Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
Denise Bates is dying of terminal cancer. She is on morphine to help manage the pain, she has a palliative care nurse, is receiving palliative chemotherapy and is in a wheelchair. But she has been found fit to work. As a result she has been stripped of her disability…
Month: July 2019
Parliament’s top official Black Rod displeased by Back To 60’s Flash dance on College Green
Originally posted on Westminster Confidential:
The BackTo60 Flash Dancers from @pandorasboxperformers.com pose in front of Henry Moore’s sculpture, Knife Edge. BackTo60s new guerrilla campaign to highlight the plight of the 50s born women who are waiting up to six years to get their pension took on a new dimension yesterday – and brought the displeasure…
They keep trying to trip us up at every step.
Originally posted on The poor side of life:
Dear readers it’s Thursday yet again and time to update the blog. I hope that you’re all ok and coping with what feels like a constant onslaught of cruelty from the Tory government. It appears that Boris Johnson will most likely be our next prime minister so…
Same Executive Producer on three Channel 4 and BBC anti-Corbynite programmes revealed as former Labour activist
Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
When Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party, BBC Panorama aired an anti-Corbyn programme – Jeremy Corbyn Labour’s Earthquake – about the rise of Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity in what was then called a hatchet job by Corbyn’s team: But the programme was not made by the BBC.…
Campaigning Graffiti: How an older generation of pension protesters are using the tactics of young activists
Originally posted on Westminster Confidential:
My image and blog on the side of the Bank of England Disruptive protests are seen mainly but not exclusively as the preserve of the young. Whether it is blocking roads like Extinction Rebellion or organising street protests they are not the natural first choice of people old enough to…
Rage against the darkness of the night
School is conditioning. It’s perhaps easier to see it from the position of elite schools, where pupils are educated for exceptionalism rather than dull mediocrity. It can probably be best seen in Boris Johnson. No matter what he does, his exceptionalism will keep the doors of power open to him, even though he is a […]
It’s almost as if universal credit was created to destroy working class communities…
Originally posted on The poor side of life:
Every week for around five years I’ve stood outside Ashton Under Lyne Jobcentre helping claimants, signposting them, providing food, support, providing survival guides, taking people to ESA and PIP medicals and tribunals. The situation for claimants is certainly not getting any better, in fact its become much…
BackTo60 take to the London streets to project their case to get their pension money back
Originally posted on Westminster Confidential:
https://youtu.be/YqX2CKLU_q0 While MPs were enjoying drinks and snacks in parties and receptions across London last week – I admit I was at one in the gardens of Westminster Abbey – a team of intrepid campaigners from BackTo60 took to the streets with the support Media Gang Guerrilla Marketing. They stopped…
Byline Times Exclusive: The secret Whitehall memos that failed 3.8 million women planning a decent retirement
Originally posted on Westminster Confidential:
Peter Lilley, the Tory Secretary of State who decided not to spend money in 1997 telling the 3.8 million women born in the 1950s that their pension age was going up. Pic credit: Policy Exchange Secret ministry documents reveal that successive government ministers and Whitehall officials failed over two decades…
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 