Mo Stewart

The 1982 Thatcher Cabinet minutes identified the intention to adopt ‘the politics of fear’ to coerce the British public to accept the need for private income replacement health insurance, to remove the financial burden of the National Health Service and the welfare state. Every administration since Margaret Thatcher adopted social policies to move...

As the world is preoccupied by the pandemic, and the British public are beginning to comprehend the full impact of Brexit, the predictable public mental health crisis created by the demolition of the UK social safety net has been disregarded by successive administrations. Few people realized that preventable harm was the inevitable creation of soci...

This is a written submission to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee for their inquiry regarding health assessments for benefits.

WHILST THE WORLD is distracted by the global pandemic, and the United Kingdom (UK) is adjusting to the reality of Brexit, there is an ongoing public health crisis created by social policy reforms and austerity measures which is being totally disregarded by successive administrations.

This briefing is in response to the Health and Disability Green Paper, published by the UK Government, which invites public consultation regarding the suggested future changes to social security support for the chronically ill and disabled working-age community.

This is a briefing regarding the planned future social policy reforms in the UK.

I am the research lead for the Preventable Harm Project, that I led for ten years. The research demonstrates the plan by successive administrations to eventually replace the UK welfare state with private health insurance, identified as being Thatcher's 'dark legacy'.

Following ten years of research for the Preventable Harm Project, which identified the disability benefit assessment model as being fatally flawed, there is a government resistance to the evidence. Attempts are being made to raise the research evidence in debate.

The adoption of a fatally flawed assessment model to limit access to long-term disability benefits has caused a mental health crisis in the UK

The Preventable Harm Project ran for ten years and concluded in 2019. I have spent the past twelve months promoting the often disturbing Project findings, which culminated in an online webinar, held on 27th November 2020, hosted by the Centre for Welfare Reform.

Historically, the UK welfare system was designed to protect those in greatest need, which provided the necessary financial and psychological security for the unemployed and especially for the chronically ill and disabled community who are unfit to work. This paper identifies how social policy reforms based on fiscal priorities have had the opposite...

Neoliberal politics is the politics of greed. A philosophy that 'the market' must take priority, regardless of human consequences, has taken over political life in most of the western world and was especially noted in the United Kingdom following the 2008 banking crash, the election of the Coalition government in 2010 and the adoption of austerity...

The adoption of neoliberal politics, together with American social and labour market policies, guaranteed the creation of the preventable harm of the UK disabled community who are unfit to work.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the preventable harm created by the adoption of austerity measures in 2010, added to the welfare reforms introduced in 2008 which, collectively, have negative implications for population mental health in the UK. Design/methodology/approach A critical reflection of published research papers and key po...

Influenced by corporate America with an alternative agenda, the ongoing welfare reforms have created preventable harm and psychological tyranny for those too ill to work KEY WORDS: work capability assessment, employment and support allowance © Stewart

In the UK there are three words that identify the government enforced suffering of sick and disabled people, and they are: Work Capability Assessment (WCA). This report identifies the influence of a corporate healthcare insurance giant with successive UK governments since 1992, the influence of a former government Chief Medical Officer and the use...

The Department for Work and Pensions published selective ESA mortality totals following more FoI requests

Detailed evidence of the preventable harm created by UK welfare reforms when influenced by corporate America.

This is a response to the Reclaiming 'Chronic Illness' Inclusion Project Discussion Paper available online via the Centre for Welfare Reform

The chapter identifies the work involved on route to the publication of my book: Cash Not Care ~ the planned demolition of the UK welfare state, which exposed the influence of corporate America with UK welfare reforms since 1992.

Since first published in Feb 2017, State Crime by Proxy has been updated with relevant additional information.

The ongoing reluctance of the British government to accept overwhelming evidence that the assessment used to limit access to disability benefits is compromised and many chronically ill and disabled claimants are suffering, often with fatal consequences, as the UK welfare state is systematically demolished as planned since 1982. Outsourced to unacco...

The preventable harm created by ongoing welfare reforms is identified by Coroners as being linked to the fatally flawed work capability assessment (WCA), used to resist funding the Employment and Support Allowance. Select Committees and the President of the Appeal Tribunal for Social Security have identified the WCA as being unfit for purpose. The...

