THE NEW REPUBLIC

Scary Story - Going to the Shops

2012-01-28T11:04:00.002+01:00

Paedo, grass or nonce?

I had to go out today on my own.

Actually, I needed to go out about three days ago, but I was too scared.

All the cigarette and joint butts

I've noticed it usually takes about this long before I can work-up the courage. After two or three days, I've smoked all the cigarette and joint butts; creatively whipped-up a culinary masterpiece from the last of the 14 month old potato powder and 2 year old vegetable Oxo cube...

But often times it's the dogs running out of food that drives me out of the house. Over the years I've learned what human food they find palatable, and can often delay the inevitable for a day or two, when I just happen to have something in the cupboard to buy them off with.
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Scary Story - Going to the Post Office.

2012-01-28T11:01:00.001+01:00

Of course it should really be “Going to the doctors”, but these big tasks need to be broken down into manageable pieces. Like attempting to register with a new surgery by post...

A long road to from here to the doctors.

I've needed to see the doctor for about a week now. The cycle of anxiety building to total collapse nears its climax once again, with the sleepless nights and sleepy daze blending into a grim, grey, continuous stream of exactly the same - endless days ganging up into weeks and even months...

I had to dump my last GP

I had to dump my last GP, Dr Lord. She infests the Magdalene Surgery with an equally superior male colleague Dr Jetson. After three years of no social care, two suicide attempts and one dead and one dying parent, the absolute lack of care and concern, and latterly the extreme condescension from Dr Lord, finally broke through my autistic bubble of Saint-Gobain Sully ballistic glass.

He was going to ask me kill him

I'd gone to see her about my dying father, I needed the Learning Disability Partnership to arrange transport to see him, and I was worried that he was going to ask me kill him. You see, he was dying in a very slow and quite horrible way and he wanted out quickly.

He'd already had one go and had only managed to nearly die, although achieved some significant liver damage and some nasty pressure sores to boot.

“And what sort of dogs do you have?” in the Voice

Despite my fraught state, the recollection of the consultation is distressingly acute and came to an end when she asked me “And what sort of dogs do you have?” in the Voice. The one They use for when they're attempting to communicate with dark-skinned foreigners and the mentally incompetent.

Attempting to communicate with dark-skinned foreigners

Anyway, he's finally dead now so we can move on...

Carer Day

2012-01-27T23:18:00.000+01:00

A potted history of 60 years of disability rights

Carer Day didn't go too well this week. I didn't want them to come at all. I hadn't got to sleep the previous night until about 5am - a not-at-all uncommon event. I must've spent about 3 or 4 hours pacing.

my forthcoming Atos Healthcare de-benefitization

I'd kind of got fixated on the prospect of my forthcoming Atos Healthcare de-benefitization, and I think I was desperately trying to think my way out of the awful reality of what's in store.

De-benefitization is nothing new to me

De-benefitization is nothing new to me. It's been pretty much the story of my whole adult life. And the main reason I've been homeless for most of the last 15 years.

Even under the old benefits regime I had trouble

Even under the old benefits regime I had trouble doing the necessary paperwork and attending the necessary interviews and medicals - first the sickness benefit/dole would stop.

Then the housing benefit. Then the letters from the landlord would start, followed by the eviction notice. The same patten over and over again.

Cartoon by Jon Appleby

Anyway, I'd managed to get up at 10.15 am, just in time to leave a scribbled note on the door saying I was too unwell to let them in and please just go away...

I need drugs to give my fractured mind a chance to reset itself

I was in a state. Have been in a state for about 2 weeks. I need drugs. Lorazepam to kill the anxiety and Zopiclone so I can get a bit of sleep to get a chance to give my fractured mind a chance to reset itself...

So that we can start the whole, anxiety building to sleep deprivation building to the inevitable mental collapse, process all over again.

Driven the work-a-day area consultant shrink to despair

The senior learning disabilities consultant, whom if I'm lucky, I get to see once every 3 years, knows from personal experience, how serious de-benefitization is. I was lucky the last time it happened. I just happened to have an appointment with him, after having driven the work-a-day area consultant shrink to despair.

