tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post3776239818103000635..comments2023-09-20T13:32:30.933+01:00Comments on Scottish Law Reporter: CONTRACT KILLED: ‘Toxic brand’ ATOS exit work assessment contract early as Condems rush to appoint new benefits assassin to go after the disabled, weak & vulnerableUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-6115682180766259622014-04-15T10:31:44.701+01:002014-04-15T10:31:44.701+01:00The LabConDem Party, bureaucratic murderers, all r...The LabConDem Party, bureaucratic murderers, all responsible for Atos Macht Frei. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-90267993733120481642014-03-30T21:51:48.607+01:002014-03-30T21:51:48.607+01:00'We were wrong': Government admits it shou...'We were wrong': Government admits it should not have axed disability benefits of Asperger's sufferer who starved to death just five months later weighing five-and-a-half stone<br /><br />A controversial decision to cut the benefits of a man who later starved to death was wrong, the Government admitted today. Mark Wood, 44, weighed just five-and-a-half stone when he died after staff from Government contractor Atos assessed him as being fit to work - despite suffering from more than seven disabilities and illnesses, including Asperger's syndrome. His income was cut to just £40 a week in March last year and he was ordered find employment. He died just five months later. Today a spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions confessed the decision was wrong, sparking an internal review. <br />===============================================<br />Evil ConDems DWP and Atos. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-48006751571644672482014-03-29T13:05:27.804+00:002014-03-29T13:05:27.804+00:00Public and Commercial Services union general secre...Public and Commercial Services union general secretary, Mark Serwotka, said the assessments were "designed to harass vulnerable people and take their benefits away rather than provide support and guidance".<br />==================================<br />Yes the man is right, it is not about getting well paid jobs. The ConDems realise they have to cut of the money supply to these people because even those who can work are not going to get jobs they can live on. What we have is inverse Socialism robbing the most vulnerable in society while letting corporations avoid tax, bankers avoid trial never mind jail. It is now a crime in the UK to be ill or unemployed. And working for benefits is a gift to business, which will devalue the wages of those employed by providing cheap labour. Rich when politicians claim expenses for riding pedal bikes. One law for those bastards and the machinery to drive the most vulnerable to suicide. <br /><br />The Bedroom Tax is an attack on affordable housing, another attempt to strip money from the vulnerable. They sold off the utilities too so we are held to ransom, pay up or the lights go out. Thatcher, "there is no such thing as society" stand on your own economic feet or starve. Thatcher would have loved what Atos do, culling the most vulnerable because they are superfluous to the Neoliberals. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-49280764025832289632014-03-29T11:02:41.680+00:002014-03-29T11:02:41.680+00:00They want rid of what they regard as Untermenchen....They want rid of what they regard as Untermenchen. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-12421665287175354392014-03-29T11:01:52.883+00:002014-03-29T11:01:52.883+00:00Cameron, Clegg, Milliband, Smith, Salmond Sturgeon...Cameron, Clegg, Milliband, Smith, Salmond Sturgeon are all the political faces of Atos. The latter two supports Atos, don't assume that Scotland will be better independent with these two in charge. The love Atos and The Law Society, same thing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-22686087637375693422014-03-29T10:45:15.260+00:002014-03-29T10:45:15.260+00:00These politicians and Atos are our enemies. How ca...These politicians and Atos are our enemies. How can someone with epilepsy for example be found fit for work. If they have to go to the Job Centre the issue is will any employer hire them? These politicians are at war with the poor and sick. Their goal is not to reform the welfare system but to demolish it because they will never need it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-53797585722485729582014-03-29T10:25:39.713+00:002014-03-29T10:25:39.713+00:00Atos are not assessors,they decide the outcome of ...Atos are not assessors,they decide the outcome of the tests before the person arrives at their premises.