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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Real reason the Lib Dems U-turned on the Bedroom Tax

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The Bedroom Tax U-turn is about dire Lib Dem poll ratings, not principles The Liberal Democrat U-turn on the Bedroom Tax is less about ...

Conservatives set to launch ‘incoherent’ attack on human rights

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Originally posted on Vox Political : Sacked: Dominic Grieve’s reservations about Legal Aid cuts put him at adds with the Coalitio...

DWP tries again to stop release of Universal Credit reports

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Originally posted on Campaign4Change : The Department for Work and Pensions has requested another legal hearing in its attempt to s...

End must come to the hated Bedroom Tax we can't wait for Labour victory

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It is the beginning of the end for Cameron’s Poll Tax, a “reform” that has brought poverty and despair to millions says Ros Wynne-Jones ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Protest against Assisted Dying Bill, in Westminster, on Friday

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The next debate on the controversial Assisted Dying Bill is to take place in the House of Lords on Friday – and all those opposed to ...

Gov't bullying mental health patients to justify removing their lifeline benefits

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Existing benefit rules mean it is not possible to legally require claimants to have treatment, such as therapy or counselling, as a con...

Devastating blow to Grayling as judges halt his legal aid reform

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Originally posted on kittysjones : Originally posted on  politics.co.uk  July 15th, 2014. Chris Grayling was prevented from turnin...

Gov't Denies DWP Lies…YET…here are MORE “Lies and Damn Lies”

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The Government has responded to the W&P Select Committee’s investigation of performance of the Department for Work and Pensions in 2...

Data retention debate: The lies they tell to steal your rights

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Originally posted on Vox Political : Haggard: Theresa May looked distinctly ruffled as she responded to criticism of her govern...

Newly Unemployed To Be Forced To Wait FIVE Weeks For Benefits Under Universal Credit

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Trade Union Congress Media Release: Most people who lose their jobs will soon have to wait five weeks before they get any cash help, ac...

Assisted dying law risks becoming 'state-approved self-extinction - Boris Johnson

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A law to allow assisted suicide for the terminally ill could become ‘state-approved self-extinction’, Boris Johnson has warned....

‘Right to die will give way to duty to die’: Vatican denounces assisted dying as ‘false and misguided mercy’ days before legislation is discussed in House of Lords

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Pope Francis: ill health is not a reason to 'eliminate a person'  ‘The Vatican has renewed its opposition to assis...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Fightback Against Byteback And Their Grubby Workfare Exploitation

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Originally posted on the void : A computer repair shop in Bristol has become one of the first companies to be caught boasting abo...

Bedroom tax blamed for rise in cats homeless and hungry

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GROUPS of abandoned cats are roaming the streets in North East Lincolnshire after being given up by struggling owners. That is the claim...

New Ed Sec voted to end help for poor kids to get to college and buy books

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Originally posted on Pride's Purge : (not satire – it’s the Tories!) Way back in 2011 – before she thought she would ever be...

People risk prison over assisted suicide because MPs keep ducking the issue, says Lord Falconer

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‘People are risking prison by helping their loved ones die because MPs and peers keep ducking the issue, according to a peer campaigni...

Former prison worker ready to name Establishment figures in child sex abuse scandal

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‘A former prison worker claims he contributed to the missing paedophile dossier by handing over names of VIPs and MPs who were coerci...
Monday, July 14, 2014

DWP Awards ATOS £10M Contract- To Continue Providing IT For The WCA

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So, dear readers, it seems we haven’t really got rid of ATOS after all. I should have know...

THATCHER: THE DOWNFALL – NO CHANCE OF A MEMORIAL NOW

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Originally posted on Ian Bone : When Thatcher died I partied gleefully in Trafalgar Square but most of the country didn’t share ...

They think it’s all over ….. it isn’t!

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Originally posted on glynismillward189 : In celebration of the Football World Cup, Nick over at ILegal has this to say:- 5 World...

How long has blackmail been part of parliamentary process? Gov't using 'Dirt Book' to secure votes from MPs

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This is a VERY interesting letter to Cameron from Conservative MP Mark Reckless. What leapt out at me was comment on the fact that the w...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Tory MP blasts IDS plan to grab mentally ill’s cash as 'brainless'

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Dr Sarah Wollaston the chair of the Health Select Committee, described the proposals as “unethical, unworkable nonsense” and “complete tos...
Friday, July 11, 2014

‘DRIP’ feeding the Surveillance Society

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  “We are concerned that introducing emergency legislation does nothing to enhance the rule of law or address the fact that we ar...

DWP humiliated over cumulative impact assessment

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Work and pensions ministers are facing acute embarrassment after losing their main excuse for refusing to assess the overall impact of t...

Iain Duncan Smith to be replaced by Esther McVey?

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A commuter on a train, Sarah Quinney , has posted a conversation she overheard from a “ 20 something brunette, with a very posh voic e” tal...

Do the Westminster Shuffle - BBC

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David Cameron is preparing to carry out a far wider reshuffle of his government than had previously been thought. Several sources in ...

‘Behind closed doors’ deal between govt and insurance industry comes to light

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Mesothelioma sufferers and their families must come before the profits of insurers In a move which flies in the face of democratic po...

Sickness Benefit Sanctions On The Rise, DWP Figures Show

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A Jobcentre Office Figures released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that the number of sick and disabled people ...

'This isn’t snooping on suspects but on everyone': Fury at David Cameron's snoop laws ''stitch-up''

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MP Tom Watson and civil liberties campaigners hit back after the PM announced emergency laws to allow the authorities access to phone an...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

The DWP's Black Propaganda

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Originally posted on kittysjones : During a universal credit debate in the House of Commons, the Labour MP Glenda Jackson, responde...