A crowdfunded campaign will send more than 400 copies of John Pring’s The Department, which looks at the role of the DWP in the deaths of disabled people, to parliament
MP will soon be given a book about the failures of the Department for Work and Pensions after a crowdfunding campaign was launched to buy more than 400 copies to help the new government “understand the enormous suffering that the Tory ‘welfare reform’ agenda caused”., titled “Tell Labour MPs the human cost of benefit cuts”, has met its initial £3,500 target.
The book is about “slow bureaucratic violence, and the impact of that – bureaucracy that ran out of control, really”, said the author, who runs. It looks at how the DWP “covered up its role in the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of disabled people”, said publisher Pluto Press.Organisers said that they want to give books to Labour MPs to “stress the urgency of ending the cruel, counterproductive and murderous social security system left by the Tories”.
There are “some really concerning comments coming from Liz Kendall, and then backed up by Rachel Reeves this week”, said Pring. “There will be reforms, and the words we’re hearing coming from ministers … they do seem to suggest that they’re going to be repeating some of the mistakes and the harm caused in the post-2010 Conservative years, and that’s really worrying.
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