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Tommy Sheppard: Let’s target open minds of the i-curious for whom the time just wasn’t right

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By Tommy Shepard FOUR elections and a referendum: It’s been a helluva five years. With the new SNP Government now sworn in the party can at last move off a permanent war footing. It’s time to take stock, re-group and … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News | Tagged Politics, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish politics | Leave a reply

Queen’s Speech: For Our Poorest, Our Sick and Our Disabled The Worst is Yet to Come

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  Queen’s speech ‘suggests the worst is yet to come’  By John Pring Disability News Service 28th May 2015 Disabled people should prepare themselves for more cuts and further attacks on their rights over the next five years, disabled campaigners have … Continue reading →

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Posted in Black Triangle News, Blog | Tagged Austerity, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, Scottish independence, Scottish National Party (SNP), SNP, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment | 4 Replies

Disabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage

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Jamie Szymkowiak writes on austerity, welfare and disability

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Posted in Atos, Blog, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle, Comment & debate, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Equality, Scottish independence, Scottish politics, Society, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Yes Scotland | 1 Reply

UK Welfare Reform Deaths ~ Updated List ~ October 21st 2014

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  Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg: They shall be remembered forevermore. Avenge the dead. Resuscitate the living. We must fight on for freedom from Westminster’s murderous … Continue reading →

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Posted in Atos, Black Triangle News, Blog, Disability Discrimination, DWP, Ian Duncan Smith | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Black Triangle Campaign, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, foodbanks, Health, Iain Duncan Smith, Poverty, Rachel Reeves, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish politics, Society, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare | 1 Reply

Go ahead, Scotland: Vote NO to independence and sign your own death warrant

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A lot of people wish that this referendum campaign had never happened. They wish the whole damn thing would go away and be forgotten.But a wish for a return to “normal” is a wish for a Scotland that is already … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Better Together, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, Business, David Cameron, Disability, DWP, Equality, foodbanks, Health, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, No Campaign, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish politics, Scottish Referendum, Unionism, Welfare, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Campaign, Yes Scotland | 129 Replies

#IndyRef New Scottish Government Expert Group on Welfare Report: Scrap Work Capability Assessments, Workfare and Benefit Sanctions Regime

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  Re-thinking Welfare: Fair, Personal and Simple Wednesday, June 4, 2014 ISBN: 9781784125400 This is the 2nd report of the Expert Working Group on Welfare looking at the medium and long term options for welfare in an independent Scotland. Executive … Continue reading →

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Posted in DWP | Tagged Atos, Benefits, Black Triangle Campaign, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, Equality, Expert Group on Welfare, Health, Politics, Poverty, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish independence, Scottish politics, Scottish Referendum, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Scotland | 6 Replies

British Disability Rights Abuses: ‘UK Government Refuses to Accept Responsibility for Crimes Against Humanity’ – a report by Mo Stewart

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Please sign this petition and encourage friends, family and your networks to do the same: LETTER TO THE ICC AT THE HAGUE RE: MISTREATMENT OF UK SICK AND/OR DISABLED PEOPLE   UK Government Refuses to Accept Responsibility for Crimes Against … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Black Triangle Campaign, Comment, Comment & debate, cuts, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Equality, Health, Iain Duncan Smith, Labour, PIP, Politics, Poverty, Rachel Reeves, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish Referendum, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Scotland | 123 Replies

Letter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others

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BLACK TRIANGLE, DPAC & OTHERS LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN: ‘The UK government and opposition should follow the Scottish government’s pledge that private for-profit companies are removed entirely from having anything to do with the assessment of disabled people.’

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Atos, Austerity, Benefits, Black Triangle, Comment, Disability, Disability Politics, disability rights, Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Iain Duncan Smith, Politics, Poverty, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish Referendum, The Guardian, UK news, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Work Capability Assessment, Yes Scotland | 56 Replies

Scottish independence: A lifeboat for disabled people drowning in a sea of cuts

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Scottish independence is a lifeboat for disabled Scots: To vote YES is a vote for life. It is NOT a vote of no solidarity with our disabled sisters and brothers south of the border

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Posted in Blog | Tagged anti-neoliberalism, Atos, Austerity, Black Triangle, Black Triangle Campaign, cuts, Disability Living Allowance, Disability Politics, disability rights, Dismantling of the Welfare State, DLA, Dr Mark Langan, DWP, DWP Sanctions, Expert Opinion, Health, John McArdle, Leeds Metropolitan University, Mandatory Work, Personal Independence Payment, PIP, Scottish Government, Scottish independence, Scottish Independence Referendum, Social Sciences, Social Securty, Universal Credit, Welfare, Welfare Reform, welfare state, Why Labour Doesn't Need Scotland, Work Capability Assessment, Workfare, Yes Scotland | 8 Replies

Scotland faces “severest cuts in political history, over and above the retrenchment of the last few years” if it votes for the status quo

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“This is the day, our day, Scotland’s day. The day that we can cradle in our arms Scotland’s future and hear the infant cries of a new country,”

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Austerity, cuts, Disability Politics, Indyref, Scottish independence, Scottish politics | 36 Replies

Declaration of Radical Independence

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“Let prosperous people sustain a great welfare state. Let that state end the fear that comes with insecurity. Let us gift ourselves that Scotland.”

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Posted in Blog | Tagged anti-neoliberalism, Disability, Equality, radical independence, Scottish independence, Scottish Referendum, welfare state | 8 Replies

The Long Journey to Yes

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My name is Cindie Reiter, I’m one of those “New Scots” you hear people talking about from time to time, and I’m going to vote Yes in 2014.

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Austerity, Cindie Reiter, Comment, Disability, Homelessness, perspectives, Scottish independence, Scottish politics, Scottish Referendum, Yes Scotland | 2 Replies

How the SNP can still win the vote for an independent Scotland: The Yes camp can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border

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The YES Scotland campaign can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border

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Posted in Blog | Tagged Article, Comment, Comment & debate, Comment is free, James Mitchell, Main section, Politics, Scotland, Scottish independence, Scottish National Party (SNP), Scottish politics, The Guardian, UK news | 7 Replies

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