said:
● Staff are overwhelmed by the volume of appeals against sanctions.
● Simple appeals against benefit sanctions are piled up back to October.
● Staff processing claims have been told to focus on sanctions only until the New Year, shelving appeals.
The DWP strongly denied the claims. A spokesman said: “These allegations are untrue.”
Disabled grandfather told to get a job has decision reversed by DWP after Daily Record story
But SNP MP Anne McLaughlin, whose Glasgow North East constituency takes in the benefits centre, will press the UK Government for a ministerial response to the claims later this week.
She said: “I’ve never heard anything so mean-spirited in my life.
Anne McLaughlin
“I am absolutely gobsmacked by the callousness of the directions being given to DWP staff just before Christmas.
“Nobody should have to endure the misery of having their benefits stopped at Christmas, let alone face an increase in the likelihood of a sanction.
“Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green – or should we call him Damian Grinch – must explain exactly why this appalling guidance is being implemented up and down the country and immediately call a halt to all benefit sanctions at Christmas.”
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/outrage-claims-dwp-grinches-refusing-9483057
“For someone to have their benefits stripped from them is bad enough but at this time of year it is truly wicked.
“They won’t be able to take their kids to see the Christmas lights because they won’t have the bus fare, there won’t be any chance of going to a local panto.
“It also means those constituents who are confident their sanction will be overturned and who are banking on getting that before Christmas are waiting in vain – even though mandatory reconsideration decisions are supposed to be made within 10 days of the complaint.”
…………….THE CORONERS WILL BE RUBBING THEIR HANDS
Regarding my appeal.
From HM courts and tribunal service….
I have been advised that the appeals officer has revised the decision on your case and that the new decision is a more favourable one.
This means that your appeal has now lapsed and I will take no further action.
If you think the decision is still wrong you must lodge a fresh appeal.
Have I been told how much I will receive for the overturned sanction – no
Still waiting to receive it after many weeks……………………
Get on to the Benefits Delivery Centre. The payment processors will make a faster payment and it will be in your bank account in seconds 🙂
The BDC will tell the payment processors to call you back. They phone back in a couple on minutes. Don’t hang around waiting for your money. Get on the phone and get it sorted.
Sometimes they might pay you part of the payment and not pay the rest. But it is ‘arrears’, they owe you the full amount. Get on the phone, and chase it up!
Thanks Banana Pudding, I’m on it.
Yes! to all of you who have won appeals against the Gestapo/DWP don’t sit back and wait for payment, it won’t come. You need to chase it up as Banana Pudding stated and then keep chasing until the bastards pay you. I know this from experience helping people with appeals.
Many more will no doubt end up out in the cold.
Universal Credit pilot sees tenants plunge into arrears
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/politics/universal-credit-pilot-sees-tenants-plunge-into-arrears-1-4320930
East Lothian rent arrears up 20 per cent in first three months of Universal Credit
http://www.scottishhousingnews.com/13059/east-lothian-rent-arrears-up-20-per-cent-in-first-three-months-of-universal-credit/
Even hill farmers now using foodbanks dew to more government failure.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37657855
STOP-PIP ESA
Special,
Abbie prepares for her first Christmas without her Dad, James, Harrison, who was Sanctioned to Death by the DWP. Please Like and Share.
https://en-gb.facebook.com/ATOSM/
Mark Brayson I feel heart sorry for this young woman has had to go through this and has been dealt with this hammer blow in her life, this is murder this and the government know it they do this on purpose, the government and the dwp need to held responsible for what they have done to this poor womans dad, what is the UN and the EU doing about this ill tell you ……….. nothing that’s what
True, the corrupt UN is too busy accusing Russia of war crimes whilst ignoring American war crimes. Crimes against ordinary working people and the unemployed/disabled are whitewashed away. Anyway, another world war would help to get rid of all the poor folk who are always sent to die needlessly whilst the rich look on counting their money in their pampered palaces.
“STOP MURDOCH TAKING OVER SKY”
https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/1705?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=19_12_2016_quote&bucket=facebook-post-19_12_2016_quote
“THE TORY GOVERNMENT ARE CULLING MORE THAN BADGERS”
You may have missed the United Nations report which expressed very serious concerns about human rights violations in the United Kingdom as a result of Tory Austerity policies. The national press paid it as little attention as possible and the news is hard to digest. We generally associate human rights violations with tin pot dictatorships somewhere in over-the-hills-and-faraway land. We’ll even go to war over it, provided there’s oil in the ground.
Nonetheless, human rights are being violated in this country on a daily basis and if you want it closer I can confirm it is seems to be happening on your very doorstep, right here in Brighton & Hove.
Disabled people have had a very rough treatment at the hands of the DWP. We have been left guessing as to how rough, because the DWP has been very insistent on not sharing the information, going to great lengths, in fact, to ensure they wouldn’t have to go public.
This is not surprising now that numbers are actually surfacing. Earlier this month The Independent reported that in the space of just three months 2,000 disabled people were wrongly declared ‘fit to work’ by the DWP. That is more than an administrative hitch, it means weeks if not months of hell for these people as they are the ones who have to prove the DWP is wrong, unlike the DWP which is free to operate on the flimsiest of evidence.
It gets worse; it is now clear that in 2016, a total of 10,600 disabled and sick people died within 6 weeks of being cut off by the DWP in one way or another. Some of these people may have been terminally ill, we know of one case in Brighton where a man who suffered from lung cancer spent his last days in a slummy emergency accommodation, without company, without medical care, without painkillers. For many, however, the stress of being hounded and excluded by DWP and Social Services – and that includes threats in some cases – will have contributed to their tragic demise.
We’ve been making jokes about it, along the lines of ‘this government is culling more than badgers’ but that is beginning to look like a horrible truth. Weeding the pool of available labour, culling the weak who, in economic terms, are a liability and provide no or little output which can be translated into financial profits. It is an extremely cynical view perhaps, but the DWP knows fully well what effects their policies are having, that deaths are being caused, yet, they continue their reign of terror.
https://brightonandhovehousingcrisis.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/a-glimmer-of-hope-in-dark-days/
“CULLING THE POOR THROUGH NHS REFORMS”
Income received by NHS hospital trusts from private patients has risen by 23% in the last four years, as waiting lists for non-paying patients have soared.
Under the government’s reforms, hospitals have been given the right to raise 49% of their funds through non-NHS work, often from patients seeking to avoid waiting for surgery. Prior to this, there had been a 2% cap on income that could be raised from private patients.
Ministers revealed in parliament that in 2015-16, hospitals in England received £558m from patients choosing to pay private – up from £454m four years earlier. The figures come as the number of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for treatment has increased by 54% during the same period. Of those treated in October, more than 360,000 patients had been waiting for 18 weeks or more for treatment, according to the latest data from NHS England, compared to 234,030 in October 2011.
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/12/19/the-evil-tory-policy-that-nudges-people-into-paying-for-their-healthcare/
save money by reducing the need for costly hands-on care”,
Funds to improve housing for people with learning disabilities.
“adapting existing properties with new technology and building new technologically adapted homes, prevent unnecessary in-patient admissions, including solutions for people who need urgent housing and are at risk of entering inappropriate services like hospital or residential care,
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/funds-to-improve-housing-for-people-with-learning-disabilities
Over a barrel
December 18, 2016suwn
universal-credit-claimant-commitment
The Claimant Commitment is presented as though it were a contract agreed between two freely consenting parties, but that is far from the case. If you don’t sign the Claimant Commitment that the jobcentre has prepared for you then there is no benefit money, so your negotiating position is pretty fatally undermined from the start. There is provision to get a second opinion, but only from another jobcentre worker who can simply back up their colleague
https://scottishunemployedworkers.net/2016/12/18/over-a-barrel/
With regard to any numbers of customers who are unable to claim JSA or
ESA, unfortunately we do not capture this data.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
……………”IT’S OK, WE BURY THEM”
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/377038/response/911245/attach/html/3/FOI%204758.pdf.html
Tim Fallowfield has been announced as the Chair of a group which will engage with the business community on disability employment.
The Chair of a new group which will engage with the business community on disability employment has been announced as Tim Fallowfield, Company Secretary and Corporate Services Director of Sainsbury’s.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/appointment-of-the-chair-of-the-disability-confident-business-leaders-group
“MICHAEL FALLON’S DISPOSABLE WOUNDED”
…………JOIN THE ARMY AND FORGET THE MILITARY COVENANT
Former soldier suffering from PTSD forced to use foodbank by benefit sanctions
16:00, 20 DEC 2016Updated10:20, 14 DEC 2016
Former soldier Terry Widdrington was forced to use a foodbank after his benefits were stopped.
Terry was referred by his doctor after his £240 a fortnight in employment support allowance were stopped after he missed a medical assessment.
Terry, who lives in Benwell, Newcastle, has suffered from PTSD for the last 14 years.
The 41-year-old joined the army when he was just 17 years old and served a tour in Northern Ireland with the Royal Fusiliers.
“I lost four of my close friends out there, I still get flash backs.
“I was just a kid when I signed up really,” he said.
Terry Widdrington uses the foodbank at Benwell Venerable Bede church
The father-of-two said he was left stunned when he was told by the DWP that his benefit payments would be stopped. Unable to work because of his PTSD the benefits he received were his only form of income.
“I didn’t understand it, they had my doctors letter. It is frustrating, I want to get more support and I feel like I was just cast aside,” Terry said.
Running short of cash, Terry thought he would have to get yet another short term loan in order to be able to afford food.
“I have borrowed from my mam and my sister before, I didn’t want to do that again. I’ve already got debt, pay day loans which I am paying off.
“If it wasn’t for the foodbank I would’ve got myself into even more debt.”
Terry said he was anxious about visiting the food bank for the first time.
“When I got here everyone was so friendly,” he said.
Terry Widdrington uses the foodbank at Benwell Venerable Bede church
“People were interested in me, in my story, people actually cared about me. It has given me self confidence in myself.
“Without this place I don’t know how I would have fed myself without getting into more and more debt, they’ve helped me fill in my forms for my benefits and I’ve met some good people.
“I always used to think I had to stay strong, I had to be the man, but they’ve helped me realise how I can deal with things better.”
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were not able to comment on Terry’s case but said that the number of people in relative poverty was falling.
A spokesperson for the DWP said: “The number of people in relative poverty has fallen by 300,000 since 2010, and reducing this further remains a priority. Reasons for food bank use are complex but we have a strong safety net in place for those who need extra support, including hardship payments and benefit advances. More than £90bn a year is spent on benefits for people of working age.”
…………..AND THE MOON IS MADE OF CHEESE
“UNIVERSAL CREDIT, THE STEPPING STONE TO SUICIDE AND LIFE INSIDE AN URN”
………..the biggest white elephant ever…………how many billions, managers, completion dates and excuses?
Tenants have been plunged into rent arrears after the introduction of a controversial new welfare regime – and now council bosses are asking the UK Government for compensation. Musselburgh was chosen as the first area in Scotland to pilot the full digital roll-out of the new Universal Credit (UC), which replaces six other benefits and was intended to simplify the system but has been criticised for making it more complex.
And a report by East Lothian Council reveals a 22 per cent increase in rent arrears among UC claimants in just three months, with the average amount owed almost £900.
The report says the way the system is being managed by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is causing “major concern”.
And it recommends the council should seek “financial recompense from the UK Government for the loss of council tax and council house rent income as a result of UC”.
Council leader Willie Innes said: “Almost from the start of the new system we became aware of delays being experienced by claimants. The length of time some people were left waiting for payments meant they were experiencing considerable financial hardships.
“The council had established key teams of staff to help advise on the new system but the delayed payments to tenants has also resulted in delayed rent and council tax payments.
“As the introduction of Universal Credit has resulted in significant loss of income to the council we are seeking financial recompense from the UK Government. We are also asking the Scottish Government to take immediate steps to use its powers to have the housing cost element of Universal Credit paid directly to landlords.”
Lothian Green MSP Alison Johnstone said the roll-out of Universal Credit was clearly causing serious problems.
“This is affecting vulnerable people and putting a huge strain on council staff. We need to see some compassion from the UK Government who are driving these ill-considered changes.
“The DWP must improve their systems as there is very little confidence left in Universal Credit.”
Musselburgh Citizens Advice Bureau said its staff were stretched to the limit. “We now have a 3 week waiting time for an appointment with a benefits specialist where previously a client could be seen within the week.”
A DWP spokesman said: “The reasons for rent arrears are complex and to link it to welfare reform is misleading.
……………….never any links, just the biggest coincidence in history…
universal credit.
Members of the Lords, including the honorary president of the Child Poverty Action Group and a council member of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, will debate what progress the Government is making in rolling out Universal Credit, and what assessment they have made of its impact, in the House of Lords on Wednesday 21 December.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2016/december/lords-debates-universal-credit-/
………AND GUESS WHO SITS ON THE PANEL, LORD KIRKWOOD OF KIRKHOPE..
“THE CHAIRMAN OF UNUM CUSTOMER ADVISORY PANEL OF WHICH HE RECEIVED PAYMENT”
A 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)[2] as the Chairman of the Unum Customer Advisory Panel for which he received payment from Unum. He received additional payments for other work for Unum.
Lord Kirkwood visited the USA for two conferences on welfare to work (29 October – 5 November 2005). The accommodation was paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation (New York), the Brico Fund (Milwaukee) and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
In May 2006, Unum (then UnumProvident) provided a memorandum to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Work and Pensions which included in clause 24. “At UnumProvident we have a non-medical, enabling model of rehabilitation and we are working with our partners at the UnumProvident Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University to better understand what places people at risk of long-term or chronic illness.”
…………..SURELY NOT THE SAME UNUM PROVIDENT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY WHO USED LORD DAVID FREUD AS A PATSY TO SELL THEIR WELFARE REFORMS TO PARLIAMENT……
……..NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST HERE THEN????
“THE SLIMY ARCHY KIRKWOOD”
Unum (previously UnumProvident) and Business
An overview of the business operations of Unum (previously UnumProvident) and and how Unum has influenced UK Government policy through the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to the detriment of the disabled. The Unum UK website is http://www.unum.co.uk. Unum has set up a website to sell to employers http://www.backupplan.com.
Topics include statements made by Unum to the UK Parliament’s Work and Pensions Select Committee, financial information and supporters, of the Unum “non-medical” model for dealing with medical conditions.
The supporters include Professor Mansel Aylward (previous DWP Chief Medical Officer who left the DWP to direct Cardiff University’s UnumProvident Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research, Dame Carole Black, Lord Freud and Lord Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Chairman of the Unum Customer Advisory Panel when Chair of the UK Parliament’s Work and Pensions Select Committee).
If there is a direct relationship between Unum and Atos, its nature is unknown. Unum and Atos were part of the DWP Technical Working Groups that defined the details of the “non-medical” model assessments that were mandatory if a person with a disability was to be eligible to receive benefits. The same private equity funds have interests in both Unum and Atos. Private equity fund managers are not slow to drive companies to maximise profits.
“SLIMEBALL KIRKWOOD”
MPs’ expenses: Lord Kirkwood did up flat on expenses, then sold it cheaply to daughter
Lord Kirkwood, a Liberal Democrat peer, claimed £5,000 in expenses to refurbish his London flat before retiring as an MP and selling it to his daughter for less than half its value.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5431827/MPs-expenses-Lord-Kirkwood-did-up-flat-on-expenses-then-sold-it-cheaply-to-daughter.html
“THE DWP TELLS A BLATANT LIE IN A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST”
Freedom of Information Act – Request for Information
Our Reference: FOI IR 0306
Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) review request which was received on 28
March 2013. In that request, you asked for a review of your FOI reference 5116.
You asked:
I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions’s handling of
my FOI request ‘U n u m corporations failure to record a conflict of interest.’.
Its quite obvious that there is a conflict of interest, hence your reluctance to answer.
…………………………………………………………….
DWP’S ANSWER
After consideration the internal review has confirmed that DWP does not hold any information on
the Corporation identified above, as they are not connected to the DWP Medical Services
Contract.
Yours sincerely
DWP Business Management Team
Health & Disability Assessments (Operations)
…………………………………………………………………………
THE DWP, WILLING TO GO TO ANY LENGTHS TO COVER UP UNUMS INVOLVEMENT IN WELFARE REFORMS THAT HAVE KILLED THOUSANDS
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/143161/response/382007/attach/html/2/FOI%20IR306%20Mr%20Reynolds%20Response.pdf.html
DWP BREAKING THE LAW AGAIN
……FAILURE TO RELEASE NAMES OF POVERTY PIMP, SLAVE DRIVING BUSINESSES THAT THRIVE ON WORKFARE…
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/community_work_placements_hosts#comment-75138
“DWP TELLS A BLATANT LIE”
“THE DWP TELLS A BLATANT LIE IN A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST”
Freedom of Information Act – Request for Information
Our Reference: FOI IR 0306
Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) review request which was received on 28
March 2013. In that request, you asked for a review of your FOI reference 5116.
You asked:
I am writing to request an internal review of Department for Work and Pensions’s handling of
my FOI request ‘U n u m corporations failure to record a conflict of interest.’.
Its quite obvious that there is a conflict of interest, hence your reluctance to answer.
…………………………………………………………….
DWP’S ANSWER
After consideration the internal review has confirmed that DWP does not hold any information on
the Corporation identified above, as they are not connected to the DWP Medical Services
Contract.
Yours sincerely
DWP Business Management Team
Health & Disability Assessments (Operations)
…………………………………………………………………………
THE DWP, WILLING TO GO TO ANY LENGTHS TO COVER UP UNUMS INVOLVEMENT IN WELFARE REFORMS THAT HAVE KILLED THOUSANDS
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/143161/response/382007/attach/html/2/FOI%20IR306%20Mr%20Reynolds%20Response.pdf.html
“TORY GOVERNMENT LIED ABOUT £448 MILLION FAILED WELFARE PROJECT”
Government ‘overstated’ the performance of troubled families programme, say MPs
An influential group of MPs says the Government has failed to prove the effectiveness of a costly programme designed to “turn around” tens of thousands of “troubled families” in England.
In a damning new report published on Monday, the Public Accounts Committee, a cross-party group of MPs, claim the Department for Communities and Local Government had overstated the performance of the Troubled Families Programme and savings to taxpayers.
The programme was launched in 2012 by the then Prime Minister, David Cameron, with a commitment of £448 million in funding between 2012 and 2015. But MPs say families placed on the programme were considered ‘turned around’ on the basis of short-term outcomes rather than “long-term, sustainable change in families’ lives”, adding Tory minister’s claims of £1.2 billion in savings was an overstatement.
An evaluation of the programme was “unable to find consistent evidence” that it had any significant impact, in stark contrast to claims from Government ministers that the programme was “turning around” the lives of 120,000 troubled families.
And a ‘payment by results’ framework “led to some councils attempting to move families through the programme quickly, potentially at the expense of reduced quality of support”, the committee said.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/government-overstated-the-performance-of-troubled-families-programme-say-mps/
Two former Job Centre staff talk about how they were disciplined (and later fired) for insufficient sanctions.
This is indeed a terrible indication of the Tory ‘austerity’ Welfare Reform policies. Meanwhile, the queen and the duke of edinburgh are suffering ‘terrible’ heavy colds – who gives a tuppeny shit about these tax-payer scoungers? Many of their ‘subjects’ and their ‘peasants’ are almost starving due to the queen’s assigned Tory Government ‘measures’ against them.
IT IS DISGUSTING AND IT IS ALSO SHAMEFUL IN 2016 BRITAIN.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/economics-blog/2016/dec/21/uks-austerity-welfare-spending-is-closer-to-poorest-nations-of-eu
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Don’t worry though – these Theresa May ‘top aides’ are raking money in.
These are the real and true fuckers. Many people in Britain today are slowly dying due to the lack of food caused by Tory ‘Welfare Reforms’ and often totally unnecessary ‘sanctions’.
These unrepentant ‘top aides’ are running away to bank their undeserved windfalls – again – loadsa money for the rich – and fuck all or the poor.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/theresa-quietly-reveals-eye-watering-9497272
Malnutrition has tripled since 2008 but the Tories say the cause can’t be identified. It’ll be ESA
Isn’t it interesting that the official figures show malnutrition increasing hugely, year-on-year, from 2008 onwards – the year when Employment and Support Allowance was introduced – but the Conservative Government is insisting that no cause can be identified?
ESA, with the hated, nonsensical Work Capability Assessment that governs whether a claimant qualifies for the benefit, was introduced in 2008.
This Blog ran an article on the increase in malnutrition in November, but reader Tony Dean went further – requesting information from the Department of Health.
In the financial year 2007-8, there were 7,695 primary diagnoses of malnutrition – up from 6,704 the previous year. Secondary diagnoses had fallen from 58,344 the previous year to 57,052.
From then on, the figures started to increase – hugely. In 2015-16 there were 17,166 primary diagnoses of malnutrition and a massive 167,362 secondary diagnoses.
Primary diagnoses describe the most serious or resource-intensive condition suffered by a patient who is hospitalised for any period of time. A secondary diagnosis describes those conditions that coexist at the time of admission, or develop subsequently, and that affect the patient for the current episode of care.
So we are seeing not only an increase in malnutrition as an illness in its own right, but a massive increase in it as a contributory factor to other illnesses.
The information may be found here. It was provided by Health Under-Secretary Nicola Blackwood in response to a question by Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth in November.
Ms Blackwood said: “The cause of the malnutrition is not presented in these figures and it not possible to make assumptions on which factor was responsible for the admission.
“Malnutrition can be caused by a variety of factors, including an inability to absorb nutrients normally, or a condition or disease which affects a patient’s ability to feed normally.”
Oh, really?
Doesn’t this sound eerily similar to the Department for Work and Pensions’ mantra about suicides by benefit claimants? That line runs something like this: “Any suicide is a tragedy and the reasons for them are complex, however it would be inaccurate and misleading to link it solely to a person’s benefit claim.” (The word “solely” was added fairly recently, after the Department’s chiefs realised that mounting evidence had shown they could no longer deny all guilt. Strangely, nobody has yet prosecuted the DWP for corporate manslaughter after this admission).
This Writer thinks it is entirely possible to make assumptions on the facts responsible for the admissions. But there is no need to do so; unlike the suicides, people who have been treated for malnutrition are not likely to be dead.
So why not ask them why they were going hungry?
It’s a simple enough question. If the Department of Health is too busy to do the work itself, I’m sure some of the rest of us could step in and lend a hand.
Or is the government afraid of the answer?
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/12/21/malnutrition-has-tripled-since-2008-but-the-tories-say-the-cause-cant-be-identified-itll-be-esa/
“LORD DAVID FREUD’S KILLING MACHINE WILL TAKE A FEW MORE LIVES THIS CHRISTMAS”
………………EAT AND DRINK WELL IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE WILL GET YOU SOONER, RATHER THAN LATER.
WE WILL SPEAK FOR THOSE THAT YOU MURDERED.
In the financial year 2007-8, there were 7,695 primary diagnoses of malnutrition – up from 6,704 the previous year. Secondary diagnoses had fallen from 58,344 the previous year to 57,052.
From then on, the figures started to increase – hugely. In 2015-16 there were 17,166 primary diagnoses of malnutrition and a massive 167,362 secondary diagnoses.
Jeffrey Davies
said:
December 21, 2016 at 12:47 pm
aktion t4 at its best
………………IT SHOULDN’T BE TOO LONG NOW BEFORE ALL THOSE DISABLED PEOPLE OUT THERE ARE RE-UNITED WITH THE BENEFITS THAT THE ROGUE DWP STOLE FROM THEM.
STEALING IS A CRIME, SO IS BREACHING HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION.
THE DWP WILL RELUCTANTLY, HAVE TO PAY BACK ALL THEY STOLE WITH THE ADDED BONUS OF SOME FORM OF COMPENSATION FOR THE HORRORS THEY UNLEASHED ON THIS NATIONS MOST VULNERABLE.
THE BIGGEST SCAM IN UK HISTORY IS ABOUT TO HIT THE HEADLINES, THE PERPETRATORS ALREADY HIDING IN THE BACKGROUND PRETENDING THEY HAD LITTLE OR NO PART IN IT……………..
DWP DELBERATELY HID DEATHS OF CLAIMANTS FROM WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT REVIEWER
Ministers hid secret death reports from their ‘fitness for work’ test reviewer
Government ministers failed to show secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants to the independent expert they commissioned to review their much-criticised “fitness for work” assessment, new evidence suggests.
A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) response to a Disability News Service (DNS) freedom of information request shows that seven of its secret “peer reviews” should have been shown to Professor Malcolm Harrington as he was preparing his final report into the work capability assessment (WCA).
Peer reviews have to be carried out whenever “suicide is associated with DWP activity”, as well as in some other cases involving deaths of disabled or “vulnerable” claimants.
DWP only started collating the peer reviews centrally from February 2012 and Professor Harrington published his final report on the WCA in late November of the same year.
DWP admits in its freedom of information response that “there were seven peer reviews, from February 2012 until Professor Harrington’s report of that year, in which the terms ‘WCA’ or ‘Work Capability Assessment’ were mentioned”.
The DWP response adds: “The Department does not hold any information to confirm or deny whether these Peer Reviews were shared with Professor Harrington.”
Redacted versions of 49 peer reviews were finally released in May this year – dating from 2012 to 2014 – following another DNS freedom of information request and a ruling from the information rights tribunal.
But these peer reviews were not dated, and so it is impossible to work out which of them are the seven from 2012.
When shown the latest DWP freedom of information response, Professor Harrington, who carried out the first three reviews of the WCA – in 2010, 2011 and 2012 – told DNS that he was convinced that he would remember being shown “such damning indictments of the system”.
He said: “I have NO recollection of seeing any of the reviews you mention.
“Maybe my brain is failing, but such damning indictments of the system – if seen – should have triggered a response from me. It didn’t.”
Professor Harrington has already told DNS – last year – that he believes he was not shown a letter by DWP that was written by a coroner to ministers following the suicide of Stephen Carré in January 2010.
When they were appointed in May 2010, Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling assumed responsibility for responding to the letter, written by coroner Tom Osborne, who carried out the inquest into Carré’s death and raised serious concerns about the safety of the WCA.
Osborne had asked the Labour work and pensions secretary Yvette Cooper – who never saw the letter, as the general election was called just days after it arrived – to review the policy not to seek medical evidence from a GP or psychiatrist if someone applying for out-of-work disability benefits had a mental health condition.
But Duncan Smith, Cooper’s successor, and Grayling, his employment minister, appear to have dismissed the letter, and failed to show it to Professor Harrington, while deciding to roll out the test to hundreds of thousands of long-term claimants of incapacity benefit, many of whom had mental health conditions.
Professor Harrington told DNS last year: “I cannot recall the report. Nobody brought it to my attention that I can remember.
“If I had known about that coroner’s report, I would have said that this was something else we need to look at.
“I am a doctor, I know about coroner’s reports. Coroner’s reports are something that you don’t ignore.”
Taken together, the evidence suggests strongly that DWP deliberately withheld vital evidence from Professor Harrington about serious flaws with the WCA that were causing the deaths of people with mental health conditions.
This information would almost certainly have persuaded him to take action that would have made it harder for DWP to fulfil its aim of finding more people with mental health conditions “fit for work” and allowing it to cut its spending on out-of-work disability benefits.
The new evidence is likely to strengthen calls for Duncan Smith and Grayling to face a criminal investigation for misconduct in public office.
It came just as Scottish criminal justice agencies were rejecting a request to investigate the failure of the two ministers to improve the safety of the WCA, despite evidence that their neglect caused the deaths of at least three Scottish benefit claimants with mental health conditions*.
Linda Burnip, co-founder of Disabled People Against Cuts, said: “Sadly, little shocks me nowadays about the callous and inhuman behaviour of the previous Condem and current Tory government, but a failure to pass on vital information to the expert they employed to review their failing policy is more than just total incompetence and is nothing short of criminal.”
A DWP spokeswoman said the current work and pensions secretary, Damian Green, did not believe there should be an independent inquiry into the apparent failure of Duncan Smith and Grayling, and senior civil servants, to pass on vital information to Professor Harrington about the safety of the WCA.
She said he also did not believe that a criminal investigation was now necessary into the actions of Duncan Smith and Grayling.
Asked why DWP did not have a record of which documents were shared with Professor Harrington, she said: “As the FoI stated, the department does not hold information on this matter.
“We are constantly reviewing our processes and procedures and have made significant improvements to the work capability assessment, such as introducing mental health champions, and ensuring that claimants who are likely to be found fit for work receive a telephone call to explain the decision and check whether all the evidence has been considered.
“It is important we make sure that people are receiving the right support, and they are not simply written off to a life on benefits.
“The work capability assessment has been improved dramatically since 2008 following a number of reviews, including five independent ones.”
…………….AND THE TORY GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO KILL
………….EVERY SUIT OF ARMOUR, HOWEVER ELABORATELY FASHIONED, HAS ALWAYS GOT A WEAK SPOT AND THE TORY GOVERNMENTS FLAGSHIP WELFARE REFORMS THAT HAVE SO FAR COST THE LIVES OF THOUSANDS, LAY IN TATTERS……………
HOWEVER HARD THEY TRY TO MANIPULATE THE MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF INFORMATION RELEASES, THE TRUTH ALWAYS FINDS A WAY TO COME OUT…………………
THE EMBARRASSMENT IS COSTING AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE BUT THEY ARE WILLING TO ALLOW FOR THE DEATHS TO BE UNLIMITED IN THEIR GOAL TO HAND THE VAST FORTUNES IN THE WELFARE CHEST TO THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY WHO ADVISE AND LOBBY OUR TORY GOVERNMENT.
“SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT ENDORSE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL FINDINGS”
08/11/2016
‘That the Parliament notes the inquiry by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the impact of welfare cuts on disabled people; notes that this report assesses what it considers the detrimental impact that the UK Conservative administration’s welfare reforms have had on disabled people, and gives a damning insight into the effect that its austerity welfare cuts has had; accepts the report’s findings that “there is reliable evidence that the threshold of grave or systematic violations of the rights of persons with disabilities has been met”; considers that the UK Government’s welfare reforms have disproportionally and adversely affected the rights of disabled people; notes the view that consideration should be given to the committee’s proposals and that the UK Government should establish a mechanism to permanently monitor the impact of policies relating to disabled people’s standard of living and their ability to work and live independently; further notes the view that consideration should be given to all of the recommendations outlined in the report, including taking appropriate measures to tackle any negative and discriminatory stereotypes or prejudice against disabled people in public or in the media, including the notion that dependency on benefits is, in itself, a disincentive to employment, and further notes the view that the UK Government should conduct a comprehensive human rights-based cumulative impact assessment into its welfare reforms and to see at first-hand the detrimental impact that its reduction in social benefits for disabled people, including those in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, is having on people.’
…………….THE TORY GOVERNMENT HAVE BROKEN THE LAW
“FREUD’S KILLING SPREE CONTINUES”
Caernarfon man who lost benefits because he wasn’t ill enough dies two months after they were reinstated
A man who battled with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) after having his disability benefits stopped was a “fighter until the end” says his brother.
Philip Williams, 56, of Tre’r Gof in Caernarfon, died last week at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor after struggling for years with numerous health problems.
‘I’ve had a heart attack, two strokes and my kidneys are failing…but I’ve still had my benefits stopped’
He had been plagued by illnesses in recent years including kidney failure, loss of hearing and ulcerative colitis.
The DWP stripped him of his benefits in August after an assessment deemed him ineligible for benefits, despite the fact that he underwent 12 hours of dialysis treatment each week.
Two months later the DWP made a U-turn on their decision and Philip had his benefits reinstated after fresh evidence about his condition was submitted.
Benefits bosses make U-turn over Gwynedd kidney patient’s disability payments
He was admitted to hospital last week with gall stones which he had removed, but the surgery took it’s toll on his body and he passed away from pancreatitis.
Philip’s brother, Steve Williams, 52, has described him as a “strong fighter” and says his family will remember him as a person “who never gave up.”
Mr Williams said: “People at Tre’r Gof spoke very highly of him and said he was always ready to help everyone if ever they were having any problems within the building.
Campaign launched for grieving Rhyl dad whose partner died just weeks after having their baby daughter
“We’re understandably very saddened by his death, and we’d like to thank the hospital for trying to hard to save him.
“Phil didn’t give up, he was fighting his illnesses until the very end, he wasn’t going to back down without a fight.”
Philip was born with Alports Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder which causes kidney disease, hearing loss and can also affect the eyes.
In the past three years he had two strokes as well as a heart attack in 2009.
He underwent a kidney transplant in 1993 which was donated to him by his younger brother, Robert.
Benefit sanctions on North Wales job seekers ‘hitting most vulnerable’
At one point Philip owned his own landscape gardening business, and then moved on to work at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in Bangor for nine years.
By 2008 his kidneys began to fail and his health deteriorated drastically, and Philip was left with no choice but to give up work.
Steve who lives in Cheshire added: “He was definitely very frustrated with his illnesses as it meant he was very limited to what he could and couldn’t do.
“He was intelligent and had once been very active, so it was a struggle for him to see everyone being able to do things that he couldn’t do.
“I’ll always remember him as a fighter who made the most of his life despite his illnesses.”
……………..THIS IS TORY COLD BLOODED MURDER
Kooljeff
“…Philip had his benefits reinstated after fresh evidence about his condition was submitted…”
Well that’s what the DWP claim. I am willing to bet that exactly the same evidence was presented, only this time it wasn’t deliberately ignored by the assessor.
This is not a mistake, this is not an isolated incident. This is deliberate. Planned cruelty. It has happened to thousands going through ESA and PIP assessments. It is part of a pattern that has been noted since 2010 and IDS.
R.I.P. Philip Williams
scotslad47
I was born disabled had prostate cancer at 40 years old now got heart problems ,I am 47 years old health been bad and times just want to take my life all because capita lied to dwp and told them I am fit for work they told them things that they never even asked me about they are liers and destroy lifes,
bosch
these cases are so sad and the relatives of these people should do a joint case against this company who acts on behalf of the DWP !! because it is so wrong on so many levels! the sick and the vunerable targeted, instead of the scroungers and lazy !
Thousands queue for food parcels in Dublin city centre
Danny, an elderly man from Fairview in Dublin, will share his food parcel on Christmas Day with a neighbour who also lives alone.
“He has a bad hip so he couldn’t come here today. I’ll share mine with him,” he smiles.
Danny, who doesn’t want to give his surname, is one of more than 3,000 people queueing for Christmas food parcels at the Capuchin Centre in Dublin on Thursday.
The queue, which includes elderly people and young children, began about 6am. By 9.30am it stretches from the door of the centre’s Bow Street entrance down the street, around the corner and along May Lane reaching Church Street.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/thousands-queue-for-food-parcels-in-dublin-city-centre-1.2915478
Thanks for this one Geoff, shared on Ipswich Unemployed Action.
“BENT POLICE AND JUDICIARY JOIN FORCES TO PROTECT DISABILITY KILLERS IAN DUNCAN SMITH AND CHRIS GRAYLING”
Scottish criminal justice agencies have rejected pleas to investigate the failure of two ministers to improve the safety of the government’s “fitness for work” test, despite evidence that their actions caused the deaths of at least three benefit claimants.
Police Scotland was asked in March to investigate allegations of “wilful neglect of duty” by former Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministers Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling.
A dossier containing details of the deaths of three benefit claimants with experience of mental distress was passed to Police Scotland by the Scottish grassroots campaign network Black Triangle.
The three claimants – Paul Donnachie, David Barr, and a woman known only as Ms D E – took their own lives in 2015, 2013 and 2011 as a result of grave flaws in the work capability assessment (WCA).
These flaws mirrored those uncovered by a coroner in January 2010, following the suicide of Stephen Carré, and passed to DWP in a prevention of future deaths report just a few weeks before Duncan Smith (pictured at this year’s Tory conference) and Grayling took up their new posts following the May 2010 general election.
Black Triangle approached Police Scotland with the dossier in March 2016 because it believed there was clear evidence that the two ministers neglected their duty as public servants in refusing to bring in the changes called for by the coroner, so causing other deaths, including those of Paul Donnachie, David Barr and Ms D E.
Black Triangle said its dossier concluded that, “were it not for the alleged criminal omissions by the two ministers, these and countless other deaths could have been and could yet be avoided”.
But nine months after Black Triangle passed the dossier to Police Scotland, the force appears to have done little to investigate the allegations, other than consulting with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal (COPF), the Scottish equivalent of the Crown Prosecution Service.
This week, Edinburgh police confirmed that it would be taking no further action on the David Barr case, while COPF said that it had also decided that no further action should be taken on the Paul Donnachie case.
Police Scotland said that COPF had already decided that there was no link between DWP’s decision to find David Barr fit for work – following a 35-minute assessment by a physiotherapist – and his decision to take his own life a month after being told by DWP he was not eligible for employment and support allowance (ESA).
Maureen Barr, David’s mother, said this week that she was “disappointed” at the COPF decision, but “definitely” still wanted Duncan Smith and Grayling to face justice.
John McArdle, co-founder of Black Triangle, said: “We have been given no detailed information on what legal reasoning has been applied to any of the above matters and there seems to be complete silence on the compelling evidence set out in the case of Ms D E.
“In all the circumstances, this conduct is totally unacceptable and constitutes an insult not only to the families of the deceased but to every disabled and vulnerable Scot and their families who look to Police Scotland and the COPFS to keep them safe.
“This is not over. We are consulting with our legal advisers and will be taking this all the way.
“For disabled people in Scotland and equally throughout the UK these are literally matters of life and death and Black Triangle campaign will not let them down, whether or not the state chooses to.
“We would like to appeal to all of them to continue to support our campaign for justice and to never give in to despair in spite of any and all setbacks.”
A COPF spokesman said: “The circumstances surrounding the deaths of Mr Donnachie and Mr Barr have been fully investigated.
“The Procurator Fiscal and Crown Counsel have respectively concluded that no further investigation is required and that no further action should be taken.
“The nearest relatives have been informed of this decision and have been offered an opportunity to discuss it further with the Procurator Fiscal.”
Police Scotland has previously said it would only look at the Ms D E case if Black Triangle or Disability News Service were able to pass on her personal details.
But those details have never been made public, as her death was the subject of a report by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (MWCS), which treated her case anonymously and concluded that she killed herself after being told she was not eligible for ESA.
The report linked her death to DWP’s failure to obtain medical evidence about her mental health from the professionals who had treated her, just as the coroner had done in the case of Stephen Carré.
This week, MWCS declined to comment when asked if Police Scotland had requested Ms D E’s details, stating that it was “for Police Scotland to respond to your request related to any investigation”.
Police Scotland and COPF had both refused by 11am today (Thursday) to say whether they had attempted to contact MWCS since receiving the Black Triangle dossier in March.
McArdle said the Police Scotland and COPFS responses “beggar belief” and that an email to him from MWCS earlier this year “clearly shows that the ball was in Police Scotland’s court to contact the chief executive of MWCS”.
He said: “In an open and democratic society operating under the constitutional principle of the ‘rule of law’, we are entitled to require the full facts and complete transparency from our police service and we will not desist until the full facts are revealed.”
Bill Hasan • 39 minutes ago
What a stinking cover up by Police Scotland. Are they scared that they will be losing their jobs if they look into a persons murder case which was the fault of the DWP, (Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling)?
This is an absolute travesty of justice – Police Scotland should now be investigated themselves for refusing to properly investigate the evidence that they have been presented with. I would suggest even bringing in another ‘Police Force’ to investigate them.
The Police are our Public Servants – after all WE PAY FOR THEM!
This is, after all, possibly a ‘dereliction of duty’ in the Public Service and should now be investigated as such.
We must also remember (and it WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN) that there is also the still outstanding major issue of the alleged Tory 2015 Electoral Expenses scandal that seems (conveniently) to have gone very quiet.
It was however announced recently that the LibDems have been ordered to pay, I believe, (by the Electoral Commission), hundreds of thousands of pounds due to their alleged ‘oversight’ in their own ‘2015 Electoral Expenses’. One rule it seems for the (still hated!) LibDems and the always hated Conservatives!
Tories love child homelessness so much they will quadruple it this year
Imagine you own a three bed property that you rent out for £126 per week and you are looking for a new tenant. A prospective tenant comes along and says I’d like to rent but I can only afford to pay you £50 per week.
You naturally refuse for obvious reasons.
So why do the Tories expect a council or housing association landlord to say YES to the above deal?
That is the Tories overall benefit cap in a nutshell and the £76 per week shortfall used in the example above [£126 minus £50] is also accurate.
https://speye.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/tories-love-child-homelessness-so-much-they-will-quadruple-it-this-year/
A junior doctor has killed herself, leaving a message to Jeremy Hunt in her suicide note
The body of a woman washed up in Dorset has been formally identified as 25-year-old junior doctor Rose Polge – a note left behind in her car sent a message to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/04/19/junior-doctor-kills-herself-and-leaves-a-message-to-jeremy-hunt-in-her-suicide-note/
Geoff
According to my relations, (relayed to me) this story was recently reported on BBC Spotlight Southwest – THEY DID NOT MENTION AT ALL ON THE BBC REPORT ABOUT THE REFERENCE TO THE ‘SUICIDE NOTE’ OR TO ‘JEREMY HUNT’ at all – well there is a surprise!
Correction: Apparently I got it wrong!
Both the ‘suicide note’ and ‘Jeremy Hunt’ was mentioned – but only very briefly and in passing at the end of the report!
On a day when Britain’s ‘truly loved’ (!) royals are settling into their traditional ‘quiet’ Christmas at Sandringham in Norfolk and BBC 6PM News is reporting how ‘Crisis’ are saying about the ‘increasing attacks’ on homeless people and Channel 4 News this evening reported that (years ago now) a ‘Tory Government Minister’ said that the ‘homeless’ are ‘people one steps over after coming out of the opera’ – please give a thought to this one:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/city-bosses-pay-bouncers-remove-9507900
Tories have always been fucking bastards and they always will be!
This is really rich! – especially coming from the arch-liar and travesty ‘clown’ and disabled people murderer’s Iain Duncan Smith’s big and lying mouth!
Who should be able to join the Supreme Court!
SOMEONE IS COMING FOR YOU IDS – YOU MAY SHRINK AND YOU MAY HIDE – BUT YOUR ‘DAYS’ ARE STILL NUMBERED AND THEY ARE STILL COUNTING INEXORABLY DOWN! 😀
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/parliament-should-have-say-on-who-joins-the-supreme-court-says-iain-duncan-smith-a7460456.html
This wouldn’t have anything to do with Smiffys “Centre of Social Justice”.
You also end your days with lethal injection in the USA.
Over here, you’re on death row if you have anything to do with the DWP.
Merry Christmas.
To Geoff Reynolds and other commenters – Thank you for all your hard work in putting information on this comments section.
Samuel Miller December 23, 2016 at 1:56 am
The DWP is a rogue department and its ministers are human rights violators, according to the United Nations. I am recommending that a human rights lawsuit be filed against the DWP and its ministers, in conjunction with the UN’s recent “grave and systematic” violations finding.
See: UN: ‘Grave’ disability rights violations under UK reforms – BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37899305
Since January 2012, I have been reporting voluntarily to the UN’s human rights office, in Geneva, on the welfare crisis impacting Britain’s sick and disabled.
Montreal, Canada
…………..THE EYES OF THE WORLD ARE WATCHING
ANOTHER MOAN FROM ONE OF LORD DAVID FREUD’S, “STOCK”…….
Saddleworth man’s social security sanction ‘felt like death sentence’
By Aimee Belmore –
December 22, 2016
A DISABLED man from Saddleworth has described the effect of having his social security payments stopped by the DWP for five months as being ‘like a death sentence’.
John Ruane, from Lees, has been diagnosed as having a benign brain tumour causing him to have several epileptic seizures each week and making it impossible for him to work.
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Debbie Abrahams MP
The DWP alleged John missed an appointment for a work capability assessment and stopped his social security payments.
In fact John was at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London recovering from medical tests to establish the cause, and potential treatment, of his seizures.
His medical team supplied the DWP with the evidence to show where he was, and that he cannot work due to his condition, but this was ignored.
Eventually the medics contacted John’s MP, Debbie Abrahams, on his behalf asking if she could intervene.
They were particularly concerned John was refusing to consider a potentially life-saving operation because he feared he would miss the next scheduled work capability assessment during the time it would take him to recover.
John said: “Like most people I want to work but I simply can’t with my condition and so I’m dependent on social security for the basics in life such as food, heat and rent.
“I couldn’t believe it when the job centre said they were going to sanction me because I missed my work capability assessment.
“And they wouldn’t even take notice of the letters from my consultant saying I was too ill to work and needed an operation. That’s when my medical team went to Debbie for help.
“The whole situation left me anxious and depressed because I had no money and my bills were piling up. I even got letters from my landlord saying I faced eviction.”
Debbie Abrahams, MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth and Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, raised John’s case in Parliament.
She said: “John’s case is another shocking example of how this government’s punitive sanctions regime is crushing vulnerable people as they pursue their slash and burn austerity policies.
“MPs from all parties know, from our constituency casework, just what a damaging and devastating effect sanctions can have on our most vulnerable citizens.
“That’s why I have been campaigning to stop the Government’s punitive sanctions regime and, as Labour’s Work & Pensions Secretary, have pledged that a future Labour government will do just that.
“The shocking evidence is there for the Government to see after I instigated the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s inquiry on sanctions in 2015.
“The Select Committee made over 20 recommendations including stopping financial sanctions for people who were sick or disabled on ESA and for other vulnerable claimants.
“But unfortunately the Government refused to accept the Select Committee’s recommendations on stopping sanctions and on setting up an independent body to investigate deaths associated with a sanction or to track what happens when claimants are sanctioned and stop signing on.”
After five months of being sanctioned John was able to attend a work capability assessment in early November and was found ‘not fit for work’ as expected. He had his social security payments restored including a back payment.
John said: “Finally I was able to pay off my debts, including paying back my carer who had been helping me with food, for which I will always be so grateful.
“People who know me were kind and helpful, and I was able to get help from Oldham Foodbank too, but the way I was treated by the DWP was terrible and I can understand why people are driven to despair after being sanctioned for no good reason.
“The DWP just wouldn’t listen to me, or the expert medical team supporting me, and they left me with no money for the basics in life. It felt like a death sentence.
“They don’t treat you like a person. They just know you as a national insurance number not a person.”
John is currently waiting for his test results ahead of a potential operation to treat the tumour.
“MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE”
……………may a warm wind of change be forthcoming in the new year whilst living in the hope that the few who sought to hurt the many be struck down and shamed for their ignorance of the suffering of others….
Jeremy Corbyn slams ‘shocking lack of women-only railway carriages’ in Christmas message.
Trouble is that happens to discriminate against men! Now I understand the reasoning behind the idea of women only carriages but are we to really assume that all men are predatory and dangerous. See how political correctness comes back to bite the ass of those who promote equality.
How come wages haven’t fallen for those earning above £100k pa? The JAMS are on their knees,the disabled being euthanized,I wanna know how it is judges wages aren’t being halved. Those in Bulgaria and Romania are willing to do BBC executive jobs for £30k a year,not £400k. I want more automatons and robots replacing top civil servants,Jon Snow and the like. Why must the lower orders and grunts always take the pain and the oppression.
With good wishes and Christmas greetings to G Reynolds and all others posting here. I learn so much.
Once screwed you never forget it
we could have a complete cull for all those at the top. There are hundreds of thousands of eastern men and women who can and will do their jobs for one third of what the top table earn. They’re well educated,qualified,speak x4 languages. Sack the UK lot to replace em with the the cheaper competition. That’s competition for ya.
I’m dreamin of a cull at Christmas
“GREAT BRITAIN”
…………………….forget our headlines about the Queen missing Sandringham due to a heavy cold, these are the real topics that are hidden from view………………
Homeless young woman pregnant with twins living in tent under an underpass this Christmas
The woman, who is four months pregnant, and her partner are living in the makeshift home next to a river in Maidstone, Kent
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This is where a pregnant young woman and her partner will spend Christmas – with teddies on makeshift shelves (Photo: Masons)
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This is the heartbreaking spot where a heavily pregnant woman with twins will spent her Christmas.
The woman, who is four months pregnant, and her partner are living in the makeshift home next to a river.
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Next to their small camp, in Maidstone, Kent, lies rubbish, bin bags and graffiti is scrawled across a wall behind the tent.
The couple, who have been at the same temporary site for six months, have tried to make it as homely as possible, with carpet, teddies and pictures.
But being next to the River Medway in Kent means they are exposed to the harsh winter weather.
Volunteer Neil Charlick said: “They are luckier than some because they do have some protection from the concrete behind them, but they are exposed there on the river.
“They have been there a long time, but they keep themselves to themselves so they don’t get any hassle.”
Neil is part of a group of volunteers who go out every day to help people on the streets, delivering soup, sleeping bags and clothes.
He will be out on Christmas Day with food and hot drinks and is so worried about one woman who is sleeping rough that he is paying for her to stay in a hotel.
Neil, who has been homeless himself, added: “We have tried to help her with a tent and other things, but she has gone though some sort of traumatic experience which means she doesn’t feel safe in a tent so she wanders the streets.
“She is an easy target so I wanted to help her out over Christmas.”
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HomeNewsUK NewsHomelessness
City bosses pay bouncers to remove the homeless from centre over Christmas
Council chiefs have hired enforcers to kick homeless people off its streets over Christmas .
City bosses in Peterborough are paying security guards £8,024 to patrol the city centre and remove rough sleepers.
For 19 days around the Christmas period they will be moved on, leading to criticism from councillors.
Councillor Ed Murphy said: “This is a waste of thousands of pounds that could have been used for council services or even used to tackle some of the homelessness issues in our city.”
It comes after amid reports of a rise in attacks on those sleeping rough nationwide.
Nearly 80per cent of those surveyed by charity Crisis said they had been hit, urinated on and kicked by attackers over the last year.
…………………..HUNGER GAMES, LORD DAVID FREUD’S TWISTED VISION OF AN UNDERCLASS DIVIDED FROM MAINSTREAM LIFE.
Train staff made disabled teenager travel in luggage compartment ‘like cattle’
“Freud’s values”
Train staff made a disabled teenager travel in a ‘cage’ with unsecured luggage and bikes.
Murrin Widley, a 16-year-old girl with spina bifida, was excited to go to Edinburgh to visit the Christmas markets – but the hour-long train journey up there put a dampener on the whole thing.
Scotrail staff showed the wheelchair-bound girl to a cage-like compartment, which had no grab rails or seats, before a member of staff locked the door behind them.
To keep her company, her mum Deborah and siblings Caleb, 12, and Lucas, one, stayed with her in the dingy compartment.
And despite their disturbingly bad travel conditions, the family still paid the full fare.
A SHOCKING photograph shows the moment Scotrail staff treated a disabled girl like ìcattleî by caging her in the luggage compartment. 16-year-old Murrin Widley (CORR), who suffers from spina bifida, a condition where the spine doesnít form properly, had been excited to travel to Edinburgh to visit the Christmas markets. However, her journey from Glenfarg, Perth and Kinross, was soured when members of staff showed her to a dingy, old luggage cage for her to make the hour-long journey in. The teenager was travelling on an almost empty train with her siblings Caleb, 12, and Lucas, one, along with her mother Deborah. Despite seats being available, Murrin and her family were shown into the dank container meant for suitcases and bikes, and had the doors locked behind them.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/12/22/train-staff-made-disabled-teenager-travel-in-luggage-compartment-like-cattle-6340059/#ixzz4TwWYvH8G
Claimant turned away from Job Centre because he was two minutes early
“KNOW YOUR PLACE”
Christmas is not a joyful time for many so seeing a friendly face really makes a big difference.We spoke to a man, whom we had noticed had been walking in and out of the building. A member of the team asked him what was wrong? Why all the visits? He stated that they had turned him away because he was two minutes early. Yes two minutes.
Come on Ashton Under Lyne Jobcentre, this is just petty. I feel this was done to humiliate the poor man, to remind him of where his place where they are regarded truly is.
Some people reading this might think that this is nothing, not a big deal, but it is a big deal. It humiliates the person concerned and strips a person of any self worth that they might have had left. Indeed, I see it as a kind of mental abuse, although some might think I am extreme saying this but I don’t think so. As a survivor of domestic violence it reminds me of something my ex partner used to do to me. Things like this still need to be tackled, because they are part of the much bigger issue and they always lead to more unfair treatment by the DWP.
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/12/24/claimant-turned-away-from-job-centre-because-he-was-two-minutes-early/
“WELFARE REFORM OR MURDER ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE”
KILLING FOR THE HELL OF IT………………
Homeless man found dead outside shop in Chatham High Street
A rough sleeper was found dead outside a shop doorway today.
The man, in his late 40s, is understood to have been discovered by security guards near the Poundland shop and Central Theatre at 11.40am as shoppers flooded the area for last-minute Christmas gifts.
His name has not been released although the non-profit group One Big Family says he attended its Christmas party for the homeless last Sunday.
A homeless person sleeping on the streets of Chatham. Picture Medway Help for Homeless
One Big Family founder Liz Shaw said: “We are all shocked and absolutely devastated by today’s awful news. We saw the gentleman on Thursday and he attended our Christmas party for the homeless last Sunday. In fact, he was the last to leave. He said he had had a great time.”
She added: “The homeless crisis in Medway is worsening. There are no winter shelters or hostels until January – when an emergency shelter opens in Magpie Hall Road.
“Medway council’s homeless headcount is hugely inaccurate. It says it found 15 people sleeping rough. But we believe there are at least 100 without homes and sleeping on the streets.
Her organisation distributes ‘essential items and a friendly ear’ to those living on the streets in Medway and London.
Cllr Vince Maple, leader of Medway council’s labour group, Tweeted: “This is terrible news and highlights just how urgent the need to tackle homelessness is. My thoughts are with all concerned.”
It is not known if the man’s death was natural or suspicious.
Kent Police said it received a report of concern for the welfare of a person at around 11.40am. Officers and ambulance crews were still at the scene at 1.30pm.
…………..AND ALL BECAUSE A FAILED BANKER, LORD DAVID FREUD, DECIDED THAT THE WELFARE OF ALL BRITONS WOULD BE SAFER IN THE HANDS OF THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY………
I’ve been BANNED from giving out food to the homeless
Campaigner has been ordered to stop helping the needy because he might create rubbish
A homeless campaigner has been BANNED by the council from handing out food to the needy who congregate near the outdoor markets.
Rik James has been told that he might create a mess if he helps the needy – as he has been doing for the last seven years.
53-year-old Mr James set up Birmingham Homeless Outreach in 2010, and with a band of almost 300 volunteers, patrols the city centre every night handing out hot pies and pasties as well as clothing, to those most in need.
Former homeless person Mr James told the Birmingham Mail: “Where’s the harm in feeding them?
Warning over the dangers the young homeless will face this Christmas
“We are feeding 40-50 homeless a night in that area but I think it’s because it’s near Christmas and they don’t want them around while people are shopping.
“Now they will have to walk and try and find us. We have around 10-15 volunteers each night and we split up into groups of four or five and walk around the city centre helping where we can.”
Council chiefs are saying that giving food to people near the markets outside hours could encourage anti-social behaviour, and lead to rubbish being left in the area.
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Mr James said: “That’s a load of rubbish. It’s public property, there’s lots of people who go on there.
“We go out after everyone is finished trading and we take home all our litter and we don’t have any anti-social behaviour.”
……………THESE ARE NOT SEAGULLS, THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS
Geoff – These last four posts especially really show just how bad it has now become in Britain today. Tn 2017 this appalling treatment has somehow GOT to be stopped.
“WHY THE WEST LOVES TO PAINT A NEGATIVE PICTURE OF RUSSIA”
foolisholdman bromley
“Why would the west be paranoid about Russia? It represents zero threat to me in the UK.”
You are right that Russia poses no threat to you in the UK. The West is, however, repeat is, paranoid about the parts of the world which are not dominated by the western (aka NYC) banks and the Fed. They threaten the status of the almighty dollar as a reserve currency and the damage that that would do to the US economy if it were not.
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salexandra2014
Foolisholdman has the right point plus the western military budgets and careers aspect which seek continued funding in the threat of a peaceful world.
There is so much that the west would enjoy about Russia, yet most westerners actually know very little about it beyond their headlines. Right now much of Moscow looks like a beautiful fairy tale. Park areas are beautifully lit and animated to appear as snow is falling through the trees. Beautiful huge snow flakes as well. There are ice skating rinks beautifully decorated with music such as Tchaichovsky playing with skaters dancing along the ice. Trees are decorated for Christmas and menorahs are lit, buddhist monks walking through the square among the festive people… And then one reads the western papers and wonders why the west is so pathologically angry.
Meanwhile, the likes pf these totally unrepentant bastards carry on regardless. The blood is dripping off of all of their despicable hands – everyone from ‘Lord’ Freud, the DWP, IDS, Grayling, Damian Green, the private companies (as described above) and their ‘death angels’ – the so called ‘health care professionals.
Don’t worry though – ‘Justice’ is very likely to be coming knocking on all of their doors during 2017!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/private-firms-rake-half-billion-9515131
“THE RANTINGS OF A LUNATIC, PSYCHOPATHIC MURDERER”
……………….just count the dead, the deprived, the starving and the homeless and explain why this idiot is not swinging from the bough of the nearest tree……..
Issuing a statement this afternoon, 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.
“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. That is why through Universal Credit – which I referred to in my response – we have increased overall spending on disabled households by £250 million, offered the most generous work allowance ever, and increased the disability addition to £360 per month.
……………..YOU STOLE THE VERY CRUTCH THE DISABLED NEEDED AND TRANSFORMED IT INTO A FEEDING FRENZY FOR YOUR PARASITIC BACKERS IN THE PRIVATE HEALTH INDUSTRY…
“DWP TELLS LIES TO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ABOUT PROTECTING VULNERABLE FROM WHOM THEY STOLE THEIR BENEFITS”
………….The staff have been instructed to step up sanctions on the vulnerable as temperature hover near zero………
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The government’s response to the UN inquiry into the UK which found that disabled people’s Human rights were being gravely and systematically violated states that “less than 1% of ESA recipients have been sanctioned, with more than 99% complying with the reasonable requirements linked to receiving benefit. The introduction of sanctions for people receiving ESA brought this benefit into line with JSA and Universal Credit, but safeguards to protect vulnerable recipients continued”
1. What are these safeguards and how is their implementation measured?
2) what guidance has been issued to decision makers about the safeguards?
Yours faithfully,
Ellen Clifford
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/sanction_safeguards#incoming-914199
“BBC World Service fears losing information war as Russia Today ramps up pressure
……..not fucking surprised with all the Tory propaganda that our streets are paved with gold and all is well when the reality is starvation, homelessness, deprivation, squalor and a cull of the weakest……
Former director calls for more cash to fight propaganda saying BBC is being outgunned by Kremlin-backed news channel
he BBC World Service is being financially outgunned by Russian and Chinese state-owned news channels, its former director Peter Horrocks has warned, amid high-level concerns that Britain and the US are losing a global “information war” with the Kremlin.
Horrocks said ministers should review Britain’s spending overseas and consider freeing up extra World Service funding to combat the wave of Moscow-backed propaganda sweeping Europe.
“Medium to long term there has to be an anxiety about the spending of others compared to what the BBC are putting into it,” Horrocks said. “You can take a view of the overall national interest and things we spend on international influence, like military spending. When you look at that it would take it in a certain direction.”
(IS THIS ANOTHER PUSH TO INCREASE THE PRICE OF FAIRY STORIES)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/21/bbc-world-service-information-war-russia-today
“MORE DESPICABLE ACTS FROM THE DWP AT CHRISTMAS TO RAISE SUICIDE LEVELS TO LORD FREUD’S SATISFACTION”
Jon Jones
They’re used at every opportunity. I have a mate who was once sanctioned for not applying for enough jobs because he was only applying for things he had the right experience for. So later he started applying for a broader range of jobs and they sanctioned him again, for applying for jobs he couldn’t get! He couldn’t win either way
Richard Scott
More blatant LIES from the Department for Whipping People!
A friend of mine was sanctioned for attending a job interview that was set up to coincide with their JC+ appointment by the very same pencil pusher that started the sanction process.
DETIA DEGESCH
……….WHAT IS DETIA DEGESCH
A GERMAN BASED COMPANY THAT HAS LINKS HERE AND IN IRELAND WHICH PRODUCES ANTI VERMIN / RODENT CHEMICALS…………….
On it’s website it proclaims this paragraph;
100% effectiveness, 100% human protection.
Pest control must be effective, and humans must be protected just as effectively. Our research and development efforts, as well as constant improvements in our application techniques, are geared to this goal. The result is satisfaction of the requirements of both profession pest controllers and private users.
Yet anyone watching the unfolding footage of chemical weapons atrocities against civilians in Syria must have noticed tv footage of rooms full of blue steel, sealed 5 gallon drums that contained packages bearing the DETIA trademark.
The packages have the company logo in bright red letters and cannot be confused with any other manufactured product.
These packages mean certain painful deaths to innocent men, women and children when mixed to produce a deadly cocktail……………….
Somebody, somewhere, must be aware of the volumes and destination of these so called anti vermin products.
It would not surprise me in the least if the products were traced back to the UK, because we are world renown rogue state in the supply of military, chemical and biological weapons.
…………..STRANGELY, EVERYTHING WE ACCUSED SADDAM HUSSAIN OF STOCKPILING CAN BE FOUND ON OUR OWN INTERNAL BLACK MARKETS THAT THE TORY GOVERNMENT IS LOATHE TO CONTEST……
THE UK IS AWASH WITH CRIMES OF WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE.
The fifth richest economy built upon criminal acts……….
“the BBC RICH BOYS CLUB”
………..wholly owned by the license fee payer, a public corporation …………..
Spencer Count 2 October 2016
Delivered
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
Please tell me how many grade 11 staff the BBC employed in the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
Please say also:
– what was the total wage bill for all grade 11 staff during this period?
– what was the average salary?
– how many people on grade 11 were on a salary above the ceiling of the grade?
– what was the average salary of those within the pay grade?
– what was the average salary of those above the pay grade?
Would you please say additionally how many employees on this grade are paid more than £100,000 per annum and how many more than £143,462 per annum.
This is a follow-up to RFI20160343 and RFI20160922, in which you gave the numbers to 30 June 2015.
Yours faithfully,
Spencer Count
………………..STILL UNANSWERED.
DO THEY THINK THEIR WANTON WASTE OF YOUR HARD EARNED CASH MAY, SOMEHOW, UPSET YOU?
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pay_grade_11_2015_16#incoming-910689
…………..THE BBC REFUSE TO ANSWER SIMPLE REQUEST
……………..I WONDER WHY?
A. Clerk (Account suspended) 12 September 2016
Delivered
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation,
In a recent foi response you stated the following…
A: “The TV licence is not a payment or contract for services, rather it is a legal permission to use or
install a television receiver.”
B : “The use of a TV receiver without a valid licence is a criminal offence. ”
Please provide me with documentation to substantiate the claims A and B above.
(or was it your intention to mislead the public?)
