Hellforms and protest

[penguin_worship]

Have managed to break the back of the accounts bits that have been on the to do list all year. Tax returns for flannelcat and myself now submitted, hopefully with some money to come back *yay* After the Hellform of the DLA i did with eglantinedreams yesterday, the tax returns felt like a breeze

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[anotherusedpage]

Other flaws that I have noticed: no definition of what the 'most disabled' people will be; no critereon and no specificness, this makes it very difficult for any campaigning group to consult usefully because we don't know who these cuts are targeted at.

More vie foreverdirt and vampirekitten: Me: "So, foreverirt: what do we think the key things not in this report are

[anotherusedpage]

And I'm not against reform generally, but this isn't reform this is another name for cuts. And I'm really quite sick of stealth cuts.

NB, anger not aimed at you, but... anger very much there. We were promised that the most vulnerable would be protected in the face of cuts, and the first cuts to come through were aimed at the DLA of the absolutely most vulnerable, those in full time care homes.

[penguin_worship]

Really helpful info - thanks. I freely admit to both wanting to do something about this issue, and being rather uninformed - so am wanting to find out more before crafting any kind of response/taking any kind of action.

Now - is it better NOT to contribute to the consultation AT ALL, in this case, and just go through the MP route? (i'm not meaning just for myself, i'm meaning in general - do you know if activist groups are advocating boycotting it completely - or trying to influence the scope by responding?) I can see arguments both ways for this:
By contributing to the consultation - one adds to the stats of those consulted, and thus they can say "but we consulted wit X people" whilst ignoring what they actually said.
However if one doesnt respond - then the response will be "yes well we asked for opinions, and only got ones that reinforced our viewpoint - you've had your chance"

[anotherusedpage]

I'm really very wary of consulting when I find the base aim of cutting 20% so abhorrent. It's like giving legitimacy. But I see your point.

I've filled in info for MIND to influence their consultation, thereby making sure that my opinion is heard but not personally giving credance to the consultancy. Happy, slightly hypocritical, middle ground...

[chess]

The consultation on the law outlawing 'extreme pornography' has put me off individually contributing to consultations - a very large number of people individually contributed to tell them that was a bad idea, and they only listened to the organisation-based responses rather than the individual responses because those said what they wanted to hear.

I know this is a different government to the one that paid no attention to that consultation, but I remain to be convinced they will pay any more attention; it suggests it might be more worth it to get organisations that might concievably have an interest to fill in the consultation, though...

[eglantinedreams]

It may have taken me a while to read this post but I'm glad I did.

I wish I could send you to Westminster to tell the tossers how rubbish there reforms are x!