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'The UK signed the disabilities convention in 2009, but it has still not been incorporated into British law.

In 2016, an inquiry by the UN's Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) found that the UK was in breach of three of the Convention's articles

The same inquiry found that WELFARE REFORMS INTRODUCED SINCE 2010 had "adversely" affected disabled people.

The Committee issued a number of recommendations to rectify the situation.

The delegation's appearance in Geneva this week had been scheduled for August last year, but British officials failed to attend.

At this week's session, a second UN Special Rapporteur, Rosemary Kayess, told the hearing that "reforms within social welfare benefits are premised on a notion that disabled people are undeserving, and are skiving off and defrauding the system".

In her evidence, the deputy director of the Cabinet Office Disability Unit, Alexandra Gowlland cited both the government's National Disability Strategy and the Disability Action Plan, which she said demonstrated the UK's "ongoing commitment to support disabled people".

A number of disabled people's organisations (DPOs) also sent delegations to the session.

Speaking from Geneva, Rensa Gaunt, communications manager for Inclusion London - which campaigns for equality for deaf and disabled people - told Access All: "You would think the government would listen to the UN, or would at least be embarrassed to be in breach of the convention it signed up to, but it isn't."

UN confirms that UK government’s treaty violations were both grave AND systematic

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/un-confirms-that-uk-governments-treaty-violations-were-both-grave-and-systematic/

Indeed Asimpleinvestor, yet we ALL know the Tories turn away from the needs of the disabled..

'The UK is the only signatory to be found in breach of the UN treaty designed to protect the human rights of disabled people. The government's Work Capability Assessment programme (WCA) led to 600 suicides in three years.'

I'd have hope the Truss pork market deal alone would have out stripped TESLA!

'So Tesla is worth more than the whole of the UK economy ... we are so far behind'

But but... i'd have thought the hot air that propelled Tesla to such giddy heights would never have kept up with the UK economy post Brexit?

How are those promised Brexit sunlit uplands?

Come to think of it... where have all those that promised those Brexit sunlit uplands!?!?!

Looking at you GateBoy.

Not obsessed at all are they..

why is it leerex and gateboy continually feel the need to state i am on 'ignore'?

who gives a ****? i know they tired of getting ripped a new one.

'The Saudis don't murder Brits.'

And naturally they don't arm anyone that does either.

Bin Laden anyone?

Dear oh dear.

Mvarawa

Thankfully we'll never know how many British lives were saved. As the killing stopped.

Dear oh dear.

Yawn.

MVarawa

Nothing wrong at all with a Christian nation handing weapons to a particularly rabid Muslim nation.

Much like there is nothing wrong at all with handing our media to a particularly rabid Australian.

You come out of hiding then? Dodged the fact the Conservatives are funded by Russian's then?

Dear oh dear.

'SO!'

MOST AMUSING

GateBoy.. coming up for air after spending an age deleting his old posts and any that quoted his cheerleading on Liz Truss.

What a ridiculous old fool.

And Thatcher began selling arms to the Saudi's...

The guy that negotiated peace in Ireland. I wonder how many British lives that saved?

That the same Chagos deal the Conservatives put in motion?

All the more reason to build more wind farms, as Labour are doing.

Musk constantly slamming the UK wouldn't be because he sees the UK as a sitting duck now we are cast adrift on our own now would it? If only he could bring down the government and install Farage or Bad Enoch and get to grips with privatising our health service. He'd make a mint.

Not sure how much you'll be paying to see a doctor though..

Britain's obsession with Neoliberalism is failing more like.

The low taxing of the wealthy is not working.

The reliance on 'trickle down' economics is not working.

Your fantasy of Marxist economics is just that.

Trump's Vice President pick JD Vance on Trump the rapist and fraudster..

'America's Hitler' ...'Moral disaster' ....'Total fraud' .. 'Reprehensible'

'The REALITY of a British economy characterised by MANY YEARS OF LOW GROWTH and sagging productivity, deepening structural problems, HIGH DEBT and heavy deficits, CRUMBLING public services and INADEQUATE public investment. It is an awful combination that produces that unreconcilable mix of massive demands on budgetary resources and neither the headroom nor the operational flexibility to come anywhere near meeting them.'

In such a situation, it should come as NO SURPRISE that, depending on which news media you read and listen to, there are loud complaints that the budget will destroy jobs, lower wages, increase mortgage payments, steal hard-earned inheritances, boost inflation and destabilise financial markets.

'THE BUDGET MAKES ROOM FOR HIGHER INVESTMENT, THE DESPERATE LACK OF WHICH HAS UNDERMINED GROWTH AND FUTURE PROSPERITY. For decades, the UK has lagged behind all the other G7 economies, not just in maintaining its existing engines of productivity and growth, but also in enabling future ones. A FURTHER FALL WAS ON THE CARDS, had it not been for the chancellor’s decision to devote more than a third of the extra spending to public investment and accompany this with institutional mechanisms that support efficiency, cost-effectiveness and impact.'