Rang the social security office in Oxford there and then

He pulled out all the stops. I was homeless at the time, and didn't have an address - he got a nurse to use the LDP's address on the forms and personally rang the social security office in Oxford there and then - while I was in the consulting room.

The first ever picture of Socrates on the Intawebs.
He's laughing because he's in a nut-house,
And is looking forward to telling you how he got there.

Dr Ibrahim has lost more than one patient by cuntish Job Centre Plus worker

You see Dr Ibrahim has lost more than one patient to death by cuntish Job Centre Plus workers. He's a very nice man, totally hamstrung by even more cuntish health service administrators and managers.

A giant of a man waylaid by jabbering monkeys

A giant of a man waylaid by jabbering monkeys who think they know better than a man with 43 years in mental hospitals, from Poona to Oxford, under his belt.

Lying in bed paralysed and suffocating

But anyway, I'm rambling - I'd actually started out to tell you all about what it's like to be staring death in the face, in the middle of the night, when a fit fills your mouth with vomit and you are lying in bed paralysed and suffocating.

like to be staring death in the face, in the middle of the night

However I'm done for today - I was supposed to write this on carers' day, four days ago. In fact, I had promised myself I would write a post, no matter how short, every single day.

I'm a bit fucked in the head you see

I'm not doing very well. I'm a bit fucked in the head you see: not mentally ill, mentally disabled by a brain that didn't grow quite right.

Trapped in my own head with a fucked-up brain

It's a nightmare I can't wake up from. Trapped in my own head with a fucked-up brain that wants to kill me, just to ease its existential angst.

it is a battle I am shortly to loose.

It's a constant battle to stay alive, and I am utterly convinced it is a battle I am shortly to loose.

Have a nice day, y'all.

The Trial of Socrates - Part 665

2011-11-27T14:20:00.004+01:00

That'll be £50,000 plus £50,000 Court Costs, Please

The Trial of Socrates continues its glacial progress at the High Court in London, with a procedural hearing on the first of December debuting the case before Master Ley.

A claim for £50,000 & a small shrubbery

Socrates is fighting a claim for £50,000, a small shrubbery and an Order laying responsibility for the content of the whole of teh Intawebs, squarely at his feet.

Expensive, posh and good

Fisher Meredith solicitors are instructing Matrix Chambers, the noted UK human rights law firm in leading the New Republic's defence team.

Socrates meanwhile, is still chained to his desk at the University's law library and is refusing to leave on account of “blatantly anachronistic and old fashioned Regulations barring litigants from permanent residency on University property”.

Fighting for the dignity and self respect of women

He went on to say "Fighting for the dignity and self respect of women with what often is a dustbin diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder is well worth a two year legal battle and bankruptcy.

The Right of the British to satirise a Californian shrink

Furthermore the Right of the British, to satirise a Californian shrink, is not up for negotiation"

Dustbin diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder

Are you any good at benefit forms?

The Official Solicitor has therefore been engaged to take over all of Socrates' other responsibilities and all of the staff at the New Republic are looking forward to receiving editorial input from him and his team.

The Trial of Socrates

2011-09-10T14:11:00.004+02:00

In light of David Cameron's demand that court trials are televised, Mr Justice Algenon Q. Marbley-Warburtons-Thickly is caught practising his summing up in the trial of Palmatier vs The New Republic in the hope of becoming the first ever judicial winner of the X Factor.

Socrates appearing under his real name of Mr Norma St John-Scott is fighting a claim for £100,000, £20,000, a small shrubbery and a super-injunction that will prevent him from speaking to anyone at all, ever again.

Ms Barbara Streisand commenting from her eerie in Malibu remarked

I'll shout it out from the roof,

I'll give the papers proof...

In light of the workload of this court case the New Republic is currently on hiatus... However it is likely you will be able to follow the events in the Press and the blog-o-sphere...

