Maria Miller must go now
We, the undersigned, have no confidence in Maria Miller‘s abilities as minister for disabled people.
We believe that she should resign from her position for the following reasons.
She has failed to fight hard enough to ensure that disabled people receive a fairer assessment of their capabilities and she appears ignorant of how the proposed cuts to legal aid and closure of Citizens’ Advice Bureaux will limit access to justice and advice for thousands of disability living allowance recipients.
She disregards experts who have made it clear that the work capability assessment in its current form is not fit for purpose.
She also defends not only the changes from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance that have led to many people being wrongly assessed and some terminally ill people being passed fit to work, but also the proposed change from disability living allowance to personal independence payments, which will take away the benefit from many needy people.
She has announced that the independent living fund will be closed down in 2015 and failed to consult with severely disabled people who use it.
She is also responsible for introducing the plan to charge lone parents to access the service that will replace the Child Support Agency, when organisations such as Gingerbread have opposed the idea because of its damaging effect.
Furthermore, she failed to take a sufficiently strong public stand to protect disabled people from disability-based discrimination, prejudice and hatred.
She misled the public by claiming that there is not a shortage of jobs but a fear of work.
And she supports Workfare.
Nick Parker
President, Lincoln & District TUC and 212 others (see list online)
Paul Smith – Atos Victims Group
Ben Rickman, Secretary, Brent TUC
Gawain Little, President, Oxford & District TUC
Nicola Dodgson, Reigate, Health Worker, Unison Member, Anti-Cuts
campaigner, OU Student
Cllr Ian Rathbone, Hackney Council
King’s Lynn & District Trades’ Council
The Broken of Britain
Esther Foreman, disability rights activist
Wandsworth Against Cuts
Caroline Raine, Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance
Nick Grant, NUT, NEC Outer London
Jerry Hicks, Chair, Grass Roots Left
Gerry Downing, Secretary, Grass Roots Left
Ian Scott, Treasurer, Grass Roots Left
Freya Vinten, Anti-Cuts campaigner
Brent Fightback, Anti-Cuts campaign
Julie Waterson, Secretary, HTUC (Hackney TUC), Joint Secretary,
HatDS (Hackney Alliance to Defend Public Services)
Hillingdon Against Cuts
Hillingdon Socialist Party
Mick Houghton, Secretary, Greater London Association of Trade
Union Councils (GLATUC)
Occupy Birmingham
Lucie Hill-Hempsted, Chair, Mums Against the Cuts
Loraine Hardy, Treasurer, Nuneaton Against The Cuts
Patricia Walker, Virtual Resistance
Katie Millward, Nuneaton Against The Cuts
Mohammed Ansar
Carole Robinson, Anti-Cuts campaigner
Diary of a Benefit Scrounger
Eleanor Lisney, disability rights campaigner
Brent Solidarity Group
Boycott Workfare
John McArdle, Black Triangle Campaign
DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts)
Cllr Jude Robinson, Labour & Cooperative Unitary Councillor,
Camborne North
John McDonnell MP
Danka Gordon, disability campaigner
Sue Horne, MS Sufferer
Belinda Washington, disability campaigner
Andrew Jackson, Clitheroe
Katerina Kyriacos, Stop CSA Charges
Catherine Quinn, Stop CSA Charges
Maria Quinn, Stop CSA Charges
Patricia McGlone, Stop CSA Charges
Kevin McilKennon, Stop CSA Charges
Anya-Nicola Darr, Devon
Sue Ayre, CSA – If We Have To Pay We Want Our Say!
Martin Parker, London
Ian Sedgwick, disability campaigner
Julian Silverman, political activist
Veena Sharma, NUT
Adam Lotun, Workplace Disability Adjustments
Joe P, London
Bill Kruse, London
Gail Victor Ward, disabled person
Paul Clark, London
Rick Burgess, Ten Percent, Anglesey.
