Disability benefit cuts.

you think we ( in the UK) look after our disabled, think again. And if the government has its way, things are about to get a whole lot worse.
In Scotland we are in a precarious position, our devolved government has voiced its opposition to these cuts but; at the moment they are powerless to act against them because ‘work and pensions’ is not a devolved department of government. At the moment the DWP ( department of work and pensions) is governed from Westminster for the whole of the UK.

This is what the SNP MSP for Glasgow Bob Doris has to say,


“If the UK Government press on with plans to compel sick and disabled people, including those with mental health issues into long term compulsory unpaid work or to lose benefits is simply unacceptable.
“For the DWP to call this an 'incentive' is simply farcical and like so much of its welfare reforms the UK Government need to think again before significant and long term damage is done to many of Scotland's most vulnerable groups.
“If work and pensions were devolved to the Scottish Parliament we would be able to have a system based on fairness that meets the needs and demands of everyone in Scotland including the most needy and sick people who are limited in their ability to work.”
http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2012/feb/uk-gov-workfare-scheme-incentive%E2%80%99-farcical

If you wonder what sort of people want to push sick and disabled people further into poverty………its this sort;
The DWP is governed by;
The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP Secretary of State Overall responsibility
The Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP Minister of State Employment
Steve Webb MP Minister of State Pensions
Maria Miller MP Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Disabled people
Lord Freud Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Welfare reform

The Liberal/Conservative coalition government of 2010 has been described as a 'coalition of millionaires' because 23 of its 29 MP's who are entitled to attend Cabinet meetings have assets and investments estimated to be worth more than £1million.
Iain Duncan Smith is one of the 23 millionaires, he is also an advocate of strict immigration controls because he believes ‘’ tighter immigration controls are vital if Britain is to avoid losing another generation to dependency and hopelessness”. Presumably from that statement he believes immigrants are ‘’dependant and hopeless’. He lied on his CV claiming he has a degree and various other qualifications, in fact he has no formal qualifications. He supported the launching of a pre-emptive attack on Iraq, prior to the 2003 invasion, because he argued 'It’s now time for the prime minister to explain to the British people what he already knows - that Iraq is a clear and growing danger to Britain’’.
Chris Grayling, the Minister of State for Employment is also a homophobic who publicly supported the ‘right’ of B&B owners to refuse entry to gay and lesbian couples. He was one of the main culprits in the parliamentary expenses scandal. Between 2001 and 2009 he claimed parliamentary expenses for a flat in Pimlico, close to the House of Commons, despite having a constituency home less than 17 miles away.. He also owned two buy to let properties in Wimbledon. Grayling says he uses the flat when "working very late" because he needs to "work very erratic and late hours most days when the House of Commons is sitting." During the Parliamentary expenses scandal, The Daily Telegraph reported that Grayling refitted and redecorated the flat in 2005 at a cost of thousands of pounds to the tax payer. And unsurprisingly he is also one of the many millionaires in government.
And these are the people who want to impose draconian cuts on the most vulnerable members of society ………the only surprise is that any one voted for them in the first place.
We ALL  need to be vocal in fighting these cuts.