↓
 

Black Triangle Campaign

Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights

Black Triangle Campaign
  • Home
  • News
  • Blog
  • Future Events & Protests
    • Past Events & Protests
  • eCards
  • Gallery
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Shop Online
Home→Categories Ian Duncan Smith 1 2 3 4 >>

Category Archives: Ian Duncan Smith

Post navigation

← Older posts

Stop the Universal Credit Juggernaut

Black Triangle Campaign

By Bernadette Meaden -Ekklesia August 11th 2017 The word juggernaut comes from the huge vehicles used by Indian temples to transport statues of their gods. They were so difficult to control that they often crushed people in their path. It … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Conservatives, DWP, Ekklesia, Ian Duncan Smith, Tory, Universal Credit, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Iain Duncan Smith, Politics, Universal Credit, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

Black Triangle Campaign

Picture Courtesy of Guardian   By John Pring Disability News Service 6th July 2017 A newly-elected disabled MP has accused the Conservative government of introducing policies inspired by “eugenics” in the hope that disabled people will “suffer and die”. Labour’s … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Access to Elected Office Fund, Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, Disability Discrimination, Disability Labour, Disability Sheffield Centre for Independent Living, DWP, Euthanasia, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, ILF Fund, Jared O Mara, Jared O'Mara, Paces, Tories, Tory, UKCRPD, UN, UNCRPD, WCA Deaths | Tagged Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories ~ And need your help

Black Triangle Campaign

Video: A woman with learning difficulties has accosted Theresa May while the prime minister was on a walkabout in an Oxfordshire market. ‘UK General Election: Why disabled people oppose the Tories’ By Linda Burnip DPAC in New Internationalist Thursday 1st … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Blog, BMA, British Medical Association, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, Human Rights, I Daniel Blake, Ian Duncan Smith, Labour Party, Linda Burnip, Lord David Freud, PIP, PIP Deaths, Social Care, Tories, Tory, UN, UNCRPD, United Nations, Universal Credit, WCA Deaths, Winvisible, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WOW Campaign, WOW Petition | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, foodbanks, Health, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, PIP, Politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare | 1 Reply

#CripTheVoteUK #GE2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation of disabled people

Black Triangle Campaign

  Election 2017: Tory disability minister endorses forced institutionalisation By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017   THE TORY minister for disabled people has failed to oppose the idea of forcing disabled people into institutions against their … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Black Triangle News, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, DWP, Equal Lives, GE17, GE2017, General Election, Ian Duncan Smith, ILF Fund, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour Party, Penny Mordaunt, Shaping our Lives, Spectrum Centre for Independant Living, Tories, Tory, UN, United Nations | Tagged disability rights, Human rights, ILF, Independent Living Fund, Right to Independent Living, save ilf, UNCRPD, UNCRPD Investigation | Leave a reply

#CripTheVoteUK: As UK doctors’ leaders abdicate duty to defend patients’ human rights disabled people face perilous post-election future

Black Triangle Campaign

BMA ‘will be complicit in future deaths’, after silence on ‘fit note’ rules By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 1st June 2017 Appalled disabled activists have warned the British Medical Association (BMA) that it will be “complicit” in the … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, Blog, British Medical Association, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, General Medical Council, General Practice, GMC, GP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Tory. Tories, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, BMA, British Medical Association, Conservatives, cuts, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Scotland, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

#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

Black Triangle Campaign

“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 →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in #CripTheVoteUK, Access To work, Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Boycott Workfare, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, Damien Green, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, GE17, GE2017, General Election, General Medical Council, General Practice, GP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, NHS, Penny Mourdant, Penny Mourdaunt, PIP, PIP Deaths, Scottish Mental Welfare Commission, Shaping our Lives, SNP, Social Care, Tories, Tory, UC, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, Work Programme | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Labour, PIP, Scotland, Scottish politics, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Scotland | Leave a reply

Concern over UN’s ‘silence’ on benefit-related deaths

Black Triangle Campaign

  By John Pring Disability News Service 6th April 2017   Disabled activists fear that the UN committee examining the UK’s progress on implementing the disability rights convention may be ignoring links between the government’s welfare reforms and the deaths … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Allfie, Atos, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, WCA Deaths, Work and Pensions Select Committee, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Equality, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, UNCRPD, Welfare, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Mother of ‘fit for work’ victim calls for ministers to face criminal charges

