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I need to hear from NGOs and sick and disabled individuals willing to act as "victim" in a UN complaint or inquiry Please circu...

Reblogged from enoughisenoughdwp : Nothing left to do but die It has taken 3 days to type this, I can't concentrate for long an...

By John McArdle  Published on  14/05/2013 12:00 Sick and disabled people are being subjected to enormous and avoidable suffering ...

[Pope Francis] said unemployment “is a burden on our conscience” because when society is organised in such a way that it cannot offer people...

The Trussell Trust Food Bank founders, The people behind it: The Trussel Trust, was introduced to dole offices specifically as an alte...

Reblogged from Diary of a Benefit Scrounger   This morning, like the night after Agincourt, lefties like me scan the bloody, burnt out ...

A little noticed piece of DWP research shows that four out of five claimants spent at least three quarters of the past four years off u...

Christian organisations including the Salvation Army and the YMCA are participating in “workfare” schemes, using workers who must work witho...

There were shocking scenes at the South London offices of workfare exploiters the Salvation Army today as employees of the charity manh...

This is the first in occasional series on welfare myths - those persuasive facts that everybody knows to be true, but which, on closer exami...

As if we didn’t already know that Iain Duncan Smith is a wanker, the bungling Work and Pensions Secretary has resorted to bashing the bish...

Yesterday in parliament Liam Byrne said to Iain Duncan-Smith “Sanctions are vital to give back-to-work programmes their bite”. Not only does...

Bullingdon Club initiation ceremony claim: New members of David Cameron's old club 'burn £50 note in front of beggar'    ...

DPAC's Website goes down - shortly after publishing a letter from Iain Duncan Smith ---------------------------------------------...

New advice issued to doctors, patients and employers on sick pay shows just how far the Government intend to push the brutal regime for peop...

An Open Letter to the Salvation Army July 8, 2012 by Liz Ely Dear Salvation Army My name is Liz, I grew up in the Salvation Army ...

An ICM poll in May 1990 showed that 22% of voters backed the Poll Tax ( here ). This weekend, a poll from ComRes showed that 28% of vot...

Standing up for the poor and vulnerable: Day Four at TUC Congress A vigorous defence of the welfare state was spearheaded by PCS to open ...

By Sonia Poulton UPDATED: 17:19, 6 March 2012 So, the Welfare Reform Bill - the part that refers to sick and disabled people - limped...