— Victoria Derbyshire (@vicderbyshire) March 1, 2021
Four those who can’t read images well, the question is: “Do you agree or disagree that you would be happy to have a physical relationship with a disabled person?”
The implication is that people with disabilities are sub-human and should not enjoy the same relationships as the rest of us – and that shows despicable prejudice by the Tory government.
As I say, my own partner has a disability so I know this subject very well.
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We’ve reached a point, now, where I can no longer talk to Mrs Mike about these stories because they send her into paroxysms of rage – and fear.
This particular news item is terrifying on two levels – firstly, that Covid-19 is having such a terrible effect on people with disabilities.
Don’t forget that, even if a person survives the virus, there may be knock-on effects that could seriously harm the quality of the rest of their lives: muscle damage, lung damage, neurological harm. If somebody already has a disability, this could be catastrophic.
And you know the Conservative-run Department for Work and Pensions wouldn’t give a damn.
Secondly, there’s the fact that the Scottish health authorities aren’t even bothering to research the effect of the virus on disabled people in that country.
To This Writer, the omission is as bad as that of the DWP itself when it spent years trying to hide the number of people who had died after being denied sickness benefits.
I eventually had to force the government to divulge those figures. And have there been any regular updates since then?
We all know the answer to that, I think.
Let us hope the Scottish authorities get their act together, compile those figures and then take action to help people with disabilities survive the virus.
Otherwise it will make the SNP’s claims to be more caring for people with illnesses and disabilities than Westminster look like a very bad joke.
Scotland has no idea how many disabled people are dying from coronavirus.
Despite public health chiefs in England and Wales using census data to check how hard the pandemic is hitting those with disabilities, Scotland is still in the dark.
Shock figures show that in England and Wales, an estimated 60 per cent of those who have died of Covid-19 considered themselves disabled in the 2011 census. Disabled men under 65 are 6.5 times more likely to die of Covid, while disabled women are more than 10 times more likely.
A separate report from Public Health England also found those with learning disabilities are six times more likely to die from Covid-19 than the general population.
Despite the alarming reality elsewhere in the UK, Freedom of Information requests have revealed that neither Public Health Scotland nor National Records of Scotland have extracted matching data.
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Mad McVey: she looks like a pop-eyed loon in this image, and she’s been behaving like one in her attack on a beloved children’s charity.
Remember Esther McVile McVey? She was the poster girl for Tory bigotry before Priti Patel and she is still carrying out her vile work.
McVey has returned to headline news with an attack on Barnardo’s – one that could harm the organisation’s position as a charity.
She has said that a blog post by Barnardo’s, which aims to offer a guide to parents on how to talk to their children about racial inequality and white privilege in the UK, is “political”.
Charities are forbidden to campaign on political issues and could lose their status if found to be doing so.
But is it political campaigning when an organisation raises awareness of racism and the fact – fact – that in the UK white people have advantages that other ethnic groups don’t have?
Or is McVile distorting the facts in order to perpetuate the very racism the charity is highlighting?
In an opinion piece unwisely published by the Telegraph, she claimed that Barnardo’s could be “hijacked by people who want to use it as a platform for their political views”.
She said it would jeopardise Barnardo’s fundraising efforts it if it becomes “yet another charity more obsessed with political correctness and virtue signalling than actually helping people in need”.
That is a threat.
And what did Barnardos say, to provoke it?
The blog post states: “For the one in five Barnardo’s service users who are black, Asian or minority ethnic, the colour of their skin is an additional factor that negatively affects them and their families in a multitude of well documented ways.”
The article referenced well evidenced examples of white privilege, including higher employment rates, lower rates of prosecution and sentencing and a longer life expectancy for white people, with black African women having a mortality rate four times higher than white women in the UK.
The blog post states that being white doesn’t mean life is not hard, but it means it is not made harder because of your race.
“Helping children and those who nurture them, to understand what white privilege really means will not only prevent future generations from growing up to ignore race as an issue – but to be actively anti-racist through their actions.”
