{"id":227,"date":"2016-10-26T19:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T19:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defiaye.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2016-10-26T19:34:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T19:34:45","slug":"i-daniel-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/26\/i-daniel-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"I, Daniel Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I exist in a system that tortures the most vulnerable in society.\u00a0 A system that rewards cruelty, degrades human beings and drives up suicides and disabled deaths.\u00a0 You might think that this film is unrelated to you. You might be doing alright for yourself. But the difference between me and you? &#8211; Is luck.<\/p>\n<p>I was fine, working and healthy one day and then the next my entire world burned into ash.\u00a0 What happened to me was not predictable. It could not be cured, only managed and even then somedays it cannot.<\/p>\n<p>If you want some insight into how Tory austerity is killing people &#8211; go watch &#8220;I, Daniel Blake&#8221; (an excellent starting point).\u00a0 Although the system of cruelty was actually started off by Labours ATO&#8217;s Medical Assessments and evolved into the monster that is Tory Mass-Murder.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve wrote about this before, and I will write about it again:-<\/p>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"LNlK50PPmN\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/08\/dwp-deaths\/\">DWP Deaths<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/08\/dwp-deaths\/embed\/#?secret=LNlK50PPmN\" data-secret=\"LNlK50PPmN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;DWP Deaths&#8221; &#8212; defiaye.com\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"A8NvtFayYE\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/23\/united-nations-un-two-uk-investigations\/\">United Nations (UN) Two UK Investigations<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/23\/united-nations-un-two-uk-investigations\/embed\/#?secret=A8NvtFayYE\" data-secret=\"A8NvtFayYE\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;United Nations (UN) Two UK Investigations&#8221; &#8212; defiaye.com\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"iGcMtEa6Q2\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/27\/deaths-2014\/\">Deaths 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/defiaye.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/27\/deaths-2014\/embed\/#?secret=iGcMtEa6Q2\" data-secret=\"iGcMtEa6Q2\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Deaths 2014&#8221; &#8212; defiaye.com\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We could all be Daniel Blake. We all deserve to be treated with respect. We are human beings.<\/p>\n<p>In five weeks time I will also be homeless, becoming more disabled, financially crippled before Christmas and today I discovered that the Homeless officer that was meant to be helping me &#8211; she got a new job and failed to allocate my case to someone else.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-230\" src=\"http:\/\/defiaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/idaniel2-Mosaic02-1024x633.jpg\" alt=\"#IDanielBlake\" width=\"665\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/defiaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/idaniel2-Mosaic02-1024x633.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/defiaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/idaniel2-Mosaic02-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/defiaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/idaniel2-Mosaic02-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/defiaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/idaniel2-Mosaic02.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">#IDanielBlake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I exist in a system that tortures the most vulnerable in society.\u00a0 A system that rewards cruelty, degrades human beings and drives up suicides and disabled deaths.\u00a0 You might think that this film is unrelated to you. You might be doing alright for yourself. But the difference between me and you? &#8211; Is luck. 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