Diary of an unemployed head injured DDT

There is currently an exercise going on by which the Government reports back to the UN on how well it has implemented the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). There...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-bill-of-rights-for-sick-and-disabled.html

The WOWpetition called for  "A New Deal for sick & disabled people based on their needs, abilities and ambitions".  What exactly does that mean? To start off with it means different things ...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-new-deal-for-sick-disabled-people.html

> The WOW Debate Is A Go - Now We Need Your Help Again!  >  >  December 12th, 2013 was, for many of us, a small moment of > celebration as the WOW Petition ended...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2014/01/draft-guest-blog-on-how-you-can-help.html

Today at the House of Commons Backbench Business Committee John McDonnell MP, Ian Mearns MP and Ian Lavery MP secured a backbench business committee debate of the WOWpetition. Huzzah The issue...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2013/12/wowpetition-contact-your-mp-we-need.html

I am posting this on my Blog as I do not have Paul Maynard MPs e-mail address. It was cc'd to my MP, The Right Honourable Theresa May MP. WOWpetition 1 minute ago 2:17 PM FromIan Jones ...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2013/11/e-mail-to-paul-maynard-re-cumulative.html

3. MY RESPONSE TO THE EHRC'S RESPONSE. Dear Mr Hammond, Your reference - NS184 Thank you very much for your reply to my e-mail of the 2nd October 2013. I would like to take you up on your...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2013/11/ongoing-correspondence-with-ehrc.html

INTRODUCTION As WOWpetition enters the home straight my thoughts have turned to things other than how do we get people to sign our e-petition nbr 43154  http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petition...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2013/10/bridging-divide-integrating-national.html

WHY DISABILITY EQUALITY NEED NOT BE THE PRICE OF DEFENDING THE WELFARE STATE Neil Crowther, who is a member of Labour's Disability Taskforce posted a Blog with the above title. To see his blo...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2013/10/what-should-disability-equality-really.html

To The Right Honourable Theresa May MP   Dear Theresa,   Following Esther McVey's triumphal announcement of the Disability Confident Scheme I have contacted employers that are obviousl...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2013/09/disability-confident-my-arse.html

I thought it might be useful to detail my current feelings about the WOWpetition campaign. As part of my travels I have spoken to fellow WOWers, MPs, Political Activists and other campaigners f...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2013/05/wow-nearly-6-month-progress-report.html

I have always believed that in order to convince people you have to be inclusive, or as inclusive as possible. I have taken that approach to work and I try to bring it to campaigning. My MP is Th...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-constituency-meeting-with-my-mp.html

I have thought long and hard about this. I can either say it exactly how it happened or make it interesting by shortening some of the sequences, leaving others out and telling a story that relays...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2013/03/when-wow-met-campaign-for-benefit.html

DISABLED BENEFIT SCROUNGER! WOWpetition I am currently unemployed. WOWpetition I WANT TO WORK. WOWpetition David Cameron, Theresa May, Chris Grayling all think that I need to be incentivise...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-does-working-mean-to-me-headinjury.html

Through a friend I made on Twitter I got involved with a move to write PatsPetition2.  Pats Petition called on the government to   "STOP AND REVIEW THE CUTS TO BENEFITS AND SERVICES WHICH A...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/11/frame-directgov-e-petition-question.html

I have had a very interesting TwitCon this morning which in my opinion outgrew Twitter as a medium for discussing it 3 others and myself started by discussing Labours culpability for ATOS and the...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-can-disabled-people-get-their-voice.html

I've retired, or at least for 2 years until my youngest is a bit older. However, I can see me getting bored within that time frame so I thought I'd try to build up a network of people that could ...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/09/somebody-help-me-out.html

Life has a way of simplifying itself, doesn't it. I can imagine at schools up and down the country little girls and boys in wheelchairs will be seeing their career advisors about their career cho...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/09/rt-christineburns-lesson-of-paralympics.html

As I write this the Paralympic's has just about finished and I am thinking what are my memories of it? Sporting memories will be covered in depth elsewhere so here are my slightly funky memories:...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/09/where-do-we-go-from-here.html

I'm confused. At this moment in time I hold in my head 2 opposing views. The 1st is a long held view that British Paralympians will be betraying the UK's disabled by performing like monkeys f...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/08/just-what-do-i-stand-for.html

LEARNING, GROWING AND DISCOVERING Recruitment    Morven House, The CausewaN6 1BB Our newest supported living service is offering exciting support worker, project worker and shift lea...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-make-every-day-extraordinary.html

To The Right Honourable Theresa May MP Dear Theresa, It has been a while since I last wrote to you. This is because I have always found you to be pleasant, generous and humane but the Policie...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/06/reversing-from-recovery.html

Hi, The job is going well, thanks for asking! I now work in the care industry looking specifically after people with Learning Difficulties (LD), or to be more specific looking after the money...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/06/what-next.html

I keep talking about the new Post Spartacus Blog, Read more: http://nowr.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=charities&action=display&thread=5#ixzz1smEwXOxR We are starting up new discussions on th...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/04/mind-they-apparently-dont-do-you.html

It's been a while. The novelty of working again after being on the scrapheap (the pre 2012 Workfare programme!!) for 4 years has caused me to ignore you (Am I now being a pompous prat up my own...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/04/steven-fry-good-egg-or-pompous-prat-up.html

Do you remember my post "Just who are Disability Rights UK" a couple of weeks ago. Well it seems their Chief Exec Liz Sayce is Maria Miller's apologist in Chief as she has been justifying the dec...

http://edwinmandella.blogspot.com/2012/03/disabled-scum-disability-rights-uk-who.html