(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
A severely disabled and sick man – who had his benefits stopped after ATOS found he was ‘fit’ for work – has died of malnutrition.
Mark Wood’s GP said if either ATOS or the Department for Work and Pensions had contacted him he would have said in his professional opinion Mr Wood was not fit for work.
But Mr Wood’s GP was not contacted by either ATOS or anyone from the DWP.
Here’s Mark Wood’s tragic story from the Oxford Mail:
Man starved after benefits were cut
So now in this country we’re leaving vulnerable people to literally starve to death.
A new low even for the Tories and Liberal Democrats, surely?
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this government places trust in a foreign, privately owned body to make unprofessional judgements on people , without recommendation via proper medically trained professionals…
Then people, who are vulnerable/ in danger suffer/ die…
It’s the same government that allocates those facilities / benefits to scum from abroad, who profit from those peoples losses..
TIME FOR ALL OF THEM TO GO….
ATOS / current administration/ foreign scroungers
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.. and proper distribution has to apply..
DON’T TURN UP AT OUR DOOR IF YOU CAN’T/ WON’T SUPPORT YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Government says money is no object for flood victims but when it comes to societys most vulnerable it talks about there being none left for them. This speaks volumes for their priorities.
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“A new low even for the Tories and Liberal Democrats, surely?”
Don’t speak too soon. Now that ATOS has announced that it will end its government contract, what will replace it? Could it be something far worse? Does anyone seriously think this government (or a Labour one) is capable of coming up with a solution which actually works and is fair? Look at the history of the last few decades!
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You wouldn’t know what fair or the truth was if it hit you in the face!
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Stunned but not surprised – horrific
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As soon as Londons rich Thames sections were hit money became no problem, prior they couldn’t give a toss about the levels being under water for weeks.
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Well probably the Gestapo G4$ or the fraudulent A4E or Crapita, or even a renamed ATOS under the guise of OHassist…. doesn’t matter which as the Unum/DWP descriptors will remain lop sided to force people to die and starve and continue to ignore the courts ruling on mental heath.
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A4E take 2nd place here, as their claims of helping people back to work is a joke… 1% success rate, if anyone is offered it by their local jobcentre.. DO NOT enrol.. they will get locked into a 2 years of demeaning farce.
they will start interfering , and they will STILL have to go for meetings every 2 weeks , that really annoys a potential employer…
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One of the letters to the Oxford Mail stated that over 11,000 people who have been classified as fit for work by ATOS subsequently DIED within 6 weeks of that decision being reached.They either died from the medical condition that ATOS considered too trivial to prevent them from working full time or from SUICIDE brought on by the pressure of the ATOS decision.
In view of the fact that the mainstream media failed to report this poor mans death from starvation I can’t find any comfort in their failure to report the figure of 11,000 as I am by no means certain that such an avoidable catastrophe WOULD be reported openly.
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IDS is just the fall guy, the Corporate-Nazi ideology behind it comes from eco-fascist Lord David Freud, probably thought it all up whilst he was swimming in the freezing lake every morning, even in winter ?
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the WCA should be scrapped, it is totally unnecessary…the dispute is between the dwp and gp/nhs, it is about time they got it sorted out, and stopped involving sick and disabled human beings…
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well tom as i posted on mikes blog he looks likes me so i was well shocked to see this tragic news today and to his family my very sincerest condolences to you and as ill as i am i will endeavour for the rest of my life to seek justice for you as i know that is the wish of many people not only in the uk but from across the world
Video: Dennis Skinner, WOW Debate, On ATOS
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A link to all the statistics & discussion on the deaths. Disturbing.
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A very disturbing case. Dying of malnutrition is a slow process. The `benefit scroungers` myth seems to be working as there is still a hard core of the electorate commenting in those terms in newspaper articles. How bad does it have to get?
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Believe it or not but this was discussed, briefly, on the BBC breakfast news today when someone doing the paper review brought it up – they all looked amazed – but said nowt. The media in the UK is colluding with the deaths of thousands of people, keeping it hidden as per government requirements and carrying on brazenly in this knowledge. Now, who’s going to be the first to fall, I wonder?
Anybody still disagreeing with the stark reality of fascism in this country deserves to be shot. Cameron and Osborne and IDS are responsible for crimes against humanity but the media want to look at Ukraine or China or even Kevin Pietersen to distract us from the truth. Meanwhile, the UN in knowledge of all of this sends someone over to slap a few wrists…………………..we are on our own people.
