Atos Medicals - Questions, Answers and Support
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Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Besides the Independent and Guardian and a small article in The Mirror, a lot of the other papers seem to be ignoring it though
Now the paralympics start tomorrow, even more of a reason for other papers to maybe bury it somewhere it won't be noticed?
cozmikbrew
Bass case
Had my ATOS medical last week(tuesday)very little questioning bout my physical problem(Sciatica) asked mysupport worker loads,how long shed known me,what she did etc,but in an out in less than half hour,got into a right state waiting for it,waiting room was horrible,one poor lass broke down completely an had to be usherd into a side room,lad next to me only had one lung an that was knackerd!So,the waiting game
Newsnight have just covered the issues in the professional and empathetic way they used to on issues like poverty and equality(whats changed?)
protests covered by BBC news tonight,
but not really many on the protests, many 'abled bodied' acitivists/leftists, etc may have to themselves some searching questions?
protests covered by BBC news tonight,
but not really many on the protests, many 'abled bodied' acitivists/leftists, etc may have to themselves some searching questions?
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Mark Littlewood must be destroyed.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
For any particular reason, Jeff?
yes, its a fab ceremony but I can't quite get past this.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Because he's a slimey, unsympathetic piece of shit and a transmission belt for every government policy that involves trampling society's unproductive scum into the dirt?
That'll do for me, cocker.
He is an obscenity, he is the nearest thing we have to a Tea Party headbanger, the way he was talking about DLA being abused and that massive cuts are neccesary and that ''money has to be channeled to make people 'productive'', was grotesque
oh, and the revealing thing is he was a Lib Dem Adviser...
Had my ATOS medical last week(tuesday)very little questioning bout my physical problem(Sciatica) asked mysupport worker loads,how long shed known me,what she did etc,but in an out in less than half hour,got into a right state waiting for it,waiting room was horrible,one poor lass broke down completely an had to be usherd into a side room,lad next to me only had one lung an that was knackerd!So,the waiting game
I know these things have to be known, But i wish you hadn't posted that, its really upset me, its the Victorian age again, it sounds like a description of the workhouse
Actually, thinking about it again, you should write a more detailed account of it and post it all around the blogs, etc..
'We have been nudged, most of all, towards a deeper understanding of the word "transformation", as employed so tellingly by Guttmann, whose intention in founding the Stoke Mandeville Games for the Paralysed, he said, was "to transform a severely disabled patient into a taxpayer".'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/30/paralympic-games-opening-ceremony-britain
On first glance you would think the originator of the first Para-Olympics, the great Ludwig Guttman agrees with that shit Greenwood, but i think he meant engaging with the world, etc, i hope he did anyway...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/30/paralympic-games-opening-ceremony-britain
On first glance you would think the originator of the first Para-Olympics, the great Ludwig Guttman agrees with that shit Greenwood, but i think he meant engaging with the world, etc, i hope he did anyway...
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I reckon Cameron has taken it literally
Anyway, a lot of these people were taxpayers before they had accidents/illnesses. A lot of them who are working and on DLA are still taxpayers
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I would have thought the DWP could have made that decision without you having to see ATOS.
Hope all goes well for you.
I know!! I am expecting a decision in the next 2-4 weeks, so we shall see what happen's!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It's such a pity that they're being allowed to get away with quoting Guttmann out-of-context. It's not as if it's difficult to google Guttmann and see the context. Typical arschloch bone-fucking-idle pundits and politicos.
T'he rules for sanctions are as follows from Regulation 60 of ESA Regs :
The sanction for failing to comply with work-related requirement provides for the reduction of the WRA component by 50% for four weeks and by 100% for continued failure thereafter.'
The new sanction regime is in place now and claimants are being threatened no matter how sick they are to do a back to work plan, etc, obscene...
The sanction for failing to comply with work-related requirement provides for the reduction of the WRA component by 50% for four weeks and by 100% for continued failure thereafter.'
The new sanction regime is in place now and claimants are being threatened no matter how sick they are to do a back to work plan, etc, obscene...
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
Fleet Street Fox article. Worth a read. 
Now that pundits are even quoting Guttman (albeit out of context) in order to justify social security reform, can anyone seriously not believe that the amount of fuss being made over the paralympics has a lot to do with making it seem acceptable to kick disabled people off benefits? I know it's a drum I keep banging, but I don't recall this much trumpeting over the last paralympics. And when looked at like that, maybe it's not so ironic that they're being sponsored by ATOS.
Anyway I'm going to have a bash at my ESA form later - At least fill in the name/adress/NI number bits & do some rough drafts of the actuall illness sections, fucker's looking reproachfully at me from the sideboard every time I go in me bedroom.
Anyway I'm going to have a bash at my ESA form later - At least fill in the name/adress/NI number bits & do some rough drafts of the actuall illness sections, fucker's looking reproachfully at me from the sideboard every time I go in me bedroom.
Fleet Street Fox article. Worth a read.
That's a great article, will bookmark the blog..
It's consistently good. I'm getting more curious to know who the fox is in real life...
culder
Active Member
An excellent article!
I've just started a blog - nowhere near as good as that, but if anyone wants to look, it's at culder.blogspot.co.uk (hope that works).
Meanwhile, saw this elsewhere -
Viz top tip from my friend the Geordie rapper 'Here's an idea... if anyone who is disabled is hauled in to ATOS they should take a picture of Sir Edmund Hilary with them, produce it, and say "Here's what an able bodied person can achieve if they have the will to do so. Off you go... and you can judge ME when you and your board of directors have done it! Good luck... I hear the fatality rate is falling annually."
I've just started a blog - nowhere near as good as that, but if anyone wants to look, it's at culder.blogspot.co.uk (hope that works).
Meanwhile, saw this elsewhere -
Viz top tip from my friend the Geordie rapper 'Here's an idea... if anyone who is disabled is hauled in to ATOS they should take a picture of Sir Edmund Hilary with them, produce it, and say "Here's what an able bodied person can achieve if they have the will to do so. Off you go... and you can judge ME when you and your board of directors have done it! Good luck... I hear the fatality rate is falling annually."
Wot treelover says.
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
C4 news asking the same. No idea myself. Didn't watch the opening ceremony.
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