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'Fit For Work' - the truth of the tragedy
The government's cruel Work Capability Assessment scheme rolls on, leaving thousands of ruined lives in its wake. Disabled People Against Cuts' LINDA BURNIP says we have to keep fighting it

Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is pleased to be supporting this week's anti-Atos demos at up to 144 assessment centres around the country.

The protests are taking place against the backdrop of the floods, with David Cameron's admission that Britain is a rich nation and that money is no object when it comes to alleviating the misery of potential Tory voters.

We can only take this statement to mean that the austerity measures which have been used to push disabled people into a life of daily fear and poverty are, as we always thought, purely ideological policies - nothing to do with the money having run out.

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