Mar 062016
16/01/15 Memorial unveiled to David Clapson in Stevenage. Pictured: Sharon Taylor(leader of the council) Gill Thompson Michael Thompson Stevenage Mayor Sherma Batson with memorial tree. Pics: Kerigh Palmer
DPAC are supporting Gill Thompson, the sister of David Clapson when she delivers her petition to DWP on March 9th where there is a protest at DWP HQ in London, which is part of the National Day of action against Sanctions called by Unite Community.
As part of Gill’s campaign, we want to try to get David Clapson’s name trending on twitter during the time Gill will be taking the petition into the DWP, so we need every one who can to join in between 2.30 and 4pm, using the tweetlist we’ve prepared, or your own tweets using the hashtag #DavidClapson.
In order to get the best effect, we want everyone to be tweeting at the same time, so please don’t start tweeting before 2.30pm.
Gill is joining with UNITE day of action against benefit sanctions to highlight the plight of people sanctioned and left without support.
Help Gill raise the money to fund an inquiry into her brother’s death
Shockingly there has never been any inquest held into David’s death and Gill is also trying to raise funds through Crowd Justice to appeal to the Attorney General to launch an inquest into David’s death.
By doing Gill hopes to show that David’s death could have been avoided and help ensure that this stops happening to others.
The Crowdfunding campaign is at the following link: www.crowdjustice.co.uk/case/david-clapson
Please only contribute to this campaign if you can afford to. If you can’t afford it, you can still help by sharing the campaign link
David Clapson
David Clapson, a diabetic ex-soldier, died starving and destitute because he was penalised by the Job Centre for missing a meeting.
David had his £71.70 weekly allowance stopped meaning that he couldn’t afford food or electricity. He was penniless, starving and alone.
His electricity card was out of credit meaning the fridge where he should have kept his diabetes insulin chilled was not working. Three weeks after his benefits were stopped he died from diabetic ketoacidosis – caused by not taking his insulin.
even worse today at pmq was George osbourne visibly finding something amusing when austerity cuts were mentioned, perhaps the only joke that is around at the moment is that we have a very inept chancellor who seems to think austerity cuts for people in the esa group is funny, wonder how funny they may find this when local elections come up, they need to look at all the mp’s That seem to think austerity cuts are funny and employ the standards of public life to them
WEll if the NHS wont stand up for DISABLED heavens knows who will… that ILLEGAL Alliance are hell bent on widennniig the gulf between haves and have-noughts…