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COMMENT: What now? Tory victory provides clear course for DNS

By John Pring on 8th May 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

COMMENT: What now? Tory victory provides clear course for DNS
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An overall majority for the Conservatives, three party leaders quitting, David Cameron back in Downing Street, and a landslide for the SNP in Scotland. The response from many disabled people to the result of yesterday’s general election – once the scale […]

UPDATED: The story of the general election campaign, in 30 news stories

By John Pring on 5th May 2015 Category: Politics

UPDATED: The story of the general election campaign, in 30 news stories
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Election 2015: Tories dodge questions over disability benefit cuts The prime minister has become the third senior Conservative figure in a week to refuse to say in front of television cameras whether his party plans to tax key disability benefits after […]

ELECTION 2015: Harper suggests backing for mental health treatment sanctions

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

ELECTION 2015: Harper suggests backing for mental health treatment sanctions
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The Tory minister for disabled people appears to have accidentally admitted what many disabled activists feared: that a Conservative government would cut the out-of-work benefits of people with mental health conditions if they refused treatment. In a debate broadcast on local […]

ELECTION 2015: Coalition has led to in-work ‘discrimination, harassment and hardship’

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

ELECTION 2015: Coalition has led to in-work ‘discrimination, harassment and hardship’
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Disabled workers have faced deteriorating attitudes from employers, cuts to their legal protection, and “disintegrating” long-term job prospects under the last four years of the coalition government, according to new research. The study by the Public Interest Research Unit (PIRU), a […]

ELECTION 2015: UKIP refuses to back right to life, mobility, freedom from torture…

By John Pring on 1st May 2015 Category: Politics

ELECTION 2015: UKIP refuses to back right to life, mobility, freedom from torture…
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UKIP has refused to back key parts of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), including disabled people’s right to life, and their right to freedom from exploitation, violence and abuse. The UKIP manifesto says the party […]

ELECTION 2015: Tories refuse to say which human rights they will dump

By John Pring on 24th April 2015 Category: Politics

ELECTION 2015: Tories refuse to say which human rights they will dump
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The Conservative party are refusing to say which vital protections they would scrap if they win the election and abolish the Human Rights Act (HRA). The party’s manifesto says a Conservative government would replace the act – introduced by a Labour […]

ELECTION 2015: Labour’s disability manifesto chaos

By John Pring on 24th April 2015 Category: Politics

ELECTION 2015: Labour’s disability manifesto chaos
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Labour’s launch of its disability manifesto has descended into chaos after major disagreements between a shadow minister and a leading disabled election candidate over how far it would go in government to address disability poverty. The mini-manifesto appears to offer few […]

ELECTION 2015: Lib Dem president ‘astonished’ at manifesto’s disability benefits failure

By John Pring on 24th April 2015 Category: Benefits and Poverty

ELECTION 2015: Lib Dem president ‘astonished’ at manifesto’s disability benefits failure
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The Liberal Democrats’ disabled president has told Disability News Service (DNS) she is “astonished” that her party’s planned cuts to social security spending would not exempt all recipients of disability benefits. The party confirmed to DNS last week that although its […]

ELECTION 2015: UKIP’s silence on UN disability convention

By John Pring on 24th April 2015 Category: Human Rights

ELECTION 2015: UKIP’s silence on UN disability convention
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UKIP is refusing to say whether it is in favour of key sections of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). Last week, its election manifesto made it clear that UKIP supported article 19 of the convention […]

ELECTION 2015: Green party faces questions over assisted suicide backing

By John Pring on 24th April 2015 Category: Human Rights

ELECTION 2015: Green party faces questions over assisted suicide backing
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The Green party has been asked how it can justify calls for the legalisation of assisted suicide at the same time that it claims to be in favour of implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). […]

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