Yours faithfully,
A. Clerk
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tv_licence_10#incoming-910470
“BENEFACTORS PAY TO LISTEN TO EXPLOITS OF A KILLER”
IAIN DUNCAN SMITH GLOATS UPON THOSE WHICH DIED
FAMILIES OF LOST ONES INCITED BY HIS PROFIT FROM THEIR LOSS
Iain Duncan Smith is today exposed as the latest shameless Tory to cash in on the public-speaking circuit – charging eye-watering fees of £500-an-hour.
The Tory welfare slasher has already pocketed more than £5,000 from making speeches about his days cutting benefits as Work and Pensions Secretary.
The cash comes on top of the £75,000-a-year plus generous expenses he already earns as a backbench MP.
It means IDS is being paid enough in just 90 minutes of public speaking to cover an entire year’s worth of Bedroom Tax payments for one of his victims.
George Osborne pockets ANOTHER £120,000 for his speeches
“This is sickening,” raged Labour MP Karl Turner. “There can be nothing more galling for the struggling families who suffered years of welfare cuts to see IDS cashing in.
George Osborne has cashed in to the tune of more than £600,000 in a few weeks
“Disabled people hit by his £30-a-week benefit cuts, and those bearing the brunt of his cruel Bedroom Tax, can only dream of being paid this sort of money.”
It comes days after it emerged fellow Tory George Osborne has pocketed more than £600,000 in just a few weeks from making speeches in the US.
And ex-PM David Cameron is also earning undisclosed six-figure sums from the lucrative lecture circuit.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/benefit-slasher-iain-duncan-smith-9521509
……………PUT IT TO ONE SIDE FOR YOUR IMPENDING DEFENCE COSTS….
Johnny Void! Come out come out wherever you are!
Don’t worry, GEOFF 🙂 We are all living longer 😀
Merry Christmas!
“DWP LIVE UP TO NAME, FIRST CLASS SCUMBAGS”…………..
…….they steal the mobility from those who need it
DWP’s benefit-slashing officials spend £100k a year on luxury travel
Benefit-slashing officials are spending more than £100,000 a year on luxury travel as part of a £116million splurge across the government.
New figures reveal the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spent £118,233 on premium air and rail tickets in 2015/16 – while slashing benefits for some of Britain’s poorest people.
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One of George Osborne’s first acts as ‘austerity Chancellor’ was to crack down on first class and business class travel without exceptional circumstances.
But the DWP’s bill for travel that was ‘not standard class’ still came to £111,139 in 2011/12, £188,933 in 2012/13, £181,212 in 2013/14 and £114,127 in 2014/15.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/first-class-cheek-dwps-benefit-9522607
NICE COMMENT
BadPutty
“The reasons for this can be for medical reasons or when first or business class travel booked far in advance will result in a lower whole trip cost.”
Says the same department that has driven people to suicide with their welfare reforms, PEOPLE HAVE MEDICAL REASONS TO CLAIM DISABILITY BENEFITS BUT THEY ARE DENIED EVERY PENNY!
ADVICE/share any info please:
Has everyone on JSA received the following letter?
“YOUR CLAIM FOR JOBSEEKER’S ALLOWANCE
ANNUAL VERIFICATION OF YOUR CLAIM”
(5 pages long and you have to sign the declaration before 30 December 2016?)
“Every year we need you to verify your claim so we can make sure you are getting the correct amount of benefit and to give you the chance to tell us about changes in your circumstances you have not told us about.”
Page 3 has an Annual Verification changes we need to know about
“Please tick the (17) boxes below to tell us what has changed.
(Egs:) You got married or formed a civil partnership – You are going away for any reason etc”…
You have to send all 5 pages back to Belfast.
Usual threats: “If you do not sign and return the declaration on the attached form you may build up an overpayment which you will have to repay or your benefit may stop”.
It includes a fold line reply slip and sae.
I have never received one of these letters before and they look really dodgy. For the fact we’re supposed to declare all these things anyway and they ask you these questions virtually every time you sign on makes this letter totally pointless and another blatant way to trip you up. DWP letter mentions no legal stuff-deliberately vague in this department and unlawful if you ask me so I decided to get some further info before sending it.
I think this is the first year they have started sending them out? Did anyone receive one last year?
Please share any info you have. Thank you.
Annual Verification check for benefits claimants.
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please provide a complete, blank version of the Annual Verification check form which is being sent out to benefits claimants.
Also provide any information you have that explains why the Annual Verification check is being sent through the post rather than being offered optionally online or being handed directly to the claimant at the Jobcentre.
The request was successful.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/annual_verification_check_for_be#incoming-673990
Whilst Iain Duncan Smith shamelessly rakes in the £££££££££££££££££ –
this poor homeless man was left cold and soaking wet – Britain in 2016!
(In law, deliberately soaking one in water is classed as common assault – and the security guard could be reported to the Police for this act!)
IDS you fucking bastard – YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU AND YOUR COMPLICIT HENCHMEN HAVE DONE.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/homeless-man-claims-debenhams-security-9525633
naughty…………
“HOW THE DWP, (NOW EXPOSED AS A ROGUE DEPARTMENT), CHEAT, STEAL, DENY JUSTICE AND TELL LIES TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION”
WE ALL KNOW THE DWP IS RUN BY A BUNCH OF CROOKS, THE MOUNTING PILE OF WELFARE CARNAGE TELL US, BUT THE LEVEL OF CORRUPTION IS REACHING NEW HEIGHTS.
MANDATORY RECONSIDERATION IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SYSTEM OF APPEAL BY THE BENEFIT CLAIMANT TO CHALLENGE A DECISION.
THE DWP HAVE NOW ADMITTED THAT THEY ARE AUTOMATICALLY TRIGGERING THE APPEALS PROCESS THEMSELVES, NOT INFORMING THE CLAIMANT THEY ARE DOING IT, DENYING THE CLAIMANT THE RIGHT TO SUBMIT ANY REVISED MEDICAL EVIDENCE, THUS DENIAL OF THE RIGHT TO JUSTICE……………………………………
THE FOLLOWING FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS TO THE ROGUE DWP HIGHLIGHT THE BREACHES OF HUMAN RIGHTS THAT THEY IGNORE ON A DAILY BASIS;
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The government’s response to the UN inquiry into the UK which found that disabled people’s Human rights were being gravely and systematically violated states that “This is mandatory prior to applying for an appeal, allowing the decision to be reviewed and new evidence to be presented. Statistics published in 2016 showed the average clearance time for WCA MR applications to be 9 days. Access to justice is not therefore denied or significantly delayed as a result of this process. “
1. With MRs for PIP we are finding that the process is being triggered without people asking for it to be so that they do not know a MR is taking place and are not able to submit any extra evidence. Why is this happening as it is denying disabled people access to justice?
Yours faithfully,
G Ward
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mandatory_reconsideration_un_rep#incoming-910569
………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I am writing to ask you to provide me with the following information:
1) How many mandatory reconsiderations have been received in the North West in the 12 months to November 2016?
2) How many of those were overturned after a mandatory reconsideration?
3) How many of those went on to a tribunal, and how many were successful at those tribunals?
4) What is the DWP’s explanation for these figures?
Yours faithfully,
John Quigley
……………………………………………………………………………….
YOUR BASIC HUMAN RIGHT OF ACCESS TO A FAIR TRIAL IS BEING BREACHED BY THE DWP UPON INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE TORY GOVERNMENT………………………………
“PREDICT THE NEXT WAR AFTER SYRIA”
…………..Seems such an easy task really
Get a geological report showing the earths untapped gas and oil reserves, create the belief terrorism that will threaten our borders. Utilise the media of the west to construct unqualified reports of weapons of mass destruction and, voila!, the grounds for another offensive……………..
Blair did it, as did Cameron, cheered on by nutcase Benn who probably was lobbied by the UK arms and chemicals industry.
War oils and warms the greasy palms of the bankers who welcome sizeable borrowing and the opportunity to finance unspeakable acts carefully hidden from public scrutiny.
One day the ignorant will realise that the conflict in Syria was man made, nothing to do with religion or terrorism, the master plans of those seeking access to cheap oil and gas.
Quite strange how most of the battles are in strategic sources of oil and it’s associated by product, gas………….
Almost a coincidence, one might add……..
………..been a bit of sabre rattling off the coast of the South China Seas and the Phiippines lately.
Soon it will be time to warn us of the evils of these two peoples, or has it already begun?
Belfast benefits appeals service loses funding.
A service supporting people appealing their benefits decisions is to lose its funding at the end of this week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-38457271
“Government ‘withheld’ disabled death reports from watchdog”
‘The independent expert hired to review the notorious ‘fitness for work’ assessment said he ‘would have remembered’ seeing damning reports into the deaths of seven vulnerable people’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-withheld-disabled-death-reports-from-watchdog-a7500731.html
“Theresa May’s plans to scrap human rights laws facing legal challenge”
‘Exclusive: Northern Ireland politician says Theresa May will ‘very likely’ face court challenge to block human rights law reforms, amid local anger at potential breach of Northern Ireland peace treaty’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-facing-likely-legal-challenge-to-block-human-rights-reforms-in-breach-of-northern-a7500416.html
Another murder notched up by the Tory DWP under psychopathic murderer Iain Duncan Smith’s watch!
(Surely to goodness – these actions by the DWP must be criminally liable!)
“Dad dies 10 months after Job Centre bosses told his doctor not to write any more sick notes”
“The DWP wrote to James Harrison’s doctor behind his back and declared him fit for work 10 months before he died”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dwp-told-dying-dads-gp-9529945
“THATS THE SECOND STORY SURROUNDING THE DEATH OF A CLAIMANT SOON AFTER BEING FOUND FIT FOR WORK IN THE LAST SEVEN DAYS”
…………..PROFESSOR HARRINGTON’S ARSE MUST BE TWITCHING RIGHT NOW….
LIKE THE THIRD COMMENT SUGGESTS, HARRINGTON HAS KEPT HIS GOB SHUT SINCE 2012……………….
WHY SPEAK UP NOW?
POG Al
The real question is why has it taken from 2012 until now for this Professor Harrington to find his voice? Has he been gagged? What do you think? Whatever happened to democracy and free speech?
IGNORANCE OF THE FACTS IS NOT AN ALIBI, RATHERMORE A SIGN THAT HE WAS COMPLICIT IN THE STATE SPONSORED MURDER OF IT’S OWN DISABLED.
HARRINGTON MUST HAVE BEEN PAID TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT
“HARRINGTON WILL CARRY THE CAN WHILE THE TRUE VILLAINS WALK”
Professor Harrington will have been approached by supremo’s from the DWP and instructed that if he breaks rank, they will take him down with them.
Many experts who gave expert professional opinions on the PACE medical trials that were funded by the rogue DWP, have also broke rank to say that the results of the trials that were the backbone of welfare reforms had also been manipulated to give misleading results.
So desperate are the rogue DWP to keep the original results of the PACE medical trials from the public, they put up nearly a quarter of a million quid to keep them hidden.
The results continue to be hidden, the release of the information would negate every single work capability benefit theft ever carried out.
Like the two mysterious deaths of persons who objected to Blair’s phoney war, expect to see Harrington’s suicide in the tabloids quite soon………….
All the dirty little deeds are coming together to make the final picture in the dirty, corrupt jigsaw Paul………….
………..more revelations will now leak out as the threat of being involved in murder on an industrial scale starts to hit home…
Whistleblowers are but people who seek to protect themselves from being part of the bigger conspiracy…………….
If you had deprived someone of their benefits that later ended in their death, could you really sleep at night?
With so many involved and the finger of guilt pointing straight at them, something will give sooner than later.
The DWP have already intimated that all the so called HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS are out on a limb if the worst was to happen, what reassurance is this to the DWP DECISION MAKERS who will be left to carry the can?
Prison is a very lonely place, especially if you have a family.
“DID YOU REALLY MURDER POOR AND DISABLED PEOPLE DAD”
“MY FRIENDS AT SCHOOL SAID YOU DID”………………
Geoff – Ref the Mirror article (and also in answer to your posts below!)
the evidence is mounting steadily and inexorably and I would not be at all surprised if Harrington’s lifeless body is ‘found’ under some bush somewhere!
After all, they have somehow got to try to hide their crimes – but, inevitably it will all come out just like an ‘on fire’ oil well which cannot be capped and extinguished.
Meanwhile, one ‘named’ official is worth 100 ‘unnamed’ ones when it comes to legal litigation (and that also includes the ‘so-called’ HCP’s or ‘Health Care Professionals’ whom, you have so rightly mentioned cannot any longer be protected if anything goes wrong).
A starting point maybe the setting up of a ‘data base’ to collect and collate as many of these ‘named’ individuals (covering all aspects of the ‘Welfare Reform’ systems) as possible – and then, in due course:
‘LET THE LEGAL LITIGATION BEGIN’!
“MARK SERWOTKA GOT OUT QUICK BY HAVING A HEART TRANSPLANT, LEAVING ALL HIS LITTLE ARMY OF GESTAPO YES MEN TO PICK UP THE PIECES”
…………….ODD HOW SO MANY INVOLVED IN THE TORY CULL HAVE NOW JUMPED SHIP.
sharon james
Two of my friends have just come back from a short trip to Portugal. After a couple of days the lady receptionist in their hotel got them to one side and asked if it were true that the British government were killing the disabled.
She had a lame son and seemed very worried about was was going on over here.
My friends showed her what was happening on the internet. Many staff gathered round as she translated for them.
nuff said.
The flavour is coming through 🙂
LORD FREUD’S SCRIPTWRITERS, THE UNUM CORPORATION
Paul Foot on the Insurance Company Unum and Cuts to Disability Benefit in Private Eye from 1995
Paul Foot, the journalist brother of Labour leader Michael Foot, had a regular column in Private Eye until his death. Entitled ‘Footnotes’, this documented the abuse of corporate and political power, and Right-wing attacks on welfare, the poor, the disabled, minorities and the working class. After his death it became ‘In the Back’, and is one of the features that lift the Eye above being merely another humour magazine making cheeky comments about politicians and celebs. One of the companies standing behind the Coalitions cuts to disability benefit and the welfare state is the American private insurance company, Unum. Paul Foot turned his gaze on the company way back in the Eye’s issue for the 16th June 1995, when they were hired by Major’s Social Services Secretary, Peter Lilley. The article went as follows:
Doctor on Call
To help him in his bid to save £2 billion a year by slashing the benefits of disabled people, Peter Lilley, social services secretary7, has hired the vice-president of a big multinational insurance company which is usinig the benefit cuts to boost its sales.
Overcoming the xenophobia to which he so often gives voice at Tory party conferences, Mr Lilley has appointed an American.
Founded in Portland, Maine, in 1848, the Unum Corporation describes itself as “the world’s leading light in disability insurance”. Unum Ltd, its British arm, is based in Dorking, Surrey. It issued its annual report last September, when chairman Ward E. Graffam enthused about “exciting developments” in Britain.
He explained: “the impending changes to the State ill-health benefits system heralded in the November 1993 Budget will create unique sales opportunities across the entire disability market and we will be launching a concerted effort to harness the potential in these”. In January, the full extent of Lilley’s plans to replace invalidity benefit with incapacity benefit revealed to the Commons. Estimated “savings” for the year 1995-1996 were £410 million; for 1996-97 £1.2 billion; and for 1997-98 an astonishing £1.7 billion.
Obviously, with so much less government money going to sick and disabled people, the opportunities for private disability insurance were enormous. No longer could people rely on benefit income if they became ill or disabled. They would have to fend for themselves. Accordingly, UNUM Ltd, as its chairman had promised, “launched a concerted effort to harness the potential”. In April this year, a glamorous and expensive advertising campaign coincided with the new rules for incapacity benefit.
One UNUM ad warned: “April 13, unlucky for some. Because tomorrow the new rules on state incapacity benefit announced in the 1993 autumn budget come into effect. Which means that if you fall ill and have to rely on state incapacity benefit, you could be in serious trouble”. Lurid tables estimating weekly outgoings for an average family at £276, and benefit under the new rules at £100, urged people to “protect yourself with a Long Term Disability policy from UNUM”.
Crucial to the new rules were tougher medical tests to find out if people really are incapacitated. The Benefits Agency Medical Services (BAMS) recruited a new corps of doctors to carry out new “all-work tests”. The basic change in the tests was simple. In the past, disabled or sick people were entitled to benefit if they could no longer do their job. From now on, people are entitled to benefit only if they can do no work at all.
The new medical tests were fundamental to the “savings” Lilley hoped for. If the tests were too lax – if doctors were allowed to slide into sentimental slackness in assessing peoples’ ability to do any work at all – the whole purpose of the tests would be thwarted. So Lilley’s department set up an “incapacity benefit medical valuation group” to “monitor and validate the quality standards for the doctors involved in the all-work assessments”.
The most famous member of the group is Dr John Le Cascio, second vice-president of the Unum Corporation, who has recently been seconded to the company’s British arm. Dr Le Cascio was also invited last year by Lilley’s department to help in the extensive training of doctors in the new techniques of testing. The DSS stresses that “the doctors don’t decide the incapacity benefit – that is done by an adjudication officer”. No doubt; but the officer makes a decision on the expert medical information provided by the tests.
No press release was issued about Dr Le Cascio’s appointment. No one told taxpayers that the DSS is shelling out £40,000 to Unum Ltd for D Le Cascio’s services in the year from October 1994 to September this year. A DSS spokeswoman explained: “this comes down basically to a daily rate of £440 a day. That’s cheap for a consultancy, actually.”
The Eye asked Dr Le Cascio if he agreed there was an absolutely obvious conflict of interest in his position as validator and monitor of tests for a benefit, the cutting of which was being exploited to the full by the advertisements for his company. He replied:
“Well, I don’t feel that way of course, and if I did I wouldn’t have accepted the job. I was brought in for a specific reason, and that is to teach some of the medical principles which are contained in the design of the new test – that’s what I do, that’s my area of expertise. I’m a technical person and I can do that. To me, there is no sort of conflict as long as I do that job. I feel comfortable doing it, and I assume that those n the department feel comfortable with my contribution. The reason they’ve turned to me is because the commercial insurers have been working with this sort of valuation system for a long time and that’s where the knowledge lies”.
And in that article you can see the origins of the whole modern benefits system. The use by the government of a private company, in this case Unum, that stands to profit from cuts to the welfare system and the recruitment of new corps of professionals by BAMS to make the tests more difficult. The only difference is that BAMS has now gone and been replaced by ATOS. It’s another example of the way Blair merely inherited and developed a system that was put forward by the Tories.
“BIRKENHEAD DWP MANAGER, JULIA SAVAGE, SENDS ILL CLAIMANT TO HIS DEATH”
………………..SHE INSTRUCTED HIS DOCTOR NOT TO ISSUE SICK NOTES, SAYING HE WAS FIT FOR WORK…………….HE LATER DIED!!!!
Absolutely Disgusting DWP BIRKENHEAD MANAGER JULIA SAVAGE, who do you think you are rat bag to be so intrusive telling a doctor what to do. This gentleman was clearly not in good health and you the DWP intentionally made his health deteriorate more what you should be held accountable for this gentleman sad end. These so called government assessments could well be purposely for the intentions to get as many claimants of benefits regardless if being unfit to work even with the claimant disclosing enough medical evidence to demonstrate his/her ongoing needs .What a sad story to read. Rip James.
…………………THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED CASE. THOUSANDS HAVE ALREADY DIED BECAUSE OF THE CONTEMPT OF ONE MAN ON THE PAYROLL OF THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE LOBBY…………….
LORD DAVID FRAUD, THE FAILED BANKER AND AUTHOR OF THE STATE DISABILITY CULL…………..
DWP + JCP = SCUM.
Geoff – Julia Savage’s name should be the very first to be on the list – with the rest of them to follow – and, just as in Noah’s ark! – firstly – one by one, then two by two. Justice to them is coming in 2017 – Happy New (financially demolished) Year to all of them – it is the very least that they all deserve!
Anyone think scenes such as those you will see will return in the future?,
The communist cannibals: Shocking images reveal the depravation suffered by peasants forced to eat HUMANS during the 1920s Russian famine
The Russian famine of 1921–22, also known as Povolzhye famine, occurred in Bolshevik Russia
It began in early spring of 1921 and lasted through 1922
Civil war and Lenin’s policy of seizing food from peasants caused the devastating man-made famine
Around 30 million people were affected and around five million died
WARNING: Distressing images
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4076244/Distressing-photos-1920s-Russian-famine-turned-hopeless-peasants-cannibals-five-million-people-starved-death.html
SKY NEWS reporter Kay Burley will definitely not report this & BBC News will definitely not report this – but the Mirror has (and so will I on here!)
“Lonely homeless man ‘froze to death’ in doorway yards from theatre packed with families watching New Year pantomime”
“Police were called to the Central Theatre in Chatham, Kent, where TV Dancing on Ice star Robin Cousins is starring in a panto”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/homeless-man-found-dead-freezing-9539406
The New Year’s Honours is a total and unmitigated disgrace! Everyone from Ken Dodd, Victoria Beckham, Andy Murray & Jessica Hill Ennis and a load of ‘Olympians/Paralympians’ to a whole load of ‘financial donors’ to the Tory Party have received accolades and awards in this latest shambles of ‘awards’. Shocking! What about our ‘NHS’ Heroes and so many other people who have given so much to so many? They are rewarded fuck all!
2017 is very rapidly approaching – (From The Mirror) “What happens when the Queen dies? From 12 days of mourning to who will become monarch” –
Who gives a tuppeny fuck? – I certainly don’t!
All that I now care about is that JULIA SAVAGE (amongst so many other JOBCENTRE PLUS MANAGERS AND SUPERVISORS), IAIN DUNCAN SMITH, CHRIS GRAYLING, ATOS, MAXIMUS, CAPITA and all of their so-called bogus ‘HCP’s or ‘HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS’ are very soon brought to Justice – AND MAKE NO MISTAKE, THEY WILL BE IN THE COMING YEAR.
2017 IS COMING FAST AND WE ARE COMING FOR ALL OF YOU MURDERING BASTARDS.
HAPPY NEW YEAR – HAHA 😀
This is what they wanted. Tories across the UK must be delighted at the news that another homeless person has frozen to death.
The string of deaths taking place this winter is the logical conclusion to the Tory plan for the lives of the poor.
Currently, the plan has poor people losing unemployment benefits through sanctions, and losing sickness or disability benefits by failing to qualify according to the nonsense standards of a make-believe, tick-box test.
The plan also requires poor people to lose an important part of housing benefit for the heinous crime of having been allocated accommodation that has more bedrooms than they are deemed to need, by local authorities that did not have any choice due to Tory legislation that required the sale of council houses.
Mother with disabled son faces homelessness this New Year after pre-Christmas eviction
Rachel Martin’s 15-year-old son James suffers Angelman Syndrome
Mother-of-four Rachel Martin, 42, has to quit in January her private rented bungalow specially adapted for her 15-year-old son.
The council for Rhostryfan, north Wales, is unable to find accommodation because of a lack of disabled-friendly houses suitable for James, who suffers Angelman Syndrome, a severe developmental disability.
Now leading charities are calling for an overhaul of the housing system to protect families in similar situations.
They say a chronic and growing shortage of adapted housing has led to a crisis in which thousands of disabled people cannot live in homes where they can wash properly, use a toilet or go out.
Too many disabled people face uncertainty because of a chronic shortage of suitable homes
John Puzey, director of Shelter, Wales, said: “It’s wrong anyone should face homelessness and it beggars belief in one of the richest countries in the world there should be a family with children including a disabled child in this situation over the Christmas period.”
Peter Jenkins, of the Leonard Cheshire disability charity, said: “Too many disabled people face uncertainty because of a chronic shortage of suitable homes and the situation is getting worse.”
James, whose disorder of the nervous system has led to severe physical and intellectual disability, does not talk and needs round-the-clock care from his mother who can no longer lift him.
James needs a wheelchair ramp to and from his home, a wet room and a series of other adaptations.
Ms Martin’s rented home was put on the market three years ago.
She met with her local authority, Gwynedd, many times to find alternative housing, without success.
“PLENTY OF COIN FOR THE WRINKLED INBRED’S PALACE BUT FUCK ALL FOR THOSE DESPERATELY IN NEED”
Anti-poverty charity, The Trussell Trust, has proposed a direct telephone line between foodbanks and local job centres.
David McAuley, Chief Executive of The Trussell Trust,
“As the number of emergency food parcels provided to people by foodbanks rises once again, it’s clear that more can be done to get people back on their feet faster. Many foodbanks now host independent welfare and debt advisers but they cannot solve all the issues. To stop UK hunger we must make sure the welfare system works fairly and compassionately, stopping people getting to a point where they have no money to eat. It feels like we could be seeing a new era at the DWP with a consultation on Work Capability Assessments and willingness to engage in dialogue with charities working on the front line. A telephone hotline could build on this and go a long way to improving foodbanks ability to help get people out of a crisis faster.”
https://www.trusselltrust.org/2016/11/08/half-million-emergency-food-parcels-distributed-trussell-trust-foodbanks-six-months/
…………..IF IT’S ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE DWP OR MURDERERS SUCH AS JULIA SAVAGE, BETTER A HOT LINE TO THE CEMETERY…
Yes may as well be.
“BIRKENHEAD DWP MANAGER DESERVES A NEW YEAR KNIGHTHOOD”
JULIA SAVAGE OBE (OBITUARY BENEFIT ENFORCER)
Yes, if anyone deserved an accolade for going beyond the call of duty it must be Julia…….
In an effort to show her immediate bosses that she had the acumen and bottle to advance herself into the vacant shoes of other DWP scurrying rats, Julia ticked all the right boxes (unlike those she decided were freeloading scumbags, not worthy of a life).
Julia’s medical knowledge came in really useful when she took it upon herself to contact a seriously ill claimants doctor to instruct him that he need not issue any further sick notes because the wholly reliable, for profit, wca examiner who pays no uk tax had instructed her…………
Stepping up to the plate, her signature entitled the recipient the chance to stop breathing entirely………………..
Wear your medal with pride, JULIA.
You could be sitting in the shadow of PRITI PATHETIC or the equally heinous, ESTHER MCVEY.
The DWP rely on persons such as yourself, the infamous, the notorious and damn right evil. You, my dear, have all these qualities in abundance.
One down, but the thirst of the usual serial killer, appetite just whetted….
“HOW JULIA SAVAGE KILLED AN ILL CLAIMANT”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please discose copies of any standard or template letters or notifications you send to the GPs of their specific patients and your claimants found ‘fit-to-work’, after undertaking a Work Capability Assessment (WCA). Plus any information you send to GPs related to this context with regards the issuing of Fit Notes in connection to WCAs outcomes indicating someone is fit-to-work’.
Yours faithfully,
Frank Zola
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/letters_info_sent_to_gps_after_b#incoming-914943
“KEEPING TRACK OF LORD FREUD’S SLAYINGS”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I would be grateful if you could provide me with details of how many people in the Work-Related Activity Group of ESA later died whilst still claiming in the period 2015/16.
Further:
a) How many of these people had appealed the decision?
b) How many died within twelve weeks of being placed into WRAG?
c) How many people died as a result of a long-term health condition that the department were aware of?
Yours faithfully,
John Dosac
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/how_many_people_in_the_esa_wrag#incoming-914911
“MORALE AT NHS AT ALL TIME LOW”
Morale among civil servants working at the Department of Health has hit “rock bottom”, with only 24% saying they would recommend the department as a great place to work, down from 44% a year ago.
Only 41% felt confident to tell others where they work, down from 56% in 2016. And only 25% felt inspired by the work they do, compared to 40% last year.
The damning findings, first revealed by the Politics Home website, represent a severe embarrassment for Jeremy Hunt, whose management of the NHS has seen a succession of strikes by doctors and nurses, battles with health unions, and whom is also widely regarded as one of the worst to hold the position of Health Secretary for many years.
Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt MP. Photo credit: Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP at DPA 2011 via photopin (license)
The struggling department now has the lowest confidence and happiness ratings of any Whitehall department, despite Government promises of additional NHS funding.
Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: “We already know morale has plummeted amongst NHS staff under this government, and now we learn morale is at rock bottom in Jeremy Hunt’s Department of Health too.
“It’s shocking that on every measure of staff satisfaction the Department of Health has gone down, and had the worst engagement of all departments in the survey.
“I have tremendous praise for civil servants, who I know work hard to deliver for the country. Sadly Theresa May has no interest in the NHS and is determined to continue the policy of underfunding. I can only therefore hope civil service morale doesn’t worsen in 2017.”
A spokesperson for the Department of Health admitted the findings were “disappointing”, but added “the survey coincided with a significant restructure and consequently an unsettling time for staff”.
They added: “Our priority now is to act swiftly on feedback and continue to engage with staff.”
Whilst I agree entirely with your sentiments regarding this case and the ministers you mention. I would caution you to be careful, as evil people will use the same compromised and corrupt system to try and silence people like you Geoff. Even the secret services could be used to intimidate, threaten and make an example of you if you are not cautious. Don’t forget that UK Libel laws are already exploited by the super rich or powerful to silence newspapers and other media, and small nonentities like you, and I include myself, can be crushed like insects underfoot by these people. Whilst I support your efforts to expose evil I worry about the consequences should you go too far in the eyes of the perpetrators who will lash out with full ferocity if you don’t proceed with care and watch your back.
Kent Police alerted to concerns for the welfare of a man at Langdon Cliffs in Dover, Kent and found a body at the base of the cliff on Sunday afternoon.
During the search, the Coastguard also discovered the bodies of a second man and woman.
Enquiries into the circumstances behind all three deaths are ongoing.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/kent-police-three-people-dead-cliffs-dover-new-years-day-a7504731.html
The same thoughts entered my head. These incidents could just be the tip of the iceberg that will escalate into some form of regular occurrence during 2017.
The use of the word, “welfare”, in the BBC written news footage seemed to trigger my imagination as to the causes of the suicides, as it must have done, yours.
Only time will tell………..
This year is going to be worse than last year, some of us know this but as you know most people haven’t a clue, going about in their little bubble.
“DREAM ON”……………………..
FREE MONEY FOR THE PLEBS
Peter MacLeod
23m ago
It sounds good. We shall immediately be released from all the complaints about absolute poverty, relative poverty, fuel poverty, food banks will be closed, there will be no more rough sleepers, everyone will be able to afford a home, and everyone will be happy. Let me know when it happens.
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME TRIALS IN SCOTLAND
Scotland looks set to be the first part of the UK to pilot a basic income for every citizen, as councils in Fife and Glasgow investigate trial schemes in 2017.
The councillor Matt Kerr has been championing the idea through the ornate halls of Glasgow City Chambers, and is frank about the challenges it poses.
“Like a lot of people, I was interested in the idea but never completely convinced,” he said. But working as Labour’s anti-poverty lead on the council, Kerr says that he “kept coming back to the basic income”.
Should we scrap benefits and pay everyone £100 a week?
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Kerr sees the basic income as a way of simplifying the UK’s byzantine welfare system. “But it is also about solidarity: it says that everyone is valued and the government will support you. It changes the relationship between the individual and the state.”
The concept of a universal basic income revolves around the idea of offering every individual, regardless of existing welfare benefits or earned income, a non-conditional flat-rate payment, with any income earned above that taxed progressively. The intention is to provide a basic economic platform on which people can build their lives, whether they choose to earn, learn, care or set up a business.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/01/universal-basic-income-trials-being-considered-in-scotland?CMP=share_btn_link
………………AND MONEY FELL FROM THE SKY, AND CHIRPING BIRDS AND THEIR COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY, HA HA………………..
“DWP, THE ROGUE DEPARTMENT THAT CAN HOLD YOUR LIFE IN THE BALANCE”
LORD FREUD’S KILLER ELITE THAT THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ARE INVESTIGATING.
If you commit a crime, no criminal court in the UK is allowed to make you go hungry as a punishment. But if you’re late for an appointment at the Jobcentre, they can remove all your income and leave you unable to feed yourself or your family for weeks at a time.
Britain’s Welfare System is badly broken. There are thousands upon thousand of recorded narratives of the severe damage sanctions do to our fellow citizens in the UK.
‘During the first three weeks of my sanction I continued to look for work as I was required to. By the fourth week however I was exhausted, unwell and no longer had it in me. I was not eating as I had no food and was losing a lot of weight. I told the Jobcentre I was unwell through not eating but was sanctioned for another three months for not looking for work properly.’ James (not his real name).
Last year DWP sanctions affected 100,000 children in the UK – what crime have they committed as children to face ‘collective punishment’, be made hungry by the State as a punishment for the alleged misdemeanours of their parents?
As writer Stephen Armstrong points out in ‘The Road to Wigan Pier | Revisited’:
“Benefit sanctions were worse in Rochdale, Charles explained. There you’d get sanctioned for one mistake. At least in Manchester it was usually three strikes and your out, ‘But it’s always the older ones who knew the score’, he grinned ruefully. ‘They know the scams and the forms, and what you have to do. They’ve got mates behind the counter. It’s always the younger ones or the new ones who’ve never signed on, who get it wrong and gets sanctioned. ‘If your a proper benefit family you know how to play the system’. From his £35 the hostel took £10, leaving him £25 for everything else. When the money came through he’d head down to Iceland and stock up, but usually he budgeted for £5 food – it wasn’t quite enough to last the week.’”
It must be becoming clear by now to everybody that something is very wrong with the DWP sanctions regime. If we also consider that unemployment continues to rise locally whilst we have at the exact same time one of the highest sanctions or conditionality rates in Greater Manchester we must reach the conclusion that even if we accepted the brutal and questionable morality of such a sanctions regime we can not even claim the process reduces unemployment levels. And as of course we all know by now financially the whole ‘conditionality’ scheme costs the taxpayer far more to implement than it has ever saved the public purse.
It now seems clear that even Christmas proves no protection for the vulnerable and needy reliant on benefits to survive, as reported in Weekly Welfare on 20 December 2016: DWP staff told to focus on sanctions rather than processing benefit appeals.
Even Ebenezer Scrooge eventually saw the error of his ways by Christmas Day – why do the DWP alone apparently remain unmoved by the Christian message of ‘peace and goodwill’ to all at the heart of Christmas festivities?
The Government claims that benefit sanctions improve people’s employment prospects. But a recent report from the National Audit Office (NAO) showed that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has no direct evidence for the effectiveness of sanctions, has failed to analyse the data it holds about sanctions, and has refused to share data with other researchers or assist those researchers.
The DWP made itself deliberately blind to the failures of the sanctions regime, but the harm these sanctions cause is well known. In 2015, the report ‘Time to Rethink Benefit Sanctions‘ revealed that 100,000 children were affected by benefit sanctions in one year.
The National Audit Office now tells us that, on average, these sanctions reduced people’s short- and long-term job prospects, and led to reduced earnings for those who got work.
It is an outrage that harsh punishments are given to people in already difficult circumstances without proper investigation of the consequences. The National Audit Office and many other government, charity, church and parliamentary bodies have now called for a full independent review of the benefit sanctions regime. I asked my MP to contact the DWP and ask them to.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/dwp-deliberately-blind-to-the-failures-of-its-cruel-sanctions-regime/
“FIVE YEARS OF HELL BY THE DWP”
Five years of ‘harassment’ over benefits
One Wigan woman who has been repeatedly sanctioned has told of her disbelief at how the country allows benefits claimants to be treated.
The lady, who asked not to be named, has endured an ordeal lasting around five years at the hands of the DWP after she was declared fit for work despite suffering a long-term illness.
She says that assessors employed by the Government repeatedly over-ruled the expert opinions of doctors and other medics and this left her trying to survive for a number of weeks at a time without receiving any money while she appealed against the decisions.
She was left reliant on foodbanks and the generous help of friends and family members to survive for up to six weeks on two separate occasions while waiting for hearings.
She said: “It’s just been years of hounding and harassment.
http://www.wigantoday.net/news/five-years-of-harassment-over-benefits-1-8311365
This lady should keep all of the letters she has been sent by them so that she has got plenty of evidence for further action to be taken in the future against them.
Geoff – Following on from that, I have just found this one as well!
The whole thing is just getting more and more appalling and disgusting!
“Thousands of Wiganers have benefits stopped”
http://www.wigantoday.net/news/thousands-of-wiganers-have-benefits-stopped-1-8311582
“JUST WHICH PARTS OF YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS DO THE DWP WANT TO BREACH NEXT?”
………..AFTER BEING WARNED THAT THEY ARE GUILTY OF GROSS AND SYSTEMIC VIOLATIONS OF YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS, LORD FREUD’S BULLY BOYS NOW WANT TO INTERROGATE YOU REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL HEALTH PROBLEMS…………..
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
RE: Mandatory Work and Health Conversation
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/h…
For you mandatory Work and Health Conversation, what legislation can require a claimant to disclose
highly sensitive personal health data or face sanctions for the WHC if they do not wish the DWP to record their health data or treatment related thereto? Will claimants be able not to consent sharing their personal health and medical data on the basis of them wanting to maintain there Data Protection Act and Human Rights Act ECHR Article 8 Right to respect for private and family life and holding a well founded conscientious objection to sharing such data, noting the DWP already hold related data provided in the connected health and disability benefit claim?
When asked WHC questions by your work ‘coach’, if the claimants says ‘no comment’ to questions will they be at risk of a sanction? If at risk on what basis c/would a sanction apply and what legislation enables such sanctions?
Yours faithfully,
Frank Zola
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mandatory_work_and_health_conver#incoming-914928
………………AND SO SOON AFTER THE REVELATIONS THAT BIRKENHEAD DWP MANAGER, JULIA SAVAGE GAVE INSTRUCTIONS TO AN ILL MANS GP THAT RESULTED IN HIS DEATH………
“HOW CAN SOMEONE WHO HAS LIMITED MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE THAT HAS ATTENDED A TACKY 16 DAY COURSE THAT USES ACTORS AS ROLE PLAYERS, OVERRIDE A MEDICAL DECISION OF A BONAFIDE MEDICAL EXPERT, WHICH COULD ULTIMATELY END IN YOUR DEATH?”
………IT IS NOT A TRICK QUESTION, THE DEATHS OF THOSE FOUND FIT FOR WORK ARE THE GROUNDS FOR A HUGE MURDER INVESTIGATION…………………YET THE TORY GOVERNMENT PROTECT THE KILLERS………..I WONDER WHY?
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The government’s response to the UN inquiry into the UK which found that disabled people’s Human rights were being gravely and systematically violated states that “All healthcare professionals carrying out WCAs are trained in disability assessment medicine and receive training specifically in assessing people with mental health conditions. They are supported by colleagues with specific expertise, including mental function champions, who spread best practice and support colleagues in conducting assessments.”
1. How long does the training in disability assessment medicine take and who provides this?
2. what specific training is given in assessing Mental Health and how long does it last and who provides it.
3. What expertise in Mental Health do those providing the training have?
Yours faithfully,
Roy Bard
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_governments_response_to_the_2#incoming-915089
……………CHARLATANS IN WHITE COATS PLAYING WITH PEOPLES LIVES…….ONLY IN THE UK…
“LORD DAVID FREUD’S PRETEND DOCTORS MAKE SURE YOU DIE QUICKLY……….SAVING THE EXCHEQUER BILLIONS”
…………ALL IT TAKES, ONE EX BEDPAN WASHER AND A BONUS DRIVEN DWP DECISION MAKER WITH NO MEDICAL QUALIFICATION WHATSOEVER…………….
Frank Zola 30 December 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please discose copies of any standard or template letters or notifications you send to the GPs of their specific patients and your claimants found ‘fit-to-work’, after undertaking a Work Capability Assessment (WCA). Plus any information you send to GPs related to this context with regards the issuing of Fit Notes in connection to WCAs outcomes indicating someone is fit-to-work’.
Yours faithfully,
Frank Zola
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/letters_info_sent_to_gps_after_b#incoming-914943
……………..DAVID FREUD RECENTLY QUIT, THE STENCH OF DEATH FOLLOWING HIS EVERY MOVE LIKE A SHADOW………….
Welfare reforms built on lies handed to him by the private health insurance industry
Happy New Year everyone!
Given there’s over 1,200 comments here (no, I’ve not read them!) stretching into 2017 and the fact it’s at the top of the posts list, I take it this was the last post Johnny put up. Anyone know what’s happened to him? Is he ill (dead, even) or is he being sat on by the authorities? Any info gratefully received…
timfrom – Happy New Year to yourself (and everyone on here also!)
I am sure that all of us are wondering exactly what has happened to Johnny Void – with no new articles since October 2015 – it is indeed odd.
Let’s hope that nothing dreadful has happened to him!
Ian Bone also published his last/latest article way back on 19th October 2016. Coincidence or…
And this page is in danger of ‘exploding’ under the weight of comments…
Yeah, but where else are Geoff Reynolds and Stepping Razor gonna go to off-load and bore everybody to tears? 😊
Spooky about Ian Bone, though. Is there a cull of anarchists under way?
Meanwhile – The Tories being ‘secretive’ abot their ‘past’ and ‘upcoming’ policies and legislation in the pipeline! Surely, that’s not possible!
“While you were enjoying your turkey, the Tories repeatedly stuffed us all”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/03/enjoying-turkey-tories-repeatedly-stuffed-us/
“Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi owns property worth more than £25m”
He is certainly not short of a pound, or three!
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/03/tory-mp-nadhim-zahawi-owns-property-worth-more-than-25m
The DWP got some unwanted Christmas presents, as more shocking stories were exposed
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was repeatedly under the spotlight over the Christmas period. After a year of controversy and criticism, the DWP was once again drawing negative headlines. And some of the news was shocking.
Covering up failure?
Firstly, campaigners accused the government and the DWP of trying to cover up the deaths of seven benefit claimants who had undergone fit-for-work tests. The government had appointed Professor Malcolm Harrington to review the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) process. A WCA is a test used by the DWP to decide if sick and disabled people are entitled to benefits.
But a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Disability News Service (DNS) to the DWP showed that it withheld reports on the deaths of seven people from the professor. Harrington told DNS that if he had seen them, he would have remembered “such damning indictments of the system”. The DWP told DNS:
The Department does not hold any information to confirm or deny whether these Peer Reviews were shared with Professor Harrington.
Rewarding cruelty?
Then, an investigation by The Mirror revealed that the DWP had paid private firms over half a billion pounds over four years to carry out WCAs. Analysis showed that Atos and Capita earned £507m between January 2013 and November 2016. The money was specifically to assess people for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) awards. But the companies appear not to have been doing their jobs properly. As figures show that 61% of 90,000 claimants who appealed against a PIP decision at a tribunal won their case.
Atos said that the final decision on whether to give someone benefits was down to the DWP. A Capita spokesman said:
Capita carries out PIP assessments according to DWP guidelines and professional codes of conduct.
The DWP told The Mirror that “payments to our providers reflect the amount of work they do for us”.
Hiding information?
The DWP came under fire over PIP again on 30 December. A member of the public submitted an FOI request, asking it how many disabled people had lost money after moving from the former Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to PIP. But as The Daily Record reported, the DWP has refused to publish the information, saying it will be released at a later date. Emma Wilde, who submitted the FOI in October 2016, said:
It is disgraceful that this information isn’t being released. I believe the reason the Government don’t want to tell us the answers to these questions is because they know they will show how profoundly unfair the system is.
In response to the FOI, the DWP said:
The department intend to provide detailed breakdowns of DLA to PIP reassessment outcomes in due course.
But another story about the DWP that broke over the Christmas period raised serious questions about the department. And more specifically, about its relationship with the NHS.
Shocking allegations
A seriously ill 55-year-old father died after the DWP told his GP not to write him any more sick notes. The department declared James Harrison, from Netherley, fit for work after having a WCA. This was despite him living with a serious lung condition, depression and anxiety. Harrison had worked for 30 years before losing his job at a community centre. He fell ill last year, and died of heart failure in November 2016.
The case only came to light after his daughter Abbie demanded to see her father’s medical records. And she found a letter from the DWP. It said:
She told The Liverpool Echo:
I think it is a disgrace that managers at the job centre who know nothing about medicine should be interfering in any way in the relationship between a doctor and a patient.
When the job centre starts to get involved in telling doctors about the health of their patients, that is a really slippery slope to be on.
A spokeswoman for the DWP said:
The GP would have been notified so they know the outcome of the assessment and as the letter says, there’s no longer any requirement to provide a fit note unless the claimant appeals the decision, or their medical condition worsens or they have a new medical condition.
Gongs for the DWP
But while the DWP continued to feature heavily in negative headlines, the government didn’t seem to notice; judging by the Queen’s New Year’s Honours. Because, as one social media user pointed out, the government awarded civil servants from the department 11 gongs:
Nadhim Zawahi is no stranger to ‘expenses’ problems either!
(At least though, he paid them back, unlike all of the ongoing alleged ‘Tory General Election’ expenses scandal!)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24887143
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Stepping – Just like Julia Savage’s name – the names of these individuals are also likely to go down in history – but mostly for entirely the wrong reasons. All of them are, but small (but nevertheless very significant) cogs in a huge ‘Welfare Reform’ Tory Government system that is cruelly and also needlessly, killing many totally innocent claimants. ALL of these people also aid and abett the carrying out of these murderous policies – AND WHAT IS MORE, BY ACCEPTING THESE ACCOLADES THEY MUST. BY ASSOCIATION, BE IN TOTAL AGREEANCE WITH THEM.
All of these named individuals are now very likely to be added to the growing ‘list of shame’ of ‘DWP employees’, ‘Private Companies’, ‘HCP’s’ and last, but not least, serving and also ex-Tory Government Ministers who have been/or who still are – overseeing these murderous policies.
Bedroom tax two, here we go again. .
SCOTLAND’s government and opposition parties have attacked Whitehall plans for fresh welfare cuts dubbed ‘Bedroom Tax Two’ with one prominent figure the proposals “must be stopped”.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15000134.SNP_and_Labour_unite_against_Westminster____Bedroom_Tax_Two____welfare_cuts/?ref=rss
If you are ‘against’ fracking (etc) then look out! Welcome to Na*i England!
“The Government is training an army of snoopers, right across British society”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/04/army-snoopers-trained-not-run-gchq/
I feel sorry for this poor lady – but I will not give a damn if Julia Savage eventually loses her home – she deserves it!
From now onwards, the ‘legal’ litigation clock is ticking away on Julia Savage – as well as on all of the rest of them as well!
“The secretly homeless social worker who used welfare services she offered others”
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-social-worker-who-secretly-used-the-same-homeless-services-as-the-people-she-helped-a7508721.html
………IF ANYBODY KNOWS THE ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION IT WILL BE LORD DAVID FREUD”
A DEAD MAN WALKING AND ARCHITECT OF UK CLAIMANT DEATHS IN COLLUSION WITH THE UNUM PROVIDENT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY…..
John Dosac 29 December 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I would be grateful if you could provide me with details of how many people in the Work-Related Activity Group of ESA later died whilst still claiming in the period 2015/16.
Further:
a) How many of these people had appealed the decision?
b) How many died within twelve weeks of being placed into WRAG?
c) How many people died as a result of a long-term health condition that the department were aware of?
Yours faithfully,
John Dosac
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/how_many_people_in_the_esa_wrag#incoming-914911
………BARON FREUD ADDED HIS SIGNATURE TO THE WELFARE REFORM ACTS TO SAY THAT RISK ASSESSMENTS CONCLUDED THAT NOBODY WOULD SUFFER….
HE KNEW THAT LIVES WOULD BE LOST BUT DID NOT WANT TO UPSET HIS SPONSOR…………
HENCE THE HUGE WELFARE MORTALITY COVER UPS.
………………THE NOOSE IS CALLING, MY LORD…………………..
Watched Newsnight last night. Anyone else see it? Ken Loach there and some other guy(name forgotten)who is involved in recommendations/reports which whitewash the culling of folk. Accrington. The culling continues. People given up on all social support. Living like rats. Buildings and society like 1840GB. When confronted by KL the front man absolving all cullings said the GB people endorsed it. Ask the correct,loaded questions,you get the answers you want. I don’t know whether I saw a slither of shame on the bloke’s face,wishful thinking maybe. My my,how long can this go on. Still 10/10 for the silent culling machine for its efficacy and stealth in keeping it all under wraps. Now at least we can watch St Theresa in her £998 leather trousers.cry those tears that shows she cares.
Still luvin all those guys at the top a milkin. Anyone know the name of Gestapo Commandant who used to ride around the WW2 Death Camp on his White Charger. Top Bloke. I think Labour and the Conservatives have him reverrred. So sick
‘Sanctions are cruel and vindictive’: Ken Loach – BBC Newsnight
My memory and patience deserts me. Recently read how the whole judicialprocess is one big hog trough with everyone a-feeding from the disenfranchised. Sound plausible? Think on it: Look c how the government and the money grubbers conspire with their departments to knock down peoples basic needs. Then basic fundamental policing and laws which should bring improper practice to book are ignored. So much evidence here and about of all wrong doing…but Big Zero done. By rights all of parliament and the judiciary should be in the slammers now,and most(prisoners) in now released for killers that are in government,SS,Atos and so many others.
The corruption is unrivalled!
Not ONE firm ‘named and shamed’ for paying below minimum wage has been prosecuted, Tory minister says
Not a single firm ‘named and shamed’ by the government for paying below minimum wage has been prosecuted, a Tory minister has said.
Ministers have humiliated nearly 700 employers since 2013 in a scheme they launched to “crack down on those who ignore the law”.
Yet this week, they said no criminal prosecutions have been launched in relation to firms that were named in the programme.
Labour peer Lord Beecham, who obtained the answer, branded the failure “deeply unimpressive”.
He told the Mirror: “What a contrast between the approach to employers breaking the law and exploiting their workers and the sanctions regime applied ruthlessly to benefit claimants
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/not-one-firm-named-shamed-9558344
“THE CAPITA SCUMBAGS”
“Last year, a National Audit Office report showed that 36 per cent of Capita’s PIP assessment reports had failed to meet standards agreed with the DWP – the target set out in its contract was four.”
Sadiq Khan opens emergency London homeless shelters as temperatures plummet
……….but Buckingham Palace a priority as the homeless die.
The Mayor of London has opened emergency cold weather shelters for London’s homeless people as temperatures plummet across the capital.
Sadiq Khan urged followers on social media to report sightings of rough sleepers across the city to homeless charity Streetlink as temperatures fell below freezing overnight.
In posts on Twitter and Facebook he wrote: “We’ve opened emergency cold-weather shelters to help those sleeping rough in tonight’s freezing weather.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sadiq-khan-launches-emergency-homeless-shelters-as-temperatures-plummet-a3432891.html
Bedroom Tax Two ‘necessary’ for fair welfare system say Scots Tories
Ruth Davidson’s Tories have said new benefits caps to people living in social housing and dubbed Bedroom Tax Two are necessary
Ruth Davidson’s Tories have said new benefits caps to people living in social housing and dubbed Bedroom Tax Two are necessary
CUTS to the benefits dubbed ‘Bedroom Tax Two’ and which will see younger renters in social housing lose up to a quarter of their assistance are “necessary” the Scottish Tories have said.
Amid fury from councils and housing associations that the planned changes will spark a major spike in arrears and fuel homeless, the Tories have said the new system illustrated the difficulties in creating a welfare system “that is fair to everyone”.
But anti-poverty campaigners have joined those condemning the plans, claiming they are ideologically driven from Westminster and will force people in their 30s out of living alone.
The Herald revealed this week how the DWP will from early 2019 only pay social tenants the so-called Local Housing Allowance (LHA).
But single tenants under 35 with no children will see their benefits limited to the ‘shared accommodation rate’ (SAR) which is much lower than the average for one-bedroom properties. It means that a younger tenant in Glasgow who would normally be entitled to £92.06 under the current system, will receive £68.28 in housing benefit.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/News/15002582.Bedroom_Tax_Two___39_necessary__39__for_fair_welfare_system_say_Scots_Tories/
Bedroom Tax Two ‘necessary’ for fair welfare system say Scots Tories
CUTS to the benefits dubbed ‘Bedroom Tax Two’ and which will see younger renters in social housing lose up to a quarter of their assistance are “necessary” the Scottish Tories have said.
Amid fury from councils and housing associations that the planned changes will spark a major spike in arrears and fuel homeless, the Tories have said the new system illustrated the difficulties in creating a welfare system “that is fair to everyone”.
But anti-poverty campaigners have joined those condemning the plans, claiming they are ideologically driven from Westminster and will force people in their 30s out of living alone.
The Herald revealed this week how the DWP will from early 2019 only pay social tenants the so-called Local Housing Allowance (LHA).
But single tenants under 35 with no children will see their benefits limited to the ‘shared accommodation rate’ (SAR) which is much lower than the average for one-bedroom properties. It means that a younger tenant in Glasgow who would normally be entitled to £92.06 under the current system, will receive £68.28 in housing benefit.
well said GORDON.
Gordon Keane Replying Andy MacLeod 12:33am Thu 5 Jan 17
But Ruth D. will support anything Westminster comes up with, regardless. The Bedroom Tax is appalling, and downright evil. There is no other way to describe it. Davidson and her party are all for it. Nothing will sway them. Westminster has decreed, and the tories in Scotland will follow thru.
Also, let us not forget the Lib Dem’s part in all of this. All throughout the Cameron/Clegg administration, practically every Lib Dem MP in Scotland supported it. We heard with a certain degree of astonishment, the MP for Strathkelvin area defend this….which will be why she is no longer the MP there!
And this rule that no one under 35 is allowed a place with their own bedroom….what purpose does that serve?
This is an attack not only on the young, but on social housing in general.
As for Labour….well, why they complaining? After all, according to their former “leader” in this country, when it comes to Social Security, “Scots are not programmed to think for themselves” Yups. Joannie Lamont said just that, live on the television!
Again….Labour didn’t want any Social Security powers for Scotland at all. London knew what was best, and London was always and still is, for Labour, the “Boss”. So, this is what London has given us, as well as all the other things coming at us from there, like the war on the disabled, the ill and the infirm.
Yet, it matters not what the tories throw at us, or anyone else. Labour still insists we can’t be Independent. Thus, any complaint from Labour is a bit pointless I would think. Only when that party accept this country must be Independent, will their protests on anything from London have any real meaning.
As for the SNP…..they are being way, way too timid !
Government’s £50,000 study suggests scrapping ‘Ladies’ and ‘Gents’ toilet signs because they might offend transgender people
Dr Jenny Slater, from Sheffield Hallam University, said toilets are an important part of “how we understand our own identities”
A study that cost taxpayers £50,000 recommended the government scrap ‘Ladies’ and ‘Gents’ toilet signs because they might offend transgender people.
After a year of research, academics at Sheffield Hallam University suggested calling them ‘toilets with urinals’ and ‘toilets without urinals’ instead.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/governments-50000-study-suggests-scrapping-9565869
swanseatiger
what a lovely way to start the new year making the uk look like idiots again
what a waist of £50.000 that could of gone to the nhs to save someone life
and why it cost so much for them to sit in a room and discuss door signs
don’t they have better things to do
GordonScott
With the pound falling against all world currencies, the rest of the world must be laughing at the way this Government is throwing away tax payers money, as it continues to borrow money adding to our National debt.. To the rest of the world the U.K. has got it’s finger on the Self Destruct Button, I wonder if anywhere else in the world there is so much concern for Transgenders ?? Food for Thought.
NHS groups ‘paying millions to private firms that block GP referrals’
NHS organisations are paying millions of pounds to private firms that stop patients being referred to hospital by their GPs, an investigation has found.
Controversial referral management centres are used by some clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to scrutinise patient referrals to hospitals by family doctors.
Supporters say they can reduce inappropriate referrals, saving the NHS money, but critics argue that adding an extra layer of scrutiny risks delaying diagnosis. There is also doubt over the effectiveness of such schemes.
GP practices ‘offered rewards’ for not referring patients to hospitals
Read more
In an investigation, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) sent freedom of information requests to all 211 CCGs in England. Of the 184 that responded, 72 (39%) said they commissioned some form of referral management scheme.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/04/nhs-paying-millions-private-firms-block-gp-referrals-hospital
“QUEEN HAS A COLD AND IS ADVISED TO REST”
……….YET CHRONICALLY ILL CANCER PATIENT IS FOUND FIT FOR WORK
we are all born equal, but some more equal than others.
I am left wondering why I would rather have the Conservatives in power to hate rather than Labour??? Wots wrong with me? In my dystopian world I consider the conservatives as the SS: you know and salute the way they will despatch you,they want you dead ASAP,quietly culled. With Labour it appears death by committee and political correctness gone mad: open borders with Tory-lite policies. I guess I harbor some idea some idea or connection to country. I guess with Labour their forgotten plebs will die under a deluge of people all coming to undercut each other for the benefit of the Islington-likes: concrete hell Your choice: Hitler or Stalin,and with both their officers toasting champers with the likes of Big Biz. Wottalarf! Wottachoice!!
That’s a good analysis of the current state of the Labour Party. Whilst I am pleased labour has turned to the left where it all began they will remain un-electable until they wake up to the fact that the electorate is fed up with political correctness and constant brainwashing. Anyone familiar with the old children’s story “The Emperors new clothes” will understand where I am coming from. The main problem being, the people are told to believe the opposite of what they see with there own eyes. This is why the electorate is turning to the right wing alternatives, not because they believe in fascism but because they are so turned off with the establishment line. Labour need to drop all the PC crap and concentrate on things that matter like making life better for the vast majority instead of pandering to the rich and powerful.
Reading above I note someone cautions G Reynolds of what he says. Good advice. Careful Geoff. Remember what little you may have can be taken from you and more hell inflicted upon you with impunity. The Man has inexhaustible funds and can create endless hoops for you to jump through….then not meet and fail. Tails you lose,heads they win. The tossers always win!!
I am probably less educated than you(GR),but words like ‘it is alleged’ or’thus have I heard’ or ‘a friend of mine’ might be of use. Cover your butt. Too high a profile and you may become a target.
I never would say what I would like or what I think on this thing. Maybe over-crazy,but anything confidential or on meeting I would give a confident a pat-down or suddenly alter place of meeting…even go for open space. Yeh,I compris all your messaging,but the killers and their apprentices and shirrifs are everywhere.TC
I was wondering what had happened to (the Tories friend!) Laura Kuenssberg!
“The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg gets scolded for misrepresenting Corbyn – by the BBC itself”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/05/bbcs-laura-kuenssberg-gets-scolded-misrepresenting-corbyn-bbc/
“HOW COME NOBODY BELIEVES THE AMERICAN SECURITY SERVICES?”
…………….ALL THAT CRAP ABOUT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, AN INSIDE JOB ON THE TWIN TOWERS AND THE DIRTIEST ELECTIONS EVER RUN…………..
America might fancy itself as the worlds fire breathing dragon, along with it’s favourite puppet, shithole Britain, but the only thing we really share is public dissatisfaction………………
Both treat the people like mushrooms and feed us perpetual shit in the form of Murdoch’s daily propaganda claptrap.
The FBI, CIA, MI5 and MI6 and Homeland Security have been the architects of terror. A new world order designed to strip every penny from your pockets to line those of the administrators that design the agenda.
Terror was rarely known till we were lied to by our governments to invade other peoples spaces.
Oil and Gas lubricates the urge to send us into theatres of war a million miles from home. It also feeds the greed of International Banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and weapons manufacturers.
We are living the biggest lie in history and the leaders are so dim not to realise the poulace is waking up to all the crap we are spoon fed each day.
Information is now regularly archived, not to be seen for umpteen years, hidden from your view. This is not the basis of government, rather the basis of corruption……………….
The tabloids are not fit to wipe your arse on, our broadcasts total jackanory, our police, judiciary and Westminster, complete villains.
One percent are fucking you over big style and you do nothing about it?………………………………………………………
United we are strong, a voice to be heard. Setting faction against faction their master plan to camouflage the big picture………………
………..TO RUIN YOUR LIVES AT ALL COSTS
“THE BILDERBERG GROUP MEETINGS”
……….Clinton, Blair, AXA Insurance
World’s most powerful gather for secret Bilderberg meetings
World’s most powerful gather for secret Bilderberg meetings
Wednesday, 8 Jun 2016 | 11:05 AM ET | 00:40
It’s that time of the year again when some of the world’s most powerful people lock themselves behind closed doors for three days of high-profile discussions.
Known as the world’s most secretive meeting, the Bilderberg Meetings, held annually since 1954, will take place from June 9 – 12 in Dresden, Germany.
It has always attracted curiosity, as no one knows quite what is discussed – although topics released ahead of this year’s meeting include the vague “Current events” (Brexit, Trump, migrants?). Other topics of discussion include Europe, Russia, cyber-security, geo-politics of energy and commodity prices (Saudi Arabia?) and ‘Precariat and the middle class.’
Discussions are held under the strict Chatham House Rule – meaning that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.
According to the Bilderberg Meetings website, “participants are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions. As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights. There is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written. Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.”
………………AN AGENDA TO PRIVATISE HEALTHCARE, STEAL BENEFITS AND DIVERT YOUR PENSIONS……….
In 2000, British politician Denis Healey, who had been involved in Bilderberg for decades, told the Guardian, “To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair. Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.”
Theorists also cite the inclusion of Bill Clinton at the meetings in 1991 before he was president and Tony Blair’s presence in 1993 before he became the British prime minister as examples of the group’s power. Past attendees have included former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (who will also be attending this year), former Chase Manhattan chief executive David Rockefeller, and British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Here’s the list of topics Bilderberg released to be discussed this year:
Current events
China
Europe: migration, growth, reform, vision, unity
Middle East
Russia
U.S. political landscape, economy: growth, debt, reform
Cybersecurity
Geo-politics of energy and commodity prices
Precariat and middle class
Technological innovation
……………….SEEM FAMILIAR?
Over the years, there have been rumors of career launches and future presidents decided at Bilderberg. “Bill Clinton was a conference attendee in 1991, as a mere governor of Arkansas, a year before he was elected U.S. President. Tony Blair was only a shadow minister when he got his invitation … in 1993,” said U.K. newspaper The Independent.
Chaired by the head of French insurance giant AXA Group, Henri de Castries, who also happens to be a count, this year’s attendees include CEOs of multinationals including Shell, Deutsche Bank, Airbus, and Siemens; politicians such as former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, and former head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso. It also includes economists such as the International Monetary Fund’s Christine Lagarde and World Economic Forum Chairman Klaus Schwab and lastly, royalty such as the King of the Netherlands.
“The Scum” – Let’s hope that they eventually go bankrupt and fold!
“The Sun losses exceed £60m as ad slump and hacking charges take toll”
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/05/the-sun-losses-advertising-hacking-charges-profits-revenues
No lack of money to spend on new laser weapons! What war is next!
Some claimants are dying and a £30m contract has been given out to develop new laser weapons – it is obscene!
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/05/uk-military-announces-contract-to-develop-death-ray-laser-weapons
Ken Loach just dropped a truth bomb on the BBC, over the cruellest of government policies
January 5th, 2017 Steve Topple Steve Topple UK
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Ken Loach gave a searing interview on BBC Newsnight on Wednesday 4 January. He left presenter Evan Davis holding a truth bomb and the Newsnight Twitter account misrepresenting the interview. And Loach hit the nail on the head, regarding the subject matter of his film I, Daniel Blake. The government’s cruel benefit sanctions regime has left thousands of people destitute.
