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Originally posted on Same Difference:
Senior Tory MP Sarah Wollaston has demanded that a Conservative proposal to cut benefits for obese people, drug addicts and alcoholics is dropped immediately. The chair of the Health Committee has written to David Cameron…

Originally posted on Same Difference:
Mochael Buerk, host of BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze, has made some outrageous comments about obesity. He said the state should let fat people die to save the NHS money and that obesity should…

Originally posted on Nathan Lee Davies:
DISCLAIMER: The following blog is written totally independently from McDonald’s Corporation. Great Tastes of America is a registered trademark and I am not associated with the product line in any way. I am not…

Originally posted on Ipswich Unemployed Action.:
It’s still there, and worse, under Universal Credit. Amongst all the other things about Universal Credit, wait for payments, sanctions, benefit freeze, on-line forms and the hated ‘journal’, life under the rules of Coachy,…

Originally posted on Fear and Loathing in Great Britain:
It is worth bearing in mind that a government is not the country, it is not the people, it is not society and, most especially, it is not community or the…

Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
Credit: PA Images Last month I reported about the issues raised by the Department for Work and Pensions’ ESA65B GP’s letter template, which was only recently placed on the government site, following a series of Parliamentary Written Questions. Campaigners…

Originally posted on Fear and Loathing in Great Britain:
Imagine there’s a pit full of bodies beneath the falling wheelchair-user, totallying?at least?120,000 people [Image: Black Triangle Campaign]. Here’s a great Twitter thread from Rachael Swindon, listing only some of the…

Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
Two disabled people who moved to the UK from other EU countries have won an important Appeal Court case which entitles them to disability-related benefits in the UK from shortly after they arrived rather…