This is an urgent call for ACTION in solidarity from the Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC).
From tomorrow until Wednesday ATOS Origin ‘Healthcare’ Ltd. – the notorious organisation that is involved in disability denial as sub-contractors of the unjust “Work Capability Assessment” on behalf of the DWP will be having a stall at the Royal College of Nursing exhibition in Liverpool.
ATOS are about to re-assess 1.25 million sick and disabled citizens and this will result in hundreds of thousands of people being denied their incapacity benefits. 40% of appeals to Tribunal are accepted without representation, 70% among those who are represented.
We disabled people of Britain are staring into a precipice. We are about to fall into it. Many will not live to come through the other side of it as they will die of neglect and suicide. THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
The grassroots disabled people’s protest movement in Liverpool has yet to take shape. For this reason we are appealing to you, and through you UK UNCUT Liverpool (following your magnificent direct action against BBC Merseyside) and all other people of goodwill who are active on Merseyside, to take direct action against these savages who are perpetrators of the most despicable and greatest injustices in Britain today.
Please contact us immediately for any further details and to let us know if you will help:
blacktrianglecampaign@hotmail.com
John McArdle Tel. 0777 831 6875
—-Sasha Callaghan
I have an open and shut case against atos for fraud and also causation of tort of negligence ( avoidable harm)
I have contacted my M.P. and the shadow health secretary andy burnham , My appeal is at Liverpool Tribunals office
On monday Morning At 10.45 am . I hope you dont mind that i am unknown to you but I am a disabled man with invisible illnesses and have been found fit for work by deception .
It has taken me seven years to put this together and if i win on monday ,
I will tell you all my secrets that have helped me into this position and how you too
can get your benefits money back….
Any support on monday would be hugely appreciated but please I am a peaceful man and would hate anybody to get injured on
my behalf if the protest turned sour , please like me keep your dignity , I think we have them , please come and join me
Thanks Baz
Good luck barry i will be sat in a medical at that time with my husband who is sycotic and im dreading him loosing is temper i know he will ..good luck x
its dreadful my partner has cerebal palsy and has been claiming DLA FOR ten years…he was sent for a review and has now had his dla completely taken away from him…apparantely” he is no longer disabled enough” dispite his disability getting worse resulting in falls and a lot of physio.this decision was made without even a medical from atos..he is extremely down and we dont know what to do…does anyone have any advice ..kind thanks
best of look barry
Take Note : DWP dont even read DLA applications, they dont bother to telephone Doctors or Carers they simply send out standard rejection letters from Belfast to everyone, even when you lodge an appeal the rejection letters are all the same. I have just read a form from DWP to a friend who lost both legs in a car accident in August 2011 she applied for DLA and was told that her claim was denied because she could walk 500 yards without assistance ??? Neat trick without legs….. her claim was passed on to a tribunal.
Im sure DWP were having a laugh, all they do is input your address for the rejection letter, a brain dead monkey could do that job from home.
The Blogs appear to have generally reached the same view ‘Disabled People are WRITTEN OFF by Government’ and the same Government wonders why the problem just gets worse, the DLA forms are so complicated and specific, they center around mobility but Depression is also a disability, who would employ a person who has distinct suicidal tendancies or someone who is constantly drugged up on pain killers because of a physical injury that DWP refuse to accept as a problem. Its a vicious circle, you have a spinal injury so you take pain killers, your life becomes dependant on those pain killers which in turn is depressing to say nothing of the side effects, day by day your quality of life drops another notch, you are then prescribed anti-depressants which eventually make matters 10 times worse. Note ‘Very few medicinal remedies actually cure, they simply mask the symptoms…. so you become dependant’ stop taking the drugs and you face unbearable misery and unbelievable pain which again depresses…. back to square one.
It can affect anybody, any age and if you are lucky enough to have good health it is hard, (for want of a better phrase) to put yourself in the shoes of a disabled person, DWP dont even try and like little Gods they sit in their offices and tell you ‘What no legs ?…. Of course you can walk’, strange as it is the imaginary limbs they bestow on you dont actually materialise, ‘What a spinal injury ?….. Thats not really a problem’ pazzzing !!, the spinal injury has gone away, its magic….