Loach versus the establishment
Davis was interviewing Loach alongside Matthew Oakley, an economist from the Westminster Policy Institute (WPI). The debate was about the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefit sanctions regime. This is the system whereby people have their welfare payments stopped if the DWP thinks they are not meeting certain criteria.
Oakley was defending the sanctions regime; Loach was giving a counter-argument. But the latter took issue with Oakley’s argument that “the vast majority of the public support” the system. Loach said:
You can’t hide behind that. It’s an appalling system… People are set up to fail. The system is there in order to trap them… People are in fear…
But just how accurate were Loach’s claims?
The whole truth…?
Loach claimed:
A lot of people are sanctioned because of the Work Capability Assessment [WCA].
Anecdotal evidence from Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) supports Loach’s statement. DPAC is one of the groups which got the UN to look into the government’s welfare reforms. The UN said the government had committed “grave” and “systematic” violations of disabled people’s human rights.
Loach also claimed that:
Jobcentre staff are given targets. They call them ‘expectations’. And if they don’t sanction a certain number of people a week, they themselves get into trouble.
His assertion is correct. The DWP had to admit that Jobcentres had previously “imposed targets for the number of sanction referrals”, following an investigation by The Guardian in 2011. Furthermore, that it had removed the targets. But evidence from the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union and whistleblowers suggests they still exist.
Nothing but the truth…?
But Oakley, a former economic advisor on welfare at the Treasury, where he helped to produce a report on conditionality and sanctions, also made some claims.
He said:
Being unemployed or out of work is not the cause of a sanction. It’s not doing what you’ve agreed to do… It’s taking steps towards work. In [the] case of a mental health condition it might be actually you’re taking steps to prepare yourself for work…
Yet evidence on sanctions given to both the Work and Pensions Select Committee and Durham University research shows that:
The DWP sanctioned a man for missing a Jobcentre appointment, because he was at a job interview. He had informed the DWP first. Due to his sanction, he could not afford to go to other job interviews.
It also sanctioned another man, living with learning difficulties, for not completing his job search on the computer. He hand-wrote it instead, because he did not have the IT skills to use the DWP system.
The DWP sanctioned a woman with mental health issues for missing a Jobcentre appointment. This was because her mental health prevented her from leaving the house on that day.
The last example is, worryingly, not uncommon. 62% of people sanctioned have mental health issues. Even though DWP guidelines state that where:
the claimant has a condition that could affect their understanding of interview conditionality and the consequences of non compliance… arrange a Core Visit [to their home] before taking any further action.
This applies to anyone with a “mental health condition or learning difficulties, or conditions affecting cognition such as stroke, autistic spectrum disorder or attention deficit disorder”.
The BBC
But Newsnight also appeared to distort what the film director said. Davis said to Loach (from 32:30):
In a way… you sound like you should be arguing there should be no sanctions at all
To which Loach replied:
No. I’m saying nobody supports cheating. Nobody supports tax cheats. But they don’t seem to get the same coverage… Of course people should not cheat. And there should be a way of dealing with that.
But the BBC Newsnight Twitter account tweeted that:
The Canary asked Newsnight why it claimed Loach said he wanted the sanctions regime “scrapped” when at no point did he say this. No one was available for comment.
A national disgrace
Oakley claimed that:
The vast majority of people on benefits aren’t sanctioned… the people you’re seeing in that film… are the very, very hardest end of what we’re talking about here. Secondly, there’s a huge amount of international evidence that shows that conditionality… [and] financial sanctions… is effectively getting people back to work more quickly.
The DWP will not release the detail of how many people have died after having benefits sanctioned. But a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the department showed that 20% of claimants whose deaths were subject to a DWP review had had their payments sanctioned. And another FOI to the DWP in 2012 showed that 10,600 people had died after their benefit claims ended.
Oakley’s claims ignore the anecdotal evidence surrounding the sanctions regime. Including one man who had his payments stopped by the DWP after missing an appointment because he had had a heart attack. And another who the DWP sanctioned for the same reason. But this man was at hospital with his partner, who had just had a stillborn child.
Oakley’s point that the “vast majority” of claimants aren’t sanctioned is wholly irrelevant. One unnecessary death, or a single person thrown recklessly into poverty because of the DWP is one too many. Civil servants, economists and politicians can claim the sanctions regime is working until they are blue in the face. The reality is the system is gravely failing thousands of people.
Loach is right. It is an “extraordinarily” “cruel and vindictive” regime that needs overhauling. Immediately.
Ken Loach doesn’t mince his words, he describes sanctions as “cruel, evil, vindictive, barbaric and an abomination” because that is exactly what sanctions are. Sanctions have no place in the benefits system in any way, shape or form whatsoever. And that chinless wonder Matthew fucking Oakley can fuck right off!
Robert Price
The sanctions system has killed disabled people. I wont try to estimate the numbers because the #EvilEvilBBC, with their Rupert Murdoch employed staff in shows like More or Less do everything they can to downplay numbers whilst disabled people are tortured until death for absolutely no good reason, The supposed basis for austerity from Reinhart & Rogoff was proven false but the #EvilEvilBBC still works of the recommendations in it dishonestly stating that high amounts of government moneys in the economy stifle growth. If someone like Ken Loach mentions the evil of a system which leaves people with absolutely nothing to live on for up to three years for being a few minutes late for an appointment then the #EvilEvilBBC bring up the subject of benefit fraud which is minuscule in the greater scheme of things. Before Portillo made the change to the system in the late 80s only people who were proven frauds were sanctioned, now it’s the innocent almost for the enjoyment of the people in charge. There must be some people in the #EvilEvilBBC bright enough to understand Modern Monetary Theory, and humane enough not to want to torture vulnerable people to death. Do they ever speak up?
The DWP will not release the detail of how many people have died after having benefits sanctioned. But a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the department showed that 20% of claimants whose deaths were subject to a DWP review had had their payments sanctioned. And another FOI to the DWP in 2012 showed that 10,600 people had died after their benefit claims ended.
Oakley’s claims ignore the anecdotal evidence surrounding the sanctions regime. Including one man who had his payments stopped by the DWP after missing an appointment because he had had a heart attack. And another who the DWP sanctioned for the same reason. But this man was at hospital with his partner, who had just had a stillborn child.
Oakley’s point that the “vast majority” of claimants aren’t sanctioned is wholly irrelevant. One unnecessary death, or a single person thrown recklessly into poverty because of the DWP is one too many. Civil servants, economists and politicians can claim the sanctions regime is working until they are blue in the face. The reality is the system is gravely failing thousands of people.
“DWP DECISION MAKERS AFTER BEING INFORMED ANOTHER CLAIMANT HAD DIED”
Opposition parties call for inquiry into ministers’ WCA deaths ‘cover-up’
…………..HIDE BEHIND THE CURTAINS FREUD
Three opposition parties have called for an independent inquiry into claims that ministers failed to show secret reports into the deaths of benefit claimants to the independent expert they commissioned to review their “fitness for work” test.
The apparent cover-up was exposed last month by Disability News Service (DNS), after a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) response to a freedom of information request suggested that seven confidential “peer reviews” were not shared with Professor Malcolm Harrington as he prepared his final report into the work capability assessment (WCA) in 2012.
It is just the latest evidence to emerge that has implicated former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith and former employment minister Chris Grayling in covering-up evidence of links between WCA flaws and the deaths of benefit claimants, particularly those with experience of significant mental distress.
After DNS reported the latest alleged cover-up, Jonathan Bartley (pictured), co-leader of the Green party, called for an independent inquiry into the “shocking” claims and into the wider issue of claimants whose deaths have been linked with government welfare reforms.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/opposition-parties-call-for-inquiry-into-ministers-wca-deaths-cover-up/
Politicians trying to be do gooders – That should read Criminal Investigation.
…………….ARE YOU WAITING FOR THE KNOCK, FREUD?
Professor Harrington, who carried out reviews of the WCA in 2010, 2011 and 2012, has told DNS he has “no recollection of seeing any of the reviews” and that “such damning indictments of the system – if seen – should have triggered a response from me. It didn’t.”
Professor Harrington had already told DNS in 2015 that he believes DWP did not show him a letter that had been written in late March 2010 by a coroner to ministers following the suicide of Stephen Carré in January 2010.
When they were appointed in May 2010, Duncan Smith and Grayling assumed responsibility for responding to the letter, which raised serious concerns about the safety of the WCA, and which called for a review of the DWP policy not to seek medical evidence from a GP or psychiatrist for all those applying for out-of-work disability benefits who had a mental health condition.
Duncan Smith and Grayling appear to have dismissed the letter, and failed to show it to Professor Harrington, while deciding to roll out the test to hundreds of thousands of long-term claimants of incapacity benefit, many of whom had mental health conditions.
The scandal of unfairly-refused sickness and disability benefits – it isn’t new, but it is killing….
Posted by Mike Sivier
Amazingly, this is still being treated as news, when it is in fact an ongoing scandal.
Perhaps we should take this as a sign that the Conservative Government laid its groundwork well; the incessant hate campaigns against sickness and disability benefit claimants have made it seem – to the unobservant member of the public – that these people deserve to lose their benefit payments because they are all cynical scroungers who simply don’t want to do a decent day’s work.
If that was true, why do so many of them suffer in poverty when the money is cut off? Why do so many of them die?
The simple answer is that the claim that they are all perfectly fit is a lie. Less than half of one per cent of sickness and disability benefit claims are fraudulent, but a far larger proportion are having their claims overturned.
We know that the assessors – for private firms Capita and Atos – don’t do their job properly. They have targets to hit (even though the Department for Work and Pensions – their employers – deny it with all their lying might).
We know that the assessment system is rubbish. It assumes that any ill-health professed by a claimant is entirely in their mind, or made up by them in order to get the benefit, and its questions are skewed in order to make it possible for this to be claimed. Medical evidence by doctors is routinely ignored – in fact, the system is designed to do so.
And we know that the appeal system is designed to put people off demanding their right as citizens of the United Kingdom. Mandatory reassessment by the initial assessors was introduced because too many people were winning on appeal so the Conservatives wanted to put a barrier in their way – a means of withholding payment while an excuse was found to continue withholding payment, for an unlimited period of time.
Only after a mandatory reassessment had run its course could a claimant appeal – if the extreme poverty into which the DWP, Atos or Capita had thrown them had not forced them to give up and claim another benefit or try to do a job (and how many of those who managed to get one have suffered serious health issues as a result? Nobody tracks these), and if the stress of going through this Kafka-esque system has not already killed them.
The appeal process is also relatively lengthy, but the success rate is remarkable – far higher than that of mandatory reassessments. So we may conclude that the assessment system is seriously at fault.
The DWP absolutely refuses to draw this obvious conclusion, though.
And in the background, the number of deaths just keeps on rising.
The solution is to outlaw any private, profit-driven firm from carrying out health assessments on people in the United Kingdom, to disband the Department for Work and Pensions and ensure none of the civil servants who made the key decisions ever work in the public sector again, and to start from scratch with a new system, based on a claimant’s health, rather than on fantasy.
That requires a change of government.
Until then, the current system will continue putting people off claiming, in the hope that they will go away and not bother the public finances again – either by getting a job, living off the good graces of relatives and friends, or dying.
Dying is the preferred option of the DWP, according to all the evidence.
It is a scandal of terrifying proportions. It has been going on for years. But still media organisations are treating it as a surprise.
Wake up!
To be struck down with illness or disability is difficult enough. To then have to fight tooth and nail for benefits to which one has a genuine right is soul-destroying.
Increasingly, it’s being reported that people in Stoke-on-Trent are having Personal Independence Payments (PIP) rejected. And yet when these decisions are taken to tribunal, they are, say organisations representing the disabled, routinely overturned.
Not only does that suggest the system, overseen by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), is deeply flawed, but those who fall victim to it are forced to wait months without payment before their appeal is heard.
Atos and Capita are the Government contractors charged with getting the system right. But bringing the private sector into healthcare isn’t something of which everyone is a fan. There’s a risk, they say, financial targets might cloud reasoned judgment.
Last year, a mental health nurse, sent undercover to train as a personal independence payment assessor with Capita, was told during training that the company needed its assessors “to be doing as many assessments a day as you can possibly manage”. One assessor revealed he sometimes completed his assessment reports before even meeting claimants, stating he could usually “completely dismiss” what he was told by PIP claimants, and making offensive comments about an overweight claimant who was unable to carry out her own personal care. He also claimed some assessors were earning up to £20,000 a month at a time when the DWP was trying to clear an embarrassing backlog of claims. “We were flying through them because of that money,” he said.
Revealed: Families left with just 50p a week in housing benefit after cuts
Revealed: Families left with just 50p a week in housing benefit after cuts
By Michelle Hurst | Posted: January 05, 2017
Forty-two Grimsby-area families have been left with 50p or less a week in Housing Benefit, following rules that brought in a lower cap for claimants.
And on top of that, there were technical issues with the payment of housing benefit over the festive period with a payment due on December 30 being delayed until January 1.
In November, the benefit cap – which limits the amount a household is able to claim in benefits from the Government – was lowered from £23,000 to £20,000 a year for families living outside London.
North East Lincolnshire Council estimates that 45 households are now losing Housing Benefit under the new cap.
Read more at http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/revealed-families-left-with-just-50p-a-week-in-housing-benefit-after-cuts/story-30033234-detail/story.html#WzvXi0uWfIBmb2rK.99
NHS trials artificial intelligence app as alternative to 111 helpline
……………..phasing out human contact, JEREMY HUNT’S GAME OF DEATH…
NHS patients will be assessed by robots under a controversial 111 scheme to use “artificial intelligence” to ease pressures on Accident & Emergency units.
More than one million people will be given access to a free app which means they can consult with a “chatbot” instead of a human being.
Hospitals across the country are struggling to cope with unprecedented demand, which has left thousands of casualty patients waiting on trolleys.
In the last week, growing numbers of hospitals and ambulance services have declared critical incidents – even though most operations have been stopped for the last month.
The new measure is part of a national drive by health officials to “digitise” the health service, while speeding up help for minor complaints to reduce strain on services.
“‘This simplistic system could, like NHS 111, result in more people being sent to overstretched GP or A&E services who don’t actually need treatment – or conversely serious conditions being missed'”Dr Chaand Nagpaul
Health officials said the trial aimed to “reduce pressure on the NHS during the winter and beyond.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/01/05/nhs-trials-artificial-intelligence-app-place-111-helpline/
………….OOPS
ONLINE POLL SHOWS 66% BELIEVE WIKILEAKS RATHER THAN AMERICAN SECURITY SERVICES….
http://www.itv.com/thismorning/hot-topics/i-want-to-thank-taxpayers-for-my-benefit-funded-christmas
http://www.entertainmentdaily.com/filmandtv/phil-schofield-blasts-benefits-mum-for-boast-about-lavish-christmas/
“YOU SCRATCH MY BACK AND I’LL SCRATCH YOURS!”
“Offshore company backs crowdfunding firm run by Minister’s brother”
(Nadhim Zahawi is also involved in this – please see below!)
“Balshore Investments invested in Crowd2Fund, run by (M.P.) Matt Hancock’s brother as well as owning stake in YouGov”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/06/offshore-company-backs-ministers-brothers-crowdfunding-firm-matt-chris-hancock
“JEREMY HUNT DID’NT EXPECT THIS ONE TO LEAK OUT!”
“Emails show Jeremy Hunt’s Department of Health ‘colluded’ with ‘independent’ body to impose junior doctors contracts”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-junior-doctor-contracts-department-health-collude-hospital-trusts-health-education-a7507351.html
(Following on from Geoff’s earlier post above!)
“Families left with just FIFTY PENCE for rent after merciless Tory cuts”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/06/families-left-just-fifty-pence-rent-merciless-tory-cuts/
“An humanitarian crisis” – The NHS is now in an absolute mess – largely due a combination of Cameron’s, Jeremy Hunt’s & Theresa May’s cuts and continuing lack of funding. And this is a ‘mild’ winter in general – goodness knows what would happen if it really turns wintry!
They’re already calling on the Red Cross – they’ll have to call in the Military next!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-calls-british-red-cross-9574591
“PAYING FOR THE QUEENS WHITE ELEPHANT”
……….THE NORTHERN POOR HOUSE PROJECT
Blow for Leeds’s disabled after lifeline vehicles are taken away
Disabled people in Leeds who rely on special cars to remain independent are having their vehicles taken away after being told they no longer qualify for help.
Personal Independence Payment (PIP), introduced in the Welfare Reform Act 2012, replaces the old Disability Living Allowance (DLA) given out by the Government to those living with a disability.
The Government has today been accused of “making life harder for disabled people”, after mobility cars – provided under PIP for people who could not otherwise drive – were recalled from two city residents.
They include Dave Allen, from Wortley, who in 2007 was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, which gradually stops nerve cells from working, eventually making walking, speaking, swallowing and even breathing impossible.
After having a mobility car as part of his disability benefit for more than seven years, he was sent a form to reassess his claim.
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/blow-for-leeds-s-disabled-after-lifeline-vehicles-are-taken-away-1-8320407
Theresa May vows to bring down suicide rates as she offers more help for people with mental health problems
(BY CLOSING ONE EYE, ALTERING HOW SUICIDES ARE REPORTED AND INSTRUCTING THE MEDIA NOT TO REPORT)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/theresa-vows-bring-down-suicide-9577487
Two-thirds of UK households consider themselves to be ‘just about managing’
This is the social economic group the Government pledged to help in the recent Autumn Statement.
New research from independent comparison website money.co.uk reveals almost two thirds (60%) of UK households consider themselves to be just about managing financially, or as they’re more affectionately known by the Government ‘JAMs’.
This is the social economic group the Government pledged to help in the recent Autumn Statement. Whilst there is no clear definition, these families tend to have at least one person working in the household and ‘just about manage’ financially each month on an income of between £12,000 to £34,000.
Recent research estimates there are around six million ‘JAM’ households in the UK. Money.co.uk’s research, which was carried out across 1,000 UK working households with children, tells a slightly different story.
It shows that being a JAM is not ‘just’ about income. It reveals that whilst it’s more of a problem for 71% of those on household incomes of £30,000 or less, half of those surveyed with an annual household income of over £70,000 consider themselves JAMs and are struggling to get by each month. This indicates that they could be, wait for it, homemade JAMs.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/two-thirds-of-uk-households-consider-themselves-to-be-just-about-managing/
“THANKYOU , LORD DAVID FRAUD”
I, Susan Bate
Susan Bate was my mom, she was a single parent who worked while my Nan looked after me. Five years later my brother was born (his dad did a runner before the birth).
My brother was born with cerebral palsy and learning disabilities so Sue had to give up work to become his full time carer. This was in a time when being a single mother was frowned upon but she did her best to raise us and we never went without. She fulfilled the role of mother and father more than adequately doing the decorating, gardening, repairs and sweeping the chimney (we still had a coal fire at the time).
Later, my grandmother became ill and Sue had to become her full time carer, as well as looking after elderly neighbours who lived alone. On top of all this she took in numerous stray animals and helped to re-home many of them.
My grandmother eventually died and Sue never recovered from the bereavement and fell into severe depression. Her physical health also started to deteriorate from the effects of pushing my gran’s wheelchair and lifting her in and out of it causing Sue to suffer osteoarthritis in her spine. She also suffered from crippling migraines and couldn’t use monitors or be in artificial light for long without having an attack.
She became deaf in later life, this caused vertigo and she started to suffer with anxiety as a result of feeling vulnerable from not being able to adjust to deafness and also could no longer use the phone and struggled communicating with people she didn’t know.
Although she never smoked in her life she also developed asthma.
Things first started getting difficult with the introduction of the bedroom tax, as I’d left home years ago and my brother was in supported living Sue was left in a three bedroom house she didn’t need but had to pay tax on two bedrooms. Sue was desperate to move out as she was struggling with both the stairs and the bedroom tax but the council only offered her flats in rough areas, she was found stairs a challenge so a flat was not an option.
Then she had to go in for a fit for work assessment and was found fit for work even with her illnesses (no surprise as people with more severe illnesses have also been found fit for work).
All this started to affect Sue’s health and the stress caused her to suffer high blood pressure.
Her doctor intervened and the job centre left her alone for a while, when she was sixty one the council gave her a bungalow so things got a bit better.
Just after her sixty third birthday she was called into the job centre for an interview and things got bad again.
She was interviewed by a young girl and spoke to like scum, she was told her illnesses would probably get better, she would have to learn to use the internet (Sue couldn’t use monitors without a migraine attack) and start looking for work or have her benefits stopped, she was sixty three years old, 9 months off retirement and registered disabled.
She couldn’t cope with all the worry and started to suffer from stress causing her blood pressure to rocket. Her increased blood pressure caused her to have a massive brain haemorrhage and she died four days later on the 14.12.2016 aged sixty three.
On the day of her death a letter was sent out from the health assessment advisory service calling her in for another assessment.
The bullying and Harassment from the DWP was too much for her to cope with and it was this stress that killed her, she was a victim of the policies of this vile Tory government.
None of it is about getting people into work but about cutting benefits and driving the sick and the vulnerable into early graves. My mother is just another victim of this state sanctioned euthanasia program. Anyone who works for these departments is responsible for the suffering and misery of thousands. People might say “they’re just doing their job” but the Na?is were also just doing their job, just one used gas chambers and the other uses bureaucracy.
R.I.P. Susan Bate 03.09.1953 -14.12.2016
Geoff – This is an absolutely tragic case – and again it is fully preventable by the powers that be. Meanwhile IDS, Grayling, Lord Freud, DWP, Atos, Capita, Maximus and their despicable so-called ‘Health Care Professionals’ get away with it all. It is shameful and it is shocking, but, hopefully (from your post above) things may be changing with ‘opposition politicians’ at last calling for action. Too little and too late for so many, but I hope at last that they will continue to call for ‘action’ and stick with it.
There certainly still needs to be a lot of ‘action’ taken!
“BARON FRAUD, THE MUDDLED THINKING OF A MAD MAN”
In 2012, he outlined some of his thoughts on welfare reform in an interview by saying: “People who are poorer should be prepared to take the biggest risks, they’ve got least to lose. We have, through our welfare system, created a system which has made them reluctant to take risks, so we need to turn that on its head and make the system predictable so that people will take those risks”.
……………………and the deaths of the poorest and most vulnerable, a risk too far….
“FIT FOR WORK”
DWP’S LATEST EXPLANATION AS DEATH TOLL RISES
……….from the inquest of a suicide victim
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.
……………roughly translated, let them die
Another shocking waste of taxpayer’s money – don’t worry though the Tories will still try to continue to starve and kill legitimate claimants if they can! And as for the ‘queen’, in all of her very rich gloriousness – she is still very ill with a hacking cough, so therefore will not be able to attend tomorrow’s Church service. Who cares? – Just die – sell Buck House and use it to house her ‘homeless subjects’!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/priti-patel-yegna-girl-effect-52-million-uk-taxpayer-international-aid-ethiopia-a7513956.html
“This Great-Grandmother loves money so much, she’s going to try to take it all with her!” £££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/queen-miss-church-again-because-9581312
In any assessment wherein a registered professional person is assessing an individual for benefits and a claimant disputes that assessment that assessment should be challenged. The assessor (given seen or written improprieties)should also be reported to their professional body. As the assessment may lead to physical or mental injury I would call that a wilful act as to injure the assessed,and thus the individual or practice should be reported to the police. Failure of the police to investigate that reported should itself be reported. Someone somewhere has to be held accountable,surely.
If it is a given that reducing benefit claimants is a target,I see professional malpractice here. What are the professional bodies doing here? Just preachin and taking the Wonga is my guess
Stitchedupbyauthority – Your’s is a very interesting post.
There is also the fact that the person ‘being assessed’ has not given the assessor the permission/authority to lay hands upon him/her in any way and once they do, I would have thought that in law, this could be considered as ‘common assault’ by the ‘assessor’ and could be reported to the Police as suggested. And, yes, if they do not investigate, then they (the Police) should be investigated themselves.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/how_many_people_in_the_esa_wrag#incoming-914911
John Dosac 29 December 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I would be grateful if you could provide me with details of how many people in the Work-Related Activity Group of ESA later died whilst still claiming in the period 2015/16.
Further:
a) How many of these people had appealed the decision?
b) How many died within twelve weeks of being placed into WRAG?
c) How many people died as a result of a long-term health condition that the department were aware of?
Yours faithfully,
John Dosac
Homeless man dies after being found freezing in city centre gateway on coldest night of the year
The man, in his 40s, was rushed to hospital after being found in Liverpool city centre as temperatures plummeted across the country
A rough sleeper died after being found in a city centre gateway on the coldest night of the year.
The man, in his 40s, was rushed to hospital after being found in Liverpool city centre as temperatures plummeted across the country.
Temperatures in Merseyside dropped to around -3C on Thursday night when the man was discovered.
The Liverpool Echo reports police are not treating his death as suspicious and the case has been passed to the coroner.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/homeless-man-dies-after-being-9577874
“FREUD’S MERRY GO ROUND OF DEATH”
DWP fit-to-work assessments cost more money than they save, report reveals
The Government is spending more money assessing whether people are fit to work than it is saving in reductions to the benefits bill, a damning official report has revealed
The study by the National Audit Office (NAO) found that the Department for Work and Pensions is handing over £1.6bn over the next three years to private contractors who carry out the controversial health and disability assessments.
But at the same time, the Government’s own financial watchdog has warned that savings in benefits payments are likely to be less than a billion pounds by 2020 as a result of the new tests.
Read more
Britons driven to food banks ‘seen as collateral damage by DWP’
The NAO report also found:
The cost of carrying out each employment and support allowance (ESA) test had risen from £115 to £190 after the controversial outsourcing firm Atos pulled out of its contract to run the tests last year.
Benefit claimants are still waiting for more than six months before they are assessed during which time they are not entitled to full payments.
None of the companies carrying out the tests met the Government’s own quality assessment threshold – with reports including spelling mistakes and unintelligible acronyms.
The report found evidence that ministers set completely unrealistic targets for the number of ESA assessments that could be carried out each year.
As a result, there is a backlog of at least 280,000 new claims while ministers have been forced to suspend plans to carry out periodic reassessments of those already claiming the benefit.
“The Department is paying more for assessments, but providers are still not meeting expected performance levels,” said Amyas Morse, head of the NAO.
“The Department needs providers to complete the planned number of assessments so that it can achieve the significant benefit savings it expects to make over the next few years.” The report also found significant problems with the American outsourcing company Maximus which took over the contract to carry out ESA assessments from Atos.
Only half of all the doctors and nurses hired to carry out the assessments completed their training against a target of 95 per cent, while average staff costs rose from £26,000 in 2014 to £44,000 last year.
Over the summer the company was carrying out just 37,000 face-to-face assessments a month compared with a target of 57,000. It had carried out 10,000 fewer paper assessments than it had promised the Government.
Read more
Man has benefits sanctioned while waiting to start job with the DWP
As a result of the NAO report Iain Duncan Smith and senior Department for Work and Pensions officials are likely to be called to explain the failures to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
Its chair, Meg Hillier, said disabled people and taxpayers in general had been “failed” by the department’s inability to manage the assessments.
“The department’s approach has been unclear, its targets untested and consistently missed and future delivery is under threat,” she said.
………THE TORY KILLING MACHINE
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-fit-to-work-assessments-cost-more-than-they-save-report-reveals-a6801636.html
Dee
Your article states “controversial outsourcing firm Atos pulled out of its contract to run the tests last year”. Are you aware that Atos are still carrying out substandard assessments for PIP.
My husband lost most of his benefit due to a dodgy assessment and the falsifying of the subsequent report.
He then lost his life a few days after the dwp reinstated his full benefit 5 months later and days before a tribunal but to late for him. How was a seriously ill man expected to survive this
Gillian L
I have epilepsy (several fits a day); arthritis and possible osteoporosis in both shoulders. I reluctantly gave up my part-time job 2 years ago, as I could no longer manage. I have worked for 35 years, paying tax & NI. When unable to work, ive tried to do some form of voluntary work. I claimed PIP, but with my husband’s fluctuating income, we were sometimes over the level for ESA (but mostly not) I had to go for Assessment. They stopped my benefit without informing me. I finally received a letter in July, saying they WILL be stopping my benefit in May as my circumstances had changed. They’re right there – I’m a LOT WORSE than when it was first set. The DWP make it as difficult as possible to appeal against their decision, so many people don’t bother. I have, but am still waiting to hear – another of their tricks – take as long as possible till you can’t cope financially and have to go for jobseekers, even if there’s no way you’d be able to work. I have friends who have sold their houses and are living in hovels , because they can’t get any benefits, despite having worked and paid into the system in the past. This Government is despicable, and is just getting worse.
viridian
A tally of over *91 thousand people* have died as the accumulative result of welfare ‘reform’ in the UK since the Welfare Reform Act was passed. I would say that tens of millions have become destitute as the result of Tory austerity policies. How does one week’s average wages per month for support to the most disabled and ill translate to ‘supporting and meeting the needs of the most vulnerable’?
Rush Green couple urges others to bring PIP benefit case to tribunal after winning thousands back
A disabled woman and her husband, who spent a year in financial hardship before a decision to cut their benefits was overturned by a tribunal, are urging others to stand up for their rights.
The first instalment of a £6,700 payment from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reached Rosemary Relf, 57, of Rush Green, and her husband and carer Brian days before Christmas following an 11-month battle.
Rosemary, who suffers from a thyroid problem which has left her with a weakened immune system, frequent loss of balance and difficulty walking, was recognised unfit for work after an independent tribunal on August 1, 2016.
The couple brought their case to tribunal in a last resort move to overturn a decision to cut their benefits. In 2012, Rosemary was awarded “lifetime” Disability Living Allowance, but after completing an assessment under the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in 2015, she was denied financial aid.
Last year, the Recorder reported how Rosemary and Brian, who stopped working to become her full-time carer, saw their benefits cut and lost £115.50 a week of disability benefit and carer’s allowance.
The tribunal ruled the couple must be paid retrospectively for the past 11 months.
Brian told the Recorder: “The more we highlight this issue, the more people will stand up to the government. The way they treat disabled people is disgraceful.
“People need to take their case to tribunal – even if they told us it would take 13 weeks and it took months. We struggled financially and ended up being fined because we couldn’t pay our bills on time.”
He previously told of having to sell their engagement rings to get by.
Rosemary will need to go through another assessment in 2018.
A DWP spokeswoman said decisions for PIP are made after considering “all the information provided by the claimant”
http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/health/rush_green_couple_urges_others_to_bring_pip_benefit_case_to_tribunal_after_winning_thousands_back_1_4838638?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social_Icon&utm_campaign=in_article_social_icons
“CRUELTY STACKED UPON CRUELTY!” – PROSECUTIONS BECKON!
“DWP deliberately blind to the failures of its cruel sanctions regime”
http://www.welfareweekly.com/dwp-deliberately-blind-to-the-failures-of-its-cruel-sanctions-regime/
Silence for 3 months, is Johnny ok?
Stanislav – No-one seems to know what has happened to Johnny Void. All of us on here hope that he is well and that he is okay – we just do not know at present!
“The Government & the DWP do not care if you have no money at all to live on – in fact, shamefully, they seem to continue to revel in this abject cruelty”
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2016/12/23/sanctioned-at-christmas
“A LASTING TRIBUTE TO LORD DAVID FREUD AND THOSE HE HAS PERSONALLY MURDERED”
“THE NEW TORY HOLOCAUST”
May surfaces to deny existence of NHS crisis. Total winter deaths are up by 50,000
The Conservative Government is denying the existence of any serious problem in the English National Health Service, despite the Red Cross having announced a “humanitarian crisis”.
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2017/01/08/may-surfaces-to-deny-existence-of-nhs-crisis-total-winter-deaths-are-up-by-50000/
Julie-Ann @BienSoeur
2,300 died after Duncan Smith’s cuts to disability benefits
Now patients dying on trolleys due to Hunt’s cuts to NHS
January is the cruellest month for families with just 50p to pay the rent
Theresa May isn’t helping ‘just about managing’ families – she’s hammering them in an ideological crusade by slashing the benefit cap
TS Eliot was wrong: April is not the cruellest month, it’s January – with the falling temperature, the post-Christmas slump and the dreaded self-examination and setting then breaking of resolutions. Add to that the tightening of budgets as the excess of Christmas and New Year wreaks havoc on bank balances across the country. Now imagine all of this but, in addition, that your income has been cut by almost the exact amount of your rent. This is the situation facing many families around the country as a result of the reduced benefit cap.
In Grimsby, 42 families were left with 50p or less a week to pay their rent thanks to a reduction in housing benefit just before Christmas, the Grimsby Telegraph reports. This is a policy change that affects children in particular: the more children in a family, the more likely it is to reach the cap and therefore have its benefits reduced. So, families like those in Grimsby will see a drastic fall in their income and struggle to pay rent and bills, leaving only those outgoings that can be controlled and reduced such as food and heating – what luxuries – with which to recoup some savings.
https://amp.theguardian.com/housing-network/2017/jan/06/january-is-the-cruellest-month-for-families-with-just-50p-to-pay-the-rent
The increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits
IDS PMQs O’Sullivan
The increasing death toll due to the loss of benefits
Thank to Maggie Zolobajluk @22magoo for her support in this extremely sad task.
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.”
I have compiled a list of the deceased and those who have been adversely affected using the information from these sites
I fully agree with the assertion of Welfare Tales that these are the deaths that we know of because a friend, relative or the coroner has commented.
Sadly to say there are probably many more and as more of these horrific cases come to light. They will never be forgotten, by their families, friends and those who they touched in their day to day lives.
If you are feeling suicidal, please speak to your doctor and / or someone close to you. Or please call The Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90.
In memorial R.I.P
Added March 2016
Chae Bennett aged 21, committed suicide on April 15 this year in woodland near his family home takes his own life, because he was let down by a system already underfunded
Stephen Lynam Aged 53 He suffered from Anxiety and Depression as well as high blood pressure, a heart condition and muscular-skeleton problems. Found Fit for Work, he waited for 22weeks to here that he his Mandatory Reconsideration had been refused and died not long after hearing that he could appeal the decision.
Added February 2016
Paul Donnachie who suffered from “severe” mental health issues, had been declared fit to work after he failed to attend a work capability assessment in June was found dead at his home after an error saw his payments stop and he owed more than £3,000 in unpaid rent. Upon realising their mistake, the council sent Mr Donnachie a letter telling him his benefits would be reinstated. But by the time it arrived it was too late – it was found unopened in his flat along with his body.
Added January 2016
Peter Anthony Limacher, who suffered from anxiety and depression as well as substance misuse, had low mood and anxiety, and worries about debt, after he had also lost his disability living allowance. He was described as a “kind hearted and loyal person”, died on May 14 when he was found hanging in his home. North Wales Pioneer News Nov 11 /15
Frances McCormack, aged 53, had been badgered for Bedroom Tax after the death of her 16 year old son Jack Allen in 2013, the coroner heard. A mother threatened with eviction from the house where her son took his own life was found hanged in the same spot, an inquest heard. A handwritten note written 10 days previously was found in her bedroom, part of which was addressed to David Cameron on the hardship the Bedroom Tax was causing.
Added December 2015
Stephen Smith Aged 50 He had a history of anxiety and took his own life after changes to his benefits left him unable to cope.
November 2015
Angela Smith, Her father has stated that her suicide was triggered by fit-for-work tests. In early September Angela took her own life – just as she had told doctors she was going to do
Added in October 2015
Luke Alexander Loy, Aged 42. He had schizophrenia and was found fit for work, then sanctioned by the (DWP) for failing to attend meetings at Jobcentre Plus and not actively looking for work, and fell further and further into debt. He died 29th May 2015
Added September 2015
Ruby Urbacz age 59 She was found dead at her home on the 6th September 2015 as a result of a heart attack. Her benefits were stopped without any investigation as she missed her jsa appointment whilst in hospital, after her discharge she had received no money for five consecutive weeks of the £50 per week she would have normally received she was also paying £20 per week in bedroom tax. On only £30 per week She could not afford to feed herself properly as bills were her main priority,
Sheila Holt aged 48 “She had been in a coma following a heart attack she suffered at a psychiatric unit. She hadn’t worked for 27 years. She was admitted to the unit after being pushed into the Government’s Work Programme – terrified that her benefits would be cut. While Sheila lay unconscious in hospital, she was sent letters from Seetec, the private company providing the Work Programme”
Michael Brendan O’SULLIVAN aged 60: “He was on anti-depressants and having therapy sessions, he met a benefits advisor for an hour and a half to beg for his payments to continue. He was forced to search for work for six months before hanging himself.”
Original List
Conor Cribbin, 25 years old. The student suffered from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and his medical card was stopped in the period leading up to his suicide. He had also learned just days prior that he had failed to secure a college grant. According to his father, Conor was in low spirits in the days beforehand. He added: “He couldn’t get his medication for his ADHD.”
Mark Cotton, 54 years old. Lost both his legs due to a medical condition. Died in an apparent suicide fewer than 48 hours after being told an allowance to pay his carer was being cut from nine hours a week to only three.
Terry McGarvey, 48 years old. Dangerously ill from polycytheamia, Terry asked for an ambulance to be called during his Work Capability Assessment. He knew that he wasn’t well enough to attend his WCA but feared that his benefits would be stopped if he did not.
He died the following day.
Elaine Lowe, 53 years old. Suffering from COPD and fearful of losing her benefits. In desperation, Elaine chose to commit suicide.
Mark Wood, 44 years old. Found fit for work by Atos, against his Doctors advice and assertions that he had complex mental health problems. Starved to death after benefits stopped, weighing only 5st 8lb when he died.
Paul Reekie, 48 years old, the Leith based Poet and Author. Suffered from severe depression. Committed suicide after DWP stopped his benefits due to an Atos ‘fit for work’ decision.
Leanne Chambers, 30 years old. Suffered depression for many years which took a turn for the worst when she was called in for a WCA. Leanne committed suicide soon after.
Karen Sherlock, 44 years old. Multiple health issues. Found fit for work by Atos and denied benefits. Fought a long battle to get placed into the support group of ESA. Karen died the following month of a heart attack.
Carl Payne, 42 years old. Fears of losing his lifeline benefits due to welfare reform led this Father of two to take his own life.
Tim Salter, 53 years old. Blind and suffering from Agoraphobia. Tim hanged himself after Atos found him fit for work and stopped his benefits.
Edward Jacques, 47 years old. years old and suffering from HIV and Hepatitis C. Edward had a history of severe depression and self-harm. He took a fatal overdose after Atos found him fit for work and stopped his benefits.
Linda Wootton, 49 years old. years old. A double heart and lung transplant patient. Died just nine days after the government found her fit for work, their refusal letter arriving as she lay desperately ill in her hospital bed.
Steven Cawthra, 55 years old. His benefits stopped by the DWP and with rising debts, he saw suicide as the only way out of a desperate situation
Elenore Tatton, 39 years old. Died just weeks after the government found her fit for work.
John Walker, 57 years old. saddled with debt because of the bedroom tax, John took his own life.
Brian McArdle, 57 years old. Suffered a fatal heart attack the day after his disability benefits were stopped.
Stephen Hill, 53 years old. Died of a heart attack one month after being found fit for work, even though he was waiting for major heart surgery.
Jacqueline Harris, 53 years old. A former Nurse who could hardly walk was found fit for work by Atos and her benefits withdrawn. in desperation, she took her own life.
David Barr, 28 years old. Suffering from severe mental difficulties. Threw himself from a bridge after being found fit for work by Atos and failing his appeal.
David Groves, 56 years old. Died of a heart attack the night before taking his work capability assessment. His widow claimed that it was the stress that killed him.
Nicholas Peter Barker, 51 years old. Shot himself after being told his benefits were being stopped. He was unable to work after a brain haemorrhage left him paralysed down one side.
Mark and Helen Mullins, 48 and 59 years old. Forced to live on £57.50 a week and make 12 mile trips each week to get free vegetables to make soup. Mark and Helen both committed suicide.
Richard Sanderson, 44 years old. Unable to find a job and with his housing benefit cut forcing him to move, but with nowhere to go. Richard committed suicide.
Martin Rust, 36 years old. A schizophrenic man who killed himself two months after the government found him fit to work
Craig Monk, 43 years old. A vulnerable gentleman and a partial amputee who slipped so far into poverty that he hanged himself.
Colin Traynor, 29 years old and suffering from epilepsy was stripped of his benefits. He appealed. Five weeks after his death his family found he had won his appeal
Elaine Christian, 57 years old. Worried about her work capability assessment, she was subsequently found at Holderness drain, drowned and with ten self inflicted wrist wounds.
Christelle Pardoe , 32 years old and Kayjah Pardoe 5 month old. Pregnant, her benefits stopped, Christelle, clutching her baby son jumped from a third floor balcony.
Mark Scott, 46 years old. His DLA and housing benefit stopped and sinking into deep depression, Mark died six weeks later.
Cecilia Burns, 51 years old. Found fit for work while undergoing treatment for breast cancer. She died just a few weeks after she won her appeal against the Atos decision.
Chris Cann, 57 years old. Found dead in his home just months after being told he had to undergo a medical assessment to prove he could not work.
Peter Hodgson, 49 years old. Called to JCP to see if he was suitable for volunteer work. Peter had suffered a stroke, a brain haemorrhage and had a fused leg. His appointment letter arrived a few days after he took his own life.
Stephanie Bottrill, 53 years old. After paying £80 a month for bedroom tax, Stephanie could not afford heating in the winter, and lived on tinned custard. In desperation, she chose to walk in front of a lorry.
Larry Newman suffered from a degenerative lung condition, his weight dropping from 10 to 7 stone. Atos awarded him zero points, he died just three months after submitting his appeal.
Paul Turner, 52 years old. After suffering a heart attack, he was ordered to find a job in February. In April Paul died from ischaemic heart disease.
Christopher Charles Harkness, 39. After finding out that the funding for his care home was being withdrawn, this man who suffered with mental health issues, took his own life.
Sandra Louise Moon, 57 years old. Suffering from a degenerative back condition, depression and increasingly worried about losing her incapacity benefit. Sandra committed suicide by taking an overdose.
Lee Robinson, 39 years old. Took his own life after his housing benefit and council tax were taken away from him.
David Coupe, 57 years old. A Cancer sufferer found fit for work by Atos in 2012. David lost his sight, then his hearing, then his mobility, and then his life.
Michael McNicholas, 34 years old. Severely depressed and a recovering alcoholic. Michael committed suicide after being called in for a Work Capability Assessment by Atos.
Victor Cuff, 59 years old and suffering from severe depression. Victor hanged himself after the DWP stopped his benefits.
Charles Barden, 74 years old. Charles committed suicide by hanging due to fears that the Bedroom Tax would leave him destitute and unable to cope.
Ian Caress, 43 years old. Suffered multiple health issues and deteriorating eyesight. Ian was found fit for work by Atos, he died ten months later having lost so much weight that his family said that he resembled a concentration camp victim.
Iain Hodge, 30 years old. Suffered from the life threatening illness, Hughes Syndrome. Found fit for work by Atos and benefits stopped, Iain took his own life.
Wayne Grew, 37 years old. Severely depressed due to government cuts and the fear of losing his job, Wayne committed suicide by hanging.
Kevin Bennett, 40 years old. Kevin a sufferer of schizophrenia and mental illness became so depressed after his JSA was stopped that he became a virtual recluse. Kevin was found dead in his flat several months later.
David Elwyn Hughs Harries, 48 years old. A disabled man who could no longer cope after his parents died, could find no help from the government via benefits. David took an overdose as a way out of his solitude.
Denis Jones, 58 years old. A disabled man crushed by the pressures of government cuts, in particular the Bedroom Tax, and unable to survive by himself. Denis was found dead in his flat.
Shaun Pilkington, 58 years old. Unable to cope any more, Shaun shot himself dead after receiving a letter from the DWP informing him that his ESA was being stopped.
Paul ?, 51 years old .Died in a freezing cold flat after his ESA was stopped. Paul appealed the decision and won on the day that he lost his battle to live.
Chris MaGuire, 61 years old. Deeply depressed and incapable of work, Chris was summonsed by Atos for a Work Capability Assessment and deemed fit for work. On appeal, a judge overturned the Atos decision and ordered them to leave him alone for at least a year, which they did not do. In desperation, Chris took his own life, unable to cope anymore.
Peter Duut, a Dutch national with terminal cancer living in the UK for many years found that he was not entitled to benefits unless he was active in the labour market. Peter died leaving his wife destitute, and unable to pay for his funeral.
George Scollen, age unknown. Took his own life after the government closed the Remploy factory he had worked in for 40 years.
Julian Little, 47 years old. Wheelchair bound and suffering from kidney failure, Julian faced the harsh restrictions of the Bedroom Tax and the loss of his essential dialysis room. He died shortly after being ordered to downgrade.
Miss DE, Early 50’s. Suffering from mental illness, this lady committed suicide less than a month after an Atos assessor gave her zero points and declared her fit for work.
Robert Barlow, 47 years old. Suffering from a brain tumour, a heart defect and awaiting a transplant, Robert was deemed fit for work by Atos and his benefits were withdrawn. He died penniless less than two years later.
Carl Joseph Foster-Brown, 58 years old. As a direct consequence of the wholly unjustifiable actions of the Job centre and DWP, this man took his own life.
Martin Hadfield, 20 years old. Disillusioned with the lack of jobs available in this country but too proud to claim benefits. Utterly demoralised, Martin took his own life by hanging himself.
Annette Francis, 30 years old. A mum-of-one suffering from severe mental illness, found dead after her disability benefits were ceased.
Ian Jordan, 60 years old. His benefits slashed after Atos and the DWP declared Ian, a sufferer of Barratt’s Oesophagus, fit for work, caused him to run up massive debts in order to survive. Ian was found dead in his flat after taking an overdose.
Janet McCall, 53 years old. Terminally ill with pulmonary fibrosis and declared ‘Fit for Work’ by Atos and the DWP, this lady died 5 months after her benefits were stopped.
Stuart Holley, 23 years old. A man driven to suicide by the DWP’s incessant pressure and threat of sanctions for not being able to find a job.
Graham Shawcross, 63 years old. A sufferer of the debilitating disease, Addison’s. Died of a heart attack due to the stress of an Atos ‘Fit for Work’ decision.
David Clapson, 59 years old. A diabetic ex-soldier deprived of the means to survive by the DWP and the governments harsh welfare reforms, David died all but penniless, starving and alone, his electricity run out.
Chris Smith, 59 years old. Declared ‘Fit for Work’ by Atos as he lay dying of Cancer in his hospital bed.
Nathan Hartwell, 36 years old, died of heart failure after an 18-month battle with the Department for Works and Pensions.
Michael Connolly, 60 years old. A Father of One, increasingly worried about finances after his benefits were cut. Committed suicide by taking 13 times the fatal dose of prescription medicine on the 30th October – His Birthday.
Jan Mandeville, 52 years old, A lady suffering from Fibromyalgia, driven to the point of mental and physical breakdown by this governments welfare reforms. Jan was found dead in her home after battling the DWP for ESA and DLA.
Trevor Drakard, 50 years old. A shy and reserved, severe epileptic who suffered regular and terrifying fits almost his entire life, hounded to suicide by the DWP who threatened to stop his life-line benefits.
Unnamed, death of a severely disabled Dorset resident, who took her own life while battling the bedroom tax.
Aaron Lane, 31 years old. A talented musician battling mental health problems took his own life after he was ruled fit to work.
Glen Harris, 55 years old. Killed himself with an electric saw because he feared his benefits would be changed after being found fit for work.
Peter Kelleher, 44 years old. Found in his flat with a ligature around his neck and in a state of decomposition after the pressure of mounting debt and no benefit at all became too much to bear.
Elaine Lowe, 53 years old. Suffering from COPD and fearful of losing her benefits. In desperation, Elaine chose to commit suicide.
John Walker, 57 years old. John found himself saddled with debt because of the bedroom tax, and took his own life as a result.
Malcolm Burge, 66 years old. A retired gardener who killed himself after being hounded for £800 after changes to his benefits left him unable to cope.
Julia Kelly, 39 years old. Suffering with chronic back pain and hounded constantly by the DWP, Julia commited suicide after receiving a letter demanding that she pay back over £4000.http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/northampton-woman-39-took-her-own-life-after-constant-battle-to-receive-disability-benefit-1-6615017
Benjamin Del McDonald, 34 years old. A doting Father of three children suffering from depression due to removal of his lifeline benefits, Benjamin committed suicide by hanging.
Mark William Jacka, 26 years old. Stressed to the point of suicide, Mark was found hanged at his home the day after a visit to his local Job Centre to apply for JSA.
David O’Mar, 58 years old. Suffering from Pneumonia in a hospital bed. Found ‘Fit for Work’ by the DWP only to die two weeks later.
Moira Drury , 61 years old. Suffering from limited mobility, mini-strokes, epilepsy and depression. Her daughter believes that a seven-month delay in processing her benefit claim hastened her death.
Paul Willcoxson, 31 years old. Suffering from mental health problems who was worried about benefit cuts hanged himself while he was searching for a job on the south coast, an inquest heard.http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9095159.display/
Chris Smith 59 years old.While he lay in a hospital bed, dying of cancer. The Jobcentre bombarded him with texts telling him he had to apply for jobs, and letters urging him to come to ‘job workshops.’
Gordon Lang 62 years old, A marine veteran who died from cancer while battling the state over benefits
Nick Barker Former sheep farmer, Nick had a brain haemorrhage which left him struggling to walk. The father of two shot himself after the DWP claimed he was fit to work. Recording a suicide verdict, coroner Michael Oakley said the benefits assessment was key to the tragedy.
Robert Barlow. Robert worked as a Government scientist but gave it up when diagnosed with severe cardiomypathy. The DWP deemed him fit to work. He died penniless under 2 years later.
Deteriorating health while waiting for a decision
Thomas O’Donnell – He suffered from epilepsy, depression, arthritis and memory loss – yet was made to wait eight months for his Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
Found Fit for work:
Added May 2016
Kenny Bailey ,Father of two, had his benefits slashed despite suffering with severe memory problems and being paralysed down one side after suffering a massive stroke
David Waite, 60 years old, suffers from a string of health problems including brain, damage neck pain, diabetes and depression.
The Peoples review of the WCA published this report. There is a long depressing list of other people whose health has deteriorated after being “found fit for work”
” ACCORDING TO THE DWP, NONE OF THESE DEATHS ARE LINKED TO THE DWP AND TORY WELFARE REFORMS”………………..
………………JUST THE BIGGEST COINCIDENCE IN HISTORY
………………OR MURDER?
campertess
May 15, 2016 at 11:28 pm
My Sister committed suicide on July 2013 after being found fit for work. She was told by the DWP that she had no right to appeal as she had zero points. My Dad died 2 months later of a heart attack. I hold the DWP directly responsible for both deaths.
Press release
Prime Minister unveils plans to transform mental health support
9th Jan 2017
Theresa May announces a comprehensive package of measures to transform mental health support in our schools, workplaces and communities.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-unveils-plans-to-transform-mental-health-support
A Mental Health Task Force – Who`s that ATOS, CAPITA, MAXIMUS
The training will be run by Mental Health First Aid UK working with the government.
https://mhfaengland.org/
Go on a course & be a Metal Health Expert – Also provided are the I AM IN THE MENTAL HEALTH TASK FORCE T-Shirts !!!!
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID aka Suicide Watch !!!!!
Jeremy Cunt gets a heart attack – Even going private can`t save him !!!
The Muddles – Sounds like a box office failure. The Head Muddle runs the muddled heads aka Used To Have A Brain UTHIB. Whenever you get muddled go to UTHIB & they will sort you out a new muddled brain. Has being stupid been classed as a Mental Health Issue MHI. What `we` have is a teaching of muddle & if one can make money [laundering] out muddle then the muddle works in everything like a muddle in tax retruns, which makes the whole Tax system a muddle. Join the Muddle club with The Muddles & the Water Board in puddles. Don`t flood the market with muddles Twitter plays the part of Jesus !!! Twitters now nailed to the cross with Donald Duck Trump !!!
Let`s Execute A Muddle
Stepping – At the end of Channel 4 News this evening, it was announced that Mother Theresa said that there would be no changes for ‘young people with mental health issues’ (or words to that effect) before the year 2021!
Another load of bollocks and sound bytes from a befuzzled and hopeless PM aided and abetted by a stupid and feckless Health Secretary in the form of Jeremy Cunt who hasn’t got a clue about either the NHS or Mental Health – and now she is going to put this cunt in charge of Mental Health services as well! What a carry on – their sole priority now is to continue to stealthily privatise the whole lot of it!
And yes, I agree, I can see ATOS, MAXIMUS & CAPITA now being given a whole load of new ‘contracts’ to deal with this as well. DISASTER!
“JEREMY CUNT, THERESA MAY & THE TORIES NEED TO GO – NOW”
“Jeremy Hunt attacked over ‘pie in the sky’ proposals to solve NHS crisis”
“Doctors say they are struggling amid GP recruitment crisis and Government’s plans are unrealistic”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-nhs-crisis-plans-doctors-attack-health-secretary-gps-weekends-emergency-a7518141.html
BUT THIS STILL DOES NOT STOP THE INACCURACIES SEEMINGLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ‘TICK BOX’ WCA SYSTEM!
“Tory welfare minister ‘happy to look at’ making benefit assessors wear cameras to prove tests are fair”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-welfare-minister-happy-look-9592547
This will never happen as everybody sent for a wca assessment would pass with flying colours and expose the previous tests as being rigged and medical reports falsified…………..
It will also deter the fake “SPECIALISTS” from stepping forward to prey on the vulnerable, knowing full well that it would open the floodgates for the claimant to sue.
The cracks are deepening and the role of the rogue DWP and the corrupt ministers who sanctioned the state legislated killing spree running for the trees.
Freud, Smith and Mcvey consider themselves free from the upcoming investigation into claimant deaths. We will make sure they face justice for their heinous crimes. Stepping aside does not lessen their guilt, in fact it amplifies it.
The list of claimant deaths featured above represents just a mere fraction of those that have died.
History will reveal the true extent of the massacre of this nations most vulnerable, a copy cat regime taken from the horrors of Germany’s past and utilised as a welfare reform.
The world will shudder as the complexity of those elected to provide meagre comfort to those who needed it, chose to murder them instead……………
Do not worry about your life,what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
— Matthew 6:25-26 KJV
Jezza being roasted on this spit by John Humphreys on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning: “Women-only railway carriages remain a high priority and will form a key plank of the next Labour Party manifesto”. Humphreys: “But surely there are others matters more worthy of concern, and indeed pressing concern; rising homelessness, benefit sanctions, chronic lack of social housing, increasing use of foodbanks, zero hour contracts to name but a few… but… women-only railway carriages?! Are you, the Labour Party being serious?” Jezza: “I, the Labour Party have already stated our plans and laid out our priorities. There is nothing more to be said.” Humphreys: “OK, I see.”
Taxman/DWP unleashes its ‘snooper computer’: what information does it’s have on you?
What HMRC/DWP (two heads of the same beast) can find out about you
Visa and Mastercard transactions: Anonymised information on all payments
Land Registry records: To determine properties purchased, and stamp duty paid
DVLA: Details of cars purchased and owned by individuals
UK and overseas bank accounts: From this year it receives information from banks in more than 60 countries.
Internal tax documents: Systems show council tax paid, relevant VAT registration, previous tax investigations, last year’s tax return (or absence of one)
Earnings: From any employer, including those you have worked for casually, or on an ad-hoc basis. This includes any company benefits received. It can also access child benefit and maintenance payments through the child support agency
Online marketplaces: Websites such as eBay and Gumtree can be accessed to weed out regular traders
Social media: The Connect system can also look at public social media account information, including from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
Web browsing and email records: Under the ‘Snoopers Charter’ HMRC?DWP will be able to access individual’s digital information
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/return/taxman-unleashes-snooper-computer-information-does-have/
“HM Revenue & Customs has spent years and £100m or more on a super-computer designed to identify those who may have paid too little tax. And now – with the deadline for filing 2015-16 tax returns just weeks away – the system is being fully deployed for the first time.
Instead of relying solely on information provided by taxpayers via their returns, HMRC’s powerful “Connect” system now draws on information from myriad government and corporate sources to create a profile of each taxpayer’s total income. Where this varies from the information provided by the taxpayer, the account is flagged and could be subject to further investigation.
For the first time, HMRC is also using these powers to warn individuals to check that they have not underpaid.
“We all leave a massive electronic footprint of where we are, when we are away, what we do and what we spend”George Bull, RSM
Last month it sent letters to 10,000 individuals who had submitted their 2014-15 tax return without a complete declaration of savings interest received.
HMRC said it had used information gathered from banks, peer-to-peer lenders such as Zopa and other financial institutions and then checked it against individuals’ tax returns. It sent letters to those with discrepancies.
A spokesman said: “We have written to customers who appear to have under-declared untaxed interest.”
Screen shot provided by Airbnb from their website shows a typical search for listings of rooms to rent
Home-sharing website Airbnb is used by many to rent out rooms or their whole property, and earn additional income Credit: AP
The Connect system’s data-hoarding does not stop at the income people have received from work and investment.
“Connect broadly deals with information spontaneously available in government departments or as part of the digital footprint that people leave when they use the internet,” said George Bull, senior tax partner at RSM, the auditing and consulting firm.
“We all leave a massive electronic footprint of where we are, when we are away, what we do and what we spend.”
The Connect system crunches data from Airbnb, the rental platform, for instance, or eBay.
A spokesman from Airbnb said: “Airbnb hosts want to pay their fair share of tax and we want to help. We remind hosts to check and follow tax rules, send email reminders during tax season and have downloadable transaction histories for hosts. We also include helpful information on our responsible hosting page.”
It can also access Land Registry records to see houses purchased and ensure the correct tax has been paid. From there, further sources enable it to determine if properties are being rented out and whether that income has been declared.
It can also determine if someone is likely to be able to afford such properties, or whether they are suspected of having used previously undeclared income or savings.
HMRC gains anonymised information on all Visa and Mastercard transactions, enabling it to identify areas of likely underpayments which it can then target further, seeking details of individuals’ transactions where necessary.
What HMRC/DWP can find out about you
As of September last year, HMRC/DWP can now get information from banks and financial organisations in British overseas territories, such as the Channel Islands, while from this year it can gather this information from 60 more countries.
“This is the tipping of the scales,” said Richard Morley of accountant BDO. “Five years ago those making minor tax errors would feel fairly safe. But HMRC now has more information and more access to information.”
HMRC/DWP will also be one of the government bodies to gain access to information under new laws known commonly as the “snoopers’ charter”. The legislation means telecom providers store customers’ web browsing and email records for at least a year; it can then be accessed by the Government.”
Rent/own property, own a car, have an ebay account, bank accounts, how much you spend on your plastic cards, purchasing something ‘unaffordable’, where you are, when you are away, what you do, what you spend, your internet activities, the HMRC/DWP will know all about it😉
HMRC’s new powerful computer software called “Connect” came with an initial price tag of £45 million. In its first year, it reportedly delivered an additional £1.4 billion of tax revenue.
Connect is a massive database, which has more data stored on it than the British Library. The huge range of data is built up from government departments such as Land Registry, Companies House and DVLA, as well as information from publicly accessible websites. It has information such as bank and credit card account details, overseas property and other data from tax authorities in other countries. Using a mathematical technique known as social network analysis, it detects links and identifies anomalies on a tax return.
For example, HMRC can easily identify individuals with undisclosed properties abroad. Similarly, Connect can show all the bank accounts in a taxpayer’s name.
Connect can be used to find out which cars are registered to an individual, to see if a low income taxpayer is driving an expensive car, perhaps an indication of undeclared takings.
It is believed that ebay accounts can now be matched to taxpayers using Connect, so HMRC have information to decide whether there is actually a trade being conducted, that should be taxed.
When Corbyn should have come up with something inspiring today – he let all of us down. Okay, the Media (for the most part) wants him dead – but (unfortunately) HE is the only one (at present) that can save us from another 20 years of Tory mis-rule , – (UKIP = SHITE, so Farage can bluster and blow as much as he like, (as can Paul Nuttall also) – UKIP is a sinking ship composed of a load of right-wing bastards who are little better than the Tories).
‘Labour’ has apparently ruled out any ‘coalition’ with any of the other ‘opposition’ parties, such as SNP, the Greens, or even the (still HATED) Liberal Democrats’.
From now on, unless ‘Labour’ can pull it’s miserable socks up and pull their
fingers out of their arses – then TORY rule is set to stay – ably aided and abetted by Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Sky News’, ‘The Sun’ and the ‘Daily Mail’ and the ‘Daily Express’.
There is talk today of ‘regulating the press’ – yeah – bollocks – if they had been regulated by ‘Felix the cat’ – he would have been a far better regulator than the present one would ever have been.
(And then today – news that Rupert Murdoch no less has been the sole financier of IPSA – fuck me – talk about the ‘cows out eating the grass’!)
In all of this total shambles – here is a real hero – Rev. Paul Nicolson!
“An 84-year-old-vicars-stand-against-cruel-Tory-policies-should-inspire-us-all”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/10/84-year-old-vicars-stand-cruel-tory-policies-inspire-us-images/
IPSA = Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
(This was quoted by someone on Sky News earlier today)
IF, this in fact correct – than this surely would definitely be a ‘conflict of interest’!) OR did they make a mistake & mean the PRESS REGULATOR – which I say would also be a definite ‘conflict of interest’ also!
” Jeremy Corbyn – a ‘would be’ leader who ‘really doesn’t want to be a leader’ – let alone eventually to be a Prime Minister” – (My own thoughts!)
HE IS USELESS AS A LABOUR LEADER – HE IS FEEDING UP AND THEN DIRECTLY SPEWING UP INTO THE TORIES READILY WAITING HANDS!
“Jeremy Corbyn makes embarrassing u-turn on wage caps within hours of announcement”
“His own former expert advisers had branded the idea ‘idiotic’, ‘lunatic’ and ‘incoherent’ ”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-wage-caps-u-turn-labour-party-leader-populist-relaunch-climbdown-a7520101.html
(Now for a bit of a history lesson!)
For years and years, but in the 1990’s especially, Jeremy Corbyn was a very able, albeit backbencher, Labour M.P. who very capably and in those days, very honorably, totally lambasted the likes of Margaret Thatcher and her (fairly right-wing!) M.P.’s.
But – today it is very different. Corbyn, – the decent, honourable and very honest man that he undoubtedly is, is up against a very different sort of Tory politician – a Tory politician who, even more than ever, sees ‘Business’ as sacrosanct – a sort of ‘politician’ or Minister who would sell his or her very ‘granny/granddad’ for profit – either for himself/herself or to a ‘private company’ for profit. The present Tories are 100 times worse than the old witch Thatcher, or her ‘politicians’ ever were.
Corbyn, in my own opinion hasn’t got a cat in hell’s chance of overthrowing this bunch of fucking bastards – they lie, they twist the truth, they are corrupt and they won’t answer direct questions unless they can very easily do so (and then cover up the rest!). And then, on top of it all – the Media is complicit to help the Tories at every chance (apart from the ‘trusted’ media!)
