They parasitise us from above. But landowners and the Tory party’s idle rich are spared the fairest and simplest of taxes … Continue reading

Tories inch up to 33% while Labour slips to 38%, but majority of voters disagree with government’s new cap on benefit rises … Continue reading

With even some on the left calling for an end to winter fuel payments and the like, it is time to go back to first principles … Continue reading

By Email Saturday 19th January 2013  HOW THE JUDICIAL REVIEW WENT! The Mental Health Resistance Network judicial review of the

Continue readingIMPORTANT UPDATE: Judicial Review of the DWP-Atos Work Capability Assessment ~ Mental Health Resistance Network

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Continue readingThursday 17th January 2013 DWP-Atos Work Capability Assessments House of Commons Debate

   After the words attributed to: Pastor Martin Niemöller  Thousands of sick or disabled people have died after undergoing assessments to

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Christopher Chope’s slip-up in the Commons is entirely in keeping with our embarrassingly archaic parliamentary system … Continue reading

Private contractor criticised by MPs who say constituents judged fit to work died or became suicidal soon after assessments … Continue reading

I beg to move that this House has considered the matter of Atos work capability assessments.  I warmly thank the

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Ms Burns, who was being treated for breast cancer, had her benefits cut by £30 a week after an assessment

Continue readingThousands of sick or disabled people have died after undergoing assessments to find out whether they were fit to work, the House of Commons was told today.

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“Unions cannot continue to watch on idly as successive governments leave so many on the scrapheap – a scrapheap which

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Spartacus’s Ben Furner writes: We’re gearing up for the latest stage in our campaign to challenge the Government’s plans on

Continue readingCALLOUT RE: ‘Thousands to lose disability benefit after Government makes eleventh hour changes to fitness test boundaries’

Disabled people need extra help with playing their part in society. That’s at risk under the personal independence payment scheme … Continue reading

The global application of a fraudulent economic theory brought the west to its knees. Yet for those in power, it offers riches … Continue reading

Labour accuses government of ‘fiddling figures’ after ONS data shows 105,000 of total on mostly unpaid back-to-work schemes … Continue reading

ONS figures show ‘phantom jobs’, such as unpaid work schemes, have helped inflate latest employment figures … Continue reading

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