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-32703818262335773242014-03-29T10:23:32.150+00:002014-03-29T10:23:32.150+00:00These politicians are the same as the Nazi's, ...These politicians are the same as the Nazi's, they would bring in the Einzatsgruppen or rebuild the gas factories if they could get away with it. Smith's idea to charge £260.00 for appeals is simply a way to cut benefits permanently. Make no mistake these Neoliberals want rid of everyone thay costs money irrespective of their circumstances. In Germany Himmler believed he was compassionate not evil. He turned an economic problem [feeding the non productive] into a medical problem [better to kill them and put them out of their misery] so euthanasia was to end the suffering of the sick not to save the state money. <br /><br />Death by suicide is not murder but the ConDems would murder if they could. What is happening now is a warning. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-81485378243197039632014-03-29T09:27:02.054+00:002014-03-29T09:27:02.054+00:00Duncan Smith told the Wanstead and Woodford Guardi...Duncan Smith told the Wanstead and Woodford Guardian: "This is a complete stunt which distracts attention from the welfare reforms which are much more important and which I have been working hard to get done. I have been unemployed twice in my life so I have already done this. I know what it is like to live on the breadline."<br />==================================<br />The first time Mr Smith was unemployed he was dating Betsy and the second time he was married to Betsy, so he has never been on the breadline. And he has no moral mission to help the working poor. I ConDemSmith as a liar who makes a million a year from speeches who has never been on the breadline. For him to claim he has is vile and a complete stunt. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-70485634110328523082014-03-28T22:13:23.208+00:002014-03-28T22:13:23.208+00:00The Daily Mail reported Duncan Smith as saying: &q...The Daily Mail reported Duncan Smith as saying: "It was a shock – absolutely awful. I felt pathetic. I remember telling my wife. We looked at each other and she said: 'God, what are we going to do for money?'<br />*********************************<br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9964767/Iain-Duncan-Smith-I-could-live-on-53-per-week.html<br /><br />Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said it would be possible to live on so little, after a benefits claimant told the BBC he gets by on £53 per week after housing costs.<br /><br />The senior Tory was put on the spot as he defended the need for billions of pounds in cuts to the welfare budget because of the country's "economic mess".<br /><br />Labour has branded yesterday the start of "Black April" as a number of cuts and freezes in benefits and tax credits took effect on April 1.<br /><br />However, Mr Duncan Smith criticised those who portray the changes as "attacking" and "slashing" benefits, arguing the Coalition is "reforming" the system to make it "fair".<br /><br />Speaking on BBC Radio Four's Today programme, Mr Duncan Smith said limiting the rise in benefits to one per cent this year is a better deal than many people are getting in countries like Ireland and Portugal. But of course Ideologically Driven Smith is not living it. He uses comparative politics, we British have a better deal than the countries but Smith is NOT living on £53.00 a week is he. He has not ever been on the breadline, for him to claim so is vile and a complete stunt. They will be saving money for Zyklon-B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-47066798102016452612014-03-28T21:37:59.228+00:002014-03-28T21:37:59.228+00:00In the USA if someone has Tuberculosis the state w...In the USA if someone has Tuberculosis the state will treat them. A poor man coughing all over a rich man's family is the reason. But if you lose a finger or break a leg and you are poor tough. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-63667529544919786222014-03-28T21:33:56.795+00:002014-03-28T21:33:56.795+00:00The Daily Mail reported Duncan Smith as saying: &q...The Daily Mail reported Duncan Smith as saying: "It was a shock – absolutely awful. I felt pathetic. I remember telling my wife. We looked at each other and she said: 'God, what are we going to do for money?'"<br />+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br />People on zero hour contracts have the same concerns, but IDS thinks F**k them. If we could all be entrepreneurs Mr Smith who would work to generate the wealth. You are an odious man. Thatcher urged people to "glory in inequality". We are heading for workhouse Britain. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-69067168931494551242014-03-28T21:25:01.445+00:002014-03-28T21:25:01.445+00:00My Atos assessor was covered in tattoos, a nurse a...My Atos assessor was covered in tattoos, a nurse and I am fortunate in that I am getting better so I told her what she wanted to hear. Utter scum not for what happened to me, I am fine it is the people with serious illness they are destroying. <br /><br />They no longer recognize disability, you cannot claim disability benefit any more. Only Employment Support Allowance. Atos staff if you get cancer the next ConDem assassins will reward you. In many cases what goes around comes around. You will reap your nemesis too politicians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-41921707800676141352014-03-28T21:17:19.030+00:002014-03-28T21:17:19.030+00:00A friend of Duncan Smith said: "Iain is the l...A friend of Duncan Smith said: "Iain is the last person to be flippant about this. He does not take lightly living on £53 a week. He was asked a specific question and he said yes he would live on £53 if he had to.