General election shows each parties’ failure over disabled people
It’s hard to believe that we’re on week 756 of general election season. That’s because we’re not – it’s only week four. But fuck me doesn’t it feel like it?…
It’s hard to believe that we’re on week 756 of general election season. That’s because we’re not – it’s only week four. But fuck me doesn’t it feel like it?…
The Nigel Farage-led Reform Party has unveiled its plans for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and benefits. In short, they won’t work: Reform says there’s £50bn in govt…
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has quietly pressed ahead with forcing ESA benefit claimants onto Universal Credit. Crucially, it is doing so despite promises to claimants that it…
Another day, another general election debate – this time, the ITV Debate on Thursday 13 June. Once more, there was posturing, outrage, but not a lot of anything other than…
Towards the end of May, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) made some pomp and ceremony about catching some honest-to-goodness (though maybe not so much) real-life benefit fraudsters. Now…
Keir Starmer was in Nuneaton on 10 June to campaign for his policies for UK children at the general election. He claimed he would give “every child the best start…
It’s been a busy week for Rishi Sunak, who somehow managed to make himself look even worse and alienate his core voters – that’s right, old bigots who bang on…
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is investigating the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)’s inhumane treatment of disabled people claiming benefits. However, there’s one big, glaring problem with…
A council in Northamptonshire has launched a recovery scheme for people living with long Covid. However, the 12-week long Covid exercise programme is centred round incremental exercise. Of course, this…
Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have admitted that there isn’t time to worry about safeguarding, nor do staff follow the rules around it all the time…
For once, the waste-of-space fraud unit at Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has actually caught some real-life fraudsters leeching British taxpayers out of a tidy £53.9m. So naturally, the…
It’s not been a good first week of general election campaigning for Rishi, has it? Along with an abysmal few days full of embarrassing press moments, he seems to have…