Post by nickd on Jan 22, 2012 17:02:04 GMT 1
Last year, Mylegal predicted government's welfare reforms would end up becoming a car- crash
I was wrong, things are worse - much worse
Welfare reform is escalating into one almighty train crash
No one likes to think of the catastrophic consequences which these type of accidents bring. Accidents of this magnitude bring personal grief and tragedy to those who least expect it. The same can be said of government's welfare reforms.
(1) Twitter is awash with millions of disabled people trying to convince government they have got it wrong on welfare. Check out the Responsibility Report; - thousands of disabled people can't all be wrong.
www.ekklesia.co.uk/files/response_to_proposed_dla_reforms.pdf
(2) Some of those who vote for the welfare reform bill do not understand the complexities over what they are deciding. Read what Baroness Murphy said last week.
mylegal.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=frontline&action=display&thread=556
(3) This will affect millions, check out what representative bodies are saying and Boris Johnson too.
Scope
www.scope.org.uk/node/20369
Macmillan Cancer Support
www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/06/cancer-patients-welfare-work-tests
Citizens Advice
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12495298
Rethink
www.rethink.org/how_we_can_help/our_campaigns/stigma_and_discrimination/welfare_reform_bill.html
Work programme slammed
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/21/david-cameron-work-programme-unemployed.
Benefit cap doubts
www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/12/09/2011/117426/benefits-cap-will-plunge-200000-children-deeper-into-poverty.htm
Even Boris Johnson sees this is not right
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/06/boris-johnson-welfare-reform_n_1189500.html
(4) A Parliamentary select committee called the government's welfare reforms a train crash. Here on Mylegal 51,000 people rubber-necked our version of the 'welfare reform-car crash'.
Train Crash www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/8788299/George-Osborne-is-warned-of-disaster-over-welfare-reforms.html
Car Crash
mylegal.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=frontline&action=display&thread=405
(5) Government is making sure the State can't be held to account. That is why they are taking away proper levels of help so no one stands a chance. With help people stand a 40% to 70% chance of proving the State wrong.
mylegal.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=frontline&thread=558&page=1#1335
(6) David Cameron once strongly supported the case for proper disability benefits and specialist help; - why has he now changed his mind?
mylegal.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=frontline&action=display&thread=542
Stop the pretence, the consequences of bad welfare reform get as real as this - brutal but true.
Tragedy results out of human error and ignoring all the warning signs
Government should put the brakes on and proceed with far more due care and attention - this has become reckless
