Street Democracy writes: 

 

Our government is a ferocious machine shelling out a hideous vigour of rage towards those unable to support themselves financially.

A government intent on vollying sour principles promoting 'evil in ink' with a horrendous array of fierce Tory hosting. 

These are love abandoned soul's, MP's who will socially destroy those unable to contribute towards a full working week or pay their taxes.

Our disabled communities across our country will be marginalised and expelled from mainstream society with severe brutish expeditions socially discrediting them as 'scroungers'. 

Not all disabled people can run marathons and climb mountains! Many find it hard just to survive each day with pain and misery for comfort.

With soulless suits of blue we'll witness a dreadful and painful interval upon our society degrading those unable to work, expelling further disabled people by a legalised power centre of prejudice.

The Tories wish to gain a pay rise of £7,000 but cut disabled people's benefits to below subsistence levels at the same time proves they are morally bankrupt, and incapable of empathy.

Justin Tomlinson is to bring on the Tory toxic onslaught creating more disabilities as lack of medical treatments, equipment, even counselling, will lead to a cruel world mind set, and not ideal for any recovery.

 

It is clear his principles are a fallen from grace faded splendour and like thieves huddled in the night will steal freedom away and imprison innately decent people across the UK without conscience. 

 

Basically placing disabled people under house arrest, a barrless prison.

 

By Debbie Simmons-Street Democracy

Now read:

New Tory disabilities minister opposed protecting benefits for disabled children and cancer patients

Wednesday 13th May 2015 at 09:56 By David Icke

‘The Tories’ new disabilities minister voted against protecting extra benefits for disabled children and cancer patients.
Justin Tomlinson opposed giving the safeguards in the controversial Welfare Reform Bill – despite pleas from the House of Lords.
Today David Cameron named the 38-year-old North Swindon MP as disabilities minister in the Department for Work and Pensions as part of his Cabinet shake-up.
He’ll be tasked with helping Iain Duncan Smith cut £12billion from the welfare bill.’
Read more: New Tory disabilities minister opposed protecting benefits for disabled children and cancer patients

We’ll ‘Rip Them To Bits’: Fury As Brain Damaged Man Is Deemed ‘Fit For Work’

Street Democracy writes:

ATOS cruel and harsh attitudes towards sick and disabled people are governed by staff members working for ATOS, DWP and our Tory Government.

Non empathy people, enforcing strict obedience policy towards those in pain and already suffering are subjected to humilitaing interviews. 

In no way are they caring medicals with a strained hostile and invasive intimacy with those disadvantaged in life.

Hitting those unable to contribute to a working week is nothing more than deplorable death dealing polices at best by wilful arrogance of staff.

ATOS administer evil in print offering real financial harm to the most vulnerable, those in desperate situations in our society.

Innately decent people who's crime it is to be too ill to work, are being exposed to a insensitive siege mentality of government officials blindly following the tail of the one in front.

Questioning nothing, they put together oppressive rules to shatter the psyche of any poor who is sick, disabled or suffering from mental health issues, further into a dismal existence of a Tory punishing State.

How much more are we going to take?

For more on this grotesque unfair political system click here or continue reading:

We’ll ‘Rip Them To Bits’: Fury As Brain Damaged Man Is Deemed ‘Fit For Work’

‘An epileptic man with brain damage, his carer and neighbour have reacted with fury after the disabled man was deemed ‘fit for work’ by an “overzealous government” and vowed to “rip them to bits”.
Geoffrey Wilkins, 53, from Chelmsford suffers from epilepsy, brain damage, heart disease and depression. Yet despite his obvious medical conditions Mr Wilkins was found ‘fit for work’ by Atos and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in January 2014.
Mr Wilkins, who takes sixteen different medications to help control his poor health, said “it felt like someone has smashed me over the head with a sledgehammer” when his monthly benefits income was slashed from £700 a month to less than £300.’
Read more: We’ll ‘Rip Them To Bits': Fury As Brain Damaged Man Is Deemed ‘Fit For Work’

George Osborne proposes two year benefits freeze

‘A future Conservative government would freeze benefits paid to people of working age for two years, Chancellor George Osborne has told the Conservative Party conference.
Mr Osborne said the proposed freeze, which would not include pensions, disability benefits and maternity pay – would save £3 billion.
In his speech to the conference, Mr Osborne said it would be “a serious contribution to reduce the deficit”.’
Read more: George Osborne proposes two year benefits freeze

Tories would freeze benefits for two years

Welfare benefits would be frozen for two years under a Conservative government, George Osborne announced today.

