#ESAendgame: Day Two's Task

Here is the great Sue Marsh's ESAendgame task for today - absolutely anyone can join in. Please post your comments & links via the following:

http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/you-in-for-todays-little-task-esaendgame.html?showComment=1362672072572

I have however listed the links I posted on Sue's site as examples. Happy searching!

You in for today's little task? #ESAendgame

*Waves at all the #ESAendgame people blushes a little there are so many, clears throat*

So, most of the public don't have a clue what ESA or WCAs are. For the next few weeks we need to dig out and share some of the best ESA stories or TV programmes or radio debates we remember and share them around. Everywhere.


Please post your favourite links in the comment thread. **IF LINK IS LONG PLEASE INDICATE WHERE IN ARTICLE INFO IS** 

Again if you can please leave your 

Name (or Twitter/Facebook/Pseudonym) &
Constituency


Here's a few tips :

-Always use the full Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) at first so people start to learn what it is. Same with WCAs

-Remember a particualar time Graying got shown for the liar he is? 
-Remember punching the air when the Mail or Telegraph or somewhere actually wrote something fair about ESA? 
-Remember a statistic that literally blew your head off?
-Remember the first time you read something so clear, a huge penny dropped?

-Dig them out and share share share. At work, online, on twitter
-Be prepared to be patient at first if people ask questions. They almost certainly won't be very sympathetic at first, but that's what they've been told, most people aren't unkind.
-Absolutely never rise to trolls under any circumstances. Stay polite and informative.

We need people to really start thinking about ESA, understanding what it is and what we're actually so afraid of and cross about. Print some off and scatter them round at work, in the hairdresser, on noticeboards - nothing is silly.

Time to fightback with facts!!!!

The Eugenics Hydra

In an update to my articles on Genetic Discrimination and NAZI Treatment of the Disabled, the menacing threat of eugenics rears its vicious and hideous Hydra heads once again.

Today's Daily Telegraph (a right-of-centre UK national newspaper favoured by the Conservative Party aka Tories) published an article on screening embryos being the moral thing for any parent to do.

Professor Savulescu, a professor of medical ethics, writes that:

"Indeed, when it comes to screening out personality flaws, such as potential alcoholism, psychopathy and disposition to violence, you could argue that people have a moral obligation to select ethically better children."

This is a potentially perilous slippery slope that leads to the weeding out of all non-desirables: the brown-eyed; the homosexual; the ethnic genes of which one is ashamed or despises... Please read the full article if you have the time.

Be very alert folks!

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