In the UK there are three words that identify the greatest government enforced human suffering of sick and disabled people since the welfare state began, and they are: Work Capability Assessment.

Demonising disabled people: public behaviour and attitudes during welfare reforms [Blog contribution: Welfare Conditionality: sanctions, support and behaviour change] Independent researcher Mo Stewart identifies the ease with which public behaviour can be manipulated and changed by government when aided by the press. Public behaviour has also chang...

The deaths, despair and the suffering now endured by the chronically ill and disabled population was all planned a very long time ago, and is totally unrelated to the 2008 banking crisis, argues principal researcher MO STEWART. " Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive " is a very famous quote from the C17th by Sir Walter...

Thank you to the Disabled Students' Committee for the invitation to speak at the NUS conference today, and thanks for taking the time to attend this panel contribution. "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive" is a famous quote from the 17th Century by Sir Walter Scott, but is very apt for today's politics, as the Britis...

Purpose No civilian has any comprehension of life in British military forces, or the impact of the removal of that life when unexpectedly returned to “Civvy Street” following the onset of a permanent illness or profound disability, with the gradual realisation that support in the civilian world means that a disabled veteran is just one of a crowd....

In the UK there are three words that identify the government enforced suffering of sick and disabled people, and they are: Work Capability Assessment (WCA). This report identifies the influence of an American healthcare insurance giant with successive UK governments since 1992, the influence of a former government Chief Medical Officer and the use...

The manipulation of the British public is not difficult to achieve when the entire national press and media resist alerting the nation to the realities behind the ongoing welfare reforms. The future demolition of the UK welfare state was actually planned long ago by a previous Tory government, and the 2008 banking crisis was simply the excuse neede...

In the UK there are three words that identify the greatest government enforced human suffering of sick and disabled people since the welfare state began, and they are: Work Capability Assessment.

'Cash Not Care: the planned demolition of the UK welfare state' was published in September 2016 by New Generation Publishing and was launched in London on October 4th 2016. The book is a research text and is the culmination of six years of self-funded, independent research into the background of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), introduced in...

manipulated the British public by making unsubstantiated claims that later proved to be unfounded. Despite Duncan Smith's constant accusations there is not, nor has there ever been, any evidence of vast numbers of chronically sick and disabled people enjoying a life of idleness on long-term benefit because they are too idle to find work. The most r...

COMING SOON: ‘Cash Not Care ~ the planned demolition of the UK welfare state’ will be published in September 2016 by New Generation Publishing. The book is a research text and is the culmination of six years of self-funded, independent research into the background of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA), introduced in 2008 by the New Labour gov...

In the United Kingdom today there are three words that identify the greatest ongoing human suffering since World War II, and they are: Work Capability Assessment.

A brief summary of research exposing preventable harm of government's welfare reforms.

The difficulty for politicians is that every public statement they make in the House of Commons is recorded, every new policy they introduce can be scrutinised and every lie they tell will eventually be exposed.

The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is the functional assessment used in the UK by the Department for Work and Pensions to assess eligibility for the Employment and Support Allowance. This is the most recent income replacement benefit for chronically sick and disabled claimants who are unfit to work. Despite five consecutive annual reviews of the...

WAR & IMPAIRMENT: the social consequences of disablement 1. At the same time as the PM was waxing lyrically about what this nation owes to British Military Forces and veterans when speaking at the recent Conservative Party Conference, the DWP were busy advising 80,000 disabled War Pensioners that we were about to lose access to DLA and could, if we...

The ongoing welfare reforms have created an atmosphere of fear and despair within the British disabled community, that includes sufferers of chronic ill health and those with mental health difficulties. Claimants in receipt of the former Incapacity Benefit are being transferred to the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) but, to retain this disab...

Following the fatally flawed Work Capability Assessment (WCA) conducted by Atos Healthcare, as contracted by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the United Kingdom (UK) Government admitted that it was wrong to reduce the disability benefits of Mark Wood, the vulnerable disabled man who starved to death following the removal of his benefits,...

a research summary by Mo Stewart The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is exclusively conducted on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by the corporate giant Atos Origin IT Ltd Medical Services, better known as Atos Healthcare. This 'non-medical assessment' was introduced in 2008 by the Labour government, and was identified as a 'me...