Speaking at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, the chancellor said his party would freeze working age benefits, including housing benefit and universal credit, from April 2016.
He said the move would save £3.2bn a year by 2017/18.
In the 2012 Autumn Statement the government announced a 1% cap on increases to benefit payments.
Under Mr Osborne’s plans, disability and pensioner benefits would be excluded from the freeze, as well as other payments like statuary maternity pay.
The Conservative Party claims that earnings have grown by 14% while working age benefits have been uprated by 22.4%.
After the two-year benefit freeze this gap will disappear, according to Conservative forecasts, meaning earnings and benefits would grow by roughly the same amount.
Mr Osborne said: ‘This is the choice Britain needs to take to protect our economic stability and to secure a better future.
‘The fairest way to reduce welfare bills is to make sure that benefits are not rising faster than the wages of the taxpayers who are paying for them. For we will provide a welfare system that is fair to those who need it, and fair to those who pay for it too.’
Grainia Long, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Housing, said the proposal ‘fails to reflect the reality of the housing crisis’. ‘We are not building enough homes, which means the cost of housing and therefore the housing benefit bill is going up. Millions of people have no choice but to rely on housing benefit to secure a roof over their head.’
Yesterday, homelessness charities queued up to express concern about Conservative plans announced yesterday to bar 18 - 21-year-olds from claiming housing benefit.
Jon Sparkes, new chief executive of homelessness charity Crisis, said: ‘We have grave concerns about how these proposals will affect young people who cannot rely on the support of their parents.
‘While we welcome proposals to offer better training support and apprenticeships, we must make sure that housing support remains available for those who have no choice but to fend for themselves.’
Balbir Chatrik, director of policy at the youth homelessness charity Centrepoint, said: ‘Housing benefit isn’t a lifestyle choice for homelessness young people, it’s a necessity. Severing this lifeline would have a catastrophic impact on their futures.’

 

Wow! CC supports 600 tenants to appeal the bedroom tax – cc all ha’s

by joehalewood

Coast & Country Housing Association is supporting up to 600 of its tenants to appeal the bedroom tax. This is ingenious and look at what this plan is and not simply assume that this anti bedroom campaigner would say that in any case and dismiss for that reason.  Every other social landlord will see just […]

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Bedroom Tax – IDS view of “bedroom” is 1/3 the MINIMUM size of 95 years ago!!!

by joehalewood

In 1918, yes the end of the Great War, some 95 years before the bedroom tax came into operation the minimum size of a (single) bedroom was 65 square feet or 6 square metres.   In September 2013 the DWP declared in the HB circular U6 that a bedroom was a room that fits in […]

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Labour to call on Lib Dems to back scrapping bedroom tax

Street Democracy writes:

The catastrophic collapse of British democracy is no more apparent then with the bedroom tax.

A fantastic obliteration of financial help, the poorest have been left with obscene debt and never ending rent arrears.

The Lib Dems, a real no point political party, are only changing sides to gain votes so if Labour win, they may join them and remain in Westminster after jeering the Tories out.

It is political spill. It is meaningless, no empathy death dealing politics by disconnected politicians who couldn't care less about low earners and social housing tenants.

All they know is the bedroom tax is an unpopular policy and if they wish for votes they have to now regurtitate and vomit up their support for it.

The bedroom tax is a numbing exhaustion of financial sanctioning against the poorest families and trust me, the politicians don't care. 

David Miliband is a millionaire and has never experienced going without.

The bedroom tax with its invisible chains, is an invasion into the homes of innately decent and peaceful social housing tenants.

For more on the ridiculous back track of our political leaders click here or continue reading:

Labour to call on Lib Dems to back scrapping bedroom tax by Inside Housing

Labour will challenge the Liberal Democrats in the autumn to join them in voting to scrap the bedroom tax entirely, Rachel Reeves has said.

