UK Austerity Nation

Denied benefit: This is the late Karen Sherlock. Her illnesses included chronic kidney disease, a heart condition, vitamin B12 defi...

‘Heartless’ Iain Duncan Smith misled the public over the number of benefit-related deaths caused by suicide, says the Green Party. ...

Ros Wynne-Jones says this election is the story of how ordinary people who had nothing to do with causing the financial crisis have paid ...

Reblogged from Vox Political: It grieves This Writer to report that today, Vox Political Towers has received no envelope from the Depar...

The full extent of the financial crisis faced by NHS hospitals across England has been revealed in a leaked document. The document...

Lord Scriven, a Lib Dem peer and aide to Nick Clegg, said the PM has 'taken to lying' in comments the Tories branded '100% not...

The Black Triangle campaign group found more than 80 cases since 2010 and believe even more will suffer and die if David Cameron wins the...

Reblogged from V ox Political : Believe it or not, there may still be some people in the UK who don’t know the Department for Work an...

(not satire – it’s Cameron’s Britain!) The Cameron government has not been clamping down on benefit fraud. He and his ministers ...

The Tory minister for disabled people appears to have accidentally admitted what many disabled activists feared: that a Conservative go...

  Four leading Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) have got together to produce a list of 17 things we need the new Governmen...

Sign the petition here As you are probably aware, at the request of the EU, the Conservative Government announced plans to equalise...

Brian McArdle. On the BBC’s Question Time in November 2012, Iain Duncan Smith flew into a rage when Owen Jones challenged him about wha...

Psychobabble in a Jobcentre near you On top of punishing claimants with sanctions that leave people destitute, the Government now has...

The Tory austerity narrative is a simple and oft repeated one. It doesn't matter that "we've got to cut our way to growth...

Sister of David Clapson, the diabetic ex-soldier who died after having his benefits cut, was there to protest and said Tory ministers we...

If you are a ‘prominent’ person, i.e. part of the establishment like MPs, the CPS protocol is that  the criminal file is forwarded t...

[...] Thousands of people were out onto the streets in Brixton on Saturday for one of London’s biggest ever anti-gentrification protests....

[...] Sam Clement, 42, also reached the point of wanting to take his own life after his benefits were cut. Fortunately, he survived. “...

Sanctioning’ is a particularly harsh and brutal way of treating unemployed people.   They have all their benefit removed even for the...

Katie Hopkins (Image from facebook.com/pages/Katie-Hopkins) UK tabloids like the Murdoch-owned Sun that compared immigrants to ...

Taxpayers spend £11bn to top up low wages paid by UK companies R esearch published last week by Citizens UK found that companies in t...

'Those of us referred to food banks are the lucky ones with a good doctor or health visitor who knows us well enough to recog...

Originally posted on The poor side of life : A while ago I wrote about the governments war against the poor. Indeed, I said that t...

I wrote an article in March about the government plans to make the receipt of social security benefits for those with mental illnesses...

The Trussell Trust says that 400,000 children were referred to foodbanks in 2014 The Trussell Trust, the UK’s biggest foodbank charit...

David Cameron tries to defend the indefensible on Andrew Marr’s Sunday morning TV show. A friend of Vox Political sent in the foll...

Dear Mr. Miliband, We never thought we would see a Britain in which terminally ill people rely on foodbanks to eat, or cancer pati...

‘Soldiers will be safe from the “persistent human rights claims” that have dogged the British military for years because the Conservat...

The power of positive thinking. The government invests a lot of time and money in making people accept the unacceptable. George Os...