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  1. They cannot force you to sell your home,but i,m afraid the government has reduced the mortgage interest they pay,and subsequently many people are being forced to sell their homes,including many disabled people
  2. Couldn,t believe it,got a letter from the house of commons this morning from my MP (Alan Campbell) He,s signing the motions!
  3. I posted this article on an ebay community board,and someone replied with "how do you think douglas bader managed" I,m afraid anyone who thinks this is not about saving money is being slightly deluded and naive,Even the DWP stated: “Disability Living Allowance isn’t paid based on the condition someone has but on the extra costs they may have because of their specific needs or difficulties." You mean like having a car?
  4. Soldier who lost leg in Afghanistan has £180 disability cash axed Pte Aron Shelton, 26, lost the benefit as he can now limp 400 metres. Aron, of East Yorks, said: “I fight for my country but it doesn’t even look after me.” Read more: Soldier who lost leg in Afghanistan has £180 disability cash axed - mirror.co.uk
  5. Has your MP signed the early day motions relating to proposed cuts in disability living allowance and local housing allowance? A motion by Kate Hoey (EDM 393) calling on the government to: “re-consider its decision to introduce medical assessments for new and existing claimants of disability living allowance” has been signed by 47 MPs including three LibDems and one Tory. A further motion (EDM 369) has been tabled by Fiona O’Donnell and signed by 44 MPs. The motion calls on the government to: “complete a full and comprehensive equality impact assessment detailing how the changes announced in the Budget will impact on disabled people.” Whilst this might not sound very radical, such motions allow campaigners to identify MPs who may support a challenge to the plans to axe one in five current DLA claimants. A similar motion (S3M-06644), The UK Budget and the Future of Disability Living Allowance, has been put before the Scottish Parliament by MSP Bill Kidd. Please check if your MP has signed at least one of these motions and, if they haven’t, use the excellent Write To Them website to contact your MP before they all go off on holiday on 27th July.
  6. Fears grow over care of mentally ill as GPs say they don't want the job | Society | The Observer Mental health campaigners fear that a "postcode lottery writ large" will leave vulnerable people without care as doctors indicate they do not want to take on responsibility for services for the mentally ill. Two polls of family doctors have revealed that an overwhelming number don't feel able to take on the role of providing services for patients with mental health problems. Paul Farmer, chief executive of the mental health charity Mind, said there were increasing reports of services being cut. Mind has seen a huge increase over the past two weeks in the numbers of people contacting it worried about possible cuts to incapacity benefit
  7. Some of the sugestions: "Create Spending Challenge Website": Create a website where the entire population of the UK can make absurd suggestions on how the Government can save money. Allow easy access and registration so that users can create multiple accounts to vote on their own suggestions. As hundreds of thousands of citizens will be sat on their computer, they will not be a drain on resources outside their own homes such as roads, police, oxygen etc. Saving money" There is also a highly-rated recipe for "Beef and vegetable casserole", described by one visitor as "the most sensible thing I have read on this site". Where is the TaxPayers’ Alliance when you need it? Why is the govenment spending our taxes on a repository of racial, sexist and homophobic hate? The BNP already has a website.
  8. Yes i agree with you,thats why cases like this make headlines in the daily mail,I tell you what doesn,t make headlines,but should,are the genuine people suffering through cancer treatment,or having mental illnesses who are deemed capable of work because the computer says no,that makes me more annoyed then the handfull who abuse the system,We,the disabled have been vilified and demonised and called every name under the sun,just so the government can mount an attack on us
  9. My God,what sort of society have we become?
  10. One of the con-dems plans is to reduce housing benefit by 10% to people who have been on JSA over a year,how can they possibly target people who through no fault of their own cannot gain employment? If people cannot afford the extra 10% rent,whats to stop them being evicted? Thatcherism MK11 rolls on
  11. According to the Office for National statistics,in april 1997 the defecit was well over 40%,We are nothing like greece,their debt is short term,ours is long term,so comparing us with greece is false,as is comparing our economy with a household economy,The defecit was not caused by excessive government spending,but by lack of tax revenue,also if money had not been put into the economy,there would have been 500,000 more people out of work,spending on the car scrappage scheme helped keep 40,000 people in work,and the cut in VAT also helped small businesses,If it had not have been for the GLOBAL economic crisis,We,as well as the rest of the World,would not have had large defecits
  12. Danieir "we still need to find 56 billion pounds of savings." No we don,t,theres always been a defecit,anyway scrap trident,pull troops out of an unwinnable war in afghanistan,introduce a Robin Hood tax on banks,Defecit solved,people have been hoodwinked into thinking these cuts are necessary,they,re most certainly not,Irelands tried it,slashing services and benefits,unemployment has shot up,people are emigrating,their defecit has got worse,it hasn,t worked,And i,m afraid the same will happen here,By the way,when the tories left office,public debt was around 42% of GDP,theres always public debt,or the country couldn,t function
  13. Does anyone really think that if all benefit fraud was stopped,the "genuinely" disabled people would recieve more? I don,t think so. And this budget wasn,t unavoidable as osborne claims,there are other ways to cut the defecit, We all have to ask ourselves,who really runs this country,the government or the markets? Osborne claims exports will grow from 0% to 30% in 3 years,who and where do we export to,as all of europe (our biggest market) are also introducing "austerity" budgets Just as during thatchers time,the single mothers were targeted,now its the sick and disabled ,All of this coming suffering is completely unneccesary,But we,re an easy target,Unlike the bankers or tax fraudsters,"We,re all in this together" remember!
  14. Forget Tory propaganda about bankruptcy and benefit scroungers. We all know who the real scroungers and, just in case you needed reminding, the UK is still one of the wealthiest nations on earth It wasn’t government spending that caused this crisis, it was finance that caused this crisis. Theres over £100billion lost a year through tax fraud and evasion,make those that caused the defecit pay for it,But do you know something? Even if there had been no defecit,The tories would still attack us. As the Financial Times’ Martin Wolf has pointed out, cuts ‘will be viewed as punishment of the innocent for the sins not just of the guilty, but of the rescued and now bonus receiving guilty’.
  15. I,ve just been looking at the DWP official figures concerning DLA: 2005,Fraud accounted for:£40million,Official error accounted for:£60million, The figures for Underpayment are:£200million http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd2/dlafraudjuly05.pdf I,ve read this governments book over 20 years ago,same script,but did anyone expect anything different? I would feel sick now if i had of voted for the principlined libdems
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