by Dude Swheatie of Kwug — aka Alan Wheatley of the Green Party of England & Wales and London Green Left
(The below is based on a submission just now by the author to the Green Left Discuss e-list)
Disability News Service reports:
The Department for Work and Pensions is considering forcing all sick and disabled people on out-of-work disability benefits to take part in “mandatory” activity, its new green paper has revealed.The suggestion of compulsory activity is revealed in a single line of the 92-page work, health and disability green paper, published this week....
This
Green Paper 'consultation' closes at 11:45pm on 17 February 2017. The
next Green Party of England & Wales Conference is not scheduled till March-April 2017.
Meanwhile, what is mental health charity Mind doing in bed with DWP?
And what have coroners said about claimant deaths?
In
2008 it was largely Green Left members (Anne Gray and me) that brought
about a GPEW alternative to Labour's 'No-one written off' Green Paper. https://cse.google.com/cse?q=writing+off+workfare&ajaxSearch_submit.x=0&ajaxSearch_submit.y=0&cx=014602880548773237108%3Abfmqbz3c1w4&ie=UTF-8#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=writing%20off%20workfare&gsc.page=1
I
propose that we at least republish those materials that were sat upon
by national news media at the time. (Though I doubt that I would be able
to contribute fresh this time around for health reasons, our 2008
publication is rich in background and can serve as 'we told you so'
background to what has passed since.) Perhaps there could even be scope
for 'Progressive Allaince' responses?
Alan Wheatley
PS:
"The [2008] consultation asks 29 questions, none of which are addressed to the
impact of growing global recession and diminishing global resources upon
employment. [Neither did they address anything about rewarding claimants.]" — https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/workfare-is-not-the-answer.html
"In September [2016], a book by disabled researcher Mo Stewart
detailed the influence of the US insurance giant Unum over successive
UK governments, and how it had undermined the social security system in
order to boost the market for its own income protection policies." — http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ministers-set-to-force-work-related-activity-on-everyone-in-esa-support-group/
See also
http://www.reform.uk/event/a-welfare-state-that-works-for-all/
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