Minor Lolocaust - No Injuries

2011-09-09T18:16:00.000+02:00

IN PRESS: TNR is busy working on boycotting the para-Olympics to protest at Atos' involvement in organising the pr show for teh Debenefitization of the Century.

Some Cold Hard Reality

2011-09-08T19:21:00.000+02:00

Your voice steady, you tell them that if your benefits are cut you will kill yourself, that you are both in debt, barely scraping by, and that you would have no other option. You ask them not to take away the little dignity they have left you with - the ability to (barely) feed and clothe yourselves, to keep a roof over your heads.

Disabled Medic, Medical student + stick

Atos Healthcare Sackings

2011-09-07T20:16:00.000+02:00

Anthony Treasure formally employed by Atos Healthcare.

Nurse Debbie Carr and admin worker Anthony Treasure are seeing life from the benefit scrounging scum perspective this evening, following their sacking from Atos Healthcare.

The pair were discovered on Facebook calling the sick and disabled “down and outs” and “parasitic wankers”.

The incidents were widely reported in the mainstream press and came shortly before the Government's de-benefitting boot-boys attempted to shut up a bunch of whining cripples by sending them threatening letters.

Source: DWP FoI Request Answer

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ATOS Healthcare - I AM SPARTACUS!

2011-08-27T14:07:00.001+02:00

A five month old link to this post which appeared on Johnny Void's blog, The Void, sparked ATOS's attack on the CarerWatch forum. The Black Triangle community is invited to repost this piece and stand up and declare: I AM SPARTACUS!

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ATOS vs CarerWatch - It Just Gets Worse!

2011-08-26T18:17:00.010+02:00

CarerWatch members visiting the New Republic are invited to respond below in the comments.

Doughty British Grannies Prepare to

Slamdunk Cheese-eating ATOS Surrender Monkeys

It is looking increasingly like it is ATOS Healthcare that is going to find itself the victim of legal action as the true nature of their “case” against CarerWatch becomes clearer.
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ATOS Healthcare at War With Home Guard

2011-08-26T01:46:00.002+02:00

This evening's update on ATOS Healthcare's blitzkrieg on Internet-based Useless Eaters:
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ATOS Macht Frei

2011-08-24T15:13:00.004+02:00

Atos Healthcare are today magnanimously negotiating with the owners of the CarerWatch forum, with a view to formulating an arrangement that will silence criticism of their work for the DWP, on the forum, once and for all.
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ATOS Healthcare - Some Tough Questions

2011-08-23T01:28:00.010+02:00

ATOS Killa Fish stinking to high-heaven

ATOS's solicitors contacted the host of CarerWatch, an internet discussion group for sick and disabled people, claiming it contained libellous material.

The host removed the discussion group from the Web.

CarerWatch have said in their response to ATOS:

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ATOS Healthcare - Scum of the Earth

2011-08-22T15:49:00.018+02:00

NSFW!

Chief Boot-Boy Stamps on Crips' Faces

James Loughrey - Chief Solicitor and head of ATOS's Dept. of Killa Fish

The shocking tactics used by ATOS Healthcare to silence their sick and disabled critics are rapidly coming to light all over teh Intawebs.

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ATOS Healthcare - Some Tough Questions ii

2011-08-22T14:11:00.003+02:00

ATOS Killa Fish stinking to high-heaven

ATOS's solicitors contacted the host of CarerWatch, an internet discussion group for sick and disabled people, claiming it contained libellous material.

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ATOS Register of Shame

2011-08-17T00:09:00.000+02:00

ATOS Healthcare recently bullied a disabled woman into removing her "ATOS Register of Shame" website from the Net.

This is video is a tribute to her and all the other disability activists working to document the shameful work of ATOS Healthcare - the company employed by the UK government to massively reduce the welfare budget.

Google will give you the background, while I continue to prepare for my Grand Day (week (or two)) Out to the High Court in London to get close up and personal with several expert witnesses and a transatlantic Super Injunction...

