Letter from Mo Stewart Research to Steve Barclay MP Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Re: WCA
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Disability issues in the news from the Black Triangle.
Category: Black Triangle News
News: After a long hiatus Black Triangle Campaign’s website is once again live and resurgent, ready to fight back in the U.K. disability rights struggles that now confront our people
Thursday 10th November 2022 Dearest Friends, Members, Supporters of Black Triangle Campaign and all people of good will throughout the
To live and die with a terminal illness in today’s Tory Britain – By A.S.
Reblogged with Permission of A.S. I cannot explain adequately what it is like to be terminally ill. To be told
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YOU can prevent the DWP interfering in the patient/doctor’s relationship
Courtesy of DPAC our Sister Org The DWP has issued a new ESA65B, the form used to inform a
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No Right to Free Speech? Have we become a Fascist State?
Whatever happened to free speech and freedom of opinion? It seems that this is something Tory MPs don’t
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UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help
Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an
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#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: #SNP calls on next government to follow Scotland’s lead on benefits
The SNP has called on the next UK government to follow Scotland’s lead in protecting disabled people from social security
#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation of disabled people
Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017
#CripTheVoteUK: As UK doctors’ leaders abdicate duty to defend patients’ human rights disabled people face perilous post-election future
BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday
#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
“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
Shock as Universal Credit rules treat sick as ‘fit for all work-related activity’ – against GPs explicit orders
By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 25 May 2017 Activists ‘horrified’ by universal credit rules forcing sick claimants into
Vote Labour England to uphold the rights of disabled people
Re- Blogged By Gail Ward Black Triangle 20th May 2017 Black Triangle Campaign is a Scottish – based
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‘I’m suffering’: woman who confronted May tells of disability cuts ordeal
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
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In confronting Theresa May, Kathy has spoken up for all Britain’s disabled people
Play Current Time0:13 / Duration Time1:12 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Mute Voter confronts Theresa May over disability benefit cuts
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Voting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why
By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017 IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom,
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There are 13 million disabled people in Britain. If we don’t vote together, the DWP will tighten the screws on us
Reblogged from Independant Journalist James Moore April 21st 2017 Scope, the charity for disabled people, tweeted an interesting number
DPO hopes mayoral election will see Manchester lead the way on disability rights
By John Pring Disability News Service March 16th 2017 A leading disabled people’s organisation (DPOs) is hoping to
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Scottish Government appeal for disabled people to join experience panels
Please see information below about two social security initiatives currently underway. We would appreciate your help and support to promote
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‘Inspired by ‘I, Daniel Blake’ disabled protesters make ‘Declaration of Humanity’ in Seoul
By Ahn Young-choon, Staff reporter Disabled people in wheelchairs spraypaint their names as a declaration of their humanity,
DWP report confirms fears over impact of ILF closure
By John Pring Disability News Service 26th January 2017 Former recipients of the Independent Living Fund (ILF) in England experienced
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