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(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
A man with heart problems who couldn’t complete a work capability assessment because he had a heart attack during the interview had his benefits stopped by the job centre for ‘withdrawing’ from the interview.
I promise you this is not satire. Here’e the story from the Oldham Evening Chronicle:
Heart-attack victim in cash-axe shock
The UK under this government is getting harder and harder to satirise day by day.
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Big thanks to Robert Cragg for the heads up on this.
Please feel free to comment.
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Pride's Purge 
I wish I could say unbelievable but it’s not all that shocking for some reason.
Enjoying your blog since discovering it quite recently!
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Reblogged this on The World of Neil and commented:
Well done JCP+. Mr Duncan-Smith will be proud.
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Reblogged this on Political Pip Spit or Swallow its up to You and commented:
Excellent item from Pride’s Purge. I think when I get around to categorizing the different subjects on this blog this one will have to go in the ‘You Couldn’t Make it Up’ category’.
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Ah, Poe’s Law strikes again….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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Reblogged this on kickingthecat.
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Yes – interesting that Poe’s Law is only supposed to apply to extremism.
Must mean this government’s officially extremist then?
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Reblogged this on Ron's Rants….
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Reblogged this on glynismillward189.
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I despair. This country should be taking to the streets en mass. Instead, we take to Twitter, me as much as anyone else over the past few years – it doesn’t work!
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Enjoy it. But not too much. 🙂
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At the risk of repeating myself …. this absolutely beggars belief! I’ve reposted the link on my facebook page with the following comment “Are you sheeple or people? Vote this f**ckers out at the next election. Why? because this could happen to you!”
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I think that Poe’s Law these days has come more generally to mean anything that can’t been identified as satire because it could be real, extremism or not! Just like the UK Government. Another reason I ran away to New Zealand!
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Taking to the streets didn’t work either … just highlighted divisions in those who oppose austerity Britain.
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I to am not shocked I should be but lets just say de sensatisation properganda in full force . But is it wrong 1001% what society will our children friends ect grow up in if this dose become the norm . ??? Not one i wish to be apart of . gross
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I got my fit for work letter today ive claimed ESA for less than 20wks my white cells are abnormal they rushed me through atos quicker than NHS test what employer will take me on six months to live ????? more blood tezts ect while as a single mum applying for jobs ect Im sure the pure stress will do me wonders x
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Reblogged this on seachranaidhe1.
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…you seem to have forgotten who introduced the work capability assessment!
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson Second Line View of the News and commented:
Can it be true? OMG
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OMG – Oldham – told em. My father and his father emigrated from Oldham in 1913 but it keeps coming back into my world. This is just too insane – Brazil writ large.
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debs
i reply to both of your above posts….sorry i’m a bit thick, do i understand that they have found you fit for work, and you that you have 6mths to live?
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your not thick hun its me being sarcastic ..lol how long or what ive got still on going ..like my friend i survived treatment in 2007.reason for ESA claim was ongoing tests but yes today im fit for work same day white blood cells abnormal .
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debs
oh,i get what you mean….atos miracles…a surreal sideshow of benefit games…now you see them now you don’t, eventually one ceases to be shocked and a numb desensitisation takes over…our vitals of life in their hands…
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Reblogged this on Food diary and notes and commented:
This is fucking sick.
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Reblogged this on Ufohunterorguk.com.
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time some legal action agianst the dwp.
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sorry ment time there was some legal action agianst the dwp.
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Reblogged this on Mentally Wealthy.
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They want to kill all the disabled people.
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Mt wife has blood cancer I cannot believe what this government is doing and most people are unaware of this they want to make out all people on sick benefit are scroungers I do hope your condition goes into remission
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And they are doing so many thousands and counting!
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thankyou Anthony.
If I’d of known back in the day I would of take out a life cover insurence although it would of been a struggle but to pull the rug from under people last minute when there isnt a thing you can do about it is almost criminal .
Having to sign on look for work go to interwiews while attending blood test doctor appointments hospital appointments as well as care for my young child and being tierd all the time is an extreme situation that Im praying I can find the strength for.
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It’s all very well complaining about how unfair and immoral this Work Capability Assessment system is, and all caring people will agree, but does anyone have any idea about how to get rid it? Voting Labour isn’t going to help, because they introduced it. Obviously voting Tory or Lib Dem isn’t. So what’s left?
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if one were to think about it, the medical profession should oppose the wca, because it brings the whole medical profession into disrepute, and i have no need to explain why….
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This is getting worse! IDS has been recalled for more questions on Monday 3rd February but he’ll get away with it again. The man should be hung, drawn and quartered – but if not, he should be sacked!
I don’t know how the Atos demonstrations will go later this month but the one thing that we can do is keep on writing to him and to MP’s and Lords.
One thing I do know is that none of my facebook friends are interested any more – that disgusts me and I’ll be closing the stupid account soon. I cannot understand how so called friends can turn away from the messages and the petitions when they know just how I am with my disabilities – they have seen the daily struggles myself and my husband go through each and every day yet all they care about is themselves. They know damn well that it could be them today or tomorrow in the same situation, but they close their eyes to it! Sickening!