<br /><br />"Iain is passionate about [his welfare reforms]. He came back on to the frontbench to do this. This is a man who visited Easterhouse [estate outside Glasgow] and saw poverty first hand and felt so compelled to do something about it that he set up the Centre for Social Justice."<br />==================================<br />Smith does not hate the working poor, he hates the unemployed and sick poor. His moral mission is to get the unemployed and and sick poor off benefits and into zero hour contract jobs. When do we hear him talking about the working poor? Never. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-77063148538094172812014-03-28T21:13:33.473+00:002014-03-28T21:13:33.473+00:00Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent
The G...Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent<br />The Guardian, Tuesday 2 April 2013 19.06 BST <br /><br />Iain Duncan Smith calls petition for him to live on £53 a week a stunt<br />Work and pensions secretary insists he has twice lived on breadline after online petition secures nearly 300,000 signatures.<br /><br />Iain Duncan Smith has spoken of how he signed on the dole in 1981 at the height of the recession. He says he faced another period of unemployment in the late 1980s. <br /><br />Iain Duncan Smith has dismissed an online petition calling on him to live on £53 a week on the grounds that he has experienced life on the breadline during two periods of unemployment.<br /><br />As the petition hosted at www.change.org secured nearly 300,000 signatures, the work and pensions secretary told his local newspaper that it was a distraction because he had already lived on the equivalent of low benefits.<br /><br />The petition says: "This petition calls for Iain Duncan Smith, the current Work and Pensions Secretary, to prove his claim of being able to live on £7.57 a day, or £53 a week."<br /><br />Duncan Smith told the Wanstead and Woodford Guardian: "This is a complete stunt which distracts attention from the welfare reforms which are much more important and which I have been working hard to get done. I have been unemployed twice in my life so I have already done this. I know what it is like to live on the breadline."<br /><br />Duncan Smith came under pressure after he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Monday that he could live on £53 after he was asked about a market trader, David Bennett, who claimed that he had to live on that amount after his housing benefit was cut. "If I had to, I would," Duncan Smith replied.<br /><br />He has spoken of how he signed on the dole after leaving the Scots Guards in 1981 at the height of the recession. He experienced another period of unemployment in the late 1980s when he lost his job as marketing director of the property firm Bellwinch.<br /><br />The Daily Mail reported Duncan Smith as saying: "It was a shock – absolutely awful. I felt pathetic. I remember telling my wife. We looked at each other and she said: 'God, what are we going to do for money?'"<br /><br />Duncan Smith's wife, Betsy, is the daughter of the 5th Baron Cottesloe who served as lord-lieutenant of Buckinghamshire in the 1980s and 1990s. Duncan Smith and his wife, who sent their children to Eton, moved into Lord Cottesloe's 17th-century Old House in the village of Swanbourne in Buckinghamshire in 2002. His in-laws moved into smaller accommodation to make way for the Duncan Smiths and their four children.<br /><br />Smith claimed he was on the breadline, a lie just like his CV. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-84244554175185211262014-03-28T21:06:29.462+00:002014-03-28T21:06:29.462+00:00http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/political-n...http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/political-news/sturgeon-in-disability-row-over-2014-games.19901247<br /><br />Sunday 13 January 2013<br /><br />DEPUTY First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is being targeted by protesters who want the controversial "fit-for-work" benefits test company Atos dropped as a sponsor of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.<br /><br />Around 15 demonstrators carrying "Atos Kills" posters invaded a constituency surgery in Sturgeon's Glasgow Southside seat on Friday to demand an end to the deal.<br /><br />The peaceful protest ended after police were called to the Larkfield Centre in Govanhill but there were no arrests.<br />==================================<br />I detest the ConDems and Sturgeon, Salmond and MacAskill. These people no matter what bullshit they speak are not friends of Scotland. