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Pressure mounts on Iain Duncan Smith to resign

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​An online petition sees thousands demand the resignation of pensions and work secretary over fake case studies farce

More than 52,000 people have now signed an online petition demanding Iain Duncan Smith resigns from his post as work and pensions secretary.

The Care2 petition was posted after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) admitted fabricating quotes in defence of the current sanction regime.

The petition accuses Duncan Smith of "lying" to the British public over the use of the "fantasy" case studies.

The fake quotes appeared on leaflets that offered case studies of people who had apparently been helped by the strict new benefit sanctions system introduced by Duncan Smith under the coalition government.

In a strongly worded call for his resignation, the petitioner, Beth G, says sanctioning is driving people to suicide and that people are resorting to stealing food in order to not starve.

Iain Duncan Smith is ultimately responsible for the actions of those in his department who produced the propaganda leaflet

She states: “Iain Duncan Smith is ultimately responsible for the actions of those in his department, who produced the propaganda leaflet containing lies, presenting a fantasy of positive stories about sanctions. This distorts the truth, which is that people are dying due to sanctions.”

A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: “The case studies were used for illustrative purposes to help people understand how the benefit system works. They’re based on conversations our staff have had with claimants.

“They have now been removed to avoid confusion.”

It comes as another 38 Degress petition calling on Kathryn Hudson, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, was backed by 6,500 names.

It asks for the commission to investigate Iain Duncan Smith for “his regular use of untruths and the persistent deception misleading of The House of Commons, Select Committees and the Media.”

 

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anne martin
over 9 years ago
How evil were the nazis? IDS learnt everything from them. We have seen this coming for years, and nothing has stopped him yet.
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stephen ford
over 9 years ago
Should be on trial for manslaughter
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Jackie Cairns
over 9 years ago
Bulll crap , If he wasn't found out he would of gone on with this for the long run
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john
over 9 years ago
he is the biggest freeloader in the country
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Wendy Parsons
over 9 years ago
He makes all the wrong decisions and people that are realy sick and are disabled get treated the same as the ones that there is nothing wrong with there should be more people being watched and caught out not sitting them with a person who is not medically trained filling in a questionnaire ticking box's not listening to the real sick people
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Mrs Joey Alberts
over 9 years ago
My partner was also forced to see one of those unqualified idiots, who didn't even bother to look at his quite substantial medical file, but just sat on her huge arse ticking boxes. His assessment for DLA came back as 'there's nothing wrong with you & all you're getting is £21 a week to live on, pay your mortgage, gas, electric, water, Council Tax (which is illegal anyway), buy food, have transport for Hospital appointments etc. My partner CAN'T work, due to the fact that he's had 7, yes SEVEN TIA'S (mini strokes or Cerebellar Infarc's) & that has in turn badly effected his heart, his eyes & changed his personality. So yes, I guess he must go back to work driving HUGE trucks, have another stroke behind the wheel or have a heart attack, lose control, kill a couple of dozen people & die as well, and what will that piece of shit IDS do? Shrug his shoulders & say TOUGH?? Should that happen, I swear that I personally will face IDS in a Court of Law & you can bet you that I won't stand there alone. He is a criminal & his actions must & will be accounted for!!! Why should that multi-millionnaire care that people are dying because of his actions, As long as it doesn't directly effect his fortune, he can sleep at night, whilst we the desperate can't!!!!!
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stephen muldoon
over 9 years ago
jail him hes a mass murderer in the 1st degree
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Sue
over 9 years ago
IDS is not fit to be secretary of state and needs to resign or be sacked...it is also worrying to think he was able to get away with causing so much incompetence with the many lives of the sick and disabled, his actions have been with contempt against the many sick and he must be held accountable for his actions?
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darren
over 9 years ago
he should be in court for corporate manslaughter
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