Unless labour comes up with someone better, then, for a possible ‘Government’ for the future, then they are completely fucked and we will be ‘ruled’ by the Tories (and the scrounging royal family) for the next 20 years.
If you replace Jeremy Corbyn with someone on the right of the Labour party and they gain office at the next election they will do nothing for the poor and things will not change. Labour needs to keep to the left and eventually the Tories will do something so evil even the dumb soap watching British public will wake up the the reality of the situation and get Labour in to power. It’s never easy to get Labour into power when 99% of the media is controlled and manipulated by the establishment. They will hate anyone who stands for decency and justice and is a threat to the slavery system they have set up over many years. Remember miracles do happen. The people voted out of Europe against the establishment advice and Donald Trump won the USA Presidency without full support of his own Republican party. When the hatred from the establishment media becomes too hostile as it did with Donald Trump the voters react. P.S. for the hard of thinking on this site, I don’t support Trump as I am a Socialist but I predicted his victory for these very reasons and it happened. Same with Brexit!
……HOW COME EVERY TIME I TYPE IN MAX MOSELEY, WIKIPEDIA AND SEX SCANDAL, MY POST IS AWAITING MODERATION?
……….IS IT SO UNUSUAL FOR ATTENDEES AT A ROMP WITH FIVE WOMEN TO BE WEARING GERMAN UNIFORMS?
Geoff – Not if these are no other than Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling or Jeremy Cunt! All of them are a bunch of Na?i bastards!
Geoff – Not if the politicians concerned are Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling, Jeremy Cunt, Nigel Farage and Paul Nuttall
Theresa May and her clique of politicians by their very own policies have said that they are only going to look after the ‘JAM’s’ or the ‘Just About Managing’ classes (earning from around £12000 to £34000 per annum) – (well, that definitely excludes me and my own family!)
If you earn less than £12000 per year downwards – then, my friends, you are probably on you own – and if you are on ‘benefits’ of any kind, then it could be even worse than this. The Tories, as always and throughout the ages have only looked after the ‘middle classes’ and upwards – the ‘gentry’ and ‘royalty’ are best looked after. No ‘NHS’ waiting lists for them – no ‘dying’ on hospital trollies after waiting 14 hours for them – oh, no!
Only the best hospitals for them – and fuck the poor!
NEWS
NHS Crisis: BBC Report Of Meeting Between Trust And Doctors Shared By Campaigners Online
‘I’ve never heard words like this and I’ve been a journalist for 27 years.’
A shocking report of a meeting at a major NHS trust is being shared online – after workers were reportedly told the ongoing crisis in the health service meant their own loved ones would not receive adequate treatment if they fell ill.
The account, told to a BBC journalist by a senior clinician at a trust in the North of England, also said staff pleaded with a chief executive to go public with concerns over patient safety, but they were told that Prime Minister Theresa May “didn’t want any of this to get out”.
Shari Vahl told Radio 4’s You and Yours that the tale of the meeting was unlike anything she had heard in her 27 years as a journalist.
They were told by the hospital chief executive that the average ambulance wait should have been eight minutes but they were actually 40 minutes for urgent things like chest pains.
And one man had a cardiac arrest and waited five hours on a trolley in A&E, that’s just at this hospital.
The trust had brought in extra beds even though there was no money to do it. And the staff were told it was the worst the trust had ever seen in its history.
They shut out patients, they considered cancelling cancer patient treatment for whom they couldn’t do it safely because of low staffing levels.
Unions were there because nurses were unhappy saying that the staff were being moved between departments and it left them feeling as if they were working unsafely
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nhs-crisis-bbc-report-of-meeting-between-trust-and-doctors_uk_5874fd3de4b0cf4ed40fefaf
The Tories nowadays are the sort of ‘politicians’ (apart from Sarah Wollaston!) that would put their own mother/father/granny/granddad into an A&E Department – make them wait on a trolley for 24 hours and then charge the hospital ‘rent’ (payable to themselves) to keep them there – they are absolute fuckers of the first degree!
“AUSTRALIAN DWP ARSEWIPES, CENTREPOINT, TERRORISE CLAIMANTS BY SENDING OUT BOGUS BILLS FOR OVERPAYMENTS”
Australian government extorts millions from vulnerable citizens through fake ‘debt’
An extortion racket is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people in Australia. But far from being a criminal enterprise run by a mafia gang, it’s the Australian government running the racket.
The astonishing debt recovery scandal aimed at the most disadvantaged is blowing up across Australia. The scheme, which could be taken straight from the script of the fictional Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake, is managed by Centrelink, run by the Australian government’s Department of Human Services.
Australians have hit back with a hilarious new video mimicking the Australian government. The video highlights mounting questions about the government debt recovery programme, which sees thousands of dollars forcibly taken from hundreds of thousands of Australia’s most marginalised inhabitants.
Police party to threats
In November 2015, in partnership with the Australian Federal Police, the Australian government launched a ‘Big Data’ analysis project, Taskforce Integrity, to identify and target alleged “welfare fraud”.
The taskforce has since issued 20,000 threatening letters each week to targeted areas. In the last six months alone, they have dispatched an estimated 170,000 debt recovery notices.
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/10/australian-government-extort-millions-vulnerable-citizens-debt-video/
“CENTREWANK AUSTRALIA”
Examples of cases
One single mother received a demand for $24,000 just days before Christmas.
In another case, a suicidal man suffering from anxiety was told he had a debt of $10,000. Later, it turned out that the Australian government actually owed money to him.
Another man received a letter demanding just under $140,000 (the debt calculation was entirely erroneous).
‘Daniel Blake’ scenario
Many of those who received letters from Centrelink are elderly, have disabilities, or suffer with mental health challenges. So they often find it difficult to use a computer and register an online complaint online with Centrelink.
While there are thankfully no reported or attempted suicides by letter recipients so far, Centrelink clearly anticipated potentially tragic responses. In recently issued advice, the Australian government suggests that anyone expressing concerns should contact Lifeline, a charity that offers advocacy to anyone contemplating suicide.
And – on top of it all! What has happened to the ‘announcement’ of the hearing by the SUPREME COURT over the ‘voting of Parliament’ (or not) for the triggering of article 50? (The hearing was before Christmas!)
This was supposed to be announced during the ‘first week of January’ – it is now the 10th January – and still nothing has been heard!
“THE NORTHERN POORHOUSE”
Jeremy Hunt asked about huge rise in Teesside malnutrition cases – but focuses his answer on economy
Under fire health secretary Jeremy Hunt batted off a question about a rise in malnutrition cases in Teesside hospitals – instead focusing on the economy in his reply.
Redcar’s Labour MP Anna Turley, today asked Mr Hunt why hospital admissions for malnutrition on Teesside had tripled under his Government, as revealed in The Gazette last week.
But instead of answering the question directly, Mr Hunt, who has been criticised for his response to what the Red Cross called a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in the NHS, chose to change the subject.
He replied: “What I would say to her is that the way you deal with these kind of terrible problems is by having a strong economy that allows us to support people through difficult periods of their life.
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/jeremy-hunt-asked-huge-rise-12429087
“THERESA MAY FUCKS THE NHS”
MAX MOSELEY, WIKIPEDIA AND SEX SCANDAL
THE SON OF THE FASCIST LEADER THAT WANTS TO GAG THE PRESS
..Mosley is the youngest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, former leader of the British Union of Fascists, and Diana Mitford. He was educated in France, Germany, and Britain before going on to attend university at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in physics. He then changed to law and was called to the bar in 1964. In his teens and early twenties, Mosley was involved with his father’s post-war political party, the Union Movement (UM). He has said that the association of his surname with fascism stopped him from developing his interest in politics further, although he briefly worked for the Conservative Party in the early 1980s.
WHAT DOES MAX MOSELEY WANT TO GAG THE BRITISH PRESS FOR?
…………..ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA HE RESIDES IN MONACO WHERE HIS MILLIONS ARE PROBABLY REGISTERED TOO………
………..AND IT’S ENTIRELY UP TO HIM IF HE WANTS TO ENGAGE IN ROMPS WITH FIVE WOMEN WHERE OTHER ATTENDEES WEAR GERMAN UNIFORMS……………..
“ST. THERESA’S HIDDEN CONFLICTS OF INTEREST”
“TYPICAL TORY SCUMBAGS, GIVING HMRC CARTE BLANCHE TO RUMMAGE YOUR EBAY ACCOUNTS WHILE THERESA MAY’S SHARE INVESTMENTS ARE HIDDEN”
……………….DESPITE HAVING BEEN GIVEN NUMEROUS REAMS OF INFORMATION LIKE THE PANAMA PAPERS, THE HMRC ARE SHIT SCARED TO VENTURE INTO THE CORRUPT WORLD OF OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS.
HMRC ARE BUT CHAMPIONS OF THE ELITES ILL GOTTEN GAINS.
Whilst you are i are sent a bill for pennies, the rich continue to fuck the system……..
How many of our so called businessmen stash their earnings in foreign fields but are afforded the right to reside here?
This mornings news that our Prime Minister, unelect, Theresa May, has the priviledge to hide her investments in a trust, came as no shock.
Having links to G4S and continual tory governmement in this firm has to be a CONFLICT OF INTEREST……………..
Big brother can hack and plunder the social lives of the minions while those in power enjoy complete secrecy.
At each and every step of this vile conservative regime our very basic human rights are being breached under the very noses of the commission who sit all day and say fuck all.
Politicians should be made to disclose their very last pennies. But what have they got to hide?
………………Everything, it seems
“JUSTICE EADY”
………TYPICAL WORDS OF WISDOM IN MOSELEY CASE
Justice Eady ruled that despite some of the attendees wearing German World War 2 uniforms there were no Na?i connotations to the orgy.[136][137] As a result, in 2009 Mosley brought a case (Mosley v United Kingdom) against the UK’s privacy laws in the European Court of Human Rights,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mosley
“NO NA?I CONNOTATIONS TO THE ORGY”
………………AND MOSELEY WANTS THE PRESS GAGGED?
…………..ONLY A BENT JUDGE COULD COME OUT WITH SHIT LIKE THIS TO PROTECT MOSELEY
THE UNIFORMS MUST HAVE HAD NO SWASTIKA ARMBANDS, NO IRON CROSSES, NO DEATHS HEAD SKULL MOTIFS ON THE COLLARS AND NO BADGES OF RANK…………..
PERHAPS THEY MUST HAVE BEEN “NICE GERMAN UNIFORMS”?
or undercover german uniforms where the tunics were reversible and displayed circles of marigolds on a velvet background and the cold steel helmets were party hats and the jackboots running spikes.
“WELL DONE SCOTLAND”
“BBC TO BE SHAMED IN SCOTLAND FOR POLITICAL BIAS”
These billboards are about to pop up all over Scotland, and the BBC will sh*t a brick
Campaign group Inform Scotland is about to release a huge billboard campaign across Scotland, and the BBC will be less than pleased.
The pro-independence group describes itself as follows:
We are ordinary people, tired of the distortions of ‘news’ reporting on BBC Scotland where ‘spin’ and opinion have long replaced fact.
After two other billboard companies refused, ClearChannel agreed to run a revised version of the campaign:
These billboards will first appear on Monday 16 January and run for two weeks across Scotland. As well as the static posters, advertising vans will be circling around major Scottish cities denoting the original campaign image:
The posters are funded by a crowdfunder, which raised £9,000 in a week from other people also concerned with BBC coverage of Scotland. More than 400 people donated to the project in six days.
The campaign seeks to highlight the group’s website to people who cannot be reached through social media. The website hosts an array of articles claiming to document the BBC‘s misinformation during the independence referendum and on BBC Scotland in general. Additionally, the billboards will contain QR codes so people can use their mobiles to scan the code and access the site directly.
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/09/billboards-pop-scotland-bbc-will-sht-brick-images/
Simon
10 January 2017 @ 10:03 pm
These welfare cuts, are absolutely NOTHING to do, with so-called fairness, but EVERYTHING to do, with stopping genuine benefit claimants, (including the sick and vulnerable people), from receiving a single penny to survive on,(in DIRECT contravention of international law), and leaving them to starve to death…….. or preferably, (to save the Conservatives money to bribe people with tax cuts), commit suicide and to add to the estimated 55,000 who already have committed suicide!
Under articles 2 &4 of the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment for the Crime of genocide this reprehensible Conservative Party and the minions under them, are 100% guilty of mass murder!
And there are thousands of people, who are doing everything possible, to bring these charges on those responsible for this Crime Against Humanity!
“ANY WHISTLEBLOWERS OUT THERE? – FROM ‘ANY WALK OF LIFE’ -BUT ESPECIALLY WITH REGARD TO ‘WELFARE REFORM’, ‘DWP’ ‘PRIVATE WCA/PIP COMPANIES’ OR THEIR ‘HCP’S, AS WELL AS ‘NHS’
“How to contact ‘The Guardian’ securely”
http://www.theguardian.com/help/2016/sep/19/how-to-contact-the-guardian-securely
“As a junior doctor, I see that the Government is covering up a crisis in the NHS”
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nhs-winter-crisis-jeremy-hunt-government-covering-up-junior-doctor-what-i-see-a7521061.html
BBC2 TV tonight (Weds) at 9PM – “The day to day realities facing the NHS”
(Episode 1 of 6)
“getting really bad Paul”
Transplant patient told her new kidney had been thrown away due to lack of hospital beds
Gina Ravens was waiting in hospital for the transplant to go ahead on New Years Day when doctors broke the devastating news
A kidney intended for a transplant had to be thrown away after a hospital ran out of beds.
Gina Ravens was waiting in hospital for the transplant to go ahead on New Years Day when doctors broke the devastating news.
The 62 year-old who has been on dialysis for four years was brought into the Churchill Hospital in Oxford and waited 12 hours for the transplant from a dead donor.
But due to a lack of intensive care beds for post surgery recovery the opportunity was lost.
The retired physiotherapist said: “I got a call at 3.40am on January 1 from the hospital telling me there was a kidney available. It sounded perfect.
Churchill Hospital in Oxford didn’t have a intensive care bed for Gina after her surgery
“The person on the phone was so positive and bubbly and said it was exclusively mine, and perfect for my tissue type, and what a perfect day for it.”
Following hours of CT scans and blood tests in preparation for the operation, Ms Ravens was told by a ‘very positive’ surgeon the kidney would arrive at 3pm.
“At 3pm no-one came for me. It was a good half-hour or more later that the surgeon came back, and he didn’t look happy this time. He was very downcast.”
Gina was devastated when her operation was cancelled (Photo: INS)
According to the surgeon, Ms Ravens said, anaesthetists wanted to have an intensive care bed standing by for her after the operation, in case of complications.
But two unexpected arrivals – patients who had attempted suicide – needed the only spare intensive care beds.
Ms Ravens said the kidney had ‘gone off’ due to the delay.
Gina says the surgeon looked shell shocked when he told her what had happened (Photo: INS)
She said: “The surgeon came back and said ‘it’s gone’. He couldn’t even look at me in the eye. “I got home at about 6pm. I was completely shell-shocked.
“I couldn’t believe I had gone through all of that and come home afterwards.”
A spokesman for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation said ‘due to other emergencies’ Ms Raven’s operation had to be postponed.
Gina has now had her transplant (Photo: INS)
Ms Ravens was called back this week to the and has now finally had a successful transplant, putting an end to years of waiting.
But she blamed cuts to the NHS budget and busy hospitals for the lack of a transplant earlier.
She said: “There are a lot of donated organs available now but if they are closing beds in hospitals, there is no point.”
http://linkis.com/www.mirror.co.uk/new/PPZ3z
…………MURDER ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE
“UTTER BOLLOCKS, THE STAGGERING CLAIMANT MORTALITY RATES SAY OTHERWISE”
DWP Response
1) There are no prescribed circumstances where a Decision Maker would find
a claimant fit for work after having been warned by a Health Care Professional
of a possible risk of suicide or harm if the claimant was to be found fit for
work.
When assessing a claimant’s capability for work, a DWP Decision Maker
makes their decision based on the claimant’s questionnaire, if one is
available, the Health Care Professional’s report, and any other relevant
evidence.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/377033/response/918842/attach/html/3/FOI%204756.pdf.html
PS TELL FREUD WE ARE COMING FOR HIM
“THE BBC, BIASED BROADCASTED CRAP”
Tommy Dolan · Edinburgh, United Kingdom
We in Scotland know of this manipulation, fraud and lies from the BBC well.
We told them all during Scotlands Independence Referendum, it then suited the politicians of all persuasations, they let it go on unchecked and unquestioned.
If anyone is in doubt that the BBC is nothing more than a propoganda tool for the Government of the day and Westminster as a whole, watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXQYuLUAbyw LONDON CALLING: BBC bias during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum
Peter A Bell · Freelance Writer, Editor, Journalist/Writing Mentor at Self-employed
I might be able to take complaints about the BBC’s anti-Corbyn bias more seriously if they weren’t coming largely from people who were perfectly content to see the same deplorable propaganda techniques deployed against the Yes campaign in the first Scottish independence referendum. People who continue to see nothing wrong in the same blatant manipulation when it is targetting Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP.
Some will dismiss this as mere ‘whitabootery’. But such brazen hypocrisy cannot help but undermine the credibility of those trying to make a case against the BBC.
Stewart Rutherford · Builder at Retired
Wark epitomises the whole of the BBC today right wing middle class, biased follow my leader .This is not what i pay my license fee for .The BBC must be brought to task for the abuse of their powers and brought back into public ownership ,as it has become the mouthpiece for the Tories .
Steve Trow · University of Birmingham
I’ve just submitted the following complaint via the BBC website:
“You clearly think that I and other viewers are simple-minded fools. Your fabricated image of Corbyn wearing a Trump-like cap as the backdrop to Wark’s interviews about his speech setting out his policy priorities was at no point acknowledged as fabricated or as the BBC’s ‘little joke’, and was a deliberate offence to him and to the intelligence of your viewers. You have long forfeited any claim to responsible journalism. BBC political coverage is now all about a specious culture of celebrity and ‘cleverness’ of your own interviewers and correspondents. You no longer contribute anything to the political debate we need more now than at any time in the last decades. Worse, you seek to make the debate purely about perception and spin because that keeps you – not the issues – centre stage. Public broadcasting and it’s vales are now quite dead. You make the BBC irrelevant to serious political debate. Very very sad.”
Pat Mc Ginley · Belfast, United Kingdom
The Establishment propaganda-wing BBC, playing its major role on behalf of the Elite against the vast majority. The only strange thing is why the majority still consent to fund this increasingly-blatant bias and partiality? Obviously, the BBC is still successfully posing as ‘unbiased and impartial’, which of course is impossible for any state broadcaster. And, thereby, a ‘fake news’ outlet since it’s 100% partial and biased. The BBC has even been caught faking a video on Syria, in 2013, to aid the War Industry’s agenda to invade Syria. Plus, pro-Israel BBC’s deafening silence on the vicious regime’s warcrimes, etc. The compulsory BBC licence fee is one of the longest-running criminal scams in history, which makes us complicit. And why the licence fee should be abolished…for starters.
FUCK THE LICENCE FEE, STATE CONTROLLED PROPAGANDA…..
Is the BBC biased in any way? I should think so!
BBC News at 6PM this evening – not a single mention of the NHS crisis!
Everything from Trump to Hillsborough to La La Land in the Baftas!
But nothing at all about the NHS – how surprising!
However, it’s not only the BBC at fault! – the Press also have a lot to answer for! (In fact, nowadays it’s worse!) from a report on Feb 8th, 2016
“The British press are officially the most ‘right-wing’ and ‘biased’ in Europe”
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/02/08/british-press-seen-right-wing-biased-europe/
#BoycottTVtax #BBCbias ‘In the coming months more pressure will be heaped at the doorsteps of the BBC if Laura Kuenssberg continues with her slanted journalism. She obviously belongs in the private sector and should not be taking licence payers money whilst doing a disservice to the principles of the BBC.
Laura must understand that she doesn’t work for ITV anymore and that she has a duty to be equal in her approach to all politicians, irrelevant of party affiliation. The BBC should also be wary. A lot of people feel this type of behaviour is as rampant and the sexual abuse was in the 70’s.
Licences will not be renewed to pay the wages of people who do not respect the institution that remains a national treasure.
People of the UK will not pay for a state media propaganda machine and the BBC doesn’t seem to notice the problems that are getting bigger with time.
The licence fee must be abolished if they continue this one sided political coverage. Laura, my only advice to you would be to resign, work for a charity or something that allows you a soul.
You have many people in your family to aspire to and you’re choosing to be an lapdog for a Conservative government, that continues to enact cuts that affect people who didn’t have the start in life that you had. Or just be impartial, but seeing that you haven’t proved you can be then just leave the BBC. We won’t miss you at all.’
http://politicalreformedfutures.blogspot.co.uk/…/laura-kuen…
…….IMAGINARY BENEFITS FOR THE DISABLED THAT DO NOT EXIST.
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
In answer to a previous FOI request regarding claimants found fit-for-work at an ESA WCA and requesting a Mandatory Reconsideration who are unable to qualify for JSA, due to illness, you responded (in a roundabout fashion) that claimants may instead claim Income Support during the MR period.
However in answer to a subsequent FOI request regarding claiming Income Support your answer at Annex2 clearly states that Income Support can only be claimed on the grounds of incapacity for work if the claimant is already in receipt of Incapacity Benefit or Severe Disablement Benefit.
Obviously these 2 FOI responses contradict each other in cases where the ESA claimant making the MR request is NOT receiving IB or SDA.
The 2 answers taken together imply that there are still circumstances where a claimant undergoing an ESA MR, who cannot make a Jobseekers Commitment due to ill health is unable to claim any alternative benefit.
Please supply any information that will clarify your seemingly contradictory answers.
Yours faithfully,
S. Gwilliam
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/alternative_benefits_during_esa#incoming-915727
………………THE DWP WERE ASKED FIVE YEARS AGO WHAT ALTERNATIVES EXISTED FOR THE DISABLED, APART FROM HAVING TO DECLARE YOURSELF FIT TO CLAIM JOB SEEKERS ALLOWANCE……
THEY LIE CONTINUALLY IN THE FULL KNOWLEDGE THAT DISABLED CLAIMANTS ARE LEFT WITH NOTHING TO LIVE ON.
**************URGENT*******************************
Demonstration today by NHS staff at 6PM at the Department of Health
calling for the resignation of Jeremy Hunt and that the Government intervenes urgently in the NHS crisis. (I doubt Jeremy Cunt will appear!)
More information here:
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/12/hunt-remains-hiding-nhs-staff-reached-boiling-point/
Iain Duncan Smith – You had better put back a substantial sum to help fund your defence in your Court case!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/iain-duncan-smith-making-1000-9611533
Just like IDS – Grayling – another cunt who is in total denial and is also trying to avoid justice!
“Cyclists don’t count as road users, argues transport secretary”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/12/cyclists-dont-count-as-road-users-argues-transport-secretary
How come so many Tory politicians/Ministers are always in denial?
Even Mother Theresa is in denial!
“Jeremy Hunt’s local hospital forced to declare serious alert as overcrowding leaves it unsafe”
“Royal Surrey County Hospital confirmed the move as experts warned the NHS has hit a “tipping point” and new near-record figures emerged”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-hunts-local-hospital-forced-9612586
“HUNT WITH A CAPITAL C”
MP’s father ‘died in his arms’ after being sent home from hospital A&E ‘because there weren’t enough beds’
Labour MP for Chesterfield Toby Perkins told how his dad – who had heart problems in past and was in pain – was sent home from Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital without a scan
An MP’s father ‘died in his arms’ after being sent home from a busy A&E department – ‘because there were not enough beds’.
Toby Perkins, the Labour representative for Chesterfield, claims his dad went to Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital suffering from “extreme pain” – and showing classic signs of an aneurysm.
But despite having previously suffered from a near fatal aneurysm in the past, he was packed off in a cab home.
The Coventry Telegraph reports he was one of several sick patients sent home prematurely that day because doctors didn’t have enough resources to cope.
The hospital admits Mr Perkins’ father should not have been sent home without a scan.
Speaking about his father’s ordeal during a Commons debate on the NHS, Mr Perkins said: “Last year on Friday, July 15 my father died of an aneurysm.
“Four days earlier he had been sent home from the A&E department at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital with what a vascular surgeon described at my father’s inquest as classical aneurysm symptoms.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mps-father-died-arms-after-9608347#ICID=sharebar_facebook
Rainham grandmother Karen Barnes lay in Aldi car park, Sittingbourne, for three hours
A grandmother lay in a car park for three hours waiting for an ambulance after being knocked down by a car.
Karen Barnes, a charity worker from Rainham, was face-down on the cold ground in pain after being hit outside Aldi supermarket in Sittingbourne at 10.30am yesterday.
An ambulance was unable to get to her until three hours later because the emergency services were so over-stretched.
Mrs Barnes’ daughter posted this picture on Facebook
Her daughter Vikki Young, who was with her when it happened, posted a picture on Facebook to highlight how long her mum had waited.
She wrote: “This is how my poor mum laid as she waited three hours for an ambulance. Three hours she laid on the cold wet floor of a car park after being hit by a car. I knew the NHS were stretched but this is just disgusting.”
The NHS across north Kent and Medway has been warning patients that it is experiencing significant pressure, with unprecedented levels of demand for A&E services.
Mrs Young, who is also from Rainham, said a response car arrived at 1.30pm but the medic could only give her mum painkillers and try to keep her warm and could not move her.
She said her mum had to wait another half an hour for an ambulance to arrive before she was lifted from the ground and taken to Medway hospital.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/patient-lay-on-cold-ground-118762/
“TELL THE DWP WHERE TO GO”
For anyone who is asked to go on Group Work JOBS II trial:
“The trial is aimed at claimants who struggle with their job search or work related activity. This is a voluntary provision and therefore no sanctions will apply if a claimant decides not to attend or to withdraw from the Programme.”
https://www.gov.uk/…/p…/group-work-jobs-ii-provider-guidance
Plight of our ‘humiliated’ poor is worse than in World War II, says food bank boss after ‘saddest Christmas’
Denis Curran, chairman of Glasgow-based charity Loaves and Fishes, says desperate families having to beg for food never happened during the war.
A food bank boss has spoken out poignantly about his heartbreaking Christmas trying to help hundreds of tearful, “broken” people in need.
Denis Curran MBE revealed that his charity gave out 400 parcels of bare necessities over the festive season – 100 more than the year before.
He believes the plight of the poor in today’s Scotland is worse than it was in World War II.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/plight-humiliated-poor-worse-world-9605538
……THE FIFTH RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, A COUNTRY THAT IGNORES HUMAN RIGHTS, KILLS ITS POOR AND DISABLED AND IS SHIT SCARED OF BANKS AND HIDDEN OVERSEAS TAX HAVENS……..
“Normally, you get a smile off people when you give them parcels. But they were beat – they were broken and beat.
“Do people know what it takes to ask a stranger, ‘Can you feed my children?’
“It’s humiliating. But it’s not their fault.”
Dennis’ charity gave out 400 parcels of bare necessities over festive season – 100 more than previous year
Denis bluntly blamed the plight of many people he helps on Tory welfare cuts and benefit sanctions.
“Food banks did not exist until benefits were cut,” he said.
“It’s all about money. It’s not about people. We’re not far from Dickensian times.
Read More
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“We’re in 2017 and nothing has progressed – other than the fact there are more helpless people. It’s immoral.
“It’s a massive black mark against society when we allow this. Society is allowing food banks to exist because we’re not pushing the politicians.
We should be pummelling them.”
Denis has dedicated his life to helping the poor but he wants a future with no need for food banks.
“They should be shut,” he said. “It’s very simple. Give the people back their benefits.”
Harrington and the DWP suicides coverup is the first article in the current edition of Private Eye
“THE CULL BEFORE THE STORM”
………THE LEGACY OF LORD DAVID FREUD IN HIS QUEST TO HAND THE WELFARE BENEFITS OF THE UK TO HIS BACKERS IN THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY………………..
ONE MANS GREED, HOW MANY LIVES LOST?
More than 2,300 died after fit for work assessment – DWP figures
27 August 2015
From the section UK
Some 2,380 people have died after being found fit for work and losing benefits, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) figures show.
Between December 2011 and February 2014 the equivalent of about 90 people a month died after their Employment and Support Allowance claim was ended.
Campaigners have called for the “tragic” figures to be investigated.
The DWP said no link could be assumed between the deaths and claimants being deemed fit for work.
‘Tragic’
The figures – and the time frame they cover – were released after the Information Commissioner ruled the government should release the statistics, including mortality rates for benefit claimants, in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.
The data does not contain a breakdown of how the people died.
The 2,380 people who died had received Work Capability Assessments (WCA) to decide if they were eligible to receive ESA, which replaced incapacity benefit, income support and severe disablement allowance in 2008.
Of the 2,380, 1,340 died after appealing against their decisions, though it is not known what proportion of those appeals were successful or failed.
Learning disability charity Mencap said the numbers appeared unusually high for people of working age who had so recently been declared fit.
The charity’s Rob Holland, who co-chairs the Disability Benefits Consortium, a consortium of charities and other bodies, said: “These tragic figures are concerning and warrant further investigation.
“We know the fit for work test is failing disabled people, with devastating consequences.”
The figures said 2,017,070 people were given a decision following their WCA between May 2010 and February 2013, with 40,680 dying within a year of that decision.
But the data showed a decline in the mortality rate of all benefit claimants – the number of deaths per 100,000 people – from 822 to 723 between 2003 and 2013.
This was slower, proportionally, than the decline in the mortality rate of the general population, which fell from 305 to 240 in the same period, according to the statistics.
“SOON TO FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES”
Freud could also be gaffe-prone: he was forced to issue an apology in 2014 after appearing to suggest at a Conservative party fringe meeting that disabled workers were not worth the minimum wage.
But, announcing his retirement, Freud, said he was proud of his achievement in simplifying the welfare system. “At the heart of our reforms is desire to give people independence to improve their lives. For too long people have been trapped by a byzantine benefits system, leaving them powerless.
“This has always been my driving force: to give people back control over their own lives, to give support in times of need, but also to give a clear route out of the benefits system and into independence.”
Iain Duncan Smith, who worked closely alongside Freud before resigning in March, said the peer’s departure from government had been planned since before Theresa May took over as prime minister. “He said he would see it through to Christmas,” Duncan Smith said.
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He added that Freud, the great grandson of Sigmund, the legendary psychoanalyst, had a formidable grasp of the benefits system.
“We were together all the way through,” Duncan Smith said. “He likes to get right into the detail. That’s his method of working, so he was a very good deputy to me.”
Damian Green, the work and pensions secretary, said Freud “combines vision with an impressive attention to detail”.
…………………DEATH AFTER DEATH AFTER DEATH
Baby boy forced to spend FIVE HOURS in A&E without a bed – THIS is what you’re doing to the NHS, Prime Minister
Rose Newman waited for five hours in an A&E with son Jack who had suspected meningitis as over-stretched staff struggled to cope
The mum of a sick boy left lying on two hospital chairs due to a lack of beds has slammed Theresa May’s arrogant denial of an NHS crisis.
Rose Newman waited for five hours in an A&E with son Jack who had suspected meningitis as over-stretched staff struggled to cope with the sheer volume of patients and the department in “chaos”.
With no beds available to allow him to lie down and ease his suffering, mum Rose had to improvise while the distressed toddler waited hours to be seen.
Rose, 27, blasted the Prime Minister, who dismissed Jack’s plight as one of a “small number of instances” when it was highlighted in the House of Commons by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Jack, who turns two next month, suffered acute tonsillitis last week.
He took a turn for the worse on Wednesday and Rose, of Eastbourne, East Sussex, took him to a walk-in clinic where staff warned her to take him straight to the Conquest Hospital at Hastings, where facilities were said to be better than her local site.
Read More
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Poorly Jack was forced to wait for five hours in A&E in these conditions (Photo: Family collect)
PE teacher Rose said: “As a first time mum, it was really scary. The fear we had, the not knowing what was going on, was crazy.
“Theresa May said she accepted there had been a few instances where things like this happen. That is laughable.
“In that waiting room, there was a woman sitting opposite me, head in hands, I don’t know what had happened to her but she had been there for eight hours.
“Another baby, younger than Jack, had a big rash across her, had to be put on a drip, and they’d been waiting more than six hours.
“So ‘a few instances’, I saw more than that in one day in that one hospital. It’s not a few instances, I can’t believe she even said that. She needs to wake up.”
Little Jack, pictured with his mum Rose, was suffering from suspected meningitis (Photo: Family Collect)
Mr Corybn fired a broadside at the Tory handling of the NHS during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
The Labour leader asked: “Does the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary think this is an acceptable way of treating a 22-month-old child needing help?”
Mrs May ummed and ahed before answering: “I accept there have been a small number of instances where unacceptable practices have taken place.”
She also hit out at the Red Cross, who said the NHS was in the grip of a “humanitarian crisis”, calling the description “irresponsible and overblown”.
But Ms Newman said Mrs May was “out of touch” with what was really going on.
……………..HUNT DESERVES A 9MM
JoeKerr
Yeah so nothing to do with losing 10,000 hospital beds, 4000 mental health nurses, 60 ambulance depots, 66 A+E’s ( more planned), 19 hecters of NHS land up for sale, a third of NHS walk in centres gone, 518 GP services closed or merged, Social care cut by 2.8bn since 2010.
“THOUSANDS OF ‘WORK ROACHES’ FACE THE SACK – LET’S HOPE THAT VERY MANY OF THEM WILL NOW HAVE TO SIGN ON FOR JSA”!
“Thousands of jobs to go in government shakeout of welfare to work sector”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/13/thousands-of-jobs-to-go-in-government-shakeout-of-welfare-to-work-sector
The article has been cleverly written to ensure readers that the companies involved in tendering for the contracts have no links to companies that have had bad press.
If you dig deeper you will find that the companies earmarked are but sub divisions of the shamed companies, hence;
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Remploy secures long-term future with MAXIMUS joint venture
Remploy Employment Services will leave government ownership with the creation of a joint venture between Remploy employees and MAXIMUS.
The partnership will enable both organisations to support thousands more disabled people into work in the years to come.
This is an historic day in Remploy’s long and proud history of supporting disabled people, securing its long term future. It also places Remploy’s employees at the heart of the business as co-owners sharing responsibility for the success and growth of the business with a strong and committed commercial partner.
The business will continue to be known as Remploy Limited and will transfer from the Government and into partnership with MAXIMUS in early April. All employees within Remploy Employment Services will transfer to the new joint venture and will have a collective 30% stake in the partnership.
……………………………………………………………..
“REMPLOY IS MAXIMUS”
…………it is an attempt to distance the known crooks and disability killers from the tendering process.
“MAXIMUS”
Who We Work With
MAXIMUS People Services currently operates as a Prime Contractor on the Work Programme in three Contract Package Areas (CPAs) CPA03 West London, CPA09 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire and most recently in CPA18 North East Yorkshire and the Humber.
Below are the partners who deliver end-to-end Work Programme services for us:
West London
5E
Kennedy Scott
People Plus
Renaisi
Shaw Trust
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire
Abingdon and Witney College
Enham Trust
Shaw Trust
North East Yorkshire and the Humber
MAXIMUS People Services operates a 100% managing agent model in CPA18 with all provision delivered by our sub-contractor network.
3SC
APM
Inspire 2 Independence
The Work Company
……………ALL IN IT TOGETHER
“JOHNNY GETS A MENTION IN CORRUPT BIDDING WAR”
New Maximus invasion raises ‘chilling’ fears
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By John Pring on February 21, 2015 Employment
The prospect of a discredited US outsourcing giant achieving a near-monopoly of employment support and assessment services for disabled people has caused alarm, healing after it emerged that it is bidding to buy what remains of Remploy from the government.
Only two organisations – Maximus and the education, order employment and training services group Prospects – are in the running to take over Remploy from the government.
They are both believed to have submitted their “best and final offers” last week.
Both Remploy and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will evaluate the two bids, with a recommendation from the Remploy board going to the Conservative employment minister, Esther McVey, for a final decision, almost certainly to be announced next month.
Maximus has steadily built up a portfolio of multi-million pound government contracts.
It is one of the main Work Programme providers, and last year was awarded two further DWP contracts: to run the new Fit for Work service and to take over provision of work capability assessments from the much-criticised Atos Healthcare.
But if Maximus was to fend off competition from Prospects and succeed in its bid to buy Remploy, it would also secure control of Remploy’s contracts to provide mental health support in the workplace under the government’s Access to Work scheme, and to help disabled people into work through DWP’s Work Choice programme.
The blogger Johnny Void said this would give Maximus a “chilling and unprecedented” degree of power over sick and disabled people’s lives.
……………ONE BIG CORRUPTION OF POWER SUCKING ON THE BIGGEST MONEY TIT, THE UK GOVERNMENT
“BRITISH SECURITY SERVICES THE ROOT OF FAKE NEWS AND CORBYN BASHING”
………..Not only does it not shock me to find out that our discredited spying ring was the basis of allegations against Trump this week, we also find out they are being paid to plot the downfall of Corbyn by conjuring up anything they see fit to blacken the name of someone with good intentions.
If anybody thinks the UK is a leding light in democracy, think again…………..
The UK is the trendsetter for all that is corrupt in the world.
Whether it’s dirty, underhand or just plain murderous, the reality is that it was created on our shores.
Forget terrorism, we are one of the main sources, if not the initial one, of all that stinks in the world today.
Politicians fight to access our freedoms whilst covering up their own crimes.
……….Secret courts, hidden laws, police investigating themselves, bent jurors, the UK is top of the tree.
Whoever would have thought a 16 day virtual novice could override the rulings of a trained medical professional………………..only the UK.
………………If Corbyn is such a nonentity as the media is quick to point out, why are they so afraid of this righteous man who would make the state responsible for your care in later life?
RARE FOOTAGE OF #IainDuncanSmith being born.
Warning: not for the faint of heart.
Simon Danczuk has been branded ‘heartless’ and ‘an inhuman disgrace’ after comments about ‘beggars’ in Rochdale.
The suspended Labour MP remarked on social media site Twitter that he had seen ‘four beggars’ as he walked along a short stretch in his hometown, adding: “Should at very least be moved on.”
But the comments drew fire from many people who claimed his remarks were unsympathetic.
Twitter user Jane Doe said: “These people are human beings.”
Another said: “Being poor isn’t a crime.”
While furious Len Murray tweeted: “You are an inhuman disgrace. People do not become homeless by choice. And a coffee and a sandwich costs at most £5 nothing to you.”
PIP claimant set to take DWP to court over refusal to allow him to use email
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By John Pring on January 12, 2017 Benefits and Poverty
A disabled benefit claimant is set to take the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to court over its refusal to allow him to communicate with its civil servants via email.
Mark Lucas is facing a reassessment of his personal independence payment (PIP) claim next month, but is refusing to return his claim form by post because he does not think a paper-based system is secure.
He has asked DWP to allow him to communicate via email as a reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act, but says he was told this was not possible.
Now he expects to lose his PIP next month – he currently receives the standard rate of the daily living component – because of his refusal to submit a written claim form.
He has secured legal aid and a lawyer to fight his case and seek damages for disability discrimination.
Lucas, from Staffordshire, told Disability News Service (DNS) that he does not trust DWP to deal with benefit claims by paper because it previously altered a written statement he had submitted in 2013 as part of a jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) claim while he was at university, and then accused him of fraud and fined him £2,500.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-claimant-set-to-take-dwp-to-court-over-refusal-to-allow-him-to-use-email/
“DWP ADDED A PARAGRAPH AND TRIED TO FINE HIM”
DWP eventually agreed that he would not have to pay the fine, he said, after he proved that a DWP officer had added a paragraph to the statement, but he also took the case to tribunal – and won – so he could clear his name.
Lucas, who used to work in IT, said there are ways to check that the contents of an email have not subsequently been altered.
Another reason for his wish to communicate via email is that one of the side-effects of the epilepsy medication he is taking is memory loss, and it is much easier for him to keep track of communication if done by email.
With communication via post, DWP can claim that a page of a letter was missing or the letter itself never arrived, he said.
Lucas said DWP used such tactics to “target people who cannot fight back”, by making it easier to force more disabled people off benefits, and so cut the social security bill.
He said: “They would not be able to get away with what they have been able to get away with if they allowed email.”
He added: “They are providing a service for disabled people. They should make the service as inclusive as possible.”
And he pointed out that he was able to provide all of his documents safely to the tribunal service via email.
He said that the way he was treated following the JSA fine led to a “mental breadown”.
He was denied PIP at the same time, as a result of the fraud claim, and was left “destitute” for a year while he cleared his name, forcing him to live off an overdraft and building up about £500 in bank charges that he is still trying to persuade DWP to reimburse.
He only had his PIP reinstated in December 2015.
Lucas said he is hoping that other disabled people who take medication that effects their memory will benefit from his court case if he is successful.
A DWP spokeswoman said in a statement: “We do not recognise this version of events. If Mr Lucas requires a reasonable adjustment he can raise this and it can be implemented for future correspondence.
“Claimants are entitled to request to receive all communications from the department by email on the grounds of disability under the Equality Act 2010.
“When such a request is received, it must be for a valid reason which relates to the individual’s disability, that is, the customer finds it more difficult or they are unable to communicate and use our services through usual communication and contact routes because of their disability.
“We would also seek to explore whether alternative adjustments (eg large print/Braille) may suffice, but if this is not possible then email communications may be agreed.
“We don’t email claimants as a matter of course due to the potential risks these pose to citizens and DWP.
“In addition DWP must operate within its legislative framework and follow our business processes including records management. Therefore email correspondence must be carefully managed.”
The spokeswoman was subsequently told last night (Wednesday) that DNS had heard a recording of a member of staff in DWP’s PIP department telling Lucas: “We will not communicate via email.”
The DWP spokeswoman had not responded to this further evidence by noon today (Thursday).
………………..IT’S ALL ABOUT CONSENT (REMEMBER THIS)
………WHAT THE BBC FAILED TO TELL YOU………….
The Conservatives are at it again, selling off another publicly-owned asset. This time, it’s the Green Investment Bank. But while talks are in full swing over which private company will get its hands on it, Labour MP Dennis Skinner is back on form. And he’s not letting another public asset be pried away without a fight.
Green Investment Bank
The Green Investment Bank was created by the Coalition government in 2012. It’s one of the first of its kind, and seeks to foster a greener economy. Set up using £3.8bn of public funds, the bank used this finance to invest in eco-projects around the UK. Such projects include a wind farm on the Suffolk coast and an energy recovery facility in North Wales.
The bank moved into profit in 2014-15 – making a £100,000 pre-tax profit that year.
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/13/dennis-skinner-rips-government-latest-bonkers-privatisation-plans-video/
Public right comes before private gain!
The benefit to the people will be, what?
“GP’S AND THE BMA ARE UNDERSTANDABLY FURIOUS ABOUT THERESA MAY’S SCAPEGOATING OF G.P.’S – AND WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT? – TO PROTECT JEREMY HUNT & THE TORY GOVERNMENT’S POLICIES INTO FORCING THE PRIVATISATION OF OUR NHS AND THEREFORE FINANCIALLY LOOKING AFTER THE TORIES ‘FRIENDS'”!
IT IS SCANDELLOUS AND IT SHOULD ALSO BE INVESTIGATED FOR POSSIBLE CRIMINAL INTENT. IT IS OUR TAXPAYER’S MONEY THAT IS BEING SPENT – NOT TO HELP ‘TORY FRIENDS’ – BUT INSTEAD IT SHOULD GO DIRECTLY INTO OUR ‘NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE’.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/14/mays-scapegoat-attempt-could-spark-mass-resignation-says-top-gp-nhs-crisis
“FEEDING THE DISABILITY KILLER”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I am currently claiming job seekers allowance.
I recently attended a back to work scheme “Opportunity You” run by Maximus on behalf of the DWP.
I would be grateful if you could inform me as to how much Maximus invoices the DWP for accepting a client on the “Opportunity You” program.
Thanks
Yours faithfully,
Tony
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/maximux_opportunity_you_fees#incoming-918461
“DWP HIDE THE NAMES OF DISABILITY REPRESENTATIVE GROUPS”
“The Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA) has established a Customer
Representative Group of over twenty national disability organisations to discuss issues
such as clinical training and communications”
1. Who are the twenty organisations ?
DWP ANSWER
In response to your first question, this information is exempt under Section 43 of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Where information is exempt under Section 43 this is due to it being
commercially sensitive and release of the information would prejudice the interests of Centre for
Health and Disability Assessment (CHDA) and the Department’s future dealings with CHDA or
other service providers.
In applying this exemption the Department has balanced the public interest in withholding the
information against the public interest in disclosing the information and consider there is no
overarching public interest argument in favour of releasing this information as the Department is
unable to prejudice its commercial interests.
………………WHY ARE THE DWP AFRAID TO RELEASE THE NAMES OF SO CALLED, DISABILITY ORGANISATIONS?
WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/377044/response/920548/attach/html/3/FOI%204761%20Fallon%20FINAL.pdf.html
“THE CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND DISABILITY ASSESSMENT IS PART OF THE MAXIMUS GROUP”
………..NO WONDER THE DWP CONTINUE LYING TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND REFUSE TO RELEASE THE NAMES OF DISABILITY ORGANISATIONS THEY CLAIM TO BE INDEPENDENT……..
MAXIMUS HAVE A TRACK RECORD OF CHEATING, STEALING, FALSIFYING AND CORRUPTION………..
THE DWP AND MAXIMUS WERE MADE FOR EACH OTHER, BROTHERS IN ARMS, THE DISABILITY KILLERS.
About us
The Centre for Health and Disability Assessments (CHDA) is a subsidiary of MAXIMUS, a leading global provider of government health programmes.
About MAXIMUS
With 16,000 professionals engaged in a range of initiatives around the world, MAXIMUS helps governments, businesses and individuals to achieve their goals. We are delivering essential services to 35 million individuals, across 300 sites, in six countries.
…………….KEEP ON RUNNING MR FREUD, THE HANGMANS HALTER IS GETTING RESTLESS…..
The Chancellor – Philip Hammond – yet another millionaire Tory Minister – yet another Tory Minister that really needs to be urgently investigated!
More Taxpayer’s cash possibly going west! Another possible ‘sale’ of a ‘public asset’ – and who has, allegedly, got an interest in this? – no less than the Chancellor – Philip Hammond. I reckon if it is sold – it’ll be sold cheaply!
“Labour shines a light on the Tory holding Britain’s purse strings, and it really doesn’t look good”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/13/labour-shines-light-tory-holding-britains-purse-strings-really-doesnt-look-good/
This is incredible! – All of them must be believing what they read in ‘The Sun’, the ‘Daily Mail’ and the ‘Daily Express’
“Theresa May and Tories will do ‘better job than Labour with NHS this winter’ – poll”
“It comes despite a poll for The Independent finding 47 percent of public agreed with the British Red Cross description of a ‘humanitarian crisis’ facing the NHS”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-and-tories-will-do-better-than-labour-with-nhs-this-winter-poll-a7527551.html
According to A COMRES poll reported by ‘Sky News’ earlier this evening – a similar result was found to be correct!
THEY MUST ‘ALL’ WANT TO PAY FOR OUR NHS VIA ‘UNUM’ PRIVATE INSURANCE – VIA A MILLION DIFFERENT ‘INSURANCE COMPANIES’.
THE STUPID BASTARDS – NOT ALL OF ‘US’ ARE MILLIONAIRES – SO MANY OF US ARE ‘PEASANTS’ IN ‘THEIR’ EYES NOWADAYS!
LATEST: “EU Universal income must be ‘seriously considered’ as rise of robots threatens mass unemployment, say MEP’s”
“We have to think about universal revenue, because if there are so many unemployed people, we need to ensure that they can have a decent life, says MEP Ms Delvaux-Stehres”
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/universal-basic-robots-eu-meps-unemployment-mady-delvaux-stehres-european-parliament-a7527661.html
“Poor” Richard Branson – this multimillionaire arsewipe – cashing in on all and everything that he can get his financial hands on (just like Alan Sugar – £££££) the ill-health of so many – especially of the elderly, via his newly acquired ‘care-homes’. MAKE THIS CUNT SUFFER BIG TIME – THE BEST WAY TO DO THIS IS TO ‘CUT HIS MONEY’ AND HIS ‘CONTRACTS’ AWAY FROM HIM – JUST LIKE (£££) ALAN SUGAR – ‘LOSS OF MONEY’ IS ALL THAT HE UNDERSTANDS – AND EVER WILL DO!’
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/13/corbyn-just-made-striking-promise-uk-public-richard-branson-wont-like-one-bit/
Let it be said, that he needs to go!
“One of the commitments Jeremy Corbyn gave to the UK public this week was extraordinary. But the UK media made very little of it. The Labour leader promised the immediate introduction of women-only railway carriages when a Labour government took office.”
“NEIL COULING OF THE DWP CHANGES HIS MIND ABOUT HOW HIS HENCHMEN ACHIEVE CLAIMANT CONSENT”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The Director General of the Universal Credit Service Neil Couling has recently confirmed that advisers cannot use implicit consent to assist claimants in the universal credit full service, in giving evidence on universal credit roll-out to the Scottish Social Security Committee. See http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentary….
The existing published guidance “Working with representatives: guidance for DWP staff” is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio…. From Mr. Couling’s evidence, this guidance appears that this has been superseded.
Please provide the new guidance and policy, particularly regarding changes regarding implicit consent.
Yours faithfully,
John Petere
…………REMEMBER, THE DWP NEED YOUR CONSENT, WITHOUT IT THEY ARE POWERLESS TO SANCTION YOU BECAUSE NO CONTRACT EXISTS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE.
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The Director General of the Universal Credit Service Neil Couling has recently confirmed that advisers cannot use implicit consent to assist claimants in the universal credit full service, in giving evidence on universal credit roll-out to the Scottish Social Security Committee. See http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentary….
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/new_guidance_for_working_with_re#incoming-914289
“WORKFARE FREELOADING ORGANISATIONS”
LIST OF COMPANIES THAT UTILISE THE SLAVE LABOUR OF BENEFIT CLAIMANTS
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/349291/response/920722/attach/html/3/2819%20and%20IR%20391%20Placement%20Hosts.pdf.html
I will always defer to people on here who are directly affected by the government’s employment of firms whose remit is to cull disability payments through any means. We all know the individual and parties involved. But as a by line,given many on here will have worked and have belonged to a union but then thru ill health or other become disabled,what help have they received from their (past)unions? I’m thinking of representation at Hearings or assessments now. For my part,I might as well have said NONE. Pathetic. I knew more about matters and representation than my union,UNISON. Or that’s how it felt and worked out. I always felt my union was compromised and as such left me isolated as my employer shafted me,then shafted by the legal and judicial system. I always felt that the union(s)were interested in the bigger picture of things ie intellectualising over human rights worldwide. Fine stuff,whilst at the front line you were forgotten or passed over. Herein think of the labour hierarchy wherein quaffing champagne with tear stained handkerchiefs for the foreign underprivileged I had to be sacrificed(their own salaries going untouched). I give you Emma Thornberry and Harriet Harman as chief examples(all on nice big earners!!)
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
— Cicero
Sir Dickie Branson is the “friendly face” of the re-privitisation of the NHS. Beware the bearded fucker!
“A MILLIONAIRE TORY RAKING IT IN? – WELL, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT POSSIBLE! – IT’S NO OTHER THAN – JEREMY HUNT!”
“Jeremy Hunt’s £15 million payday as he cuts crisis-hit NHS to the bone”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-hunts-15million-payday-cuts-9628974
“I’VE LIVED ANOTHER YEAR AND I’VE GAINED A FEW MORE MILLION POUNDS £££££££££££££££££££££££££ – YIPPPEEEE!”
“purple reign as queen gives a dazzling smile on the way to church”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/purple-reign-queen-gives-dazzling-9627616
“DWP SPENT £92K OF TAXPAYERS MONEY HIDING THE SCUMSUCKING SLAVE TRADERS THAT THRIVE ON WORKFARE PLACEMENTS”
The DWP says it spent £92,249.86 to stop ‘charities’ and businesses being named and shamed as workfare hosts:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/…/legal_cost_of_withholding_…
https://mrfrankzola.wordpress.com/…/cwp-workfare-vast-list…/
“KILLER FREUD’S ATTACK ON THE POOR PAYING DIVIDENDS”
Universal Credit tenants in arrears increases to 86%
The percentage of council tenants on Universal Credit in rent arrears has increased to a “critically high” 86% over the past year, sparking “extreme concern” among councils.
The National Federation of Arm’s-Length Management Organisations (NFA) and the Association for Retained Council Housing (ARCH), which together represent more than one million council homes in England, carried out annual research into Universal Credit claimants and found the percentage of council home tenants in receipt of Universal Credit who are in rent arrears has increased by seven percentage points – from 79% in March last year to 86%.
This compares with 39% of tenants in arrears who do not receive Universal Credit.
The average arrears total has also increased, from £321 to £616. The research also revealed 59% of Universal Credit claimants living in council homes have arrears that equate to more than one month’s rent.
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/universal-credit-tenants-in-arrears-increases-to-86/7018394.article#.WHwnOVpEHHI.facebook
Emotional Facebook post by carer calling on the government to respect the elderly goes viral
Carer Jessica Gentry took to social media after finishing a busy shift battling through snowy weather
An emotional Facebook post in which a care worker described her overwhelming workload, responsibilities and the frustration of time pressures she faced trying to look after dozens of elderly people in a single shift, has sparked a huge response from the public.
Carer Jessica Gentry, 33, from Bury, took to social media after finishing a busy shift battling through snowy weather on Friday to make home visits to elderly and vulnerable people .
She called for the government to pay overworked carers better wages and expressed concern that carers, some of whom have had just four hours of training, are expected to administer medication in addition to their other duties – often becoming a life-line to isolated and lonely older people.
It sparked a phenomenal response and quickly went viral, with more than 388,000 reactions, 141,000 shares and hundreds of comments in support.
She posted: “So tonight I stayed with a man waiting for an ambulance to come suspected stroke, helped a lady down some stairs she should not have been near, gave about 15 lots of medication, helped a man being sick and supported his wife to make it easier for her, made about 25 cups of tea, 14 slices of toast, locked 17 doors, shut about 50 lots of curtains checked heating would come on through the night so they were not cold, reassured patients with dementia for the f****** s*** 20 minutes we get. Spoke to 17 elderly people most alone and yearn for human contact and conversation and all while driving around skidding in the white stuff looking after YOUR family’s and they call us JUST carers.
“Come on Theresa May surely we should be on more money than minimum wage, only a sister in a ward can give medication but because of money u will allow carers to give medication who have an average of 4 hours training …. the list goes on. Respect our oldies. Peace.”
Read More
Shock ambulance statistics show some paramedics are waiting TEN hours outside hospitals
Speaking to the MEN, Jessica, who has been a carer for more than three years, said: “There are thousands of people all over worked, but we love our job and we care about the people we work for.
“But we have homes to run too and we need a wage.
“The company I work for is really good though, they do all they can.
“I don’t think people really understand what we do, it’s not just about giving someone a bath, we talk to people, they look forward to our visits and it means a lot to them as they don’t go out.”
Jessica was inundated with messages of support, with one poster writing: “You and all other carers should be awarded a medal for all the hard work.”
Another particularly popular comment read: “Britain’s unsung heroes. Defo need more than minimum wage. Like another emergency service if you ask me.”
Her words struck a chord with other carers, including one who posted: “It’s sad that this is so true! But will it ever change? I used to do home care and it’s sad how they expect you to give meds, help the elderly to bed etc in 15 mins and when you run over it effects the next person. We are the voice for the majority of the people we care for… but who is listening? It’s very sad.”
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/emotional-facebook-post-carer-calling-12458942
Eight people have same wealth as half the world, Oxfam reveals ahead of Davos
Eight billionaires have riches equivalent to the same wealth as half the world, campaigners have warned world leaders gathering for talks in Switzerland.
The research by Oxfam found that the gap between rich and poor was far greater than had been feared and called for an overhaul of a “warped” economy that allowed a small group to have more wealth than they could ever spend while one in nine people went hungry.
Theresa May and Philip Hammond will attend the World Economic Forum of global political and business leaders in Davos this week.
The annual event, held in a luxury Swiss ski resort, is often criticised for being little more than a talking shop for the rich and powerful.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/16/eight-people-have-wealth-half-world-oxfam-reveals-ahead-davos/
“POOR ARE SPARE PARTS FOR THE RICH”
0:12 / 0:29
US Doctors Astonishing Claim That Patients Are Being Murdered In Hospitals For Their Organs!
It is like the 1978 film Coma
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077355/trivia
And in case you didn’t know organ ‘donors’ organs are whipped out when they are still ALIVE. Which makes sense when you think about, like they take dead organs from dead bodies… 😉 Like most people suffer under the misconception that you are stone cold dead when they come to remove your organs but you are very much alive when the transplant team descend on you.
Dr Byrne is saying the same thing:
Do you really want to be an organ donor?
“Every organ for transplantation is taken from a living person. Would anyone with common sense believe that a cadaver, a dead body, would have organs that could be transplanted?
Every organ for transplantation is taken from a living person with a beating heart, circulation and respiration.”
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/byrne/130108
“Try to imagine an incision down the center of your own body from neck to chest to pubic area. Then, an electric saw splits your sternum to open your chest. Your beating heart is right there in full view for everyone on the transplant team to see. This is done without anesthetic, but only a paralyzing drug to be sure that no one in the operating room is too uncomfortable, should there be any response of your body besides the increase in heart rate and blood pressure that commonly occurs during transplantation. Yes, the operation to take organs is mutilation to benefit someone else who is more powerful, not unconscious and not paralyzed by drugs.”
Still want to be an organ donor, GEOFF?
………….DUTCH EMBARRASSED BY BRITISH TAX DODGERS
Netherlands will block post Brexit trade deal if UK doesn’t ‘firmly tackle’ tax avoidance, says deputy PM
The deputy prime minister of the Netherlands has said his country will block any post-Brexit EU trade deal with the UK unless it can agree on “firmly tackling” tax avoidance.
Lodewijk Asscher, leader of the Dutch Labour party, fears a “race to the bottom” led by a British Conservative government, which would have negative ramifications across Europe.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/netherlands-brexit-tax-avoidance-trade-deal-lodewijk-asscher-theresa-may-conservatives-a7527656.html?amp
…………..HMRC TAX DODGERS INCOME PROTECTORATE.
UK could become ‘tax haven’ of Europe if it is shut out of single market after Brexit, Chancellor suggests
…………i thought it already was?
Britain is willing to rip up its economic model and become the tax haven of Europe if it is shut out of the EU’s single market, the Chancellor has suggested.
In a stark warning to the other 27 EU countries, Philip Hammond said the UK is willing to do “whatever we have to” to bounce back after Brexit.
The Chancellor gave a major interview on leaving the EU to the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, just days before Theresa May was due to reveal her Brexit plans in a speech on Tuesday.
……….nothing new there then…………
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-chancellor-philip-hammond-welt-am-sonntag-uk-tax-haven-europe-a7527961.html?amp
This is the REAL reason why food in the UK (and Europe) is so fucking expensive and why we are becoming ill because we can’t afford to buy produce. Go outside Europe and you will find an abundance of cheap, healthy produce but not in Europe (the UK) where we suffer under the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy). We pay the landed gentry and the Queen even who incidentally trousers half a million euros a year from this scheme for NOT cultivating land.
And then we DESTROY perfectly good produce to keep the prices in the shops artificially high. Yet we never seem to hear about it, not even during the Brexit campaign.
1. WASTE
By ignoring the rules of supply and demand, the Common Agricultural Policy is hugely wasteful. It leads to overproduction, forming mountains of surplus produce which are either destroyed or dumped on developing nations, undermining the livelihoods of farmers there. A free market would ensure a more effective allocation of resources. Managing the CAP eats up vast amounts of money: from 6.7 % of CAP payments disbursed in France, to 9.3% in Germany.
2. SO MUCH FROM SO MANY TO SO FEW
Farmers represent 3% of the EU’s population. They generate (together with the agri-food business) roughly 6% of the Union’s GDP. Yet they receive 30% of the EU’s total budget through CAP handouts. Europe’s taxpayers hand over €58 billion in subsidies to this tiny, unproductive minority. In times of economic hardship that just doesn’t make sense.
3. HELPING THE RICH GET RICHER
The idea that the CAP protects small farmers and the rural way of life is a myth. Eighty percent of CAP aid goes to just 20 percent of farms. The biggest slice of the subsidy pie is handed to the landed gentry, environment- destroying mega-farms and vast agro-industrial conglomerates. Figures from the UK show Queen Elizabeth II gets around half-a-million euros a year. Food industry giants like Campina or Nestle have been handed hundreds of millions. Small-scale European farmers get little and poor farmers in developing nations are shut out of European markets.
4. WE ALL PAY MORE
CAP is a double-whammy for your wallet. Taxpayers fork out billions in subsidies then pay again when CAP artificially inflates food prices. CAP supporters say this is a price worth paying for food security, but that’s nonsense. With free trade we could import bountiful cheap food from the United States, Canada, China and elsewhere in the globalised world. Food security just isn’t a problem. CAP artificially shields farmers from healthy competition, hindering the evolution of more modern, more efficient agriculture.
And the arguments for the CAP are utter baloney
http://www.debatingeurope.eu/focus/arguments-for-and-against-the-common-agricultural-policy/
Now retired I sometimes wonder whether I would like to do some voluntary work. What stops me is that I don’t want to take away a money for someone who should be paid for the work ie undercut and make redundant some employee. I also don’t want to support some big chief executive in his £300K pa role. I sometimes think I might help some lonely and isolated pensioner,yet…could here could I somehow be taken for a mug in helping out the fat cats in government? Think about it. Then my only other voluntary contribution(unpaid)would be to oversee MPs expense claims or reviewing decisions made by ATOS or whatever. Herein to double check all claims were correct and if not,to vigourously pursue for prosecutuion those who claim this entitlement. An unpaid voluntary gumshoe. From memory, one paid lady got booted out of her job when assigned to it and found too many milking the system. Can’t remember her name. Another was appointed and s/he too got the Big E. Howdotheygetawaywithit!!
Apologies. If the above commentary isn’t clear,I would volunteer as a ‘policeman’ to oversee MPs expense claims,and that the claims of ATOS and the like were proper,decent,transparent,honest. Let me be honest: I really don’t think they would. The real milking is being done by those who are governing us: if found out they apologize and move on,it was a ‘mistake’. For those at the bottom of the pond it’s a prosecution and public hanging by press. Wottajoke!
More than 7,000 nurses could face axe under secret NHS plans
…………hello, anyone still alive?
More than 7,000 nurse posts could be axed from NHS hospitals across the country despite a mounting Accident & Emergency crisis, new plans reveal.
Every area has been ordered to draw up meaures to save £22bn and reorganise health services in order to meet rising demand from an ageing population.
But new documents suggest that the proposals could result in the loss of more than 17,000 staff by 2020 – including 7,300 nurses and midwives.
