Black Triangle Press Release on the Occasion of the C4 Dispatches and BBC Panorama exposes of the DWP/AtoS WCA
30th July 2012 22.20 BST Tonight, Channel Four’s Dispatches and the BBC’s Panorama programmes conclusively exposed the evil that is
Month: July 2012
Channel Four Programme Tonight at 20.00: Britain on the Sick ~ ”As long as you’ve got one finger and you can press a button you don’t score anything for manual dexterity”
MONDAY 30 JULY 2012 BY REPORTER JACKIE LONG This article relates to Britain on the Sick. Living it up on benefits
How the British Government’s Media Campaign Scapegoating Sick and/or Disabled People is Part of a Cover-Up
If any doubt remained, the LIBOR scandal has shown that we’re living through a crisis of capitalism itself. There are
Reviewer of fitness-to-work benefit tests Professor Michael Harrington to stand down
While people had been let down by the system, he challenged campaigners who had called for it to be scrapped
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Atos Healthcare: Still profiting from misery
By Nathan Akehurst and Amy Dunne Whilst the Olympic opening ceremony, quite fairly, glorified our National Health Service, it is
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Work Capability Assessments: The Fightback ~ The New Statesman
BY KATE BELGRAVE PUBLISHED 29 JULY 2012 Encouraging news out of the High Court on Thursday for opponents of the loathed Atos’ work
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Community action programme to tackle long-term unemployment could prove expensive failure, says thinktank … Continue reading
Grayling : I’ll redesign ‘Work Programme’ so that ‘those deemed originally too ill’ to join it will be made to do so
By Louisa Peacock 29th July 2012 The move comes after the Government’s initial drive to make those on long-term sickness benefits get
German Official gives the German Olympic Team Hitler Salute while Camilla Parker-Bowles and BoJo look on
UPDATE: Sunday 29th July 2012 The man is Mr Walther TRÖGER, a German IOC Member since 1989. He IS giving
Labour’s Baroness Prosser accused of presiding over ‘death knell’ for equalities & human rights by accepting scorched earth cuts to EHRC
One of Labour’s most prominent peers, Margaret Prosser, is at the centre of a political storm after being warned that
‘I was proud to work in a system that treated an unemployed man exactly the same as a barrister’ ~ The Jobbing Doctor
Thirty-nine weeks ’til I retire 8.52AM 27 July 2012 It hasn’t taken long to destroy the NHS. The whole organisation
Judicial Review into flawed benefits system assessment praised
A PARKINSON’S disease sufferer from Derby, who had faced having his benefits halved, has welcomed a review into the controversial system that
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Q: When is a target not a target? A: When its a statistical norm #C4Dispatches #OnTheSick ~ Benefit Scrounging Scum
On the DWP’s commodification and quantification of sick and/or disabled people for purposes of laying down performance-driven statistical benchmarks for
Dorset family man whose leg was obliterated by heavy machinery in outcry against cut off of his disability benefit
Published in The Western Gazette – West Dorset, Thursday, July 26, 2012 A SELF-EMPLOYED lorry driver from Crewkerne whose leg
ConDem cuts to ESA benefits for the disabled hit vulnerable hardest ~ Daily Mirror
Debt charities see surge in calls as the vulnerable face a £100-a-week cut The ConDems are hitting the most vulnerable
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THE POLITICS FILE: Benefits reforms – for better or for worse? ~ South Wales Argus
By David Deans, Political reporter Thursday 26th July 2012 FOR many years if you could not work because of
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Schizophrenic Kevin Bennett lay dead in Watford flat for ‘several months’
It’s a mad, mad, world where ‘society’ can permit these tragedies to happen – unnoticed by anyone. Is this the
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GP applied for job with Atos assessing whether benefit applicants were fit for work, and secretly filmed his training … Continue reading
Dr Steven Bick alleges DWP gives AtoS ‘Disability Assessors’ a target for 7 out of 8 patients to be reclassified as ‘eligible for work’
Dr Steven Bick said experts testing Incapacity Benefit claimants were told they should rate only about one in eight as
PERMISSION GRANTED! Mental Health Resistance Network Application for Judicial review of the DWP/AtoS Work Capability Assessment
Black Triangle is delighted to be able to announce that the Mental Health Resistance Network’s application for judicial review has