Reblogged from Johnny Void, with thanks
Believe it or not the above tweet referring to the NUS as student wankers was posted by Mario Dunn, the Communications & Marketing Director for Maximus – the company taking over from Atos to carry out the despised assessments for sickness and disability benefits.
Dunn is a former special advisor to the Labour Party who worked at the Department of Health between 2005-2010. Now he is responsible for “all aspects of communications, stakeholder engagement, marketing and brand management” for Maximus but still has the time to have tantrums on twitter – usually in defence of the crimes of the Israeli government. He is also passionate in his support of Tony Blair, calling a piece which mildy criticised the former Prime Minister ‘cretinous’. His choice of language perhaps reveals the truth about attitudes towards disabled people at Maximus.
Dunn will be working with Bill Gunnyeon the former DWP chief medical adviser who it was revealed this week will also now be working for Maximus. He will join former Atos medical director Professor Michael O’Donnell who joined Maximus last year and who previously worked for UNUM, the insurance company who boasted about ‘driving government thinking’ on reforms to sickness and disability benefits.
Maximus have claimed they will be different to Atos. So far they look exactly the fucking same.
Join the Day of Action Against Maximus on March 2nd – please spread the word – facebook page now up.
