List of those for whom Welfare Reform and cuts were too much to bear

[J Ed]

Most of the responses to the suicide on social media are shock and indignation but there are a few that really make me despair, there is a significant minority of people who really do not regard people on benefits (or at least on more benefits than they are) as human.

 

[panpete]

oops, lets keep it just for the losses,

that applies to me as well..

woops, sorry. My above post can be deleted if mods wish.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Most of the responses to the suicide on social media are shock and indignation but there are a few that really make me despair, there is a significant minority of people who really do not regard people on benefits (or at least on more benefits than they are) as human.

No there isn't, it's just twats on the internet.

 

[BigTom]

BBC Midlands today will be reporting this at 18:50 tonight according to their Twitter feed

Edit: not sure I've read their tweet right

@bbcmtd 1850 Family of a Solihull woman say she killed herself because of pressure caused by government changes to housing benefit.

Thought the 1850 was referring to the time they were running the story but looking at their feed it isn't and I've no idea what it is

 

[Frances Lengel]

There was something on R4 about the lady in Solihull earlier on sometime.

 

[UhOhSeven]

Most of the responses to the suicide on social media are shock and indignation but there are a few that really make me despair, there is a significant minority of people who really do not regard people on benefits (or at least on more benefits than they are) as human.

Have you read this?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/11/benefits-claimants-other-research

 

[J Ed]

Have you read this?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/11/benefits-claimants-other-research

Yes, it was what I was thinking about when I read the stuff actually

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

http://trueblueviews.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/victory-disabled-kids-made-to-wallow-in-own-exrement/

 

[ViolentPanda]

http://trueblueviews.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/victory-disabled-kids-made-to-wallow-in-own-exrement/

One of the better satires.

 

[ViolentPanda]

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[Minnie_the_Minx]

There's a thing on Channel 4 tonight (9.00pm) about benefits and how people are being affected and surviving

Skint

Documentary series that shows how people survive without work. Dean used to work at Scunthorpe's steelworks, but now he, his wife and their seven children exist on benefits

 

[treelover]

Minnie, and all can we keep this thread for the bereaved, etc

the campaign one would be fine for the above.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Minnie, and all can we keep this thread for the bereaved, etc

the campaign one would be fine for the above.

Oh, am I on wrong thread

Maybe the word campaign could be taken out of other one as I always assume it's for protests

 

[panpete]

Should we have another thread for comments about the suicides due to welfare reforms, and leave this one just for listing the people we have lost. (*shivers* that sounds like we are going to lose more)
What do you all think?

 

[Greebo]

Should we have another thread for comments about the suicides due to welfare reforms, and leave this one just for listing the people we have lost. (*shivers* that sounds like we are going to lose more)<snip>

Agreed.

 

[teqniq]

If anyone feels so inclined, there is an online condolences page for Stephanie Bottrill here.

 

[brogdale]

Excellent point made on 'The Third Estate'...

Following the government’s refusal to comment on the tragic suicide of Stephanie Bottrill, a number of people have pointed out the rather glaring inconsistency between this case and that of Mick Philpott. George Osborne was notoriously eager to share his wisdom with us in that instance, but when a chronically ill grandmother took her own life in despair at the prospect of losing her home apparently it abruptly became inappropriate to comment on individual cases.

Prompting some twitter traffic too...

 

[brogdale]

Should we have another thread for comments about the suicides due to welfare reforms, and leave this one just for listing the people we have lost. (*shivers* that sounds like we are going to lose more)
What do you all think?

I've just seen this.

 

[audiotech]

Lord Freud and his weasel words:

Clearly, it’s a desperately sad and tragic event, as you say, and I and my colleagues send our condolences to the family. But I’m not in a position to make any further comment than that clearly the relevant authorities need to investigate what actually happened; we don’t know yet.

We do, as Mrs Bottrilll left a note clearly stating that you and your ilk drove her to her death.