That all seems perfectly reasonable to This Writer.
But McVile went off the deep end:
McVey said while she will always be “grateful” to Barnardo’s, she was “deeply troubled” by its decision to “divert its attention to political activism”.
She continued: “This is such a misguided and misjudged move away from what the charity is about and what it ought to be doing.
“Barnardo’s is too important a charity to be hijacked by people who want to use it as a platform for their political views.”
On Friday, a group of 12 Conservative MPs reportedly wrote a letter to Barnardo’s chief executive, Javed Khan, to express their “concern and disappointment” over the post.
According to The Guardian, the MPs described the post as “ideological dogma” and “divisive militancy”. They also asked for it to be investigated by the Charity Commission.
So there it is – a threat against Barnardo’s charity status, simply because the charity spoke up about racial inequality.
Perhaps the 12 Tory MPs should be reported to the Equality and Human Rights Commission? Ah, but the EHRC has already refused to investigate Tory racism, hasn’t it? Isn’t that an example of white privilege, right there?
It seems the UK’s governing party is employing that classic DARVO gaslighting technique – deny, attack, reverse victim and oppressor. By claiming Barnardo’s has become political, the Tories are hiding their own racism.
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The latest victims of Keir Starmer’s politically-motivated purge of Labour Party members – using anti-Semitism as the excuse – are left-wing Jews.
It is perfectly possible for Jewish people to be anti-Semitic, of course.
This Site took Starmer to task for taking donations from one such anti-Semite only two days ago, at the time of writing.
The fact that he takes cash from an anti-Semite (and has apparently ignored demands for him to hand back the money), while victimising innocent people merely highlights the hypocrisy at the heart of his New Pale Blue Labour.
This is not the first time this acclaimed mathematician and philosopher has had his Labour membership suspended. There was no substance to those accusations either.
The other high-profile Jewish suspension was that of Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi – for being “the wrong kind of Jew”, as this video makes clear:
BREAKING: Jewish Socialist Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi has been suspended from the Labour Party pic.twitter.com/7jxlhPIgTC
It wouldn’t surprise me if the video above is the reason for her suspension, even though there is no offensive material in it (unless you’re one of Labour’s current hard-right leadership).
Commentators have drawn the obvious conclusion – that Starmer’s Labour Party is inherently, institutionally anti-Semitic:
The current iteration of the Labour Party is declaring itself not only overtly hostile to leftists but also any Jews who demand the right to think for themselves. If systemic purges of Jews from the Party isn’t anti-Semitism, I do not know what is: https://t.co/1PkkqNiAEj
Maybe I am getting this wrong but labelling jewish people who back Corbyn as 'self-hating jews' and putting them on a list of 'bad Jews' is pretty offensive.
It really has come to something when people supposedly fighting anti-semitism are cheering the suspension of a Jewish socialist who supports Mr Corbyn. Makes you think, eh?! Some nasty people about imo.
2/2 in the Tory Party! Her honesty has been rewarded with a kick in the teeth! Cannot believe what Labour has become! WHEN WE NEEDED YOU MOST, you were nowhere to be seen! Brexit in less than a month & you're too busy with this????
But then, what can you expect from a party that takes huge amounts of money in donations from an anti-Semite?
Meanwhile – and connected: Twitter’s harassment of left-wing political voices continues. After Kerry-Anne Mendoza’s accounts were restored to her, she found herself forced to say this:
And the latest target of the vexatious campaign to suspend left-wing @Twitter accounts is @Cornish_Damo
Someone needs to take action on this. It’s a clear abuse of the reporting process designed to suppress free speech of anti-racists, by racists. It’s targeted harassment.
