Thoughts about DLA, PIP – and Mobility Allowance!

Call-me-Dave is a mendacious sack of shit. Of course, we all know that, and make allowances – it’s when he tells the truth, or the part of it that pleases the Daily Mail, that we have problems.

He said, today “Everyone on all sides of the house should recognise that DLA does need reform. There are 130,000 people on DLA who have not had a claim revised at all since the benefit was introduced in 1992. There are three quarters of a million people who have had the same claim for ten years and no contact from the department.”

1992? I haven’t had any contact since

Another email scam…

The world is full of scams, sometimes phishing, sometimes trying to dop a virus in your lap. However, when you get a

Plumbing the depths – Part 2 – follow up…

GP just been – amazing what a stroppy letter can accomplish! Examined me

Buying Twitter followers…

There is a service, which I don’t intend to promote here, which will sell you – or me – Twitter followers from $9.95 for the basic package of 200 followers, up to $799 for 100,000. Or you can, god help us, have a monthly contract.

Now, call me old-fashioned, but surely people follow me because

The Metropolitan Police – not a force for good…

Apologies for not posting sooner – I was pretty much out of it yesterday.

This morning, most papers carry versions of this information:- Of the 201 people taken into custody on Saturday, 149 have been charged – 138 of them, for taking part in the Fortnum’s protest, with aggravated trespass . And only 11 people busted for other offences? Seems an unfeasibly low figure.

That’s 138 people who staged a

The lies of the BBC and Sky…

Had it not been for Twitter, I’d have entirely the wrong idea about today’s march and demos as, no doubt, many thousands – possibly millions – of people have.

Take the occupation of Fortnum and Mason for example – with both Sky and BBC telling the world the store was being

Statistics on TUC March day…

This morning’s Guardian/ICM poll says most people back the cuts.

However, as I’ve said many times, the accuracy of any research depends upon the sample size, whether it be medical research or market research, like this.

Bearing that in mind the

Hyde Park Occupation

Republished from TUC website. If you have a blog, please republish. Or Tweet, or whatever you can do to thwart the Facebook ban.

STAY 4 ONE DAY IS NOT CANCELLED

Facebook have kindly cancelled the facebook events (Stay 4 One Day, Seed Drop etc) not to mention accounts that were linked to the events. Apparently we aren’t allowed our own facebook revolution (too many paid advertisers in the west) 😀

Please help us get the word out by posting on your blogs, tweeting and changing your facebook status to the following in solidarity!

“PLS SPREAD! Hyde Park Occupation is still on, cops closed FB event and accounts. More information http://www.resist26.org”

A minister for the disabled – wow!

We apparently have a Minister for Disabled People, Maria Miller. Who’d have thought it?

So what, I’m forced to wonder, does she do? Because given this  government’s

Cleavage…

Cleavage has been defined as