Source: Labour

Rachel Reeves: ‘The very first thing I will do if I am secretary of state for work and pensions next May is repeal the bedroom tax’

The shadow work and pensions secretary announced the plan at the Labour Party’s annual conference in Manchester yesterday.
Ms Reeve said that Labour, which says it will scrap the policy completely if elected, will call a parliamentary vote and challenge the Liberal Democrats to back it. Nick Clegg’s party earlier this month voted, along with Labour, for a private members bill to exempt large numbers of people from the bedroom tax.
That bill would exempt those who have not received a reasonable alternative offer of accommodation and disabled people whose homes have been adapted.
Labour is now pushing the Liberal Democrats to go further and back complete abolition of the policy.
Ms Reeves said: ‘The very first thing I will do if I am secretary of state for work and pensions next May is repeal it.
‘It is unfair, it is unworkable and it is on its way out - across the whole of the United Kingdom. Scrapped, binned, axed, abolished, put out of its misery, consigned to the history books.’
‘And for those Liberal Democrats who now say they are against it too, we will see how serious they are when parliament returns.’
Inside Housing revealed last week that Labour could scrap the coalition government’s flagship benefits policy Universal Credit within months of May’s election if elected.

What is a bedroom – There is a minimum size and specification…from the coalition

by joehalewood

This coalition government DO have a minimum room size and minimum room width and a detailed specification of what constitutes a bedroom and below is a game changer in the bedroom tax and especially in appealing this ill-conceived policy. In the bedroom tax everything hinges on the term 'bedroom' as Housing Benefit is only reduced (the 'bedroom tax') if […]

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Shirebrook Jobcentre Calling Support Group Claimants For Work Focused Interviews Under Threat Of Sanctioning

by samedifference1

Readers, my intention in sharing this Twitter thread is to try to find out whether this is happening at any other JobCentres. I don't mean to worry or scare anyone. If you haven't heard about it, that's a good thing so please don't worry!

Quick question @DWPgovuk - Is it mandatory for claimants in the Support Group of ESA to attend work-focused interviews?

— TheWelfairFoundation (@Welfair_F) September 13, 2014

@DWPgovuk Shirebrook Jobcentre is calling Support Group claimants in for these interviews with threats of sanctions for non-attendance!

— TheWelfairFoundation (@Welfair_F) September 15, 2014

@refuted Have you heard anything about this? Local Jobcentre says that Support Group now required to attend work-focused interviews

— TheWelfairFoundation (@Welfair_F) September 15, 2014

@Welfair_F "Support group You don’t have to go to interviews, but you can ask to talk to a personal adviser" https://t.co/qBGxeOINm3

— refuted (@refuted) September 15, 2014

@refuted Shirebrook Jobcentre are insisting that Support Group claimants now have to attend or be sanctioned. Nobody else has heard of this

— TheWelfairFoundation (@Welfair_F) September 15, 2014

Refuted seem to be suggesting that Shirebrook JobCentre are going against DWP guidelines, in which case they need to be named and shamed.

samedifference1

Council Tells Arm Amputee To ‘Lose Another Limb’ To Qualify For Blue Badge

by samedifference1

A one-armed man been refused a disabled parking permit - after being told he needed to lose ANOTHER limb to qualify.

Roy Sowerby, from Middlesbrough, is registered disabled after he lost his arm when it was crushed in an industrial accident 11 years ago.

And Mr Sowerby, 58, has had the Blue Badge permit for his car for the last three years. But when he went to renew it this year, he was told he could not have one.

The dad-of-five, who drives an automatic car, told the Evening Gazette : “I’d like the council to tell me how I am not disabled."

“They said if I lost another arm or a leg then I would qualify for one.

“So do I have to cut off my legs or my arm or my head to qualify for one? They said I can’t have one because I can carry a bag but I can’t carry anything bulky or heavy or big.”

He said wielding a shopping trolley was a challenge and he needed to park close to the supermarket to make it easier.

Middlesbrough Council said Mr Sowerby is no longer eligible under new rules drawn up in 2012 by the Department for Transport (DfT).

The authority said Blue Badges are issued for three years and, under current rules, applications for the discretionary permits are “required to undergo independent assessment to determine their eligibility”.

“Those applying for a discretionary Blue Badge must have a severe disability in both arms or a permanent and substantial disability that causes inability to walk or very considerable difficulty in walking,” a spokesman for the council said.

“The criteria for eligibility in the first instance are that the applicant has a severe disability in both arms, regularly drives an adapted or non-adapted motor vehicle regularly, and also considerable difficulty in operating parking meters.