— Kerry-Anne Mendoza 🏳️🌈🏴 (@TheMendozaWoman) December 3, 2020
It didn’t last long but by now we’re getting used to the tactic and learning how to fight it:
Complain to Twitter UK CEO @Cornish_Damo it is a breach of s1 Protection from Harassment Act and Twitter are complicit in that harrasment by failing to investigate. Make a SAR to Twitter too. pic.twitter.com/OIORorPCBO
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The Royal Courts of Justice in London: if Keir Starmer insists on discriminating against Jeremy Corbyn, this is where they should thrash out the matter.
It seems This Writer published too soon when I said Jeremy Corbyn had been readmitted to the Labour Party but Keir Starmer would still face accusations of corruption.
Starmer has found a direct way to show us that he is corrupt instead.
After a panel of Labour NEC members – these are people from the committee that runs the party; its most powerful authority – voted* to restore Jeremy Corbyn to full Labour Party membership, Starmer has said he will not allow Corbyn back into the Parliamentary Labour Party.
To the best of This Writer’s knowledge, there is no precedent for such behaviour. If you’re a Labour Party member who has been elected to Parliament, you sit as a Labour MP. Starmer’s announcement that he is withholding the party whip from Corbyn is a nonsense; an insult.
It is another attempt to humiliate Corbyn.
Will it work? Fat chance!
But Corbyn should respond, and I said as much on Twitter:
.@Keir_Starmer – let's remind ourselves – is as bent as a nine-bob note: after @jeremycorbyn was reinstated by @UKLabour 's NEC, he blocked him from the PLP in a blatant example of political interference & rejection of EHRC recommendations he said he'd adopt. #PMQs#PoliticsLive
.@jeremycorbyn You don't have to put up with the treatment @Keir_Starmer is giving you. You've been tolerant. You've tried to build amity. He has thrown it back in your face. TAKE THIS TO COURT. Enough was enough long ago. This won't stop until you stop it. #Corbyn#PoliticsLive
I went on to discuss Starmer’s pose that he was standing up for the UK’s Jewish people who have been “hurt deeply”(or some such series of words) by the controversy in the Labour Party.
It is a pose, by the way. If certain people in the party – including, regrettably, Starmer himself – had not stirred this particular teacup into such a storm, it might not have caused quite the hurt, quite as deeply, as Starmer then found himself able to say. So:
I was going to say that only some members of the Jewish community were victims of @Keir_Starmer 's mishandling of the @jeremycorbyn situation that Starmer himself created – but that's wrong. ALL Jews are victims because they are being misrepresented to the public. #PoliticsLive
.@jeremycorbyn The longer you put up with @Keir_Starmer 's mistreatment of you and corruption of @UKLabour, the more harm happens to other people who are suffering discrimination. Take action – if not for your own sake, for theirs. #Corbynhttps://t.co/fDBW4veS9r
More directly victimised than the Jewish community, by @Keir_Starmer 's mishandling of the @jeremycorbyn controversy, are all those who – like Corbyn – have suffered false accusation and discrimination from the Labour machine – 60% of those accused. #PoliticsLive
Sadly, I think my last statement on the matter (for the day, at least) is most likely to prove accurate:
Sadly, I doubt @jeremycorbyn will see any of my tweets begging him to go to the courts to stop @Keir_Starmer discriminating against him and all the other @UKLabour members who don't toe his line. He's probably receiving a vast amount of Twitter traffic right now. #Corbyn
Perhaps supporters of Mr Corbyn would consider passing on the message to him, if you agree with it?
Perhaps, if any of his personal friends reads this, they might pass it on?
The facts are clear now: this is not going to go away.
The Starmers of this world are not going to stop persecuting the Corbyns until they are made to.
And Corbyn is perfectly capable of making them stop. It is long past time he did.
*Unanimously, we are led to believe.
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Out in the dark: Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party membership has been suspended – illegally and undemocratically. Labour members are quitting in their thousands.
It doesn’t matter which way you cut it, Keir Starmer has sabotaged the Labour Party.
Overreacting after Jeremy Corbyn responded to the EHRC report on allegations of “institutional anti-Semitism” in the party, he has acted undemocratically and illegally – and seriously jeopardised Labour’s electability.
