First Posted by Managing Editor on 20th December 2012 Negative portrayals of benefits recipients can be widely seen in the media, yet

Continue readingThe ‘scrounger’ myth is causing real suffering to many in society

  Almost two-thirds of households affected by the “bedroom tax” have a disability. Frances Ryan talks to five people who

Continue readingFive Stories of the barbaric reality of the Government’s “bedroom tax” for Disabled People: “I lay awake at night and go through all the things I pay for and how much I have left and come to the same conclusion every time. I just cry about it.”

    Enraged down at the bunker: Ministers are to order a major crackdown on the workshy by extending back-to-work

Continue reading‘MINISTERS are to ORDER a MAJOR CRACKDOWN on the WORKSHY’ despite judiciary’s ruling ~ Torygraph

  First posted on February 7, 2013 by Atos Victims Group Admin   Atos Victims Group write: ‘If anyone has any doubt as

Continue readingStress of Atos/DWP ‘assessments’ have driven people to self-harm – in shocking ways ~ Atos Victims Group

I talked to families directly affected by the cuts and many wanted benefits themselves – yet resented anyone else getting them … Continue reading

  Posted February 12th, 2013 by Hacked Off & filed under News. Hacked Off has been told by David Cameron that his Royal Charter proposal would

Continue readingCameron’s Royal Charter gives the press everything they want

  Posted February 12th, 2013 by Hacked Off & filed under News. A comment from Dr Gerry McCann following the release of the Conservative Royal Charter

Continue readingDr Gerry McCann responds to the Royal Charter

  Posted February 11th, 2013 by Hacked Off & filed under News. Today, at the Hacked Off conference on the Leveson Bill, Dr Gerry McCann gave the

Continue readingLeveson without the law is no change – Dr Gerry McCann

How the government has responded to Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations on press regulation … Continue reading

Political wrangling looms as Tories suggest post-Leveson watchdog should be established by royal charter, not legislation … Continue reading

It’s invaluable that three judges have ruled in the Cait Reilly case against an appalling back-to-work system … Continue reading

Court backs Cait Reilly’s claim, with judges ruling that work and pensions secretary acted unlawfully over unpaid work … Continue reading

Media campaign group challenged the prime minister at a private Downing Street meeting saying his proposals for new press regulation were ‘weaker than the Press Complaints Commission’ … Continue reading

Court of appeal to decide whether government employment schemes constitute forced labour and if compensation is still due … Continue reading

   February 11, 2013 by admin Oxfam Scotland is backing a change in the law that will help tenants affected by the

Continue readingOxfam Scotland backs ‘No Eviction for Bedroom Tax’ Campaign

  By Phil ‘Thoughts and reflections of a class-struggle anarchist and antifascist from Liverpool, England’ Submitted on Feb 11 2013 18:11 With attacks on

Continue readingUnity and solidarity with claimants should be practical, not just theoretical

  The new super-rich have no allegiance, obligation or connection to wider society. They live in a mirror-lined bubble –

Continue readingThe Age of Entitlement ~ The new super-rich have no allegiance, obligation or connection to wider society

  8th February 2013 Controversial assessments run by Atos on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions should be

Continue readingScrap ‘fitness tests’ targeting sick and disabled people and bring the work back in-house say PCS Union

  By Pat Kane February 5, 2013 · in bellacaledonia · Commentary, New Labour Think of how the Scottish Labour Party is conducting itself in the

Continue readingLABOUR POLICY REVIEW: ‘One Nation Under Review’ ~ A Scottish Perspective by Pat Kane in Bella Calledonia

SUNDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2013 17:58 17 COMMENTS   By G.A.Ponsonby Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described UK Prime Minister David Cameron as

Continue readingBedroom Tax row grows as Nicola Sturgeon claims Westminster not working for Scotland