Comments on: ESA SOS: Another day, another attack on disabled people

By: BusyBeeBuzz

BusyBeeBuzz — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:08:00 +0000

I have just contacted Unity Law to ask if they could take my (WCA appeal) case. They don’t do legal aid work. Perhaps Sue Marsh who wrote this article doesn’t realise that people on benefits are too poor to employ a lawyer or to gamble on No Win No Fee lawyers. This is a really useless, poorly researched article!

By: BusyBeeBuzz

BusyBeeBuzz — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:58:00 +0000

Solicitor, Chris Fry, is a bit confused! The topic under discussion is disability, not religion! Fry claims that “the government at risk of breaching article 9 of the European Convention for the protection of Human Rights, which preserves an individual’s right to ‘thought, conscience and religion’. With regard to the large number of suicides that have occurred in response to the Atos/DWP WCAs, the government is at risk of being charged with breach of Article 3 of the UK HRA and Article 3 of the EU Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – No Torture. In my case, Professor Harrington’s recommendations about fluctuating conditions were not applied, so the DWP are also in breach of Article 14 of the UK HRA & the ECHR No Discrimination which is an incorporated right which I incorporate with sections 6 and 149 of the Equalities Act 2010.

By: Gill

Gill — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:42:00 +0000

There was also a model called Tom… Tom suffers with Epilepsy, he has several fits a week and when he has a fit he is Incontinent and needs help changing his clothes. Before 28th January Tom would have been assessed to go in the Support Group. Three Months later Tom is assessed again and is put in the Works Related Activity Group because when he is Incontinent he is Unconcious! You have to now be Incontinent whilst being Conscious. Theses WCA Descriptors were supposed to be changed to help disabled people NOT make their lifes harder. Some Epileptics can have 100’s of fits per week, People do not want to Employ them. If they did want to get a job and want the support they could still do so from the Support Group, without being forced into Work. When will people realise there is a difference between illness and Disability? My Father was tetraplegic and still worked because he was not ill, he felt well and did not have a disease. People can be more mobile but suffer illness which makes them unable to work. Everyone is so…Para Olympics… Yes they do not suffer …illness, they suffer DIS..ABILITY.

By: Hive Node 182.5

Hive Node 182.5 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:34:00 +0000

Why don’t the newspapers carry these stories? It’s a f**king outrage!

Remember when the media almost universally condemned the 2011 riots as the work of a “feral” underclass? Well there’s nothing more feral than the way the establishment media has turned on the most vulnerable. It’s literally inhuman. All this information I see being gathered every day on AtoS and the DWP, and I think “great, the word is spreading, people are realising they can talk about it openly now, the truth will out, justice is coming” but it never comes to anything. A few blogs here and there, but not even a blip in the newsagents. It’s like a media blackout.

By: Ian Gottherd

Ian Gottherd — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:51:00 +0000

Yet another step along the wholly cynical campaign against the disabled by the coalition and it’s lackeys. It’s not just them who are to blame though; it’s the newspapers who parrot the lies and distortions and the public who fail to realize how much they are being manipulated into being complacent about the ongoing war on the hardest hit, poorest, weakest people in the UK.

You can judge a country by it’s attitudes towards the most vulnerable, and I am increasingly finding myself ashamed of my country. That only makes me want to do more to help though.

Disclosure : None of the issues raised in this story will affect me, but that’s exactly the point. Solidarity.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:51:00 +0000

Of the thousands of horrendous repercussions coming to light as a result of the work capability assessment, this article is far too tame. Mark Hoban is beginning to mimic the characteristics of Joseph Goebbels . What is it going to take to put a stop to this insanity?