The Atos merry-go-round spins us into Hell again: This story is absolutely chilling. A man with serious medical conditions has been jailed – that’s right, JAILED – after an Atos work capability assessment. Read the story and quake in fear at the totalitarian regime that used to be the World leader in equality, justice and freedom of speech.
UPDATE 26/04/13 Steve Topley has been bailed, has pleaded guilty and is now expected to receive a community sentence. Seems he wasn’t such a threat to the community after all.
A Nottingham man has now been held in custody for two weeks after he was accused of “threatening behaviour”* due to comments he allegedly made during his Atos benefits assessment.
Steve Topley is a 49 year old father with multiple serious health problems who was required to attend a Work Capability Assessment with the notorious IT firm Atos – the company responsible for stripping benefits from hundreds of thousands of sick and disabled people. During the process Mr Topley made some comments about someone not present at the assessment.
These comments led to Atos staff calling the police and Mr Topley was asked to attend Queens Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham. When he refused to do so he was arrested. …
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Here’s a link to the ‘Free Steve Topley’ site that gives more information about his medical conditions: http://freestevetopley.wordpress.com/about/
The Thought Police really are here. 1984 was a novel not an instruction booklet Cameron & Clegg.
This government are scum. They have created a climate in which they can goad us to commit offences. It’s like they want enough of us in their private prisons to solve the housing crisis. Surely there must be grounds to oust them on a vote of no confidence. The opposition are a disgrace letting them get away with it.
I wonder how many “deadlier than the male” element were involved in making the decision to jail a sick man? I think Orwell got the gender wrong…
Eh?
thats nothing when they put the bid in they listed a number of charities and health firms and they only found out in the last couple of days that they were on the list then atos contacted them out of around 5 or 6 only 1 said they would talk to them.
Things might be about to get a lot worse. The government are now planning on reforming the criminal justice system. Highlights are 1. Suspects in the police station will not be able to choose a solicitor. They will be appointed one. 2. the number of solicitors firms is to be reduced by 75% (that’s not a typo – 75%). 3. the reduction in the number of solicitors is to be achieved by putting criminal work out to tender. 4. the bidders are not allowed to bid at over 82.5% of the current cost of running a criminal case. 5. The consultation which has introduced this idea states in terms that it does not want solicitors to offer any more than an “acceptable” level of service to suspects. 6. Once charged defendants may be represented in court by someone with no Crown Court trial experience (and will not be able to exercise a choice to change that representative). If you’re interested read the consultation here
https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/transforming-legal-aid
and if you don’t like it sign this petition
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/48628