Interesting Twitter row with the sheeple that make up the WOW petition group.
They ran some petition that got just over 100,000 names on it (many likely to be aliases to help bump up the numbers as they were struggling to get their target) which amounts to barely 1% of people registered to be claiming DLA, PIP and Carers Allowance- I've excluded the people on ESA to lessen their embarrassment.
The Labour Party use it to get debates going in Westminster for something that will affect all disabled people and carers.
When told that the WOW group have no right to speak for all disabled people and carers they say they aren't doing that!
The WOW petition group claim they are a democratic group and if people had issues with what they were doing they should have spoken out earlier.
Great idea, except the WOW petition group, like the Spartacus group actually block any comments that oppose what they are doing.
Democracy in action eh? Everyone can have an opinion as long as it agrees with theirs.
I never actually thought I would every agree with Simon Stevens (Mr Atos) but as he clearly doesn't like the WOW or Spartacus groups then in this case I do, for differing reasons though.
I spotted Sue Marsh's Twitter feed where she was asking if the researcher for channel 5's Big Benefits Debate were going to cover her travel and hotel costs for her to appear on the show. That's sort of odd because as she states in her blog she was in London on that day anyway-
As it happened, I also had a hospital appointment in London yesterday at 3pm. As
only us sick people can really know, that is traumatic enough in itself. It
takes 3 hours for Dave to drive me to central London and 3 hours to get home.
Ordinarily, that alone would exhaust me for days after the actual event but
instead, yesterday, I chose to wait 6 HOURS for the Big Benefits Row to start.
By 8pm, every one of my loved-ones know not to phone me or expect intelligent
reponses. Waiting up to do a show that starts at 9pm is significant in my
world.
could this be the reason she was dropped? Did the programme makers find out that she was trying to get money from them under false pretences?
She has stated recently that she won't do anything now unless she gets paid for it, was this one attempt to line her own pockets too many?
Then when you look at the WOW petition's web site there is a donation button, so how much has been raised and where has it gone?
WOW is one of the least transparent campaigning groups around and Labour are happy to work with them?
Having finally gotten Labour to talk to me regarding carers issues thanks to a friend on Facebook, and being offered the chance to speak or meet Kate Green I turned it down. I've no intention of having anything to do with the WOW or Spartacus groups and if that means not getting the chance to put carers concerns to Labour then so be it.
Seems like there will never be unity between different online disabled people and carer communities, the problems run way too
