tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post6648378120749768484..comments2024-03-19T11:17:07.174+00:00Comments on Diary of a Benefit Scrounger: The Start of MY Campaigning - Nowhere to turn for the VulnerableSue Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14849801822216267250noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-79877986733175456552021-12-10T06:37:04.595+00:002021-12-10T06:37:04.595+00:00Hi I'm Edison Konopelski and we are providing ...Hi I'm Edison Konopelski and we are providing the best <a href="https://pubuildingmaterials.com/?s=polyurethane+balustrade+system&post_type=product" rel="nofollow">polyurethane balustrade system</a> . Our company was dedicated to supply the cost-effective High density Polyurethane decorative materials for all worldwide customers. Although our company set up for not long time, we have a group of young, responsible people, with optimism spirit, positive and consistent attitude, which will make you be glad to give us a chance.Fedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01000003697880574754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-32544022320687928982012-01-20T15:17:45.985+00:002012-01-20T15:17:45.985+00:00hi Alex, i wish we here had the guts to what you s...hi Alex, i wish we here had the guts to what you suggest. we ,all as a nation, sit here and take all this government dish out and do nothing. as you say its no use 1 or 2 doing it we need to get out as a group but we disabled are so scared at the moment. no doubt we will be classed as non disabled because we can sit and have a voice then have our money taken off us, they have us by the proverbials and they now it, nice thought tho and thanks for caring. i have enough abuse here about being a scrounger.katenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-31330453869156465402012-01-20T15:07:13.512+00:002012-01-20T15:07:13.512+00:00i weep for that family. its a disgrace. i am disbl...i weep for that family. its a disgrace. i am disbled and my 13 year old daughter acts as a carer, i too live in fear of the cuts.my daughter cries when she thinks i dont see her. i have had word of having yet another med assesment so i am actually sick with worry yet again. i dont sleep with pain and worry and suffer from depression. i am ashamed to go out for fear of being labelled a scrounger and lazy. cameron has done a very clever job of setting ablebodied against disabled and employed against unemployed and the public do the rest by believing every cruel comment that comes out of his sneering mouth. all i can say is that god help me and my daughter as we live on the streets next year and all sick and disabled in the same boat.kate thomsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-1678126758633894032012-01-20T03:09:23.216+00:002012-01-20T03:09:23.216+00:00We are living in truly terrifying times it has to ...We are living in truly terrifying times it has to be said. I hope you'll forgive me for asking a question which may have already been answered but where exactly does it leave those of us who have absolutely no other avenues of support if our DLA is taken away? I use myself as an example; I am in my early 30's, have had cerebral palsy since age 3. It often takes me an hour-yes ONE HOUR to walk the 10 feet from my bedroom to my bathroom because of the excruciating pain in my legs. I have tunnel vision, which has caused me to collide with things, which has needed trips to the hospital. Due to the deformity of one of my feet I fall over at least once a day, and since I have Aspergers I find it incredibly difficult to secure any kind of lasting employment. I wonder what David Cameron would say to his sadly departed son who had Autism if he were in this position?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-90519659678795885652012-01-17T20:53:08.456+00:002012-01-17T20:53:08.456+00:00http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/17/dla-...http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/17/dla-video-stories-disability-benefits<br /><br />This is a collection of video clips on the importance of DLA. I am about to watch it. The Guardian looks like it has an editorial policy that is presenting patient views.Alex Young aka alex3619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-59123128952885468912012-01-17T12:57:40.778+00:002012-01-17T12:57:40.778+00:00A Guardian article showing that the Govt. have mad...A Guardian article showing that the Govt. have made a "Profit" of £80M on incorrect DLA payments - With Overpayments (including fraud) being £220M and Underpayments being £300M. That's not the headline the redtop papers are shouting.<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/jan/17/disibility-living-allowance-overpaymentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-29405128320078991432012-01-17T11:35:00.969+00:002012-01-17T11:35:00.969+00:00I work in patient engagement and specialise in com...I work in patient engagement and specialise in community development. I hear these stories all the time and it makes me hopping mad! This government doesn't have a clue and whats worse...doesn't care! *sigh*<br /><br />C xCarolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12327016337976942530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-36635492822795931462012-01-16T13:46:21.741+00:002012-01-16T13:46:21.741+00:00Its anecdotal but a taxi driver I know, his wife h...Its anecdotal but a taxi driver I know, his wife has a condition where the vital organs can shut down suddenly, she is almost blind and she is on morphene to control pain...<br /><br />She's been told that she has to look for work...