I’m expecting the DWP to instantly adopt whatever AI it is that that insurance company that recently lost its CEO uses to deny claims. And all I can do is hope that they, and those enabling them, get a similar response (though who am I kidding, if the general public gave two shits about poor and especially disabled people being deliberately and systemically denied support and left to die, we’d have seen a reaction a decade ago).

Hate to make you cry a little more, but it’s £14 billion, not million

Mostly people are interested in what might benefit their lives. Not the thousands of hours it took to get there.

Nor in anything that might benefit the lives of people they see themselves completely detached from or even superior to, even if in reality they are either much more alike than they ever would or could admit, and or could end up in the other person’s shoes in a heartbeat.

Reading the article makes me want to vomit.

She was a vulnerable woman with a history of mental illness and addiction from childhood, which is almost certainly an indication of abuse (seriously, the way they describe her condition sounds like textbook survivor of long term abuse, rather than some random affliction and cause of her problems which they’re trying to frame it as, but who am I to say), who was very deliberately targeted by an abuser, who we KNOW is an abuser because he already has a conviction for battering a previous partner, and suffered formulaic abuse from the get go (he had her name and face tattooed on him after a week, proposed within 3 months, love bombing her before turning on her completely), was ignored by the police on several occasions, and eventually DRIVEN TO suicide by a person who knew that he could do just that, get her to do his dirty work for him, and he wouldn’t get the blame because of her history, and look at that - success, HE has taken her life, and gets to walk away to his current girlfriend, who he was smiling at and blowing kisses to from the dock (love bombing his next victim) as his last victims’ family looked on, with barely a slap on the wrist, and free reign to do it all yet again. And he will.

It’s sickening, and enraging, and terrifying.

No, we need to abolish capitalism so we can have free access to healthcare (and food, water, shelter), not to continue playing by the rules set out for us by those who profit from commodifying our basic needs and human rights.

Ah, yes, continuing to prioritise economy over society, and even humanity, that’s sure to start working out (for anyone other than the billionaires in power) any fucking day now… 🙄