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UK petition to hold Work and Pensions Secretary to account

MeSci

ME/CFS since 1995; activity level 6?
Messages
8,231
Location
Cornwall, UK
Petition by
Jayne Linney
Leicester, United Kingdom

We are both disabled as well as being disability activists. We experience pain and suffering ourselves and see it in our friends, families and colleagues. It is one thing to live with the physical challenges of a disability. It is quite another to hear lies and misinformation every day from our own government.

We have watched sick and disabled friends fall foul of the Employment and Support Allowance process and seen people who are genuinely sick and disabled being left with next to nothing to live on. Some are living in fear of the Personal Independence Payments assessments to come. In this climate, which is confusing and intimidating for some of the most vulnerable in our society, those in power should be operating to the highest standards of integrity and accuracy. Recent reports suggest that the Work and Pensions Secretary may have misrepresented Government statistics to make a political point.

We are concerned that this is just the tip of the iceberg. We believe that Iain Duncan Smith has built a wall of misinformation to discredit all claimants of DLA when the fraud rate of DLA is a tiny 0.5%.
Last month nearly 500,000 people signed Dom Aversano’s petition calling on IDS to live on £53 per week. That was an incredible movement of people trying to hold a politician to account for his words. Please sign this petition, and we might actually see that happen.
Jayne Linney, Debbie Sayers

The petition is here:

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...d-ids-to-account-for-his-use-of-statistics-2?
 

SilverbladeTE

Senior Member
Messages
3,043
Location
Somewhere near Glasgow, Scotland
Nice try :)
but only thing that affects such monsters is FORCE, for they have no compassion
Occupy WESTMINSTER itself, nothing else will change their damn minds.
They think they are above the law, above the people.
ugh.
 

alex3619

Senior Member
Messages
13,810
Location
Logan, Queensland, Australia
SilverbladeTE , the sad thing is that they are unaccountable if nobody bothers to bring them to account. There are no established automatic procedures to do this. For them to be accountable to the public, the public has to engage with the issue. If very few are even aware there is an issue, or its clouded by a plethora of negative publicity, then nothing happens until someone makes the situation different.

The people have always had the power to change things. Its just that typically most don't know, don't care, or are not motivated enough.

Over 75000 signatures?
 

Sasha

Fine, thank you
Messages
17,863
Location
UK
Did you see this?

UPDATE: Work and Pensions Committee will question IDS!
96,666 people -- including you -- signed this petition to demand the Work and Pensions Committee to hold Iain Duncan Smith to account for his use of government statistics on welfare. The Committee have announced they would do just that.Iain Duncan Smith will face questions by the Committee over his department's use of statistics in June.
We are really proud that we started this petition. It's often feels like politicians get away with saying whatever they like. By starting this petition we've shown that everyone has the tools to call politicians out if they try to make things up. They can't get away with spinning statistics any longer. Thank you to everyone that signed!
 

SilverbladeTE

Senior Member
Messages
3,043
Location
Somewhere near Glasgow, Scotland
He lied before Parliament as a Minister, he should be expelled from office
most incompetent, useless, arrogant, nasty little sh*t of a Human Being since Nero.
Even the IRA refused to put him on a "hit list" years ago as he was so utterly incompetent :p
 

SilverbladeTE

Senior Member
Messages
3,043
Location
Somewhere near Glasgow, Scotland
*bows with a theatrical flourish and a wink* ;)

Nil Carborundum Illegitimi!

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Bob,
Ian Duncan Smith is about as welcome as a pin in a condom factory :p