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Disability issues in the news from the Black Triangle.
Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told
Continue readingTo live and die with a terminal illness in today’s Tory Britain – By A.S.
Courtesy of DPAC our Sister Org The DWP has issued a new ESA65B, the form used to inform a
Continue readingYOU can prevent the DWP interfering in the patient/doctor’s relationship
Whatever happened to free speech and freedom of opinion? It seems that this is something Tory MPs don’t
Continue readingNo Right to Free Speech? Have we become a Fascist State?
Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an
Continue readingUK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help
The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security
Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017
BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday
“I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government – and that so many others will simply stand back and not vote at all” ~ Surgeon Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) … Continue reading#GE2017 “I cannot believe that so many people across the UK are planning to vote for such a hard, uncaring Tory Government” ~ Dr Philippa Whitford MP (SNP) Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 25 May 2017 Activists ‘horrified’ by universal credit rules forcing sick claimants into
Re- Blogged By Gail Ward Black Triangle 20th May 2017 Black Triangle Campaign is a Scottish – based
Continue readingVote Labour England to uphold the rights of disabled people
By Alexandra Topping https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/16/woman-who-confronted-theresa-may-disability-cuts-ordeal-kathy-mohan Kathy Mohan, who became an overnight champion of disabled people, says Tories’ PIP scheme has
Continue reading‘I’m suffering’: woman who confronted May tells of disability cuts ordeal
Play Current Time0:13 / Duration Time1:12 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Mute Voter confronts Theresa May over disability benefit cuts
Continue readingIn confronting Theresa May, Kathy has spoken up for all Britain’s disabled people
By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017 IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom,
Continue readingVoting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why
Reblogged from Independant Journalist James Moore April 21st 2017 Scope, the charity for disabled people, tweeted an interesting number
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 A leading disabled people’s organisation (DPOs) is hoping to
Continue readingDPO hopes mayoral election will see Manchester lead the way on disability rights
Please see information below about two social security initiatives currently underway. We would appreciate your help and support to promote
Continue readingScottish Government appeal for disabled people to join experience panels
By Ahn Young-choon, Staff reporter Disabled people in wheelchairs spraypaint their names as a declaration of their humanity,
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Former recipients of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) in England experienced
Continue readingDWP report confirms fears over impact of ILF closure
Legal action against U.K. Government launched by sister of ex-soldier David Clapson who died as a direct result of
Reblogged By Kitty Jones November 6th 2016 I’ve read the government’s Work, health and disability green paper: improving lives and
Continue readingInitial thoughts on the work, health and disability green paper