DPAC – Cease & Scrap Common Credit score: A few days in the past the media have been carrying information of a report by the Decision Basis on the working of the Common Credit score profit first launched in 2013. This discovered that seven in 10 (71%) households on UC have been worse off in actual phrases now than they’d have been beneath the earlier advantages, and that out of labor individuals with disabilities have been these more likely to have misplaced most.
Six years in the past, DPAC have been already pointing this out and on Wednesday 18th April 2018 campaigners from DPAC (Disabled Folks In opposition to Cuts), MHRN (Psychological Well being Resistance Community), Black Triangle, Winvisible and others started a nationwide day of motion in opposition to Common Credit score in London with a rally in Previous Palace Yard and a protest inside Parliament.
Safety meant I used to be unable to cowl their protest contained in the Homes of Parliament however I met those that had been protesting inside after they got here out to hitch these protesting outdoors and held a rally in Previous Palace Yard.
As that rally ended the campaigners marched into Parliament Sq. the place they blocked the roadway for round half an hour earlier than ending their protest.
DPAC and others say that Common Credit score has so many flaws it should be scrapped, calling it “an financial and political catastrophe bringing additional misery and impoverishment to these pressured to endure it“.
Again in 2018 they identified it has been significantly disastrous for disabled individuals. The elimination of Extreme and Enhanced Incapacity Premiums means single disabled individuals lose round £2,000 per 12 months and a disabled couple over £4,000.
There have been some adjustments in Common Credit score since 2018, however these have primarily been administrative and haven’t affected the essential unfairness in direction of the disabled. The Decision Basis report suggests {that a} single particular person with a long-term incapacity which prevents them from working would now be £2,800 per 12 months worse off than beneath the previous advantages system.
Their report suggests total price of Common Credit score in 2028 might be about £86bn a 12 months, whereas beneath the earlier system it will have been £100bn, a saving of £14bn, which is being made to the price of these disabled and others out of labor – the poorest teams in our society. In distinction these working and in addition claiming UC might be slightly higher off than beneath to earlier advantages system.
As at all times police discovered coping with disabled protesters troublesome. It doesn’t look good to be harassing them in the best way they’d usually act to protesters, they usually have an ideal drawback in making arrests of individuals in wheel chairs or on mobility automobiles. Apparently the Met have just one car which might safely carry both – and solely in restricted numbers, perahps one after the other.
Extra in regards to the protet and extra photos on My London Diary at Cease & Scrap Common Credit score say DPAC.
In addition to this protest there was additionally a big protest in Parliament Sq. by Kashmiris and Indians from many sections of the neighborhood together with Tamils, Sikhs, Ravidass, Dalits, Muslims and others in opposition to the go to by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and smaller teams supporting him and his ultra-right Hindu supremacist insurance policies.
Indians protest President Modi’s go to
Hindus help Modi
Save Lady, Educate Lady
And in late afternoon I went to be a part of Environmental group Biofuelwatch holding their ‘Time to Twig’ Masked Ball Forest Flashmob outdoors the Marylebone resort the place the biggest worldwide biomass convention was going down.
‘Time to Twig’ Masked Ball
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