(not satire – it’s the coalition government!)
In early 2013, I wrote this satirical blogpost which went a bit viral:
ATOS declare Richard III fit for work
But now it seems the reality of Iain Duncan Smith’s incompetence is finally outdoing satire.
Because the Department for Work and Pensions have assessed a man as being unfit for work despite the fact he has been dead for 4 months:
Dead man declared ‘unfit for work’
And sadly, according to his widow, it was the stress of the benefits process which killed Mr Shawcross.
A process which was put into place by Iain Duncan Smith despite countless warnings that it was flawed, unworkable and likely to result in the misery, hardship and even the deaths of sick and disabled people.
So I suppose this isn’t really just a case of mere incompetence on the part of Iain Duncan Smith and the DWP at all.
More a case of manslaughter.
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Pride's Purge 
Quote, The DWP comes to dessison after considering all of the an available independant evidence avaliable. Yes death will do it every time, as long as you have the certificate to prove it. You couldn’t make it up from this bunch of tossers.
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my very sincerest sympathies to his wife and hopefully she will with the many other thousands that have died get justice at some point in a court of law
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What an appalling performance! Surely it’s time to publish IDS’s obituary?
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sadly many of us have nown or nearly been there ourselves but isn’t it strange it still going on when all mps now it isn’t working strange indeed but the dwp normaly states that they very sorry and their thoughts are with the family well if they cant answer a foi on deaths would they answer a foi on how many of these letters the dwp sent out but sadly we will see more deaths more denials before the end of it jeff3
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The Tories have truly Murdered Satire!!
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this case further highlights why the WCA should be scrapped with immediate effect….and also why all politicians involved in devising such a scheme should resign…
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mind you its than them declaring him fit for work that would be a real cock up.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Tom Pride adds his satirical slant the case of Mr Shawcross, who has finally won his appeal against the Atos ruling that he was fit for work, despite having died in the interim. If only it were the other way on, and Atos was instead the deceased.
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Has IDS appealed this?
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