The powerful documentary Inequality for All was an unexpected hit at the recent Sundance film festival, arguing that US capitalism has fatally abandoned the middle classes while making the super-rich richer. Can its star, economist Robert Reich, do for economics what Al Gore did for the environment? … Continue reading
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The British public school, historically so dedicated to repressing emotion, has become hysterical. It’s Self-piteous Anonymous … Continue reading
The Conservatives are inviting people to see poverty as a kind of self-inflicted moral freak show, to be gawped at and despised … Continue reading
£5,200,000,000 will be Robbed from you today as Army of Accountants fiddle tax returns for the wealthy
£5,200,000,000 will be robbed from you today Britain will be robbed of £5.2 billion today as an army of accountants
A DISABLED campaigner has been found dead on the day the Glasgow factory where he worked for 40 years closed down
1st February 2013 via our comrades at Respect For the Unemployed & Benefit Claimants A DISABLED campaigner found dead on
‘Why does David Cameron insist on disability cuts that even sickened his own party?’ by Sonia Poulton
By SONIA POULTON UPDATED: 12:19, 1 February 2012 Comments (69) I have a question. It’s one that I can’t seem to get
DPAC Campaign for Benefit Justice and Against The Bedroom Tax ~ Sign the Statement
Follow the link: http://www.dpac.uk.net/2013/01/campaign-for-benefit-justice-sign-up-to-our-statement-against-tory-attacks-on-the-poor/#
Parents grieving the loss of their seven-year-old girl told they must pay tax on her room
Wednesday 30th January 2013 in News By Chris Webber, Reporter (Stockton/Hartlepool) HOPING FOR A SOLUTION: Julie and Mark
Atos scandal: Man found fit to work despite peeling bones
By Dailyrecord.co.uk 31 Jan 2013 08:32 KENNY NICOL was passed as fit to work, even though after seven operations bits of
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Westminster welfare cuts will push 15,000 more Scottish children below the poverty line
By Marc McLean 31 Jan 2013 08:31 ACCORDING to Holyrood, Con-Dem cuts will have a devastating impact on those struggling
British Pain Society: How DWP~AtoS Work Capability Assessments are failing chronic pain patients
Willow Jacky writes: This edition of the British Pain Society contains a full article on the DWP~AtoS Work Capability
ConDem’s Council Tax Blitz on Poor : ‘The wrong reform – at the worst possible time’
GAVIN KELLY Wednesday 30 January 2013 Britain’s poorest households – already struggling to cope with falling wages, rising living
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New ‘poll tax’ blow for UK’s poorest
Reforms leave millions facing bills of up to £600 ANDREW GRICE WEDNESDAY 30 JANUARY 2013 Millions of low-income households face
The Care Quality Commission finds mental health patients denied information, and staff inadequately trained … Continue reading
David Cameron tells Angus Robertson (SNP, Moray) to fuck off during PMQs
By Natalie Evans 57 Comments Calm down, dear: Officials deny David Cameron said “will you f*** off” to Angus
Continue readingDavid Cameron tells Angus Robertson (SNP, Moray) to fuck off during PMQs
Cuts to support for deaf children blamed for the first fall in GCSE grades for five years
Drop in deaf children’s educational achievement blamed on cuts By Joe Lepper, Monday 28 January 2013 Cuts to local
Statistical manipulation disguises the fact that disabled people are being hit the hardest by cuts to benefits and services
‘Social care is bearing the brunt of council cuts’ Statistical manipulation disguises the fact that disabled people are being hit
Soldier injured in Iraq grenade attack wins two-year benefit battle with DWP
Former lance corporal Adam Douglas has spent two years fighting the DWP to keep £70-a-month carers’ allowance Simon Neville The Guardian, Tuesday
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Soldier left suicidal after DWP accused him of faking injuries, tribunal told
Adam Douglas says he was accused of benefit fraud after ‘spurious’ surveillance footage was used against him Simon Neville guardian.co.uk, Monday
Continue readingSoldier left suicidal after DWP accused him of faking injuries, tribunal told
Panorama: The Great Disability Scam
The Great Disability Scam, as told by Kate Comments TV producer Kate Ansell is disabled and was part of