A Plague on Both Your Houses

"And the Lord (Freud) said "Part a sea of sick and disabled people to move them unto the Moses Room". 

But we will plague you Lord Freud. 

We will watch the Committee stage today (Now confirmed in fact as committee room 4a)

3.30pm onwards on www.parliament.uk If you want to help with live tweeting the event, just show up on twitter and use #wrb with every tweet. (We believe that the welfare meeting follows an education meeting and therefore starts at 5pm)

Several Lords have contacted us to congratulate us. After making our opinions so strongly known, this committee WILL have plenty of room for wheelchair users (including an overspill room) and their WILL be a live feed to both rooms so that we can follow the meeting. A huge congratulations to all who wrote, emailed, tweeted and shared. 

To watch live, follow this link http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=9061

Or, if you have any problems, go to www.parliament.co.uk

Click on "MPs Lords and Offices" at the top

Scroll down and click on "Watch parliament TV" on the right hand side

Then, scroll down and click on "What's On"

Finally, scroll down to "Committees" and click on the link

Finally, if you can possibly be there physically today, please do try and go. Especially today as any access problems will need to be sorted out at this first reading. 

M'Luds Won't you help me with welfare reform?

As the Welfare Reform Bill moves from Parliament to The Lords, I sing (yes sing!!) Janis Joplin-With-Flu version of "Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedez Benz"
Did you ever see a singing rights campaigner with hair this bad?

Lyrics

M'luds won't you help me, with Welfare Reform?
The sick need protection, their facing a storm,
Worked Hard all our lifetimes,
Paid tax since we're born
M'luds won't you help me with Welfare Reform?

M'luds won't you help me, to make people see?
The wall built around us by distant MPs?
We're tryin to help them, but will they help me
M'luds won't you help me to make people see?

M'luds won't you help me to keep people safe?
To live home and free with means to escape
The four walls that bind them
May keep them in chains.
M'luds won't you help me to keep people safe?

M'luds would you see them pushed onto the streets?
No hope of redemption, No way to compete?
No more hope of working
With nothing to eat.
M'luds would you see them pushed onto the streets?

M'luds are we worthy of all you hold dear?
Free speech, human rights and a voice you can hear?
The sick and the poor Lords,
Are living in fear.
M'luds are we worthy, of all you hold dear?

Written, sung and produced by Sue Marsh, diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com