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A chilling new report has blown the lid off the lie that disability benefit cuts are about saving money – even as the government pushes forward with its latest slashing plan.
The Failure of DWP Safeguarding, by Mo Stewart, doesn’t just expose administrative incompetence; it lays bare a decades-long, ideologically driven assault on disabled people — a campaign of cruelty masked as policy reform which has led directly to starvation, suicide, and death.
If ministers want to pretend this is about “fiscal responsibility,” let’s show them what their reforms really mean — and who pays the price.
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These cuts aren’t about money. They’re about control.
Stewart traces the true root of benefit cuts, not to the 2008 crash or Covid-era public debt, but to Thatcher-era neoliberalism and its ideological mission to shrink the welfare state and shift responsibility to private insurers.
“Every successive neoliberal administration… viewed disability benefit claimants as a financial burden… social policy reforms adopted tyranny when masquerading as social policy.”
What we’re seeing today is just the latest chapter in a political project that aims to make social security unworkable — and then blame the claimants.
This isn’t about cost-cutting. It’s about cutting the public safety net — to force the sick and disabled into private hands.
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Benefit cuts kill. The evidence is clear.
Forget claims about “incentivising work” – Ms Stewart documents how sanctions, flawed assessments, and benefit removal have directly led to preventable deaths.
“This resulted in death by starvation… of some of the most vulnerable people in the country when, quite literally, ‘killed by the State’.”
The current government is talking about tightening eligibility again — knowing full well that people have died for less.
Ms Stewart connects these deaths to policies including the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), which she reveals is based on American insurance denial tactics.
These aren’t just cuts — they’re acts of violence against disabled people, sanctioned by the state.
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The Department for Work and Pensions is a hostile environment for disabled people
Even before any new cuts take effect, the DWP operates in a culture of cruelty, intimidation, and indifference to harm. Ms Stewart calls it
“the greatest threat to the chronically ill and disabled community… generating a government-induced public health crisis with no-one held to account.”
Sanctions, incorrect decisions, and threats of suspension aren’t occasional errors — they are part of the design, applied in a system where safeguarding is “a patchwork”, and where officials block reform behind closed doors.
Cutting benefits in a system that is already killing people is not policy — it’s persecution.
Even Parliament admits the system is broken
The House of Commons’ Work and Pensions Select Committee, in a 2025 report quoted extensively by Ms Stewart, calls the DWP’s approach to safeguarding:
So why are we still cutting support to the people most at risk?
“We have found that many of the Department’s safeguarding policies… resemble a patchwork of mitigations… rather than a fundamental policy.”
Parliament admits the system is broken. Any new cuts will simply break it further.
We know what needs to change — and we must demand it now
Ms Stewart’s report reinforces exactly what This Site’s campaign against disability cuts has been saying.
Her recommendations — and Parliament’s — give us a clear roadmap:
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❌ Scrap the Work Capability Assessment
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❌ End benefit sanctions for disabled and chronically ill people
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✅ Establish a truly Independent Advisory Panel on DWP-Related Deaths
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✅ Reverse the planned disability benefit cuts
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✅ Demand new DWP leadership committed to safeguarding, not savings
If we don’t act now, the next Errol Graham (remember him?)is already at risk.
What you can do
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Write to your MP: demand they oppose disability benefit cuts and support the Independent Advisory Panel.
-
Share this article and Ms Stewart’s report with the hashtags #DWPcrisis #DWPdeaths #ScrapTheCuts
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The verdict
When a system is this dangerous, the only responsible move is to stop cutting — and start protecting.
Mo Stewart’s work is a call to arms.
The government can no longer pretend these cuts are harmless.
The evidence is in: the DWP kills — and ministers know it.
If they go ahead with these cuts anyway, then they are not incompetent.
They are complicit.
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DWP’s deadly culture proves benefit cuts are a form of state violence
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A chilling new report has blown the lid off the lie that disability benefit cuts are about saving money – even as the government pushes forward with its latest slashing plan.
The Failure of DWP Safeguarding, by Mo Stewart, doesn’t just expose administrative incompetence; it lays bare a decades-long, ideologically driven assault on disabled people — a campaign of cruelty masked as policy reform which has led directly to starvation, suicide, and death.
If ministers want to pretend this is about “fiscal responsibility,” let’s show them what their reforms really mean — and who pays the price.
Six books are gone – 44 to go!
Just click on the image, make your donation
and provide your details!
These cuts aren’t about money. They’re about control.
Stewart traces the true root of benefit cuts, not to the 2008 crash or Covid-era public debt, but to Thatcher-era neoliberalism and its ideological mission to shrink the welfare state and shift responsibility to private insurers.
What we’re seeing today is just the latest chapter in a political project that aims to make social security unworkable — and then blame the claimants.
This isn’t about cost-cutting. It’s about cutting the public safety net — to force the sick and disabled into private hands.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
Benefit cuts kill. The evidence is clear.
Forget claims about “incentivising work” – Ms Stewart documents how sanctions, flawed assessments, and benefit removal have directly led to preventable deaths.
The current government is talking about tightening eligibility again — knowing full well that people have died for less.
Ms Stewart connects these deaths to policies including the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), which she reveals is based on American insurance denial tactics.
These aren’t just cuts — they’re acts of violence against disabled people, sanctioned by the state.
Get my free guide: “10 Political Lies You Were Sold This Decade” — just subscribe to our email list here:
👉 https://voxpoliticalonline.com
The Department for Work and Pensions is a hostile environment for disabled people
Even before any new cuts take effect, the DWP operates in a culture of cruelty, intimidation, and indifference to harm. Ms Stewart calls it
Sanctions, incorrect decisions, and threats of suspension aren’t occasional errors — they are part of the design, applied in a system where safeguarding is “a patchwork”, and where officials block reform behind closed doors.
Cutting benefits in a system that is already killing people is not policy — it’s persecution.
Even Parliament admits the system is broken
The House of Commons’ Work and Pensions Select Committee, in a 2025 report quoted extensively by Ms Stewart, calls the DWP’s approach to safeguarding:
“Deficient”
“Not fit for purpose”
“Lacking coherence and direction”
So why are we still cutting support to the people most at risk?
Parliament admits the system is broken. Any new cuts will simply break it further.
We know what needs to change — and we must demand it now
Ms Stewart’s report reinforces exactly what This Site’s campaign against disability cuts has been saying.
Her recommendations — and Parliament’s — give us a clear roadmap:
❌ Scrap the Work Capability Assessment
❌ End benefit sanctions for disabled and chronically ill people
✅ Establish a truly Independent Advisory Panel on DWP-Related Deaths
✅ Reverse the planned disability benefit cuts
✅ Demand new DWP leadership committed to safeguarding, not savings
If we don’t act now, the next Errol Graham (remember him?)is already at risk.
What you can do
Write to your MP: demand they oppose disability benefit cuts and support the Independent Advisory Panel.
Share this article and Ms Stewart’s report with the hashtags #DWPcrisis #DWPdeaths #ScrapTheCuts
Six books are gone – 44 to go!
Just click on the image, make your donation
and provide your details!
The verdict
When a system is this dangerous, the only responsible move is to stop cutting — and start protecting.
Mo Stewart’s work is a call to arms.
The government can no longer pretend these cuts are harmless.
The evidence is in: the DWP kills — and ministers know it.
If they go ahead with these cuts anyway, then they are not incompetent.
They are complicit.
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The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
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