New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’
Picture Courtesy of Guardian By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP has accused
Continue readingNew disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’
Picture Courtesy of Guardian By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP has accused
Continue readingNew disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’
By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A crossbench disabled peer has called for an end to
Continue readingCrossbench disabled peer calls for an end to austerity, and the misery it has caused
By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 Work and pensions ministers have refused to explain why plans for
Continue readingMinisters’ silence over why WCA legislation is missing from Queen’s speech
B y John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 The United Nations (UN) committee that found the UK government
Continue readingUN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd June 2017 A coroner has declined to explain why he failed to take
Continue readingShock after inquest ignores ‘fitness for work’ and jobcentre concerns
By John Pring Disability News Service 22nd June 2017 A Tory election promise to “dismantle” the work capability
Continue readingQueen’s speech: Government appears to dump Mordaunt’s WCA election promise
By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017 The “toxic” government contractor Atos has been accused of
Continue readingRebranding of ‘toxic’ Atos will fail, activists promise
By John Pring Disability News Service 14th June 2017 A disabled women says she was left to sit
Continue readingWoman ‘forced to sit in her own urine for two hours’ by PIP assessor
Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an
Continue readingUK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help
The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security
Election 2017: Labour ‘will take a rights-based approach’ to protecting disabled people Labour has promised that it will take a
BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday
“I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government – and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all” ~ Surgeon Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) … Continue reading#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon
What you will read may be very distressing for you, but we are looking at the worst-case scenario and
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) appears to have
Continue readingDWP pilot failure on WCA ‘calls into question willingness to learn from suicides’
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 Disabled people are being subjected to dangerous violations of health
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 The sister of a disabled woman who she believes was driven
Continue readingPIP suicide woman’s sister blames ‘barbaric’ system for her death
By Alexandra Topping https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/16/woman-who-confronted-theresa-may-disability-cuts-ordeal-kathy-mohan Kathy Mohan, who became an overnight champion of disabled people, says Tories’ PIP scheme has
Continue reading‘I’m suffering’: woman who confronted May tells of disability cuts ordeal
Play Current Time0:13 / Duration Time1:12 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Mute Voter confronts Theresa May over disability benefit cuts
Continue readingIn confronting Theresa May, Kathy has spoken up for all Britain’s disabled people
By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 More than 10,000 disabled people have had their benefits slashed in
Continue readingLower benefit cap sees income slashed for more than 10,000 disabled people