The Canary: Esther McVey and her department are now totally out of control

Indigophoton

Indigophoton

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Another article by Steve Topple using ME and PACE as illustrative of current government policy,
Last year, the UN accused the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and successive governments of creating a “human catastrophe” for disabled people in the UK. Since then, the situation has seemingly got worse. The department is now out of control. But is the misery and torture the DWP inflicts on people systematic and by design?

The DWP: in bed with the NHS
As I wrote on 14 June, the NHS and the DWP have been co-working since 2006 on a programme within the health service to get people living with mental health issues back to work. Not satisfied with essentially redefining over 380,000 people’s impairments since 2013 to deny them benefits (a rot which started under New Labour), and forcingnearly two million claimants back to work, the DWP is now invading the holy space of the patient / medical professional relationship. But when you read between the lines, it’s clear why it’s doing this.
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https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/20...er-department-are-now-totally-out-of-control/
 
Arnie Pye said:
I thought McVey resigned yesterday because this UN report about poverty in Britain was out today :
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In my opinion, sheer coincidence. I don't think they really care what the UN thinks of them.

Arnie Pye said:
I had to use the BBC search function to find the BBC link. It wasn't displayed anywhere I could find it. The press conference was held at noon today, so it isn't old news.
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It appeared for a while as one of the smaller stories on the front page of the BBC News website, it's now been shifted by the, obviously, highly important (to us Brits) stories about the Californian wildfires, a flooded village being visible again due to low water levels and the gay marriage of a NFL player.
 
@Sly Saint I suspect the approach will be multi-pronged and could be more along the lines of making euthanasia legal, reducing pensions further so that old people who are also poor will die of starvation out of sight of the rest of the population, reducing provision for the sick and disabled even further so they die of starvation too. Oh, and of course, we mustn't forget the reduction in conditions which are treated by the NHS so that more and more people are forced to pay privately. And if you don't have the money, well, that's just tough luck, isn't it. And as you say, deportations could also be a good move, although I suspect it would be for anyone whose grandparents weren't born in the UK.
 
Andy said:
In my opinion, sheer coincidence. I don't think they really care what the UN thinks of them.


It appeared for a while as one of the smaller stories on the front page of the BBC News website, it's now been shifted by the, obviously, highly important (to us Brits) stories about the Californian wildfires, a flooded village being visible again due to low water levels and the gay marriage of a NFL player.
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It was finally on the BBC 10pm news but no mentions during the day.
 
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