Rachel Reeves has received a letter from Jeremy Corbyn condemning her and the government for their proposed reductions in disability allowances. In her spring speech last month, the chancellor said that the government would be drastically reducing the welfare budget. The £4.3 billion cuts package, which included significant reform to Personal Independence Payment (PIP), isContinue reading “Corbyn ‘Disgusted’ By ‘Cruel’ Government Cuts”
Tag Archives: Dignity
Guards Forcefully Strip A Girl Prisoner
The prison watchdog has said he was ‘deeply shocked’ after a vulnerable teenage girl was forcibly strip-searched by male officers at a child jail. Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, also blasted the ‘inappropriate use of pain-inducing techniques’ at Wetherby Young Offenders Institution (YOI) in West Yorkshire. The institution was holding 165 boys andContinue reading “Guards Forcefully Strip A Girl Prisoner”
Jean Descamps’ Body Camera Released In Transport Death
Investigations are ongoing regarding the death of a 26-year-old man who was being driven by Milwaukie police from a hospital. However, Milwaukie police officials released the body-worn camera footage of one of the officers late on Friday afternoon. On December 13, Jean Descamps was being transported by law enforcement from Providence Milwaukie Hospital to Unity,Continue reading “Jean Descamps’ Body Camera Released In Transport Death”
Esther Rantzen’s Daughter Says She Doesn’t Want Her To Die At Dignitas Clinic
Esther Rantzen’s daughter has called on Parliament to vote on assisted dying rules to stop her mother from travelling alone to the ‘horrific’ Dignitas clinic. The Childline founder, who was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer earlier this year, revealed she’d joined the assisted dying clinic in Switzerland and would consider going there to endContinue reading “Esther Rantzen’s Daughter Says She Doesn’t Want Her To Die At Dignitas Clinic”
It Is Imperative That The Government Releases Secret Files On The Royal Family
A few weeks ago, someone wrote in a newspaper outlet in the Royal section about the problems they’d had as a historian and biographer in trying to access historical royal records. Time after time they found themselves barred from peeking into even the most mundane files, including documents which had been brought with public moneyContinue reading “It Is Imperative That The Government Releases Secret Files On The Royal Family”
I’M HENRY THE EIGHTH, I AM, I AM!
David Cameron, IDS and George Osbourne are extremely alike to Henry the VIII, they adjust the guidelines to suit themselves. They will hurry something through parliament that fits the bill at the time and, then when it doesn’t suit them, they will rush something else through that suits them, particularly if it gives them moreContinue reading “I’M HENRY THE EIGHTH, I AM, I AM!”
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 