Archive
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 found he was ‘fit’ for work – has died of malnutrition.
Mark Wood’s GP said if either ATOS or the Department for Work and Pensions had contacted him he would have said in his professional opinion Mr Wood was not fit for work.
But Mr Wood’s GP was not contacted by either ATOS or anyone from the DWP.
Here’s Mark Wood’s tragic story from the Oxford Mail:
Man starved after benefits were cut
So now in this country we’re leaving vulnerable people to literally starve to death.
A new low even for the Tories and Liberal Democrats, surely?
.
Please feel free to comment.
.
to get the media to report mental health issues in a balanced and positive light? – Rethink Mental Illness, the mental health charity
New Statesman | Why is Iain Duncan Smith avoiding the elephant in the room?
Morning Star :: Left MPs stand up for sick and disabled in Parliament
Northern Lights caused by gay marriage
If G4S is to blame for Manus violence, the government has blood on its hands | Katherine Fallah
Possibly thicker than a Tory Environment Minister!
Wind Is Super Valuable http://chzb.gr/1goIDiz
More Workfare, More Sanctions, Iain Duncan Smith’s Brutal and Barmy Plan To End Child Poverty
The Government’s latest child poverty strategy is a blueprint for pushing already struggling single parents into financial destitution with benefit sanctions and workfare.
This year’s five reasons for child poverty are predictably unemployment, along with low levels of qualifications, single parent families, having more than three children and ill health. Such is Iain Duncan Smith’s desperation to blame children being poor on anything other than not having enough money that this is his fourth re-definition of poverty in just three years. Previous reasons for poverty, which included step-parents, mothers with mental health problems, being disabled, and of course drugs, no longer make the top five.
The main thrust of the latest strategy is to tackle what is repeatedly referred to as ‘worklessness’ – as if raising children requires no effort at all. The measures to combat this great social ill – which can mean parents spending time raising their…
View original post 741 more words
kickingthecat 