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I hear what you're saying, and I agree. It’s frustrating when protest is only allowed as long as it has no real impact. It often feels like the system is more designed to silence than to listen. And yes, the way party politics works in Parliament means MPs are often forced to toe the line, even when they know the policies are harmful.

My own Labour MP is a perfect example. She has delusions of grandeur. When she stood for election, it was clearly a career move; she never genuinely had her constituents at heart It was all about her, never about us.

We’ve since found out she’s a PPS, so she is bound by strict loyalty rules (e.g., mandatory pro-government voting), which means she will never vote against government policy, no matter how damaging, because she’s chasing a ministerial role. She would have been far better off standing with her constituents, the very people who elected her. Had she followed through on that, people might have supported her again.

But instead, she chose ambition over principle, and the people in my town won’t forget that. Voters have long memories, and when trust is broken, there’s no second chance.

MY CASE IS A CASE AGAINST THE SECRETARY OF STATE:

I have used my self and the system as it has been applied to me since 1998 and probably before when I first became registered as disabled.

In those days the WCA and the assessment process was completed by ATOS who when I managed to get them to court for the number of Re-works of the Assessments completed by them far out weighed the number getting it right first time.

If you also remember there was a program on like under cover Boss, but this was a "new" guy wanting to get into the assessment of "people" and was hired by the DWP to help with the back log. "Or so they thought"

They paired him up with the "best" and who was at that time getting £850 for a simple assessment and then getting £250+ for extra work if they did ask for a rework or MR.

His words " you can make your self some serious money if you want, no questions asked." all I do is look at the paperwork sent in at home do the assessment at home which takes about 10 or 15 minutes make them an offer of a reduced rate or a possibality that what you offer if looked at to closley may go down if viewed by another assessor that is harder than me. Most accept, but I still put in another request for re-work, so I make about £1200 a claim and complete about 10 a day.

The day before ATOS were to appear they jacked in the contract to assess, you also have to remember who hired them.

They had to buy out of the contract to give the contract back for AN UNDISCLOSED AMOUNT? BUT STILL HELD ONTO THE LIMA SYSTEM and just in my eyes rebranded.

LIMA for those that do not know is Logic Intergrated Medical Access. Its a series of questions with a series of answers given by QUALIFIED DOCTORS AND SURGEONS, where there could be 3 to 5 answers to the question depending on the severity of the condition.

Where it comes unstuck is the people that use the system may have been qualified in something medical. But the Charter and the Law states that the people completing the assessment MUST BE ON THE BRITISH MEDICAL REGISTER AT THE TIME OF THE ASSESSMENT and MUST SHOW AN I D WITH THEIR PICTURE AND REGISTRATION NUMBER ON IT BEFORE THE ASSESSMENT BEGINS.

This is covered in the Bond Solon Rules Part 35 Section 2 where there are 10 sections just to this part that would not allow an assessor or any government department to use this.

This was why when being assessed in the early stages I asked for th Medical Report to be sent to my GP so that their assessment can be placed onto my Medical History along side my assessments completed by the NHS.

Fast forward 8 years and about another 6 assessments, Ian dunken Smith, in getting him to court he resigned the day before, saying his heart was telling him one thing and he was being told to do something else?

appearances in the upper Tribunal caused the 2008 Social Security Act to be written, and again in 2009, 2010 and 2011 where the upper Tribunal forced the DWP to relook at Thousands of assessments and there was a scramble to rewrite Acts and Laws that governed the Social Security Act, Human Rights Act, Data Protection Act, all around that time, since in refusing to accept an assessment completed by Capita, Concentrix, ATOS or Maximus who were now on the scene with the Universal Credit Program to save money in Admin by combining 6 different benefits into one where a CENTRAL COMPUTER WILL HAVE YOUR INFORMATION ON IT and any government benefit department that required information about you could get that from this computer.

RIGHT? WRONG, every assessment or requirement from a government department that needs to know about you to access this computer MUST ASK PERMISSION BEFORE ACCESSING THIS INFORMATION. THIS IS THE DATA PROTECTION ACT.

So in plain english they reworked the paperwork so that when you give permission in one form they worded it so that you gave permission to others to also access it by saying, We will only use this information if when applying for benefits another department may require this same information. For Instance Housing Benefit when applying for a bridging loan. If you history of payments are rubbish then your not going to get one.

Or applying for housing reduction or council tax reduction. ON EACH OCCASSION THEY HAVE TO ASK YOUR PERMISSION, including access to your medical files.

My case next week is to claim compensation for the repeated errors to me and my family, and the people I represent, and to make sure that Tribunal Results and judges directions are upheld and that amendments made to the Benefit are legally logged, so that conversations later after a year or two don't alter the original agreement.

Oh we always do this when you are comming to the end of your certificate (a 3 year certificate issued, and then reassessed after 1 year and 2 month?) the charter is spacific, it states that if any changes to you or your medication that can affect the original out come must be reported, but it also states that we may contact you 3 MONTHS before the end date, just to ask some preliminary questions prior to sending out another claim form or appointment review.