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Ms Fawkes – Got an opinion which isn’t solely about yourself? … No, I thought not.
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thanks for replying for me even though you are wrong again on both your question and answer.
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Ms Fawkes – What was “wrong” with my questions? …and I didn’t give an answer, so that can’t have been wrong!
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You did give an answer “I thought not” or was that supposed to be a question too?
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the saddest thing I have read in ages. I have had experience Atos myself and even I found the experience deeply traumatic, heaven only knows how this poor man coped (well, evidently he didn’t actually).
However, Atos are only doing the government’s dirty work for them. They are given targets to meet regarding the percentage of passes/refusals, and the government, by keeping removed from the actual decision making, is able to blame Atos and claim innocence. It’s why they love privatisation, it enables them to achieve their aims but keep their hands clean. Another private contractor will still be in the same position and given the same objectives, allowing the government to remain at arms length but still calling the shots.
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that’s not quite true, as I know a lot of their ” healthcare professionals” that do these assessments, couldn’t give a damn about being impartial
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I thought you were replying to my post about ATOS and the man who died of malnutrition, but it seems you were just replying about yourself again.
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Absolutely right! Contracting out a problem means that the blame when things go wrong is also contracted out. This is why consultants and ‘special advisors’ are so massively used in government and business. It’s not because they have anything to say which isn’t already known, it simply allows those in charge to claim that it wasn’t their fault.
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So, are you saying they are just individuals who get some sort of perverse enjoyment from the misery they cause..? That’s even worse! I’m sure they must be incentivised in some way. I did read when the scheme was first introduced that the government “expected” (i.e. required) a particular percentage of cases to be rejected.
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Disabled men are dying every day on the streets, and have been for the past 50 years or more, it is no more outrageous now as it was then for people to suffer like this NEEDLESSLY.
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ps I didn’t hear you offer any solutions to the prolonged suffering and death sentences of these people, other than to leap at the chance to criticize mainstream parties. What would your SNP do , your chance for a party political broadcast.
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I would return responsibility of assessment of ability to work to the claimant’s own GP, with specialist assessment referred by the GP to the relevant local NHS specialist unit.
It was Labour under Tony Blair which contracted it out to ATOS.
What would you do?
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Get rid of the whole of the political scene from advisers, politicians, researchers and let the people via the internet make the decisions. Firstly making sure everyone had access to the technology to vote on issues parliament at present dictates unjustly. I would make sure the propagandist journalists bit the dust too.
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I would return responsibility of assessment of ability to work to the claimant’s own GP, with specialist assessment referred by the GP to the relevant local NHS specialist unit.
Is that what most of the readers here would do too? Most replies seem to be heavy on criticism and light on solutions.
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stop pinching my reply to you about criticism and no solutions, since you were the first to criticize politicians and me without giving a solution until now.
GP’s have signed a contract gagging them from speaking out on social policy in return for a huge pay rise, most do their diagnosing via the internet and still get it wrong and some are moonlighting for atos and you want us to put our faith in the GP service – Ha! ha!
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You mean everyone could vote about every case of fitness to work without knowing anything whatsoever about the person and their health? …and you think that would be better????
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…so when you or a member of your family is ill, who do you go to?
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We are never ill, can’t remember the last time I visited a gp. Our family have pretty good genes, touch wood. My aunt just died before xmas aged 104, smoked, liked a drink and ate what she liked – never listened to medical advice.
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Well you’re alright then Jack! It’s a shame that you don’t give a shit about anyone else.
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Says who a piece of shit like yourself! You have proved to everyone that you are not worth a wxxk!
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In your world people would sent to prison for their sexuality, there would be no GP service so people with ‘bad genes’ would just get sick and die, and all government would be replaced by internet polls. Is that about right?
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predictably wrong! Those with bad genes would be pumped with legal drugs to keep the drug companies rich, because they are usually the only ones that benefit from them, certainly not the patients. It won’t be long before the poor will be without any health service once they privatize it anyway, so privatization might be doing them a favour, get rid of the deadhead gp’s,
the whimpering gay community would be pumped full of botox, vitamins and age reducing creams in an effort to look young but end up looking even older, while swallowing valium and visiting private counsellors to alleviate their self imposed anxieties that the heterosexual community wants to put them in jail for NOTHING OTHER THAN THEIR SEXUALITY.
Yes all government should be replaced with internet polls, that would fxxk you and your kind right up wouldn’t it?