The report itself was entirely reasonable. It didn’t find the “institutional anti-Semitism” that was claimed, said it could only show two occasions when “agents” for whom the party was responsible displayed anti-Semitism, 23 cases when the leader’s office showed “political interference” in anti-Semitism complaints – often prejudiced against the accused, rather than against Jews, and 42 cases when the complaints process discriminated against the accused, rather than against Jews (out of 70 in both sets of cases).
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader at the time, responded by saying the report’s recommendations should be implemented immediately. He would; he had been trying to improve the system since he first became aware that it was a shambles, back in 2016 – with some success from 2018 when he was able to replace an unsympathetic general secretary with one who supported his leadership.
He also said the scale of the problem was dramatically overstated for political reasons by opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.
And Keir Starmer, the current party leader, flipped his lid.
In his own response he said anybody who claimed complaints of anti-Semitism against Labour were “exaggerated” has “no place in the party”. Shortly afterwards, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party membership was suspended.
Starmer backed away from this act, leaving his new general secretary, David Evans, to justify it.
He could not. He provided no evidence that Corbyn had broken any Labour Party rules and could not show that Corbyn had said anything that was not – in fact – accurate.
The EHRC report corroborates Corbyn’s claims – and also shows that his right to make them is enshrined in law – in his human right to free speech.
And the decision is hypocritical. The report condemned political intervention in complaint cases – even to speed them up – but the decision to suspend Corbyn’s membership is a clear intervention by the office of the Leader Of The Opposition (LOTO).
I noted that Starmer has today tried to justify Corbyn’s suspension, telling the BBC’s Today programme ,”I made it clear the Labour Party I lead will not tolerate anti-Semitism, neither will it tolerate the argument that denies or minimises anti-Semitism in the Labour Party on the basis that it’s exaggerated or a factional row.”
This is only going to make it worse because it is a lie. Corbyn didn’t deny or minimise anti-Semitism on that basis. His claim that is was exaggerated is true, as shown by the EHRC report. And he didn’t say it was a factional row – just that “opponents” used to to cause problems – and again this is accurate.
I am not the only person clever enough to see this.
But you are unlikely to hear much in complaint from Labour Party members – because the party leadership has gagged them. Communications from Labour HQ have made it clear that anybody taking to the social media – or any other media – to criticise Starmer’s behaviour will face punishment themselves.
Starmer’s people even set up a dedicated fast-track complaints system to ensure that his supporters could report offenders quickly – again in contradiction of the EHRC report’s findings, which demanded a single, simple process for everyone.
I thought he said he accepted the report in its entirety and would implement its recommendations fully? It seems this was a lie.
The result? Labour Party members up and down the country have been cancelling their Direct Debits and quitting – despite the efforts of many more level heads to encourage them to stay and exert influence within the organisation, for sanity.
My own view was that, as Corbyn has not been expelled yet, and has himself appealed for people to sit tight until the situation can be resolved “amicably”, people who still enjoy the privilege of party membership – rather than having been thrown out under false pretences like myself – should stay and fight his corner for him.
It seems likely that Starmer will expel him eventually. Any other choice now will make him look weak.
But this will split the Labour Party.
People are leaving because Starmer has shown he is unfit to lead the party, let alone the country.
His decision to suspend Corbyn was undemocratic and illegal. He overrode party rules and the rule of law to do it. And he is a lawyer, remember.
How can any responsible voter allow such a man a chance to run a government and disregard the law there as well?
I can see us entering a period when Labour will be hindered either by a plethora of left-wing candidates standing in elections against it – splitting the Left vote and allowing the Conservatives in to more constituencies, or by a new left-wing party standing against it.
The latter would be This Writer’s preferred choice as it may drag Labour back towards its proper place in politics – in the same way that the existence of UKIP pulled the Conservative Party towards fascism and illegality.
Whatever the future holds, it seems clear that Starmer has sabotaged Labour’s electoral chances for the next few years, no matter what.