“To qualify for a Blue Badge all three criteria must be met. The DfT state that ‘in no circumstances should anyone who does not satisfy all three of the conditions set out above receive a badge’.

“The guidance adds that ‘in particular, a badge should not be issued to a person who travels solely as a passenger or a person who has difficulty carrying parcels, shopping or other heavy objects such as luggage’.”

samedifference1

Over 90% fall in JSA & ESA appeals as process made more difficult – Benefits and Work

‘The DWP’s attempts to make it as difficult as possible to appeal a benefits decision appear to be succeeding, according to the latest tribunal statistics released today, according to the Benefits and Work blog.
There has been a drop of 92% in employment and support allowance (ESA) appeals and 93% in Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) appeals in April to June 2014 compared to the same period last year.
A new system of mandatory reconsiderations before appeals was introduced by the DWP for ESA and JSA on 28 October 2013.’
Read more: Over 90% fall in JSA & ESA appeals as process made more difficult – Benefits and Work

Coming Soon: The privatised sick note service that will email you back to work

‘In two months time the traditional doctor’s note excusing you from work will start to cease being valid if you are still sick after four weeks.
Just before Parliament went into the summer recess welfare reform minister, Lord Freud, announced that a US multinational company,Maximus, which also operates in Canada and Saudi Arabia will take over running the new Health and Work Service for England and Wales.
My report in this week’s Tribune reveals that up to one million people will be affected by the change which appears to be aimed to save the government money.’
Read more: Coming Soon: The privatised sick note service that will email you back to work

212,000 people ‘beaten up for being on benefits’ after being demonised as scroungers

Street Democracy writes: 

Our political Tory landscape is of dark foundations, of demonisation and criminalisation of the poorest sector of our communities.

This Tory toxicity has been engineered with dispassionate tones towards non-violent citizens condemned by 'draconian' rules to incarcerate those in need of welfare.

Of unspeakable wrongness has been vomited up by our Tory Government, aggressively reconfiguring our social landscape by excluding those unable to contribute towards a tax paying week.

Sickening political rituals of sadistic impoverishing death dealing policies of sordid politics to financially destroy those on low incomes is the Tories diabolical brilliance of social destruction.

The Tories own diabolical brilliance is their suffering of immoral, psychopathic personalities ensnared in a web of deception and no empathy.

They are destroying the social fabric of our communities by socially black listing those unable to contribute enough money a need welfare, or are disabled, or out of work.

To socially demonise a group of people is proof the Tories are disengaged from reality, are disconnected from 'real' people and don't have a clue on how to manage our country.

For more on this 'callous tones' of the Tories and the damage they have inflicted upon the most vulnerable in our society click here or continue reading:

212,000 people ‘beaten up for being on benefits’ after being demonised as scroungers

‘People on benefits have been beaten up, denied bank accounts and made homeless after being demonised as “scroungers”.
Devastating research reveals that four years of Tory-led war on the poor – and the recent TV series Benefits Street – have taken a terrible toll on the most vulnerable in society.’
Read more: 212,000 people 'beaten up for being on benefits' after being demonised as scroungers

Join 11th day of protest - bury the Bedroom Tax and Sanctions

The national day of protest at Bedroom Tax, Sanctions and benefit cuts Thursday 11th is well timed.   

Labour and Lib Dem MPs now oppose the Bedroom Tax  - because of the Anti Bedroom Tax campaigns.

It shows that if we stand up to Government, we can turn the tide and defeat attacks on benefits.

Join the protest and organise to keep up the pressure. PCS trade union is supporting the protests. London: 11am at Old Palace Yard (opposite Parliament) SW1P 3JY and 

  and1pm DWP HQ Tothill St. London. SW1H 9NA

and in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Huddersfield, Milton Keynes - or send details of your protest   see details here

New leaflet and petition attached.

 We demand an end to the Bedroom Tax, Sanctions and benefit cuts.  We need a fair benefit system for people at work or not, for parents, sick and disabled people.

