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i fucked up big time. cycled down at 1pm, only to find out it has started at 11am and we'd missed it really. d'oh :facepalm:

don't know how i got my head mixed up but i did.
 
Blagsta said:
I dunno about anyone else, but I'm sick of seeing people say "why doesn't someone do something" (yes, I know actually some people are, but y'know...).

Let's do something. I'm in south London. What I'd like to see is ideas for tactics/strategy on this thread and to arrange an initial meeting.

Anyone up for it? Or am I pissing in the wind?
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Oh yes, we are with you here in Ontario Canada we will not give up. We love you--keepn going--we are
 
Oh my gosh; now I`m back home ten to three and Lou Reed is playing; you can`t depend on intelligence you can;t depend on your friends you need a bus load of faith to get by. You can`t depend on cruelty--you need a busload of faith to get by.
 
Sue Marsh of 'diary of a benefit scrounger' was just on Ch4, the woman has real dignity and guts, compare her to the politicians...
 
A Tory MP is quoted as saying the Govt shouldn't back down when the suicides begin...

angry about the above, its still not a priority for many though...

btw, Sue tells in the blog that she is getting emails every week on these lines, not pleas for help, but definite plans for suicide by disabled people if they lose their benefits...
 
This was DWPExams death list up till July this year.There have been at least four more suicides since then not including the two noted above.

Just how many more will it take for Tories to back down. 20, 50. Those that have happened aready are to many as far as I'm concerned.

That site is also one ATOSSERS had closed down. They are now with Black Triangle on an Icelandic server so that ATOSSERS cannot get to them.
 
If anyone on twitter wonders what the recent biweekly #wrb and #teamwrb cluttering up the timeline is.. it's concerned benefit scrounging scum following the Welfare Reform Bill through the House of Lords and tweeting what they see/hear. As the debate is only televised on the internet on Parliament TV, the general public don't know it is happening.

It's been an eyeopener for those following it and reading the Hansard reports is shocking.

This really is a vile and brutal bill for all aspects of welfare covering everything from childcare to the roof over your heads.

All the Hansards can be found here under W for anyone who has the be bothereds to read them and weep and todays report will be published tomorrow/today.

There was a cry of outrage today when Lord Fraud appeared to refer to the sick and disabled as 'STOCK' This is not the first time this has happened when a search pulled up a statement from a professor Gregg in 2010 who also seemed to refer to them as 'stock'

So next time you see #wrb and #teamwrb on your twitter timeline pay it some heed..

Yours.. one of #teamwrb.
 
The story I posted has made the front page of the metro this morning, which should bring it to wider attention, hopefully shock a few people into thinking through just what happens when you attack the benefits system

and yes, the welfare reform bill is horrendous. It got far too little attention, except on twitter.
and now they are talking about 6 month workfare "community service" placements for people.
 
treelover said:
A Tory MP is quoted as saying the Govt shouldn't back down when the suicides begin...

angry about the above, its still not a priority for many though...

btw, Sue tells in the blog that she is getting emails every week on these lines, not pleas for help, but definite plans for suicide by disabled people if they lose their benefits...
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These people are scum.
 
'There was a cry of outrage today when Lord Fraud appeared to refer to the sick and disabled as 'STOCK' This is not the first time this has happened when a search pulled up a statement from a professor Gregg in 2010 who also seemed to refer to them as 'stock'

yes, I remember him saying that, he really is an odious man, the Works And Pensions Dept seems full of them...
 
'Women, the disabled and ethnic minorities, who all experience inequalities in pay and face discrimination in the jobs market, will have to work longer and harder to free themselves from the threat of sanctions. They will have to search for opportunities to increase their earnings for a time period equivalent to the number of hours they are expected to be available for employment. Each must create and update an online profile, and do so "in an effective manner" or face sanctions.'
 
Corporate Watch: Regulating Workfare

Tales from Tesco and Holland & Barrett workfare schemes..

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I can't see the welfare reform bill getting defeated. Truly horrible state of affairs. Closing libraries then demanding that people in poverty have internet is just adding insult to injury.

Anyone in the Midlands reading this thread wanting to help create a network to take action on the whole scope of benefits stuff please pm me.
 
'Freud’s crocodile tears'
On the subject of Lord Freud, the ex-banker and current minister for welfare reform told the House of Lords last week that he was unhappy at the way media reporting of benefits issues caused fear amongst claimants. He claimed that he and his colleagues in the DWP found the press coverage ‘deeply disturbing’ (members only).'

Given that it is briefings by Freud and his DWP colleagues, and their continued failure to correct press lies, that are turning claimants into hate figures, the claim was as outrageous as it was laughable. But it may be that Freud and his colleagues have finally realised that if you want to persuade employers to take on sick and disabled claimants via the currently failing Work Programme, then portraying them as overwhelmingly workshy frauds isn’t really a very bright idea. In fact, the real workshy frauds are the private sector Work Programme providers who have been caught red-handed taking cash for helping claimants and then packing them off to the nearest volunteering centre. In one case they even tried to get a volunteering centre to provide volunteers to work with claimants for free.

From benefits and work, apparently Freud and his colleagues are worried that media coverage of welfare issues are upsetting claimants, yeah, he means the temperature is rising and he expects real flak to begin,

btw, there is real anger and dismay, as there should be about Helen and Marks suicide..

the MSM TV media has well covered the 'scroungers' now cover the casualties...
 
I dont understand why Lord Freud is controlling the decision making in the second chamber, surely the point of the House of Lords is to verify or challenge bills/acts. Freud strong influence coming from the governing party totally undermines this process and Democracy??!!
 
SERIOUS SHOUT OUT..!!!!



Tanni_GT Tanni Grey-Thompson
@
@InterUncut. need more data. I would like to know who is going to be cut? If those in most need get most support then it has to be someone ?

@Tanni_GT wants to know if you are one of the 600.000+ who will lose the lower rate of DLA when PiP is introduced. There will only be two levels instead of three.

The link is to the assessment regulations PDF and she wants to know if you will be one of those who will not qualify for PiP. You will then be set on ESA or JSA

Please read and get back to Tanni either at
Westminster

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 3143
greythompsont@parliament.uk

Or

http://www.tanni.co.uk/contact/

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/pip-second-draft-assessment-regulations.pdf
 
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