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From The London Economic, a report on the dying being fit for work.

By Jack Peat
A man has passed away while waiting for an appointment in a job centre in South Wales.

The man, 65, was found slumped in his chair at 9.30am on Friday in Llanelli.

He was waiting for an appointment to discuss Jobseeker’s Allowance after being declared fit for work earlier this year.

I, Daniel Blake

In a case that seems cruelly reminiscent of the Ken Loach film I, Daniel Blake, customers and staff had rushed to help him and started CPR, but he died at the scene.

One witness told The Mirror: 


I didn’t know him myself, but the man who was sat next to me told me that he had grown up with the guy. The man next to me told me that the poorly guy had diabetes and had been declared fit for work by the job centre earlier in the year but he was obviously ill.


Continue reading @  The London Economic,

Man Dies In Job Centre Queue After Being Declared Fit To Work

Mick Hall @ Organized Rage writes:

Citizen Advice services swamped with desperate people seeking help as Cameron, Osborne, and Duncan Smith's benefit cuts hit hard

Tory Cuts Hit Hard

Pauline Mellon looks at the latest Tory assault on the most vulnerable. Pauline Mellon blogs @ The Diary Of A Derry Mother.


A few days ago the Tory millionaire cabinet announced plans to change the definition of child poverty. This followed an announcement from Ian Duncan Smith to scrap the definition put forward by the Labour government in 2010. The current definition covers all children living in a household with an income below 60% of the UK's average. The move to change the definition followed a report describing child poverty levels in the UK as "unacceptably high". 

The Devil Looks After His Own!

Pauline Mellon with a piece that featured in The Diary of a Derry Mother on 30 September 2014. Pauline Mellon is a Derry blogger and rights activist.


Poverty no Accident


Welfare reform is a term we hear quite frequently these days. This so called ‘reform’ is said to be designed to save money. This is not true, what welfare reform will do is label the unemployed and deflect from the failings of those in government by manipulating the unemployment figures. After all, if you’re on one of those ‘work for your dole’ schemes you are not technically unemployed. Furthermore, welfare reform will impact harshly on the poorest and most vulnerable in our society.

Until I'm Blue in the Face!

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