Category Archives: Blog

  By Ros Wynne-Jones 22 May 2013 00:00 ROS WYNNE JONES’ REAL BRITAIN  Just over a month since the tax began letters with the words “final demand” and even “eviction” written on them started arriving   And so the Bedroom Tax evictions … Continue reading →

  By Paul O’Hare 20 May 2013 07:29   OUTRAGE as council uses strong-arm tactics to enforce hated Con-Dem policy on hard-up householders who have been forced into arrears.  Bedroom tax victim Angela Buskie Daily Record COUNCIL bureaucrats have threatened to kick … Continue reading →

By John McArdle Black Triangle Campaign Sunday 19th May 2013 As our members and supporters know, Black Triangle has been at the forefront of lobbying members of the medical profession to help us bring an end to the DWP-Atos Work … Continue reading →

‘Brit Nat Down’ posted on May 18, 2013 by Rev. Stuart Campbell Thanks to the alert reader who pointed us at a Plymouth Herald story today about lovable UKIP candidate and teacher of British children, the charming Ron Northcott. “Plymouth UKIP man quits … Continue reading →

  By Adrian Pearson 17 May 2013 Labour cannot promise to repeal the bedroom tax, its shadow benefits minister has told a Newcastle audience. Liam Byrne was in Tyneside to set out Labour’s plans to create jobs if it forms the next … Continue reading →

  ‘Disability benefit assessments ‘unfair’, says ex-worker’  The fit to work tests were introduced in 2010 and have proved controversial By Sophie Hutchinson BBC News A doctor who worked for the private company which assesses people for disability benefits says … Continue reading →

                        May 15th 2013      We have sent the following complaint about what we consider to be the incitement to hatred by Cornish councillor Colin Brewer. In Wadebridge … Continue reading →

Magnus Gardham Political Editor   Wednesday 15 May 2013   THOUSANDS of benefit claimants are being subjected to stressful fitness-for-work tests because GPs are failing to provide the the Department for Work and Pensions with medical information on time.  Figures released … Continue reading →

The hidden welfare state Posted on May 14, 2013 by syzygysue       The UK has two welfare states.  There is one that is reported and endlessly discussed, and another, which is rarely mentioned.  Whilst the first is suffering enormous cuts under the … Continue reading →

Iain Duncan Smith’s punishing new payments were the last straw for the tragic 53-year-old who killed herself to avoid plunging into further poverty  Steven Bottrill Page One Photography Unable to work because of ­a crippling illness, ­Stephanie Bottrill was already … Continue reading →

  Article written by Patrick Burns   14 May 2013 Last updated at 11:53   Political editor, Midlands   “The government was to blame.” It’s one simple, chilling sentence in the suicide note left by Stephanie Bottrill from Solihull early on the … Continue reading →

  By John McArdle  Published on 14/05/2013 12:00 Sick and disabled people are being subjected to enormous and avoidable suffering as a consequence of the UK 
Government’s draconian welfare reforms. Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has reportedly written to Iain Duncan … Continue reading →

  By John Pring  May 10, 2013 4:23 pm Disabled activists could target the British Medical Association (BMA) with direct action protests after it refused to campaign for the government’s “fitness for work” test to be scrapped, despite an overwhelming vote … Continue reading →

    Published on 08/05/2013 12:00  SOME of the Capital’s most vulnerable residents are being subjected to “enormous avoidable suffering” as a result of fitness-to-work benefits tests, prominent city GPs have said.   The controversial assessments are carried out by private … Continue reading →

  By Judith Duffy  Sunday 5 May 2013  SCOTTISH ministers have warned UK Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith that NHS services are coming under “intolerable strain” due to the extra workload created by welfare reforms.  The letter sent … Continue reading →

  Black Triangle Campaign Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights   info@blacktrianglecampaign.org   1.  Doctors’ Letter   TEXT   On 24th June last year at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) doctors from every discipline voted overwhelmingly to demand that the DWP-Atos … Continue reading →