Sounds like he's brimming with compassion
The new minister for Disabled People at the Department of Work and Pensions is no friend of the vulnerable if his voting record is anything to go by.
Justin Tomlinson MP, who David Cameron appointed this morning in his cabinet reshuffle, voted for a number of draconian policies directed at disabled people over the course of the previous parliament.
These included:
- Voting against 365-day exceptions on contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance for those undergoing cancer treatment:
- Voting for the Bedroom Tax:
- Voting against the long-term sick and disabled receiving Employment and Support Allowance on the same basis as if they had made sufficient National Insurance contributions to qualify for a contribution-based allowance:
- Voting against setting the lower rate of Universal Credit in relation to disabled children at a minimum two-thirds of the higher rate:
- Voting against allowing benefits to increase in line with prices:
Sounds like he’s brimming with compassion.
Source: They Work For You
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64 Responses to “He voted against benefit exceptions for cancer patients: meet the new minister for disabled people”
TomH
It’s not about Labour loosing – it is about a government who aim to remove the human rights act so they can attack the most vulnerable in society. The international banking crisis is not being paid for by the banks it is being paid for by removing a safety net we all may need at some time in our lives. Don’t get ill JoeDM as you may find yourself potless and subject of a government who are only too happy to piss on you!
Almuth Ernsting
Unfortunately, it’s not “back to the 1990s”. I was working in housing and welfare advice in the 1990s. The cuts to social security that happened under John Major were small and ‘fringe’ compared to what’s happened already in the past five years. In fact, recreating the level of social security that still existed at the end of the last Major government would probably seen as an extreme left-wing fantasy by many in the Labour Party. And the most damaging cuts that happened under John Major weren’t even reversed under Blair or Brown (excluding 16 and 17 year olds from Income Support, restricting Housing Benefit to a ‘single room rent’ for those under 25 and leaving groups of asylum seekers destitute).
Janet T-Tremaine
That’s a load of tosh…
Janet T-Tremaine
A new Bill of Rights is being drawn up. Make sure you know your facts. The HRA protected criminals – so unless you are a criminal don’t get all het up until you see what is in that new Bill.
Janet T-Tremaine
Either you have got the link wrong or it is no longer available.