Disabled People Against the Cuts has posted the following after Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory minister for Work and Pensions, resigned on 18 March 2016, on his own account in protest against the 16 March Tory Budget's cuts to disabled people's benefits.
It's been an amazing week – culminating in the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith
Whatever he resigned for – and we don’t believe a word that he says about standing up for disabled people – the fact remains – he is gone.
What happens with the new Minister Crabb, we have yet to discover, but what we do know is:
The fight is not over – DPAC will carry on fighting to win back the rights we have lost and then carry on fighting until disabled people are able to take their proper – entirely equal – place in society. Nothing less is acceptable.
But in the meantime here are some of the highlights of the last week [14-18 March]
Tuesday
We begin Operation Tory Dump – to lobby charities to sack patrons who are Tory MPs who voted for the Cut to ESA
Thursday
Paula Peters, Ellen Clifford along with members from Croydon and Bromley DPAC, ambush Zac Goldsmith [Tory candidate for Mayor of London] over his vote for the Cut to ESA. With nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide, Zac has no option but to listen to DPAC activists about his vote to cut ESA.
Friday
Ellen Clifford, Paula Peters, and London DPAC members ambush George Osborne and prevent a photo opportunity he had planned with Zac.
Friday evening – IDS Resigns!!
Saturday
DPAC calls for a party to celebrate IDS going in Parliament Square.
