Crippen Cartoons cartoons at the cutting edge of disability

Originally created with David Cameron with the red pen in his hand, we soon discovered that his successor is running pretty much the same agenda!

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As mentioned, McVey is happily carrying on the programme started by Iain Duncan Smith, penalising disabled people for just being … well, disabled it would seem! Rumours of incentive bonus’ of millions of pounds paid to ATOS and CAPITA for failing disabled claiments and over 16 million pounds of unclaimed benefits being syphoned off to who knows where!

And before I leave Iain Duncan Smith alone, here’s one more involving him with one of the private organisations he employed to carry out assessments of disabled people … speaks for itself I feel!

Just a few of the men involved with dumping on disabled people and robbing us of many of our rights. Iain Duncan Smith pushed through much of the DWP legislation that robbed many of us of our benefits. Despite many cases being reversed at appeal, and the benefits being reinstated, there has been no apology from the DWP and no penalty imposed upon the private companies they employed to undertake the original assessments.

Sorry guys, been a bit poorly so way behind with my blogs etc. Still, here are a few catch-ups for you. I won’t put a lot of text but let the toons speak for themself …

This one was inspired by McVey who was slotted into post as the Minister for disabled people by Iain Duncan Smith. As expected, she continued with his draconion policies and during her tenure made herself even less popular than IDS!

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 …

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,200 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.

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There are some fascinating blogs around at the moment giving that loveable old rogue the Right Honorable Ian Duncan Smith a bit of a pasting.

I personally think that the blogs of Tom Pride and Edinburgh Eye have got the edge at the moment. See what you think …

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 11,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 18 years to get that many views.

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Crippen’s cartoon about Face Book monitoring

Be carefull what information you give out over those social network sites folks. Sites like Face Book are full of bogus ‘friends’ pretending to be someone they’re not. Some of them with the sole intention of gathering as much information about you as possible.

There’s not just the scammers to watch out for, there’s also those people who collect information about you for their own ends. Such as those people working for benefit offices and assessment centres.

Do you know who all your friends are on Face Book? I mean really ‘know’. Have you met them or know someone you trust who has met them?

ATOS have recently been seen to use web cams to monitor people arriving at their assessment centres, who’s to say that they don’t have a department monitoring what you say and do on line?

It pays to be paranoid in this current climate so just be carefull …

Just after I’d finished writing this, the following news item popped up. Scarey eh?!