Letter to MP's will it do any good? Doubt it but you have to try.

[Devonlady]

Good Morning Mr Meacher,

I wanted to write to you although you are not my MP to say thank God for people like you. I am a disabled person who has tried for ten years to hold down a job and have been either pushed out or have left or been sacked from many jobs over this time due to the time I have off sick. I have worked from the Police force to shop work to try and hold down a job. I have spend the entirity of my inheritance from my father in keeping the bills paid and sold my house and bought a shared one to enable me to survive. Finally four years ago i had no choice but to claim disability.

In the last few years I have been hounded literally by the hmrc, I have had neumerious investigations into my circumstances and reviews the last of which pushed me to be suisidal and have been under the mental health team. I am just recovering from this and now we have all this again with the benefits system and you alone seem to be seeing a different picture.

I have Fibromialgia, Raynaulds, Virtigo, IBS amongst other things and suffer from severe migraine that leave me blind and collapsing in a heap on the floor. I would love to work but some days I cannot even get out bed and others when I can't remember where I am or write my own name. I would love nothing more than to have a job but sadly I know that is not going to happen, I have a little business working from home (so isolating and depressing) making teddy bears which so far has not made enought money even to pay tax what with accountant bills, NI, etc. I am not a scrounger however I am made to feel like a benefit cheat at every turn. I worry that when I have a good day and can walk and I try to go out and enjoy the little life I do have that some person will be filming me to (prove) I am a cheat. I go to bed every night and pray not to wake up to this life of hell in constant pain even on a good day.

Thank you for at least being one politition that seems to understand a little. May I ask why it is not possible for the benefit system to have disabled people on hold so that when they are well which can be for a few weeks at a time for some people they can work and when they can't the benefit kicks straight in as it is the time it takes to get back onto the benefits and the stress involved that may stop some people. In my situation I spend my entire inheritance just paying bills as the ssp does not cover bills and you live from ssp to ssp when trying to hold down a job. I no longer own my own home but a half share in one with a friend. I only claim the benefit I need to live and I would dearly love to have no benefit and work.

Please please keep trying to stop this persecution of a group of people who are all ready at a disadvantage. Weekly I am hearing of disabled people who are susidal and sadly have taken their own lives. I was brought up to believe a society is judged on how it treats the weakest of its citizens and we are failing badly in this country. This letter took me three hours to write and a lot of pain and this is a really good day maybe that will tell you how hard my life is.

[lullabell36]

devonlady, ur letter sounds good to me, and i think i may even write to him myself, it seems to me the more letters like this he has the more evidence he will have to fight our case, what do you think? Does every body else think this is a good idea? And what address do we send the letters to?

[Saskia]

Bless you for writing this. I can understand that it took you a long time as I spend more time correcting my emails/messages than I do writing them, as I type as though I am wearing thick woolly gloves and hit all the wrong keys!

I do hope that Mr Meacher responds to your lovely letter, especially as you have made a supreme effort in writing it. You sum up how a lot of us feel and it does seem as though we are being persecuted/criminalised/marginalised.......call it what you will just because unfortunately there are a few scroungers and people cheating the benefit system and it seems as though we are being tarred with the same brush, as it were.

I admire you for taking the trouble to write and would like to thank you on behalf of all of us on this site who are struggling in various ways.

Do let us know if you receive a reply from him.

Take care and keep warm

Love and hugs Saskia. XX

[Hidden]

Hi Devonlady, Ditto to saskia's blog, says everything. Hang in their. Mels.x

[Devonlady]

Well I sent this to his parliment email address but it has been bounced back to me so I am going to print it out and send it to him. I agree the more he gets the more chance he has of helping us all but I do understand that not always possible to type and send something. I will let you know if I hear back from him and coppy to my MP to I think as not got to print and send it.

The amount spent of scroungers who fake illness does not equate to the amount it costing them to chase it and if they got the corperate beggers to pay their dues and if the likes of Mr Cameron had his money in this couuntry and not off sure to avoid taxes we would all be better off xx

[AylesburyCPFM]

Well done you! If mr Meacher isn't your MP perhaps you should send one to your own MP as well, just used this one and tell them you have written to mr Meacher because he understands and you hope that your own MP will understand too with this letter...

[mistymeana]

I sent my email to : [e-mail]

I got a nice reply back (see blog yesterday) so it obviously got through. Might be worth having another go at sending it there to save you the bother of having to go out to post it x

[Devonlady]

I will try again thanks Misty x

[Devonlady]

Still being returned and so is the one to my MP xx

[Kirby]

That's odd that it should be returned but great letter. I am a Devon lady too (in that I live in Devon!). I think Michael Meacher is great and if he doesn't answer personally I'm sure he reads each one because he is fighting our corner. I think the debate on 17th Jan was just the start and we need to keep it up ie sending him our experiences. Also to MPs though if your MP is Tory like mine, very few of them were there at the last debate. But I just bang them out to my MP anyway, just so she knows I've not given up.

Again, it's hard to remember that it isn't personal - they have an agenda to get people off benefits because they want to shrink the state and get people to go private as in the States. The scrounger rhetoric is a crock of lies but it suits their agenda and via the Tory-owned press with their slow drip-drip they've got the baying mob onside. But I do think more and more people are becoming aware of what's going on and Panorama exposed the Work Programme scam last night, so we just have to keep on fighting.

XX