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-70336548475847856652012-01-16T12:03:08.123+00:002012-01-16T12:03:08.123+00:00Sorry, you lost me right at the end. Fascinating a...Sorry, you lost me right at the end. Fascinating article, scary conclusion... and then rhetoric about something almost entirely unrelated (RBS). <br /><br />(I don't *like* paying that much of a bonus to someone involved in sorting out the mess that the banking system has become - but if the commercial reality is that it costs that much to get the best leadership, then given quite how much of our money is tied up in the RBS, refusing to pay for it to be properly managed on a point of principle would very much be cutting off our nose to spite our face.)Inquisitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13050970482949027836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-19104468573442182732012-01-16T08:03:59.727+00:002012-01-16T08:03:59.727+00:00This situation is a disgrace for the UK. There are...This situation is a disgrace for the UK. There are people who care all over the world. I am one of them. I am also disabled though from illness not injury. <br /><br />If politics fails, if reason fails, if compassion fails, if petitions fail, if legal recourse fails, you can still take down the government. You have the power to see them lose office and not regain it for more than a generation. <br /><br />How many disabled are there in the Great Britain? Ten million? Eighteen percent of the population? Well people can run national strikes. Sick people can run a national civic disobedience campaign. Some will not be able to, but with a population base of ten million, not counting carers, it can be done. Some will not want to, they will find ways to survive despite the cuts. <br /><br />What of the rest? If you are close to suicide, don't give in to despair. Give in to anger. Put yourself in the local hospital, government lobby, somewhere you will be seen. Stay. They will arrest many of you at first. The question is how desperate will this become? If desperate enough, millions of you can do this. Millions being arrested? I don't think so. Millions going through the court, crawling or being wheeled to the docks? Watch the collapse of the judicial system. Millions in prison or other institutions? There are not enough institutions and no way to fund them. Instead of miserly benefits to disabled people, they will have to pay a steadily rising toll of costs that will be far worse than the financial crisis. It will scare the hell out of them. It will bring down the government. It will put them in such disrepute that a generation later they will be lamenting their folly.<br /><br />At the same time, keep several national registers of suicide rates and other deaths by neglect. Write them up in a blog: War on the Disabled killed 22 today - total 2378 for the year. Keep putting it out there. 35 put on the street today, 18 died of neglect, total for this year is now 2394. Euthanasia By Stealth Kills another 12.<br /><br />I have been thinking about this for my own country (Australia) should we go the way of the UK. These are my plans for my country, although for now we are moving away from this direction, but I don't see why this cannot work elsewhere. <br /><br />Please, no violence. We need people to use reason and compassion. These things disappear when violence is involved. Reason and compassion are the solution, so they should be our method too.<br /><br />I hope it doesnt come to this. I can see it not happening because too many disabled people will be too scared, and they will die quietly in their hundreds. I can see it not happening because the government passes draconian laws in the fashion of dictatorships. I can see it not happening ... because the people of the UK rise up and demand the government stop.<br /><br />If you think this might work, keep a copy. Expect this post to disappear off the web. I hope you never need to do any of this, I hope your government finally embraces reason and compassion.<br /><br />Alex Young, aka alex3619, Australia, AdvocateAlex Young aka alex3619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-21066479119894050012012-01-16T07:44:47.549+00:002012-01-16T07:44:47.549+00:00My personal circumstances are far less heart rende...My personal circumstances are far less heart rendering but my personal outcome is looking as likely.<br /><br />Becoming too ill to work after 30 years is no easy transition; the physical and associated mental health issues are catastrophic enough. Not only is my constant chronic body wide pain crippling but add this to the feelings of worthlessness, as I can no longer financially or domestically contribute to my family, and I battle serious depression on a daily basis.<br />My current situation is fluctuating between coping and suicidal, but the additional emotional turmoil I am facing as I stand to become destitute as I turn 50 in April is terrifying.<br />Why did I bother to work whilst bringing up my children, maybe I should have stayed home and lived on State Benefits, as that group of Welfare seems to be safer than the ones I genuinely believed I had earned.<br />Sorry for the whinge and any tips on keeping the proverbial chin up welcome.<br />Thanks again to Sue and allJayneLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00512594513221073398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-17587280730909822222012-01-16T00:04:53.764+00:002012-01-16T00:04:53.764+00:00Most people have NO IDEA what being long-term '...Most people have NO IDEA what being long-term 'incapacitated' is really like. In fact for most of us it's too scary to really consider how being 'disabled' or ill would change their lives.<br /><br />This is one attempt to explain how that experience feels, and what it 'means' for those directly concerned: http://pinkpolitika.com/2012/01/12/disabling-the-already-disabled-the-shame-that-is-the-condems/<br /><br />Having a disabling / serious long-term health condition challenges everything you had probably taken for granted right up to that point.... the lightning bolts of ill-health and disability can strike anywhere, at any time. So this really is an example of where we’re ‘all in it together’…. Isn’t it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-20559158610610879082012-01-15T19:10:37.657+00:002012-01-15T19:10:37.657+00:00My husband is my full time carer. Despite my care ...My husband is my full time carer. Despite my care needs only growing and growing as I am able to do less and less DLA will not give me a high enough rate in the care portion of my DLA for my husband to claim carers allowance. He cannot work because he has to look after me. He failed his degree making sure I got mine after it took me 5 years of struggling through illness to gain it. Whilst I was a student they wouldn't give him carers allowance despite the fact he had to take the same course, same modules and ensure he was in the same class groups as me to make sure we could both study. He knew my degree was important to my