DWP Secretary Esther McVey has long been reviled among disabled people and other benefit claimants, even when she was junior to Iain Duncan Smith, for the measures she pushed through […]
Disability support group Fightback4Justice posted shocking claims last week on its Facebook page about the DWP’s (Dept of Work and Pensions) treatment of disabled benefit claimants. The group claimed that: the […]
Fresh from stirring controversy by having to apologise for posting a ‘racist ad’ to a parliamentary Whatsapp group, Labour MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasy decided last night that it would […]
Controversy has raged this week over Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey’s membership of the ‘advisory board’ of the Samaritans, an organisation that helps those feeling suicidal or otherwise in […]
The Tory party’s attempts to fight back on social media led it to launch the ‘Conservative Campaigner’ app last autumn. In true Tory style, the app encourages users to compete […]
The government has compounded its humiliation over a huge climb-down concerning PIP (Personal Independence Payments) to people with mental health issues – by trying to hide it. Just a week […]
The yearly misery Every year around this time since the Tories took Downing Street in 2010, local authorities are forced into the miserable process of deciding which services get cut […]
You’d think Theresa May would learn. Well, maybe you wouldn’t. But after the embarrassment of appointing Toby ‘toadmeister’ Young to the board of the new universities regulator, only to see […]
Monday’s ‘reshuffle’ of Theresa May’s cabinet was largely a non-event, with none of the ‘big beasts’ moved and Jeremy Hunt keeping his job by – allegedly – crying about it. […]
Hopefully, you’re warm, snug and safe as you’re reading this and are looking forward to Christmas Day with family or friends – though all too many people are not. Huge […]