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Coalition, disability, economy, health, human rights, unemployment
(not satire – it’s Sue Ryder)
Well now. Sue Ryder has just announced it’s going to be pulling out of the government’s much-criticised mandatory workfare programme – you know, the programme where unemployed people are forced to work without pay or face losing most of their benefits.
In a statement, Sue Ryder admitted what it called ‘recent online lobbying’ had forced it to take the decision to “withdraw from the DWP’s mandatory back-to-work schemes”.
You can see the statement here:
Sue Ryder position statement on the Department for Work and
Pensions’ back-to-work schemes (commonly known as Workfare)
The withdrawal comes after a concerted campaign had exposed the greed of Sue Ryder executives who were callously using sick, disabled and unemployed people to bump up the charity’s profits – in order to place it in a better position to take over privatised NHS services.
Who said on-line activism doesn’t work?
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Related articles by Tom Pride:
Sue Ryder executives looking to profit from the privatisation of NHS services
The Sue Ryder charity and its sinister Orwellian doublethink
Admit it UK charities – you were conned by Cameron and his so-called ‘Big Society’ garbage
Cameron’s Big Society – TOFFS paying SPIVS to rip off PLEBS
A4e given over 45 million of taxpayers money – to give classes on using toilet paper
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Reblogged this on kickingthecat.
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Looks like public opinion is starting to matter – “Quis custofiet ipsos custodes” – Twitter? Your blogs are excellent; superbly written and very entertaining despite the subject matter.
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Reblogged this on The Greater Fool.
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Thanks.
With the advent of social media the answer to that question can now be “We all shall be watching them.”
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Proves that online action can work, congrats to you and the rest of the bloggers and tweeters for making it happen
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Good job
Next stop, Sue Ryder hands off our NHS
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Social media is people power in action. The established political class with their cosy relationships with rich & powerful vested interests no longer serve the people. As Marx said ‘revolutions are the locomotives of history’ and it is time for the people to fuel the locomotives.
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Too little, too late. They chose to crawl into bed with a coalition gov’t who declared war on the unemployed, the sick, and the disabled.
I won’t be supporting them anytime in the future.
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That’s one down next is nhs thing. But here’s a problem. From what I’ve seen aot of sue ryder volunteers are ex employees. So its possible they sack them then re hire as volunteers claiming they do so because they have experience ..sneaky eh ?
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And then there is this.
http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/2013/02/25/jeremy-hunts-new-privatisation-plot/
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Sue Ryder and the big soceity.
We welcome the opening up of public services .
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmpubadm/902/902vw102.htm
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The big society appears to be the little people working for nothing while executives,managers and doctors are paid yet more as usual.
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Seen this:
http://t.co/6YpZ5IvoSR (Daily Mail/Paul Dacre)
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