Last December Sue Jones and I wrote an article, The Just World Fallacy, considering the purpose of the Government's Nudge Unit; therein we demonstrated how unemployment is not caused by psychological barriers but by the Government's failure to invest in appropriate growth projects, and how the aforementioned Nudge…
Yesterday I was in court (for the third time) because my Local Authority Housing Benefit (HB) Dept are inept; they have for the past 2 years been playing with my HB account suspending/releasing and finally after 14 month closing my…
Dear Kate Green MP, You wrote in LabourList.org on Oct 18 you’d spent a week “ at home with a bad back, unable to make it into Parliament“, you then talk at length about the ineffectivenesses of ATOS and how the Labour Party needs “ to…
As many of you know Debbie Sayers & I wrote an open letter to Esther McVey back in April which 866 people signed; we are still awaiting a proper reply hence the following… Dear Esther McVey MP Further to your…
A VERY QUICK POST - TOGETHER WE CAN ALL ACHIEVE POSITIVE CHANGE- OVER 96300 people signed or petition to the Work & Pensions Committee: Hold IDS to account for his use of statistics https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/work-pensions-committee-hold-ids-to-account-for-his-use-of-statistics-2# and today we discover - Duncan Smith to…
Hi Everyone, Today I learnt that the Work and Pensions Select committee will be calling Iain Duncan Smith or one of his ministers in to explain their use of statistics. The Work and Pensions committee have decided to pull the…
Dear Esther McVey MP We the undersigned have been shocked and appalled at you and your Minister’s persistent use of dubious facts and statistics regarding DLA. We ask that you make use of the raft of factual statistics and desist…
Over the past few days whilst being snow bound, a couple of articles published online, by established media outlets regarding mental health have alarmed me. Philip Hensher, a professor of creative writing offered us his ‘expert opinion’ in the Independent on…
Dear Ed Balls MP Following your announcement of Labour’s plan to tackle unemployment, I’m asking you to think! I’m not an economist, a Politician, a journalist & nor do I belong to any ‘thinktank’, I’m someone who has worked within…
I started this blog yesterday but had to stop due to the deep black hole I currently reside in. It’s that place where anyone who suffers from depression can find themselves in, everything seems futile and it’s nigh impossible to…
On Friday I received a letter from the DWP informing me that, as I am in the Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) from December 3rd 2012; I must “attend and take part in work-focused interviews if you are asked to do so, to qualify…
If you’re wondering why I’ve been so quiet, I’ve been ill, just a regular virus that most people get in winter; the difference is its taken me a couple of month to get back to anywhere near normal, even for…
Last December Sue Jones and I wrote an article, The Just World Fallacy, considering the purpose of the Government's Nudge Unit; therein we demonstrated how unemployment is not caused by psychological barriers but by the Government's failure to invest in appropriate growth projects, and how the aforementioned Nudge…
Rarely do I come across a Tory Policy proposal that makes me both smile (albeit at the irony) and shudder (with fear), but today’s report in the Telegraph does exactly this: “Hundreds of thousands of benefit claimants face being stripped of…
Independent Voices today carries a piece discussing the 200 year tradition of writers and the well to do ’visiting’ the poor to see for themselves how we live; I suppose if my 19th Century great great…grandmother were able to access the articles and books…
An open letter to Iain Duncan Smith Dear Mr Smith On the Andrew Marr Show this morning you spoke of needing to protect Pensioners from Welfare Reform Cuts, which you justified by their lack scope and opportunity to earn and increase…
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