Get in touch if you need any more info or help

Eileen

for Anti Bedroom Tax and Benefit Justice Fed

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30,000 middle class parents face demand for hundreds of pounds of child benefit

‘Tens of thousands of middle class parents are being sent letters ordering them to repay hundred of pounds of child benefit, even though many of them may be innocent.
The letters, which tell the recipient “You need to act now!”, have been sent to 30,000 families where one earner receives more than £50,000 a year who were stripped of their entitlement to the benefit last year.
One accountant said that many of the parents had been sent the letters in error because their partners had repaid the benefit already.’
Read more: 30,000 middle class parents face demand for hundreds of pounds of child benefit

Bedroom Tax closer to the axe after Tories defeated in shock vote 

Street Democracy writes: 

All community's welfare claimant's have been unceremoniously chosen to bare the brunt of the elites failure in managing the economic system in the UK.

The UK's welfare cuts have slashed and impovished the poorest families further into financial scarcity, a systematic rape of the minds of those in desperate need of money.

Social tenants bound and shackled to seriously restricted financial sanctions, must remain firm and stand together to banish this Bedroom Tax.

Labour and Lib Dems are using this as a weapon, and clearly do not care for Social Housing or their Tenants. This is propagandised drivel purely to gain power within Westminster.

It has nothing to do with Social Housing Tenants, and their welfare. It has nothing to do with disabled Social Housing Tenants in need of their extra bedroom.

There is a huge disconnection between social housing and governmental officials and the poorest are treated as domestic herds of animals.

For more on this two faced political apparatus called 'votes' and 'popularity' click here for more or continue reading:

Bedroom Tax closer to the axe after Tories defeated in shock vote 

Labour and Lib Dems joined forces to vote in favour a Bill to protect victims of the hated policy. In a hammer blow to David Cameron

The Bedroom Tax came a step closer to being axed today after a shock Tory defeat in the House of Commons.
Labour and Lib Dems joined forces to vote in favour a Bill to protect victims of the hated policy. In a hammer blow to David Cameron, they voted 306 to 231 against the tax.
The move left the Coalition in turmoil and prompted calls for the Tories break up the alliance immediately.
Opponents of the tax warned this was just the first step in what could be gruelling Commons battle and would not scrap the tax completely.
But it was still hailed as a impressive and crucial victory for the hundreds of thousands of victims who have been left hundreds of pounds worse off since the tax was introduced in April last year.
Lib Dem MP Andrew George’s private member’s Bill - called the Affordable Homes Bill - will exempt anyone from the Bedroom Tax unless they can be found a smaller home to move to.
Labour backed the Bill but said they would still abolish the policy completely if elected in next year’s general election.
Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Rachel Reeves MP said: “The Government should scrap the hated Bedroom Tax following the overwhelming vote by MPs against the cruel tax on bedrooms today.

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Bedroom tax as a political tool – MPs care not a jot about the tenant

by joehalewood

Who would have thought? The little old bedroom tax, the policy which had 70% public support when introduced would be the catalyst for the end of the coalition?  That is ALL that happened today and no changes will happen to the bedroom tax policy itself ahead of the next general election. Let me restate that […]

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Pensioner ‘too fit to qualify for blue disabled parking badge’ even though he has NO feet

‘A Scots pensioner who has had both feet amputated has been refused a blue disabled parking badge – because he is able to walk ‘more than 20 yards’.
Tom Hannah, 73, had the lower part of both legs removed in operations last year after doctors discovered that his irregular heartbeat was causing circulation problems in his legs.
He was granted a provisional blue badge to let him park in disabled spaces but when he tried recently to renew it, he was told that because he could walk 20 yards he was not eligible.’
Read more: Pensioner 'too fit to qualify for blue disabled parking badge' even though he has NO feet

UK Government Caught Censoring Wikipedia To Hide Truth About Bedroom Tax

‘Today it emerged that the Wikipedia page of Housing Minister Kris Hopkins has been edited in an effort to censor disturbing information about the Coalition’s controversial Bedroom Tax.
The source of the edit was traced to a computer in Whitehall and attempted to change the words ‘disabled victims’ to ‘disabled people who would pay’.’
Read more: UK Government Caught Censoring Wikipedia To Hide Truth About Bedroom Tax

How the taxman is building Big Brother Britain

‘Last weekend we reported that the taxman was sending 40,000 letters to people it believed were failing to pay tax due on property investments.
The letters said: “HMRC has data relating to landlords and is comparing this with what individuals have or have not told us. HMRC is aware that you are. .  .”
Along with panic and alarm, I imagine the reaction of the recipients of these letters was to ask: “How did the taxman get this information?”
HMRC won’t answer in any detail. So I’ll try to here.’
Read more: Howthe taxman is building Big Brother Britain