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I keep expecting IDS to turn up on here and start going, "We've heard a lot from you..."Ian Duncan Smith...
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I keep expecting IDS to turn up on here and start going, "We've heard a lot from you..."Ian Duncan Smith...
Now this might not be altogether relevant to this thread....................but I will re-post it anyway to honour both those who are suffering so severely on account of ME and this government's shameful negligence (and, of course, ALL governments' negligence) of the disease and the brave DWP worker who phoned me to say that she is verbally instructed by her DWP boss to especially target those with a diagnosis of ME to remove their benefits. She was mortified to be instructed to compromise her conscience by removing benefit from those she said she knew were very ill, yet she was given no choice if she wanted to keep her job.
Just for the record.....................................
For which Ian Duncan Smith and others should be arrested and jailed for life, or executed.
While today, the Queen visited the Belsen site and memorial..."lest we forget"....
The amazing sequence of events of the last 10days!
maggie Zolobajluk
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
5 Jul 2015 — Thank you – all 235,000 of you! – who have signed my petition calling for the Government to publish statistics showing how many people have died after their benefits were stopped.
I now need you to write to your MP: https://www.writetothem.com/
The past 10 days have been a whirlwind.
First Iain Duncan Smith said they could not publish these figures and accused us of scaremongering. Then David Cameron said that they would be published. But this was swiftly followed by the Government saying that they were appealing against the Information Commissioner’s ruling that they should be publish, saying that publishing this data would lead to “probable misinterpretations” and “was too emotive...and wasn’t in the public interest”.
All of this came to light in a debate secured by Debbie Abrahams MP which you can read here: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2015-06-30a.439.0&s=death while fit for work#g442.5
So the Government is still trying to avoid publishing this data. We must keep campaigning!
Please take a moment to email your MP and ask them if they will support 235,000 people who have signed this petition calling for the Government to publish statistics showing how many people have died after their benefits were stopped.
You can write to your MP at https://www.writetothem.com/
When you receive a response from your MP – please forward it to maggiezed@hotmail.com
It is so important we keep going with this campaign.
Write to your MP today: https://www.writetothem.com/
Thank you
Maggie
Thanks, @MeSci - done.
I have sent my MP a message detailing my personal experience of becoming disabled and struggling to survive on benefits, and relating this to the impossibility of surviving without them. Although he is a Conservative/Tory, he is not rich or from a privileged background, so hopefully he can relate to it.
I added some personal stuff too, about what a struggle it had always been to get benefits even though I was severely disabled and clearly entitled - and what a hostile, demeaning process it is.
When it becomes standard to deal with this..." 'Suicide guidance' given to benefits staff preparing for desperate calls on welfare reform "
http://m.heraldscotland.com/news/13...paring_for_desperate_calls_on_welfare_reform/