Last night senior nurses said the implications for safety were “truly frightening” with widespread shortages of staff already in overstretched hospitals.
The forecasts, seen by Health Service Journal, also reveal that the plans rely on a dramatic reversal in trends which have seen casualty units under unprecedented pressure.
While A&E attendances across England have risen by 4.5 per cent and emergency admissions by 3.5 per cent in the past 12 months, the plans rely on a 4.2 per cent fall in attendances, and a 0.8 per cent drop in admissions.
Health authorities across England have been ordered to draw up 44 “sustainability and transformation plans” (STPs) to tackle rising pressures on the health service.
The controversial measures will see swingeing bed cuts in many parts of the country, and widespread closures of Accident & Emergency departments.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/01/16/7000-nurses-could-face-axe-secret-nhs-plans/
Depth of housing crisis revealed as 35,000 people sit on waiting lists for 10 YEARS
At least 104,000 people in Britain have been on waiting lists for five years and town hall chiefs have warned of a ‘crisis’
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/housing-crisis-10-year-waits-9634385
Housing charity Shelter warns two London families are made homeless every hour
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/housing-charity-shelter-warns-two-london-families-are-made-homeless-every-hour-a3441606.html
“HMRC INCREASED PAYMENTS TO YANK FIRM WHO MADE CLAIMANTS LIVES A LIVING HELL”
HMRC criticised over spiralling payments to outsourcing firm
Watchdog says tax officials increased commission paid to outsourcing firm Concentrix despite evidence of failure
Tax officials ignored chaos within the outsourcing firm Concentrix and nearly trebled payments to the company despite overwhelming evidence of failure, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has disclosed.
Despite increasing complaints from benefit claimants, Concentrix was paid £23m in commission after its rates were raised from 3.9% to 11%, a report from the National Audit Office states. HM Revenue and Customs has been forced to apologise for management of the contract.
The report’s findings have angered MPs and campaigners who believe HMRC showed indifference to the suffering of claimants whose benefits were wrongly cut or stopped altogether.
Louise Haigh, the shadow minister for the digital economy, said Concentrix and HMRC showed a level of neglect that should have no place in the welfare system.
“We can only conclude that HMRC saw hardworking single parents and families as fair game in their efforts to cut costs,” she said. “This was not just incompetence at the heart of our tax authority, it showed an indifference to the damage their contract was causing that demands answers. This was neglect by design and HMRC should be ashamed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/17/hmrc-neglect-by-design-benefit-sanctions-contract-concentrix
……………TYPICAL OF THE HMRC WHO ARE SHIT SCARED OF KNOCKING ON THE DOORS OF THE REAL TAX CHEATS WHILE STEALING CRUMBS FROM THE POOREST………
“WHAT A BUNCH OF FUCKING CROOKS”
In an early indication of the problems, in July 2015 Concentrix answered an average of just 4.8% of calls within five minutes, against a target of 90%.
Despite mounting problems, Concentrix, after threatening to pull out of the contract, was able to renegotiate its deal in October 2015, increasing its commission from 3.9% to 11%.
“Concentrix was set to earn less commission than it predicted as the savings identified by its work were lower than expected, and it questioned the value of continuing the contract,” the NAO report notes.
Problems continued and the firm was “unable to cope” with the volume of calls it received in August 2016, exacerbated by IT failures. At least 19,000 calls for advice went unanswered, but HMRC’s managers failed to engage with the problems, the report indicates.
In September 2016 HMRC stepped in, stopping new cases being passed to Concentrix and allocating the equivalent of 670 staff to help clear a backlog of 181,000 cases.
…………….PLEASE STEP FORWARD THE MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS AND BE IDENTIFIED
Compensation worth £87,000 paid to victims of Concentrix benefits scandal
THE government has made compensation payments worth £87,000 to victims of the Concentrix scandal, it has emerged.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) ended its deal with US-based contractor in November amid public outcry about welfare claimants whose funds were wrongfully stopped as they were branded benefits cheats.
Those affected included residents of flats neighbouring branches of the newsagent RS McColl, with Concentrix claiming the newsagent was in a relationship with claimants.
Others were accused of living with deceased former tenants or being in relationships with their own family members.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/15027210.Compensation_worth___87_000_paid_to_victims_of_Concentrix_benefits_scandal/
“DWP CRAPPING THEMSELVES AS DISABLED CLAIMANT GOES TO COURT”
Legal action is being taken against the Department for Work and Pensions after it refused to allow a disabled man to use email to claim benefits.
DWP officials said Mark Lucas must make changes to his claim for Personal Independent Payments (PIP) by post.
Lucas said he believed the method was insecure and asked DWP to allow him to communicate via email as a reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act, but says he was told this was not possible.
According to Disability News Service, he expects to lose his PIP next month because of his refusal to submit a written claim form.
He has secured legal aid and a lawyer to fight his case and seek damages for disability discrimination.
Lucas, from Staffordshire, told Disability News Service that he does not trust DWP to deal with benefit claims by paper because it previously altered a written statement he had submitted in 2013 as part of a jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) claim while he was at university, and then accused him of fraud and fined him £2,500.
He also said one of the side-effects of the epilepsy medication he is taking is memory loss, and it is much easier for him to keep track of communication if done by email.
With communication via post,the DWP can claim that a page of a letter was missing or the letter itself never arrived, he said.
Read more at http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/tfn-news/disabled-claimant-takes-dwp-to-court-over-email#hpKvPMZjTueg1X0K.99
…………………THE DWP NEEDS YOUR WRITTEN CONSENT, WITHOUT IT THEY HOLD NO CONTRACT WITH YOU AND YOU ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO TAKE PART OR BE SANCTIONED.
THE DWP KNOW THE INTRODUCTION OF EMAILS TO CLAIMANTS WILL NOT ENABLE THEM TO HAVE THE POWER THAT THEY HAVE AT THE MOMENT.
NOT HAVING WRITTEN CONSENT PUTS THEM AT A DISADVANTAGE AND GIVES THE CLAIMANT MORE SCOPE TO CHALLENGE……….
“DWP REFUSE TO GIVE OUT UNIVERSAL CREDIT INFORMATION, DESPITE BEING ORDERED TO DO SO”
………..above the law as always
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 ‘Universal Credit Programme – Post Reset Milestone Schedule’.
Further to the Commissioner’s Decision Notice FS50605418 which found against the Department. Will it now disclose the requested information or does it intend to waste public funds and appeal the decision to the FTT?
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/u…
Yours faithfully,
John Slater
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/universal_credit_programme_post#incoming-921980
…………HIDING THE TRUTH, THE DWP SLOGAN
“DWP STRUGGLE TO ANSWER LIES THEY GAVE TO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION”
Frank Black 13 December 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The government’s response to the UN inquiry into the UK which found that disabled people’s Human rights were being gravely and systematically violated states that. “” In addition, the Green Paper considers the important role employers play in the health and wellbeing of their employees. For small employers, a new initiative called the Small Employer Offer is currently being trialled, which provides in-work support for employers and employees, advice and support for employers on disability issues and work place adaptations, and some funding to help new employees with the transition into work. Early findings are promising and will inform future policy development.”
Please specify what these promising findings are and how many disabled people have gained employment through this initiative.
Yours faithfully,
Frank Black
……………………………………………………………………………………
Frank Black 17 January 2017
Dear DWP Strategy Freedom of Information,
Can you follow up this request please which is delayed and overdue now.
Yours sincerely,
Frank Black
…………………………………………………………………………
…………..THE FICTION DEPARTMENT OF DWP MUST BE IN OVERDRIVE.
“DWP STAFF REWARDED FOR REACHING SANCTION TARGETS”
Mr. Watson 14 January 2017
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
In 2015 £132 million has been clawed back from sanctions according to the National Audit Office, and £42 million in bonuses have been paid to DWP staff according to a DWP response to a written MPs question.
Please provide the lists of performance indicators which relate to bonuses awarded to DWP staff and state how much was paid for meeting or exceeding each performance indicator.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Watson
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/2015_ps132_million_clawed_back_f#incoming-920889
“BARON DAVID FREUD’S CULL OF THE DISABLED NOW IN PRINT”
Mr. Watson 14 January 2017
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has published a study titled “‘First, do no harm’: are disability assessments associated with adverse trends in mental health? A longitudinal ecological study” B. Barr et al. November 2015. and concluded WCAs kill 200 people every year.
Please provide copies of any Emails which mention this study, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health or any of the authors.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Watson
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/wcas_kill_200_people_every_year#incoming-920892
…………….AND YET THE DWP CLAIM THERE IS NO LINK?
All the above by GR: good readings. Act with both defence and attack in mind. I can think of 50 things before tea what DWP will try to save money,make profits. First protract argument,then deny correspondence,then fight,then smoke screen,then more hurdles,then false allegations against claimants. They have the LAW on their side…and teams of solicitors(remember,it’s our money their wasting!! Why care!!) In communication,send recorded delivery? But that’s costly to the claimant. Record,date correspondence kept. Wottapalaver! Still,you have to stay with it no matter what hoops they try to make you jump thru. We all know there’s a culling spree going on. At least with the Germans(WW2)it was overt with the camps: here it’s done by osmosis,by chicanery,chancers and silence. Mission creep and control of media ensures those disabled are being eradicated by purposefully built fragmented accountable’ departments and outsourcing.
Sleep well the judicial system. Yer just doin yer job!!. Collect £200 when passing Go. Why make comment about the injustices you pass through: it’s not your job! Wottajoke!!!
“DWP CONTINUE TO BREACH CLAIMANTS HUMAN RIGHTS BY CLAIMING IMPLIED CONSENT ON UNIVERSAL CREDIT CLAIMS”
THEY ARE TAKING FOR GRANTED THAT YOU GAVE THEM IMPLICIT INSTRUCTIONS TO ENTER A BINDING CONTRACT WITHOUT FIRST, ASKING YOU…………………
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED RESPONSE FROM A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST
DWP Response
In Universal Credit live service, that is in most jobcentre areas throughout the country, the
claimant does not have access to the claim information themselves via an online account. We
therefore have implied consent arrangements in place so that someone can act on a claimants
behalf. As the Universal Credit full service rolls out, claimants have access to their personal
information via their online account – a claimant can specify explicit consent at any time via the
online account or on the phone, so an advocate can enquire on their behalf. Instructions to
operational staff reflect these arrangements.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/378360/response/922335/attach/html/3/4836.pdf.html
THIS IS A CLEAR BREACH OF YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS, ENTERING YOU INTO A CONTRACT WITHOUT FIRST REQUESTING YOUR PERMISSION TO DO SO………
“THE MAIN PRINCIPLES OF CONSENT”
For consent to be valid it must be informed consent. For this to be the case it must be:
Given voluntarily (with no coercion or deceit)
Given by an individual who has capacity
Given by an individual who has been fully informed about the issue.
Consent can be written, verbal or non-verbal/implied. A written consent form is not the actual consent itself, but evidence that consent has been given (most forms include sections to record the important aspects of the procedure the patient has been informed of). Implied consent is an action such as offering your arm for blood samples. It can be unreliable as a patient may argue that their actions were misunderstood and they did not actually wish to consent.
……………..THE DWP ARE BREACHING YOUR RIGHTS IN EACH COUNT,
THEY ARE APPLYING IMPLIED CONSENT BY DECEIT, (HIDING THE FACT)
NOT ALL CLAIMANTS HAVE THE CAPACITY TO MAKE A DECISION, (MENTALLY UNSTABLE)
NOBODY HAS BEEN FULLY INFORMED ABOUT THE ISSUE.
“TELLING LIES COMES EASY TO THE DWP”
The Director General of the Universal Credit Service Neil Couling has recently confirmed that advisers cannot use implicit consent to assist claimants in the universal credit full service, in giving evidence on universal credit roll-out to the Scottish Social Security Committee.
See http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentary….
“REQUEST TO THE DWP REGARDING DEATHS OF WELFARE CLAIMANTS HIDDEN FROM INDEPENDENT SCRUTINEER, PROFESSOR MALCOLM HARRINGTON”
Mr. Watson 14 January 2017
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please provide copies of any Emails which mention Professor Malcolm Harrington or the phrase “peer reviews” that were sent from or received by any DWP address in 2012.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Watson
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/dwp_hiding_evidence_from_profess#incoming-920893
………….HOW STRANGE, FORGETTING TO INFORM HIM ABOUT CLAIMANT DEATHS?
I SUPPOSE IT PROTECTS BARON DAVID FREUD…………
“Work & Pensions Secretary” Damian Green interviewed a few minutes ago on Channel 4 News – the lady presenter pushed him constantly – he came up with a load of Tory ‘supporting’ bullshit – culminating in we ‘must protect business’!
“Alleged ‘torture, rendition’ claims a Libyan National!” – The Supreme Court says that he can sue the British Government” (and it’s Minister/s whether in power – or presumably, not!)
If ‘he’ can sue through the Supreme Court – a precedent surely must have been set (he is not a ‘British’ National – he is a ‘National’ of a foreign nation)
So – now, can a ‘British’ National, for instance a ‘wrongly denied British benefit claimant’ also sue the British Government (and it’s Minister/s whether in power – or presumably, not!) also via the Supreme Court?
Surely – this should now certainly be the case!
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/17/uk-government-put-british-dock-torture-rendition-supreme-court-rules/
JACK STRAW WAS COMPLICIT IN ACTS OF RENDITION AND TORTURE, EVEN MOVING PRISONERS TO US OVERSEAS AIR BASES TO BE TORTURED BY THE YANKS.
IT IS ALL DENIED BUT DID HAPPEN, THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT USED CHILCOTT TO BUY TIME TO DESTROY WHAT EVIDENCE EXISTED AND TO BRIEF THOSE IMPLICATED ON WHAT TO SAY.
RANSACKED FILING CABINETS IN COLONEL GADAFFI’S OFFICES HELD A PLETHORA OF EVIDENCE INCRIMINATING OUR GOVERNMENT BUT THEY HAVE CONVENIENTLY DISAPPEARED.
THE UK IS A HAVEN FOR WAR CRIMINALS, EACH AND EVERY ONE IN THE GOVERNMENT AND SECURITY SERVICES………..
Libyan papers show UK worked with Gaddafi in rendition operation
A secret CIA document shows that British and Libyans worked together to arrange the removal of a terror suspect to Tripoli
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Evidence that British intelligence agencies mounted their own “rendition” operation in collaboration with Muammar Gaddafi’s security services has emerged with the discovery of a cache of Libyan government papers in an abandoned office building in Tripoli.
A secret CIA document found among the haul shows that the British and Libyans worked together to arrange for a terrorism suspect to be removed from Hong Kong to Tripoli – along with his wife and children – despite the risk that they would be tortured. The wording of the document suggests the CIA was not involved in the planning of the rendition operation, but was eager to become engaged during its execution and offered financial support.
Other papers found in the building suggest MI6 enjoyed a far closer working relationship with Gaddafi’s intelligence agencies than has been publicly known, and was involved in a number of US-led operations that also resulted in Islamists being consigned to Gaddafi’s prisons.
On Sunday, one of the victims, Abdul Hakim Belhaj – now commander of the anti-Gaddafi militia in Tripoli – demanded an apology from London and Washington and said he was considering suing over his rendition to Tripoli and subsequent torture.
For several years, senior MI5 and MI6 officers have sought to deny that their agencies have been guilty even of complicity in the rendition operations mounted by the US after 9/11, and the subsequent torture of the victims.
The discovery of the papers suggests that on one occasion, at least, the British ran their own “rendition to torture” operation. The victim was named by the CIA as Abu Munthir. He is thought to have been a man who used this nom de guerre while living in the UK, where he is said to have encouraged a group of British Muslims to mount a bomb attack on an unspecified target in the south-east of England. The plotters were under surveillance by MI5 and counterterrorism detectives at the time that Abu Munthir was detained in Hong Kong in March 2004 before being sent to Libya.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/04/libyan-papers-show-uk-rendition
Blair’s ‘dodgy deal’ to arm Gaddafi: Leaked paper shows how ex-PM agreed to supply military kit
ony Blair’s ‘dodgy’ deals with Colonel Gaddafi were denounced by David Cameron last night as extraordinary details of Labour’s defence co-operation with Tripoli were laid bare.
A previously unpublished document shows that Mr Blair’s Government agreed to supply military hardware and expertise to the despotic regime.
And it proves that there were plans for Britain to train Libyan military officers at ‘its prestigious military colleges and institutions’ such as the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.
Deal: Papers leaked to the Mail show that Tony Blair agreed to supply military hardware and expertise to Colonel Gaddafi’s regime
Deal: Papers leaked to the Mail show that Tony Blair agreed to supply military hardware and expertise to Colonel Gaddafi’s regime
With the possibility that British troops may go into action against the Libyan military, the document shows the extent to which they would be fighting forces trained by the UK.
The SAS did train Libyan special forces and Britain approved export licences for military kit, including rifles, ammunition and riot control equipment. At least one Libyan officer has trained at Sandhurst since 2007.
We’ll use military force to free Libya vows PM: Cameron plans no-fly zone over Libya and even threatens to…
London School of Economics takes £1.5m from Gaddafi’s son as chief admits embarrassment at relationship with…
Yesterday an unrepentant Mr Blair defended his decision to woo Gaddafi and, in his own words, ‘establish an open relationship with him’.
The former prime minister said he was ‘appalled’ by what was happening in Libya, but it had been ‘extremely important for our own security and that of the rest of the world’ to do business with the dictator.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361638/Libya-Tony-Blairs-dodgy-deal-arm-Gaddafi-leaked-paper-shows.html#ixzz4W6m5rfPS
The revelations come in documents – some marked ‘UK secret: UK/Libya Eyes Only’ – found strewn on the floor of the British Ambassador’s abandoned residence in Tripoli.
Many of the papers demonstrate the warmth of the relationship between Britain and Libya and, in particular, the extraordinarily close links between the Blair Government and the Gaddafi regime.
The notes show how:
Tony Blair helped Colonel Gaddafi’s playboy son Saif with his ‘dodgy’ PhD thesis while he was Prime Minister.
British Special Forces were offered to train the Khamis Brigade, Gaddafi’s most vicious military unit.
MI6 was apparently willing to trace phone numbers for Libyan intelligence.
Gordon Brown wrote warmly to Gaddafi in 2007 expressing the hope that the dictator would be able to meet Prince Andrew when he visited Tripoli.
MI6’s budget (£150 million in 2002) was readily disclosed to Libyan officials, along with details of how Britain’s Downing Street emergency committee Cobra operates.
Britain’s intelligence services forged close links with Gaddafi’s brutal security units.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033460/Secret-files-Labour-lied-Gaddafi–warned-holy-war-Megrahi-died-Scotland.html#ixzz4W6npb1BT
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…………….AND BLAIR WANTS TO GET BACK INTO POLITICS, HE SHOULD BE IN A WAR CRIMES JAIL OR ON THE END OF A ROPE
This is, potentially terrible!
“Brexit could mean increasing your pension age and snitching on your neighbour”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/17/theresa-may-wants-rob-pension-using-brexit-excuse/
“Brexit means Brexit” – Theresa May’s 12 point plan for Brexit in full!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/theresa-mays-12-points-plan-9637039
Sorry – that should read:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/theresa-mays-12-point-plan-9637039
“THE UK GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT? – SURELY NOT!”
“UK government accused of falling short on pledges to fight corruption”
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/17/uk-government-accused-of-falling-short-on-pledges-to-fight-corruption
The present (and past!) Governments in power in Britain constantly scams the ‘taxpayer’ especially – not only happy with claiming their ‘salaries’ as either M.P.’s/backbenchers/Ministers – many of them, even now, and in the past, claim fraudulent expenses/avoid paying their legitimate taxes and call it a ‘mistake’ and manage to get away with it all. They lie and twist the truth to try to cover their tracks, and then they have the absolute gall to call other Countries Government’s ‘corrupt’ and ‘lawbreakers’.
If a humble ‘citizen’ of Britain was to do any of this, even mistakendly, then the full force of the ‘law’ descends upon their sorry heads – then they get brought up before the Courts and either, fined – or jailed!
ONE LAW FOR THOSE BASTARDS – AND TOTALLY ANOTHER FOR US!
Don’t worry – the clock is ticking for Mother Theresa and she could still be out on her ear before too long – (but I fear NOT the Tory Government also!)
“Theresa May thinks she’s got the upper hand on Brexit, but there’s a bombshell waiting around the corner”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/17/theresa-may-thinks-shes-calmed-everything-down-but-theres-a-bigger-brexit-bombshell-brewing-round-the-corner/
HMRC are not in office to collect taxes, they are merely an organisation set up to protect the wealth of the few.
Their remit is to look no further than they are instructed, a tool of the City of London to protect the corporate trillions stashed in overseas tax havens.
Places like Panama, Barbados, Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands will never be investigated as long as i have a hole in my arse.
Computer discs, memory sticks and paper files have been presented to the HMRC but they tinker at the edges, fearing to tread in unknown territory.
…………..A tool of the state that pretends to hold super powers to investigate tax fraud but are merely puppy’s on a short lead scolded for daring to venture anywhere near the real pots of gold.
The Green’s and Branson’s of this world, no go areas to the Keystone Cops………………
But you can rest assured, GEOFF that HMRC/DWP will be trawling through YOUR internet activity to see if the can unearth ‘hidden’ bank accounts, paypal accounts, ebay accounts, amazon accounts, netflix accounts, pay TV accounts, shopping website accounts… You can sleep sound in your bed now, GEOFF.
Top firms give shareholders billions that could wipe out pension scheme deficits
But research by a pension consultancy company shows that nearly half of Britain’s top 100 companies could have cleared their entire pension deficits with the payment of just one year’s dividends that are paid out to their shareholders.
The companies in the FTSE 100 index handed out £69 billion to shareholders, more than five times the £13 billion they made in pension contributions.
Dividend payments go overwhelmingly to people who are already very rich.
Of the 60 companies that say their pension scheme is in deficit, 46 could have cleared their whole shortfall by withholding a year’s dividends.
These included BP and Royal Dutch Shell, the energy groups, GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical maker, and Unilever, the consumer goods group.
The Pensions Regulator, the toothless government body supposed to watch over the health of pension schemes, has recommended safeguarding schemes by redirecting some dividends. But the JLT Consultancy that produced the research says, “We did not find much evidence of employers adjusting their dividend policies following guidance.”
In fact, instead of securing future pension payments, companies are shutting down the present schemes and replacing them with worse ones.
This means they can keep the money for profits and dividends.
Last week Royal Mail announced it had begun “consulting” workers on the fate of its 90,000-member scheme. In recent months, Tata Steel UK, BMW, Marks & Spencer and US multinational Honeywell have laid out similar plans.
The CWU union that organises Royal Mail workers said that any unagreed pension changes will spark a national strike ballot.
More than 5,700 children in Scotland living in temporary accommodation
………..THE NORTHERN POORHOUSE
A leading homelessness charity has urged the Scottish Government “to commit to a new national homelessness strategy”, after figures published on Tuesday revealed a “deeply worrying” increase in the number of children living in temporary accommodation.
Figures released by the Scottish Government show 5,751 children were living in temporary accommodation on 30 September 2016, an increase of 826 compared to the same day in 2015.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/more-than-5700-children-in-scotland-living-in-temporary-accommodation/
“CRIKEY, WOULD NEVER HAVE BELIEVED IT”………….
A BBC producer has admitted in a BBC blog – now deleted – that Andrew Neil, Laura Kuenssberg and himself manipulated the news to negatively impact Jeremy Corbyn during Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday.
In the blog, the producer – Andrew Alexander – openly admits the BBC team were not just reporting the day’s news but trying to influence it:
https://tompride.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/bbc-producer-deletes-blog-where-he-admits-political-manipulation-before-pm-questions/
Hands up those who can remember the last time a former Labour minister chaired the BBC – the correct answer, is never. Patten was, by my reckoning, the tenth BBC chair to sit in either the Commons or Lords on the Tory benches
Cheese = Brexit
Hard Brexit Cheese, Soft Brexit Cheese, Smelly Brexit Cheese, Gate Brexit Cheese = Brexit Gate Cheese.
The Great British Wall around Britain & Europe will pay for it.
Westminster Council sending people wanting council housing because they are homeless sent to Coventry.
Theresa May`s Mental Health Problem of no real power as unelected, like Gordon Brown & looks like going the same way recession.
25% of the UK voted for Brexit – 75% did not vote for Brexit. The minority Brexit War Voters being robbed of wages & go & see your work & life coach.
The confidence trick done by useless confident tricksters ends badly.
If you voted Brexit that means you have to get a tattoo of Brexit & it has to be on your both your cheeks of your face & well as your arse.
Donald Duck Trump – DDT
Brexit aka Tribal War aka Brexit Gate.
DWP Workers On Strike.
Civil Servants On Strike.
Council Workers On Strike.
Train Workers On Strike.
NHS Workers On Strike.
1st base – It`s not baseball !!!!
Update! – Supreme Court ruling on triggering Article 50 now set to be announced next Tuesday, 24th January.
They could either rule for the Government – or go against them.
If, – for (as I understand it) – it would give Mother Theresa the permission to solely Trigger Article 50 herself. And if ruling is against the Government, then there will have to be a vote in Parliament to formally trigger it.
“LAURA KUENSSBERG SHOULD SERIOUSLY CONSIDER HER POSITION”
“BBC Trust says Laura Kuenssberg report on Corbyn was inaccurate”
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/18/bbc-trust-says-laura-kuenssberg-report-on-jeremy-corbyn-was-inaccurate-labour
“THEY SHOULD START JAILING SOME OF OUR POLITICIANS INSTEAD”
“Single mum unlawfully jailed for council tax debt in Wales”
“High Court rules magistrates failed to assess unemployed mother’s financial means or consider her child’s position”
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jan/18/single-mother-unlawfully-jailed-for-council-tax-debt-wales
“THERESA MAY POSSIBLY FACING MAJOR PROBLEMS FROM HER BACK-BENCHERS – (AND JUST LOOK AT THE CUNT – JEREMY HUNT!”)
“Brexit: Theresa may challenged by senior Tories over ‘worse than feared’ EU withdrawal speech”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-theresa-may-senior-tories-challenge-ken-clarke-anna-soubry-7534376.html
“THIS IS WHAT THE RICH, SMUG AND ARROGANT TORIES REALLY THINK ABOUT ‘ORDINARY PEOPLE’!”
“Tories get caught laughing about how hard Brexit will crush ordinary people” (VIDEO)
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/18/tories-get-caught-laughing-hard-brexit-will-crush-ordinary-people-video/
“AND – WHILST TALKING ABOUT THE POSSIBLE JAILING OF POLITICIANS – A FOLLOW UP TO YESTERDAY’S STORY – MORE GRIST TO THE MILL”!
“Documentary evidence threatens UK Government in Libyan rendition and torture case”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/18/documentary-evidence-threatens-uk-government-libyan-rendition-torture-case/
…THE UK GOVERNMENT ARE UP TO THEIR NECKS IN RENDITION AND TORTURE…..
THEY HAVE ALREADY PAID OUT MILLIONS TO HUSH THE STORIES UP HOPING THE MATTER WOULD SOMEHOW DISAPPEAR WITHOUT TRACE.
Litigation
Belhadj received amnesty in March 2010.
In January 2012, Belhadj and Sami al-Saadi (another kidnapped Libyan) sued Sir Mark Allen, MI6’s former head of counterterrorism, for civil damages. (Here is the original Letter of Claim Against UK Government [pdf] and Letter of Claim Against Sir Mark Allen [pdf].)
In April 2012, Belhadj and his wife sued former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. They alleged UK complicity in the torture and abuse they suffered at the hands of Thai, US and Libyan officials. In December 2012, the British government paid al-Saadi £2.23m to settle his lawsuit without admitting liability.
In November 2014, the Court of Appeal ruled that the case against Jack Straw and Mark Allen could be heard in an English court. The latest ruling by the Supreme Court confirmed this decision.
………………YOU DON’T RECEIVE MULTI MILLION BUNGS FOR NOTHING.
THE UK GOVERNMENT IS A PROVEN WORLD LEADER IN PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE AND FABRICATION OF LIES TO SUIT IT’S OWN ENDS
WE SHOT AN INNOCENT BRAZILIAN ELECTRICIAN IN A FULL CARRIAGE OF COMMUTERS ON STOCKWELL TUBE STATION……………….
NOBODY HAS EVER BEEN PROSECUTED AND HIS FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY OFFERED A PITTANCE IN HUSH MONEY.
THE POLICE CANED AN INNOCENT NEWSPAPER SELLER WITH A METAL TELESCOPIC ASP TRUNCHEON AND HE COLLAPSED AND LATER DIED.
THE POLICE THEN USED AN INDIAN CORONER TO STATE THAT HIS DEATH WAS OF NATURAL CAUSES.
A SECOND POST MORTEM BY AN INDEPENDENT CORONER FOUND HEAVY TRAUMA CAUSED BY THE BEATING THAT LED TO THE MANS DEATH.
SUBSEQUENTLY, THE ORIGINAL INDIAN CORONER WAS STRUCK OFF AFTER IT EMERGED HE HAD PERFORMED SEVERAL INQUESTS ON BEHALF OF THE POLICE, EACH RESULTING IN THEIR FAVOUR…………
FUNNY HOW THINGS NEVER CHANGE AND HOW GUNS SUDDENLY TURN UP STRAIGHT AFTER SOMEONE IS SHOT DEAD BY A CRACK FIREARMS UNIT……….
another bent pathologist……….
Ticket barrier
Witnesses stated that up to twenty police officers in plain clothes pursued Menezes into Stockwell station, that he jumped over the ticket barrier, ran down an escalator and tried to jump onto a train.[105] The Menezes family was briefed by the police that their son did not jump over the ticket barrier and may have used a Travelcard to pass through; this was subsequently confirmed by CCTV recordings shown at the Metropolitan Police trial.[98]
The pathologist’s post mortem report, which was written five days after the shooting, recorded that Menezes “vaulted over the ticket barriers” and that he “ran down the stairs of the tube station”. Dr Kenneth Shorrock later told the inquest that he had been given this information by police during a ‘walk-through’ with officers at Stockwell Tube Station but he could not remember who had given him this incorrect information, which had also featured in earliest eye-witness reports.[106]
It had been suggested that the man reported by eyewitnesses as jumping over the barrier may have been one of the police officers in pursuit
Clothing
With regard to his dress on the day of the shooting The Observer reported that he was dressed in ‘baseball cap, blue fleece and baggy trousers.’ Mark Whitby, a witness to the shooting, told Reuters that he observed Menezes wearing a large winter coat, which ‘looked out of place’.[97] Vivien Figueiredo, a cousin of Menezes, was later told by police that Menezes was wearing a denim jacket on the day of the shooting.[98] Anthony Larkin, another eyewitness, told the BBC that Menezes appeared to be wearing a ‘bomb belt with wires coming out.'[99]
Based on these eyewitness reports, press speculation at the time said that wearing such heavy clothing on a warm day raised suspicions that Menezes was hiding explosives underneath, and was therefore a potential suicide bomber. At the time of the shooting, the temperature in London (at a Heathrow Airport weather station) was about 17 °C (62 °F).[100]
No device resembling a bomb belt was reported as found. Menezes was also not carrying a tool bag, since he had left it with his colleague the previous evening. According to the report on leaked IPCC documents, Menezes was wearing a pair of jeans and a light denim jacket. This was confirmed by a photo of his body on the floor of the carriage after the shooting
During the 2008 inquest into Menezes’s death, passengers who were travelling in the same carriage also contradicted police accounts, saying that they heard no warnings and that Menezes gave no significant reaction to arrival of the policemen. One passenger said that Menezes appeared calm even as a gun was held to his head and was clear that the police officers did not shout any warnings before shooting him.[103]
In its open verdict on 12 December 2008, the jury decided 8 to 2 that no shouted warning had been given.
……………the Menezes family were very poor and were initially offered the pittance of just £39,000.
Later they were offered just over £100,000, but only after the measly first offer came to light……………… .
Had he been a British citizen the final payout would have been much, much higher………
Life is cheap on the bottom rung of the ladder.
“MAN DIES ON WAY HOME FROM CAMDEN JOB CENTRE AFTER BEING FOUND, FIT FOR WORK”
………..YES MR FREUD, IT’S NOT A COINCIDENCE…………
Published: 18 January, 2017
By WILLIAM McLENNAN
A MAN collapsed and died in the street after being ruled “fit to work” and forced to sign on.
Lawrence Bond, 56, suffered a fatal heart attack shortly after leaving Kentish Town Jobcentre on Thursday. His sister, Iris Green, said that he was in obvious “physical distress” when he arrived at the offices in Kentish Town Road, adding that staff are faced with an “awful dilemma”.
“I do feel really sorry for the people who dealt with him,” said Ms Green. “They face an awful dilemma of being the people responsible for collecting signatures for people signing on as fit for work, even when they can see people are very sick.”
Mr Bond suffered from prolonged health problems, including difficulty with mobility and breathing, associated with being heavily overweight. But his incapacity benefit, now known as Employment and Support Allowance, was cut following a second “work capability assessment”, which was carried out by American private firm Maximus in July.
A subsequent appeal was turned down and Mr Bond was awaiting the outcome of a second appeal at the time of his death, his sister said.
Ms Green, said: “I realise that the reception staff have no clinical knowledge or responsibility for doing it, but the rules need to be changed so that they have the right and discretion when they see a human being turning up in physical distress to flag the situation up and ask for urgent re-assessment.”
Mr Bond, who lived in Gillies Street, went to visit a friend in Highgate after leaving the Jobcentre and was boarding the 214 bus in Highgate Road when he collapsed. Paramedics battled to revive him in the street, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
His sister said: “I think he suffered from anxiety all his life, but held down regular jobs and was never out of work from the age of 16 when he trained as a car mechanic, then did computer studies and went to companies fixing computers, photocopiers, cash tills – so he had his van which he felt safe in – but, of course, his diet was shocking so he put on weight.
“He lost his last long-term job two years ago and by then his weight and unfitness made him unemployable.”
Ms Green said his health deteriorated while he was unemployed, adding: “His anxiety was getting worse as he could not pay bills and was afraid to leave home to go to the shops. Two referrals his GP had made for mental health services had been lost and he said he felt annoyed about that.”
“He functioned very well when he had a job, and money, and a van and functioned as a productive tax-paying member of society, but he was frustrated that, although he was an intelligent person, he could not seem to get his needs met.
“The main thing is that they have the means to make sure this doesn’t happen again. We have such a tick-box society. If we can change that, then people can flag things up and really help someone.”
A spokeswoman for the London Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 4.57pm on Thursday, 12 January, to reports of an incident at Highgate Road.
“We sent an ambulance crew, three single responders in cars and an advanced paramedic to the scene. The first of our medics arrived at the scene in under seven minutes.
“Sadly, despite the best efforts of our crews, a patient died at the scene.”
A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: “The local Jobcentre had been supporting Mr Bond and our sympathies are with his family at this difficult time.
“ESA decisions are made following a thorough assessment and after considering all of the evidence, including that provided by a claimant’s doctor or other medical professionals. Anyone who disagrees with a decision can ask for it to be reconsidered, and if they still disagree they can appeal.”
…………..BARON FREUD, KEEP HIDING BEHIND THE CURTAINS….
http://www.camdennewjournal.com/job-centre-heart-attack-ruling#.WH_sparRYPN.twitter
David Sproates
I was forced to sign off and at my fit for work signing on I had an angina attack. I had to fill the forms in twice, the first was soaked off my leaking head. I felt myself go white and dizzy but still carried on. The guy looked really uncomfortable but couldn’t acknowledge my ill health it would of voided my fit for work. Despite the freezing temp and heavy snow out side my body was over heating. I took my spray but never worked. After a very stressful 40min it was over, I got to my feet, told him I felt sorry for him, then fell against a post that was luckily there, I then went outside and sat on a snow covered wall to cool and calm down. But I was wrong to have sympathy for that guy, did anybody have sympathy for the guy who was just doing his job when he kept putting 50p in the meter at Auschwitz.
Dawn Jennifer Clark
When is someone going to.be held accountable for all these deaths. RIP thoughts with Mr Bond’s family and loved ones xx
Council policy of moving homeless out of the area spreads nationwide
………Hunger Games draws nearer
PEOPLE SWEPT AWAY LIKE GARBAGE
London councils have been moving homeless families out of the capital for some time and now it appears the policy is spreading across the country.
The London policy was a result of cuts to housing benefit, soaring house prices and a lack of social housing. It means local authorities in the capital have been moving homeless people to places like Luton or Milton Keynes and even further afield to cities like Birmingham and Nottingham.
Not only is this incredibly difficult for the families moved away from their homes and support networks – it also has a knock on effect on the areas they arrive in. Many of the receiving towns now face a housing crisis of their own.
Last Friday, Milton Keynes council had 619 families, including around 900 children, staying in temporary accommodation – many outside of Milton Keynes.
“We’ve got estates here that house many families sent up from London,” Cabinet member for housing Cllr Nigel Long says. “But at the same time we are having to house local people outside of Milton Keynes. Many of these people are in work and their children are in school, so they are then faced with the additional problem of having to travel in everyday.”
Long keeps a spreadsheet of the number of households moving in and out of temporary accommodation each week. He glances at the document as I ask about the impact the situation is having on families. “Well, on Christmas eve we had 587 households in temporary accommodation, what sort of Christmas is that?
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2017/01/18/council-policy-of-moving-homeless-out-of-the-area-spreads-na
“HMRC BULLY BOYS LEAVE 62,000 IN THE SHIT”
Low-Income Families Left Stranded As Concentrix Failed To Answer 62,000 Calls In One Month, Damning Report Finds
Families faced ‘months of desperation’.
In 2014 Concentrix was awarded a £75m contract by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to help cut tax credit fraud.
Tax credits are Government payments made to households on low incomes.
But HMRC axed the firm’s contract in November after Concentrix was accused of incorrectly withdrawing tax credits from hundreds of claimants.
It also emerged that untrained staff in the company had received ‘suicidal calls’ from people who had had their benefits cut.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/low-income-families-left-stranded-as-concentrix-failed-to-answer-62000-calls-in-one-month-damning-report-finds_uk_587cf87de4b04a8bfe6b24e6
Seen spray-painted on a Newcastle Jobcentre wall:
“I, Daniel Blake demand my appeal date before I starve. And change the shite music on the phones.”
“BUTT UGLY TORY MP SUGGESTS THE POOR COULD LEARN FROM WW2 STRIFE”
Tory MP suggests poor families ‘could learn from war generation about cooking good food on a tight budget
Poor people could learn about nutrition by eating from wartime rations, a Tory MP suggested today.
Philip Hollobone told the Commons low income households should take lessons from the 1940s on how to eat nutritious food on a tight budget.
Labour MPs seized on his remarks as evidence the Government was failing to get to grips with the “scale of hunger” felt by millions across Britain.
Mr Hollobone, MP for Kettering, asked ministers if lessons could be learned from the wartime generation on “how best to feed our people”.
Food Rations
Food Rationing was introduced by the Government during the Second World War
He said: “Food insecurity is a terrible thing and it’s exacerbated by low-income households spending too much on food that isn’t good for them.
“During the war, the wartime generation knew how to manage on a very tight budget and nutrition actually improved for most households, including the very poorest.
“Could we learn some lessons from the wartime generation on how best to feed our people?”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-mp-suggests-poor-families-9651428?1
“TORY MP SUGGESTS THE POOR COULD LEARN FROM WW2 RATIONING”
Poor people could learn about nutrition by eating from wartime rations, a Tory MP suggested today.
Philip Hollobone told the Commons low income households should take lessons from the 1940s on how to eat nutritious food on a tight budget.
Labour MPs seized on his remarks as evidence the Government was failing to get to grips with the “scale of hunger” felt by millions across Britain.
Mr Hollobone, MP for Kettering, asked ministers if lessons could be learned from the wartime generation on “how best to feed our people”.
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Food Rationing was introduced by the Government during the Second World War (Photo: Coventry Telegraph)
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He said: “Food insecurity is a terrible thing and it’s exacerbated by low-income households spending too much on food that isn’t good for them.
“During the war, the wartime generation knew how to manage on a very tight budget and nutrition actually improved for most households, including the very poorest.
“Could we learn some lessons from the wartime generation on how best to feed our people?”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-mp-suggests-poor-families-9651428?1
9 minutes ago
Paul
We’re not at war, are we ?
Presumably gruel and porridge should get the poor back to the workhouses ?
But saying the Government has got more back to work is debatable, when 500-750,000 people are on sanctions at any one time bringing down the unemployment figures as they come off the register when on sanctions.
Plus the 1.5million who’ve signed off, but not returned to the employment register as stated by Frank Field and reported here in the here last Christmas,
no-one knows where these people are apparently.
So infact the real unemployment figure could be way over 3.5million.
All these people are probably already on rations and don’t need millionaire Tory MPs telling them how and what to eat.
1 hour ago
Foraging
Here we go again with another far-right Tory who is obsessed with the past.
Those guys cannot speak for more than a few minures and cannot write anything without referring to WWI and WWII, and periods of the past where Britain was supposed to be a great nation.
You will see it again and again, as they are incapable of focusing on the present and looking to the future.
Contrast that with the younger generations who, whilst they can learn about such past events, are more concerned about where they are now and what is going to happen in the future.
The past is gone, cannot be changed, will never repeat itself. It’s time that everyone knew about the past, but thought only about avoiding the past’s mistakes, then had a forward-looking plan for the future.
We should remember that when Hollobone, Rees-Mogg, Hannan, Farage, Carswell, etc go about pontificating, that they are the ones who attended the finest public schools and have never wanted for anything in their lives.
They are the ones least exposed to the past’s hard times for the majority, but never stop proposing all sorts of panaceas for those who are less privileged than themselves.
Philip Hollobone – (A ‘not-known’ Tory M.P. – certainly not to myself – I have never even ever heard of the fucker before!)
This is a ‘non-entity’ M.P. – who sincerely thinks that World War II rations will help very many ‘low-income’ families – BUT OF COURSE, HE WILL NEVER ADMIT THAT A LOT OF THE STARVATION OF BRITISH PEOPLE HAS BEEN CAUSED BY HIS VERY OWN ‘CONSERVATIVE’ PARTY AND THEIR VERY OWN ‘WELFARE REFORM’ POLICIES.
Here is who he is: (In addition: WHO REALLY FUCKING CARES!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Hollobone
And then: Another ‘Tory’ supporting fucker – but on ‘Channel 4 News’ this evening he basically said – I cannot support my Conservative ‘masters’ any more! (What I say though is:- is this a: 1) a binding referendum or a: 2) an ‘advisory’ referendum??)
‘Overseas Aid’, The Conservative Councillor David Hodge said, this could be spent on ‘Adult Social Care’ instead (Unrest in the ranks methinks!)
He is (terribly!) suggesting no less than a 15% rise in ‘Council Tax’ – his (for the most part) very rich constituents are definitely NOT happy bunnies! (please see: BBC News 6PM this evening). (THEY DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT TO PAY ANY EXTRA FOR THEIR ‘AREAS’ FRAIL OLD PEOPLE ON TOP OF THEIR ‘ALREADY’ HIGH COUNCIL TAX!)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/surrey-county-council-referendum-council-tax-rise-hike-15-per-cent-social-care-a7535091.html
“THIS IS TOTALLY DISGRACEFUL AND I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THIS IS ALSO A ‘CRIMINAL OFFENCE’ AS SUCH UNDER LAW.
This lady should actively look into the possibility of suing the DWP.
“Department for Work and Pensions ‘revealed domestic violence victims’ identity to abuser”
“The woman was living under police protection and had been forced to change her identity”
This is the law as it stands:
https://www.app.college.police.uk/app-content/major-investigation-and-public-protection/domestic-abuse/arrest-and-other-positive-approaches/domestic-violence-protection-notices-and-domestic-violence-protection-orders/
And – this is the article as such:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/department-for-work-and-pensions-revealed-domestic-violence-victims-identity-to-abuser-a7535321.html
“THE LIB-DEMS SHOULD BE FUCKING ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES – ‘THEY’ CANNOT PROCLAIM THEMSELVES TO BE THE SAVIOURS OF THE UK”
“Theresa May blasted for lecturing fat cats while threatening to make UK ‘bargain basement’ tax haven”
“Lib Dem leader Tim Farron says Mrs May’s threat to turn the UK into a low – tax state if the EU does not agree with her demands made a mockery of her comments”
http://www.themirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/theresa-blasted-lecturing-fat-cats-9654275
(Forget all about SKY’s ‘TRUMP’ Gump inauguration – FUCK TRUMP!)
“This is exactly what the Conservatives want – the total Annihalation of the ‘poor’ and also of the ‘Peasants'”
“Man spends last day alive at a Jobcentre being told he’s ‘fit to work’
He dies on the way home”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/19/man-spends-last-day-alive-jobcentre-told-hes-fit-work-dies-way-home/
FUCK TRUMP – AND FUCK TRUMPS ‘MILITARY’
(OUR MILITARY IS SO MUCH MORE THAN THE U.S. MILITARY – OUR ROYAL NAVY (ME -!) – OUR ‘ROYAL AIR FORCE’ AND OUR ‘ARMY’ – OUR MILITARY IS SO MUCH MORE THAN THE U.S. MILITARY EVER WERE OR EVER WAS!)
Our military may be better disciplined and professional wise, but the rest of your statement is ridiculous. The USA military is so strong it could fight a conventional war with Russia and China at the same time and win. The problem with all of this is of course after the military victory you need to occupy and control those same countries and I would not rate the chances of the US wanting to do that. The US military doesn’t like body-bags returning home on a regular basis and soon pulls out. It’s called winning the battles but losing the war.
http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/heres-who-would-win-if-russia-china-and-america-went-to-war-right-now
(BUT NOT TO FORGET ALSO!)
OUR N.H.S.: “NHS Hospital wards left with “dangerously low level of nurses”
“Nurses describe ‘desperately unsafe’ numbers of registered nurses , while others say patients are being put at risk ”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-latest-nurses-hospital-wards-nurses-agency-staff-unsafe-dangerous-staffing-a7536441.html
Man ruled ‘fit for work’ dies from heart attack on way home from Jobcentre
………..THEY SHOULD SPRINKLE HIS ASHES OVER THE MURDERING BASTARD WHO PROCLAIMED HIM FIT……………
WHILE THE FAMILY OF THE DECEASED COME TO TERMS WITH THE DEMISE OF A LOVED ONE, THE PRAT AT THE JOBCENTRE WILL BE COUNTING THEIR SANCTIONS BONUS.
http://www.camdennewjournal.com/job-centre-heart-attack-ruling#.WH_sparRYPN.twitter
………..PART OF LORD DAVID FREUD’S KILLING SPREE
“DWP TARGET AUTISTIC CLAIMANT 17 MONTHS BEFORE MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND THREATEN TO CUT BENEFITS”
Why not send a cyanide capsule in a brown envelope?
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
We have received information from one of your autistic claimants that you have made contact with SEVENTEEN MONTHS before they were actually due to be contacted, trying to get them to complete another ESA50 questionnaire with the threat of cutting off their benefit.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/contacting_claimants_over_a_year#outgoing-615126
“THE REAL REASON THE DWP DON’T WANT DISABLED CLAIMANTS TO BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE BY EMAIL”
………..THE DWP ARE BEING CHALLENGED IN COURT AT THIS VERY MOMENT
Clair Brooke 19 January 2017
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
1) I have been advised by the “Belfast Benefit Centre” that any letters I send to them must be signed by hand with a pen in order to be valid, otherwise they will be ignored and not actioned. With that in mind, please can you give me all DWP guidance, documents, and memos regarding the DWPs policy on requiring incoming customer correspondence to have hand-written signatures. Please let me know what specific legislation allows the DWP to summarily ignore customer correspondence that is not signed. Please can you also tell me if any Equality Impact Assessments have been undertaken with regard to the DWP requiring hand-written signatures, for example in cases where a disabled person does not have any hands or does not have use of their hands. What reasonable adjustments are in place for these people?
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/requirement_of_signatures_on_pos#incoming-923533
Hackney Council pays £35million a year to keep the homeless homeless
Aimee and her daughter sleep in the same single bed as the hostel room is too small for a separate cot. Picture: Nigel Sutton
In a tiny hostel room, a little girl sleeps surrounded by toys and clothes wedged into every available space.
The bedsit that Aimee Bell, 26, and her daughter share has sterile white walls and a cold tiled floor. At one end a kitchen and bathroom are squeezed into a tight corner.
As she invites the Gazette in, Aimee says she has tried to make the place cosy but finds it upsetting that this cramped room is the only home 18-month-old Mia has ever known.
“I try to remain positive and not think about things like that,” she says. “But it does get very lonely.”
Aimee and Mia are among a spiralling number of families in Hackney who are without a home.
Mia’s baby bath is stored in the shower cubicle. Picture: Nigel SuttonMia’s baby bath is stored in the shower cubicle. Picture: Nigel Sutton
The Gazette can reveal the numbers in temporary accommodation has reached a 12-year high, with more than 2,700 households now registered as homeless in Hackney.
More people in Hackney are living in hostels than in any other area of London and our investigation has shown the bill for housing homeless families in temporary accommodation was a staggering £35million last year.
http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/hackney_council_pays_35million_a_year_to_keep_the_homeless_homeless_1_4851576
Department of Health ignores NHS continuing healthcare human rights warnings
Campaigners have warned more than 40 NHS primary care organisations across England that policies which could see service-users with complex healthcare needs forced into institutions are a breach of disabled people’s human rights.
Despite the warning, the Department of Health last night (Wednesday) refused to say if it had any concerns about the policies on NHS continuing healthcare (NHS CHC), or whether they complied with its own guidelines.
Research on the policies, published last week by disabled campaigner Fleur Perry, showed at least 44 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) – and probably many more – would be willing to move disabled people with high-cost support packages into residential or nursing homes against their wishes.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/department-of-health-ignores-nhs-continuing-healthcare-human-rights-warnings/
Fresh evidence that DWP bars email communication from disabled claimants
DWP Wheelchair Cliff
By John Pring Disability News Service 19/01/2017
Fresh evidence has emerged that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to allow benefit claimants to communicate via email, despite its claims that it allows disabled people with “valid reasons” to do so.
Last week, one disabled PIP claimant, Mark Lucas, told how he was taking legal action against DWP for refusing to allow him to communicate with its civil servants via email as a reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act.
DWP insisted in its response that “claimants are entitled to request to receive all communications from the department by email on the grounds of disability under the Equality Act 2010”.
But after Lucas’s story was published, other disabled people have come forward to cast doubt on that response, and have described how DWP has refused to let them deal with their benefit claims by email.
One claimant, disabled campaigner Graham Kirwan, who represents Dudley Centre for Inclusive Living on accessible information issues, told Disability News Service (DNS) that DWP paid him £1,700 damages to settle his claim against the department for refusing to communicate with him by email over his personal independence payment (PIP) claim.
In settling the case, which Kirwan took himself as a “litigant in person”, DWP admitted that it had failed to make reasonable adjustments for him, stating: “The Department accepts that it has not sent you communications in your required format and that it has taken an unreasonably long time to agree and make the reasonable adjustments you have requested.
“THE BBC, A PUBLIC CORPORATION, CONTINUES TO HIDE THE SALARIES OF IT’S SENIOR FIGURES”
………….YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW, YOU ARE THE LICENCE FEE PAYERS
The BBC recognises
that there are individuals paid above the salary roof in each of the bands. These individuals are long serving
members of staff or those who possess a skil set that commands a higher market premium and those on
buy out salaries.
We are withholding this information broken down by division under section 40(2) (personal information) of
the Act. As breaking the information down in this way would result in small numbers for many categories,
it could lead to individuals being identified.
………..WHO ARE THESE JOKERS WHO USE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION FEES TO PLAY HOST TO A GENTLEMEN’S CLUB OF HIGH ROLLERS?
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW WHERE YOUR HARD EARNED CASH IS BEING SPENT.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/330422/response/915834/attach/html/4/RFI20160905%20follow%20up%20response.pdf.html
“DWP WASTE £92,249,86P ON WITHHOLDING FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST”
Paul Warren 23 August 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please electronically share the invoices, receipts, bills and payment records for your £92,249.86 spending withholding information referred to in today’s
FOI 2837 reply to James Powell.
Yours faithfully,
Paul Warren
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/your_ps9224986_spending_records#incoming-923939
“DWP WASTED £92,249,86P HIDING NAMES OF WORKFARE SLAVETRADERS FROM THE PUBLIC”
jimmy3 2 August 2016
Delivered
Background:
It has been widely reported that the DWP has been forced to reveal the list of over 500 firms using benefit claimants for unpaid work after 4-year legal fight (with the DWP having no further appeal options left).
References:
Case ref Department for Work And Pensions v The Information Commissioner & Zola [2016] EWCA Civ 758 (27 July 2016)
My request:
Please kindly provide the total legal cost incurred by the DWP in trying to withhold this information from the public domain
Thanks,
James Powell.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/legal_cost_of_withholding_inform?unfold=1
“HOW THE DWP HIDE DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVE FIGURES”
19th January 2017
Dear Paul,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 13 December 2016. You asked:
The government’s response to the UN inquiry into the UK which found that disabled people’s
Human rights were being gravely and systematically violated states that “Disability Confident
supports employers to employ disabled people by encouraging business-to-business
discussion about the benefits of employing disabled people. More than 2400 employers have
signed up to the new Disability Confident scheme which started in July.”
1. Given the previous disastrous results of Disability Confident how many disabled people
have these 2.400 firms employed since July 2016?
2. How many have been offered permanent jobs?
3. How will the employment outcomes of Disability Confident be measured and monitored?
………………………………………………………
……….AND DWP ANSWER
The information you requested is not currently held by the department. We are working to
develop a mechanism that will measure outcomes of the Disability Confident scheme. We will
publish details in due course.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
4750 reply
DWP Strategy FoI Team
……………………………………………………………………
DISABILITY CONFIDENT, JUST AN OXYMORON IT SEEMS.
Another death http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/man-died-job-centre-fit-to-work-dwp-government-assessment-benefits-death-a7537111.html
Little Brother…
http://unemploymentmovement.com/forum/law/3687-advert-in-local-shop-window-to-promote-your-site-refused-on-political-grounds.html
Benefits switch sees Musselburgh dad Alastair Campbell given just 1p to survive
A DAD who reduced his working hours so he could care for his young son received 1p of support in 10 weeks under the new Universal Credit system.
Alastair Campbell signed up to the new benefits system at the start of November. But when he received his first payment just 10 days before Christmas, he was left stunned at the amount which appeared in his bank.
And in the weeks which followed, he was left without another payment – leaving him relying on handouts from family and friends to survive.
Alastair told the Courier: “The entire system is a joke. They paid me 1p because they had to be seen to be paying me something, and then left me with nothing. It is just appalling.”
NHS worker Alastair, 41, looks after his nine-year-old son Luke at his home in Musselburgh but fell into rent arrears earlier this year after a relationship breakdown and mental health issues.
He applied for the new Universal Credit from the Department for Work and Pensions and reduced his working hours so he could look after his son, but after six weeks of attending meetings and filling in forms he found all his money had been given to East Lothian Council to pay his backdated rent.
To show he had received an initial payment, they put 1p into his bank on the day his first payment was due, before leaving him for another full month with no further payments.
Alastair said: “They told me they had paid around £170 to East Lothian Council for rent arrears but I was due nothing else. It seems under the new system they can put child tax credit money towards rent arrears instead of just housing benefits.
“To make it worse, they don’t seem to be able to tell you how much you will receive each month in advance, especially when you work part-time.
“At the very least I expect my child tax credit allowance to help care for my son but there was no explanation about how they came to their decision… and no money.”
Desperate Alastair even found himself having to extend his annual holiday following his New Year break – because he could not afford to travel to work.
East Lothian Courier:
And when he bombarded the job centre with angry emails after receiving no payment again at the weekend, they sent police to his home in Musselburgh to make sure he was OK.
Alastair revealed that when the officers arrived and saw his situation, one left his home for a short while before returning with a bag of groceries for him.
He said: “The officer came in with a bag with mince, pasta, butter and other essentials. It was a measure of how desperate my situation was but also restored my faith in human kindness.”
Now Alastair is calling for the new system to be changed, warning it will lead to tragedy.
He said: “I was told I should look for work and get used to it as this is the way it will be from now on.
“The system is ridiculous. They are going to have people taking their own lives or committing crime to survive if this continues. It pushes you to the edge.”
World’s largest fund manager hires George Osborne as adviser
……………IF OSBORNE DOES FOR BLACKROCK EXACTLY WHAT HE DID FOR THE BRITISH ECONOMY IT WOULD BE WISE TO CASH IN YOUR INVESTMENTS IMMEDIATELY………………….
MIND YOU, THE HRMC SEEM QUITE HAPPY THAT HIS WALLPAPER BUSINESS KEEPS ANNOUNCING STAGGERING LOSSES YET PAY NO TAX AND STAY AFLOAT…
………..BUT THAT’S ANOTHER HMRC NO GO AREA………
Former chancellor’s lucrative new role as BlackRock adviser follows controversial US speaking tour that netted £600,000
……………And Theresa May, having such a good eye for fashion, has welcomed the news that a prime position is available at a leading clothing manufacturer, Circus Props Ltd.
BLACKROCK INVESTMENTS
BIGGEST CONSISTENT OWNERS OF KEY FIREARM STOCKS *
Investor, gain this year ($ millions) **
BlackRock, $112.0
Vanguard, $105.9
London Co. of Virginia, $82.9
Fidelity, $79.6
First Eagle, $60
RBC Global, $36.3
LSV Asset, $26.9
Fiduciary Management, $14.0
Capital Research, $13.9
Source: S&P Capital IQ, USA TODAY
* Top five owner of Smith & Wesson, Sturm Ruger or Vista Outdoor
** Based on average shares held during the year
Rupert Harrison
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rupert Harrison, CBE (born 1978 or 1979)[1] was from 2006 to 2015 the chief of staff to George Osborne, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the UK Treasury. Harrison is said to be one of the most powerful people in the UK in 2014 and to be the main reason why Osborne can be a “part time” Chancellor.[2]
Harrison was educated at Eton College (where he was head boy)[1] and studied at Magdalen College, Oxford University, where he was awarded an Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. From 2002, he worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies before joining Osborne’s team in 2006 and moving with him to the Treasury in 2010.
In March 2014, he was the subject of the BBC Radio 4 Profile programme.[9]
In June 2015 Harrison joined BlackRock as chief macro-strategist for multi-asset funds that invest in equities, bonds and cash [10] where he will reportedly earn £150,000 a year.[11]
Harrison was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 Dissolution Honours Lists on 27 August 2015.[12]
………BULLINGDON BOYS
….AND HARRISON JUST HAPPENS TO BE THE ARCHITECT OF UK PENSION REFORMS.
……SO HE WORKED IN THE TREASURY, THE DEPARTMENT OF FISCAL STUDIES AND HE WAS THE CREATOR OF PENSION CHANGES BEFORE LEAVING TO WORK AT BLACKROCK INVESTMENTS?
“NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST HERE THEN”
At Oxford, even left-wing academics regarded Harrison as one of the brightest students in his year. In government, he is sometimes jokingly referred to as ”the real Chancellor’’. When trouble breaks out between the Treasury and other government departments, it is Harrison who is sent to smooth things over. “I just speak to Rupert, I don’t bother with George any more,” one Cabinet member tells me.
“Rupert is quiet, modest and brilliantly competent,” one senior civil servant says. “And if he agrees something, it’s 100 per cent likely that George will agree it, too.” This is not because Harrison has a Balls-like tendency to get his way: he defers to Osborne completely. But such is the Chancellor’s faith in his aide’s judgment that they don’t quarrel.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/9148687/Ever-wondered-how-George-Osborne-can-be-a-part-time-Chancellor.html
…………ONE DAY YOU WILL ALL WAKE UP
June 11, 2015
by: Jim Pickard and Harriet Agnew
Rupert Harrison, architect of the government’s pension reforms, has taken up a job at a US fund management group where his tasks will include developing its “retirement proposition” — prompting accusations of revolving doors between Whitehall and the City.
Sample the FT’s top stories for a week
Mr Harrison, former chief of staff to George Osborne, was one of the most influential figures in the previous government. At his leaving party, Mr Osborne joked: “It has been an honour to play a role in the Harrison chancellorship.”
The 36-year-old is joining BlackRock, one of the world’s largest fund managers, with almost $5tn under management. He will be chief macro-strategist for funds investing in equities, bonds and cash.
https://www.ft.com/content/4fb65e38-1058-11e5-b4dc-00144feabdc0#axzz3dyVs7K2T
………..SO THE UK GOVERNMENT USED HARRISON’S PENSION PLANS TO STEAL YOUR PENSIONS, HAVE YOU WORKING LONGER AND THEN MOVES TO A COMPANY THAT IS SELLING RETIREMENT PROPOSITIONS?
Mr Harrison was the brains behind last year’s deregulation of the pensions industry, which allowed people to cash in their savings rather than having to buy annuities.
A statement from BlackRock, welcoming its new hire, said: “Given his experience shaping the recent pensions reforms in the UK, he is uniquely placed to help develop our retirement proposition.”
…………………………………………………………………….
……..AND THE UK GOVERNMENT TAX COLLECTOR
Previous examples of senior figures moving from government roles to private sector positions include Dave Hartnett, who as chief tax collector negotiated the UK’s deal with Switzerland over stolen HSBC files. He later became an adviser to the bank on financial risks and crime.
NO FUCKING WONDER HMRC INVESTIGATE ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL
…..AND DID THE HMRC INVESTIGATE ANY OF THE TAX DODGERS THAT WERE ON THE LEAKED HSBC FILES?
DID THEY FUCK…………
HARTNETT NEGOTIATED HIMSELF A CUSHY NUMBER WITH HSBC TO MAKE THE EVIDENCE CONTAINED IN THE LEAK, GO WALKABOUTS.
……….AND BLACKROCK WELCOMED THE APPOINTMENT OF ROS ALTMANN AS PENSIONS MINISTER
Tony Stenning, Chairman of The Savings and Investments Policy project and Head of UK Retail at BlackRock says:
“We welcome the Conservative’s plan to appoint Ros Altmann as Pensions Minister, however, we believe that this role could be expanded to oversee all forms of consumer saving. More can and should be done to promote the benefits of long-term saving whilst also ensuring that the recent momentum around savings and investing is maintained.
“We believe the creation of a Savings Minister is critical to achieving this. The individual would be accountable for promoting and championing all forms of consumer saving within government – an essential role if we are to overcome the current culture of consumption fuelled predominantly by debt. This Minister would transcend departments and be a positive driver for change to create a framework where it is as easy to save as it is to get into debt.
THE UK PUBLIC IS HAVING TO PAY FOR YEARS OF PENSION COFFERS PLUNDERING BY SUCCESSIVE GOVERNMENTS AND PENSIONS PROVIDERS WHO SAW FIT TO SQUANDER WORKERS HARD EARNED INVESTMENT CASH ON CORRUPT BOARD OFFICIALS AND MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS.
