Personal Independence Payments are a Punishment of the Poor and Ill
PIP should be a national scandal: Iain Duncan Smith’s new system already has a huge backlog and people are dying waiting
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Letter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others
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.’
Continue reading →MAKE NO MISTAKE: Iain Duncan Smith wants the end of social security
Don’t let the bluster, incompetence and misinformation obscure the Quiet Man’s true, Tory purpose: destroying the welfare safety net
Continue reading →Pauper management by G4S, Serco and Atos is inspired by a punitive past
The coaltion’s use of private companies to manage the most vulnerable amongst us is inspired by half a millennium of Poor Laws
Continue reading →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
The YES Scotland campaign can turn the debate around by focusing on the dismantling of the welfare state south of the border
Continue reading →It’s immoral to have food banks in one of the world’s richest countries: “These ‘genetically poor’ folk are returning food because they cannot afford to heat it up”
‘Genetically poor’ folk are returning food from the foodbank because they cannot afford to heat it up
Continue reading →‘The Tories are creating a hostile environment – not just for migrants’ : It doesn’t matter if policies work – only that they come down hard on “malingerers” and migrants
With an election not far away, it doesn’t matter if policies work – only that they come down hard on “malingerers” and migrants, writes John Harris
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