Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:47 AM PDT
Joint
statement by Black Triangle Campaign, CarerWatch, Disabled People Against Cuts,
Mental Health Resistance Network, Pats Petition, #NewApproach
The WCA
presumes that there are too many people on disability benefits because disabled
people are too lazy or too comfortable living on benefits to work.
It is
founded in the idea that disabled people need to be harassed and hounded out of
their comfortable life into finding work under the threat of loss of benefits.
No one is
comfortable living on benefits. Disabled people are no more lazy that the rest
of the population.
The real
reason that there are so many people on benefits is that society does
not include disabled people.
We do not
have the same access to education, transport, housing and jobs.
Social
attitudes ensure that disabled people in the workplace are seen as a problem,
rather than an equal opportunity.
And there
are large numbers of disabled people who simply can not work. Why
should they be harassed? Why should they be hounded?. Why should they have to
live in fear?
We know,
and this report confirms, that many people have wrongly been found “fit for
work” when they can’t work.
We also
know and the UK
courts have confirmed WCA discriminates against claimants with mental health
impairments.
The Work
and Pensions Committee report recommends “improvements” to make the system more
workable and less harmful.
This is
pointless, because it would not make the WCA any less wrong or any more
useful.
We call
once again on Labour to commit to scrapping the WCA and to address the real
problems that disabled people on benefits face in society.
We call
once again on the British Medical Association to send guidance on DWP rules “29
and 35″ which allows doctors to prevent foreseeable harm being done to ‘at
risk’ patients.
They
didn’t improve slavery, they abolished it, because it was wrong.
They
didn’t amend Apartheid , they ended it because it was wrong
The WCA
is wrong, and it needs to be abolished.
Signed
Andy Greene, Disabled
People Against Cuts
Annie Howard, Disabled
People Against Cuts
Bob Ellard, Disabled
People Against Cuts
Debbie Jolly, Disabled
People Against Cuts
Denise McKenna, Mental
Health Resistance Network
Jane Bence,
#NewApproach
Eleanor Firman,
Disabled People Against Cuts
Ellen Clifford,
Disabled People Against Cuts
Gail Ward, Disabled
People Against Cuts
John James McArdle,
Black Triangle Campaign
Katy
Marchant, Disabled People Against Cuts
Linda Burnip, Disabled
People Against Cuts
Nick Dilworth,
#NewApproach
Pat Alliumcroft, Pats
Petition
Paula Peters, Disabled
People Against Cuts
Rick Burgess,
#NewApproach
Roger Lewis, Disabled
People Against Cuts
Rosemary O’Neil,
Carerwatch
Roy Bard, Disabled
People Against Cuts
Wayne Blackburn,
#NewApproach
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