ALL THIS CRAP ABOUT PEOPLE LIVING LONGER AND IT’S HEALTHY TO WORK TILL YOU DROP ARE MERE FICTION TO COVER UP MASSIVE THEFTS.
WHEN ANY GOVERNMENT USES THE WORD REFORM, IT ALWAYS MEANS A WORSENING OF WHAT YOU ALREADY HAD……….
PENSION CUTS HAVE BEEN DELIBERATELY ORCHESTRATED TO TRY AND COVER UP THE EXTENT OF THE CORRUPTION WHILST HANDING MORE MARKET TO THE SNAKE OIL SALESMEN THAT PROMISE THE EARTH AND THEN FUCK YOU OFF WHEN YOU ARE LEAST ABLE TO RETALIATE IN MATURITY.
YOU ARE WITNESSING THEFT ON A GRAND SCALE. THE UK GOVERNMENT IS COMPLICIT IN A CRIME SO HEINOUS THAT THEY HAVE TO UTILISE THE MEDIA TO HIDE THE TRUTH.
Theresa May, the Government told us that the whole purpose, intent behind the ‘Snooper’s Charter’ was to “fight TERRORISM”. Now, we find out that the JOBCENTRE can view our internet records! WTF! What in Allah’s name has the JOBCENTRE got to do with “fighting terrorism”?
The fact is the snoopers charter had little to do with fighting terrorism. The main reason is to drag more tax in from the poorer members of society and to control by abject fear. The HMRC now spies with the DWP to catch anyone doing small things to supplement there meagre incomes like buying and selling items on the web so the profits can be offset for tax purposes or to accuse people of benefit fraud which means more poverty and a frightened and complaint working class who can be forced to be exploited even more with all additional avenues of survival cut off. The Tories have been phenomenally successful over the years at demonising Trade Unions and Socialists and anyone who threatens their unbridled power. It won’t be long until they will be passing laws to prevent benefit claimants from handling cash for survival, by giving out tokens that can only be exchanged for certain goods to make the control complete. The working classes however only have themselves to blame, after all they suck up the state propaganda dished out daily by the BBC and other news media outlets. The internet will eventually be controlled so only white-listed approved sites can be viewed. There is no will left in the majority to fight back and most sit at home drowning in the dirge of soap operas and being brainwashed by the content within these programmes of establishment drivel. Today there are demonstrations in the UK against the election of US President Donald Trump who in all honesty is only a symptom of the above brainwashing, its similar here to there. With no real alternative to tackle real problems created by professional politicians the US public has turned to anything that appears to challenge the status quo and Trump has exploited this to the hilt knowing that if he appears less corrupt he could gain power. To give the Tories (Global Capitalists) and their ilk due praise they are superb at manipulation and understand how capitalism can be used to enslave and condition people to live only for materialistic endeavours never giving them the chance to stop and analyse what is happening to them.
“THE ROGUE BBC HAS BEEN UP TO ITS TRICKS YET AGAIN”
(A expose documentary and a video with regard to the Scottish Referendum)
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/20/documentary-finally-exposes-bbc-cheated-scotland-independence-video/
“SELLING OUT TO TRUMP’S GOOD OLD U.S.OF A!”
It’s just been reported on Sky News that Mother Theresa is going over to meet Trump next Thursday. One of the ideas now is that they will be aiming for 90 days after Brexit finally happens (2 yrs after the end of March?) to have some sort of Transatlantic trade deal in operation.
If this happens I can see a real sell-out happening with the U.S. getting the upper hand – goodness only knows what will happen then – Private companies handing out health insurance/running the NHS? Who knows?
Anyway, by then Trump could be out of office/impeached/assassinated!
Or Trump could be serving a second term! Remember, don’t swallow all the anti-Trump propaganda so easily. George W Bush who had a very low IQ won a second term and the same propaganda from the western liberal elite was used against him. Ronald Reagan was vilified in the UK press in his first term as a second rate b movie actor with half a brain cell but won a second term and has been voted by Americans as the most popular President ever. The privatisation of the NHS would still go ahead if Killery Clinton had won the election. Capitalism is the problem not individual politicians like Trump or May
“UK MOD DECIDE TO HUSH UP NEWS THAT A TRIDENT MISSILE TEST WENT HORRIBLY WRONG AFTER ONE VEERED OFF COURSE TOWARDS THE US EASTERN SEABOARD THAT HAD THE POTENTIAL TO DEVASTATE FLORIDA”
………….AND WEEKS AHEAD OF A CRUCIAL TRIDENT VOTE IN PARLIAMENT.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/failed-trident-missile-test-covered-9670302
BUT WHAT ELSE DO YOU EXPECT OF A CORRUPT UK GOVERNMENT THAT HID WELFARE RELATED SUICIDES FROM AN INDEPENDENT ADJUDICATOR, MALCOLM HARRINGTON.
http://www.disabledgo.com/blog/2016/12/ministers-hid-secret-death-reports-from-their-fitness-for-work-test-reviewer/#.WISgablJ1kg
‘Mouldy and grimy’ care home shut amid safety concerns
(BUT WE CAN WASTE MILLIONS ON THE QUEENS LUXURY PAD AND THE HALLOWED HALLS OF WESTMINSTER)
A “mouldy and grimy” care home has closed amid serious concerns for residents’ safety.
Birdsgrove Nursing Home in Bracknell was shut after it failed to provide an “adequate service” to its 87 patients, the Care Quality Commission said.
Mould was found growing across carpets and on tiles, the report said.
It follows the arrest of a man on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence after the death of a woman at the home.
Grease and grime
A number of fire safety issues were identified by inspectors, including broken emergency lights and dimly lit rooms, creating a potential risk to those with visual impairments or dementia.
Areas of the service were also found to be unclean with a build-up of dust, grease and grime.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-38693754
Overview
This government wants to help everyone to be able to enjoy the independence, security and good health that being in work can bring.
We know that the right type of work is good for an individual’s physical and mental health. Work can bring other benefits – introduce a sense of purpose, raise self-esteem, and allow people to build relationships.
Many disabled people and people with long-term health conditions already work and many more want access to the benefits that work can bring. We want to understand how to improve the system to make this possible.
We are committed to financially supporting those with the most severe or life-limiting disabilities and conditions who are unable to work.
…………….BUT THE REALITY IS A LINE OF DEAD BODIES THAT ONLY THE UK GOVERNMENT SEE FIT TO IGNORE.
HANDING OVER THE WELFARE CHEST TO THE PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANIES HAS RESULTED IN THE DEATHS OF UNTOLD THOUSANDS OF CLAIMANTS
YOU CAN SPOUT ALL THE DRIVEL YOU WANT ABOUT THE VIRTUES OF WORK BEING GOOD FOR YOU IF YOU RECEIVE A COLOSSAL PAY PACKET.
TRY WORKING WITH A DISABILITY, WORKING ZERO HOUR CONTRACTS AND PICKING UP A PITTANCE FOR GIVING YOUR SOUL TO A DODGY EMPLOYER WHO TREATS IT’S STAFF LIKE SHIT.
STICK TO FALSIFYING EMPLOYMENT FIGURES AND SPOUTING LIES, THE VERY BASIS OF THE TORY GOVERNMENT THAT IS A CANCER EATING AWAY AT THE VERY BASICS OF WHAT GOOD PEOPLE STILL HOLD DEAR TO THEIR HEARTS.
WE WILL WATCH THEM DIE AS YOU STRUGGLE TO HIDE YOUR CRIMES.
“PEOPLE HAVE NOT NOTICED THAT THE BBC ARE SHOWING MORE ANTI TRUMP PROTESTS ON OUR SCREENS THAN ANTI AUSTERITY PROTESTS IN OUR OWN COUNTRY”
THE BIASED BULLSHIT CORPORATION (BBC)
PART OF THE FUCK THE POOR AND KISS THE ARSES OF THE TAX EVADERS MOVEMENT…………….
Quite right Geoff! And how many on the women’s march against Trump at the weekend protested about the serial seducer of young interns Bill Clinton. Oh yeah, probably none! Hypocrites!!!!!
Pot-head Bill Clinton RAPED a fellow student when he was at Oxford University. It takes a certain ‘type’ to reach positions of power. ‘Nice’ guys (and girls) don’t make it to the highest office on Earth.
Bill Clinton makes Donald Trump look like a choir boy.
And what Donald Trump said was true, that is how men (and women) get what they want sexually. The put themselves in a position of power, whether is is by being their boss, writing references, handing out jobs because without the power they would have no chance of getting what they want. Imagine if instead of President of the United States Bill Clinton had been a lowly burger-flipper. Would he have been shagging non-stop. No, it would have been: “Sod off, loser, or I will call the cops.”
This is the way the REAL world works. One high-profile example from the UK with the ‘sex for jobs’ scandal at Monklands Council up in Scotchland. It is happening all the time especially in academia where a bad reference can ruin a career in one full stop, and also the media, radio/TV/the arts… sleeping your way to the top as they say.
“THIS WEEK COULD BE A ROUGH ONE FOR TORIES”
With news today of amongst other things, a possible ‘Trident’ cover-up (and the likelihood of Fallon, the Defence Minister being called on to explain himself in the Commons tomorrow), a possible ‘cover-up’ by the Tories over a ‘Climate Change’ report and the Supreme Court likely to rule against them on Tuesday morning – this week is looking pretty bad for the Tories!
Firstly, the ‘Trident’ missile going astray!
(Fleet H.Q at Northwood and (probably) also the Defence Minister would have been informed about this occurrence!)
“Corbyn – Theresa May should come clean about what she knew about Trident missile misfiring”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-theresa-may-should-come-clean-on-trident-missile-error-a7540111.html
“Government ‘tried to bury’ its own alarming report on climate change”
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-risk-assessment-global-warming-government-accused-burying-report-a7540726.html
LORD DAVID FREUD, AS TWISTED AS A HUMAN BEING COULD EVER BE…………..
While council landlords can refuse to accommodate the benefit tenant and make no mistake they will, councils cannot avoid their homeless duties in law to accommodate them. This huge additional cost is a massive transfer of cost from the housing benefit budget at central government to each and every local councils own budgets.
The overall benefit cap affects everyone including home owners and those in work who do not get any benefit as council tax will have to increase and your council will have to provide fewer and fewer services.
Libraries will close right across the country. Bin collections will become fortnightly or even monthly and no longer weekly and to go back to the 500,000 or so children refused social housing each year the costs on local education budgets will be huge as children are moved from pillar to post and that includes their schooling.
More and more children will be placed into care and give local councils higher costs still and remember that the 2% precept that your local council is allowed to add to council tax to pay for care only applies for ADULT care and not for the care needs and costs of children.
https://speye.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/rip-social-housing-monday-23-jan-2017/
“FREUD, THE LUNATIC WHO SIGNED SO MANY LIVES AWAY”
…………..YOUR KIDS MUST BE PROUD OF YOUR MINI HOLOCAUST
Notice how since the advent of the Snooper’s Charter how the Jobcentre is asking claimants to VERBALLY STATE their ADDRESS, MOBILE TELEPHONE NUMBER and LANDLINE NUMBER and then read ‘doug’s posts on CONSENT, see how the pieces all fit together and you will soon realise what a DANGEROUS GAME is being played out. NEVER talk to the Jobcentre!
Sounds innocuous 😀 But you always know the Jobcentre is up to something when they ask you to ‘confirm’ something like when you sign-on and you see them reading something on the screen and they ask you to ‘confirm’ “that you have not done any work paid or unpaid”, they suspect or have ‘evidence’ that you are working paid or unpaid (voluntary work) ‘on the side’. Anything out of ordinary in the Jobcentre and there is always a sinister reason behind it, nothing happens by chance in the jobcentre.
So now they want to tie names, addresses, mobile and landline devices together. Of course they could find out from other sources that you have a mobile in your name, a landline registered in your name at an address but by VERBALLY STATING you have just provided INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF and CONSENT. You have put an electronic noose around your neck!
CONSENT AND THE DWP
FIVE YEARS AGO I RECEIVED A 38 PAGE TICK BOX QUESTIONNAIRE FROM THE DWP.
IT ASKED ME TO COMPLETE IT AND SIGN IT WITH A THREAT THAT IF I DID NOT DO SO, MY BENEFITS WOULD BE STOPPED.
THE REASON THEY SAID, FOR THE QUESTIONNAIRE, WAS IT HAD BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE THEY HAD HEARD FROM ME AND THEY WONDERED IF THEY WERE PAYING THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF BENEFIT.
THIS WAS COMPLETE BULLSHIT AS I HAD BEEN AWARDED A LIFETIME DISABILITY AWARD AFTER THEIR OWN DOCTORS HAD AGREED THAT MY CONDITION WAS UNLIKELY TO CHANGE IN THE FUTURE.
PART OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE CONTAINED A PARAGRAPH THAT SAID I WOULD NEED TO TICK TO ENABLE ATOS TO EXAMINE ME.
(AND THE THREAT, THAT IF I DID NOT, MY BENEFITS WOULD STOP).
MY CIRCUMSTANCES HAD NOT CHANGED, AND NEVER WOULD ACCORDING TO ALL THEIR MEDICAL REPORTS, YET THEY INSISTED THAT I FILL OUT THE FORMS OR THEY WOULD TERMINATE MY BENEFITS REGARDLESS………..
THE ONUS WAS ON THE CLAIMANT TO REPORT ANY CHANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCE.
I EMBARRASSED THEM BY ISSUING A SERIES OF FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS IN WHICH THEY HAD TO ADMIT THAT ANY SUCH CHANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD BE REPORTED BY THE CLAIMANT IMMEDIATELY.
I HAVE IT IN WRITING (CONFIRMED BY THE DWP), THAT THEY RECEIVED A LETTER FROM MYSELF, VERIFYINGTHAT MY CIRCUMSTANCES HAD NOT CHANGED.
ON THREE OCCASIONS THEY THREATENED TO REMOVE MY BENEFITS IF I DID NOT SIGN AND RETURN THE QUESTIONNAIRE.
I WROTE AND TOLD THEM MY CIRCUMSTANCES HAD NOT CHANGED BUT THEY STLL INSISTED I MUST SIGN AND DATE THE DOCUMENT OTHERWISE THEY WOULD TERMINATE MY PAYMENTS.
FINALLY I RECEIVED A LETTER STATING THAT BECAUSE I HAD NOT SIGNED AND RETURNED THE QUESTIONNAIRE, MY DISABILITY PAYMENTS HAD BEEN WITHDRAWN.
FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS I HAVE EXISTED ON JUST £33.60P PER WEEK.
THIS IS INDUSTRIAL INJURIES BENEFIT PAID OUT FOLLOWING AN ACCIDENT AT WORK.
I FILED A COMPLAINT WITH THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.
UPON ASKING WHAT OTHER BENEFITS I COULD GET TO HELP ME WITH MY DISABILITY, I WAS TOLD THE ONLY OPTION WAS TO CLAIM JOB SEEKERS ALLOWANCE, BUT IN ORDER TO DO THIS I WOULD HAVE TO DROP MY EXISTING CLAIM FOR DISABILITY AND SAY I WAS FIT FOR WORK.
I AM NOT A SOLITARY CASE. THERE ARE THOUSANDS WHO HAVE SEEN THE INJUSTICES OF A FAME CRAZED PSYCHOPATH NAMED LORD DAVID FREUD WHO WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY BOOKS AS A MASS MURDERER.
“PLEASE REMEMBER, THE DWP NEED YOUR CONSENT TO ABUSE YOU”
CONSENT SHOULD BE GIVEN FREELY, THE MEETING OF TWO MINDS.
………………ANY VEILED THREATS, SPOKEN OR WRITTEN, NEGATE THE TERMS OF CONSENT COMPLETELY AND RENDERS THE DWP INACTIVE TO SANCTION WITHOUT YOUR AGREEMENT.
THIS WEEK, THE DWP ARE IN COURT FIGHTING OFF A CHALLENGE FROM A DISABLED PERSON TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM USING EMAIL…………….
THE DWP ARE SO FRIGHTENED BECAUSE AN EMAIL DOES NOT CONTAIN A PERSONAL SIGNATURE…………………
“A CLASSIC CASE OF DWP CLAIMANT DURESS TO CONSENT”
UNIVERSAL JOBMATCH
MR E FLINT 6 December 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I have been mandated (forced on the threat of sanctions) to community work placements & have been assigned a provider.
1.) Will i be sanctioned if I do not sign the contract the provider expects me to sign?
.wouldn’t such contract be void if signed under threat of such sanction (duress)?
2.) Will I be sanctioned if I do not sign my signature when entering the building for an appointment? Is it mandatory? Can I reject it without being sanctioned?
3.) Do I still have my right to privacy ect without risking a benefit sanction?
.has the provider been given powers by the secretary of state?
4.) Can i refuse to sign any contract with the (cwp) community work programme? Without the threat of being sanctioned or being sanctioned?
5.) I am aware of universal credit claims that are ‘closed’ as the claimant disputes the mandatory registration with universal jobmatch as a condition of claiming uc. The claims are closed by the work coach due to the ‘day one conditionality’ (also known as sr13 conditionality) which explicitly requires registration with universal jobmatch.
6.) Is it mandatory to sign up with universal job match a as a condition of universal credit?
7.) Will I be sanctioned if I refuse?
IN AUGUST 2016 A FIRST TIER TRIBUNAL JUDGE DETERMINED THAT UNIVERSAL JOBMATCH IS AN UNNECESSARY INTERFERENCE WITH MY ARTICLE 8 RIGHT TO PRIVACY.
Yours faithfully,
MR E FLINT
………………THE DIRTY TRICKS DEPARTMENT OF THE DWP IS WELL VERSED IN BREACHING HUMAN RIGHTS, INDEED THEY ARE STILL REELING FROM BEING TOLD DIRECTLY FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION……………………..
PLEASE EXPLAIN:
1.) WHY DO YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP TO UJ WHEN IT CLEARY STATES IT’S NOT MANDATORY’? IF YOU DON’T YOUR CLAIM WILL BE CLOSED?
2.) WHAT LAW/REGULATION DO YOU HAVE STATES IT MANDATORY? TO SIGN UP TO UJ? WHEN CLAIMING UNIVERSAL CREDIT?
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/u…
Yours faithfully,
MR E FLINT
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/universal_credit_claims_that_are#incoming-924749
PS
THEY BULLY, THREATEN AND CAJOLE, BUT ARE MERE PUSSYCATS WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT.
LORD DAVID FREUD’S PERSONAL STORMTROOPERS
“Your English is rubbish. You will never get a job speaking like that! Have you ever considered an English course?” What the fuck way is that to speak to a benefit claimant!? Who the fuck do these cockroaches think they are!?
“DWP CONFIDENT”
IS THIS SOME FORM OF SICK JOKE?
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST TO DWP ASKING HOW MANY DISABLED JOBS HAVE BEEN CREATED……………..
QUESTION/
1. Given the previous disastrous results of Disability Confident how many disabled people
have these 2.400 firms employed since July 2016?
2. How many have been offered permanent jobs?
3. How will the employment outcomes of Disability Confident be measured and monitored?
DWP RESPONSE
The information you requested is not currently held by the department. We are working to
develop a mechanism that will measure outcomes of the Disability Confident scheme. We will
publish details in due course.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
4750 reply
DWP Strategy FoI Team
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/377019/response/923766/attach/html/2/4750%20reply.pdf.html
Two for one King Edwards – great for roasting and mashing – at Walford Market 🙂
“WHICH COUNTRIES RECEIVE UK OVERSEAS AID – HERE THEY ARE!”
http://www.theweek.co.uk/63394/how-is-the-12bn-foreign-aid-budget-spent
The Tories have plenty of tax-payers money to splash around – everything from Overseas Aid, to £17million for a single Trident missile launch, to HS2, to the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ and £369million for Buck House – and the list goes on and on and on – MEANWHILE – IN TODAY’S BRITAIN, PEOPLE ARE STARVING AND HOMELESS DUE TO ‘AUSTERITY’ BY THIS VERY ‘STATE PARTY’ AS THE UNITED NATIONS CALL THE ‘CONSERVATIVES’!
In a separate article today, it has been reported that Israel’s Tsipi Livni has refused to attend an event in Brussels as the United Nations have ordered her ‘arrest’ whilst being there for ‘war crimes’ committed during the 2008 Gaza War against the Palestinians. She seems to have escaped – for now!
The point here is: although she is now an ex-minister, she is still responsible for her actions and orders whilst she was in Government!
Does any of this sound familiar?
I am of course referring to LORD DAVID FREUD, IAIN DUNCAN SMITH AND CHRIS GRAYLING. All are murderers of defenceless people in their very own ways!
AS USUAL, MILITARILY ‘THE POODLE’ OF THE U.S. – OUR ONLY ‘INDEPENDENT’ NUCLEAR DETERRENT COULD BE TAKEN AWAY AT ANY TIME FROM NOW ON!
“The UK now relies on Trump for our nuclear weapons – we need to spend more than ever before to free ourselves”
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-trident-theresa-may-nuclear-weapons-special-relationship-russia-a7541541.html
“GCHQ CHIEF ROBERT HANNIGAN QUITS – ‘SNOOPERS CHARTER’?”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/23/gchq-chief-robert-hannigan-quits
………..read a copy of Hannigan’s resignation letter on RT News, just as his secretary was typing it.
Hannigan was found to be using a secret surveillance chip in between the cheeks of his arse but it was wiped after he downloaded his intelligence.
“TORY DONOR PREDICTS THERESA MAY WILL HAVE TO QUIT WITHIN TWO YEARS” (Sooner that that I personally would have thought!)
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/23/tory-donor-charlie-mullins-predicts-theresa-may-quit-within-two-years-brexit
“PUTTING THE WILY OLD FOX OUT TO LOOK AFTER THE CHICKENS!”
“The Tories have have just put Thatcher’s closest aide in charge of holding them to account”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/23/tories-just-put-thatchers-closest-aide-charge-holding-account/
………….everything is rosy, yet the only real things increasing are media lies, homelessness, poverty, foodbanks, rough sleeping, dwp mortality rates and the size of Lord David Freud’s bank balance for overseeing the corporate murders……..
The day of reckoning is drawing closer…………………………
“FLORIDA HOLIDAYMAKER FILES LAW SUIT AGAINST SIR MICHAEL FALLON AFTER JITTERY TRIDENT MISSILE KILLS HIS PARROT”
Robert Hannigan’s surprise departure leaves a large hole to fill at GCHQ……………….
Welfare claimants face 12-week waits for new benefit Universal Credit putting them ‘at risk of eviction’
……………PART OF LORD DAVID FREUD’S KILLING SPREE
People who move onto the Tories’ flagship welfare scheme are waiting nearly three months for payments to roll in – putting them at risk of eviction, a town hall boss has said.
The stark warning came tonight from Croydon Council in south London, a key pilot area for the “full digital service” of Universal Credit.
The system rolls six benefits including Jobseeker’s Allowance, Housing Benefit and Child Tax Credit into one payment and is slowly being phased in across the UK after several delays.
But analysts have claimed millions will face overall cuts due to changes in “work allowances” under the new system.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/people-facing-12-week-waits-9679804
Bramley Barry Cashes In With Caravan Clinic
2017-01-23
Open for business
An entrepreneurial Rotherham man has cashed in on the crisis in the health service by setting up a mobile emergency treatment clinic, parked in a lay-by near Rotherham District General Hospital on Moorgate Road.
Barry Ball from Bramley, who it’s rumoured once held a valid First Aid certificate in the 1980’s, is using an old four berth caravan as a makeshift Accident and Emergency facility and is charging patients £15-£25 for a whole range of treatments including wound dressing, bone setting and septic boil lancing.
Waiting times and conditions in A&E have meant that business has been brisk since Barry, who recently updated his skills by binge-watching a whole series of Casualty, set up the service last month.
“It’s going really well” he told us while carefully removing a Hoover accessory from a young mans anus “People would rather come in here than hang around for hours up at the hospital, particularly at night when A&E is full of popped up scrotes looking for a scrap. And parking in the lay-by is free. If it carries on like this, I’m thinking of upgrading and adding an awning for smokers, They haven’t got one of them at the hospital.”
Reported on Channel 4 News at 7PM this evening:
Following a FOI request by someone, it has emerged that, last year the Government launched a £20 million drive to recruit 500 new G.P.’s from the E.U. over a 4 year peiod. A year on and only a small handful of these G.P.’s have been recruited. The private company involved with this operation is a firm called “Primary Care People” who go to the various countries and interview candidates to see if they would be suitable.
Interesting development – especially as Brexit is going to be on the way before too long!
IDS THROWS MORE TOYS OUT OF HIS PRAM!
“And the award for the biggest meltdown over the Brexit ruling goes to …….Iain Duncan Smith”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/24/award-biggest-meltdown-brexit-ruling-goes-iain-duncan-smith/
“IDS – THIS TWAT COULD NOT GET ANYTHING RIGHT – EVEN IF IT WAS DIRECTLY HANDED TO HIM ON A PLATE!”
“Brexit: Iain Duncan Smith makes series of ‘inaccurate’ statements to attack Supreme Court ruling”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-ruling-iain-duncan-smith-supreme-court-comments-inaccurate-a7543366.html
“A Tory MP wants to change the law to ban junior doctors and rail workers from striking” (WHILST ALSO BREAKING INTERNATIONAL LAW!)
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/24/a-tory-mp-wants-to-change-the-law-to-ban-junior-doctors-and-rail-workers-from-striking/
“LUCKILY THOUGH – HE COULD NOT GET IT VOTED THROUGH!”
“Tory MP’s hardline crackdown on striking workers gets defeated at the very first hurdle”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-mps-hardline-crackdown-striking-9684242
A COMPLETE SET OF DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE VIOLATION OF UK CITIZENS HUMAN RIGHTS IS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE
https://en-gb.facebook.com/ATOSM/
I HAVE TRIED TO DOWNLOAD THE FACTS ON TEN OCCASIONS BUT ANY MENTION OF THE ORGANISATION THAT LODGED COMPLAINTS IS BEING BLOCKED.
JUST TYPE IN, ATOS MIRACLES, IN GOOGLE AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS ALL THE DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF LORD DAVID FREUD’S KILLING SPREE AND THE RESPONSE BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION TO THE TORY GOVERNMENT.
We are publishing the complete set of DPAC Submissions and government responses to the UNCRPD Comittee that DPAC used to initiate the inquiry into grave and systematic violations of disabled people’s human rights by the UK government
You can see the chronology of events in the process in this document , which puts the document given below into context of the whole process.
You can also view all of DPACs research documents and some from Reclaiming Our |Futures Alliance (of which DPAC is a part) documents on the Research Page on this site
LORD FREUD’S LEGACY
13,000 pensioners could be forced into care homes against their will
23 January 2017 • 10:00pm
Thousands of pensioners could be forced into care homes against their will under secret NHS cost cutting plans.
More than 13,000 elderly people are expected to be effectively evicted as health authorities refuse to fund care in their own homes.
Charities expressed alarm, describing the new measures as “outrageous.”
“This is extremely worrying. It is horrible to think that an older person who wants to stay at home could now be forced to go into a care home”Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director at Age UK
At least 37 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have drawn up new restrictions governing care for elderly and disabled patients, Freedom of Information disclosures reveal.
ADVERTISING
The responses – from 122 of the country’s 209 CCGs – show that authorities have ruled that they would not pay for help at home if it was cheaper to send pensioners to a care home.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/23/13000-pensioners-could-forced-care-homes-against-will/
Richard Hartley
Richard Hartley In the space of a few generations, we have transitioned from a situation where one person from a household could earn enough to pay off a mortgage and eventually own their own home, to one where two people working flat out can barely make ends meet. Most are caught in the rent trap, paying off some buy-to-let landlord’s mortgage for them without a hope of any long term security of their own. Not satisfied with this, the government (a great many MPs are themselves landlords) and their mates are now relieving old people of the homes they have sweated all their lives to own, not only robbing them but preventing them from leaving anything for their children when they die.
Judy Aman
This is gonna sound harsh, but if this happens, it will be like taking the lovely animals from the green pastures and moving them into the slaughter house. Many of these Pensioners are vulnerable , and if they are made to go into these care homes, they won’t last long. Many care homes are already failing, they can’t live and have any decent years if they are being forced into failing care homes. But I suspect thats the plan. There is a culling going on here, with the most vulnerable people being target. And its all about money.
“DWP HIDES CLAIMANT DEATHS FROM INDEPENDENT WELFARE SCRUTINEER, PROF MALCOLM HARRINGTON”
Mr. Watson 24 January 2017
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Please provide copies of any Emails which mention Professor Malcolm Harrington or the phrase “peer reviews” that were sent from or received by any DWP employee based at Caxton House in 2012.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Watson
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/dwp_hiding_evidence_from_profess_2#incoming-925913
“HOW THE DWP STEAL FROM THE MOST VULNERABLE IN ORDER TO ENRICH THEMSELVES”
BONUS PAYMENTS FOR EXPOSING CLAIMANTS TO STARVATION
Mr. Watson 14 January 2017
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
In 2015 £132 million has been clawed back from sanctions according to the National Audit Office, and £42 million in bonuses have been paid to DWP staff according to a DWP response to a written MPs question.
Please provide the lists of performance indicators which relate to bonuses awarded to DWP staff and state how much was paid for meeting or exceeding each performance indicator.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Watson
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/2015_ps132_million_clawed_back_f#incoming-920889
“PROTECTING LORD DAVID FREUD’S ARSE”
Our reference: FoI 177
Date: 20 January 2017
Dear Mr Watson
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 14 January
2017. You asked:
Please provide copies of any Emails which mention Professor Malcolm
Harrington or the phrase “peer reviews” that were sent from or received by
any DWP address in 2012.
DWP response:
There are around 80,000 staff employed by DWP, all with their own e-mail
address, and so we estimate that the cost of complying with this request
would exceed the appropriate limit of £600.
(ROUGHLY TRANSLATED/ WE ARE ABOVE THE LAW AND DO NOT HAVE TO COMPLY WITH HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION.
THE CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER WILL CONTINUE FOR AS LONG AS WE SEE FIT)
97% of councils in England tell ITV News council tax hikes will have no impact on social care crisis
ANOTHER TORY CON TRICK
More than 90% of councils in England have told ITV News that being allowed to raise council tax has made little or no difference to their ability to provide social care.
Last month the government announced it planned to increase the so-called “social care precept” from 2% to 3%.
But with the crisis surrounding home care deepening, many councils told us its no more than a “sticking plaster”.
A survey by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), commissioned exclusively by ITV News, contacted all 152 councils in England.
They were asked whether permission to increase council tax would make a positive impact on social care in their area. Just 112 responded.
More than a quarter of directors of adult social services said it would make no difference at all and more than two thirds of them said it would make very little difference.
http://www.itv.com/news/2017-01-24/nine-out-of-10-councils-in-england-tell-itv-news-raising-council-tax-has-made-no-difference-to-social-care-crisis/
A FEW RECOMMENDS
mark curtis . ” web of deceit “. book. [ uk foreign policy via declassified info}..masterwork.
naomi klein ” the shock doctrine ” .book[ crisis used as a tool for ill will].
mark curtis ” unpeople “.book”.masterwork.
” 13 ” documentary [ mass ius black incarceration as a new economy
like homeland security was a new economy after the patriot act and 911]
“i. daniel blake”film [ we will smear.you hound you and starve you..}..
bbc storyville ” why we fight”
here are a few highlights imho..
LORD FREUD’S MINI HOLOCAUST
Brother and sister ‘ripped apart’ after 80 years together as council puts them in different care homes
A brother and sister have been “ripped apart” and forced to live separately for the first time in 80 years after social services placed them in different care homes .
June and Jack Johnson, 86 and 84, are too ill to stay independently at their house but a GP has recommended they remain together.
“To hear my mum ask when they are going to be together again is heartbreaking, they rely on each other to keep going.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brother-sister-ripped-apart-after-9687180
2 hours ago
Marg61
Vile Council the same as the government cutting everything at the loss of so many lives . Get them put together they will die if you don’t. of course they don’t care. They moved my my Nan out of the home she had been in for 11 yrs. I said if you move her she will die they did she died. They Don’t care, get rid of the old and sick that’s there money saving motto .
Now when the jobcentre hand down a ‘punishment’ they always append it by saying: “It’s a new thing 😀 Everybody is on it 😀 ” “I am putting you on thrice daily signing 😀 You will have to attend the jobcentre threes times a day 😀 ” “Eh, excuse me!?” “It’s a new thing 😀 Everybody is on it 😀 “
Who can argue with that? That is your ‘objection’ overcome, squashed right there and then. It is not like they are picking on you, singling you out for ‘punishment’ if “everybody is on it” 😉
This is how much the bedroom tax is costing your council
The money was supposed to last a year – but new figures show 84 per cent was spent in the first six months
Councils in the West Midlands are in danger of running out of cash to help poor residents hit by government housing reforms.
Birmingham has spent 35% of its £3.8 million handed out to help deal with housing issues like the “bedroom tax” – meaning more than £1.3 million has been shelled out.
Meanwhile, Dudley council was given an extra £672,883 by ministers last April to help deal with problems caused by the so-called ‘bedroom tax’, the introduction of a benefits cap, and reforms to other housing benefits.
The money was supposed to last a year – but new figures show £564,556, or 84%, was spent in the first six months.
Some £432,800 went on helping people hit by the bedroom tax, which removed extra help with rent for those deemed to have a ‘spare’ bedroom.
Wolverhampton council had spent 47% of its £806,530 allocation by September, while Sandwell had spent 41% of its £1,029,913 and Coventry 41% of its £788,669
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/how-much-bedroom-tax-costing-12437382
INTERESTING QUESTION RELATING TO LORD DAVID FREUD’S CULLING OF THE DISABLED
(The stealing of benefits using a third party to issue faked medical reports by unqualified persons)
barbara sunley 24 January 2017
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,. In the transition from Disability living allowance to Personal independent payment are the medical conditions that qualified a claimant for the award of Disability living allowance and whose medical condition is exactly the same as when Disability living allowance was awarded, taken into account at assessment for personal independence allowance by the decision maker at the department of work and pensions and health assessor When being awarded Disability living allowance .there is a sentence that says this is the amount of money the Government says you need to live on.
Can you explain the table of reasons that negate the loss of Disability living allowance and the decision not to award personal independent payment
Yours faithfully,
barbara sunley
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/dla_to_pip_2#incoming-925695
MORE EVIDENCE OF THE DWP SUBMITTING APPEALS WITHOUT THE CLAIMANTS KNOWLEDGE AND GIVING THEM NO OPPORTUNITY TO SUBMIT FURTHER MEDICAL REPORTS
helen2014 22 January 2017
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I’m requesting under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
My question is about Mandatory Reconsideration under PIP
1. Can a Case Manager by law issue a claimant with a Mandatory Reconsideration Notice without the claimant asking for it? If yes or no give the reasons why?
2. Can you please issue me with all guidance in law with regards to Mandatory Reconsideration.
3. When can a claimant ask for a Mandatory Reconsideration and why?
4. Can a Case Manager change the Descriptors chosen by the Service Provider’s Healthcare Professional which best reflects a claimant’s ability to carry out an activity? If yes please give detailed explanations? If no please give detailed explanation the reasons why.
5. Can a Case Manager ignore the Health Professional’s written medical assessment reports on a claimant and make a decision of their own with regards to a claimant pip medical assessment? If yes or no please give the reasons why?
Thanking you
Yours faithfully,
Marie St-Mart
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mandatory_reconsideration_2#incoming-925732
……………AND DECISION MAKERS ALTERING MEDICAL REPORTS?
WHO WOULD EVER HAVE GUESSED THIS?
If this is so, who is falsifying claiments signatures.
MR has to be a written and signed by the claimant requesting the MR.
This is very disturbing.
……………A BRITISH WARSHIP AND 3 TYPHOON FIGHTERS ARE KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON THE RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER, ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV
WHO IS TAKING THE PISS?
KUZNETSOV
Complement:
1,690 (total); 1,690 ship’s crew[1]
626 air group
40 flag staff
3,857 rooms
Armament:
6 × AK-630 AA guns (6×30 mm, 6,000 round/min/mount, 24,000 rounds)
8 × CADS-N-1 Kashtan CIWS (each 2 × 30 mm Gatling AA plus 32 3K87 Kortik SAM)
12 × P-700 Granit SSM
24 × 8-cell 3K95 Kinzhal SAM VLS (192 missiles; 1 missile per 3 seconds)
RBU-12000 UDAV-1 ASW rocket launchers (60 rockets)
Aircraft carried:
Approx. 41 aircraft[4]
Fixed Wing;
12 × Su-33 fighters (current)
20 × MiG-29K/KUB fighters (future)[5]
4 × Sukhoi Su-25UTG/UBP trainers
Rotary Wing;
4 × Kamov Ka-27LD32 helicopters
18 × Kamov Ka-27PL helicopters
2 × Kamov Ka-27PS helicopters
………….AND REMEMBER OUR SHIPS NEED MAJOR REFITS DUE TO COST CUTTING………..
…………….AND A TRIDENT MISSILE AIMED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION HOPING IT MIGHT HIT THE TARGET…………..
Geoff – you are so very correct in what you say – it would be laughable if it was a ‘serious’ situation – which it is clearly not. The Russian carrier Kuznetsov poses no real threat to us – I am sure of that.
So different to the 1970’s & the 1980’s – if they wanted to the Russians could almost certainly wipe us out. Our Military defences are so seriously depleted that we would HAVE to rely on the good old US of A to help us out.
We have no aircraft carriers in service now, we have only 17 serviceable warships (and as you say, many of these are due for refits soon)
And as for the Typhoons – all are land-based and are fuel limited (for any real long-range missions they would have to be mid-air refuelled by KC-135 tankers – both from the RAF itself or the USAF).
Militarily now – we are shit – if a Falklands situation ever happened again we would be totally fucked. They would not be able to muster together an effective ‘task-force’ as Thatcher managed to do in 1982 and we could certainly not commondeer (under the Naval Control of Shipping) as we did in those long-gone days.
My personal fear now is not ‘Russia’ or ‘Putin’ – it is Trump and his views and what he is going to do to America and it’s people (and through Mother Theresa) what he (and she) intends to do the economy and people of Britain after Brexit occurs (when ‘she’ does some shit trade deal with the U.S. (MOST OF ALL – THE SELLING OF OUR N.H.S TO PRIVATE U.S. COMPANIES WHO DO NOT CARE ABOUT ‘CARE’ – BUT ONLY IN COMPANY PROFITS AND SHAREHOLDER’S POCKETS AND WALLETS)
Just to follow on from that – here is an article that refers!:
“Royal Navy warship tracks Russian aircraft carrier through Channel”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/25/royal-navy-warship-tracks-russian-aircraft-carrier-through-channel
Sorry Paul, you are missing the real culprit here, Putin, Trump, May or whoever else you might add to the list are just fronts for the symptoms of world Capitalism. Since humans first walked the earth they have struggled to overcome the Ego. This part of us makes us selfish, greedy, and ready to trample on anyone to get our way. Darwin called it “survival of the fittest”. Capitalism is built on this foundation. Socialism on the other hand does not have the all the answers, again because of human nature (Ego). This is why Socialism struggles to take hold, because people don’t really care about their Neighbours they only claim they do, and usually only when they become, dispossessed, exploited and poverty struck themselves. Look at the results of socialism in North Korea (The Dear Leader) You see again the Ego at work.
As a Christian, and not a very good one I might add. One truth I learned very quickly is the truth from Luke 16:13 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
That statement from Christ was so true you would have to be totally spiritually blind to dispute it. Notice there is no grey area, you serve one or the other. Look around you and look at human history and it all revolves around gaining wealth and the power that goes with it. Wealth and power mean control. It is in reality an illusion but a very convincing one because we all get sucked in to this system even if we resist, because it’s the only way we can survive. We can make things better only if all humans wake up and have a radical change of heart. I don’t see that happening any time soon, do you?
TruthTeller – Many thanks. Your’s are all very good and valid points and arguments and they cover very many different aspects, but which are all well worth looking at.
You are right about the ‘egos’ in our society nowadays, with so many
people kicking themselves to the top – not least Government politicians and Ministers – a bit of corruption and ‘old boy’s network’ goes a long way also! How many times have we heard tell of the ‘Chief Executive’ of Marks & Spencers being a disaster, being given a fat pay-off and then becoming the CEO of Tesco’s or similar. It’s all shocking, but I, like yourself no not expect anything much to change for a while yet!
Thanks Paul, I don’t wish to come across as preachy, but because I work in the mental health field I have learned much about human behaviour, but not just through my job but because I have always looked deeply and analytically at life and behaviour in general.
One aspect of this is knowing that if I had been politically motivated to gain high office, along that way would be many compromises in order to reach the top. When and if I had reached that peak what was left of my own integrity would not be worth a dime. This is the problem. The wealthy control access to power and they need you to yield integrity on the way or they stop you. They are what you could call Satanic gatekeepers, unless the bribe (compromise) is paid you cannot pass to the next level. You will notice the corruption and how it influences the whole of our so called democracy quite easily. For instance certain Tory and sometimes Labour MPs who did very damaging things to the poor will be offered jobs representing charities of the very people they destroyed with their policies whilst in office. Its a case of ” Though I am evil I will create and image of caring and hide my past” This quid pro quo system works right across politics and businesses. The biggest example of corruption is in the Copyright sector. The gatekeepers in this sector literally own politicians through campaign donations and are now succeeding in destroying and controlling the so called free internet. In the future services like Youtube will be music and film free unless you pay, because once the Copyright lobby has secured it’s take down and stay down laws to replace take down and notice safe harbour laws, user generated content will be over. The vast majority don’t want these laws but they don’t have the clout and cannot afford to own their own MP or Congressman as they do in the USA. Its a case of the Blind leading the Blind. They don’t know where they are heading for but its a disaster for the majority whatever the final destination they had planned. “Money is God and my Wealth makes me untouchable. That’s the evil mantra of the rulers of this system of things!
“This is why Socialism struggles to take hold, because people don’t really care about their Neighbours they only claim they do, and usually only when they become, dispossessed, exploited and poverty struck themselves.” Too fucking right! The middle-class are particularly at this!
(Explanation) Naval Control of Shipping = In time of war (at least many years ago!) the Royal Navy could commondeer and take control of ‘civilian’ ships – this was particularly seen during the ‘Falklands War Task Force’ when cruise ships, such as S.S. ‘Uganda’ and the SS ‘Canberra’ were used as ‘hospital ships’.
All controlled by the NCSO (or the Naval Control of Shipping Officer) – in wartime he would be in the (now combined) underground R.N. Fleet Headquarters at Northwood in Middlesex, (but previously in the 1960’s and 1970’s in Auxiliary units scattered around coastal parts of the U.K.)
(Incidentally, during the Wimbledon Tennis Championships nowadays, many of these staff (during their downtime) can often be seen courtside at Wimbledon and are also often involved in the Security there!)
“AS I WAS SAYING – THIS IS EXACTLY MY FEAR – FROM PMQ’s TODAY!”
“Theresa May refuses to rule out private US firms taking over NHS services”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-us-trade-deal-donald-trump-theresa-may-nhs-privatised-food-standards-beef-chicken-a7545536.html
“A SALUTORY LESSON – AND WE MUST NOT LET THIS SHIT HAPPEN!”
“Actor’s powerful letter about the NHS in full – and why it trumps US healthcare”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/actors-powerful-letter-nhs-full-9692696
“BREAKING: “Catastrophe just hit the NHS, and it marks the end of our treasured service” (Charging for Doctor’s appointments/out of hrs services)
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/25/breaking-catastrophe-just-hit-nhs-marks-end-treasured-service/
“AND THERE’S MORE!”
“Jeremy Hunt has been caught getting the NHS to spy on patients for the government”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/25/jeremy-hunt-caught-getting-nhs-spy-patients-government/
“BUT, AT LEAST THERE IS DENNIS SKINNER TO SAY EXACTLY THE WAY THAT IT IS!”
“This 84-year-old-MP just destroyed both Trump and may in 30 seconds of pure fire (VIDEO)”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/25/84-year-old-mp-just-destroyed-may-trump-30-seconds-pure-fire-video/
ARE THERE ANY ‘WHISTLEBLOWERS’ OUT THERE IN INTERNETLAND!
IS YOUR CONSCIENCE BUGGING YOU AT ALL OVER THE ABJECT CRUELTY BEING DISHED OUT TO YOUR ‘CUSTOMERS’ OR EVEN TO YOUR POOR SELVES, HAVING TO PROVIDE ‘TARGETS’ OR YOU GET A LOAD OF SHIT FROM YOUR ‘SUPERIORS’ UP THE LINE? – WE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT ALL OF YOUR EXPERIENCES!
THE DWP AND PRIVATE PROVIDERS SUCH AS ‘ATOS’, ‘MAXIMUS’ AND ‘CAPITA’ OR ANY OF THEIR ‘HCP’s.
ALL OF YOU ARE WELCOME TO SPILL THE BEANS (SECURELY) TO THE GUARDIAN – HERE IS THE LINK:
http://www.theguardian.com/help/2016/sep/19/how-to-contact-the-guardian-securely
“IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIVES, PROTECT THE NHS”
………Just been doing a bit of research on the American alternative to health provision after watching the Keiser Report.
Obamacare was mentioned and a staggering fee of over $1800 per month.
The private health insurance industry are poised to strike here if you sit back and do nothing
.
Many years ago i was on holiday in the US and witnessed a car crash in which two vehicles met head on at traffic signals.
There was much blood and one party were taken too hospital, the other party hobbled away, blood soaked towels donated by locals wrapped around their heads………………
I was informed by a passer by that they had no medical insurance.
If you honestly think that you have an existing medical problem and will be able to protect yourself with private medical insurance, think again…………
Insurance companies steer clear of any risks that will force them to pay out, steering clear of coverage for areas with habitual flooding problems.
You are no different, bad risk, no cover.
This paragraph probably sums up the private health insurance very well;
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Basically, too many sick people are signing up, and too few healthy people are doing so. This causes prices to surge, and that causes fewer healthy people to sign up. The death spiral continues until the insurance program collapse completely. The 20.3 percent price increase for 2016 is probably the cause of the current round of the Obamacare death spiral.
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Embrace the NHS with both hands. You are party to the jewel in the crown that shithouses like LORD DAVID FREUD are willing to sacrifice your lives for.
……………another interesting fact is that the USA pays twice as much as the UK in health provision yet only a minority receive it.
Whereas, in the UK, everybody is covered…………….
It doesn’t take a genius to realise why the private health insurance industry is desperate to get it’s grubby little mitts on the NHS coffers.
BARON FREUD is just one of a select administration hell bent on transfering the value of your life to the lobbyists that pull his strings.
With over 200 members of the snob chamber of the House of Lords having ties and investments in the private health insurance industry, your sacrifice to the greed of the few will be a rocky road.
They have all, a conflict of interest that should negate any vote taken on the NHS…………….but the whole UK system is corrupt from top to bottom.
“LORD DAVID FREUD”
In 2012, he outlined some of his thoughts on welfare reform in an interview by saying: “People who are poorer should be prepared to take the biggest risks, they’ve got least to lose.
……………….AND FREUD WAS RIGHT, THE VALUE OF A POOR PERSONS LIFE IS NOT CONSIDERED TO BE OF THE SAME VALUE OF THAT OF A RICH PERSON.
FREUD’S ERADICATION PROGRAMME STARTED WHEN HE ADDED HIS SIGNATURE TO THE WELFARE REFORM ACTS AFTER BEING ADVISED THAT THEIR WOULD BE CASUALTIES………………
FREUD IGNORED THE WARNINGS, NOT WANTING TO UPSET HIS BACKERS.
THE REST IS HISTORY……………………………..
THE WELFARE MORTALITY HEADCOUNT INCREASES DAY UPON DAY, THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION NOW COMPLICIT IN THE WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF THE UK’s MOST VULNERABLE.
“Ken Loach and John McDonnell come together to slam the Tories ‘brutal’ welfare regime (VIDEO)”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/26/ken-loach-john-mcdonnell-together-slam-tories-brutal-welfare-regime-video/
“The attitude of opposition MPs to human rights abuses shows how broken politics is (OPINION)”
(PLEASE READ THIS ONE!) It concerns a meeting at Parliament on Tuesday 24th January involving campaigners, journalists, MP’s and a Baroness with regard to the ‘Welfare Reforms’, the UN Report ‘grave’ and ‘systematic’ violations of sick and disabled people’s human rights etc.
THE POLITICIANS URGENTLY NEED TO WAKE UP, TAKE PROPER NOTICE, STOP PLAYING ‘PARTY POLITICS’ AND TAKE ACTION.
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/26/attitude-opposition-mps-human-rights-abuses-shows-broken-politics-opinion/
“HOSPITAL TRANSPORT – A CONTINUING GOVERNMENT SHAMBLES”
“While everyone was distracted by Trump, the UK Government put an NHS contract worth £515m up for sale”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/26/everyone-distracted-trump-uk-government-put-nhs-contract-worth-515m-sale/
“CAMERON NOW FIGUREHEAD AT TOP OF ‘ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH UK” (No – I am not making this up!)
“David Cameron helped destroy the health service, but now he is getting rewarded for it”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/26/david-cameron-helped-destroy-health-service-now-hes-getting-rewarded/
“Plan to close scores of Jobcentres across Britain announced – is your’s affected?”
“The DWP wants to merge staff and facilities from 78 smaller Jobcentre Plus offices into larger ones – leaving “1 in 10″ buildings at risk”
(Full list of proposed closures can be found further down the page!)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/plan-close-scores-jobcentres-across-9698561
“SOMEONE FORGOT TO TELL THE TORIES ABOUT ‘HUMAN RIGHTS!”
“Appeal against changes to UK’s international law obligations granted”
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jan/26/court-of-appeal-ministerial-code-changes-uk-international-law-obligations
“A DAME CAROL BLACK / LORD DAVID FREUD, JOINT VENTURE”
Research found that the DWP fit-to-work tests for sick and disabled people have coincided with 590 “additional” suicides, 279,000 cases of mental illness, and 725,000 more prescriptions for antidepressants. And research by the mental health charity ReThink found that a staggering 21% of GPs have patients who had experienced suicidal thoughts due to the stress of these tests. And nearly 90 people a month die, after the DWP declares them fit for work.
BOTH APTLY REWARDED WITH KNIGHTHOODS FOR A CONSPIRACT TO MURDER THE POOR AND INFIRM”
Surely not the devious scumsucking Carol Black who spent a large swathe of her life addressing seminars organised by the private health insurance industry and funded by the likes of AXA and BUPA.
Dame Carol, the inside operator that put forward paper after paper on welfare reform that had nothing at all to do with reform, just a blueprint for murder.
Black initiated the idea of the fit note which replaced the sick note, the intervention that the insurance industry gave her repeated applause at her speeches to them.
…………………………………………………………..
Association of British Insurers in partnership with UNUM and AXA PPP Healthcare.
BUILDING A RESILIENT WORKFORCE
Dialogue panel includes;
Dame Carol Black
James McGarry CEO UNUM
Bill Gunnyeon CBE (DWP)
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Health and Wellbeing at Work Conference
5-6 march 2013
Venue; NEC Birmingham
Speakers include;
Dame Carol Black
Bill Gunnyeon CBE
Professor Sir Mansel Aylward
SUPPORTED BY ATOS HEALTHCARE
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Dame Carol Black
Chief medical adviser warns that funding requests will be challenged
A tax break for companies that fund interventions to get absent employees back to work will be considered by the Government, but much work needs to be done to analyse its implications.
This was the message from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to insurers, healthcare professionals and employer representatives at the Association of British Insurers this morning.
“Any conference I have been to, it [removing tax disincentives to fund healthcare] is one of the things that employers have consistently raised and I understand that,” said Dr Bill Gunnyeon, chief medical adviser at the DWP. “But I’m not making any promises.”
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Simon Burns (Minister of State (Health), Health; Chelmsford, Conservative)
We are not aware of any meetings between officials and UNUM. However, Dame Carol Black, expert adviser on health and work to the Department, met them on three occasions in January 2012 to discuss the positive relationship between work and health.
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Commenting, Professor Michael O’Donnell, Chief Medical Officer at Unum said:
“Dame Carol Black’s ‘fit note’ will be a major step forward in addressing attitudes towards sickness and the sooner we can introduce it, the better. Changing the mindset and therefore attitudes is the critical first step in bringing about a real and effective change in approach by all parties.
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…………….DAME CAROL BLACK, THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY KEY PLAYER, THE ARCHITECT OF DISABILITY DEATHS,,,,
“THE HMRC, BRITAIN’S ANSWER TO THE KEYSTONE COPS”
……….GIVE THEM A UNIFORM AND POINT THEM IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.
AN ORGANISATION THAT BRAGS THAT IT NEVER LEAVES ANY STONE UNTURNED, YET HAS BEEN FURNISHED WITH DISCS FULL OF TAX CHEATS ASSETS IN THE BAHAMAS, PANAMA, THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS, BERMUDA, THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, ETC, ETC…………..
AN INVENTION OF THE RICH TO POLICE THE MINIONS WHILST ADVISING THE BEST LOOPHOLES TO AVOID SCRUTINY………….
…………..AND IF THEY LOOK IN THE WRONG PLACE, A PHONE CALL TELLING THEM TO SIDESTEP THE ISSUE……….
“DON’T WANT TO BRING LORD RUPERT INTO DISREPUTE, DO WE?”
ALL THOSE TAX HAVENS, SMALL OFFICES REGISTERED ON FOREIGN SOILS, CONTAINING THOUSANDS OF NAMES……
THE BLAIRMORE HOLDINGS OF THE BIG BOYS THAT HAVE THE HMRC ON A TIGHT LEAD.
KEEP ON RUNNING AND PICKING UP THE CRUMBS, AFRAID TO STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE.
…………..and all the crap at points of entry into shithole UK……
“ARE THESE YOUR BAGS SIR?”
“DO YOU REALISE YOU ARE COMMITTING AN OFFENCE ”
“PLEASE READ THIS CARD, YOU MAY HAVE MORE THAN OUR SOVEREIGN LADY WANTS YOU TO HAVE”
………what a crock of shit, worrying about coming back onto our shores for the treasonable offence of having something that is normally afforded to the hooray henry’s of this world.
Bonded warehouses full of contraband that will be sold abroad cheaper than to our own people.
Whats all that about?
We create goods on our shores to be sold cheaper to those in fucking Timbuktoo…………………and that’s even after the cost of transportation!
Yes the HMRC are but the rich mans tool to make sure you do not enjoy the lifestyle of those that treat us like plebs.
………….incidentally, i noticed that some ex leader of an African country had fucked off with around £11 million and a host of top notch vehicles.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up here, they welcomed Shinwatra from Thailand when he was hounded out by his people. They even sat by and watched him purchase a football club……………..
Crooks are welcomed here but your extra packet of Golden Virginia is
an affront to Crown.
The same Crown that fucks you over at every turn and squats free in a palace funded by taxpayers that would make a few thousand homeless happy………
Geoff – Ghana’s ex-president has indeed fucked off into exile.
This bastard – (seemingly an embezzler) has cleared off with millions of his own countries currency and also, hated by his own people (and even his own armed services said that in no way would they fight for him!) they are glad to see the back of him. (Perhaps being replaced by even another embezzler President?)
I WONDER HOW MANY MILLIONS OF U.K. OVERSEAS AID HAS BEEN PAID AND THEN SIPHONED OFF BY HIM BEFORE GOING INTO EXILE!
Leading on from that! I do not normally quote from the Daily Express –
but here goes now:
“Foreign aid farce! Britain gives BILLIONS to African Countries planning space missions” (PLEASE LOOK FURTHER DOWN PAGE FOR GHANA!)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/661740/foreign-aid-billions-africa-nigeria-space-mission
Man with biggest penis in world registered DISABLED as HALF METRE member needs OWN PILLOW. DWP say that after “lengthy consideration” they are “satisfied” he has met the conditions for disability benefit”
It’s no bloody wonder this country is going to the dogs when a big sausage is all you need to claim disablity!
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/756719/World-s-biggest-penis-half-metre-Roberto-Cabrera-disabled-pillow
Geoff – Here is an article that tells it really as it is!
BUT, THE GOVERNMENT IS, (CONVENIENTLY) BLIND TO ALL OF THIS!
“THE TAXMAN COMETH, FOR EVERYONE EXCEPT THE TAX-EVADERS!”
“UK’s super rich appear to get special deal from HMRC, says watchdog”
“commons public accounts committee says failure to crack down on wealthy tax dodgers undermines confidence in system”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/27/uks-super-rich-appear-to-get-special-deal-from-hmrc-says-watchdog
“AN INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED BY DISABILITY NEWS SERVICE”
“DWP – approved assessors are accused of lying to stop disabled people from getting the support that they need”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/27/dwp-approved-assessors-accused-lying-stop-disabled-people-getting-support-need/
“EACH AND EVERY DISABLED PERSON WOULD AGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT PAUL”
The evidence compiled during the investigation suggests a far-reaching, institutional problem that stretches across DWP and the two private sector contractors – Atos Healthcare and Capita – that assess eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP) on its behalf.
The alleged dishonesty includes assessors: refusing to accept further written evidence from medical experts; wrongly claiming that detailed physical examinations had been carried out during the assessment; refusing to list all of a claimant’s medications; ignoring or misreporting key information told to them during the assessment; and reporting that a claimant had refused to co-operate with a physical examination, when they were unable to complete it because of their impairment.
…………….EXCEPT FOR THOSE ALREADY MURDERED BY CUNT’S LIKE DAVID FREUD, BILL GUNNYEON AND CAROL BLACK…………
Sorry, that should read:
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/27/remember-350m-nhs-well-looks-like-us-health-giants-will/
“TAX DODGERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! – JUST LOOK AT RICHARD BRANSON – HE IS GLEEFULLY LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO HIS BANK!”
“It’s official : the Tories are so ‘cosy’ with the super-rich, they may as well write their own tax bills!”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/27/official-tories-cosy-super-rich-may-well-write-tax-bills/
…………SENT 28 MEDICAL REPORTS FROM VARIOUS PEOPLE TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.
EACH ONE STATED THAT WHEN THE CLAIMANT WAS ASKED TO PERFORM A MOVEMENT, “CLIENT DECLINED”
THIS WAS WRITTEN BECAUSE THE DISABLED CLAIMANT COULD NOT DO WHAT WAS ASKED OF THEM DUE TO THEIR DISABILITIES.
THE DWP DECISION MAKERS THEN READ THIS AND CLAIM THAT YOU REFUSED TO COOPERATE, AS DO THE JUDICIARY.
A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST WAS SENT TO THE DWP ASKING WHY “CLIENT DECLINED WAS WRITTEN ON THE MEDICAL REPORTS EVEN THOUGH THE CLAIMANTS COULD NOT DO WHAT WAS ASKED OF THEM.
THEY BLAMED THE COMPUTER SOFTWARE SAYING THAT IT COULD NOT DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN, “WILL NOT AND CANNOT”
………………THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF TRULY DISABLED PEOPLE HAVE HAD BONAFIDE CLAIMS STOLEN.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/meaning_of_the_word_declined_whe
Anita Bellows left an annotation (15 February 2013)
So somebody who cannot perform a movement will be shown as “declined” to do the movement and the computer does not differentiate between “will not” and “cannot”, which will then inform the DM’s decision . That is a very big flaw
Unfortunately it is not possible to provide a specific answer as to the length of training completed
by a Healthcare Professional (HCP) as the length of training depends on a number of factors
including the employment status of the individual and also on the benefit type of work the HCP
has been employed to undertake.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
DWP Central FoI Team
……………………THE LISTS OF DEAD CLAIMANT’S WOULD VERIFY THE AFOREMENTIONED STATEMENT……………
“THE DWP’S FAKED MEDICAL REPORTS”
…………..MORE AND MORE EVIDENCE EMERGES ABOUT THE ATOS/CAPITA/MAXIMUS/DWP SCAM THAT HAS SEEN THOUSANDS DIE
Healthcare professionals who carry out face-to-face assessments of benefit claimants have lied, ignored written evidence and dishonestly reported the results of physical examinations, according to a two-month Disability News Service (DNS) investigation.
The investigation has compiled evidence from more than 20 disabled people who have contacted DNS over the last year or have commented on previous DNS news stories to claim that their assessors – usually qualified nurses – lied repeatedly in reports they produced for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The evidence compiled during the investigation suggests a far-reaching, institutional problem that stretches across DWP and the two private sector contractors – Atos Healthcare and Capita – that assess eligibility for personal independence payment (PIP) on its behalf.
The alleged dishonesty includes assessors: refusing to accept further written evidence from medical experts; wrongly claiming that detailed physical examinations had been carried out during the assessment; refusing to list all of a claimant’s medications; ignoring or misreporting key information told to them during the assessment; and reporting that a claimant had refused to co-operate with a physical examination, when they were unable to complete it because of their impairment.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-investigation-assessment-reports-show-widespread-dishonesty-by-nurses/
“EXPOSING THE DWP CROOKS”
SGT Clubba • 7 hours ago
If you’re a victim of a false assessment report then please make a formal complaint to the DWP and involve your MP.
We cannot allow this systemic “fraud by misrepresentation” to continue no matter who it’s perpetrated by.
They don’t care if you lose your benefits, your home or your life when making those fraudulent reports so why should you care if they get struck off?
I have been assessed by both companies over a few years and have recently been unsuccessful at getting any help and a fair outcome. Atos assessor was a Romanian woman who could hardly speak English and firstly how is this in my favour if she can’t write what I’m trying to explain about my life with the condition.
Capita some years later was even harder as the assessor expected me to do things that most people I know who are my age can’t do. I’ve always been fit and healthy and flexible thanks to my life in the outdoor activities world but over the years with M.S it gets harder. A lot of the things I was expected to do I did but it’s all relative isn’t it as I still can do things my mates cant do but they don’t live with a disability that effect’s then differently and in multiple ways.
These assessment are often with people who are supposed to know but often don’t. I have a known disability I’m not faking it. After that they must be leaned on to whittle the numbers down and then pressured and munipulated and get the numbers down further. It is costing this country more money in paying these outside companis than paying for the benefit.
Once I got working tax credits and with that a disability element. Next time I couldn’t get PIP so didn’t get the disabled element yet I still live with a disability with is degenerative. It just doesn’t figure does it.
Michael
I have came across a large amount of cases where Atos, neither DWP department did not complied what their own rules and regulations. Therefore these people still sits there in DWP and making decisions about benefits, money = living, so about the future for people. Oh hey them idiots to be blame who is leaving them at the job posts.
Best time was when member of staff in sheffield’stood JC+ didn’t even know how to spell academy. UK wake up, about the time for some radical changes.
Nic
There has got to be some sort of legal definition of fraud that this fits into. Or slander/libel. These people need prosecuting somehow!
wizzard
All assessors have sold their souls
Huw John
No it would a only be fraud if one of these claimants had been found to have lied. For instance if the person with a prosthetic foot had in actual fact hidden her real foot at home and sewed it back on, she would no doubt be charged with fraud. However to simply save the government money and at the same time make money by way of bonuses for yourself and the company you work for by telling down right and obvious lies . Then that’s ok. Yes its a funny old world we live in.