2 million youth unemployed and how do the Government make savings ‘lets continue our attack on the disabled’, DWP (Department of Worthless Public Servants) is a disgrace and its time they earned their wages paid for by the tax payer or employed people who can read and have at least a little insight into disability of all kinds.
I myself have to attend a tribunal for DLA, my problems are insignificant compared to some but my mobility is seriously impaired, a paradox, I cant sit in the same place for too long and I cant stand for any significant amount of time, so I fidget, I overdose regularly on pain killers to get me through the day and take copious amounts of tranquillisers to get me through the night, Doctors tell me my hips are damaged but they actually have to break before I qualify for treatment, in my head I am still 21 years old my body though has given up at 54, I stay close to static objects when I do go out because I regularly fall, and the stress….. well a massive heart attack was the result of that, now I wont phone for help when the chest pains bite, as you may imagine I dont believe my life as it is is worth holding onto but for the time being I will be made to push the pain, fill in the endless idiotic forms and attend the interviews that keep others in a job because in societies eyes that is all I am worth. Sympathy is not a cure and I dont accept it with grace or politeness and criticism I only accept from those who know how I feel, physically or mentally and if you dont know me or anyone in my position try to keep your less constructive opinions to yourself .
And finally a word on Atos, those medical experts contracted by DWP to assess health based claims…… Its a Scam a day release for junior nurses or a good old money earner for those more qualified, assessments are over before you even arrive in the room, and assessors who dont reject a given amount of clients each day (The Target) often find themselves doing other duties.
Hi , I have almost idendical symptoms and experiences, Born with an extra C6 vertebrae, i managed until middle age when the pain became unbearable, result in 1997, higher rate mobility and mid rate for help around house , suddenly in 2002 i was summoned to a tribunal which summarily took away my DLA. after five years and one heart attack and ageing deterioration i reaplied again and got mid rate for help around the house no mobility component. Now i am about to claim again as my situation has deteriorated significantly, i phoned the DLA for a reassessment form and was told in no uncertain terms that re assessment could result in my claim being refused (again). Obviously using scare tactics even at this level ! i have dithered over reapplying but now I have to so Will now worry about the outcome until a decision is made, What if i lose all my money? im 64 and have no chance of getting work despite having been a civil servant. I was actually told by a neighbour (member of a disability action local group) to exaggerate in order to compensate for the automatic marking down of results. This is totally insane. we are truly in a madhouse, but we are not the mad ones .
I have long standing mental health difficulties, my gp and psychiatrist support my claim for DLA so why does ATOS and this government punish me? and not just me?
I’m glad there are marches on 30th and i am definitely going to join with you who are able to come. Although even that makes me worried that i will be judged ‘fit for work’ and therefore not eligible for benefits. To me, going on a march provides the best therapy and letting off steam session i could wish for.
when you are reading screaming headlines on the daily express claiming that 70% of disabled claimants are cheats..its not surprising is it..ive come across ppl on the net that believe all that citing one or two cases + links thus justifying their prejudice..in their claims that all this true they tell you that they work hard etc etc but you also get a sense that they haye their jobs and resent people not working even if they are very ill.and glad that ATOS are doing their job so well…also shocked to hear ATOS attacking all criticism cease and desist letters and cyber attacks on sites criticising them..its like the mafia…authorities outlawing groups cyber attacks yet its ok if a company does it..
We no longer HAVE any rights – Disabled people are the scum that must be eradicated at all costs – The mere fact that the cost will end up being more than they would save is not relevant for the disabled are scum
Never mind the fact that i had a life BEFORE i became a nothing – No – I am just scum – Eradicate me for i serve no purpose to this govt.
If ALL disabled people could find a party to trust to vote for – Now that would be a heft lotta votes
I will NEVER trust people again – this is my LIFE – Yet I am nothing to them. Where are the human rights?
The Tories and their hangers on in the LibDems don’t just despise disabled people. They despise students, council workers, health workers, teachers, lecturers…the list is very long. Together we are millions. We only need to unite to brush them aside. Reminds me of the words of the revolutionary poet Shelley after the Peterloo Massacre: ‘Arise, arise, shake off your chains like dew, that while you slumbered fell on you, for we are many…they are few’ (possibly not completely accurate).
Don’t despair, get organised, together we are dynamite!