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal.
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OBD – I think you’re right that if the whole medical profession was united about this then the government might listen (though I wouldn’t stake my life on it!). But I’m afraid they are not united, because if they were then I think they would have done something already.
I have no answers to this… other than move to Scotland. By the way, did you know that the devolved Scottish Parliament is going to ask Westminster for the powers to repeal the bedroom tax in Scotland? Westminster will say f*ck off, but at least they’re trying. In the long term my faint hope is that an independent Scotland can show the rest of the UK the way to go.
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f f
we will succeed, our sense of community is magnificent …it was actually the scottish greens that lobbied for a no eviction and penalties policy..
Click to access Papers_28_Jan.pdf
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OBD – Who do you mean by “we” and “our”?
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f f
we in scotland, where i live….
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Did you tell me before that you live in Scotland? If so sorry, I forgot. Is your mind fully made up to vote yes in September?…
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yes….and no, but i am pretty sure i will vote yes…there are a lot of very astute and strong willed people living here…people are rarely shy to say what they think…
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Reblogged this on Vox Political.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
More evidence that this government is a sick travesty, just as IDS and the DWP are shabby caricatures of human beings. It’s no point asking how low they can go, as just when you think they really, really can’t go any further, they go just that little bit deeper beyond any semblance of humanity or rationality or even basic decency …
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The nasty bastard Peter Lilley of the Tories introduced the medicals in 1994 after discussions with the US Insurance Giant Unums! Labour just followed on with them.
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…but wasn’t it the Blair government which contracted it out to ATOS? Isn’t that where it started to go badly wrong? Anyway, the point is that all of the three main English parties are committed to it.
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This is a disgrace, did the useless b…..ds carrying out the assessment help? Offer first aid? Call an ambulance? Or were they much too busy filling in forms.
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I used to live in England, and I’m convinced that on average the people up here just have their heads screwed on better! It’s clearly reflected in how they vote. Also, if there’s something which has to be done, they just roll up their sleeves and get on with it. I don’t know why there’s such a difference between England and Scotland, but there is.
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joseph
they are just keen to get people off of benefits…here’s another painful story… http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/anxiety-over-atos-fit-for-work-test-1783531
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f f
yes, a truly amazing place..i’ve often tried to “define” what “it” is…”now westlin winds”…gets quite close for me… the ceilidh!
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I would have prefared that your blog wasn’t necessary, but it is always well written, needed and essential for those who need advice on what to do if anything about their situation. Well done Tom!!
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labour also opened 90 odd remploy factories which enabled disabled people to live independently, look at who shut them all down, thus causing a lot of hardship!! I’ll give you a clue: It wasn’t Labour!
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I’ll quote a friend who I think knows what he’s talking about – “There are just more w@nkers down south”. Not as poetic as Burns, but still true!
Something significant changes over the border, and like you I really don’t know what ‘it’ is. The political, moral and practical differences are plain to see for someone like me who moved during adulthood. Unless you have seen the differences for yourself then maybe you can’t understand it. Of course not everything is good, far from it, but I have a fundamental confidence in the people of this country which I NEVER had in England.
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like einstein might once have said, but didn’t “near enough is good enough”….we are still homesteading…
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Joanna – Are you kidding??? The Remploy closures began in 2007! 30 were closed in 2008 under a LABOUR government, throwing 2,500 disabled people out of work! This current government has only carried what the Blair government started.
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I don’t always understand what you mean. What does “we are still homesteading” mean?
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Vote TUSC?
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fff
it’s difficult to explain..it is a way of living that came before crofting..ie before crofting was forced onto the scots…home is where the heart/hearth is…the highland blackhouse…
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For some people if they can have their own piece of land then it means flowers and parties, for others it means food… and some degree of independence
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I’ve never seen them on a ballot paper, so it’s not easy to vote for them!
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f f
agreed, many scots still love to proudly grow their own tatties, some say it all changed when the when fishing on sundays was banned…. http://caledonianmercury.com/2010/11/15/why-are-we-still-so-hung-up-over-sunday-fishing/0011902 ….mendelssohn understands scotland, so encapsulated in his scottish symphony….
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I grow my own tatties and much more besides. I go fishing (including on Sundays) and I eat what I catch. You should try my smoked trout! I burn wood grown on my own land to heat my house. I support my local economy and Scotland as a whole. I’m sure most Scots would call me English, but I feel something about this country and this people which I never felt in England.
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wonderful…what a great life you have…happy tattie howking…
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Life always has it’s downsides and bad times, but on the whole I’m happy with mine. I can only wish the same for you, and for everyone else.
… and last years tatties were very good. When the rain finally stops (???) I have to get out and prepare the ground.
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@ FinkFurst I’ve not forgotten who introduced it; but introducing something is not the same as implementing it to such a degree that people who go through the process and who are already poorly suffer in this way and in some cases (according to DWP own findings) die as a result.
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So you think the only choice is between bad or worse? I will never agree to that, though sometimes our choices will not see fruit for many years.
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P.S. If you meant to post a link, it didn’t work.
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Reblogged this on Translation Scrapbook.
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