- New government plans to force long-term unemployed peopleto attend their local jobcentre for 35 hours a week in exchange for their benefits have been branded “unworkable”, “unethical” and “cranky” by disabled campaigners.
- Labour’s shadow minister for disabled people has told Disability News Service that she is resigning from the party’s frontbench.
- The Motability car scheme has won praise after announcingthat it will hand £2,000 to every disabled person who has their vehicle taken away after being reassessed for the government’s new personal independence payment.
- Universities are still putting significant barriers before disabled students and failing to provide them with the support they need on campus, according to new research carried out by young campaigners.
- The minister responsible for supporting disabled people into work has admitted he has no idea how many former incapacity benefit claimants have found jobs as a result of his government’s reforms.
- The minister for disabled people has attacked her predecessor– a fellow Conservative and a senior government colleague – for failing to do more to persuade employers to provide jobs for disabled people.
- The former Conservative minister who laid the groundwork nearly 20 years ago for the much-criticised work capability assessment has defended the role he played in developing the “fitness for work” system.
- The minister for disabled people would not rule out scrapping the government’s controversial “fitness for work” test, she has told Disability News Service.
- The minister for disabled people has refused 21 times to say whether spending on a key disability benefit will be cut next year.
- Campaigners have told delegates to the Conservative party conference why intensive support is vital in helping disabled job-seekers to find work.
- Disabled actors, performers and activists have joined faith leaders and mainstream grassroots campaigners for a memorial event outside parliament to remember the thousands of disabled victims of the government’s austerity programme.
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
John Pring's disability news roundup
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How are they going to deal with hundreds of unemployed people hanging around all day? What exactly are they going to be doing anyway? Waiting for hours to be seen to do a jobsearch? More ill thought out rubbish to appeal to the Right wing little Englanders.
ReplyDeleteAnd if their intention is to get free labour for businesses through the back door so to speak, what happens when some of these businesses start laying off workers and then getting people to do the same job without paying them? That sounds like slavery to me? The workhouse. Plantations. Are we actually still in the real world here, or have we entered some surreal alternative reality? The sooner these people are voted out the better for the 85% of us who are suffering for the mistakes and cruel and brutal intentions of the rich.
For those people with jobs now thinking of voting Tory, be careful you don't get what you wish for, and don't lose your job either. Then you'll experience reality.
The trouble with the rich is they only see things through their own eyes, because they can afford to live a life that suits them, as money has a way of opening doors and presenting ideas that nothing else does. Take away their money and they would care about people 100% more, i am convinced of this fact, well most of them would care more anyway, there are always some idiots who don't see sense, but f**k them.
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