Sue Marsh writes about the DWP's refusal to send anyone on the radio to debate her on the ESA cuts.
I’ve just heard the Department for Work and Pensions has refused to send anyone to Radio 4’s You and Yours show on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow (12 noon) to defend and debate with me the changes we exposed in #esaSOS.
Despite leading barristers saying they are illegal and professors of medicine saying they are immoral and unworkable, the DWP haven’t answered a single point we raised. Again.
It’s remarkable. People are suffering – 140,000 people have been proven to have been unfairly stripped of their livelihood. We challenge them, they don’t even deny we’re right, but they sit there in their ivory towers and say, “so sue us”.
Well, DWP, we will and if you think I’ll stop at defeating you on ESA you’re wrong. I’ll make sure every last one of you is held personally accountable for the horrific assault you’re inflicting on vulnerable people in the UK who need you most.
In the next few weeks, I will release stories proving you are liars and cheats. I promise, you will not be able to hide from these. You will have no defence, no one to blame but yourselves. And yes, I’ll do it from my hospital bed, and yes, I’ll do it fed into my central line, and yes, I will win.
And think on this DWP – you’ve left me the whole show to say what I like unopposed.
This article was originally published on Sue’s blog, “Diary of a Benefit Scrounger”; follow Sue on Twitter: @suey2y.
See also:
• ESA SOS: Another day, another attack on disabled people – January 17th, 2013
64 Responses to “Comment: IDS and the DWP can run, but they can’t hide”
LB
Of course you don’t want to discuss the fact that all this money has come at the expense of putting people into poverty in their retirement.
430,000 pounds lost, taken by people like you, from someone earning 26K a year, leaving them in poverty.
You completely ignore that effect as a moral issue.
It’s a moral issue. It’s made them poor. Do they not have a need for a decent retirement? Ah no, your needs are such that you will screw them over for your own needs.
What’s despicable about your position is that I doubt you would stand up in a room full of the victims of your policy and say, up yours, we’ve had your money. You’re in poverty, get on with it
However you’re quite prepared to defend those who don’t need the money, getting it.
1.5 million increase in the disabled. Is the NHS really that bad? We know it kills 20-80,000 a year from their own estimates.
GEOFF REYNOLDS
GEOFFREY REYNOLDS left an annotation (31 January 2013)
Gone are the days when you needed to use an easily recognizable mode of ending someones life…..
No need for firearms,knives or poison….
It could start with the receipt of a seemingly innocent brown
envelope containing a deadly recipe concocted to take away the very
reason for living…..
A death sentence generated and sent to the most weakest and
vulnerable in our society by the most heinous and cowardly in our
society…..
The assailants hide behind bureaucracy and ill thought out guidelines and hastily drafted, corrupted laws.
Meanwhile the impact becomes more and more apparent as the clock ticks and the victims multiply…
Statistics will be used to try and mask the injustice but consciences will carry the burden. It is never erase
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marylou
my son who has a profound mental illness was put in the ‘capable of work catagory’ last march,without even being SEEN, we appealed in april,his doctor asking for a quick resolution as the whole thing was exacebating his mental illness.they reduced his benefits,SIX months later in september the appeal was upheld,he got the money they took off back in november,the whole thing has started again january this year,TELL YOU NOW THOUGH,NOBOBY IS GVING UP.lord help anybody who has not got someone at the back of them,thats all i say,the whole thing is mental torture.
marylou
read my post above,you’ve obviously no personal experience of the barbaric process.
Tony Turtle
Proves the Department is scared of Sue then!