Tommy Sheppard: Let’s target open minds of the i-curious for whom the time just wasn’t right
By Tommy Shepard FOUR elections and a referendum: It’s been a helluva five years. With the new SNP Government now
By Tommy Shepard FOUR elections and a referendum: It’s been a helluva five years. With the new SNP Government now
Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’ By John Pring Disability News Service 28th May 2015 Disabled people
Continue readingQueen’s Speech: For Our Poorest, Our Sick and Our Disabled The Worst is Yet to Come
Jamie Szymkowiak writes on austerity, welfare and disability … Continue readingDisabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage
Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg:
Continue readingUK Welfare Reform Deaths ~ Updated List ~ October 21st 2014
A lot of people wish that this referendum campaign had never happened. They wish the whole damn thing would go
Continue readingGo ahead, Scotland: Vote NO to independence and sign your own death warrant
Re-thinking Welfare: Fair, Personal and Simple Wednesday, June 4, 2014 ISBN: 9781784125400 This is the 2nd report of the
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BLACK TRIANGLE, DPAC & OTHERS LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN: ‘The UK government and opposition should follow the Scottish government’s pledge that private for-profit companies are removed entirely from having anything to do with the assessment of disabled people.’ … Continue readingLetter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others
Scottish independence is a lifeboat for disabled Scots: To vote YES is a vote for life. It is NOT a vote of no solidarity with our disabled sisters and brothers south of the border … Continue readingScottish independence: A lifeboat for disabled people drowning in a sea of cuts
“This is the day, our day, Scotland’s day. The day that we can cradle in our arms Scotland’s future and hear the infant cries of a new country,” … Continue readingScotland faces “severest cuts in political history, over and above the retrenchment of the last few years” if it votes for the status quo
“Let prosperous people sustain a great welfare state. Let that state end the fear that comes with insecurity. Let us gift ourselves that Scotland.” … Continue readingDeclaration of Radical Independence
My name is Cindie Reiter, I’m one of those “New Scots” you hear people talking about from time to time, and I’m going to vote Yes in 2014. … Continue readingThe Long Journey to Yes
The YES Scotland campaign can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border … Continue readingHow the SNP can still win the vote for an independent Scotland: The Yes camp can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border