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The Tory Genocide Tories Stall On ‘Yellow Card’ Scheme
Against Labour Voters For Benefit Sanctions – Because It

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A damning report warns cuts to health and social care budgets were “possibly” 19 Feb 2017
to blame for the “unprecedented” 30,000 extra deaths in England and Wales and
they are all in strong Labour held areas. By Mike Sivier

The Tories are accused of wilfully ignoring the devastating social care crisis Select Committee chairman Frank Field said vulnerable people are ‘wrongly
that is gripping Britain with catastrophic effects. having their income snatched away’
A major study by academics warns cuts to health and social care budgets were This Writer agrees with social security campaigner Samuel Miller – the govern-
“possibly” to blame for the “unprecedented” 30,000 extra deaths in England and ment won’t introduce a system that could curb benefit sanctions because they are
Wales. doing precisely what the Tories want.
Mr Miller writes: “From the DWP’s perspective, the benefit sanctions regime
The 2015 figures mark the largest increase in “excess deaths” for almost 50 and the recent introduction of the reduced benefit cap are helping to drive record
years. employment, forcing claimants to accept any work – including zero-hour contacts
The total was largely made up of OAPs, who rely most on health and social and low wages.
care, the report finds.
It is the first time a direct link has been drawn between cuts and a surge in “About 1.5 million people leave the welfare system each year, and there is fear
deaths - and the rise could continue without “urgent intervention”, experts fear. that many of them may be facing destitution and having to depend on food banks
Missed NHS targets including ambulance call-out times and A&E delays were for their survival.
among factors, according to the study published in the Journal of the Royal Soci-
ety of Medicine. “But multitudes of people dropping off the welfare rolls actually saves the gov-
Experts write: “The long-term decline in mortality in England and Wales has ernment staggering sums of money in benefits provision.”
reversed, with approximately 30,000 extra deaths compared to what would be
expected if the average age-specific death rates in 2006 to 2014.” It should also be mentioned that the reasons for removing many people’s ben-
efits are completely false. The Scottish trial proved this when nearly 500 people
Saving Syria’s Children were able to get their benefits back by demonstrating that they did not deserve to
lose them in the first place.
The Worst Case Of Fake News? But the Tories don’t want that to happen. Most of their social security policy

over the last nearly-seven years has been about inflicting destitution on the poor
https://off-guardian.org/2017/02/19/saving-syrias-children-the-worst- in unreasonable ways, being defeated by logic when people fight these policies,
case-of-fake-news/ and finding new ways of inflicting destitution on the poor as a result, under a cov-
We’ve talked about this topic many times on OffG, but at a time when “fake- er story of trying to balance the nation’s books.
news” is a hashtag, it’s worth returning to this most egregious and worrying exam-
ple of – at best – sloppy reporting, or – at worst – wholesale deception. If people are forced to visit food banks, or to leave their home, or to die, as a
result… well, that’s of no interest to a Tory.
What happened at the Urm al-Kubra school on August 26 2013? Was it a chem-
ical attack, a napalm attack or some sort of drill/rehearsal that was passed off as It’s true: Your Tory government is cutting the national deficit – one citizen at a
a real event? If the latter then where did the deception originate? Were the BBC time. What are you going to do when the Tories decide to cut you?
Panorama crew, present at the Atareb hospital to film the aftermath of the alleged
atrocity heroes, dupes or wilful advocates for a lie? Was the fact their program
aired on the eve of a crucial vote in parliament that might have sent the UK to war
against Assad merely a coincidence or a deliberate and calculated act of propagan-
da to push public opinion to support a very dangerous escalation in the region?

In this program Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and campaigner Robert
Stuart take a look at what is quite possibly the worst example of mainstream me-
dia fake news in history .

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