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There’s more chance of dying at the hands of the government than at the hands of a murderer in the UK. 

Sounds obscene doesn’t it? Sounds like I’m scaremongering but I’m not. This is the reality of being poor and disabled and living in the U.K at the moment. 

We don’t have fun, life is very hard. I don’t know of anyone that actually benefits from being on so called benefits at the moment. It’s a word that I don’t like using. It’s social security and we need to start using the correct wording. Blairite and Tory language should not be used in my eyes.

The reason why they don’t like us saying ‘social security’ is because it actually states what it is. It is a safety net that most people have paid into throughout their life. When you fall on hard times its there to provide some security from starving and the other results of poverty.. 

What this government has done very successfully is to make people forget this. They’ve got total control of the media. The red top newspapers are having a field day. Not happy with that they started to produce hateful programmes such as ‘Benefit Street’. This has resulted in the poor turning against the poor. They believe what the newspapers and the TV programmes say. And people have been discriminated against and bullied by others as a result. 

We have a society that is falling apart at the seams. This government has failed everyone except the rich, which of course is their plan. The poor cost them money in their eyes so therefore they want rid. They forget though that it is the poor that has helped to make them rich, and always have done throughout the ages. It’s a dog eat dog world out there now and the poor are the fall guys, taking the blame for the mistakes of the richest in society. The amount of stress I’m under because I’m poor at the moment is unbelievable. I’m the worst of financially than I have ever been and I always have the fear of loosing my home at the back of my mind. 

My grandmother told me that when the NHS was created it was the best thing that ever happened. When the safety nets were created it made sure that there was no more suffering in the workhouses. If you had asked anyone of an older generation the very mention of the words workhouse would send shivers down their spines.. But we don’t even have that anymore. People I know have committed suicide, have had nervous breakdowns and their families have fallen apart as a result of this governments draconian system. But one thing that we still have the power to do is the power to react. We can fight back. Being poor makes you very resourceful and when you have nothing you have nothing to loose.

This is the tweet that prompted this blog. I feel much safer walking down the street on a dark night than I do walking into a Jobcentre and dealing with any DWP department. I think that’s an astonishing statement to make. But this government is running riot and we need to stop them.

I believe that the European court of human rights has been contacted again. This time over the release of the figures of those that have died after being declared fit for work.. Now I’m sure that these figures are on the lower limits but what did annoy me slightly is the fact that this doesn’t contain the total for the amount of people that have been sanctioned and have then died. Their life’s matter as well and we need to demand another inquiry into this as well. One death is a death too many. 

  
Scary isn’t it. 

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22 thoughts on “There’s more chance of dying at the hands of the government than at the hands of a murderer in the UK. ”

  1. God Bless you Tracy. There are so many suffering right now as a result of murderous policies in our government. Moeny is there, for war, for armaments, for surveillance. But your brother and many others like him will pay for all of this.. with their lives. I am suffering as a result of changes in mental health policies, I too am sometimes fighting.. for life!

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  3. My brother comitted suicide on the 18th of August. He was terrified of getting sanctioned. He was worried about being homeless if his housing benefit was stopped. He went on every course they could think of sending him on. He couldnt cope with everything they expected him to do. He was 54

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  7. Has a familiar ring to it.
    “Letter from Dr. Wurm, of the Wuerttemberg Evangelical Provincial Church, to Reich Minister of interior Dr. Frick, September 5, 1940 ( Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression – Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1946, Supp. A, p. 1223).

    Dear Reich Minister,

    On July 19th I sent you a letter about the systematic extermination of lunatics, feeble-minded and epileptic persons. Since then this practice has reached tremendous proportions: recently the inmates of old-age homes have also been included. The basis for this practice seems to be that in an efficient nation there should be no room for weak and frail people. It is evident from the many reports which we are receiving that the people’s feelings are being badly hurt by the measures ordered and that the feeling of legal insecurity is spreading which is regrettable from the point of view of national and state interest.”

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