Link here
You can read the petition here
We are both
disabled as well as being disability activists. We experience pain and
suffering ourselves and see it in our friends, families and colleagues. It is
one thing to live with the physical challenges of a disability. It is quite
another to hear lies and misinformation every day from our own government.
We have
watched sick and disabled friends fall foul of the Employment and Support
Allowance process and seen people who are genuinely sick and disabled being
left with next to nothing to live on. Some are living in fear of the Personal
Independence Payments assessments to come. In this climate, which is confusing
and intimidating for some of the most vulnerable in our society, those in power
should be operating to the highest standards of integrity and accuracy. Recent
reports suggest that the Work and Pensions Secretary may have misrepresented
Government statistics to make a political point.
We are
concerned that this is just the tip of the iceberg. We believe that Iain Duncan
Smith has built a wall of misinformation to discredit all claimants of DLA when
the fraud rate of DLA is a tiny 0.5%.
Last
month nearly 500,000 people signed Dom Aversano’s petition calling on IDS to
live on £53 per week. That was an incredible movement of people trying to hold
a politician to account for his words. Please sign this petition, and we might
actually see that happen.
Jayne
Linney, Debbie Sayers
http://jaynelinney.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/dear-esther-mcvey-your-facts-arent-true/
http://ramblingsofafibrofoggedmind.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/dear-esther-mcvey-your-facts-arnt-true/
http://ramblingsofafibrofoggedmind.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/dear-esther-mcvey-your-facts-arnt-true/
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#STOPIDSLYING
To:
Work & Pensions Committee
Work & Pensions Committee
Hold IDS
to account for his use of statistics
Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your name]
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