| Minister of State for Disabled FSVs ? |
| This Chapter at a Glance:
• Minister for Disabled People – Mr.Justin Tomlinson MP(Encumbent), Or how to put your foot into your mouth 5 minutes into the job; (Promotional Advice ~ always follow a fool); • Mrs Sarah Newton ~ for July 2016 . |
| Mr.Justin Tomlinson MP ~ July 2015 – July 2016 |
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As under Secretary of State and Junior Minister he will be subordinate to the new Minister of State for Pensions Baroness Altmann CBE. Both Baroness Altman CBE and Mr.J. Tomlinson MP become part of the Ministerial team at the DWP under the infamous Secretary of State for Work and Pensions the RT Hon Ian Duncan Smith MP. Because Baroness Altman CBE is not an elected Member of Parliament but a Member of the House of Lords she is not permitted to appear in either debates or answering and accounting for pensions in the House of Commons but nevertheless the day to day decision making still rests her. Included in that will be the origination of new and/or amending legislation but as a member of the House of Lords, she will be unable to guide pensions legislation directly through the Commons. Accordingly, to carry out those essential roles Mr.J. Tomlinson MP has been appointed as the government’s Common’s pensions spokesman. Tomlinson is MP for North Swindon, and previously served as an Abbey Meads Councillor for ten years. He graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in business studies and before taking up politics owned a local business ‘TB Marketing’ (which he sold upon election). Another of his accomplishments was as a former nightclub manager. Minister for Disabled People, Justin Tomlinson said of his aspirations: “Disability is an issue which affects millions of people across the UK and it is a privilege to have been given the opportunity to challenge negative attitudes to disability in order to improve social and employment outcomes for disabled people. This role gives me the chance to carry on the good work of the past 5 years, supporting more disabled people into employment, encouraging entrepreneurship, raising aspirations and making sure that disabled people have the same opportunities to realise their potential as non-disabled people.”. It seems ‘challenging negatives attitudes’ should have started at home by making his cap fit… One also hopes that he will turn his aspirations and attention in the combination of his roles(disablement and pensions) to investigate with Baroness AltmannCBE and the Minister of State Rt Hon Mark Francois MP at the Department of Communities and Local Government why it is that disabled Fire Service Veterans, their Widows, and |
beneficiaries continue to receive underpaid pensions from the State since 1992 in another appalling unaddressed breach of good faith with those who became disabled in protection of the communities which they served? Since junior Minister Tomlinson made the above heart rending statement he made the following gaffe following a successful case against the DWP for late disability payments… “The court has rightly dismissed the claimants’ absurd suggestion that their human rights had been breached.”… Really, one hopes that this Minister will heed his own words in which he will… “challenge negative attitudes to disability…” starting with himself. Whilst one might expect the former gaffe, or worse, from a former night club bouncer it is hardly acceptable coming from a newly appointed Minister with the specific task of caring for the UK’s disabled People. Little does he know that being disabled and struggling for the recognition of basic human rights go hand in glove. Indeed he is probably unaware that there are ‘absurd’ voting disabled Fire Service Veterans permanently injured in his own constituency defending his safety who continue self-evidently without his support, to establish these Rights from consecutive UK governments who inform the world ad nauseam that theirs is a perfect caring democracy. One wonders what impression this gauche insensitive gaffe will go down with his immediate bosses including the new Minister for Pensions Baroness Altmann the ‘older persons champion’ whom he is required to work with in a subordinate role? How is he going to explain his dismissive arrogant attitude to his own voting disabled in his own constituency? To be a Minister for the Disabled People requires maturity both of mind and politics, tact, and extreme sensitivity(if he is not disabled himself) no attributes which Minister Tomlinson has clearly exhibited by this absurdity. The Bugler predicts that Minister Tomlinson days are numbered. To begin his appointment with a political gaffe of such monumental proportions raises the question what is to come next? The slapping, a la Patton, of some disabled person in bed whom he thinks is being ‘absurd’? It seems there is still room in the Circus tent for another clown… He reigned until 2016 whence he was confined to the back benches where it was to be hoped he would do less harm. He was described by his peer group as having the sensitivity of an Elephant in the jungle with diarrhoea but that was unkind compared to the other complex epithet that as a sports lover he was described as a world beating own goal goalie… Albert of Einstein fame can still rest easy in his grave… Then House of Horrors he came back in 2017 and then again in 2019!!!!. |
| Mrs Sarah Newton ~ For July 2016 |
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Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work
The photogenic Mrs Sarah Newton was elected Conservative MP for Truro and Falmouth in May 2010.
The Minister’s responsibilities include: • cross-government disability issues • work and health strategy, including sponsorship of the Joint Work and Health Unit • disability employment, including Disability Confident, Work Choice, Access to Work, the Work and Health Programme and mental health in the workplace • support for those at risk of falling out of work, including occupational health and Statutory Sick Pay • financial support for sick and disabled claimants, including within ► Universal Credit ►Disability Living Allowance ►Personal Independence Payment ►Employment and Support Allowance ►Attendance Allowance ►Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit ►Carer’s Allowance ►specific welfare and health-related issues, including Motability and arms-length compensation schemes ►oversight of the Health and Safety Executive and the Office for Nuclear Regulation
Presumably in all of this there will be an oversight of disabled Fire Service Veterans,their Widows, and Beneficiaries, well being which includes ensures that their pensions are paid properly and at the correct rate? Thought to date 18 months down the line we have not the slightest interest from anyone… |
