This Government Is No World Leader On Disability – Its Record Is Shameful

Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
https://twitter.com/imajsaclaimant/status/1021712038861713409 This article was written by Marsha de Cordova, who is the Labour MP for Battersea, on 24 July. It was originally published in the HuffPost. At today’s Global Disability Summit, the government will present itself as a leader on disability rights – disabled people know that it is anything but.…

My response to the Conservative Chairman’s invitation to join the Conservative party

Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
An example of audience segmenting, according to a psychographics methodology. I wonder what category data analysts think that I fit into. Whichever it is, they most definitely got me wrong. Note the dehumanising labels (objectification: “the struggler, “the resigned”) and stereotyping. I struggle on little income, don’t consume junk…

Whitehall’s shameful database of women’s pathetic state pensions

Originally posted on Westminster Confidential:
Department for Work and Pensions – still misleading  the public on the huge gap between men and women pensioners CROSS POSTED ON BYLINE.COM In May this year  Which? Money published the  results of access the consumer organisation had  to the entire  Department for Work and Pension database on pensions. The…

I’m a disabled person and Sarah Newton is an outrageous, gaslighting liar

Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
Last year I wrote an article about how the social security system in the UK has been re-structured around “ordeals”, which were introduced by the Conservative government in order to discipline and “disincentivise” citizens from claiming welfare support.  The government’s aim is to ‘deter’ a ‘culture of dependency’ (a debunked…