If you were a REAL man you would not be on here arguing the toss with me.
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That’s the most bizarre and confused rant I’ve seen on a discussion site in a very long time! You don’t actually have any coherent views at all, do you?
People far more often ‘accuse’ me of being female on discussion sites, in a transparent attempt to dismiss my criticisms. Why have you assumed that I’m male?
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Of course, decisions on a persons health should be made by UNBIASED, properly qualified health professionals solely on the basis of the patient’s often complex issues (usually a GP or specialist) not by an administrator ticking boxes on a preset questionnaire. How can we get back to this situation? I wish I knew. Government just will not allow it because of the resultant rise in benefit costs, and as we know, it is cutting these that is th who their prime objective.
On the other side of the coin. There were/are plenty of GPs quite willing to sign people off work unnecessarily, often long term, through laziness, intimidation, over cautiousness, corruption or whatever because it made no difference to them – did not affect their own budget or income.
It’s a difficult one.
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You sound like a very odd, self-satisfied, confused individual. Are you related to Katy Hopkins?
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Apologies, site posted my reply to you when obviously intended for Guy Fawkes.
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This intended for Guy Fawkes – very odd
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You sound like a very odd, self-satisfied. confused individual. Are you related to Katy Hopkins?
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You sound like a very confused bisexual to me or perhaps some crazy shrink only too willing to psycho analyse the anxieties of the gay community and keep yourself in business.
Katie Hopkins is a selfish bitch a bit like the bisexuals who think only of their own needs and would probably describe you better than me.
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I know you are male!
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The most bizarre and confused rant? Give our health service another couple of years and you will see just who the services will be provided for, those gulible and daft enough to take out loans so that corrupt plastic surgeons, counsellors and psychoanalysts can parade their wares,chicken coop old peoples homes and drug companies will also be the profitable panacea for everything that ails people with no consideration for, or study done, on what the recipients of these services really think or want to make their life worth living.
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If you mz pribisevic have a grudge against your Russian leader, don’t take it out on me.
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ps or is your Yugoslavian leader just as bad from your point of view?
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Irena – Why would returning the responsibility to GPs and local NHS specialists mean a rise in costs? I would have thought it would cost less, because these healthcare professionals would already know the claimant and their medical history, so in most cases a new and expensive medical examination would not be necessary.
I agree that there could be a degree of laziness, intimidation, over-cautiousness, corruption or whatever from some GPs, so some spot-checks by an independent body of doctors would be necessary.
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exactly………………
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“I know you are male” says Ms Guy Fawkes.
Yes, of course you do! Just like you know that Irena Pribisevic is Russian… or perhaps Yugoslavian (which obviously you were unaware hasn’t existed for many years!).
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Fawkes – Now you are just using “bisexual” as a generic term of abuse aimed at anyone who disagrees with your bigoted views. Is that how your mind works?
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I apologize to the groovmistress aka irena if she apologizes for calling me SMUG.
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It was Yugoslavia when she was born – Mr smug mug.
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You want somebody to apologise for using a word which you used yourself 3 minutes later??? You are such a hypocrite!
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You are a smug mug, constantly highlighting your spelling prowess even though you probably consult google before you spell anything. I have shown you up on a few instances where you have been wrong only to stop you from doing it to others,but to no avail.
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If you boast about having an English ‘A’ level then you had better be able to live up to it… You have failed!
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The examination board would not agree!
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Durrrr…… you failed to live up to it. You can’t even read English!
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No I read Chinese.
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… and you assumed she was born in the former Yugoslavia because of her name! Your bigotry is showing YET again!
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In reply to fink first. I am assuming the gov. are scared that more people would be signed off sick so the benefits bill would go up. However, you are right. In truth it probably wouldn’t cost more because a whole unnecessary level in the process (that of Atos) with it’s associated costs (wages, profit) would be eliminated.
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Guy Fawkes – Hilarious, you have to be a wind-up! Look back – I never used the word smug at all and what the hell are you talking about bisexuality for? total loon!
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Apology not necessary. You called me bisexual, crazy, psychoanalyst – I have no problem with any of these, they are hardly terms of abuse!
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Self satisfied is Smug you loon, and if it is not then why did Fink say I was a hypocrite by calling him the same word?
It is easy to copy and paste other peoples monikers and avatars and make it look like your own Fink!
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“It is easy to copy and paste other peoples monikers and avatars”
Is it? Let’s see you do it then!
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