Tories must reverse attacks on disabled people | DPAC

Last Updated: April 2, 2016By
There's a reason people created cartoons like this. They were rejecting the Work Capability Assessment and the thinking behind it; this is not how we want our government to run our country.

There’s a reason people created cartoons like this. They were rejecting the Work Capability Assessment and the thinking behind it; this is not how we want our government to run our country.

This letter, from prominent members of Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and Occupy London, was published in The Guardian on 30th March 2016:

The announcement by the new work and pensions secretary, Stephen Crabb, that the changes to personal independence payments (PIP) in George Osborne’s calamity of a budget are to be scrapped is welcome news for hundreds of thousands of disabled people (Report, 22 March). Yet even the statement that there are no further welfare cuts planned for this parliament is cold comfort to those who live every day with the misery created by years of attacks on the support they require to participate in society.

The storm surrounding Cameron’s government over the budget has thrown a spotlight on the extent of inequality at the heart of its plans. IFS figures on the government’s tax and welfare changes have shown that the rich will gain while the poor lose out – so much for “compassionate conservatism”. If Stephen Crabb is serious with his talk of the people behind the numbers he needs to do more than just stop new cuts – he should reverse those that have already been made. We suggest he starts by returning the £30 a week he recently voted to steal from those receiving ESA and committing to scrap the notorious work capability assessments that have regularly found people with terminal cancer “fit for work”.

Source: Letter in the Guardian: Tories must reverse attacks on disabled people » DPAC

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3 Comments

  1. Terry Davies April 2, 2016 at 3:23 pm - Reply

    the truth is a stranger to tories.

  2. Adz April 3, 2016 at 10:34 pm - Reply

    Unfortunetely that won’t happen seeing as he voted for the ESA cuts and no doubt other cuts. He is just another IDS but with a different name, add in the fact he is also a homophobe, things do not bode well I feel, not until Tories are gone and hopefully positive changes for the better of all can begin. Can only hope.

  3. mrmarcpc April 4, 2016 at 1:47 pm - Reply

    But they won’t and we know they won’t, unless their own party has a go at them, nothing will be reversed!

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