Festival of Death: 2.45pm Sat 31 May – Ian Murray MP’s office, 31 Minto Street Edinburgh EH9 2BT
The Austerity Resistance Front is fighting against deadly disability benefit cuts, by holding a Festival of Death outside Labour MP Ian Murray’s office! Join us for disruptive festivities, live music, and popular outrage!
Info on location of Ian Murray MP’s office below
Ian Murray is Labour MP for Edinburgh South + Secretary of State for Scotland
Ian Murray MP office 31 Minto street EH9 2BT – on corner with West Mayfield
Buses include 31, 3, 29, 37, 47, 8.
Resist the attacks on the sick and disabled
The government is planning cruel measures like
– Freezing PIP and making it much more difficult to qualify for PIP
– Cutting benefit for the most sick claimants on Universal Credit, by abolishing the additional payment for those ” not fit to carry out work – related activity”
– Making it even more difficult to be found not fit for work
End the Racist policy of ‘no recourse to public funds’.
Currently, migrants often have to pay American style charges (tens of thousands of pounds) for basic NHS hospital treatments. Many migrants are also denied access to basic benefits such as disability payments, and universal credit. This forces migrants to accept lower wages in order to survive, lowering wages. This makes poor people poorer and corporate bosses richer.
Scrap the benefits cap.
The benefits cap is a limit to the amount of benefits someone can receive. This has forced many innocent people into poverty.
Scrap the two Child benefit limit
The cap on child benefits means that families receive no additional universal credit benefits for their third child, onwards. CPAG estimates that removing this cap would lift 300,000 children out of poverty.
Scrap the ‘Anti-Fraud’ bill.
The UK government is currently passing a bill which allows the DWP to spy on benefit claimants’ bank accounts. It also allows the government to directly deduct up to 40% of someone’s pay or bank account savings to recover benefits which have been overpaid due to administrative accidents. These fines can be issued without any kind of trial. We want this bill Scrapped!
Benefits not Bombs.
Why should we spend millions killing children in the Middle East, when children here are going hungry?
MORE INFO
Disabled People Against Cuts
https://www.facebook.com/disabledpeopleagainstcuts
Black Triangle
https://www.facebook.com/blacktriangle11
Benefits and Work
https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news
Child Poverty Action Group
CPAG on the cuts to disability benefits
https://cpag.org.uk/news/cpags-response-proposed-changes-sickness-and-disability-benefits
No More Growing Up Poor – End Child Poverty Britain-wide campaign initiated by Food and Solidarity