The Feral Rich of Chelsea and Kensington

2011-08-12T15:27:00.002+02:00

“I believe that the criminality in our streets cannot be dissociated from the moral disintegration in the highest ranks of modern British society...

Suspected rioter beaten by police in Manchester

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A Bloodly Good Hiding and a Kick in The Head

2011-08-11T03:05:00.002+02:00

Celebrate our English culture as GMP get to grips with rioting, benefit scrounging scum on the streets of Manchester.

OK, we appear to be suffering #ironyFail.
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Babylon's Burning

2011-08-09T02:39:00.002+02:00

Riots this evening are breaking out all over the UK.

Police are said to be unable to contain the situation.

Woman jumps from burning building in London

ATOS Worker - Disabled are “Parasitic”

2011-08-08T21:22:00.014+02:00

The Facebook page of the ATOS Healthcare administrator discovered calling the sick and disabled "Parasitic Wankers" has been forwarded to the NWCAC.

Tony Treasure enjoying the ATOS funded lifestyle.

Anthony Treasure quickly deleted his Facebook presence on Sunday morning after Martin Webb and Stuart Wyatt, a Plymouth based disability activist and former serviceman began making fun of him and asking hundreds of people to complain to his bosses.

writing to every one of more than 600 MP's

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ATOS Attitudes Unmasked

2011-08-07T16:36:00.006+02:00

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The Trial

2011-07-30T00:32:00.002+02:00

blogging hack digs out law books

Apologies for the dearth of new posts: our fearless editor is preparing to battle dragons in the High Court as the case for reform of the UK libel laws is brought home to bedroom bloggers everywhere.

The judge in the case, Mr Justice Algenon Q. Marbley-Warburtons-Thickly, can be seen in the video above, practising his summing up.

Further details will follow as and when and if we are able... A defence fund is being set up by people more sensible than ourselves and they will shorty be in touch with Direct Debit forms and emotional blackmail....

Socrates, commenting over a crackly telephone line, from deep within the bowels of the University Law Library, said this evening

“does anyone know how to spell
vexatious Yankee balderdash”

Lighting Candles in a Hurricane

2011-07-18T08:39:00.003+02:00

Perhaps one of the finest pieces of music every written, the 4th movement of Shostakovich's piano trio number 2 E minor. Most appropriate for these Interesting Times.

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The Fear - Like Being

2011-07-12T18:01:00.005+02:00

"Mark Ty-Wharton is an exponential interventionist, iridescent existentialist and extra special experimentalist" – Nick Rhodes, Duran Duran

"You’ve heard the phrase think outside the box before?
For me, there is no box..."

Die Zeitgeist! Es brennt!

2011-07-11T20:49:00.008+02:00

Welcome to Die Zeitgeist! Es brennt! edition of the That Was The Week That Was In Autism dedicated to the Incorrect Pleasures of Lily Marlene. TWTWTWIA (as we call it) is a sister publication to TWIM, the long running review of the week in Mentalists, currently hosted at the psychedelically inspired twim-blog.org.

Autismoincazziamoci (Autism Rants) highlights the psychologically-based autism treatment in its post "Packing - A Psychodynamic Crime Against Humanity"

Does this make you feel just a little ikky?

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Pro Patria Mori

2011-07-09T20:37:00.010+02:00

“My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est

Pro patria mori.”

I woke this morning, skipped the customary microsecond of alrightness and proceeded directly to the crushing reality of life in 21st century Britain.

Britain's Prime Minister (right).

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Bad Taste But Funny

2011-06-29T16:18:00.002+02:00

Whilst we finish evicting the spiders and bagging the old Special Brew cans from the re-opened offices of the New Republic, please try not to enjoy too much, this report from the Onion:

Hitler Is Not Dead - Nabil Shaban

2011-06-16T15:28:00.002+02:00

No Ifs, No Buts: No Cuts !

2011-06-12T15:22:00.004+02:00

Verbal Terror Strikes TNR