So, here we have Theresa May dancing away to Queens “Dancing Queen” only the hapless thing looked like an elderly woman who’d just dropped an acid tab and finished up on the stage at a Tory conference. And if you look at all the social embarrassment and personal incompetence in the world, she just fashionedContinue reading “Dancing Queen”
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Benefit Cuts Are Fake News
Tory welfare chief Esther McVey has implied her own party’s benefit cuts are “fake news” in a brazen party conference address. The Work and Pensions Secretary lanced an egotistic assault on Labour and “social media” despite cuts being well-documented by think tanks and her predecessor Iain Duncan Smith. Most working-age benefits have been suspendedContinue reading “Benefit Cuts Are Fake News”
What A Difference A Day Makes
One in four disabled people has been stopped from using public transport by other people’s attitudes in the last year, and 1 in 5 people in the United Kingdom are disabled. That’s 14 million people that face discrimination and negative attitudes every single day. Disabled people are discriminated against in every way imaginable, but I’mContinue reading “What A Difference A Day Makes”
NHS Patients Face Waiting Years For Surgery
Brits stand to wait years for non-urgent NHS procedures after bosses revealed they had given up striving to beat targets, and hospital bosses maintain a deficit of staff and funds makes it difficult to reach goals for A&E, cancer care and routine surgery at the same time. They say they have been pressured to prioritiseContinue reading “NHS Patients Face Waiting Years For Surgery”
DWP Benefits Bungle
A great-grandmother’s grieving family have blamed her death on the pressure of having to dispense with a benefits bungle. Thomasina McIver, of Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, died from a blood clot following weeks attempting to sort out payments for her disabled husband Herbert, 70. The couple couldn’t access the £1000 he was due, and their childrenContinue reading “DWP Benefits Bungle”
Tories Plot To Oust Theresa May
“She must go!” Raises the roar from the Tory seats. We’re about to be chained to the EU without any voting powers! We’ll be a slave nation, just as some people predicted a month before the election. It’s all Theresa May’s failing, off with her head! And so they meet in conspiratorial groups to quietlyContinue reading “Tories Plot To Oust Theresa May”
Badger Cull
Forty thousand badgers risk being killed in the latest slaughter intended to clear out TB in cattle. Shooters will take aim at the animals in 32 areas across 11 English counties, including two where the programme will take place for the first time. A total of 40,892 face the death sentence under proposals drafted byContinue reading “Badger Cull”
Grandad, 62, Battered By Six-Foot Security Guard
A grandad of 62 was attacked by a muscle-bound security watchdog after he took his disabled wife for a benefits assessment. Keith Langham was left with blood pouring from a head injury after helping his wife Karen, 61, with the interview for her Personal Independence Payments. She was told that people like her ‘needed toContinue reading “Grandad, 62, Battered By Six-Foot Security Guard”
The Government Has Stolen Our Money
Sofa-surfing and queuing for the food bank are not where a generation of women who are now in their 60s ever predicted after a lifetime of active work and child-rearing. But since the Government shifted the goalposts, twice, adjusting the age at which women born in the 1950s could claim their state pension, more andContinue reading “The Government Has Stolen Our Money”
The DWP Is Accused Of Hiding Secret Reports
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has contravened the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) in an apparent effort to block the release of secret reports, and in 2017, the DWP began recruiting community partners to work in jobcentres. It endeavoured to recruit around 200 of them, represented by the DWP as people with personalContinue reading “The DWP Is Accused Of Hiding Secret Reports”