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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Stop G4S: Protest Their Annual General Meeting Thursday 6th June

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Welfare-to-work thieves G4S will be holding their AGM in Central London on June 6th. Join the protest outside, supported by Boycott Workfa...

The Government have got it wrong about Human Rights.

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Sue Jones reveals that a Parliamentary committee has condemned the government for circumventing the law to deprive disabled people of their ...

ATOS To Amputee: Will Your Arm Grow Back Soon?

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Reblogged from Same Difference: A ONE-ARMED man trying to claim disability benefits said staff asked if he thought his limb might grow b...

Food banks now a lifeline for half a million people in Britain

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Oxfam and Church Action Poverty call for parliamentary inquiry saying cuts and Jobcentre errors are causing destitution Welfare cha...

Council chief makes personal apology to blind widow following eviction threat over £117 bedroom tax bill

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By  Keith McLeod , Craig Robertson  30 May 2013 08:00 HELEN Sockell faced losing her Kilmarnock home because of the hated tax imposed by ...

The Great Crapsby: Why Iain Duncan Smith isn’t all he seems

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The Great Crapsby. Artwork by Dan Murrell for the New Statesman Like Fitzgerald’s doomed, self-fictionalising hero Jay Gatsby, the Wo...

Hungry Britain: More than 500,000 people forced to use food banks, warns Oxfam

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The number of people using foodbanks has trebled in past 12 months NIGEL MORRIS   ,  CHARLIE COOPER   THURSDAY 30 MAY 2013 ...

Why mental health is a political issue

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‘Mental illness has been depoliticised, so that we blithely accept a situation in which depression is now the malady most treated by the...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Greece threatens labour camp for poor taxpayers

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'If it depends on the government in Athens, Greeks who fly their taxes can not pay the jail. And that from an outstanding debt of 5,...

UK security services 'completely out of control'

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The UK security services are overrun with incompetence and vested business interests, without being subject to checks themselves, British...

Germany sees "revolution" if welfare model scrapped

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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned on Tuesday that failure to win the battle against youth unemployment could tear Europe a...

Playing games with welfare

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Reblogged from Watching A4e : The Telegraph has just put up an article which shows just how cynical the political games have become, as p...

Woe to Cameron, Osborne, Smith

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Reblogged from  The SKWAWKBOX Blog : I don’t think I’ve ever quoted a bible verse on this blog before, but I came across these passages to...

How would the Tories get rid of Cameron?

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What the Conservative rule book says about a vote of no confidence and a leadership election. Tory MP David Ruffley broke cover at the wee...

DWP Hides Behind Disability Charities In Fake Youtube Campaign

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Reblogged from the void: The DWP’s crude attempt at inspiration porn has disappeared from facebook after several people were critical o...

Why did the DWP push ahead with illegal sanctions, knowing they don't do any good?

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Reblogged from Vox Political: Don’t shrug your shoulders, Smith! It’s time the people of the UK found a way to make him care about the...

Workfare:Two more major retailers out!

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Argos: boasted about using workfare at its ‘busiest times’ but now appears to have pulled out of workfare. Photo: olishaw/flickr In y...

Linda Wootton typed her ESA appeal “crying her eyes out” in hospital bed

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Linda Wootton who had a double heart and lung transplant and died nine days after DWP-Atos stopped her benefits had typed her appeal on an ...