Was this what he wanted?
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Cartoonist Andrzej Krauze’s view of government sickness and disability assessments, from years ago. Now it seems we can apply it to Covid-19 test centres, which are inaccessible to many people with disabilities.
Remember when This Site was publishing articles showing how people with disabilities were being refused benefits because their assessments were in inaccessible places so if they made it to the test, they were seen not to have disabilities, and if they didn’t, then their application was binned because they couldn’t be bothered to attend?
Well, now it seems the government is using the same wheeze at Covid-19 test centres:
Still seeing disabled people saying they've tried to use #Coronavirus test centres and found them completely inaccessible and staff completely untrained on how to deal with disabled people. Seems like an utter failure by #TestAndTrace to produce an accessible service
Back in the day, Tony Blair (I think) passed a law called the Disability Discrimination Act, in which it became illegal for buildings that were supposed to be publicly-accessible not to have facilities for people with disabilities.
What happened to that? Is it still on the statute book? If so, why the hell isn’t it being enforced?
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The Conservative government has changed its assessment process for disability benefits to make it harder for people to get a correct decision on their claim – it seems.
The Tory miniser for disabled people, Justin Tomlinson, revealed details of the secret change in a letter to the Commons Work and Pensions committee, after its chair, Stephen Timms, raised the issue on behalf of claimants.
It has been usual practice for claimants to request and receive a copy of their assessment report within days of the report being submitted to the DWP.
They have been able to request a copy of their report, check it thoroughly, raise any issues with the assessment providers and receive responses before they have received the decision.
In a fair, sane system, this is appropriate. So of course the Tories have changed it.
In a letter dated September 16, Tomlinson MP wrote:
“The department does not share assessment provider reports with claimants before they have been considered by a DWP Case Manager.”
This is because:
“Providing the report to claimants immediately after the assessment and before the Case Manager has made their decision could therefore give a false impression on the outcome of their claim.”
This will make it much harder for claimants to demand the mandatory review that the Tories insist they have to endure before appealing against a wrong decision.
It can take up to 15 weeks for claimants to receive the decision. Once they do, and if they disagree with it, they will have about three weeks – or less – to make a request for a mandatory review.
The 30+ page assessment report is a key part of the process and it will take about 10 days from requesting a copy to receiving it.
This leaves very little time for them to see the recommendations made, to analyse the report, to check it for accuracy, to see if there are any errors, and to prepare and send a request for MR if necessary.
Many people with disabilities are very weak, due to their condition, and do not have the strength of will needed to push through a dispute with the government that has a short time limit.
You can be sure the Tories had this in mind when they secretly made this cruel change.
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Dawn Butler: racists have used the tragic death of a police officer to attack this London MP, who also happens to be a black woman. They don’t care about the man who died – he was just a handy hook on which they could hang their bile.
This is a new depth of depravity.
After Brent MP Dawn Butler tweeted her condolences about the police officer who was shot dead at Croydon Custody Centre, the racists have turned out in their thousands to blame her for it.
Their reason is the fact that she complained about being in a car subjected to stop-and-search by (other) officers from the same force, for “driving around while black”.
These are completely separate incidents.
So Ms Butler’s highly-vocal critics are wrong to suggest that her tweet is hypocritical. Complaining about an incident of apparent racial profiling is not the same as wishing death upon any police officer.
Nor is her complaint about a stop-and-search procedure that had no justification any reason to suggest that she had somehow prevented police from finding the weapon that was used in the Croydon attack.
If you’re unaware of the facts of the case, here they are:
A long-serving police officer has been shot dead at Croydon Custody Centre in south London.
The male sergeant was shot in the chest before the suspect turned the firearm on himself, sources have told the BBC.
The man had been brought to the custody suite in a police vehicle and the shooting happened during questioning about Covid-19, the BBC was told.
It was believed the suspect – who is critically ill in hospital – was known to counter-terrorism police.
Ms Butler had clashed with other police officers in a very widely-reported incident which she recorded, using her mobile phone.
