Crippen Cartoons cartoons at the cutting edge of disability

I’d lost track of this Blog until I stumbled across its url amongst some old notes I was sorting through. When I noticed that the last entry I’d made was in 2013, some 5 years ago, I thought it was time to get it back up to speed.

This was one of several cartoons I’d created to highlight the callousness of just one of the independent organisations employed by the DWP to assess benefit claims made by Disabled people.

The figures relating to the casualties of these assessment techniques were recorded in a blog entry made on the 15th October 2017. Nothing has changed in the 12 months that have passed since that entry. The figures are supported by information provided by the DWP when confronted by freedom of information legislation; the Government still refuse to acknowledge the deaths as being caused by the assessment system, and ATOS have headed into the sunset along with their profits and bonus’, albeit that a high percentage of the claims they had failed were reinstated at appeal!

Oh yes, and Iain Duncan Smith, the architect of this horrendous piece of legislation, has scuttled silently into the background and was last seen washing his hands …