Kirsty
I had my assessment and i was only given mobility rate the assessor lied in my report and never wrote every thing that was said or done, she wrote she did and full assessment on my when she never did.also she never took any notice of the fact i cannot use my left arm due having a fistula in it because i have haemodialysis as i have kidney failure. I cannot stand for long to cook food for myself and my kids so my adult son does it, this was all in my DLA claim but PIP would not entertain this at all. I did initially phone DWP and ask for a reconsideration but the woman on the phone was not very nice to me. I was going to appeal the decision but i have not been well and couldn’t face waiting for a tribunal to happen. I wish i did now as i’m getting half the money i was getting on DLA and its a struggle for me.
Edwina Evans
I had assessment at beginingbof December and received letter on 30th saying that I had scored 0 points on everything. Was being moved from higher mobility and lower car DLA to PIP. There are so many lies, no physical examination was carried out but she said I had done everything. I wear hearing aids and these,were not mentioned. I walk with 2 sticks .I requested copy of assessors,report on 30/12 from DWP 4 phone calls later I am still waiting. It’s disgusting.
Alison Mcgill
I agree that something needs to be done about these assessments my husband who has to walk with the aides of two walking sticks and can not even walk the 20 meters distance they say he can as he has aides lost his mobility part of the award and his consultant can not beleive that they can say he can do this. when we received a copy of the assessment they had put down that he was seen walking more than 20metres which was incorrect as the office was not even 10 metres away. We are in the process of appealing against this but it takes time we have the support of his consultant.
Elaine Mcwhirter
I had my pip stopped after assessment in December, it said I had no issues walking (I have a walking stick) normal pace and gait, did not appear breathless. It was 9am I’d had my medication and inhaler. She said I had normal range of movement..I had refused to move my head up and down because I get dizzy (PPPD) and I couldn’t grip. Just lots of lies and disregard for my situation.
Jonathan Hume
Like countless others, I just had my 9th WCA in 6 years (which was triggered early after I wrote this: https://www.theguardian.com/so… – coincidence I’m sure.. but they aren’t helping by refusing my Data Protection Act requests to explain why it was triggered early and whether it had anything to do with my article 😉 )
The report I got back was full of barefaced lies. Even simple things, despite it being recorded. “He takes no medication for anxiety or consciousness” despite the fact it’s recorded on take that I handed her a copy of my prescription for citalopram and modafinil. That’s not the only lie or even the most important one, but it’s so hilariously egregious and easy to prove they lied.
Anyone who thinks they aren’t lying routinely and as a matter of course is either happy for us to suffer to save them a few quid on their tax, or.. hilariously naive.
jeff walker
I went to an assesment with my carer…It was meant to be a review as I was already getting p.i.p but welfare rights decided as my health had gone into decline I may get the higher rate..We answered all the questions but before we had finished,the “so called dr” had already started typing into her computer..we might as well not have been there..She paid no attention to our answers,asked me when I was last x-rayed for arthritis????? called me fat and said my carer did not have the correct qualifications to be a carer?? I now have no carer,no p.i.p,my esa has been reduced and am trapped in my house,in bed with a bucket next to me..this is due to the so called atos dr`s lies
Bill Kruse
Unum!
Donna Phillips
My assessment was recorded with full knowledge of the assessor and Capita and still he lied throughout the report. I have complained to Capita and it is at stage two of their investigations. I had a call off them the other day to say they have been unable to find a recording of the assessment as the assessor did not pass it on. I have copies and said I will send you one no problem at all the reply was if we need it will we ask at a later date. The whole system is corrupt and not fit for purpose, the DWP are fully aware of the lies that are told in the reports they give their full support to Capita, Atos etc
Old X Bones Donna Phillips
It is very important that you send everything by recorded delivery. It is a bit more expensive, but here are the advantages. (1) You can prove you sent it – they issue you with a senders slip with a post-office name, and date. (2) The recipient must sign for it, in order to receive it. (3) When it has been signed for, should the item be lost, it is obvious that it was lost by the recipient. PIP is a legal process and must be entered into your file. In a addition, always retain your own copies – I wish you the best with your application.
Philly
My assessment was awful. They were constantly bullying and belittling me. I have non epileptic seizures, somedays I have none, show days I have 50, they are linked with anxiety so if I control and manage my anxiety disorders the seizures disorders down.
I’m abjectly terrified of having a seizure whilst holding a sharp knife or a pan of hot water.. Especially when I have seizures my hands tense and lock. But this was not deemed a good enough reason not to cook. Even I fact I can’t remain standing for long with out vertigo, pain and fatigue and fine motor control is shot from dyspraxia.
In the assessment I’d recently moved from gastritis to Gerd. I hadn’t eaten in days, I’d managed a few apple sliced. They badgered me in very, very condescending tones ‘can’t you even make a sandwich?!’ which I said maybe but I can’t eat it, it would result in projectile vomiting and sheer agony for hours.
There was a lot more but the sandwiches thing still annoys me. The physical, I said because I’d been in the wheelchair for over an hour, I cannot stand up. My lower spine seizes if I’m in the wheelchair for too long and I have to be laid down over the course of hours to move again. I said I can try anything that doesn’t require standing. I was marked as refusing to do any physical for no reason…
Then there was the drama peice after my assessment. A staff member with a bone condition trotted in the only door, trapping my on a floor with no dialed toilet and no access to the lifts. They called an ambulance. Over an hour of waiting. I was close to breaking down in tears! My back was being so much, I cannot be out for that long which I told them in the interview.
The assessor was constantly asking me to get up and walk past him, or down the stairs, every 5/10 minutes. Even when I was visibly crying in pain.
My complaint was thrown out because the person asking me wouldn’t possibly know about my discontinue. You’d think the wheelchair would have been a sign… But title was literally my assessor. After am not a staff member was like oh I’m an emt. They moved the guy and I could leave finally.
I got a 0 for mobility. Luckily the stressful humiliating, terrifying tribunal rectified that!
Helen Jones
My daughter had hers stopped cause the assessor hasn’t put anything in the report that my daughter said it’s all lies we got a copy of the report to see what was said in it x
Philly
Yeah, reading their reports makes you wonder if you were actually there for the assessment because none of it makes aaaaany sense?
…………………KEEP UP THE MURDERS LORD FREUD
Benefits cut off, though doctor certifies Chris Jones can’t work “I think they’re trying to kill me”
“SORRY TO HEAR THIS DENISE”
From Denise:
My husband Richard Smith aged 46 died 31/07/2016, 5 months after an ATOS Assessor lied on PIP report.His money was cut by over £87 per week.
He suffered from crohns disease with complications, He could no longer afford his IBD supplement which was refused by his GP due to cost and which he used his disability money to purchase, This is a special liquid diet which cost £21 per tin. He needed 2 tins a day which he required 4/5 days a week as he could not eat solid food.
His full benefit was eventually reinstated by DWP who changed their minds the week before he died.They did this days before a tribunal appeal. To late for my husband.
I am still trying to get answers from dwp if they followed procedure during the whole PIP process. As is usual with them they are not answering my questions but choose instead to blame Atos even though they were made aware of the lies in the assessors report.
But “sorry” isn’t good enough GEOFF.
This is fucking outrageous! This MURDERING bastard ATOS ‘assessor’ and these colluding DWP bastards need to be tracked down and put behind bars. This is MURDER, pure and simple, and should be treated as such with the same criminal sanctions imposed.
UK citizens are being thrown in the slammer for years for posting on Facebook and Twitter yet these MURDERING ATOS and DWP scum are free to roam the streets and KILL again!
Just what sort of fucking CUNT-ry is this?
PIP INVESTIGATION: Politicians call for action over ‘widespread dishonesty by assessors’
………….TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE, THE DEATHS ARE BECOMING MOR COMMONPLACE
Labour, the Green party and the Liberal Democrats have called for the government to act on claims of widespread dishonesty by the medical professionals paid to compile benefits assessment reports, following a two-month investigation by Disability News Service (DNS).
The three parties spoke out after DNS shared the findings of the investigation with key opposition figures.
DNS has examined more than 20 cases in which claimants of personal independence payment (PIP) – which is replacing working-age disability living allowance – have described how the healthcare professionals who carried out their face-to-face assessments subsequently produced dishonest reports.
The dishonesty includes assessors refusing to accept further written evidence from medical experts; wrongly claiming that detailed physical examinations had been carried out during the assessment; refusing to list all of a claimant’s medications; ignoring or misreporting key evidence told to them in the assessment; and reporting that a claimant had refused to co-operate with a physical examination, when they were instead unable to complete it because of their impairment.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-investigation-politicians-call-for-action-over-widespread-dishonesty-by-assessors/
LORD DAVID FREUD’S SIGNALLED THE DEATH KNELL OF THOUSANDS…
What’s this news with the Scotch government and their ‘voluntary’ work programmes? Who in their right mind would be piss on a work programme if it was on fire. It will be EXACTLY the same bastards running the Scotch ‘voluntary’ work programmes that ran the MANDATORY Scotch work programmes. The same bastard Ingeus, Working Links , Learn Direct SCUM who caused and are still causing such hardship, misery and distress. Why would anyone, through their own volition give these cunts the business? Fuck them to HELL!
Hate to nit-pick but Scotch is a drink, FFS! You mean Scottish!
“DWP USES DIRTY TRICKS TO TRY AND INFLUENCE SCOTS SHOULD BREXIT ENSUE”
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZVwBJdxjj0kz0QHRNutNppYPoGOXvyH-DgF0YamSycmo3DKCSND49pGJwN0nWStmaDolD111EHhHDV3uC8zwk6wMkrx47hHetQunRx1mFI9w4ZehzP4upyqEpUW9nQUW=s1600
DWP letter issued regarding pensions in an independent Scotland
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/dwp_letter_issued_regarding_pens#incoming-927943
“DWP CONTINUE TO TRIGGER MANDATORY RECONSIDERATIONS WITHOUT THE CLAIMANTS KNOWLEDGE”
…………Denying the right to submit further medical evidence
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mandatory_reconsideration_2#incoming-925732
“DWP GO QUIET WHEN QUESTIONED ABOUT LIES GIVEN TO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION”
Ellen Clifford 23 December 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
The government’s response to the UN inquiry into the UK which found that disabled people’s Human rights were being gravely and systematically violated states that “less than 1% of ESA recipients have been sanctioned, with more than 99% complying with the reasonable requirements linked to receiving benefit. The introduction of sanctions for people receiving ESA brought this benefit into line with JSA and Universal Credit, but safeguards to protect vulnerable recipients continued”
1. What are these safeguards and how is their implementation measured?
2) what guidance has been issued to decision makers about the safeguards?
Yours faithfully,
Ellen Clifford
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/sanction_safeguards#outgoing-617850
“DWP ENFORCE ILLEGAL CONTRACTS BY THREATENING TO REMOVE BENEFITS”
IMPLIED THREATS, COERCION AND THREATS OF STARVATION ALL ILLEGAL UNDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT
Universal Credit claims that are ‘closed’ as the claimant disputes the mandatory registration with Universal Jobmatch
MR E FLINT 6 December 2016
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I have been mandated (forced on the threat of sanctions) to community work placements & have been assigned a provider.
1.) Will i be sanctioned if I do not sign the contract the provider expects me to sign?
.wouldn’t such contract be void if signed under threat of such sanction (duress)?
2.) Will I be sanctioned if I do not sign my signature when entering the building for an appointment? Is it mandatory? Can I reject it without being sanctioned?
3.) Do I still have my right to privacy ect without risking a benefit sanction?
.has the provider been given powers by the secretary of state?
4.) Can i refuse to sign any contract with the (cwp) community work programme? Without the threat of being sanctioned or being sanctioned?
5.) I am aware of universal credit claims that are ‘closed’ as the claimant disputes the mandatory registration with universal jobmatch as a condition of claiming uc. The claims are closed by the work coach due to the ‘day one conditionality’ (also known as sr13 conditionality) which explicitly requires registration with universal jobmatch.
6.) Is it mandatory to sign up with universal job match a as a condition of universal credit?
7.) Will I be sanctioned if I refuse?
IN AUGUST 2016 A FIRST TIER TRIBUNAL JUDGE DETERMINED THAT UNIVERSAL JOBMATCH IS AN UNNECESSARY INTERFERENCE WITH MY ARTICLE 8 RIGHT TO PRIVACY.
Yours faithfully,
MR E FLINT
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/universal_credit_claims_that_are#incoming-924749
THE DWP DISAPPEAR UP THEIR OWN ARSEHOLES WHEN QUESTIONED ABOUT ALTERNATIVE BENEFITS THAT NEVER EXISTED”
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
In answer to a previous FOI request regarding claimants found fit-for-work at an ESA WCA and requesting a Mandatory Reconsideration who are unable to qualify for JSA, due to illness, you responded (in a roundabout fashion) that claimants may instead claim Income Support during the MR period.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p…
However in answer to a subsequent FOI request regarding claiming Income Support your answer at Annex2 clearly states that Income Support can only be claimed on the grounds of incapacity for work if the claimant is already in receipt of Incapacity Benefit or Severe Disablement Benefit.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/w…
Obviously these 2 FOI responses contradict each other in cases where the ESA claimant making the MR request is NOT receiving IB or SDA.
The 2 answers taken together imply that there are still circumstances where a claimant undergoing an ESA MR, who cannot make a Jobseekers Commitment due to ill health is unable to claim any alternative benefit.
Please supply any information that will clarify your seemingly contradictory answers.
Yours faithfully,
S. Gwilliam
………………………………………………………………..
TELLING LIES COMES EASY TO THE DWP.
NO ALTERNATIVE BENEFITS EVER EXISTED OTHER THAN JSA
THOUSANDS OF DISABLED WERE FORCED TO LIE ABOUT THEIR HEALTH IN ORDER TO SURVIVE
THE CLAIMANT DEATH TOLL IS LORD DAVID FREUD’S LEGACY
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/alternative_benefits_during_esa#incoming-926851
28 January 2017
“BRITAINS CANCER SUFFERERS MISSING OUT”
…………..WHY DON’T OUR GOVERNMENT SAY FUCK OFF TO THE GREEDY, HORRIBLE BASTARDS, THE PHARMACEUTICAL BLACKMAILERS AND FOLLOW INDIA BY PRODUCING GENERIC COPY DRUGS?
Cancer sufferers in Britain are losing out on access to drugs, amid price hikes of more than 1,000 per cent for life-saving medication, scientists have warned.
New research shows watchdogs in France and Germany are far more likely than those in the UK to approve new treatments, with soaring drug prices in Britain putting health budgets under mounting strain.
A study led by the University of Liverpool examined the prices charged by drugs companies for some of the most common cancer treatments.
Twenty were found to have risen by more than 100 per cent in the last five years, with rises of more than 1,000 per cent for some of the most crucial treatments.
An NHS waiting room
The spending on specialist treatment centres may threaten the funding for GP services Credit: Alamy
In many cases, drugs which cost pounds in Britain were available for just pennies in India, where many of them were made, the study found.
Tamoxifen – one of the most common treatments for breast cancer – saw its price rise from 10 pence per tablet to £1.21 – a rise of 1,100 per cent. The drug costs just 2 pence per pill in India.
“The budgets are struggling, the NHS is not recommending some treatments just because the price is too big”Dr Andrew Hill, University of Liverpool
Busulfan, used to treat leukaemia, rose from 21 pence per pill to £2.61 – a 1,142 per cent rise.
In India, it sells for 3 pence.
………………INDIA PUT IT’S PEOPLE FIRST
“TAKING THE DWP TO COURT FOR FRAUD”
Nic • 2 days ago
There has got to be some sort of legal definition of fraud that this fits into. Or slander/libel. These people need prosecuting somehow!
OperationTempura Nic • 17 hours ago
It’s actually covered under the provisions of Section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006 (Fraud by Misrepresentation). The legal position is that if an assessor makes a false declaration knowing it will cause you loss (even if they don’t directly benefit) they’ve committed a criminal offence. It is probably also an offence under either Section 3 or 4 of the Act to submit a false report to DWP – this exactly the same offence you could be accused of if you submitted a false claim for benefit. The problem is DWP are not applying the law evenly.
Nic OperationTempura • 17 hours ago
Perhaps if we all started reporting them to the fraud squad, then…
Or phoning the hotline for informing on benefits cheats.
OperationTempura Nic • 17 hours ago
I’m still working on this but my ultimate plan is to report it directly to our Chief Constable, copied to the Police and Crime Commissioner. If you take this to the local cop shop they’ll just laugh at you but running it from the top down doesn’t give them that option.
I’m a retired fraud investigator and investigative journalist (Google Operation Tempura – I was involved in it) so this is not exactly rocket science to me. And trust me when I mentioned the Fraud Act to either DWP or Capita they got very nervous. Thankfully, Capita have just tripped themselves right up by issuing a statement that their assessor (see my comment above) cannot remember conducting my assessment – that’s totally screwed her if this ever goes to court.
In fact there’s a nine-hour gap between her leaving my place and her signing off on the report so, as she made no written notes, all the changes she made are tucked away on record. Again if this ever went to court she’s going to have to produce the Word document the report is based on and on that you can back track all the changes.
The people who really need to get involved here are the Serious Fraud
Office (SFO) because that’s what they were created to deal with –
systematic fraud.
Nic OperationTempura • 16 hours ago
The SFO is what I was wondering about, so yeah, glad to hear you have a handle on it. I’m lucky that so far my own assessments have been reasonably free of problem (or at least, corrected in reconsideration), so I can’t take action on my own account, only support those of you who’ve had fraudulent assessments. Good luck!
Geoff – This could be really good news for a lot of claimants that have been so unfairly and cruelly treated by the ‘DWP’, the ‘Companies’ and their despicable ‘HCP’s. This is a nice start and it now it needs to be actively worked upon! From me too (to Nic) – good luck and please keep up your research and increase the pressure on these bastards if you can!
“DWP FAIL TO ANSWER SIMPLE QUESTION”
This does nothing to address the previously given contradictory answers about the situation where a claimant is wrongly found fit for work following a WCA but is unable to make a claim for JSA because a health condition prevents them from honestly making a Claimant Commitment.
You do state that:
“A claimant can restrict their availability in any way providing the restrictions are reasonable given circumstances, including a physical or mental health condition.”
However this is not the case in practice – anyone who attempts to make a claim for JSA who states that they have a health condition that prevents them from working “normally” is advised by Jobcentre Plus that they cannot claim JSA and should make a claim for ESA instead.
But of course a WCA has just wrongly found them fit for work and so they are unable to access ESA until their appeal is accepted by the First Tier Tribunal, which has to wait until the MR process has been completed by the DWP.
This apparently leaves them with no recourse to benefits during the MR process.
Please supply the information requested that will clarify your previous contradictory answers regarding this unfortunate situation.
This could be easily achieved by either-
1) Providing clear information on just what benefits a person finding themselves in this situation could claim.
2) Providing clear information that a person finding themselves in this situation has no recourse to benefits.
3) Providing clear information of what other help besided benefits a person finding themselves in this situation may be able to access.
Noting of course that only supplying information in regard to answer to #3) would be a tacit admission that #2) also applies.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a…
Yours faithfully,
S. Gwilliam
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/alternative_benefits_during_esa#incoming-926851
………….BREACHING HUMAN RIGHTS IN EVERYTHING THEY DO
“ANOTHER BALLS UP BY INEPT AND INCOMPETENT OFFICIALS”
“Disabled woman with a mental age of a toddler has benefits stopped because she missed DWP appointment”
“Georgina Ball has aicardi syndrome – a rare brain abnormality – but her payments have been stopped because she missed a medical assessment for work”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-woman-mental-age-toddler-9718003
“I WONDER WHY THERESA MAY IS WORRIED ABOUT TURKEY’S HUMAN RIGHTS BREACHES WHEN OUR DWP ARE ALREADY GUILTY?”
“I am proud that the U.K. stood with you on the 15th of July last year in defense of your democracy,” May said as she and Erdogan delivered brief statements to the media following their talks.
“And now it is important that Turkey sustains that democracy by maintaining the rule of law and upholding its international human rights obligations — as the government has undertaken to do,” she said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4166338/Britains-May-Turkey-talks-Erdogan.html#ixzz4XCGruDnQ
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………………….OUR OWN GOVERNMENT ARE GUILTY OF GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
…………………..UPON READING THAT SHOCKING STORY PAUL, THE DWP SAID THIS;
A spokesperson for DWP said: “We review people’s circumstances to ensure they have access to the correct level of support to match their needs.
“But we recognise that for some people their conditions are unlikely to change, which is why we recently announced that we will be stopping re-assessments for people with the most severe health conditions and disabilities.”
…………I POSSESS THREE STATEMENTS FROM THE DWP’S OWN DOCTORS THAT STATE EMPHATICALLY THAT MY DISABILITY WAS UNLIKELY TO CHANGE IN THE FUTURE, YET THEY STOLE MY PAYMENTS BY CREATING A FICTITIOUS MEDICAL REPORT……….
…………………LIKE THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF OTHERS
Anthony Ashard
Please take note that all claims that were refused in such circumstances is a matter of misrepresentation and fraud. However with the governments approval, it’s almost impossible to stand alone and fight these daily acts of atrocity.
It’s not entirely the reviewers fault or that of the DWP for what is tantamount to executing complete denial of protection against these inexcusably life-altering and sometimes fatal indecisions that each case demonstrates a wilful neglect and abandonment of duty to protect those individuals the very system was put in place to help.
Instead the government uses external companies to enforce unreasonable and quite simply inhumane non-medical trick test questions designed purely to facilitate the small amount payback from the people they term as ‘benefits scroungers’ Instead the system is abused to meet the strict targets set by managers and bosses, the reviewers are literally being pressured into manipulating report results in order to achieve a suspension of benefits. These companies are geared only towards quotas and profit margins.
Don’t however take my word alone for it, there are many documented cases all over the net from whistle-blowers and ex-DWP agents.
In order to fight this with any purpose, we must all come together and fight as one against the cause of the problem. now we all know what that is, don’t we?
Anthony Ashard
Anthony Ashard Please take note that all claims that were refused in such circumstances is a matter of misrepresentation and fraud. However with the governments approval, it’s almost impossible to stand alone and fight these daily acts of atrocity.
It’s not entirely the reviewers fault or that of the DWP for what is tantamount to executing complete denial of protection against these inexcusably life-altering and sometimes fatal indecisions that each case demonstrates a wilful neglect and abandonment of duty to protect those individuals the very system was put in place to help.
Instead the government uses external companies to enforce unreasonable and quite simply inhumane non-medical trick test questions designed purely to facilitate the small amount payback from the people they term as ‘benefits scroungers’ Instead the system is abused to meet the strict targets set by managers and bosses, the reviewers are literally being pressured into manipulating report results in order to achieve a suspension of benefits. These companies are geared only towards quotas and profit margins.
Don’t however take my word alone for it, there are many documented cases all over the net from whistle-blowers and ex-DWP agents.
In order to fight this with any purpose, we must all come together and fight as one against the cause of the problem. now we all know what that is, don’t we?
“TATA STEEL WORKERS ABOUT TO BE SHAFTED”
………..PENSION CUTS WILL SET A PRECEDENT FOR OTHER FIRMS TO FOLLOW
You don’t have to be clever to see the link between the UK Tory led government and the manufactured stand off in the UK steel industry.
Threaten them with their jobs and security and offer them a limited pension and voila, we’ve got you by the balls……………..
Blackmail replaces local bargaining as the unions are pushed to one side. Health and safety goes out of the window, etc, etc………….
SOON AFTER THE WORKERS AGREE TO THE DEMANDS, TATA WILL ANNOUNCE THAT THEY HAVE SECURED A HUGE CONTRACT WORTH GAZILLIONS OF POUNDS.
THE MOVE WILL SEE OTHER MANUFACTURES FOLLOWING THE SAME ROUTE PUTTING UK PENSION PAYOUTS INTO THE CATEGORY OF MEAGRE.
………………And once again, the insurance industry can wring it’s hands in joy as the prospect of bigger payouts to the CEO’S and SHAREHOLDERS rockets.
……………..maybe the contract to supply steel for HS2 on the horizon as they take out the workers eye sockets?
“DANISH PHARMACEUTICAL GIANT TOLD OF THE RICHES TO BE FARMED FROM THE UK HEALTH INDUSTRY”
NOVA NORDISK to invest £115 million in Oxford
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38790369
Yes it only takes a matter of time before the news gets around that the UK’s ill and vulnerable can be fucked over good and proper by the snake oil salesmen………….
With the pretence of developing new and improved treatments for diabetes, the only thing they are after is lucrative sales pitches to boost their already global greed on the less fortunate……………
With all the hype recently about the pharma giants ripping off the NHS and limitation of life saving drugs, you would think we knew better but the Tory masterplan is that a few deaths will go unnoticed in the push for profit.
…………………And the thought of a low tax economy after Brexit, an exciting prospect to dive into the trough ahead of it’s rivals…..
……………….AND WHILE IT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED THAT PARLIAMENTARIANS ARE TO INVESTIGATE FAKE NEWS, THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE OF THE TORY GOVERNMENT, THE BBC, CONSIDERS IT’S FUTURE………………
Government is guilty of dereliction of duty on social care funding
The current social care system is unfit for purpose for the future. Financial arrangements are deeply resented by service users, carers and families, while the rest of the population is either ignorant of them, or finds them incomprehensible. Meanwhile the demands on the system are becoming intolerable; demographic pressures rise each year with increasing numbers of frail older people and adults with disabilities. And we face a public spending horizon which is bleak: the case for change is compelling.
This formed the opening paragraph of a speech by Jenny Owen, the then president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, at the Conservative party conference in 2009. Why has nothing changed in the intervening eight, gruelling years?
Owen was only interested in furthering the wellbeing of thousands of older people, and in telling a lot of truth to a lot of powerful politicians. And that is exactly how 45 former directors of adult social services felt when the chancellor failed to mention the needs of adult social care in his autumn statement. They expressed their anger in a letter to this newspaper recently.
https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2017/jan/30/government-dereliction-duty-social-care-funding
People are suffering and dying now and we are not even noticing.
…………….OH YES WE ARE!!!!
Residents angry about metal ‘homeless spikes’ erected outside city centre building respond in brilliant way
Residents angered after brutal metal ‘homeless spikes’ were erected outside a city centre building have responded by covering the area with cushions and pillows.
Politicians and campaigners hit out this week after it was revealed how spikes had been installed in a sheltered area outside Pall Mall Court in Manchester in an apparent bid to deter rough sleepers.
Jennie Platt and some of her friends visited the site on Marsden Street, just off King Street, on Sunday to take a stand.
Caring Jennie, an estate agent, said she was angered after reading the Manchester Evening News story and decided to do something about it.
These metal spikes have appeared outside a building in Manchester city centre (Photo: Manchester Evening News)
Her sons Sam, 11, and George, 10, headed down to the site and bought a range of cushions and pillows to cover the area filled with spikes.
They also bought sandwiches and other snacks, with a message on a piece of cardboard reading: ‘Take a seat and have a bite to eat’.
The cushions and pillows have been left there, and the group said homeless people they saw were going to return later tonight.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/residents-angry-metal-homeless-spikes-9719988
“PETITION TO STOP TRUMP VISITING THE UK PASSES THE MILLION MARK BUT THE QUEEN OF CIRCUS FASHION, THERESA MAY, GOES CONVENIENTLY DEAF”
An online petition calling for Donald Trump to be prevented from making an official state visit to the UK has reached 1m signatures.
The petition, on the government’s official petitions site, which at one point was being signed by more than a thousand people a minute, quickly reached the 100,000 signatures needed to be considered for a debate in parliament.
However, Downing Street confirmed that Theresa May would not be withdrawing her invitation to the US president because it remained “substantially in the national interest”.
“MORE EVIDENCE FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION THAT THE UK GOVERNMENT IS BREACHING THE RIGHTS OF IT’S DISABLED”
A grandfather living with multiple sclerosis says his life has been ruined after he was stripped of his motability car.
John Atkins, who had been granted an assisted car for almost 30 years, was deemed too fit for the allowance despite his belief that his condition is worsening.
The 68-year-old has now asked for Whitstable MP Julian Brazier’s support after the Department for Work and Pensions scrapped his benefit.
MS sufferer John Atkins
The Swalecliffe Road resident said: “I never used to get depressed but this ordeal has made me really down.
“I feel so anxious about the uncertainty that lies ahead, and my health has deteriorated since Christmas.
“Now that the car has gone I’m basically stuck at home, relying on friends and family to help me get out and about.”
Mr Atkins, who cannot walk more than six metres without help, will launch an appeal at an independent tribunal.
“I never used to get depressed but this ordeal has made me really down…“I feel so anxious about the uncertainty that lies ahead, and my health has deteriorated – John Atkins
“An assessor came round to my house and asked me to squeeze his hand, and try to stand up – which was very painful and I thought cruel.
“I just about did it. I then emphasised that my MS is very variable and I never know what the next day, let alone the next week, will bring.
“A few weeks later, I was dumbfounded when I opened a letter to discover that I’d been given the standard rate of care instead of the highest rate.”
“I was then forced to return the car this month.”
………………..BUT HARRIET HARMAN WILL LOOK THE OTHER WAY
“FUCK TRUMP AND ALL THAT HE STANDS FOR”!
Sod ‘fake news’ and the ‘Special’ relationship – new news tonight that Theresa May has reinvogorated her ‘invitation’ to Trump to visit the queen.
Emily Thornberry of Labour has condemned Theresa May for appeasing him!
BUT MY PLAUDITS THIS EVENING ARE TO MHAIRI BLACK OF THE SNP – UP AGAINST A ‘PASTOR’ OF THE U.S. WHO ‘AS A BLACK MAN’ ACTUALLY DEFENDED TRUMP’S POLICIES (7PM Channel 4 News this evening)
Earlier – “LORD TOFFINGHAM” (as previously named by Geoff!) – AKA Jacob Rees Mogg, (in the same programme) heartily defended the visit by TRUMP to see the queen and also vigorously defended (his boss),Theresa May, to (unanimously) invite him to see the queen.
What Jacob Rees Mogg may also care to remember – that in the Chancellors Autumn Statement – Hammond promised HIM £7.6 million pounds of ‘taxpayers money’ (NO – WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN!) to enable a stack of renovations to take place at his wife’s family’s SEAT at Wentworth Woodhouse ancestral home – NO JACOB REES MOGG – WE CERTAINLY HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT ‘OUR’ TAX MONEY BEING PAID TO YOU!
On Sky News this evening: (As it appeared on screen!)
“STATE VISITS”
A State of controversy?
Stay in Buckingham palace or Windsor castle?
A state banquet and Queen’s toast
SOURCE: ROYAL.UK
“Under a shadow of controversy”
Chinese Premier: Xi JingPing (shown feasting with David cameron)
Saudi Arabian: King Abdullah (shown with the queen)
US President: George W Bush (shown with the queen)
Russian President: Vladamir Putin (shown with the queen)
US President: Ronald Reagan
Romanian Dictator: Nicolae Ceausescu (hosted by Labour P.M. Callaghan)
(shown outside of No.10 Downing Street!)
OUR GOVERNMENT(S) (AND THE QUEEN) OBVIOUSLY VALUES ALL OF ‘OUR ALLIES’ AND ‘OTHER COUNTRY’S DICTATORS’ ABOVE ALL OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE.
OBVIOUSLY THE ‘OIL’ AND ‘PROFITS’ FROM ‘ARMS DEALS’ RULE EVERYTHING ABOVE “HUMAN RIGHTS” OF THE BRITISH POPULATION!
A SHAMEFUL ‘THERESA MAY’, A SHAMEFUL ‘TORY GOVERNMENT’, AND NOT LEAST – A SHAMEFUL ‘QUEEN’ – WHO WILL SO EASILY SELL THE U.K. DOWN THE FASCHIST RIVER OF HATE THAT IS NOW COMING OUT OF THE U.S. (AND NOT FORGETTING ALSO – NIGEL FARAGE AND HIS UKIP COHORTS!)
“EVEN TORY MPS ARE AGAINST PLANS TO CLOSE DOZENS OF LOCAL JOBCENTRES”
“Conservative MPs attack Government for plans to close dozens of local jobcentres”
“MPs accused the DWP of using Google Maps to close the jobcentres”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jobcentre-closures-tory-mps-rebellion–a7553836.html
“HOW COULD HAVE THE AMERICANS VOTED IN THIS TOTAL TWAT”
“Psychologists warn Donald Trump ‘displays all the classic signs of being mentally ill narcissist’ ”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/psychologists-warn-president-displays-classic-9724221
A lot of these ‘symptoms’ may also be applied to not only the arch-murderer of poor unfortunates, Iain Duncan Smith (IDS), but also to many of the Tory M.P.’s and Ministers in power today!
THERESA MAY – BE WARNED – WE WILL HOLD BOTH YOU, AND THE QUEEN TO ACCOUNT FOR YOUR COMBINED ACTIONS – NOT ONLY OVER DONALD TRUMP – BUT ALSO FOR ALL OF YOUR CRUEL TORY GOVERNMENT’S IDEALOGICAL POLICIES TO SO MANY CLAIMANTS.
IT IS NOW FAR TOO LATE TO SAY SORRY. TOO MANY DEAD PEOPLE!
DEAD PEOPLE CANNOT FIGHT BACK – BUT BE ASSURED – WE CAN!
…………..made me laugh this morning, remember the case where the bloke won his case in court for taking his kid out of school for a holiday in term time?
The case against him was made by the local education authority and they are taking the case to appeal at the Supreme court………….
Most UK citizens would agree that this is the only option as the travel industry are left to their own devices hiking up holiday prices unchallenged by the powers that be…………..
What infuriates me is that the DEPT OF EDUCATION is using taxpayers hard earned cash to back the local education authority to overturn a decision the vast majority support.
The holiday of a lifetime, or any holiday for that matter, will resonate in a childs mind a hell of a lot longer than an algebraic equation that is as useful as a chocolate bathtub………….
“THE queen HAS NO MOUTH”
That’s right, she has lost the power to speak since making her externally scripted effort at Christmas.
Today, on her majesty’s behalf, some royal arse wiping toerag with a title, has mooted that the vermin in ermine is not too pleased with fashion unwary, Mother Theresa regarding Trumps State visit ( A situation in which the queen can ask if he knows any cheap mexican tradesman to kick the palace into shape for less than the minimum wage, cash in hand)…………
Surely the vast petition against Trumps visit has not altered her concept of her legion to her loyal subjects?
She never even flinched when giving royal assent to the welfare reform acts where the DWP murder the least able to fight back.
Maybe a corgi has piles, or the regal dog shit collector is on holiday, but the queen bee is perturbed beyond all recognition………
“THE BBC – A CONTINUING TORY FOGHORN! – SURELY NOT!”
“The BBC’s latest appointment shows it’s moved from bias into pure propaganda (TWEETS)”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/30/bbcs-latest-appointment-proves-moved-bias-pure-propaganda-tweets/
“THE DAILY MAIL – THE TORIES FRIEND – WHO NEEDS THE BBC’S PROPAGANDA WHEN THEY’VE GOT THE MAIL’S POLITICAL EDITOR!”
“Theresa May ‘hires Daily Mail political editor James Slack as chief spokesman'”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-daily-mail-political-editor-james-slack-appointment-a7557696.html
“THE DWP FAKE MEDICAL REPORT WRITERS”
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMME
…………………………………………………………………………………..
Unfortunately it is not possible to provide a specific answer as to the length of training completed
by a Healthcare Professional (HCP) as the length of training depends on a number of factors
including the employment status of the individual and also on the benefit type of work the HCP
has been employed to undertake.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
DWP Central FoI Team
……………………………………………………………
………………KEEP COUNTING THE DEATHS
ATOS Miracles
Yesterday at 03:59 ·
Bloody AMAZING people are out on the streets all over the country protesting, petitions are getting upwards of a million signatures, people are in uproar like we have not seen the likes of since Thatcher brought in that horrendous tax and closed the pits. What has caused this fury you ask, could it be that innocent sick and disabled people are dying for lack of money they are entitled to? could it be that children and working families are on the poverty line and forced into food banks? could it be these disgusting Tories are ripping our NHS apart and selling it all of to the Richard Branson’s of this world or anyone with the money to line Tory pockets? unfortunately i suppose that would be to much to expect from the great British public, to support and help people who in desperate need of help – THEIR HELP – no this outcry of public fury and discontent is to stop that clown Trump from coming here and embarrassing the Queen, its like WHAT???? embarrass the Queen, trust me people that particular false idol is unable on any level to be embarrassed or show embarrassment, she is immune to it as history has shown on numerous occasions. I detest Trump, he is an egotistical, narcissistic, self serving maniac with his chubby fingers hovering over that red button and desperate to try it out. To see all this going on in this country when we have serious cuts and life threatening policies this government are implementing like a demented Wizard of Oz it truly sickens me to see and finally understand that nobody actually gives a shit. (That is apart from the campaigners who have despite their own ill health have done their utmost for the last 7 or more years) Trust me people the Queen is the last one who would ever be embarrassed by anything, especially her subjects as they queue up for a food bank. Hang your heads in shame.
“ATOS KILLERS”
……………A SUB DIVISION OF LORD DAVID FREUD’S KILLERS AT THE DWP
“FREUD’S TWISTED AGENDA”
Sally Jones
ATOS Miracles
31 January 2016 ·
I was a pip assessor as a nurse and left due to the disgusting way the targets were the priority and how it was the priority and anyone presenting more than 10 pieces of evidence from medical professionals should be sent to assessment centres as well as people with mental health issues. I detest the company and the way people at the end of the forms are critiqued and comments on in a derogatory nature in the offices which are made openly about claimants. I have health issues and could not believe what I thought would be a compassionate approach to how people manage their lives with disabilities. This is certainly not the case just target driven numbers and lots of health professionals leave especially mental health nurses like me, as it is against a duty of care primarily to patients. I hope that they all lose the contracts. February 3rd 2.30pm parliamentary select committee reviews the three Atos, Capita and Maximus. I have made my MP aware of all the targets and the hundreds of pounds incentives paid to staff daily to acheive targets to keep DWP contracts.
Greater Manchester and London are to receive new powers to help thousands more disabled people get into work.
The 2 cities will receive around £100 million to develop, procure and deliver localised versions of the new Work and Health Programme to fit the needs of their residents.
In the last 3 years, the number of disabled people in work has increased by almost 600,000. However, the gap between the employment rates of disabled people and non-disabled people remains too large at 32%.
By devolving these powers, participants – including homeless people and long-term unemployed people – will receive more intense, tailored support based on local expertise that will give them the best chance to move into long-term employment.
…………..A Dwp spokesman admitted that burying the first tranche of disabled stock had proved much harder than Lord David Freud had anticipated but laid blame on the documentary evidence presented to parliament by the Unum Provident Insurance Company who provided the basis of his Welfare Reform Act submissions.
Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green said:
This is a significant step to help thousands of disabled and vulnerable people get the support they need to move away from benefits and find lasting work.
Good work has huge benefits for physical and mental health and we are committed to helping all those people who can work to find work.
By devolving powers we are sending our clearest message yet that we are serious about making changes for the better, and believe this can be found in the expertise of local providers who know their residents best.
……………….stepping back from his mirror, he removed his curly blonde wig, high heeled black stiletto’s, maids uniform and ruby red lipstick and proceeded to applaud at his own reflection…..
UN is launching investigation into UK government’s record on disability – at last! So why should we be worried?
Posted by Mike Sivier
Remember when the UN condemned the UK’s Conservative government for “grave and systematic violations of the rights of people with disabilities”? It was last November. The Mail on Sunday contrived to force the report’s publication to take place while reporting of the US presidential campaign was at fever pitch, so nobody will blame you if you missed it.
The UN made 11 recommendations, including calling on the UK government to carry out a study of the cumulative impact of all spending cuts on disabled people & to ensure the human rights of disabled people are upheld.
In response, the government stated it “did not plan to follow up on any of the recommendations”.
End of story. The UN did nothing and was left looking toothless and impotent. Sick and disabled people were no better off and campaigners like myself felt betrayed.
Now the UN is back – but what guarantee do we have that it can make the Tories listen, or even that it will accept the mountain of evidence that has been provided?
There’s surely no need for the UN to be examining Britain’s record, is there? What with all the wonderful policies the Government has in place to help people with disabilities?
It’s just that, as a precursor to [the forthcoming UN investigation], a group of organisations representing people with disabilities were asked to write a report putting their views. Published this morning, it paints a very different picture to the one I imagine the Government would put forward. One that the average person living with disabilities in Britain might have a little more sympathy with.
The report, by Disability Rights UK (DRUK), Inclusion Scotland and Disability Wales, highlights sharp cuts to benefits and support endured by disabled people since the Coalition government started to swing the axe wielded by former Chancellor George Osborne.
It raises the issue of a rising tide of abuse and hate crime. That, of course, has been fuelled by certain elements in the media, aided and abetted by a Government that is well aware of how much easier cuts are to sell if you can convince the electorate that they’re targeted at the undeserving.
The UK has, in fact, been headed in a profoundly regressive direction
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2017/01/31/un-is-launching-investigation-into-uk-governments-record-on-disability-at-last-so-why-should-we-be-worried/
Phil Lee
said:
January 31, 2017 at 2:39 am
It needs for someone to take the existing report and force the issue by referring it to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. I’d understood they were on notice concerning the recent investigation. Why no arrest warrant? Are there no human rights lawyers to take the case?
“RIP JOHN DAVID ROBINSON OF EASTFIELD, SCARBOROUGH”
………..ANOTHER NOTCH ON BARON FREUD’S BELT
JOSS, AS HIS FRIENDS CALLED HIM, WAS UNKNOWN TO BARON FREUD, YET THEIR PATHS CROSSED AS HE WAS LED FROM HIS COUNCIL HOME IN A ZIP UP BAG TWO DAYS AGO…………
JOSS WAS A BIG BLOKE BUT A GENTLE GIANT. HE HAD BEEN PLAGUED BY A LITANY OF HEALTH PROBLEMS AND TOOK THIRTEEN TABLETS EACH DAY.
HE COULD NOT STOP HIS HANDS SHAKING, WAS DIABETIC AND SUFFERED AN ENLARGED HEART. BENDING WAS A PROBLEM DUE TO PAINS IN HIS KNEES AND HE HAD RECENTLY UNDERGONE SURGERY TO PUT A PLATE IN HIS ANKLE THAT WAS COLLAPSING FROM AN OLD INJURY.
JOSS WAS MY FRIEND, MY SHOULDER, MY ROCK. A MAN WHO WAS WELL LIKED BY ALL.
DESPITE HIS ILL HEALTH HE WAS CONSTANTLY HOUNDED BY THE DWP TO ATTEND BACK TO WORK COURSES ORGANISED BY THE FRAUDULENT A4e COMPANY WHO ARE WELL KNOWN FOR FALSE ACCOUNTING AND THEFT.
THE TUTORS WOULD TURN UP IN SOFT TOP VEHICLES AND SET ABOUT THOROUGHLY DEMORALISING THE CLAIMANTS UPON INSTRUCTIONS FROM THEIR PAYMASTERS.
JOSS WAS PUT THROUGH THE DEMEANING TASKS OF PRODUCING A CV AND INSTRUCTED ON HOW TO WRITE A LETTER TO A MAKE BELIEVE EMPLOYERS.
A4e STAFF GAVE THE CLAIMANTS RIDICULOUS MEANINGLESS TASKS IN ORDER TO BREAK THEIR WILL, A COURSE OF DEHUMANISATION THAT IS A FAVOURED TORTURE OF THE DWP AND IT’S CARCINOGENIC BACKERS.
LITTLE BY LITTLE THEY REMOVED EVERY PART OF HIM THAT WAS HUMAN AND TRANSFORMED HIM INTO A HUMAN WRECK.
SO MUCH SO HE COULD NOT SLEEP, HAD FLASHBACKS OF ABUSE HE RECEIVED AS A KID AND WAS UNABLE TO SLEEP.
UPON APPROACHING HIS GP HE WAS PRESCRIBED ANTI PSYCHOTIC DRUGS AND HE MIXED THESE WITH CHEAP CIDER IN ORDER TO SLEEP…….
NOT HAPPY WITH JUST HUMILIATING HIM THE GOVERNMENTS OTHER LITTLE TORTURE WAS APPLIED, THE BEDROOM TAX……
JOSS WOULD GET VISITS AND THREATENING LETTERS OF EVICTION FOR NONE PAYMENT. HIS MEAGRE £48 PER WEEK WAS ERODED FURTHER BY THE TAXATION ON THE SPARE BEDROOMS THAT WERE LEFT VACANT FOLLOWING HIS TWO KIDS COMING OF AGE AND LEAVING THE NEST.
JOHN DAVID ROBINSON, (AKA JOSS), DID NOT DESERVE TO DIE, ALL HE WANTED WAS THE CHANCE TO ENJOY THE CONFINES OF HIS RESTRICTIONS THAT ILL HEALTH HAD PLACED BEFORE HIM.
JOSS WILL NEVER APPEAR ON THE TV, NOR IN ANY HEADLINES.
“JUST ANOTHER TRAGIC VICTIM OF THE ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS PERPETRATED BY THE TORY GOVERNMENT AND A FAILED BANKER, BARON FREUD”
TWO CHILDREN WITHOUT A FATHER, A FATHER WHO WILL NEVER SEE HIS CHILDREN AGAIN.
JOHN DAVID ROBINSON, MAY THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR DEMISE BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE AND THE HISTORY BOOKS REFLECT THE INHUMANITY IMPOSED UPON THOSE LEAST LIKELY TO FIGHT BACK.
YOU WILL BE SORELY MISSED, MY FRIEND, THE WORLD HAS LOST ANOTHER ANGEL…………..
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.”
I have compiled a list of the deceased and those who have been adversely affected using the information from these sites
https://mzolobajluk.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/the-increasing-death-toll-due-to-the-loss-of-benefits/
I fully agree with the assertion of Welfare Tales that these are the deaths that we know of because a friend, relative or the coroner has commented.
Sadly to say there are probably many more and as more of these horrific cases come to light. They will never be forgotten, by their families, friends and those who they touched in their day to day lives.
“NO CAUSAL LINK”
Thousands of welfare claimants have died within weeks of being declared “fit for work” and taken off sickness benefits, Government statistics have disclosed.
Campaigners called for an urgent inquiry after statistics released by the Department for Work and Pensions disclosed that 2,380 people died between December 2011 and February 2014 shortly after a work capability assessment declared them able to work.
The DWP, which was ordered by the data watchdog to publish the statistics, insisted “no causal link” could be drawn between benefits status and the likelihood of dying as the individual causes of the deaths were not recorded.
……………………..SINCE THIS STATEMENT APPEARED IN THE MEDIA, WE NOW KNOW THAT THE DWP WAS LYING AND THEY HAVE BEEN RECORDING THE DEATHS…………
SO MUCH SO THAT THEY BEGAN HAVING PEER REVIEWS INTO THE DEATHS CAUSED BY SUICIDES ALONE.
THE FINDINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN RELEASED. THE DWP HIDING THE STAGGERING AMOUNT OF HUMAN CARNAGE SINCE BARON FREUD INITIATED THE WELFARE REFORM ACTS.
……………..EVERY OTHER DAY ANOTHER CLAIMANT DEATH COMES TO LIGHT YET THE DWP CARRY ON AS THOUGH NOTHING IS HAPPENING.
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT THEY HAVE NO OTHER OPTION BECAUSE UNDOING WHAT THEY HAVE ILLEGALLY STARTED WOULD PROBABLY BANKRUPT THE EXISTING WELFARE STATE.
THIS MAY BE THEIR MISGUIDED INTENTION?
HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE BEEN BREACHED AND VERY SOON THE FLOODGATES FOR COMPENSATION WILL FOLLOW.
WHEN THIS HAPPENS YOU WILL NEED EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT THE DWP HOLD ON YOUR PARTICULAR CASE.
I RECOMMEND THAT YOU ALL PUT IN A REQUEST TO THE DWP FOR THAT INFORMATION.
HOW TO ACCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE HERE:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-request-for-personal-information
THE INFORMATION THE DWP HELD ON ME CAME IN THREE HUGE ENVELOPES, A STACK OF REPORTS OVER SEVEN INCHES IN HEIGHT.
THIS INFORMATION WILL PROVE INVALUABLE WHEN THE COMPENSATION CLAIMS BEGIN……………………
Drew Vivian
Will the UN do anything, I doubt it. Mass starvation on our streets, food banks prove this. Mass evictions, homelessness is proving this. Welfare state of the poor and the sick, DWP sanctions prove this. It reminds me of the concentration camps, at the hands of the Na?i army. It is extermination by Tories!. It has the end or their is going to be blood on the streets of London. The only thing that the UN can do to stop this is, take control of the government now!..
I was really hoping that this evening, on the News Channels – there would be at least some coverage of at least some of the cruelty that has been unmercilessly dished out to many claimants by, not only this present Tory administration, but also by the DWP and their ‘stakeholders’ – ATOS, CAPITA & MAXIMUS – as well as their shameful ‘HCP’s.
But – sadly, at least this evening, I (and we) have been let down dismally!
For example – the BBC 6PM News concentrated upon the ‘shamed’ lawyer who has widely been accused of ‘trumping’ up stories against our Forces personnel in Iraq (alleged misdoings, torture, killings of ‘insurgents’), who has ‘gone to ground’!
Then, the 70 page white paper being produced by the Tories over ‘Brexit’.
The Bank of England holding interest rates at 0.25% whilst forecasting a ‘whole new world’ of consumer (debt) spending increasing the economy.
Then there was also an extensive 25 minute report on Channel 4 News about alleged ‘sex abuse’ in some Church of England organisation and some alleged perpetrator of this, who refused to say anything or be interviewed at all.
And then, at the end – the reported ‘destitution’ of so many ‘refugees’ now in this Country.
The ‘Crown Prosecution Service’/ The High Court/ The Supreme Court/ seems to be taking on everyone’s interests excepting the claimant murderers Iain Duncan Smith & Chris Grayling.
WHY WILL THE CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE NOT ISSUE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THEM? AND, SECONDLY, WHY SEEMINGLY, ARE ALL OF THEIR MISDEMEANORS BEING COVERED UP/NOT AT ALL INVESTIGATED?
(Even yesterday it was being reported that a chap from the Isle of Wight was ‘awaiting’ a decision from the Supreme Court upon whether it was ‘legal’ or ‘illegal’ to take his children on holiday during ‘term time’. This final ‘decision’ now is not expected until March!)
His local Council had taken this case to appeal (after the High Court had ruled in the dad’s favour!) and in doing so has spent a whole tranche of ‘taxpayers’/’Council Tax’ payer’s money in doing just this.
WHEN ARE ‘TAXPAYERS’/’COUNCIL TAX’ PAYERS GOING TO BE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO CHALLENGE THESE COUNCILS UPON THEIR DECISIONS?
(Off topic!)
“AS THE U.S.’s ‘BEST’ ALLY – BRITAIN WOULD UNDOUBTEDLY BE DRAGGED INTO ANY ‘WAR’ THAT, IN FUTURE WAS STARTED BY U.S.A.”
(My own personal opinion now): I am very scared by the opinions and the protestations by Donald Trump. He is, seemingly – possibly a ‘hotheaded madman’ – never in ‘Government’ – only in ‘Business’ – STUPID! – (even the 2 ‘Bushes’ and ‘Reagan’ were nowhere near as thoughtless and impulsive as this prat!), certainly he does not ‘think things through’ before soon acting. (Just as in our Tory party also!).
I hope that I am wrong, but, being ex-Navy (with some inside knowledge)
I do not think that I am. (ESPECIALLY IF THE TORIES ARE IN POWER!)
“IF THE U.S. DECLARED WAR TOMORROW – THE U.K. (BECAUSE MILITARILY WE ARE STILL SO MUCH THEIR ‘POODLES’) – WE WOULD ALSO HAVE TO DECLARE WAR ON THEIR ‘ENEMY’ AND WOULD ‘HAVE’ TO FOLLOW THE U.S MILITARY TO THEIR MILITARY ‘OBJECTIVES’ – IN ADDITION WE WOULD ALSO BECOME A ‘TARGET’ OF THE ‘ENEMY’)”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/02/02/may-getting-close-trump-drag-nuclear-war/
(BREAKING!)
“Michael Gove urged to back Brexit Bill amendment over 350m NHS claim”
“Exclusive: Labour MP Chuka Amunna demands action in letter to prominent Leave campaigner”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-bill-michael-gove-nhs-claim-eu-350m-chuka-ammuna-a7560321.html
“THE BREXIT WHITE PAPER COMPLETELY CONTRADICTS A KEY ARGUMENT FOR BREXIT”
“Claim that leaving the EU would enable Parliament to reassert its sovereignty appears to be challenged in the policy document”
(INTERESTING ALSO – PLEASE LOOK AT THE ‘COMMENTS’ AT THE FOOT OF THE ARTICLE!)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-white-paper-uk-parliament-remian-sovereign-eu-membership-referendum-campaign-brussels-article-a7559556.html
“ON SKY NEWS THIS EVENING”:
“Labour has called the Tories Brexit plan ‘a wish list’ & not ‘an action plan’!”
Well – LABOUR (more than anyone!) knows all about ‘Action Plans’! After leaving Royal Navy (Communications) in the late 1990’s (and being ‘out of work’ after coming out of the Naval Service), I was subjected to their (Labour’s) ‘New Deal’ initiative – comprising loads of ‘Action Plans’ and being put onto their ‘New Deal’ programmes. Loads of ‘training programmes’ run by ‘money hungry companies’ being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds of ‘taxpayers’ money (and their Company Directors too!) – ‘Action Plans’ did nothing for me personally – I had to perservere forward the best that I could! I detest LABOUR for doing that to me – BUT NOW I HATE THE TORIES EVEN MORE – I SEE PEOPLE LESS FORTUNATE THAN MYSELF BEING PILLORIED AND UNMERCIFULLY KILLED BY THE DWP (AND THEIR COMPANIES AND THEIR DESPICAPLE HCP’s).
I AM VERY DETERMINED TO BRING IAIN DUNCAN SMITH, CHRIS GRAYLING, THE DWP AND ALSO THEIR ‘STAKEHOLDERS’ (AND THEIR SO CALLED ‘HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS) TO BOOK FOR THESE MURDERS OF SO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE.
AFTER ALL – IN EARLIER YEARS – THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ME ALSO AND I WILL NOT ACCEPT THAT.
JUSTICE HAS GOT TO BE DONE AND UNTIL MY DYING DAY – I AM GOING TO PERSUE THEM RELENTLESSLY.
THEY WILL SOMEDAY FACE THEIR JUSTICE.
You are right Paul but please remember that was New Labour (Really Tories) not a Socialist Party. However that said Jeremy Corbyn is not doing well as he continues to follow the PC road instead of concentrating on real issues. The electorate of the UK don’t sit around all day worrying about gay marriage or feminist rights they want action to make all working class peoples lives better. Politically correct brainwashing is the reason we have a swing to what is called the far right in the western “democracies” (and I use that word with caution) is because people are fed up with this PC rubbish and will turn to anything that challenges it regardless of the real long term consequences. If only Labour could understand this they would be way ahead in the polls but sadly they are blind to there own bullshit.
TruthTeller – Yes, all very true comments – unfortunately a lot of the population is brainwashed by ‘News’ and the ‘Media’ and indeed – if also if Labour does not get it’s act together – they will be a lost cause and party before too long!
“AT LEAST SOME JUSTICE MAY BE ON THE WAY FOR THIS POOR MAN”
“Coroner orders inquest into ‘fit for work’ man who collapsed after leaving jobcentre”
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/coroner-orders-inquest-into-fit-for-work-man-who-collapsed-after-leaving-jobcentre/
“CRAPITA PAYING BONUSES TO IT’S STAFF TO KNOBBLE DISABILITY BENEFITS”
‘Immoral’ Capita offered £200 bonuses to social workers to slash care packages
capita
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017
The outsourcing company Capita offered freelance social workers financial bonuses – and put them up in luxury hotels – to encourage them to help a local authority cut disabled and older people’s care packages.
A whistleblower has told Disability News Service (DNS) that Capita has been piling pressure on its team of social workers – while paying them more than £1,000 a week – to cut social care spending, on the orders of Southampton City Council.
DNS revealed last September that the council had employed Capita to clear a backlog of annual reviews of the care packages of disabled and older people, in an apparent attempt to cut costs.
But DNS has now seen an email in which a Capita manager told her team members that they could earn a bonus of £200 if they increased the cuts to people’s care packages they achieved through those reviews by 20 per cent.
In the email, headed “Stop Press – Good News”, she passed on an offer from a senior manager at Capita, who suggested an “extra incentive” for her team if they could improve on their previous “performance”.
He suggested that the bonus “can be measured across both productivity levels and the savings achieved.
“If one person improves their productivity by 20 per cent and savings by 20 per cent they receive a £400 bonus.”
The whistleblower, Rebecca*, said she has been earning more than £1,000 a week – after tax – as part of the Capita team.
She said her bosses made it clear that team members would only keep their jobs if they produced enough cuts to the packages of the people whose care needs they were assessing.
Capita said this week that it did not “recognise” Rebecca’s claims, although it has not denied any of her specific claims.
But when it was later shown the “extra incentive” email, a Capita spokesman appeared to accept that it was genuine and claimed the incentive mentioned was “never introduced”, and that the company would not be “updating” its original statement
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2017/02/02/immoral-capita-offered-200-bonuses-to-social-workers-to-slash-care-packages/
…………….CAPITA PAY A PREMIUM FOR DISABILITY DEATHS
“CAPITA STAFF HAD BEST HOTELS AS THEY SAVAGED THE DISABLED AND ELDERLY”
………………..AND THE POLICE LOOK AWAY AS THE WELFARE DEATHS INCREASE, DAY IN, DAY OUT…………………
Capita’s freelance social workers stayed at plush three-star hotels such as the Bartley Lodge, the city’s Jury’s Inn hotel and the New Place, while they were being paid more than £1,000 a week to cut disabled people’s support to live independently.
Rebecca told DNS: “Capita know nothing about social care. They don’t care about social care. They only care about delivering or being seen to deliver the savings.
“You had to go hell for leather to produce these savings. A council manager told us: ‘You have to continue with this because there is no plan B.’”
But Rebecca said the project was “so badly monitored and managed that I suspect a lot of the team had never had it so easy.
“We often remarked it was one of the easiest social work jobs we had ever had and the pressure only came from them wanting savings where under social work values and ethics we were loathe to make those cuts.”
When she was interviewed for the job, she said, the questions focused on whether she would be happy to cut people’s care packages if needed.
She said: “I said if the care needs are not there, then yes. If they are there, then no.
“Many of the social workers have been sacked by Capita along the way because they weren’t making the savings, they weren’t cutting the cost of care.”
And she said that the service-users with no support networks to advocate on their behalf with the council were often the ones who were having their packages cut.
Rebecca said: “There was a huge emphasis on making savings.
“There were constant ‘thinly veiled threats’ that we must make savings.
“You were threatened with a glare or a glower if you questioned them, or if you reminded them of the correct processes under the Care Act.
“You knew you risked losing your job. One of the managers told us all the time, ‘If you don’t do it, I will throw you under the bus.’”
Rebecca said she and her colleagues were also put under huge pressure to replace the care packages of service-users receiving 15-minute care visits with “telecare” equipment.
This could mean handing electronic pill-dispensing devices that opened at set times every day to service-users who previously received short visits from social workers to ensure they took their medication.
She said the service-users would often struggle with the dispensers when they were left alone to use them in their homes
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2017/02/02/immoral-capita-offered-200-bonuses-to-social-workers-to-slash-care-packages/
“PIP investigation: MP’s to consider assessment dishonesty claims”
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-investigation-mps-to-consider-assessment-dishonesty-claims/
“PIP investigation: ‘Lie after lie after lie'”
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-investigation-lie-after-lie-after-lie/
THE TORIES – “THE NHS IS ‘SAFE IN OUR HANDS’ AND IS ‘NOT FOR SALE’ – DON’T YOU BELIEVE IT!”
“Former Tory government health adviser joins US firm involved in NHS privatisation”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/former-tory-government-health-adviser-nick-seddon-us-firm-optum-nhs-privatisation-david-cameron-a7561696.html
“HOW THE SHITHOUSES AT DWP BLOCKED COMPLAINTS TO THE INDEPENDENT CASE EXAMINER”
……….THE INDEPENDENT CASE EXAMINER? WHAT A FUCKING JOKE…
In another development, one PIP claimant has provided evidence which may explain why so few complaints about assessors are upheld by DWP’s “independent” complaints body, the Independent Case Examiner (ICE), which is staffed by DWP civil servants.
He has shown DNS an email from a member of the DWP customer services team which makes it clear that he is not allowed to lodge complaints about his PIP assessor with ICE because his concerns were “regarding the decision making process so are not considered as a complaint and as such would not be signposted to ICE as a result”.
A DWP press officer responded to a question about the email just before this week’s DNS deadline to say that she could not comment because “we have not been given any details about the email or claimant you’re referring to”.
By the time she replied, it was too late to secure permission from the PIP claimant to share his email with the DWP press office.
Last week, DWP said: “Assessment providers have their own complaints processes in place, and if claimants are not satisfied with providers’ response they will be signposted to the Independent Case Examiner (ICE).
……………..READ THE EMAIL YOU LYING, MURDERING BASTARDS….
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2017/02/02/pip-investigation-mps-to-consider-assessment-dishonesty-claims/
…………….AND ALL THE DISABLED WHO SCORED ZERO POINTS
PRIOR TO ATOS, THE DWP DOCTORS SCORED ME AT 50
PIP investigation: ‘Lie after lie after lie’
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By John Pring on February 2, 2017 Benefits and Poverty
Many more disabled people have come forward to describe how the healthcare professionals who assessed them for the government’s new disability benefit lied in the reports they compiled.
Their evidence further confirms the results of a two-month Disability News Service (DNS) investigation, which revealed last week how assessors working for the outsourcing companies Capita and Atos – most of them nurses – had repeatedly lied, ignored written evidence, and dishonestly reported the results of physical examinations.
Having read last week’s articles, more personal independence payment (PIP) claimants have come forward with their own evidence of dishonest assessors.
One PIP claimant, David*, who has impairments including ME, fibromyalgia and a heart condition, has described how his disability living allowance (DLA) award of the higher rates for both care and mobility was lost after his PIP assessment left him with zero points (a claimant needs eight for the PIP standard rate and 12 for the enhanced rate).
KEEP ON RUNNING LORD FREUD AND YOUR BOUNTY HUNTERS…………
Its absolutely AMAZIN that Crapita have been rumbled regarding 14 dodgy security tags and arrests have been made.
Meanwhile, down the rabbit hole……..
Thousands of PIP assessments have been tampered with by Crapita with lies that would make a narcissist blush, get off without so much as a raised eyebrow.
lara crofty – the latest that I’ve heard is that the ‘Justice Secretary’ is going to summon one of Capita’s top brass to explain what’s being going on!
Meanwhile, here is the full story from the Independent!