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-1677211768776837042014-03-28T21:02:55.004+00:002014-03-28T21:02:55.004+00:00http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/alex-sa...http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/alex-salmond-wants-to-give-atos-1322066<br /><br />ALEX SALMOND has been slammed for wanting to give £3million of taxpayers’ money to the controversial firm behind “fit for work” tests on the disabled.<br /><br />French firm Atos’ offices in Moray are on a list of “shovel ready projects” he wants handed public cash.<br /><br />Atos have been at the centre of protests over their work capability assessments, which campaigners claim are “damaging and distressing”.<br /><br />More than 20 SNP MSPs have signed a Holyrood motion expressing concern about the firm.<br /><br />But the Atos offices in Forres – where they develop and test IT – are still on the SNP Government’s list of construction projects they want public investment for to boost the economy.<br /><br />Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie yesterday challenged the First Minister to “clear up” the SNP’s position on Atos.<br /><br />He said: “The SNP have dug themselves into a hole with their hypocritical position.<br /><br />“The Government, with one face, condemn the company for their record on welfare reform but, with the other face, are more than happy to pay £3million towards the new Atos building in Forres.”<br /><br />Rutherglen and Hamilton West Labour MP Tom Greatrex said the move was a “slap in the face” to disabled people who had suffered because of Atos assessments.<br /><br />A spokeswoman for Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pointed out that the Atos project in Moray was designed to retrain staff following the closure of RAF Kinloss.<br /><br />She said: “This attack is backfiring badly on Willie Rennie. It is his party’s coalition with the Tories that is behind the work capability assessment and the closure of RAF Kinloss.”<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-4860735009692474302014-03-28T20:59:49.538+00:002014-03-28T20:59:49.538+00:00Chemo patient's despair at ruling : Maggie Mac...Chemo patient's despair at ruling : Maggie Mackay was assessed by Atos as "fit to work" when she was still recovering from chemotherapy. The 51-year-old, from Glengarnock, Ayrshire, was a furniture restorer before breast cancer stopped her in her tracks. <br />===================================<br />Miss MacKay Atos are the face of Ian Duncan Smith and this vile labeling of people as shirkers and scroungers. Their aim it to turn the employed against the unemployed and sick. A young man who was blind, a man with no arm, a woman in a coma, are just a few who were told to find work. We don't just ConDemAtos this is Thatchers end goal, having people working for peanuts of zero hour contracts to enrich the elite as these politicians and their financiers see themselves. I see no difference between Salmond, Clegg, Cameron, Milliband and Farage. They all share the same vision. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-5975374532620932742014-03-28T20:49:51.753+00:002014-03-28T20:49:51.753+00:00"There can be no liberty unless there is econ..."There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."<br />Margaret Thatcher<br />===================================<br />Thatcher clearly meant by economic liberty her taxes won't pay survival money for the poor sick etc. The poor, mentally ill, terminally ill hammered by a extremist government. Healthy people without insight forget that they could be the next victims of these extremists just have a stroke or any other serious illness. People employed on the work programme are making life harder for their children when they grow up. The political theorist Hannah Arendt who escaped the Nazi's and was Jewish warned in the Origins of Totalitarianism that one day some government will want to kill off those they regard as useless feeders. I am not saying the ConDems will, that is madness, but what would they do if they had a free hand? <br /><br />I have two degrees, no big deal there, and I am a tradesman. If I struggle to get a job what chance do many others have? <br /><br />Atos are the face of the assassins, which company will want this poison chalice? We can ConDemAtos and rightly so but Clegg and Cameron are the directors they support the contract killers. The system need reforming but this is sick and evil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855066.post-7117460103125238102014-03-28T20:48:54.966+00:002014-03-28T20:48:54.966+00:00Mr Penning also claimed Atos would not receive &qu...Mr Penning also claimed Atos would not receive "a single penny of compensation".<br /><br />What nonsense is this about compensation - when do we get to hear about fines for the numerous appeals which have been successful and ATOS's conspicuos failures to assess such claimants properly?<br /><br />Moreover, what sort of improvement can we expect if ATOS "will be transferring our infrastructure and employees to ensure consistency of service to those going through the process."<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com