Letter to the Editor of The Daily Telegraph from Over 100 Mental Health Professionals Re: Scapegoating of Disabled People
The Daily Telegraph: ‘Millions are claiming benefits without ever having to look for work, helping to push the tax burden
Category: Disability Discrimination
Fit For Work – Three Part Series on BBC Radio 4 by Jolyon Jenkins
’For 30 years, governments have tried to get disabled people into work by toughening up benefit rules. Part of the
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Daily Telegraph Editor approves publication of calculator mirroring the worst of Nazi eugenics propaganda
Exactly how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state Britain isn’t working – calculate what it’s costing you ByAlex
DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths
DWP hands hundreds of millions more to firms linked to claimant deaths… but not Atos By John Pring on 1st
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Most vulnerable group of disabled social security recipients branded workshy and blamed for record levels of immigration in renewed British mass media hate campaign
Media hate campaign against support group claimants begins PUBLISHED BY BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE : 31 MAY 2023 Poster for
Why are disabled people worried sick about the abolition of the WCA?
BENEFITS AND WORK WEBSITE PUBLISHED: 27 MARCH 2023 When the government announced earlier this month that the work capability assessment
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Jeremy Vine programme accused of defaming, scapegoating disabled people in renewed British government war on the poorest
Broadcaster’s silence over ‘rabblerouser’ tweet on disability benefits By John Pring on 1st June 2023Category: Benefits and Poverty Listen The
A decade after the Tories demonised disabled people on benefits, it’s happening again
Never mind that the DWP itself found that some disabled people can’t afford food or heating, politicians and the media
The Tyranny of Tickboxes – How the U.K. government is escalating its war on disability rights in 2023
‘The tyranny of tick boxes’ By Harvey Duke Published 30th May 2023 I don’t see dead people. This isn’t
Response to ‘Shaping Future Support’ by Mo Stewart
“The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are immune to the amount of human suffering created since the adoption
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Second year of huge rises in disability hate crime, but causes still unclear
By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 The number of disability hate crimes recorded by the
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Sir Bert Massie: Tributes to ‘a life committed to disabled people’s liberation’
By John Pring Disability News Service October 19th 2017 Tributes have been paid to Sir Bert Massie, the chair of
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New disabled MPs back fresh call to reopen access fund
Image Courtesy of Mirror By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 The two newest disabled MPs in
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Police watchdog criticised over investigation into murder of disabled refugee
Picture Courtesy of Guardian By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A watchdog has been criticised for
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New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’
Picture Courtesy of Guardian By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP has accused
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Court awards disabled woman ‘aggravated’ damages for ombudsman discrimination
By John Pring Disability News Service June 29th 2017 A county court has delivered a devastating judgment against the
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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: 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
Disabled people ‘forced into dangerous workfare that breaches health and safety laws’
By John Pring Disability News Service 18th May 2017 Disabled people are being subjected to dangerous violations of health