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Advising GPs not to provide support information for disability benefit appeals 24 Aug 2013 | 03:09 pm
TweetIf you’re looking for the the rollling blog/story on the above and the Bro Taf and local medical committee statements – they’re here on this link. Excerpt: “This is an update to the stories a n...
Videos: Reclaim the Power blocks Bell Pottinger office 19 August 2013 19 Aug 2013 | 07:09 pm
TweetI’ve posted below some videos I took this morning at the Bell Pottinger offices in High Holborn. Reclaim the Power activists had superglued themselves to the front doors of Bell Pottinger in prot...
Mental health problems and fighting for ESA medical support information… 15 Aug 2013 | 02:16 pm
TweetOur New Statesman latest on Atos work capability assessments: “This whole [ESA work capability assessment] scene is a catastrophe. The implosions are everywhere. A few weeks ago, disability bene...
Reclaiming Our Futures week of action! 14 Aug 2013 | 03:40 pm
TweetFrom DPAC – please reblog & share: Disabled People Against Cuts, Black Triangle, the Mental Health Resistance Network and the WOW petition bring you: *Reclaiming Our Futures* Join this year’s ...
Fast-food worker strikes, low pay and the useless self-appointed commentariat 11 Aug 2013 | 10:42 pm
TweetRight. Here are a few thoughts on the US fast-food-chain workers’ wage-battles and why any economic recovery will mean nothing to you if you are somebody who has to work to make enough money to ...
Expendable people – a list 6 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
TweetA few thoughts. This post is really a list of some of the people I’ve spoken with over the past couple of years who have mental health conditions and/or drug and alcohol problems and have had a ...
Leeds: turning the screw for council tax 27 Jul 2013 | 05:03 pm
TweetGrim scenes on Thursday inside and outside Leeds Magistrates Court – where people with no money gathered with court summonses for non-payment of council tax. Apparently, several thousand people h...
IDS does a runner on explaining his made-up statistics 26 Jul 2013 | 05:57 pm
TweetFrom Jayne Linney (sharing this everywhere): After last week’s post where we confirmed IDS WOULD be attending the Work and Pensions Select on Sept 4; we now have yet a further update!! Sheila G...
Why people are refusing to accept they must take pay cuts when others don’t 26 Jul 2013 | 01:39 pm
TweetOur latest New Statesman article on cuts – this one is on the escalating war against low pay: “Salaries across the country are not only being cut – they’re being trashed, as the people we talked...
Samantha Cameron, the disability charity and PriceWaterhouseCoopers 22 Jul 2013 | 11:18 pm
TweetNow this is interesting: Samantha Cameron as a new patron of a charity which provides respite services to people with disabilities – services that are rapidly being closed across the public secto...