Freud then goes on to talk about people sleeping on sofa beds.

http://www.cantpaywontpay.org/publish/?p=2920

 

[Frances Lengel]

Are all these Freuds related? Sigmund, Lucien, Emma, Lord, etc?

 

[treelover]

yes.

 

[BigTom]

I'm on my phone so don't know how to search the thread to see if Iain Hodges suicide has been posted before:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...hire-east-kilbride-_n_3272646.html?1368544547

Killed himself after 10 weeks of no money due to the dwp giving around with his ESA

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Lord Freud and his weasel words:


We do, as Mrs Bottrilll left a note clearly stating that you and your ilk drove her to her death.

Freud then goes on to talk about people sleeping on sofa beds.

http://www.cantpaywontpay.org/publish/?p=2920

Her son is currently talking on This Morning

 

[butchersapron]

Was this mentioned earlier? Payday loan scumbags. (Keyes Whitlock and Co, Mobile Money Ltd, 247 Moneybox.com, Cash Genie and Valour Loans)

Father set himself on fire after being hounded 'day and night' by loan sharks over £1,600 debt

 

[Pickman's model]

Should we have another thread for comments about the suicides due to welfare reforms, and leave this one just for listing the people we have lost. (*shivers* that sounds like we are going to lose more)
What do you all think?

we are going to lose more

 

[treelover]

The thread has had 2000 more views in a week, clearly non urbanites are viewing this thread for information/remembrance, maybe families are.

 

[Frankie Jack]

The thread has had 2000 more views in a week, clearly non urbanites are viewing this thread for information/remembrance, maybe families are.

I've linked to it in various places the past few weeks.

 

[treelover]

Linda Wootton: Double heart and lung transplant dies nine days after she has benefits stopped

26 May 2013 00:01
She was told her employment and support allowance was being stopped as she lay dying in a hospital bed

double heart and lung transplant patient died just NINE DAYS after the Government stopped her benefits and ordered her to go back to work.
Linda Wootton, 49, was on 10 prescription drugs a day, suffering high blood pressure, renal failure and regular blackouts.
Yet Atos – the private firm carrying out the Government’s controversial work capability assessments – ruled she was fit enough to find a job after she was interviewed.
Cost-cutting officials sent Linda a letter telling her that her £108.05 a week employment and support allowance was being stopped as she lay dying in a hospital bed.
Her husband Peter said: “I sat there and listened to my wife drown in her own body fluids. It took half an hour for her to die – and that’s a woman who’s ‘fit for work’. The last months of her life were a misery because she worried about her benefits, feeling useless, like a scrounger.
“But there was no way in a million years she could work.”
The Coalition hired Atos to carry out the assessments as part of the welfare cuts. The firm processed almost 20,000 incapacity benefit claimants a week last year... but a third of the people who appealed against its decisions were successful.
Linda also appealed but was rejected despite her history.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/linda-wootton-double-heart-lung-1912498#ixzz2UQO8lBAv

Not a death that can be directly attributed to benefits policy/cuts, but to be told that you are to lose your money after such an operation is callous in the extreme and may have caused complications.

Meanwhile Cameron swans around Ibitha

 

[UhOhSeven]

This man is on hunger strike to the death after his money was stopped:

http://atosvictimsgroup.co.uk/2013/05/23/victim-of-atos-goes-on-hunger-strike/

 

[butchersapron]

He is now on day 16 of his hunger strike.

Today, George Rolph is in day 16 of his hunger strike, which he is doing for others going through what he has had to endure, whilst also trying to get the general public to wake up to what is happening to the most vulnerable people in the United Kingdom, a country which once cared for those who are vulnerable, sick and disabled.

He says he will not stop this hunger strike until the British government and ATOS stop their persecution of the sick, the disabled, the poor, the carers, the unemployed, even if it means he has to die in doing so.

Two days ago, his facebook account was deleted without warning or explanation, the media has chosen to ignore what George is doing, emails and messages to the BBC have been ignored so please share this information as widely as possible. You can also sign a petition calling for a parliamentary debate on his hunger strike here.