“Capita staff ‘paid by criminals’ to fit electronic tags loosely”
“Staff at outsourcing firm were allegedly paid £400 a time to help at least 32 offenders beat court-imposed curfews”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/04/capita-staff-paid-by-criminals-to-fit-electronic-tags-loosely
FIRST – THE ‘TAG’ STAFF TO FACE THE LAW – NEXT – THE ‘HCP’S’!
“DWP FAKE MEDICAL REPORTS”
The most outrageous example was that of a claimant who had been awarded zero points after the Atos assessment, only for the tribunal to award them 50 points for daily living and 22 for mobility, while another claimant was awarded 35 points for daily living and 18 for mobility.
LET THE LITIGATION BEGIN
News / 3 February, 2017
DWP apology for error in double amputee’s fit to work assessment
Man was told he could go up and down steps despite having had his legs removed just months before and using a wheelchair
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted there was an error in the process by which a double amputee from Hackney was assessed as being fit to work and had his benefits reduced.
Despite having had both his legs amputated just months earlier, Julius Holgate, 53, scored zero via the points based system to determine what level of benefits he was entitled to.
The decision meant he did still receive some money but was left financially worse off and faced a higher risk of having his benefits stopped completely if he did not check in regularly with the job centre and attempt to search for work.
ZERO POINTS AND NO LEGS, ANOTHER REPORT FOR ME TO SEND TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS RAPPORTEUR……………
……….ANOTHER CROCK OF SHIT FROM DISABILITY DEATH CENTRAL
289,650 PEOPLE HUNG UP AFTER WAITING ONLY JUST OVER 3 MINUTES ON THE PHONE……………
In response to the questions asked in your correspondence above I can
confirm the details below;
1. Over the last 12 months the average wait time on the PIP Helpline has
been a 3 minutes and 19 seconds wait per call.
2. In the last 12 months we have had a total of 289,650 abandoned calls.
3. We have approximately 260 agents scheduled throughout each day on
the PIP Helpline, although these numbers do increase slightly on a
Monday and Tuesday due to these being our busiest days.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
……………….THE DEPARTMENT OF FICTION
“WORK FOCUSED INTERVIEW WITH THE DWP?”
………..TELL THEM FUCK ALL
RFI1:
DWP does not have the statutory power that requires a claimant to disclose sensitive personal
data during WFI, including the HWC.
RFI2:
Following on from the above response, there is no primary or secondary legislation that
requires a claimant to disclose SPD during WFIs.
RFI3:
The Department has no specific guidance for work coaches related to the avoidance of SPD
when carrying out ESA related interviews.
However, within the Health and Work Conversation claimants do not have to discuss certain
information if it makes them feel uncomfortable.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Strategy FoI Team
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/380897/response/931565/attach/html/3/92.pdf.html
“MORE TERRIBLE AND MOST LIKELY, FRAUDULENT AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR BY HCP’S”
“PIP Investigation : Welfare expert says two-thirds of appeals involve lying assessors”
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-investigation-welfare-expert-says-two-thirds-of-appeals-involve-lying-assessors/
…………The contracts made between the DWP and the assessment companies have always been hidden. DWP are afraid the content of the contracts would trigger one of the biggest law suits in UK history.
The DWP are merely public servants and the the contracts should be accessible for all to see, as should the Pace Medical Trials that served as a backbone for welfare changes.
Our government are sitting on a ticking time bomb lavishing millions to stop the clock ticking.
Every day we hear of some cover up or corrupt practices by the DWP and their sidekicks.
………………Shouldn’t be too long before a whistleblower concedes that the death count is totally immoral and that they can no longer go along with the wanton slaughter as prescribed by the mind of a lunatic working on behalf of the private insurance industry.
Lord David Freud imagines that by stepping down he has somehow escaped the hangman’s halter.
Indeed, this is fallacy, stepping down has proved his complicity in the thousands of welfare related deaths……………………
………….and questions are never answered
VJLWilliams 11 January 2017
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
I would like answers to the following questions on assessments.
I understand from media and other questioners that in creating the current system of assessments with your contractors ATOS and others, that little attention was paid to the risk assessments on potential harm that could result to a sick person from your current system of assessment. I would now like to ask for the following information.
What type of risk assessments are in place prior to an assessment taking place.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/how_can_you_be_sure_you_do_no_ha
Lord Fraud has stepped down? News to me. When did that happen? This is the sort of news we relied on Johnny for, God bless ‘im. Wherever he is…
“EICHMANN’S PRODIGY DOES A RUNNER”
Thursday 1 December 2016 18.45 GMT
Last modified on Thursday 1 December 2016 22.55 GMT
Lord Freud, who as welfare reform minister was the architect of the controversial universal credit system, is stepping down from government after six years, Downing Street has said.
David Freud, 66, is a former banker who was brought in by Tony Blair’s Labour government to advise on streamlining the benefits system.
He subsequently took a Conservative peerage, and David Cameron appointed him as the coalition government’s welfare reform minister in the Lords. He was the only minister who had held the same post since 2010.
The introduction of universal credit has been beset with delays and technical glitches, and a series of deep budget cuts by the previous chancellor, George Osborne, means that for many recipients it will be significantly less generous than the plethora of benefits it replaces.
Freud could also be gaffe-prone: he was forced to issue an apology in 2014 after appearing to suggest at a Conservative party fringe meeting that disabled workers were not worth the minimum wage.
But, announcing his retirement, Freud, said he was proud of his achievement in simplifying the welfare system. “At the heart of our reforms is desire to give people independence to improve their lives. For too long people have been trapped by a byzantine benefits system, leaving them powerless.
……………WE ARE COMING FOR YOU
FIRST – THE ‘TAG’ STAFF TO FACE THE LAW – NEXT – THE ‘HCP’S!
If they want disabled people to work, the answer is mandatory legal quotas for disabled people and any other group that finds it hard to be employed. In Sweden, if a company has more then 1 director, 1 in every 2 directors must be a woman by law. In South Africa there must be certain numbers of whites, blacks and other groups. So it can be done.
………..THE DWP RESORT TO TELLING MORE LIES
Dear Mr Collins,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 9 December
2016. You asked:
“Please supply a copy of the ESA updated guidance on the application of risk
introduced in January 2016”
DWP response:
Following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established
that the information you requested is not held and there is no mention of
‘application of risk’ when designating support group or WRAG status.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the
reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
DWP Central FoI Team
…………………………………………………………………………..
HERE IS A LINK TO THE INFORMATION THAT THE DWP DECIDED SHOULD NOT BE MADE PUBLIC
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/430908/m-17-15.pdf
…………STRANGE THAT THE DWP DID NOT WANT THIS INFORMATION TO BE SHARED GIVEN THE STAGGERING AMOUNT OF CLAIMANT DEATHS?
…………………a nice tall tree for Lord Fraud
Jack Gray
Jack Gray An almighty war is coming the Conservatives way, and they’re too fucking blind to see it, and it will end in violence, and bloodshed as disabled people across the country have had just about had enough. Assessment centres being smashed, and torched, and bricks, and missiles being thrown. We are not fucking idle you lying Tory bastards. That’s exactly the same we can say about you expense fiddling sleaze-hit arseholes!!! They can certainly dish it out, but swear black, and blue when it’s directed towards them??
Stephen Locke
Stephen Locke Whilst the rich scum are raping our children and changing laws around us to allow them to escape justice , they simultaneously shows us pictures of who they describe as disabled scroungers , and tell us to hate and loath them . They award themselves tax cuts and massive salaries , give their friends bits of the NHS and the rail network , and we are expected to thank them with knighthoods and OBE’s on the day they leave parliament . And what do we get , we get shit on by the likes of Philip Green , who gets to keep £600 million pounds of the pension fund his workers accrued during their lifetimes of wage slavery . Or how about that fatted cow in the £40 million pound golden hat , who announced £26 billion pounds of Tory austerity , but got a £44 million pound payrise for herself . Oh but not forgetting the gift we all chipped in for of a £260 million pound birthday castle , and the £600 million pound buckingham palace referb we promised to pay for . But I bet you missed the greatest little con the rich Tories pulled on us ALL , the reduction of the national debt their rich banker friends caused , from the huge sum of £600 billion to what it stands at today , a mere £1.78 trillion . Yes that’s correct , the Tories and their fascist media reduced a debt by increasing the debt , but the media won’t say anything they just repeat what government says . So even though the national debt keeps rising , because the Tories keep cutting their own taxes , not a single media outlet or source of news will tell you the national debt is rising . But they will tell you to expect more austerity and that Corbyn is an evil terrorist sympathiser , even though our own government sells millions of torture related devices to countries like Saudi arabia . Have you seen how the Saudi’s treat homosexuals and raped women lately , well for a start the saudi chapter of gay pride is currently hanging from a crane with steel wire around their necks . And only last week Saudi’s stoned a rape victim to death for adultery , the term rape survivor in Saudi arabia only applies to women who don’t report their rapes .
Dawn Jennifer Clark Quicker with the Gas Chamber think of the money they’re wasting FFS you couldn’t make this shit up!!! Wake up Britain not all Disabled are Freeloading Lazy Hangers ON!!!!!
Karen Dinsdale This goverment should be up in front of the Hague for murder and crimes against humanity.One of the most cruel,evil,inhumane goverments ever.
Susan Bell Yes Jack Kray there will be a war, they are pushing people to far, in the end people will have had enough, I couldn’t even put on here what I would love to do to them Tories scum
Pam Zachariades Conscious cruelty as Ken Loach says. Been condemned by the UN and their assessors have been found guilty of consistently lying. There should be some recourse otherwise we are doomed as a race. The EU, the other mainstream parties, none of them are doing anything to right all these wrongs.
Heather Chard This mindset is because we’re heading for a time where everyone must be ‘productive’ and ‘contributing to society’ and those without a job for whatever reason are seen as freeloading
This is what’s behind the push for 100% employment
This is something that’s begun to be really pushed around 2-3 years ago – it’s from the UN and is called agenda 30
It will affect us all and is terrifying
Allen Owens This mob can’t make a profit on disabled people…Money is the Tories main interest.
Lee Ann these mps are seen as scroungers who toss it off for 74,000 a yr if not more,
……………..Just a simple gallows will suffice
………AND ONCE AGAIN, WHEN FACED WITH QUESTIONS SURROUNDING THE DEATHS OF “FIT TO WORK”, CLAIMANTS, THE DWP RUN LIKE FUCK……
Anthony Collins 6 January 2017
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Further to my request at
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/e…
in which the answer turned out to be a Decision Making Memo from 2015
ESA: WORK RELATED ACTIVITY AND SUBSTANTIAL RISK Memo
DMG 17/15 DMA Leeds: June 2015
Please can you attach the DMG pdfs from 2015
Please also include an index of the titles
for example
DMG 17/15 ESA: WORK–RELATED ACTIVITY AND SUBSTANTIAL RISK
Yours faithfully,
Anthony Collins
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/dmg_memos_from_2015#outgoing-621063
…………….ARE THE DEATHS BECOMING EMBARRASSING LORD FREUD?
DIDN’T UNUM WARN YOU OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR ACTIONS WHEN YOU TOOK THEIR CASH?
Anthony Collins 4 February 2017
Delivered
Dear DWP freedom-of-information-requests,
Department for Work and Pensions have delayed.
They have not replied to your FOI request DMG Memos from 2015 promptly, as normally required by law.
send a message to Department for Work and Pensions reminding them to reply
— the WhatDoTheyKnow team
Yours sincerely,
Anthony Collins
“DWP SQUANDERS £3200 OF TAXPAYERS MONEY PAYING FOR THE DEFENCE OF ONE IT’S EMPLOYEES, BEING SUED BY A CLAIMANT”
……………AND YET CLAIMANTS ARE REFUSED LEGAL AID?
Mr. Watson 14 January 2017
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
So far the DWP has spent over £3200 in legal costs trying to interject itself into my private legal action taken against a DWP employee.
Please provide the total amount the DWP has spent in the last fiscal year or the calendar year 2016 acting or trying to act on behalf of DWP employees in any legal action.
In these times of fiscal austerity it seems like an irresponsible waste of tax payers money and a rather expensive favour to employees to be providing a free legal service to DWP employees involved in private legal action.
Are these costs recoverable from DWP employees if a court decides the legal action is a private matter and if so how much has been paid back by employees to the DWP in the last fiscal year or the calendar year 2016.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Watson
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/legal_fees_the_dwp_has_wasted_tr#incoming-931477
“ANOTHER CLEAR BREACH OF HUMAN RIGHTS ARTICLE 6, THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL”
…………AND DESPERATE TO HIDE THE FACT, THE DWP HAS HIDDEN THE FOLLOWING TEXT……….
Our response:
DWP has spent no money acting or trying to act for employees in private legal action; nor would it do so.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number above.
Yours Sincerely,
DWP HR Central Freedom of Information Team
“ONCE AGAIN, THE DWP CAUGHT OUT TELLING BLATANT LIES”
As you may or may not be aware I have a civil claim against a DWP employee, and the DWP is trying to substitute itself as Defendant.
The draft order has been written by a J. Palmer and E. Goodfield of the DWP/DH litigation team and clearly states “I am acting on behalf of the DWP”. Costs for this draft order have been quoted in excess of £3200.
“THE FIVE MINUTE HEALTH EXPERTS WHO OVERRULE QUALIFIED MEDICAL PROGNOSIS”
Unfortunately it is not possible to provide a specific answer as to the length of training completed
by a Healthcare Professional (HCP) as the length of training depends on a number of factors
including the employment status of the individual and also on the benefit type of work the HCP
has been employed to undertake.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
DWP Central FoI Team
…………KEEP ON STACKING THE BODIES
Daughter’s anger after her dad died waiting for assessment
Abbie’s father James Harrison was a Community Centre manager in Liverpool for 35 years but his health deteriorated when he was made redundant.
Doctors disagreed when he was declared ‘fit for work’ after a Work Capability Assessment, even though he had a serious lung condition and depression.
He died of heart failure still waiting for a second medical assessment to prove he was ill after Job Centre staff wrote to his GP telling them not to issue him any more sick notes.
His daughter has been speaking to Elaine Willcox:
DWP_ABBIE__EDIT Play video
The Department of Work and Pensions says, “Our welfare reforms are increasing the support and incentives for people who move into work, while keeping an important safety net in place for those who need it.”
http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2017-02-06/daughters-anger-after-her-dad-died-waiting-for-assessment/
Paul Kersey
ITV news like their mainstream news counterparts have so far remained silent about the tory and department for works and pensions genocide that has emotionally tortured millions of poor, sick and disabled people since may 2010 and cost the lives of more than one million poor, sick and disabled people since may 2010.
“The policy is based on the cruel and utterly unfounded premise that if disabled people can be beaten hard enough by a weaponised welfare state they will be forced to do something which is, for many, impossible.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/…/disabled-people-are-not-g…
But the plans also worry me because they speak volumes as to how Britain treats disabled people, fuelling the growing prejudice against them. Government policy is increasingly based on the false idea that the sick and disabled are guilty until proven innocent. The plans to cut the weekly employment and support allowance (ESA) payments people receive by £29.05 a week are, by the Government’s admission, designed to force people even it deems are not yet fit to work to go out and, well, find work.
The policy is based on the cruel and utterly unfounded premise that if disabled people can be beaten hard enough by a weaponised welfare state they will be forced to do something which is, for many, impossible. This kind of policy gives voice to the narrative that disabled people are to blame for the struggles they face, one which our Government should be fighting to eradicate entirely, not encourage.
The cuts are illogical, as disability charities warned today. Cutting a benefit designed to support sick and disabled people into employment is no way to help them find work – and the Government has provided no evidence to the contrary. If it is serious about helping disabled people find employment it should be focusing on removing the real barriers to finding work. This includes more support, not less, and working with employers to ensure that the world of work is accessible in every way through practices such as flexible working.
I’m realistic. I know my son may well struggle to find employment. In a two tier system which discourages the aspiration of disabled people, at 14-years-old we are encouraging him to think about the future and what he wants out of life. He wants a job, just like most others. He wants to do something he loves, and enjoys, and is passionate about – he would like to do something in music production or radio. And why shouldn’t he?
Cutting his support won’t help him do that. It will make it harder. We live in a world where transport to the workplace is already inaccessible, where choices are already limited, and where everywhere you turn there are physical and social barriers – whether they be the built environment or attitudes.
So the question I keep asking myself is this – what kind of Britain do we want to live in? How, as a nation, can we feel proud of our country if we are stripping support from those who need it the most? The answer is surely that we can’t. I hope very much that when my son grows up it is in a nation where he is valued for what he can contribute, not blamed for that which he can’t. But if we want to live in a compassionate and just country which works for everyone we must stand up against policies which harm the sick and disabled. If we want to live in a country we are proud of we must fight for it.
“The Work Capability Assessment is fundamentally flawed. The Department should quickly begin the process of reforming it.”
Paragraph 28: Work and Pensions Committee report, published 3/2/2017.
https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmworpen/56/56.pdf
“THE ONGOING UNIVERSAL CREDIT SHAMBLES – LORD FRAUD BEING SUMMONED TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) TO EXPLAIN HIMSELF!”
“Universal Credit flaws pushing claimants towards debt and eviction”
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/07/universal-credit-flaws-pushing-claimants-towards-debt-and-eviction-warning
On Channel 4 News this evening at 7.15pm there was a very good report highlighting all of this. Anyone interested may be able to see it again on Ch4 +1hr at around 8.15pm this evening!
“YET ANOTHER VICTIM OF FAILED BANKER, LORD DAVID FREUD”
Man crippled by cancer for two decades loses life award after being forced into PIP assessment
Richard Green says his recent PIP assessment is wrong.
He has spent two decades battling health problems after being diagnosed with cancer aged 32, and now Richard Green has had his independence taken away.
Diagnosed with T cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1996, he underwent nine hours of surgery to remove a brain tumour. Doctors at the time told him they would never be able to say he was in remission, so he was given a life award for mobility.
As a result of taking experimental medication methotrexate in 1997, Mr Green contracted cirrhosis of the liver, and was put into a coma for 18 months in 2013 as he received a transplant.
A combination of nerve damage, graft vs host disease and a femoral neck fracture after a fall means Mr Green cannot walk unaided and can only travel two metres with use of a frame.
But with the introduction of Personal Independence Payments (PIP), Mr Green was forced to attend an assessment last October, which deemed he could walk 20 metres and his mobility scooter was taken away.
“The entrance to the assessment place had steps,” said the 53-year-old. “I think that was the first test – if you got up the steps you had already failed. “The man came out and helped me out of the car, into my wheelchair and pushed me in. Then he wrote down I could walk 20 metres. He never asked me to take one single step. “I think he made his decision before I even got there.”
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/man_crippled_by_cancer_for_two_decades_loses_life_award_after_being_forced_into_pip_assessment_1_4879435
local lass
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
My own case was highlighted in the EDP of 28 December although the story doesn’t seem to show up on the website. One of the problems is the assessors are lying and I don’t think they’re even writing the reports themselves. I’m still working on this but the assessments seem to scripted. How else do you explain several reports allegedly written by different Capita assessors containing exactly (and it is word-for-word identical!) the same text? One thing I am coming across in many of the assessments people have complained about is the refusal of assessors to acknowledge that claimants are wearing hearing aids – the reports simply state that the subject claimed to be wearing hearing aids but the assessor couldn’t see them. That happened to me – I wear over-the-ear NHS aids and keep my hair in a No.2 buzz cut, she couldn’t have missed them unless she was trying. My own assessment contained records of tests (known as MSK) that never took place, contradictory comments and statements that are the complete reverse of what the assessor was told. My report is a complete act of fraud. There is something very wrong with this whole assessment process and on 17 January I asked Liz Truss MP to raise many of the issues with Penny Mordaunt MP who I understand is the Minister responsible – to date Mrs Truss hasn’t even acknowledged the letter. In addition I’ve submitted evidence to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) who will be reviewing this in the Spring. One bit of advice I will give – if you are as disabled as this gentleman make them do a home visit. You’re doing yourself no favours going to an assessment centre. Also read up on an appeal decision from last year – CPIP6652016: Pain and walking “to an acceptable standard”. This re-defines the standards for the mobility test but I can tell you from experience that neither DWP nor the assessors are applying. The other thing from this story is that ‘reconsideration’ is conducted by DWP, it is not an independent review and it is largely a waste of time. To properly challenge a decision like this you have go to a Tribunal (been there, done it two years ago and it’s a painless process with a 65%+ success rate) and the CAB have specialists who will assist you with this.
Claire Davey
Those who had lifetime awards before PIP should sue the government for breach of contract – lifetime awards were only given to those who were deemed by both their doctors and the DWP to be permanently disabled, and now they’re suddenly cured by the stroke of a pen? This can only lead to one conclusion – the Tories want to force us back to Victorian times where the sick and disabled were either locked away or left to fend for themselves on the streets as beggars!
“LORD FREUD’S LEGACY”
Former science teacher Emma Round, 33, who lives with her husband, in Ladywood, Birmingham, tells Claire Donnelly how constant assessment made her suicidal. As part our Wigan Pier 2017 project, she explains why the future seems bleak for anyone living with disability.
The assessment process is completely inhumane, it’s causing so much pain and trauma for people who are already struggling to cope.
You live in absolute fear of the next change, the next assessment.
I’ve got Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and I spent every day in the run up to my last assessment thinking about killing myself to make the stress stop.
You are made to feel you are to blame for needing support. The next step will be assisted suicide – if a right to die is ever made legal here we will see disabled people using it as they have been made to feel they are such a burden.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/assessment-made-suicidal-thought-killing-9751064
“MORTALITY STATISTICS OF THE DWP”
LORD FREUD’S KILLING TALLY
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/459106/mortality-statistics-esa-ib-sda.pdf
“MENTAL HEALTH DEATHS JUMP 50% IN THE LAST THREE YEARS”
……………..LORD FRAUD’S KILLING MACHINE SURPASSES TORY PREDICTIONS
The number of unexpected patient deaths reported by England’s mental health trusts has risen by almost 50% in three years, figures suggest.
The findings, for the BBC’s Panorama programme, are based on FOI results from half of mental health trusts.
Unexpected deaths include death by suicide, neglect and misadventure.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38852420
Raising the issue at Commons’ health questions on Tuesday, former shadow health minister Luciana Berger said she was “ashamed to live in a country” where the number of unexpected deaths among mental health patients had risen in recent years.
She said: “That is not a reflection of a country that cares equally about mental health as it does about physical health.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38852420
………………………………………………………………………..
“The Department of Health said the increase was “expected” because of changes to the way deaths were recorded and investigated”
……………..YET MOST WOULD AGREE THAT THE WELFARE REFORM ACT SIGNED OFF BY THE INGLORIOUS FREUD BORE ALL THE HALLMARKS OF THE CULL AGAINST THE DISABLED…….
“COVERING UP THE DISABILITY DEATHS”
By John Pring Disability News Service 2nd February 2017 A crucial report submitted to the United Nations by three national disabled people’s organisations has been criticised for failing to speak out strongly enough on the links between the UK government’s welfare reforms and the deaths of benefit claimants. The “shadow report” will be sent to the UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities (CRPD), which will question the UK government in public this year about its progress in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). [ 1,342 more word ]
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/…/un-report-failure-on-be…/
Over the last two-and-a-half years, Disability News Service (DNS) has built up a substantial body of documentary evidence linking government ministers with the deaths of benefit claimants, particularly those with mental health conditions.
Both DR UK and Disability Wales are paid subscribers to DNS, and so have received these stories throughout that period.
Among those reports, DNS has repeatedly described how ministers failed to act on a coroner’s warning in 2010 that disabled people would die if they failed to improve the safety of the work capability assessment (WCA).
A report by a second coroner and another by the Scottish Mental Welfare Commission showed that other disabled people lost their lives as a result of that failure to act.
Ministers also deliberately loosened regulations that had been drawn up to protect people with mental health conditions whose lives could be at risk if forced into work-related activity.
And ministers failed to show the 2010 coroner’s report and their own secret reviews into deaths linked to the WCA to the independent expert they hired to review the assessment.
Neither DR UK, Disability Wales, Inclusion Scotland or Crowther have requested any of that documentary evidence while preparing this week’s report, and none of those concerns are mentioned in the report.
There is also no mention in the report of Government-funded research by public health experts from the Universities of Liverpool and Oxford, which concluded in late 2015 that the programme to reassess people on incapacity benefit through the WCA was linked to 590 suicides in just three years.
Tracey Lazard, chief executive of Inclusion London, criticised the shadow report, and said that an alternative report by the Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance would ensure that these issues were properly addressed.
She said: “The direct human cost of the government’s welfare reform policy, as so damningly evidenced in the UN disability committee inquiry report, represents a deliberate and systematic attack on disabled people’s rights and quality of life: attacks justified by an economic ideology that seems to view the support disabled people need as an unnecessary cost that needs to be eliminated .
A DPAC spokeswoman said: “The UK government has repeatedly denied the causal link between benefit deaths and welfare reform and this shadow report presents no challenge to that disgraceful position.
“HOW THE LIKES OF DISABILITITY RESEARCH UK SAID FUCK ALL ABOUT CLAIMANT DEATHS FOR FEAR OF LOSING GOVERNMENT FUNDING”
MOST OF THE DISABILITY CHARITIES ARE NOTHING BUT A FREELOADING SHAM WHO PUT THE WAGES OF THEIR OWN STAFF ABOVE THOSE THEY PURPORT TO REPRESENT……
Asked to explain the lack of emphasis on the links between the government’s welfare reforms and the deaths of claimants, Crowther said he had worked as a consultant for DR UK and Disability Wales and so it was “for them to comment, not me”.
Sue Bott, DR UK’s deputy chief executive, said the issue was raised twice in the report, which also endorsed CRPD’s findings, which itself “raised the matter of deaths of people following benefits assessment”.
She said: “We chose not to reiterate the issues covered in the inquiry report, save to provide updates on some issues such as the [proposed cut to some claimants of employment and support allowance], in order to have space to raise other critical issues such as deaths in detention within the overall shadow report word limit.
“On the issue itself, it is not clear from a legal point of view that these deaths would amount to a violation by the state of the right to life, hence the language we chose to use and our cross referencing to the right to health.
“This should not be regarded as any downgrading of the seriousness of the issues raised.
“We think the reports provide a comprehensive and robust account of current challenges facing disabled people and our rights in Britain today.”
She added: “It seems likely that the [CRPD] will highlight the impact of austerity measures and benefits reforms when it selects its ‘list of issues’ in March and subsequently this will provide an opportunity to submit additional evidence.
“We will explore the opportunity to do so at that stage.”
She said the reference to providing “more detail” further on in the report was “a mistake that we overlooked during final editing”.
DRUK BUNCH OF FREELOADING WANKERS
“Government accused of kicking UN concerns about ‘austerity’ into the long grass”
“Exclusive: In a letter to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Justice Minister Oliver Weald rejects UN concerns that welfare reform is worsening inequality in the UK”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-accused-of-kicking-un-concerns-about-its-austerity-policy-into-the-long-grass-a7569761.html
“LORD FRAUD DEFENDS THE INDEFENSIBLE – THE FUCKER NEEDS TO BE PROSECUTED!”
“Universal Credit issues driving tenants into debt, ex-minister admits”
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/08/universal-credit-issues-driving-tenants-into-debt-ex-minister-admits
……………CORRECTION, NEEDS TO BE HUNG UNTIL PRONOUNCED DEAD!
Geoff – Yes, indeed – nothing is bad enough!
“THIS IS THE TORY IDEA OF ‘DEMOCRACY’ IN ACTION!”
“Tory MP’s block bid to reveal if Brexit will give the NHS £350 million a week”
“Chuka Umunna wanted to force the Government to publish a report estimating how Brexit would affect health spending – but it was blocked”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mps-block-bid-reveal-9781752
Dean Mason 6 February 2017
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions, I would like to know how I can bring a claim of Fraud by false representation against the DWP, and it’s medical assessor Maximus, also a case of negligence.
Yours faithfully,
D.Mason.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/fraud_against_me#incoming-933190
HOW A DWP PENPUSHER WITH ABSOLUTELY NO MEDICAL QUALIFICATIONS IS ALLOWED TO MAKE DECISIONS ON A DISABLED PERSONS FITNESS TO WORK
23
The DM should always consider whether a substantial risk could be prevented or
mitigated, particularly where a risk is identified by the individual claimant. For example,
in paragraph 25
1.
and
2.
, although there could be a substantial risk of harm to health
if the claimant was exposed to a cold environment, the risk could be prevented or
reduced if the claimant were not required to attend in person on cold days.
24
Where there is evidence that there is a risk to health, the DM should also consider
whether any reasonable adjustments could be made to accommodate any problems
the claimant may have in order to avoid the risk. For example, where the claimant has
problems getting about due to panic attacks, it may be possible to undertake WRA at
or from home, doing things in writing, reading, on-line or by telephone. A claimant who
has difficulties with face-to-face social contact could be capable of undertaking WRA
by telephone, or on-line.
…………….NO FUCKING WONDER CLAIMANTS ARE DROPPING LIKE FLIES MR FREUD?
“BBC ACCUSED OF PEDDLING FAKE NEWS”
CAN ANYBODY NAME ONE THING THAT HAS IMPROVED SINCE THE CONSERVATIVES TOOK OFFICE?
I CAN THINK OF NOTHING………….
THE VERY FABRIC OF UK SOCIETY IS BREAKING APART YET THE TORY MOUTHPIECE, THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE OF THE BBC SAYS OTHERWISE.
FAKE NEWS IS SYNONYMOUS WITH OUR STATE BROADCASTER, WE ARE DRIP FED PURE SHIT ON A DAILY BASIS.
EVERYTHING WE ARE TOLD HAS BEEN UNPICKED AND RESTRUCTURED TO FORM A POLITICAL BIAS.
FUCK THE LICENSE FEE, YOU ARE TARGETTED WITH PURE DRIVEL ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS.
THE BBC ARE A TOOL OF THE STATE, THE MOUTHPIECE OF THE VERY CANCER THAT IS EATING THE UK.
CLAIMANT DEATHS GO UNREPORTED, HUMAN RIGHTS BREACHES GO UNREPORTED AND DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST NHS PRIVATISATION ARE PLAYED TO A MINIMUM.
IF EVERYONE SAID FUCK THE LICENSE FEE, THE BBC WOULD CEASE TO EXIST…………..
………….and the Daily Mail
Wikipedia editors have voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”.
The move is highly unusual for the online encyclopaedia, which rarely puts in place a blanket ban on publications and which still allows links to sources such as Kremlin backed news organisation Russia Today, and Fox News, both of which have raised concern among editors.
The editors described the arguments for a ban as “centred on the Daily Mail’s reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication”.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia-bans-daily-mail-as-unreliable-source-for-website?CMP=twt_a-media_b-gdnmedia
“NHS PRIVATISATION – A LOT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE TOO STUPID, (OR IGNORANT) ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON – BUT ALSO, SHAMEFULLY, IT SEEMS THAT A LOT OF THEM JUST DON’T CARE!”
(The ‘BBC TORY FOGHORN’ at 6PM News today compared our NHS to the German version – and mentioned that the German one has ‘Health Insurance’ paid partly by the employee and partly by the employer!
Also, they are ‘more active’ in suggesting ‘fitness/exercise’ to stay well!)
“A&E have just had the worst month in 13 years – and guess what the next step will be”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/02/09/ae-just-had-the-worst-month-in-13-years-and-guess-what-the-next-step-will-be/
“JEREMY CUNT AND MORE THAN 250 GOVERNMENT M.P.s AND MINISTERS AND BRANSON WILL ALL BE LAUGHING AND RUNNING OFF TO BANK WITH THEIR ILL-GOTTEN PROCEEDS ONCE THE NHS IS EVENTUALLY SOLD TO THE INSURANCE COMPANY BASTARDS!”
“The government just announced its position on using the NHS in trade deals. And its pathetic (OPINION)”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/02/09/the-government-just-announced-its-position-on-using-the-nhs-in-trade-deals-and-its-pathetic-opinion/
“THIS IS VERY WELL DONE! – BUT THE UNDERLYING MESSAGE IS ALSO VERY SERIOUS!”
“The £350m Brexit bus has turned into a pumpkin”
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/02/09/350m-brexit-bus-turned-back-pumpkin/
Quite right Paul, The BBC is just an establishment propaganda tool. They soft soap the public about balance and equality but in reality they just hide the real facts from the public and promote whatever the NWO requires. Seriously can anybody say that the BBC is any different from even the evil Murdoch press in it’s core values. The difference is so slight it is sometimes blurred and difficult to know where the news stories were originally sourced. And all the fake news allegations against Russia Today (RT) are bullshit. What the establishment is really saying is we don’t like RT talking about things that make us uncomfortable or give a differing opinion. That’s the reality of the situation! Anyone who studies history seriously, will tell you this is how the state (any state) always behaves. If you can control the information flow you can get your people to accept almost anything. Hitler new this, Stalin new this and all world leaders even today know this to be true. And don’t forget that when the public under the sham of democracy vote opposite to the establishment line all hell breaks loose. As in Trumps victory and Brexit. When they lose control of the masses we see how democratic the establishment really is. Watch carefully what is about to happen in France and Holland. At this time Marine Le Pen is ahead in the polls in France and so is Geert Wilders in some polls in Holland. You are about to see the most horrific abuse of the democratic systems of these two countries employed to stop these two from winning. And in case you think I am a sympathiser with the far right I am not. I am Socialist through and through but “Honesty” is so important when analysing what is going on and I know that what I am telling you is true. If anyone doubts me about how important control of the news is to manipulate the population then just this one quote will help you to understand: Prime Minister David Lloyd George telling C P Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian about reportage of the Western Front carnage of World War 1 (during WW1) : “If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don’t know and can’t know.”
People who read my posts and that of others like Paul and Geoff may find this website a good source of information on the subject of Mainstream Media deception and lying.
https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/
“I AM JUST VERY SURPRISED THAT IT’S NOT A TORY M.P. OR A TORY MINISTER THAT’S DONE THIS!”
“First picture of Cambridge University Tory who torched £20 note in front of freezing homeless man”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/first-picture-cambridge-tory-rich-9788075
This story brings home to me why I could never ever vote Tory. They call homeless people scum and behave worse than animals themselves. I would like to see this Tory toff thrown on the streets himself and made to sleep rough for a whole winter as a lesson in humility after confiscating all his wealth and using it to build shelters for homeless people to stay in. Himself excluded from shelter until the winter is over.
“RUPERT MURDOCH – ANOTHER ARCH-ARSEHOLE WITH TOO MUCH POWER, TOO MUCH MONEY AND FAR TOO MUCH INFLUENCE!”
This bastard met with Tory Government M.P.’s, Ministers and Theresa May more than 15 times during 2016. He was also allegedly in attendance and out of camera when Trump was recently interviewing Michael Gove.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/09/ed-miliband-asks-ofcom-for-inquiry-into-rupert-murdoch-sky-bid
“PIP investigation: Regulator refuses to act over Capita assessment report ‘lies'”
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-investigation-regulator-refuses-to-act-over-capita-assessment-report-lies/
“Mother of ‘fit for work’ victim calls for ministers to face criminal charges”
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mother-of-fit-for-work-victim-calls-for-ministers-to-face-criminal-charges/
“Green party calls on government to launch benefit deaths inquiry”
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/green-party-calls-on-government-to-launch-benefit-deaths-enquiry/
Sorry: That should read:
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/green-party-calls-on-government-to-launch-benefit-deaths-inquiry/
“HOW TO MURDER A CLAIMANT USING LORD DAVID FREUD’S TWISTED REFORMS”
Let people know this terrible story ISN’T unusual. It happens over and over and has been happening for years. It IS killing people, it is forcing people into homelessness, hunger, degradation, mental and physical collapse. x
DWP tell doctors not to write sick note for dying father
Daughter’s fury after DWP tell doctors not to write sick note for dying father The 55-year-old, who worked for 30 years before losing his job at a…
youtube.com
“BARON FREUD’S LATEST TALLY”
An actual realistic report on the system’s abuse, degradation, suffering and death. It’s hard to watch but will be good to share for all the people who still don’t ‘get it’.
If anyone feeling suicidal please, please contact Samaritans, your local 24 hr emergency mental health team or dial 999. xxx
The broken benefit system not fit for purpose
Enough is enough. Disabled people are driven to suicide because of the Government’s welfare reform Nearly 600 suicides in England may be associated…
DWP kills men, women & children. Slavery results in death. UC results in slavery. Brexit kills – Jo Cox. Blood on the Tories hands aka Tory Deaths failing care of duty.
Trump & May will not be here in June !!! Terrorists !!!
Trump runs Maximus – Concentrix & The UKs Civil Service contracts to USA Corporations. NHS Death & DWP Death !!! DWP Assisted Suicide is the Tory Policy.
Donald Duck Trump & Theresa May arrested for a criminal offence. Forget poll a tricks !!!
Who is suicidal Trump & May !!! Losers. Trump will have to buy twitter because Trump needs to get banned of Twitter for racial incitement.
Theresa May has now been blackmailed by Trump because the Russians are blackmailing Trump.
Theresa May is a terrorist on Disabled People, Hard Working families, kids, the poor, the unemployed, single parents.
IRA – Independent Rasta Army.
MI5 fuck off !!!
Talking about Theresa May & The PPK !!!
The CIA are thinking how to kill Trump !!!
Fuck off UK none of your business !!!
Allah is a banned word in the UK. Terrorists. The Disabled are already under the anti terrorists bill so what the fuck can the UK Government do. Genocide !!!
Suck my DWP Assisted Suicide !!!
“WELL – THAT’S WHAT HE SAID!”
“I Daniel Blake ‘does’nt’ represent reality says jobcentre manager”
“Exclusive: Boss at Newcastle agency shown in Ken Loach hit criticises how it is portrayed but director says film was fair”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/10/i-daniel-blake-doesnt-represent-reality-says-jobcentre-manager
“YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF BBC ‘TORY PROPAGANDA’ FOGHORN!”
(Why the fuck are we really paying our ‘enforced’ TV licence fee!)
And, in addition to that – I very much doubt that these ‘volunteers’ are going to see any reduction in their ‘Council Tax’ contributions at all any time soon!
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/02/10/bbc-turns-daily-politics-ad-campaign-unpaid-work-tories-video/
“AND – SO RIGHTLY TOO!”
“National DPOs forced to withdraw report sent to UN over benefit deaths evidence”
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/national-dpos-forced-to-withdraw-report-sent-to-un-over-benefit-deaths-evidence/
“Theresa May faces public backlash over hard Brexit, poll finds”
“Just 35% of British public in new ICM survey would back Britain leaving the EU without agreement with other states”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/11/theresa-may-hard-brexit-public-backlash-icm-poll
“THIS IS AN EXPLANATION OF THE ‘WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT'”
“The history (so far!) of the hated ‘Work Capability Assessment'”
This is just a very small ‘part’ of the ‘Welfare Reforms’ brainchild of the Conservative and totally ‘mentally unstable’, and very possibly ‘mad’ Lord David Freud (if you or me were to do this – we would undoubtedly be sectioned under The Mental Health Act) – But because ‘Lord Freud’ is a ‘Lord’ – he (at the moment is getting away with all of it)).
IT IS SHAMEFUL AND ULTIMATELY – ALL OF IT AMOUNTS TO CULPABLE MURDER – TOGETHER WITH HIS ‘LESSER’ COHORTS – IAIN DUNCAN SMITH, CHRIS GRAYLING AND ALSO PRITI PATEL. ALL OF THESE ARE IN THE SAME (DWP) STABLE TOGETHER – ALL OF THEM ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDER OF CLAIMANTS – AND ALL OF THEM SHOULD FACE THEIR JUSTICE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_Capability_Assessment
NOT FORGETTING ALSO – THE STONE HEARTED AND VERY SHIFTY current Conservative ‘Secretary of State for Work and Pensions’ – namely DAMIAN GREEN. Another Tory asshole who will not admit failure in Office.
DAMIAN GREEN WILL ALSO HAVE TO ANSWER FOR HIS OWN (KNOWN) TRANSGRESSIONS WITH REGARD TO ANY CLAIMANT DEATHS – SINCE THE DATE THAT HE CAME TO POWER.
Well Done Andy Greene from the DPAC Steering Group was interviewed by RT news about the UN Inquiry on Thurdsay 9th Feb:
Watch: Andy Greene interviewed on RT about the UN Investigation into the governments maltreatment of disabled people – DPAC
dpac.uk.net
http://dpac.uk.net/2017/02/watch-andy-greene-interviewed-rt-un-investigation-governments-maltreatment-disabled-people/
……………….COMING FOR FREUD
Private Eye
Number crunching
1 – Prosecutions by HMRC of ‘high net worth individuals’ for tax fraud in last five years, described by Commons public accounts committee as a ‘dismal record’
5,117 – Prosecutions for benefit fraud in last year alone
“THE GRIM REAPER MUST BE A SHAREHOLDER IN THE CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT”
……………..Death seems to follow the Tories like a shadow.
DISABILITY DEATHS
CLAIMANT DEATHS
PRISON DEATHS
HOMELESS DEATHS
MENTAL HEALTH DEATHS
SOCIAL CARE DEATHS
………..and now, NHS RELATED DEATHS.
CONSERVATISM AND MORTALITY STATISTICS SEEM TO BE CONJOINED TWINS?
“DWP ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION AND REMOVE DECISION MAKERS GUIDE FROM THE WEBSITE BECAUSE ALL THE DEATHS ARE BECOMING VERY EMBARRASSING”
S. Gwilliam 11 February 2017
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
RFI-1:
Please would you provide a pdf copy of the Decision Makers Memo 10/15 which has been removed from the online publications.
It used to be available here https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio… but has now been removed.
RFI-2:
If the guidance contained in DMG memo 10/15 has now been incorporated into the full DMG guides for ESA, Volumes 8 or 9, (or elsewhere in the DMG guides) then could you also provide a FULL chapter reference/references for where the guidance has now been incorporated.
If it has not been incorporated into the full guides then please confirm this.
On a more general note, presumably when these documents are removed from the online publications they are archived somewhere?
RFI-3:
Please provide a publicly accessible weblink to the archives where old DMG memos are stored.
Yours faithfully,
S. Gwilliam
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/dmg_memos_removed_from_online_pu#incoming-936457
……………………SURELY EXPOSING THE FACT THAT DECISIONS MADE BY PEN PUSHERS WITH NO MEDICAL QUALIFICATIONS HAVE LED TO THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS, IS STARTING TO LOOK LIKE MURDER?
“HOW THE DECISION MAKERS DISREGARD A DISABLED CLAIMANTS FORMER DISABILITY AWARDS AND MEDICAL SUBMISSIONS IN ORDER TO STEAL THEIR MEAGRE PITTANCE”
barbara sunley 11 February 2017
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
On transition from DLA to PIP does the DM at the department for work and pensions have to look at all the paper work from the last assessment for DLA and does the claimant have the right to request a copy of the last DLA assessment when going forward to an appeal so that the claimant can disseminate the differentials between the underlying fundamentals that awarded a claim for DLA but disallowed the award of personal independence payment .Also is this pertinent in an appeal as it contains the history of a claimants health when the decision maker at the DWP has not sought current health condition from the claimants General Practitioner to help in determining the validity of the claim
Yours faithfully,
barbara sunley
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/dla_to_pip_4#incoming-936453
…………..AND ALL THE BENT JUDICIARY ARE INSTRUCTED TO LOOK AWAY AS THEY FILL THEIR OVERTIME BLOATED BANK ACCOUNTS WITH THE PAIN OF OTHERS………
“DWP HIDING DEATHS / PART 2”
Mr. Watson 10 February 2017
Delivered
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Since you have denied my previous request
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/w…
on a costs exemption I will narrow down the request.
The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has published a study titled “‘First, do no harm’: are disability assessments associated with adverse trends in mental health? A longitudinal ecological study” B. Barr et al. November 2015. and concluded WCAs kill 200 people every year.
Please provide copies of any Emails which mention this study, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health or any of the authors that were sent or received by the Chief Executive.
If cost limits allow please also provide copies of any Emails which mention this study, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health or any of the authors that were sent or received by any DWP Senior Civil Servant.
If cost limits allow please also provide copies of any Emails which mention this study, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health or any of the authors that were sent or received by the DWP P.R. team.
I am fully aware you do not wish this information to be released into the public domain and will use any excuse to prevent it, however there is clearly a public interest in how the department reacts to the fact that it is directly responsible for hundreds of deaths and an immeasurable amount of suffering.
The DWP refuses to officially collate any statistics that could cause reputational damage, so this type of study is the best the public is going to get with regards to effects of department policy.
You really are trying to defend to indefensible by denying this FOI request.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Watson
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/wcas_kill_200_people_every_year_2#incoming-936413
“THEY ENDURED POOR HEALTH, LONG SHIFTS, HARD TOIL AND THE GOVERNMENT NOW STEALS THEIR PENSIONS”
£10 BILLION THIEVED FROM MINERS PENSION FUNDS
Is there any wonder the Tories are trying to hide the truth of what really happened at Orgreave Colliery?
Could the raping and pillaging of the miners toil to bring black gold to the millions be any clearer?
Working in the worst possible conditions in hell holes that would deter most, the miners were the backbone of British Industry, supplying coal to all and sundry.
Defective hearing, poisoned lungs, a by product of the job that real men endured, day in, day out………
news november 2016
When the coal industry was privatised in 1994, the UK government agreed to guarantee the total pension would not fall in cash terms, and that if there was a surplus it would be shared 50/50 with the scheme’s members.
A pension surplus is when the value of cash, investments and other assets in the scheme exceed the amount it needs to pay the pensions of its members.
Since the deal was struck, the UK government said it had received £3.35bn from the scheme.
Mr Lewis, Plaid AM for South Wales East, said: “In recent weeks the UK government has disgracefully decided not to properly address a past injustice against the miners – the Battle of Orgreave.
“In addition to addressing past injustices, it must now confront an ongoing injustice, the use of the Mineworkers’ Pension Fund as a cash cow for the state.
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news 12 february 2017
The government have spent £10 billiion
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……………..IF YOU ARE THINKING OF INVESTING IN A PENSION SCHEME, THINK VERY CAREFULLY.
YOU WILL FIND THAT GLEAMING POT OF GOLD THAT YOU WERE PROMISED HAS SUDDENLY VANISHED AND YOU ARE LEFT WITH JUST ENOUGH TO SURVIVE.
SOME MINERS ARE DRAWING JUST £10 PER WEEK FROM THE PENSION THAT PROMISED THE EARTH.
THE SCUMSUCKERS IN POWER WILL SMILE AS THEY KICK THE CHAIR FROM BENEATH YOU.
Watch: Andy Greene interviewed on RT about the UN Investigation into the governments maltreatment of disabled people
http://dpac.uk.net/2017/02/watch-andy-greene-interviewed-rt-un-investigation-governments-maltreatment-disabled-people/
“TOPPLING LIKE DOMINO’S MR. FREUD”
Protests at homeless spending cuts after man dies on streets of Birmingham
A protest against cuts to support for the homeless, vulnerable and disabled is going ahead despite a partial u-turn by city council bosses.
Voluntary groups, charities and service users, under the Save Our Support banner, are set to lobby Labour run Birmingham City Council against a £5 million cut in the supporting people budget which pays for services to prevent vulnerable people – such as domestic violence victims, the disabled and recovering addicts – becoming homeless.
Campaigners have warned that cuts will lead to more rough sleeping on the streets and more pressure on emergency services and end up costing the city more in the long run.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/protests-homeless-spending-cuts-after-12590921
……………….BUT DON’T WORRY MY LORD, THEY ARE MERELY A SUBSPECIES, WHO DESERVE NOTHING LESS……….
“KEN LOACH: TORY GOVERNMENT ‘CALLOUS, BRUTAL AND DISGRACEFUL’ AND ‘MUST BE REMOVED'”
“Accepting the award for best British film at the Bafta awards in London, the veteran director says politicians speak for corporations – and film-makers must stand with the poor and vulnerable”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/12/ken-loach-governments-treatment-of-refugee-children-brutal-and-disgraceful
Sorry, that should read:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/12/ken-loach-governments-treatment-of-refugee-children-callous-brutal-and-disgraceful
“GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF ‘FULL FRONTAL ATTACK’ ON WHISTLEBLOWERS” (TORY DICTATORSHIP LOOMS!)
“Outcry follows plans to radically increase prison terms for revealing state secrets and to prosecute journalists”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/12/uk-government-accused-full-frontal-attack-prison-whistleblowers-media-journalists
“KEN LOACH AND I, DANIEL BLAKE” (The Indy’s version!)
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/baftas-ken-loach-i-daniel-blake-acceptance-speech-refugees-syria-government-benefits-a7576676.html
“WOMAN HOUSEBOUND WITH INCURABLE FLESH-EATING DISEASE FOR 15 YEARS HAS BENEFITS AXED AND TOLD ‘GO BACK TO WORK'”
“CeaJay Clem was was diagnosed with the horrifying flesh-eating disease in 2002 which just gets worse if exposed to sunlight meaning she can only get out for 15 minutes at a time”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-housebound-incurable-flesh-eating-9805921
Theresa May in hiding after meeting Donald Trump. Theresa May backs Donald trumps American Civil War 2017. The UK is a rogue State just like the USA !!! The USA can`t save the UK in war & Trade deals. May BOW to Trump & get in line as a weak PM with a weak country. The USA & UK promoting slavery once again !!! Genocide delays the American Civil War 2017. So the UK is on Trumps side !!!
The fear imposed on the UK by being trumps racist puppet aka Tory Government sees they fear as UKIP !!!
The fear imposed by the USA on the UK is called held for ransom controlled by Trump because trump is being blackmailed by the Russians. Weak weak May jumping the fear gun to be implemented in trumps impeachment & Mrs May`s Not Fit To Govern aka sacked. 40,000 people killed by the Tories since 2010. The UK Death Squad wants more & more deaths to make Syria look like a little war with a lot less victims in 6 years. In context the UK kills more UK people than ISIS kills world wide in 10 years. IDS – Cameron – Lord fraud genocide plan of the disabled.
Since there are a lot of UK people in the USA illegally, Why doesn’t Trump throw out UK people from the USA !!! UK war – USA war – USA Vs UK WAR. Get the MI5 agent & support him you Tory Scum. Let`s re write American History – USA at war with the UK #theamericancivilwar2017 #twittersclosingdown2017
May you follow Trump being a criminal. That is why Theresa May is in hiding trying to distance herself from Trump. Too Late May you criminal.
A lot bigger business than the DWP now !!! IRA – Independent Rasta Army.
Theresa May is going to follow the USA into a Iran – North Korea – Russia – China war !!! Support the USA Theresa May & go to war in these countries with the USA !!!! Theresa May sacked before that happens. Still paying the USA back for WWII. Theresa May still in hiding after meeting Donald Duck Trump.
Forget the NHS – DWP – Brexit !!!! The UK is now a bankrupt 3rd world country with 10th class citizens !!!
Everything is not politics !!! Is being stupid political !!! Or is being stupid called political !!!
Is DWP Assisted Suicide political !!! Political Prisoner or political death !!!
How about taking out the DWP bit !!!
Political farting !!!
Theresa May & The PPK run by Donald Trump run by the Russians pissing on the west.
The Police are getting pissed off with the DWP & Jobcentres always calling the police on people that give them trouble. The DWP & Jobcentres are wasting police time which is a criminal offence. The DWP & Jobcentre hide behind suicide & gets the police to break down the door if your not in when they call. The police are really pissed off with the DWP crying wolf all the time. Being sectioned is cheaper for the DWP but £2,000 a week for the tax payer. You are difficult which means one has a suicide case to deal with. The DWP guidance handbook for DWP employers is a weapon the DWP need to combat doing their job.
DWP Assisted Suicide.
can say suicide because I am untouchable unless the DWP want to be charged for wasting police time.
SUICIDE DWP SUICIDE – DWP ASSISTED SUICIDE. TORY SUICIDE.
Does the DWP workers think about suicide all the time ? Yes being in a shitty job bullied by their bosses.
Suicide DWP Bomber – Is that political or the Anti Terrorist Squad – The DWP have now got promoted to talking about suicide bombers who have a suicide at the Jobcentre.
What we are talking about is a heart attack at the jobcentre & the jobcentre blowing it out of proportion.
I have a new job working at the PPK. I have a new job working with ISIS. I have a new job as a British political prisoner in Britain. I thought that was the job of Theresa May.
I got these jobs at the jobcentre so blame the DWP & Theresa May for promoting the PPK & ISIS
Since disabled people are already under the anti terrorist bill.
DWP Violence Means Death – DWP Assisted Suicide.
Stop scaring the Tories & their trolls. Then act then you useless bullies. Thought not !!!!
We are getting worried over your mental State called the UK. It is not my mental state but the Tories mental State that Lord Fraud now says it was all made up & it won`t work after killing 40,000 people in the UK since 2010.
Perhaps the UN lives in a mental state !!!! Damming UN report on the UK human rights breaches of UK people & the disabled.
It`s too dangerous like watch my side I`m dangerous for disabled killers !!!
My job CV written by the jobcentre is full of suicide. Are there many jobs for people with suicide !!! ISIS – PPK perhaps – Can the DWP & Tories think of any others !!!
“TORY MP TIM LOUGHTON” – KEN LOACH HAS HIT AN OPEN NERVE!
“Tory MP complains Ken Loach’s ‘drivel’ speech marred his ‘great night’ at the BAFTA’s”
“One MP retorted to Tim Loughton “Tory in a bow tie on a lavish freebie has his night ruined by being reminded how the other half live”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-complains-ken-loachs-drivel-9808942
Sorry – that should read:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-complains-ken-loachs-drivel-9808482
“TIM LOUGHTON M.P. – ANOTHER JUMPED-UP SMUG & RICH TWAT”
Here is his life and times (so far) on Wikipedia!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Loughton
“The government’s latest benefits blunder is just the tip of the iceberg”
(In addition to this, it was announced last week that the Tories are now going to do a u-turn, (instead of Concentrix or any other private company dealing with it!) and they now intend to give a large contract to another private company (as yet unnamed) to ‘work with the DWP’ to ‘minimise fraud and error’ in the Tax Credits system (perhaps also other benefits as well!) in 2019. I assume that they will be putting it out for tender!
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2017/02/08/the-government-s-latest-benefits-blunder-is-just-the-tip-of
“ANOTHER SHOCKING ‘ASSESSMENT’ OUTCOME – THE SECOND ONE I’VE PUT ON HERE TODAY!”
“‘Callous’ cuts leave kidney patient with young son relying on food banks after disability benefits are axed”
“Alex Crawley has had tow transplants and is left exhausted by four hours of dialysis three days a week – but the DWP said he was fit to work”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/callous-cuts-leave-kidney-patient-9812238
“GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA ARM, THE BBC, DELIBERATELY IGNORE KEN LOACH AWARD AND HIS SPEECH ABOUT THE MURDEROUS CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT”
Paul Kersey
The BBC makes enough money from advertising revenue from BBC programs that are broadcast on UK freeview channels and UK satelite and internet channels and in other countries. It is obvious that the BBC has done secret deals with the government in return for keeping the tv license fee and the deal seems to be for the BBC to remain silent about some important news, issues or news that can harm or tarnish the tories reputation and to churn out anti corbyn rhetoric and bias and churn out pro tory news and lies and propaganda and this is now so painfully obvious that its becoming buttuck clenchingly embarrassing
Pair of homeless men forced to camp in a graveyard
……………..WHILE LORD FREUD ADDS UP HIS MORTALITY TALLY
A pair of homeless men have set up camp in a graveyard to escape the abuse they receive on the streets – which they describe as “the jungle”.
Chris Stanford and Jonathon Martin said they have had things thrown at them, been spat at – and mean-spirited locals have even tried to wee on them.
Each day Chris, who uses crutches, helps Jon, who is paraplegic, into his wheelchair and the pair head to the high street in Chatham, Kent, to beg for change.
Jon, 38, said he needs a wound on his foot dressed says the district nursing team refuses to visit him because he has no fixed address.
He said: “There are some nasty people about who throw things at you, spit at you, wee on you in the doorway. It’s disgusting.
“That’s why we’re in a tent, so that we have a little bolthole that we can come back to.
“We’re out in all weathers, we’ve got loads of quilts and things so we’re warm but a lot of things inside get damp.”
http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/must-reads/pair-homeless-men-forced-camp-graveyard/13/02/
Parents on zero-hour contracts ‘could miss out on free childcare’
Government confirms that half of families receiving existing 15 hours of free childcare will not qualify for new 30-hour scheme
The shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, has warned that parents on zero-hours contracts could miss out on the government’s election pledge of 30 hours a week of free childcare, as it emerged that fewer than half the families who receive the existing 15 free hours will qualify.
David Cameron made the 30 hours a week promise a key thrust of the Conservative party’s 2015 general election campaign, outflanking Labour’s offer of 25 hours a week, as the Tories sought to win over female voters.
In the party’s manifesto, it said: “Our commitment to you – bring in tax-free childcare to support parents back into work and give working parents of three- and four-year-olds 30 hours of free childcare a week.”
However, it has subsequently emerged that “working parents” means only those who earn “the equivalent of 16 hours working at either the national living wage per week for those aged 25 or over, or the national minimum wage for those aged 24 or under”. The highest-earning families, where at least one parent earns £100,000 or more, will also not qualify.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/12/parents-zero-hour-contracts-could-miss-out-free-childcare
“ARTICLE 6, RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL”
………THERE IS A GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION ON BANNING THE CLAIMANT FROM GIVING EVIDENCE IN COURT OR APPEAL
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
According to Debbie Abrahams there is a consultation in progress about whether or not to prevent claimants presenting evidence at benefit tribunals which currently is the final chance the claimant has of getting their benefit re-instated. This is currently based upon documents provided to the judge by the DWP and the claimant which is fair as it matches a typical court situation where all evidence is heard.
Please would you provide the relevant document or a link to the above mentioned consultation.
Much appreciated.
Yours faithfully,
Lee Jefferson
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/consultation_banning_claimants_f#incoming-937290
“THREAT OF SANCTION BY THE DWP / COERCION TO SIGN A CONTRACT WITH A WORK ROACH”
………….if you don’t agree we will starve you to death, as we have done many times in the past
mr p shepherd 13 February 2017
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
Is it mandatory that any one sent to a 3rd party provider must sign their paperwork ie contracts between a claimant and a 3rd party private company and failing to sign such paper work would result in a benefit sanction if the claimant is still willing to take part?.
Therefore is it lawful that a jcp adviser can issue a sanction doubt for not signing 3rd party paper work if the claimant is still willing to take part.
Under contract law it states any contract must be entered in to voluntary buy both parties and any threat of a sanction doubt or being forced to sign them with threats of a sanction is unlawful.
Yours faithfully,
Paul shepherd
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/mandatory_requirement_to_sign_pr#incoming-937289
“SKELETON FOUND ON PHONE TO DWP”
Barry Rennie 15 September 2016
Delivered
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
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/waiting_times_and_hung_up_calls#incoming-935486
“A CAREER IN THE ARMED SERVICES”………THINK AGAIN!
……….MOD REITERATES THAT YOU ARE MERELY CANNON FODDER
All the hype by David Cameron about the imaginary, MILITARY COVENANT was just a ruse to get more suckers into a battledress to fight for gas and oil reserves in far away places…………
The MILITARY COVENANT is a piece of fiction written to dispel the myth that upon leaving the services you were completely forgotten.
Those brave souls fortunate to make it back from theatres of war soon found out they were exposed to the same cost cutting regimes as civvies , being sent for fake medical reports to ATOS and placed in the labour market as fit for work.
It didn’t really matter what your condition, you would be afforded absolutely zero, nil, zilch………….
Now the MOD wants to make it impossible for a soldier to seek compensation from themselves by handing over the reigns to a another bureaucratic tier of knobber’s instructed to block any such claims.
I suspect the new tier will be one of the usual suspects already leaching the system dry, another craftily led out piece of privatisation by the back door.
WHEN RETURNING FROM THE BATTLEFIELD OF A THEATRE OF WAR IN SOME GOD FORESAKEN BACK WOODS COUNTRY TO SECURE AN OIL DEAL FOR THOSE IN PARLIAMENT WITH SHAREHOLDINGS, TAKE A STEP BACK AND REALISE WHAT A CUNT THEY HAVE PLAYED YOU FOR………..
“A DISFIGURED HEAD IN A FUCKING HATBOX SUFFERING FROM BATTLE FATIGUE AND LEFT OUT TO DRY”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38960797
“CARING FOR OUR SERVICE PERSONNEL”
THE DWP TRIP TO ATOS
Response: Atos Healthcare will assess both the physical and mental “scars of combat” and are
able to assess the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Servicemen discharged from the
Forces are entitled to a pension when their disability was caused or aggravated by service. For
those who claim Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), a physical examination is a small
part of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) process and people are only asked to do what
they can and what is comfortable, with their specific consent. Ex-armed forces personnel who
claim ESA are likely to have a variety of health conditions both physical and mental health
.
………………………………………………………………………..
Your questions about the number of DWP benefit claims, disallowances and appeals,
specifically about ex-servicemen is not held by the Department. DWP does not ask for military
information in the Limited Capability Assessment questionnaire (ESA50) or any other form,
although the ESA50 does allow the individual to explain about their condition and how they
acquired it.
…………………………………………………………………..
Daily Mail online 1 June 2013
A record number of wounded war veterans have been denied disability benefits in the past year
after undergoing tests carried out by the Government’s controversial assessment company.
Hundreds of injured ex-soldiers are being declared fit for work by Atos Healthcare in spite of
physical and mental injuries they suffered in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Last night, the Royal British Legion (RBL) announced a 72 per cent annual rise in former
soldiers having their applications to receive Employment Support Allowance (ESA) turned down.
Several hundred wounded personnel were denied the benefit on the basis of physical
examinations conducted by Atos, according to the RBL.
The company is contracted by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to assess benefits
claimants’ capability to work.
In one case, Lance Corporal Mark Dryden, 35 – a former member of the Royal Regiment of
Fusiliers who, after an explosion in Iraq, lost his right arm and the full use of his left – was asked
by Atos assessors if he was left or right-handed. He is now taking his case against the DWP to a
benefits tribunal.
That case, and others, have led to accusations that Atos Healthcare is under intense pressure to
produce assessments that enable the Government to reject benefits claims.
Servicemen suffering from the mental scars of combat also complain that they have been turned
down for disability benefits.
Many injured troops have also described having to undergo demeaning physical tests by the
firm.
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THE MILITARY COVENANT
The armed forces covenant sets out the relationship between the nation, the government and the armed forces. It recognises that the whole nation has a moral obligation to members of the armed forces and their families, and it establishes how they should expect to be treated.
The covenant’s 2 principles are that:
the armed forces community should not face disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services
special consideration is appropriate in some cases, especially for those who have given most such as the injured and the bereaved
The covenant exists to redress the disadvantages that the armed forces community may face in comparison to other citizens, and to recognise sacrifices made.
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“THE MINUTE YOU PUT ON A BATTLEDRESS, YOU ARE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN”
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Well informative post here your have done.