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"You will be helping to tackle the growing problem of disability hate crime and in turn your actions will be going toward improving the lives of many sick and disabled people including those who claim disability related benefits who are often fearful of or even becoming victims of abuse and in a minority of cases, direct assault and aggression."

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"As I suspected, the Hate and the Sun are fairly close in their bid to rid the world of disabled people and benefits’ claimants."

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""There has been a rise in verbal abuse of disabled people, which is inflamed by comments like these which suggest that people are on the fiddle, when actually they have a higher cost of living. The language used, and the assumption that there is a large level of fraud and abuse will inflame hostility towards disabled people.""

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"Disabled people are enduring vilification and the arbitrary withdrawal of life-defining welfare. They’re now being told to be grateful for it."

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"Sadly for the sick and disabled citizens of this benighted land, this meant that he has decided to emulate Joseph Goebbels by creating a massive and staggeringly effective propaganda machine, which I dubbed the DWP Lie Factory, the output of which was, and still is, repeated verbatim, and totally unchallenged, by the right wing press and the BBC."

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"‘Disability does not mean inability’ this was the mantra from disability rights campaigner and trustee of Cardiff People First, Peter Lewis. Peter died after being stabbed in Roath, Cardiff on the 28th April. "

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"Disability Rights UK (DR UK) spoke out after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) quietly published the latest consultation document on its plans to replace working-age DLA with a new personal independence payment (PIP)."

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"A survey for the MS Society by ComRes has shown shocking attitudes across Britain towards people with disability. The report, out today, shows that a quarter of Britons think disabled people exaggerate their disability."

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"With 3.2 million captive customers, not to mention a monopoly on all new claimants, it's not hard to see the appeal of the contract for profit-hungry companies untroubled by the ethics of slashing 20% from the money provided to disabled people to help them meet some of the basic expenses that living with a disability inevitably incurs."

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"The moral of the story? Don't be so harsh on the man on the bus with cheesy feet and no trousers, the Government have told him that he's fine to be out in society. After all, bankers' bonus pots and Vodafone's profit and loss account are far more important. Remember how we're all in this together, folks."

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"Many people with lifelong conditions and TERMINAL illnesses are being put through this process, which only adds to the stress and anxiety they already live with. It’s not just the assessment itself, it’s the waiting for that letter to drop on the doormat. For me, and many others, it is almost psychological torture."

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"campaigners claim it could force thousands of disabled people out of work, and could end up costing more money."

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"Politicians of all parties have rightly paid tribute to Jack Ashley after his death on 20th April aged 89. Not one of them mentioned the fact that he tirelessly pushed for an Independent Living Bill. "

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"Those demonstrating are meeting at 1.30pm on 18 April close to McDonald’s on Leicester Square, London"

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"I get the feeling that the tide may be starting to turn in relation to welfare reform. This is just a gut feeling, nothing more, but I have some evidence – not that the Government is starting to listen, yet, but that other organisations and individuals are finding their voice and that the media is starting to listen."

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"User-led charity Disability Rights UK has done an interesting analysis of government plans for 500,000 people to lose access to disability living allowance by 2015-16, which finds it leading to significant extra costs in out-of-work benefits, social care and health."

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"The coalition’s approach to abolishing DLA assumed that expenditure is ‘deadweight’, and thus that cuts were achievable without knock on effects for other government revenue or expenditure. This falsehood would have been exposed had the government undertaken a full impact assessment."

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"The wonderful Sam Barnett-Cormack and wearespartacus.org have designed this survey to help them put together an official Spartacus response to the PIP consultation.

We'd be REALLY grateful if you could spare a few minutes to take part. The more people that reply, the more reliable the results will be."

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"One of the main advocates of the bio-psychosocial model, Lord Freud (Westminster’s Minister for welfare reform) claims that it is based on evidence. It is not. It is a right wing model led by profit and the market. It incorporates the worst aspects of neo-liberalism. It targets disabled people and ridiculously claims that we can think ourselves out of being disabled."

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