"In reality, the ‘Law of Unintended Consequences’ is the justification used by successive administrations for social policies which were always destined to cause preventable harm, and guarantees that no administration will be held to account for what is government-induced human suffering on a vast scale."

#UKGov #DWP

Without #DisabilityRights
there is #DisabilityDiscrimination
which permits #DisabilityHate
and ultimately #DisabilityDeath.

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/system/files/paragraphs/cw_file/2026-02/The%20law%20of%20unintended%20consequences.pdf

“The callousness of the #Labour government has been exposed. Its own backbenchers have rightly hammered it.” #RichardMurphy

Without #DisabilityRights
there is #DisabilityDiscrimination
which permits #DisabilityHate
and ultimately #DisabilityDeath.

#DisabilityPride

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07/01/starmer-has-been-defeated-and-has-not-a-shred-of-credibility-left/

The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future
Watchdog shows UK has taken zero action in response to UN recommendations in six areas of disability rights

Successive UK governments – mostly Conservative-led – have failed to take any action to address six key disability rights recommendations made by the UN over the last decade, according to the human…

Disability News Service

#Starmer & #Reeves#Labour currently following in the #Conservatives’ footsteps - goose-stepping all the way to #democide / #genocide of even more #disabled folk. Some 300,000 killed via #austerity and the (deliberate?) tragic #Covid19 mis-management fiasco. How many do the #reds intend to kill off?

Without #DisabilityRights
there is #DisabilityDiscrimination
which permits #DisabilityHate
and ultimately #DisabilityDeath.

“Misleading”, “rushed”, and “unfair” consultation on work capability assessment reforms declared unlawful – an important victory for Disabled people | Disability Rights UK

Disability Rights UK (#DRUK), said: “With almost 60 per cent of #Covid deaths being those of #disabled people, it is hardly surprising that the Covid inquiry found that pre-#pandemic planning failed to take sufficient account of those with pre-existing conditions, those living in deprivation or those from minority ethnic communities.”

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath

Link to #DisabilityNewsService #DNS website:

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/first-covid-inquiry-report-shows-criminally-negligent-attitude-of-previous-governments/

First Covid inquiry report ‘shows criminally negligent’ attitude of previous governments

The first report of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has shown how successive governments displayed a “criminally negligent” attitude towards protecting disabled people and other groups at risk from pandemi…

Disability News Service
Hate speech, snooping and benefits: How government policy has ‘violated disabled people’s rights’

Disabled people in the UK have their rights undermined by government policies in the disability benefits system, social care and housing.

The Big Issue

“The #UK signed the #disabilities convention in 2009, but it has still not been incorporated into British law.
In 2016, an inquiry by the #UN's Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (#UNCRPD) found that the UK was in breach of three of the Convention's articles
The same inquiry found that welfare reforms introduced since 2010 had "adversely" affected #disabled people.”

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-68570042

Labour: UN row shows 'UK not taking disabled seriously'

UN hearing on UK's breaches of international disabilities treaty leads to criticism of government.

BBC News