Black Triangle Campaign

By John Pring Disability News Service 9th February 2017   The mother of a disabled man who starved to death after he was found “fit for work” and lost his out-of-work disability benefits has called for ministers to face criminal … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, CPS, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Green Party, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Jonathan Bartley, Police, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Scotland, UK news, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Joint – letter from the United Kingdom Disabled People’s Movement and Allied Civil Society Organisations to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

Black Triangle Campaign

Published By Black Triangle November 19th 2016 Secretary General   As U.K. disabled campaigners and civil society organisations we write to you to denounce attempts to delegitimise the UN interim report by UN officials carried out under Article 6 of … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, Debbie Jolly, Disability Discrimination, Disability Hate crime, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, IFS, Lord David Freud, Mary O Hara, Maximus, Mo Stewart, PIP, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Catalina Devandas Aguila, Disability, Disability News Service, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, Equality, foodbanks, Grant Shapps, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, PIP, Politics, Poverty, Raquel Rolnik, Scotland, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

UN’s conclusion that UK violated disability rights is ‘vindication’ for activists

Black Triangle Campaign

By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday November 10th 2016 Disabled activists who persuaded the United Nations (UN) to investigate serious breaches of rights by the UK government say their four-year journey has been vindicated, after a report concluded there … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Black Triangle Campaign, CRPD, Damien Green, Debbie Jolly, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Pats Petition, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP, WOW Campaign | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Politics, UK news, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Dr Sarah Glynn: Why we must resist the ‘work cure’

Black Triangle Campaign

By Dr Sarah Glynn SUWN  1stNov 2016 Ahead of the IdeaSpace event in Glasgow this week, Dr Sarah Glynn of the Scottish Unemployed Workers’ Network says people should beware the Tory rhetoric around the ‘work cure’ THE new secretary of … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Conservatives, Cradle2Grave Campaign, Damien Green, Disability Confident, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Lord David Freud, Maximus, MHRN, Mo Stewart, NHS, Police, Scottish Unemployed Workers Network, United Nations, Unum, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, Politics, Scottish politics, UK news, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

MSPs hear call for government to ‘speak out more forcefully’ on WCA deaths

Black Triangle Campaign

    13th October 2016  By John Pring -Disability News Service A disabled activist has told a parliamentary committee that the Scottish government should “speak out more forcefully” about disabled benefit claimants who have died as a result of the … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Atos, Black Triangle Campaign, Black Triangle News, Capita, Chris Grayling, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Mo Stewart, Police, UN, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability News Service, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Scotland, Scottish politics, Welfare, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Ministers know their WCA system is increasing suicide risk, says Ken Loach

Black Triangle Campaign

By John Pring Disability News Service October 6th 2016   Government ministers know their “fitness for work” system is making disabled people’s health worse, and is increasing the risk of suicides, the award-winning film director Ken Loach has told Disability … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Black Triangle News, Chris Grayling, Cradle2Grave Campaign, Damien Green, DWP, I Daniel Blake, Ian Duncan Smith, Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Police, UKCRPD, United Nations | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Cradle2Grave Camapign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, John Pring, Politics, Scotland, Scottish politics, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Duncan Smith tells DNS: ‘I’m not going to be accused by you’ over mental health deaths

Black Triangle Campaign

By John Pring  Disability News Service October 6th 2016   Iain Duncan Smith has denied responsibility for the deaths of people with mental health conditions who took their own lives after being unfairly found fit for work by the Department … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Atos, Chris Grayling, Conservatives, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, WCA Deaths | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Work Capability Assessment | 2 Replies

‘Fit for work’ suicide man’s sister tried to take her own life after DWP ordeal

Black Triangle Campaign

  By John Pring Disability News Service Thursday September 21st 2016   The sister of a man driven to suicide by the “fitness for work” system tried to take her own life after being “treated like a criminal” by the … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith, Lib Dems, Maximus, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Scotland, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Disabled researcher’s book exposes ‘corporate demolition of welfare state’

