Inertia on the NHS and obstinacy on strikes have left the equivocating PM clinging to a life raft, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Perhaps Sunak has no understanding of what a crisis is for has he ever been in one of his own making, except the current ones or any others.
With his own and then that of his wife’s wealth what crisis as he had to understand?
Anybody’s son or daughter moving on in life is a stressful and worrying situation, but even more so in respect of persons with autism and some other conditions. This is because parents and the children have spent years getting to know each other and now in a moment in time great change is occurring. Even when all is going smoothly, there is always going to be that deep down worry, what can happen next, have we covered everything and any others that may occur.
But life as to go on and nothing will ever be fully covered.
But with autism will the new surroundings and people within have sufficient knowledge to manage all that can occur and the answer is most likely not, all that everyone can do is the best available.
When faced with having to move their disabled child to a different school or college, families face difficult decisions. Now, reality TV star and ex-model, Katie Price, is on that journey with her eldest son, Harvey, who is about to make that transition.
It was a quiet 18th birthday for Harvey. There were balloons in the garden and presents were opened, including a frog lunchbox and an iPad. For a treat, Katie took him to one of his favourite places – the local train station.
“This is the best train ever. I love it,” Harvey says, taking photographs.
His birthday marks another milestone. It is time to leave school and find a college, a process the family has filmed for BBC One documentary, Katie Price: Harvey and Me.
“It’s pretty predictable to know what will happen with the other kids,” Katie says, who has four other children. “But with…
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Again and again the DWP say one thing and then do another, but take the attitude that they are never wrong.
The DWP and that means the Government need to realise that they are dealing with people and not inanimate objects.
They should be transparent and honest, but this is a Government department and unfortunately it is a miracle if they are.
It is not as though not owning up about being wrong will cause no lasting damage and harm, for it will.
The DWP are ruthless in instigating sanctions and once a persons loses a benefit, it can not be reinstated when the wrong has been admitted.
Yes, the claimant can make another claim, but the loss of benefit income will not be regained and even worse, if a Motability vehicle is involved. For once the vehicle has been returned it can take months to obtain another, thus causing much distress to the claimants.
The DWP and the Government need to come into the real world and not play with the feelings of claimants.
With many thanks to Benefits And Work.
The DWP has mistakenly been sending out letters to PIP claimants telling them their PIP has been stopped because they failed to return a review form, the Disability News Service (DNS) is reporting.
Back in March, when the pandemic first began, many PIP claimants were told that they did not need to return their PIP review form and that their claims would be automatically extended.
However, it appears that last month an official at the DWP did a check for late return of forms and sent out letters to an unknown number of claimants telling them that their PIP had been stopped and, in some cases, that they had to return their Motability vehicles and might have to repay some of the money they had received.
One claimant who received a letter told DNS that she had originally been told by the DWP…
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Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party secured a huge majority as the British public headed to the polls yesterday.
Source: GENERAL ELECTION: What does the Conservatives’ victory mean for social care?
With British politics in a febrile, mutinous state over Brexit, I have written this open letter to the governments of most – but not all – of the EU’s 27 member states. It is only copied to Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Luxembourg and Dublin since, in my judgment, they are beyond redemption.
Fellow Europeans:
As Brexit comes to the crunch I invite you to consider the EU’s standing in the world and, by extension, that of your own governments because of the EU’s handling of the negotiations.
This is all good that the UN envoy is listening and including it in the forthcoming report, but what guarantee is there that our Government will listen and then react accordingly.
When you are a member of an organisation there should be penalties when members disregard recommendation, etc.
Is there, in fact any country or organisation that really listens and then acts accordingly to any part of the UN, where is its teeth.
WASHINGTON — California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff dismissed President Trump’s response to the destructive Golden State fires, accusing him of threatening to withhold federal disaster funds for political reasons.
In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sunday, Schiff lambasted Trump’s recent tweets blaming the devastation on “gross mismanagement of the forests” and threatening the state to “remedy now, or no more Fed payments.”
Source: Rep. Schiff: Trump response to California fires show ‘how little he understands the job’ : NBC News
Any fool can see how the Home Office created the conditions leading to the death of Dexter Bristol, with the exception of the Bristol Coroner Dr William Dolman.
This is not the justice that the family of Dexter Bristol deserve and need to receive.
Dexter Bristol can now rest in peace which unfortunately he could not do in his life due to Home Office Policies and Practices.
This is truly like it is for the DWP are following the common theme of ‘one size fits all’.
Yes, there are people who are work shy, people who will not work no matter what is put before them, but are these people caught by sanctions, I fear not. This is because they are Ace in manipulating the system and will continue in this vein for ever. It is these people the 1% or 2% who should be made to work, but they never will, for what employer is really going to take on someone who has no intention of working, it will not be worth their while.
The the DWP system is doing is penalising the people who want to work, but their disability, their health is causing them to fail to abide by the ‘one size fits all’ process.
How can anyone attend an interview when they are in a hospital bed trying to recover from an aspect of the manner of their health.
The DWP process needs to be flexible to take account of the mitigating circumstances, but this they will not do as this will take time and money which has not been included in the system process.
As I said before they are penalising people who want to work, but have problems due to their conditions, unlike those who do not have problems, except their total dedication of not wishing to work, these are the lazy, but again the system has no process to find these people as again it will take time and money.
The systems major flaw it that it does not understand what it is trying to change and is as much unwilling to do so as those who are unwilling to work.
The system needs to comply with equality, which does not mean treating everybody the same, but treating people as individuals, but again this take time and money.
The Government also needs to have the willingness to do this, but do they understand individualism or more to the point do they really want to understand. I feel the latter, so until the attitudes of the Government or more likely the Civil Servants, who really govern the UK then the system will stay the same.
Penalise those who are willing, while supporting those who are not willing to work, completely the opposite of what they say they are doing.
But if the Government is Blind, then no matter how much they say they are listening (opening their eyes) they will never see, that is giving them the benefit of the doubt as I feel they will never understand, because they are unwilling to do so.
So those that want to work, but their conditions restrict them will always be penalised, while those who are totally unwilling to work will not.
A disabled MP has spoken of how being diagnosed as autistic has helped him to understand his behaviour as a younger man that led to his suspension from the Labour party.
Jared O’Mara has told Disability News Service (DNS) that he was diagnosed in January this year by a psychiatrist, three months after his suspension from the party.
He was heavily criticised by disabled campaigners last year when a series of offensive remarks he made about other minority groups and women as a younger man came to light.
But O’Mara has now appealed for understanding and forgiveness for the comments he made as a younger man on an internet chat forum, pointing out that he and other autistic people “don’t understand the social nuances of language and humour in the same way as neurotypical people do”.
The Sheffield Hallam MP told DNS this week: “I still don’t now, and I’m scared that I might be bullied again for my language choices and how I express myself.”
His comments have this week secured support from two leading autistic campaigners, who suggested that he should be forgiven.
O’Mara “unreservedly” apologised again for the comments and said he was “horrified” at the offence he had caused and still felt “so sad and ashamed”.
Source: O’Mara asks for forgiveness and understanding as an autistic MP | DisabledGo News and Blog
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