2016-03-17 22:47:52 +0000
To: Stephen Crabb MP
Stephen Crabb. RESIGN as Mencap Patron Pembs immediately. Voted for disabled to lose £30 a week ESA.
Stephen Crabb, MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire and Secretary of State for Wales, we the undersigned demand that you resign your post as Patron of Pembrokeshire Mencap with immediate effect. Your recent vote in the House of Commons for disabled people to lose £30 per week of Employment Support Allowance (ESA) shows that you have absolutely no compassion or understanding for the needs of our most vulnerable and disabled members of society. You should hang your head in shame. As citizens of Pembrokeshire and elsewhere we feel that it is highly inappropriate that you continue as a patron for Mencap after voting for such inhumane and damaging cuts to ESA. Cuts that will cause further suffering, poverty and desperation for disabled people and increase the already horrific effect that your Government's cruel policies are having on our society.
Why is this important?
Stephen Crabb thinks that disabled people should suffer under his Government, lets force him to resign as Patron of Mencap in Pembrokeshire.
It's not even like this is Crabb's first offence, he may think that we don't keep an eye on his voting record in Westminster, however many of us can still remember that despite having been a former Trustee of Pembrokeshire Action To Combat Hardship (PATCH) and having posed for a photo op with the Charity just three days earlier, on December 15 of 2013, he voted against the publication of a 2013 investigation into food banks use and UK hunger, and against the motion which also called on the government to implement measures to reduce dependency on food banks in the UK. http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/letters/10954233.Foodbank_hypocrisy/
38degrees blog; Employment Support Allowance: Government forces through cuts
by Kahra Wayland-Larty Mar 16th, 2016
"Iain Duncan Smith’s finally got his way – forcing through cuts to support for people who face barriers to work due to illness or disability. Employment Support Allowance (ESA) is a lifeline: it pays to heat a cold home after cancer treatment, and extra prescription charges.
38 Degrees members certainly made it hard for the government. 100,000 of us signed the petition to prove public outrage – supporting the Lords to vote against these plans twice. In the end the government had to change the rules to make the Lords back down. Iain Duncan Smith might have got his way this time, but together we made sure it wasn’t easy.
There’s growing public anger against these dangerous cuts – just a few months ago hundreds of thousands of us helped stop cuts to tax credits. It’s vital we keep going, so that while the government’s breathing a sigh of relief, we’re getting ready for next time.
There’s never been a greater need for people power to defeat these cuts. So the more of us who are involved, the stronger we get. Please can you click this image below to share it on Facebook, as a way to show what you believe in, or forward this email to a friend you’d like to encourage to get involved with 38 Degrees. Anyone can be a 38 Degrees member by signing a petition, or taking another action"
Original blog here; https://home.38degrees.org.uk/2016/03/16/employment-support-allowance-government-forces-cuts/
How it will be delivered
We wont need to deliver it. The pressure that this petition and other media will put on him to resign should be enough!
