Cameron limits MoD medical assessments, ensuring soldiers absolved from second test under new welfare scheme PIP … Continue reading
Month: July 2012
Big companies use small charities to win prime contracts from Duncan Smith’s programme. But where’s the proof it works? … Continue reading
The rise of the ‘Extreme Centre’ in British and European Politics has robbed us of a democratic alternative to brutal cuts, privatisation and austerity
Tariq Ali on the rise of the ‘extreme centre’ in Europe – and the socialist alternative Since the early 90s, and
Is the benefits cap pushing thousands of jobless back to work? Another day, another baseless fabrication by Iain Duncan Smith
18 July, 2012 – 16:34 — George Edwards Earlier this week the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) released
Care packages that allow disabled people to maintain their independence and live at home are under threat as a council moves to cap the cost of caring … Continue reading
Britain is losing its sense of decency when it comes to disabled people
By Sharon Brennan Tuesday, 17 July 2012 Worcestershire county council has just announced its proposal to shut away disabled people in care homes
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The perfect storm around disability ~ ‘shouldn’t more questions be asked about how the current system was arrived at, and what purpose it was meant to serve?’
The American news website Huffington Post recently published an article headlined, ‘Austerity in the United Kingdom Leaves Disabled in Fear for
A SEVERELY disabled Scot has “written his own death certificate” after stopping medication in protest against the DWP who say they are just following WCA “re-assessment” procedures
A SEVERELY disabled Scot has “written his own death certificate” after stopping his medication in a protest against government red
Key Member of NHS Future Forum, Sir Stephen Bubb, Colluded with Lobby Group over Competition
The Head of a voluntary association who was a key member of the Future NHS Forum during the government’s ‘pause’,
Newly discovered document handed to Social Investigations reveals the true lobbying that took place during the Health and Social Care Bill ‘pause’
Louise Reed writes with some backround on free-marketeer and neoliberal ideologue Stephen Bubb: ‘With friends like these..’
‘What did you do to protect the National Health Service, Grandad?’
1.55PM 19 July 2012 The BMA was an organisation that used to strike fear into the hearts of governments. So
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BMA faces GP backlash over pensions climbdown ~ WCA boycott issue remains unaddressed
Further to the vote at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting making it official BMA policy to ‘demand’ an end to
Who’s responsible for ‘problem’ families misreporting?
We are drowning in a sea of official government propaganda and our ‘free press’ is too lazy or complicit
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Food banks are springing up across Britain to help struggling families. But is charity really the answer for people being let down by the state? … Continue reading
All the common sense in Louise Casey’s grasp won’t change the fact that this troubled policy is divisive and dishonest … Continue reading
The company and the government want to close Remploy on the cheap and in the process have treated workers with contempt … Continue reading
When will ‘ENOUGH!’ really mean ENOUGH? POLL/Bedroom tax hits those tenants ‘whose only crime is to be poor’
Absolutely revolting: REBEL NOW! Published on Friday 29 June 2012 12:05 PLANS to tax social housing tenants for ‘underoccupied’ bedrooms could
Cameron: ‘Disabled Folk will Save our Prestigious Games’ by Disabled Cartoonist Crippen !
14 July 2012 Zoom in to this image and read text description Why is it that the companies that Cameron
DWP harassment of war veterans has led to increase in self-harm, suicide, reports Aldershot CAB
The Guardian, Letters, 10th July 2012 Advisers at the Aldershot Citizens Advice Bureau are increasingly concerned about the impact of
Brutal police violence in Spain ~ And one disabled man’s lone act of resistance
WEDNESDAY, 12th July 2012, Madrid The Miners’ rally began at the Plaza de Colon, Madrid. Miners from Asturias, Leon and
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