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DPAC 'Bye Bye Boris' Uxbridge trial

Uxbridge, Middlesex. Fri 6 Dec 2019



 'Cuts Kill' says a well worn poster with a large plastic cleaver wired on it

 Paula Peters is the judge for a trial of Boris Johnson and the Tories for their cuts and sanctions which have killed

 many thousands and their 'war on the disabled' . At the back of the 'court' is a banner that gives the names and

 a few pictures of just over a hundred people who have died after losing benefits.

 The protesters wear t-shirts with the message 'End the war on disabled people - Use your vote to #TrashTheTories.

 

 Maggie Zolobajluk gives evidence about ex-soldier David Clapson, a diabetic whose benefits were stopped
 because he missed a DWP appointment. He couldn't afford food, nor electricity for the fridge for his insulin and
 died with now food in his stomach as a direct result of the DWP sanctions.

 A passer-by stops to talk with one of the protesters

 Many have died because of delays in paying Universal Credit

 and hundreds have committed suicide after having their benefits withdrawn after failing fitness to work tests which,

 are known not to be fit for purpose and are carried out by often unqualified people who are pressured to fail

 claimants. Three-quarters of those who appeal the decisions are successful, but it takes a long time and

 they often face another test and failure within weeks of a successful appeal.

 

 Others tell harrowing personal stories and those of friends and family

 

 A woman passing by gives her very negative opinion of Boris Johnson and the Tory party

 Maggie speaks again

 

 Disabled people have suffered greatly under the Coalition and Tories - and it is hard to avoid the conclusion that
  government policy has been to try and kill them off - and Mary -Ellen holds a card 'Dead People Don't Claim'

 

 

 

 

 

 One protester dressed as the Grim Reaper, wearing a Boris Johnson mask - and here gets a taste of his own scythe

 

 

 Boris the Grim Reaper

 'Tories Out, Corbyn In'

 

 

 The judge sums up the damning case - clearly the Tories are guilty of trying to eliminate disabled people

 

 

 'One death is one too many', but academic studies suggest the Tory policies have led to at least 120,000 early deaths

 

 

 

 

 It starts to rain as the protesters pose for a final photograph

and as I wait for my bus home it really pours down.

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