But it is insanity to suggest that she held the actions of those officers against the entire force – or that, even if she had, she would want any police officers to die. That is what has been implied today.
Ms Butler tweeted the following:
This is so shocking and very very sad news. My heartfelt condolences go out to the officer and their family and friends and to all the officers at the station who I hope are getting the support they need at this Traumatic time.
Notice the number of flags in the profile pictures? What does that suggest to you? To me it suggests racism – English nationalism, “Britain for the British” and all the usual bilge.
Many of the attacks focused on the Chris Phillips quote about stop-and-search, so let’s put an answer to them straight away:
You are confusing Stop & Search, which is controversial (for good reason) with searching a detainee after they have been arrested & brought to a custody centre, which is standard & uncontroversial – but appears not to have been done on this occasion.
— Sarah Bluecat #KeepLeft#IsMyToneNegative? (@bluecatsarah) September 25, 2020
Notable among the critics was that humdrum right-wing rabble-rumbler Julia Hartley Doodah, who added this to the mix:
Fortunately, it seems there are still more decent people in the UK than loudmouthed racist imbeciles. Let’s give reason some space now:
As expected, a message of condolence from Dawn Butler has brought the knuckledragging racists crawling out from under their rocks, as evidenced by many of the replies below
Just goes to show what a shithole this country is now
A police officer lost his life today, because an officer failed to do their job, and rather than expressing their condolences to the family all the racists choose to attack Dawn Butler
Oh, and perhaps someone who has served as a police officer should have a say:
I’m an ex copper and I am sad about the death of this police officer. I also can recognise that the police are institutionally racist they are two different things, Dawn Butler is not being hypocritical
No, she wasn’t. Her behaviour was entirely proper. Those who attacked her are the shame of the nation.
But I do think some politicians should take blame for what has happened here: Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage. David Cameron. Anybody who used the EU referendum campaign to stir up jingoistic, fake patriotism that was really racism in disguise. Priti Patel, for insisting on deporting refugees. Theresa May, for insisting on deporting UK citizens. Successive Tory governments that encouraged the claim that foreigners were coming to the UK and taking citizens’ jobs and/or claiming state benefits. The list goes on and on.
Racism is on the rise because right-wing politicians thought it would make them popular.
But who’s getting the blame for it in this story?
The black person.
And who’s being ignored in the rush to lay that blame?
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Over it goes: the toppling of the Colston statue, back in June. By a curious coincidence, nobod involved in pulling it down could be seen in this image.
People who toppled – and then sank – a statue glorifying slavery during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the summer are to be offered a bizarre punishment.
The five, who pulled down the statue of slaver Edward Colston in Bristol, will have to pay a fine that would go to a charity supporting people from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in Bristol – which is more than Colston ever did.
They will also have to complete a questionnaire by Bristol City Council’s history commission, explaining their reasons for attacking an exploiter who considered black and minority ethnic people to be property during a week of protests against their mistreatment.
That’s going to be an uncomfortable read for these history commissioners.
This Writer would be unsurprised if every answer contained harsh criticism of them for even asking such a stupid question.
Worse still is the fact that four more people – three men and a woman – may face criminal charges over the incident:
Avon and Somerset police said its investigation had been completed.
It said: “Following a review of the evidence, detectives will now approach the Crown Prosecution Service for a charging decision against four people – three men, aged 32, 25 and 21, and a 29-year-old woman.”
Meanwhile, the Home Office is reportedly resuming deportation of asylum-seekers after it was prevented from sending a flight to Spain a few weeks ago.
Lawyers for the deportees demonstrated that the government had rushed the flight in order to deny the refugees their right to appeal.
It’s a direct correlation with the attitude of slavers like Colston, who also refused to allow foreign people any rights.
So we have to ask ourselves:
Who should really be explaining their actions – the protesters who tore down a statue of a historic slaver, or Priti Patel, the home secretary who treats people like slaves today?
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