Once you answer with more or less information it gives them a chance to review your case and start a fresh claim.

There are lots more, but needless to say I am expecting the DWP to try again the 11th Hour call to settle out of court, but I have covered this like last time where they contacted the court not me to say they WILL BE MAKING ME AN OFFER. THIS GOES AGAINST THE JUDGES DIRECTION TO APPEAR, THE TIME RESTRAINTS SET IN LAW AND BY THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, i DID NOT RECEIVE THE AMENDMENTS TO THE FILES where they committed fraud, forged my signature on a document, and rewrote some of my medical history, (I was in hospital having Bi-lateral Knee replacements) and an assessor came to the hospital to see if I was their just before going into the operating theatre, that all the assessors I saw never showed me a name tag, and when asking one from Capita who came to my home, he assaulted me, because I would not let him in my home but was persuaded by my wife to let him in, after 10 minutes he asked me to look on the medical register which I was already doing and I showed him the result of him not being allowed to assess until he finished his formal training which was started 3 years before and NEVER COMPLETED OR SIGNED TO SAY HE COULD ASSESS, he slammed the computer down on m,y fingers and almost took the front door off the hinges including the front gate.

But other wise its a pretty straight forward case. More open and shut if you will excuse the pun.

As this has been a long battle you are correct it is the necessity of being able to get what we ARE entitled to that kept me going.

As I said it was never about the money as I have never been materialistic, but if any one winning the lottery and is stressing about the loss of friends and family, FEAR NOT……. I will be only to glad to relieve you of any stress and work out a simple contribution towards your living costs on a weekly or monthly arrangement similar to the Chancellors ideas, only she won't get any……

MY main concern is to get a single law/assessment that is fit for purpose that gives the claimant the right access to benefits, financially or medically because that is what the NHS and Nye Bevan set up in 1954.

We have come along way since then improving the system and improving the NHS and its access. But some where along the way certain fractions started to creep in and sections of the NHS were "Sold Off". These profit making parts were the LIFE OF THE NHS, and were used to support other less profitable areas. I don't like the terms BUDGET OR TARGET, when used incorrectly as I have always worked with both including costings.

I have made Millions of Pounds for companies I have worked for simply by getting the EMPLOYER o value who is making them these Mega Bucks.

Because without a multi-skilled work force, or a work force that does feel valued, you havee a work force that will turn up at the start of the shift clock on and wait for the knocking off buzzer to clock oiff and go down the pub. Its for thee Employer to find them something to do as I am on your clock….

Simple little tweaks to the system, not reinventing the wheel but working with what you have, and seeing where the issues lie, then remedying them, or re-install sections that may have been by-passed years ago that are no longer relevant going forward, and also listening to the people on the front line of all of this.

It does make for a happy work force, since they know they can suggest things to improve there job with out the risk of later loosingg that job because it worked well. The way you should look at it is, test the Change, review, install, review, rewrite the risk and method statements.

It does not end their……. Give the suggestion a percentage of the save for increasing production or savings, add a bonus scheme to the production figures, and everyone want to get those figures up to gain more money and keep the WHOLE industry running at a profit.

The system of assessment is not broken. You all use the system every time you go to the doctors or A & E. Its about how you access the system and what happens next…..

Wr are in a situation where dealing with Issues like the NHS has become, a bottle neck situation, where one part is relying on another to advance, and then when in the next bottle, when assessed are awaiting to go to the next bottle, always a lag between assessment and treatment to the next level.

This nevber was, since people were always entering the NHS as a career and stil do, but the time taken from training to hands on has now required contractors from Abroad to be called in to "help"

The only thing they are helping us with is draining the easy profit making sections that require NO WORK, and sending the profits abroad for support of their system which we don't have. French and American systems rely on Private Health Care plans.

And before anyone says anything, we also have similar schemes like Welsh Hospitals, and BUPA, which do work, but most may not know that Australia has a Private Health Care System where ALL NATIONAL INSURANCE PAYMENTS ARE MADE INTO THE "NHS" and the best care is given at source? All profits are made and put back into the system so everyone benefits.

PROFITS, if you want to call it that is used to train staff or keep skills levels at their peak and up with the latest technology, while also paying a living wage, (I did not say basic) that can and is increased everytime you take on a new skill, or an oportunity to "try something new" or a course that you have been waiting for becomes available.

I have wrote many programs on "How to fix the system" (any system) but, when left and not reviewed constantly when issues arrise the latest is to cut the budget or reduce the man power to compensate.

Don't you remember the closure of 800 JOB CENTERS AROUND THE COUNTRY? How are we supposed to find work when the very people that were hired by the DWP to find US WORK LOST THEIRS.

I am sorry I write so much but you can understand that its easy for me to write a 1000 pages on the faults of the system because its already broken, it takes a different person to write a 1000 pages on how to fix the system are I do because this is what I used to do.