The winners are private equity and shareholders. The losers are the low-paid and the vulnerable. And in the end we all pay
by JJ
on Feb 8
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Unlucky For Some: 13 Westminster Failures

11) Treatment of disabled people ATOS work trials have led to a crisis of public confidence in the UK welfare […]
by JJ
on Feb 8
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Watch the new film from ROARING GIRL PRODUCTIONS ‘Bedding In Bedding Out: Reflections from the Bed’

0117 944 6882          info@roaring-girl.com  roaring-girl.com  @RGPLizCrow    NEWS RELEASE    A new film from ROARING GIRL PRODUCTIONS    ‘Bedding In […]
by JJ
on Feb 8
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Mid Staffs will be used to justify further reforms – and of the very kind that contributed to that horror in the first place
by JJ
on Feb 8
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Cameron taunted over DWP-AtoS Work Capability Assessment at Prime Minister’s Questions

      6 February 2013 Last updated at 12:48 Labour’s Michael McCann teased the prime minister about the private […]
by JJ
on Feb 8
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Public accounts committee lambasts 38% overturn rate on decisions, resulting in 'considerable cost to taxpayer and claimant'
by JJ
on Feb 8
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Disabled Veterinary Surgeon crippled by chronic pain today blasted Con-Dem benefit cuts to Scottish Parliament Committee Meeting

  By David Clegg 6 Feb 2013 00:01   IAN MEGAHY, who spoke out at Holyrood, was assessed fit for work by […]
by JJ
on Feb 6
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FORMER soldiers will be made homeless and some could die because of the Con-Dem Government’s brutal benefit cuts, shocked MSPs have been told

  ‘Lives of ex-soldiers could be at risk from Con-Dem benefit cuts, MSPs are warned’ FIRST PUBLISHED 14 Nov 2012 00:01  […]
by JJ
on Feb 6
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Daily Heil’s Scottish Political Editor and Churnalist Alan Roden conflates Glasgow Against Atos peaceful protest with acts of violence following so-called ‘Left-wing campaign against welfare reform’

THE Daily Heil’s Scottish Political Editor has today ascribed alleged acts of criminal violence to a ‘Left-wing campaign against welfare […]
by JJ
on Feb 6
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The National Debt has increased by £300bn at Condem’s Half-Term in Office: Cameron is too thick or devious to distinguish the national “debt” from “the deficit”

‘Cameron ticked off for confusing debt and deficit’     By Andy McSmith     In these austere days, some of us […]
by JJ
on Feb 6
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IMPORTANT! An URGENT Call for YOUR Evidence for Legal Action to Challenge DLA-to-PIP regulations ~ Jane Young wants to hear from YOU

  If you think you satisfy at least the essential criteria… Contact me IMMEDIATELY using the contact form at http://janeyoung.me.uk/contact/, explaining […]
by JJ
on Feb 6
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Even for voters who live in England, the benefits of remaining in the UK appear to be increasingly exclusive to London

Ewan Crawford: ‘Economic imbalance no laughing matter’ The Scotsman Tuesday 5 February 2013 17:39  Even for voters who live in England, […]
by JJ
on Feb 6
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Bank regulation to prevent another crash recedes into the distance

  February 1st, 2013 Quietly, with no fanfare and no headlines, the banks are steadily chipping away at the measures, […]
by JJ
on Feb 6
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‘Glaring omission’ of experts on black deaths in custody from mental health policing review

  By Andy McNicoll on February 5, 2013 9:11 AM   The independent panel charged with reviewing mental health policing has considerable knowledge and experience. But the absence of […]
by JJ
on Feb 6
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In an excerpt from his book Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere, Paul Mason argues that a global protest movement, based on social networks, is here to stay
by JJ
on Feb 6
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FOLLOW-UP BRIEFING BY MO STEWART: HOUSE OF COMMONS BACKBENCH BUSINESS DEBATE ‘ATOS HEALTHCARE & THE WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT’

  See also:  ‘Private firms’ role in creation of disability assessment regime’ ~ Black Triangle’s Letter Published in The Guardian Posted […]
by JJ
on Feb 5
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Watch: UK welfare reforms “completely heartless” witnesses today told the Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee today

    Witnesses told the Welfare Reform Committee the UK government’s welfare reforms were “completely heartless” on 5 February 2013. Marlene Hepburn, […]
by JJ
on Feb 5
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A major rebellion among Tory backbenchers is expected when the equal marriage bill gets its second reading

by JJ
on Feb 5
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5th February UPDATE ‘Bedroom tax’: Govan Solicitor’s call for Holyrood to change Scots law to protect tenants from eviction rebuffed by SNP’s Linda Fabiani

5th February UPDATE PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION!   SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT PUBLIC PETITION NO. PE01468   Name of petitioner Mike Dailly […]
by JJ
on Feb 4
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As Joanne Gibbons' case shows, benefit underpayments save us more than 'cheats' cost us. We need to target the real villains
by JJ
on Feb 4
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