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Just a quick note on current UK political events:

They know they’re killing us. They have the numbers, they know we’re dying because of their cuts to disability spending.

They can say whatever they want, but they can’t claim they didn’t know.

They are killing us. They’re looking at the numbers of us dying because of their cuts, and they are introducing further cuts and further gatekeeping to prevent new applications from going through.

Don’t let anyone make you forget. They know they’re spilling our blood, and their response is to drive the knife in deeper.

“The UK has become the first country in the world to be placed under investigation by the United Nations for violating the human rights of people with disabilities amid fears that thousands may have died as a consequence of controversial welfare reforms and austerity-driven cuts to benefits and care budgets. – x

Thanks for adding a source!

If anyone has any other information on this, I’d love to see it. It’s something I plan to point out during my evaluations for work assistance, just in case they think I’m exaggerating when I tell them trying to hold a job would kill me. 

Give me about an hour to get onto desktop and I’ll get stuff. What sort of stuff do you want? People’s stories + the shitty things the Tories are doing?

Definitely people’s stories. Knowing more in depth who’s being turned away would likely help. These people are seriously going to reevaluate me after last year deciding I’d last been fit for work in 1996, and I just don’t trust them at all. (I was 10 in 1996, btw.)

Sadly a lot of it will be bad.
Another thing that happened was the much loathed “bedroom tax” which ended up hitting a lot of people with special requirements badly -I.e. one woman lost the reinforced panic room she got because her ex was violently stalking her and another lost their room of medical equipment because neither could afford the extra tax.

OK, here goes.

First, a news story from today regarding the latest budget, which is about a disability activist quitting the party.

The latest cuts will reduce the weighting given to the needs of getting dressed and using the toilet. Becuase of course they are not in any way important (!)

This article last February suggests that at least 49 suicides had occurred due to cuts.

In September 2014, a diabetic starved to death due to benefits cuts.

Here are some of the sanctions given to people in which their main source of income is cut off (ableist blog title though)

August 2015, reports of 1000s dying after being declared fit to work.

In July 2014, a DWP report found that the department was deliberately being confusing and not informing people of the hoops they were required to jump through with the aim of producing more sanctions.

Here is the actual DWP report on disabled people dying after their benefits were cut or revoked.

From August 2015, 80 people a month dying due to their benefits being cut. The DWP was forced to release these figures after a number of Freedom of Information requests.

Again from August 2015, BBC reported than 2300 people had died following a declaration of being fit to work.

From only a few days ago, the fact that more than half appealled fit to work assessments turn out to be wrong.

A woman whose son had died was badgered for bedroom tax for so long, given an eviction notice and hung herself.

Have a memorial page for those who have died due to welfare reform, complete with links to their stories.

The #IDSMurder hashtag on Twitter, filled with people telling their stories.

A 22-year old man with schizophrenia was found dead after being decleared fit to work.

A 67-year-old woman was declared to healthy for Sickness Benefits the day she died.

The DWP refused to reinstate the benefits of a disabled woman who is now reliant on food banks.

Partially blind woman commited suicide following benefits being cut.

Another woman also committed suicide within days of beiing declared “fit to work”.

Areas with the highest number of fit to work assessments also have the highest suicide rates.

And that’s just scratching the surface. 20 minutes research got me all that stuff.

You know there’s probably a party staffer who’s said the words “Thankfully posts about the US election’s all that’s really coming up on tumblr” so I dunno fuck that hypothetical person HERE’S WHAT’S UP WITH US!

Oh god, and I thought the US was getting bad…