Kat Mason, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Kevin Green, Kirkcaldy, Fife
Amanda Adlem, Southampton
Dorothy Wright, disability campaigner
Barbara Smith, Carer
Jayne Linney, Leicester
Helen Sims, Bristol
Darren William Bartlett, Solihull
Ann Spilsbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Alan Barrett, Stoke-on-Trent
Beccy Moore, Bristol
Rhondda Lesley, Leicester
Ivan Thomas, Wolverhampton
Helen Thomas, Bridport
Martyn Ounstead, Wrotham
Dave Birdstall, Social Welfare Advocacy
Steven Preece, Social Welfare Advocacy
Joanne Bayliss, carer, mum to two disabled children,
Wolverhampton
Fiona Bott, carer of disabled husband, Telford
Rob Slaney, Nottingham
Peter Peerless, Croydon
William Braquemard, Dalton Piercy
Johnny Wheelz, Edinburgh
Christine McCabe, Cambridge
Graham Askew, Cambridge
Julie Ann MacKay, Salisury
Sarah Nicholson, Liverpool
Zena Dodgson, disabled person
Neil McKenna, Chester
Anthony Roberts, Hertfordshire
Pam Roberts, Hertfordshire
Kathy Fox, Norfolk
Maurice Fox, Norfolk
Garry Sclater, Exeter
Tricia McIntyre, Glasgow
Kleio Nicky Bennett, Staffordshire
Laura Bennett, Staffordshire
James McIntyre, Glasgow
Jules Finch, Atherton, Nr Manchester
Sarah Ledsom, Wirral
Barry Ledsom, Wirral
Bridget Atkins, Cramlington, Northumberland
Hazel Quinn, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland
Atos Miracles, Facebook group
Dawn Hanson, Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Billy Hanson, Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Mumtaz Rafiq, Manchester
David Chowcat, Treasurer, BPAC (Brighton People Against Cuts)
Mary Stuart, Teacher of young people with learning difficulties,
London
Angie Freeman, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Debbie Barrett, Tonbridge, Kent
Andrew Preacher, Spalding, Lincolnshire
Phil Saint, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
Paul Carruthers, Hertford
Simon Jones, Dorset
Gordon Johnston, Clackmannan
herese O Hanlon, Salford, Manchester
Robert Moore, Paisley
Kev Towner, Hastings, East Sussex
Campaign Against Destruction of Disabled Support Services, Barnet
Pauline Killick, Tamworth
Karen Hirons, Carers’ Association, Southern Staffs
Philip Baldwin, Kent
Garry Hirons, Constituency Chairman (Labour party), Tamworth
Kezia Bennett, Cornwall
Finn Raven, Falmouth
Lorraine Malyan, Durham
Frances McGinley, Lecturer, Skills For Life, London
Sonja Pederson, Hampshire
Steve Catchpole, Suffolk
Michelle Hunter-Gray, Staffordshire
Diane Foster, Doncaster
Janet Weston, Liverpool
Max A Wootton, Leeds
Adrianne Sebastian-Scott, London
Gary Moir, Paisley
Sasha Callaghan, Past President, University and College Union
Craig Turnbull, Cambridge
Rosie Harrison, Cornwall
Sarah Blackley, Scotland
Dorothy Stuart, Bedford
Bill Macleod, Falkirk
Michael Runcone, Fife
Tansy Feltis, London
Del Pickup, IWW, Sheffield
Keith M Ross, Swansea, Wales
Chris Ray, Birmingham
Diane Watson, Cambridge
Susie Stewart, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Gillian William, Bognor Regis
Monica Tomlinson, Liverpool
Nick Dawson, Wollaton, Northants
John Sweeney, Maldon, Essex
Susan Whelan, Burnley
Gaynor Underhill, Oxford
Lea Jeff, Basingstoke
Jerome Green, Letchworth
Caroline Hexter, New Milton, Hants
Michelle Maher, Brighton
Cllr Carole Bonner, Labour, Fieldway Ward, Croydon
Andy Ingram, Canvey Island, Essex
Mandy Ingram, Canvey Island, Essex
Sarah Law, Essex
Mike Smart, Chesterfield, Derby
Julie Ann McKay, Salisbury
Rosey Carey, Penzance
Julie Finch, Atherton
Bill O’Neil, S Ayrshire
Doreen Buress Garza, Wisconsin
Amy Ratter, Shetland
Antoinette Morris, London
Liz Potter, Derbyshire Anti-Cuts Campaign & Action for Carers in
Erewash, Derbyshire
Deborah Mahmoudieh, Occupy Sheffield
Jo Twist, Leicester
Kassie Davidson, Nottingham
Katrina Kiki Day, North London
Nikx Robinson, Leeds
Dave Jenks, Wrexham, North Wales
Nicola Everill, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Robert Bland, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Dave Tarbrook, North Wales
Jill Goble, Brighton
Yvonne Bolton, Preston, Lancs
Brad Walker, Cornwall
Suchi Chatterjee, Brighton
Barbara Taylor, Harrogate
Babs Knightly-Short, Exmouth, Devon
Atalanta Kerrick, Cornwall
Eirlys Dafydd, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire
David White, Treharris, Mid Glamorgan
Andrew Duncan, Exeter
Dave Rendle, Cardigan, Wales
Theresa Kelly, Plymouth
Anisa Zita, Hackney, North London
Aoife Tobin, Brighton, Sussex
KJ Walsh, Liverpool
Rob Joy, Southampton
Chris Wright, Ringwood, Hants
Elizabeth Beth McDermot, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
Robert Levy, Plymouth
Alexandra Gout, Harrogate
Colin Finch, Mitcham, Surrey
Michael Meny-Gilbert, Brighton
Tracey Malson, Doncaster
Delyth Protheroe, Carmarthenshire
Marion Lambert, Cleveland
Becky Lowe, Swansea
Will Steer, Holloway, London
Jane Anne Leach, Droitwich
Catherine Mosey, Coventry
Sharon Hingley, Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire
Ali Cooper, Liverpool
Annie Bishop, Hexham
Alison Smith, Telford
Maria Mannix, Newcastle
Sarah Blackley, Glasgow, East Renfrewshire
Agree GET THIS WOMAN OUT FAST!!!!
Maria Miller : yet ANOTHER Nazi eugenecist in this despicable ConDem government. Direct action is the only remedy left to resist the ‘government’ ramming through their fascist policies.
Kill ’em all! That is the mantra of this shower of shit,as they sit in our most corrupt of Parliaments,preening & smirking as they ConDem millions to total poverty,illness & death.
May they all die,screaming.
I’m RAGING about this horrible,horrible travesty of a goverment & Parliament!!!
How can this woman be Minster for the Disabled, she wouldn’t know a disabled person if a ran over her foot (in a wheelchair of course). She should never have had this job in the first place. She is public enemy number one for the blatant disregard she has for disabled people..do the right thing Miller and crawl back down to the sewer you came from.
They can add my name to this.
Reminds me of Louis XVI’s Versailles, one can only hope the outcome is similar…Time for the third estate to get a real voice.