Black Triangle Campaign

15th September 2016 John Pring http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ A string of activists, academics, politicians and journalists have welcomed the publication of a new book by a disabled researcher which exposes how successive governments have planned the “demolition of the welfare state”. Mo Stewart … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Atos, Baroness Jane Campbell, Conservatives, Disability Discrimination, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, EHRC, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Maximus, Mo Stewart, Peter Beresford, Prof Danny Dorling, Shaping our Lives, UKCRPD, UKDPC, UN, Unum, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Dame Anne Begg, Mary O'Hara, Sir Bert Massie | Leave a reply

Benefit claimants die as DWP staff keep failing to follow suicide guidelines

Black Triangle Campaign

  September 8th 2016 John Pring Disability News Service The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to consider an inquiry into its repeated failure to prevent the deaths of benefit claimants, despite the release of damning new information … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, Police, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DNS, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, Scotland, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment | 2 Replies

Documents show WCA suicide death mirrored 2010 tragedy

Black Triangle Campaign

4th August 2016 John Pring A physiotherapist took just 35 minutes to carry out a face-to-face assessment that led to a man with complex mental health problems being found “fit for work”, a decision that appears to have triggered his … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, Chris Grayling, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith, Ministry of Justice, Police, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Politics, Scotland, Welfare, Work Capability Assessment | Leave a reply

Campaigners Call for Boycott Of Workfare Slave Labourers

Black Triangle Campaign

Campaigners are calling for people to boycott workfare users this week after  a long court battle to get those taking part in using cheap workfare named and shamed to be released . See the list below and say ‘NO’ to … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Black Triangle News, Boycott Workfare, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith | Tagged Black Triangle, Disability, Disability News Service, Disability Politics, disability rights, DNS, DWP, Equality, Human rights, Society, UK news, UNCRPD, Welfare, Workfare | Leave a reply

Parents of Scottish ‘fit for work’ suicide man back call for Iain Duncan Smith prosecution

Black Triangle Campaign

    John Pring Disability News Service Thursday 28 July 2016 The parents of a disabled man who took his own life after being wrongly found “fit for work” have backed attempts to persuade Scottish police to investigate the actions … Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Like this:

Like Loading...
Posted in Atos, Chris Grayling, DWP, Human Rights, Ian Duncan Smith, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefit Deaths, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability News Service, disability rights, DWP, Human rights, Iain Duncan Smith, John Pring, Work Capability Assessment | 1 Reply

Post navigation

← Older posts

Resize Text

Login

  • Register
  • Log in

Donate

One way you can help is to make a much valued Donation to Black Triangle through PayPal.

Recent Posts

  • User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities
  • Disabled solicitor launches ground-breaking legal case over PIP discrimination
  • Mental Health Act review ‘is just tinkering around the edges’ of reform
  • Campaign’s legal threat forces government pledge on election access fund decision
  • DWP figures suggest tens of thousands of PIP claims could have been decided on ‘unacceptable’ assessment reports

Recent BT Comments

  • Tatty2Shoes on Watchdog begins probe into failure of regulators to punish lying PIP assessors
  • nick on Charities delivering DWP’s work programme ‘must promise not to attack McVey’
  • nick on Mother of ESA suicide mum-of-nine praises activist for confronting McVey
  • MarkCarlisle on Watchdog begins probe into failure of regulators to punish lying PIP assessors
  • MarkCarlisle on Watchdog begins probe into failure of regulators to punish lying PIP assessors
  • MarkCarlisle on YOU can prevent the DWP interfering in the patient/doctor’s relationship
  • MarkCarlisle on Scrapped! Ministers ‘secretly ditch government’s disability strategy’
  • Tatty2Shoes on Watchdog begins probe into failure of regulators to punish lying PIP assessors

BT on FB

BT on FB

Got a news story relating to disability? Contact –



The News Service that focuses on disability issues such as discrimination, equality, independent living, disability benefits, poverty and human rights.

If you have a story that you think would be of interest to Disability News Service please contact John Pring via

john@disabilitynewsservice.com

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 45,962 other subscribers.

©2021 - Black Triangle Campaign - Weaver Xtreme Theme
↑
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy
Necessary Always Enabled

%d bloggers like this: