Cameron’s Britain: MP officially criticised for showing humanity to constituent
A Labour MP – Jess Phillips – has written to the Justice Secretary Michael Gove to complain about a DWP tribunal …
Tag Archives: disability
Amputee who lost leg at age of 9 told by DWP she is no longer disabled!
Tory U-turn on disability cuts? Nope. Posted on Facebook (may need a friend request to view) yesterday by a desperate mother: I …
Lifelong Tory activist quits party over Osborne budget and sabotages website
The official website of the Conservative Disability Group has been sabotaged by a disabled Tory activist who has quit the …
Hypocritical Zac Goldsmith lambasted by own charity after voting for nasty disability cuts
UPDATE: Victory! Zac’s now been forced to resign. London disability charity Richmond AID has issued a strongly worded statement criticising local MPs …
How the Tories are changing the “lives of the poorest and most vulnerable in society“
NASA spent around £0.5 billion to send its New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan …
The nasty party: Tories on rape, disabled children, homosexuality, maternity leave and race
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) The nasty party isn’t all in the past I’m afraid. Here are 14 opinions from leading …
Farage ally: disability an “epidemic” and the public “should not see the disabled on television”
(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) UKIP’s new friends in Europe – members of the Polish KNP party – think disability is …
Proof it’s NOT benefit fraudsters being targeted by Cameron, but the genuinely sick and even dying
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) DWP tells grieving mum her sick son must attend work interview – on …
Tory Minister for Disabled Esther McVey set to lose her seat at election
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Controversial hardline Tory Minister for the Disabled Esther McVey is set to lose her …
Cameron’s Britain: 7-year old cancer patients on foodbank handouts
(not satire – it’s Cameron’s Britain!) There was good news today after bad local publicity pushed the DWP to reinstate …
Iain Duncan Smith’s portrait made from photos of people who died for being poor
(satire?) Click on the image to enlarge and for a high resolution copy: Some of his victims: Edward Jacques: Graham …
Shameful Britain: terminal cancer patient told to attend work interviews or lose benefits
(not satire) UPDATE: Charlotte has now sadly passed away. She has left a beautiful message on Facebook which can be …
Tory council tried to ‘auction off’ disabled man online to private care companies
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Emma Knight found her local Tory-run council was inviting companies to bid online to look …
Benefits scrounging bear rakes in millions while pretending to be disabled on national TV
(satire?) The Department for Work and Pensions has announced it is launching a campaign to clamp down on benefit fraud …
Lib Dem voice of the year: “Lord Freud was right” and “motivated by compassion”
(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!) Lib Dems love Sam Bowman. In fact, Liberal Democrat members are so fond of …
Meet MAXIMUS (the new ATOS) and its list of scandals in the US
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) UPDATE: There will be a day of action across the UK against Maximus …
89% of public say Foot-in-Mouth syndrome scientists should be aborted at birth
(satire?) A controversial survey has revealed that as many as 89% of the UK public think that scientists such as …
Tory Party declares war on British servicemen and women
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) The Tories seem to have declared war on British servicemen and women. Here’s some evidence: …
How the IDS ‘Iron Dome’ defence system shoots down incoming facts
(satire?) Iron Dome is a mobile all-weather defence system deployed around Iain Duncan Smith’s head, designed to intercept and destroy short-range and …
Telegraph columnist Toby Young reckons he was accepted into Oxford ‘by mistake’.
(not satire – it’s Toby Young!) Rabid Tory supporter, Free School advocate and Telegraph columnist Toby Young likes to boast about how he …
DWP declares dead man “unfit for work” (not actually satire)
(not satire – it’s the coalition government!) In early 2013, I wrote this satirical blogpost which went a bit viral: ATOS declare …
Heartless government cut pay of police officers injured in line of duty. And threaten the sack.
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Looks like the Tories are taking revenge on the police after their falling …
British Paralympian: “I’ve been tossed on the scrap heap”
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Paralympian wheelchair basketball player Jon Pollock says he has been “tossed on the scrap …
Tory councillor calls disabled children a ‘burden’
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Tory councillor Les Ford – deputy leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council – …
Modern Tories on rape, Down syndrome, Pakistani children and black people
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) The nasty party isn’t all in the past I’m afraid. Here are ten recent opinions from …
ATOS denies being ATOS (not satire!)
(not satire – it’s ATOS!) Government statistics reveal that between January 2011 and November of the same year, 10,600 sick …
A new low for the UK: disabled man starves to death
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) A severely disabled and sick man – who had his benefits stopped after …
ATOS declare themselves fit to declare themselves unfit for work
(satire?) In a surprise move, ATOS have declared themselves unfit to declare whether people declared unfit for work are fit for …
DWP blames cancer patient for her illness
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) This letter from the Department for Work and Pensions was posted by Chris …
Huffington Post claims autistic children just need to ‘learn patience’
(not satire – it’s Simon Stevens!) Simon Stevens is the Uncle Tom of disability activism. I’ve written about him before: …
