Dame Anne Begg MP, a wheelchair user and Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, has often challenged the government on its attitude and language around benefit claimants, and her committee has recently given ATOS a thorough grilling. It’s encouraging that she takes the Spartacus Report seriously and intends to challenge the government to do so too – see the following link:
Under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Disabled the DWP are breaking the UK’s obligations through their use of misleading and false figures
I thought Anne was a wheelchair user – when did she become a wheelchair?
Article has been amended. I was probably tired when I posted it lol!
I realise that, but I was just trying to inject a little levity after all the stress we’ve been under in the last week or so. =)
Makes sense. And I’ve re-posted the Iain Duncan-Smith article so the iffy language isn’t on OUR website!