Thursday, 4 November 2010

Round-Up Post

There are plenty of must-read articles and blog posts which I haven't had the time or the spoons to cover. All of the following are well worth a look.
  • Scope are running a survey about the real costs of being disabled, which you can fill in here.
  • "On the Shoulders of the Vulnerable", an article from Morning Star with information about ATOS and how ESA medicals are failing disabled people, especially those of us with mental health problems.
  • A Guardian article, Housing Benefit Cuts: What's the Real Truth?
  • Laurie Penny in the New Statesman writes Strictly Come Scrounging, Anyone?, about The X Factor vision of society [which] blames the poor for their predicament.
  • Hopi Sen and Left Futures point out the contradiction in David Cameron criticising those claiming over £20,000 in housing benefits, compared to his own expenses claims for his second home.
  • Crisis, a national charity for single homeless people, have created a comprehensive, myth-busting press release full of information on how the government are 'peddling myths' to sell the Housing Benefit cuts.
  • Lenin's Tomb deconstructs a Daily Mail article decrying 75% of Incapacity Benefit claimants as 'fit to work'.
  • The same article is looked at on This Is My Blog, who looks in depth at 'abandoned claims' and why they might really happen.
  • Susannah posts a plea for help, describing how the removal of the Mobility Component of DLA from people in residential care will directly affect her brother.
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3 comments:

  1. Robert5 November 2010 at 20:43

    http://www.ippr.org.uk/uploadedFiles/events/events-transcript-alexander-101105.pdf

    Labour view on welfare guess what it's the same as the Tories.......

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  2. Robert7 November 2010 at 10:11

    Not a lot going on in the campaigning trail by the look of it, whats the matter have you all given up.

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  3. Anonymous11 November 2010 at 13:59

    Transparent and accountable This Govt said - What a crock! It is blatantly obvious what the disabled will be put through - Ten ton of crap and stress. They will say we are fit to work when we are not - Then when we are not we will lose all benefits for up to THREE years - Thus - Meaning many of the weaker of society will die - WELL DONE CAMERON and your little lap-dog Clegg - HOPE YOU GET A DISABILITY LIKE MINE ONE DAY!!!

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