dignity so it was important to him. He knows the small amount of dignity I gain by him looking after me is important so he stays by my side and cares for me despite getting nothing in return. We get £15 extra on my ESA a fortnight as a 'partner' bonus, thats the money the government think it costs to have two people in a household instead of one. We live on less than £8000 a year, far below the poverty line. We stand to lose everything with the cuts. I will more than likely fall into the 20% of people they will cut, seeing as they refuse to even read my forms at the DWP anymore but base their findings on previous ones more often than not. I am in the Work Related Activity Group despite the fact that working would land me in hospital. We are stuck. Worst of all we have rising debts, we can't afford to pay for our electricity. Our current home has oil fired central heating providing minimal warmth and hot water but last week when that ran out we couldn't afford to buy more so now we use a kettle to fill the bath and we use a hallogen heater to warm the two rooms we are using to live in. Even this meagre existence we live we stand to lose. There is no doubt that we are living our life, we aren't, we are existing, barely, and yet they want to take that away. I can't help but feel as if I have been hugely betrayed by those in power, those who have a duty to look after us all.BrokenOpheliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04677118290957688161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-77218104568332773462012-01-15T17:57:07.963+00:002012-01-15T17:57:07.963+00:00I am my husbands full time Carer and we are in thi...I am my husbands full time Carer and we are in this group of people who are being victimised and made to feel like cheap scroungers, he can't help it that he had a serious Brain injury leaving him with severe Epilepsy and other Mental health issues, all of which are being made worse by all this constant changes and thefts of losing benefits. Firstly this new ESA and him unfairly being placed in the Work group and next the DLA, which was awarded for life, and now being reassessed very soon. We are really struggling to deal with all this and the constant worry! I know we are not alone but what do we do?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-52251531878240202092012-01-15T16:31:02.314+00:002012-01-15T16:31:02.314+00:00I never thought that 21st Century British society ...I never thought that 21st Century British society would resemble 20th Century German society in the late 1930's,I mean in regards to corrupt political institutions and relentless scapegoating of the innocent.It is a disgrace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-34068209118745434372012-01-15T15:44:50.599+00:002012-01-15T15:44:50.599+00:00"On whether the cuts are being done fairly or..."On whether the cuts are being done fairly or unfairly, 57% now think the cuts are being done unfairly, again the highest we’ve shown so fair. Finally 72% of people now think the cuts are having an impact on their own lives, up sharply from 62% in December.<br /><br />Note that 52% of people still think the cuts are necessary, 35% unnecessary. So while people increasingly don’t like the cuts and think they are unfair… a slight majority think they are necessary."<br /><br />And there's the rub...How were the questions asked? Who was asked? What questions were asked?<br /><br />How many of those asked have any experience of seeing loved one's caught up in the cuts being proposed?<br /><br />How many beleieve what the media, politicians and public commentators say? A lot of that isn't fact but opinion.<br /><br />How many do not realise that one day it could be them who have to try and get help, fight for help and find there is not as much help as they once thought there was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-59135094807837288722012-01-15T15:22:58.960+00:002012-01-15T15:22:58.960+00:00Oliver going into institutional care has to cost t...Oliver going into institutional care has to cost the state at least £1,000 a week. That's over £50K a year. I bet, before all the benefits were chipped away, Keith was doing that job plus looking after Sarah for far less than that. Stupidity rules. Is the government cutting off its nose to spite its face, or are there plans to do away with inconvenient people? Discuss.jacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04189607565669406495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-73570531450483030352012-01-15T15:09:55.832+00:002012-01-15T15:09:55.832+00:00The Biased Broadcasting Corporation are also contr...The Biased Broadcasting Corporation are also contributing to the brainwashing…@gaz112http://www.cllrgarysanders.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-81260572964635070192012-01-15T14:58:41.264+00:002012-01-15T14:58:41.264+00:00They are being brainwashed by the political unelit...They are being brainwashed by the political unelite who are not representing anyone else other than themselves.....Clr. Ralph Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-47630615286456311522012-01-15T14:19:34.049+00:002012-01-15T14:19:34.049+00:00good honest decent people will not let this happen...good honest decent people will not let this happen to anyone, unfoutunately they are all being brainwashed by this govt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4568034298343558962.post-44587421555556133332012-01-15T14:17:40.569+00:002012-01-15T14:17:40.569+00:00Cuts are not needed .. it is a constant lie the to...Cuts are not needed .. it is a constant lie the tories perpetuate every time they take power.. this is but one small aspect of their overall plan to remove all our civil liberties and make us a nation of slaves too frightened to stand against their evils.. that labour are now stating they are needed is not proof that cuts are needed but rather proof only of their utter collusion with the tory party.. \/ I know many of you will be unable to accept this is a truth at the moment but as this crisis deepens the truth will become self evident. There is another way and it involves us the people taking back our rights and personal freedoms from the fascist ruling elite who have so destroyed our society with their constant pursuit of wealth and power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com