The video they didn’t want you to see,

Subject: Re: Fwd: The video they didn’t want you to see, plus largest ever membership discount
To: kuwg@googlegroups.com
Date: Wednesday, 27 June, 2012, 10:47


Neil Bateman who operates from Ipswich I believe, is quoted here:

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HELP
MAKE CHRIS GRAYLING MAD Here’s an opportunity for you to help make a minister wish he hadn’t interfered.

Back in March we wrote about the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) employment and support allowance appeals video (external link) on Youtube. The video was pulled after less than a week, on the orders of senior officials.

Independent benefits expert Neil Bateman (external link), discovered that the video was taken down after employment minister Chris Grayling emailed the ministry complaining about, amongst other things, the fact that it
told claimants: 

that
    they are twice as likely to win their appeal if they appear in   person rather than having a paper hearing;
    that  the DWP doesn’t normally send a representative to the hearing;
    to  send additional evidence to the tribunal, when Grayling wants it   sent to the DWP. 
    
Yesterday, three months later, the video reappeared and, to their credit, after their initial panic MoJ officials seem to have left it unaltered. The video is actually reasonably informative and reassuring for people who have no previous experience of appeal tribunals.

Normally, however, MoJ videos get very little attention – one has had just two views and few of the 120 videos on
the MoJ channel gets more than a few hundred views.  

If Grayling hadn’t intervened this video would probably also have remained largely unseen.  Now, however, we’re asking Benefits  and Work newsletter readers to make it the most popular video the MoJ has ever produced.  The current record holder has had 4,269 views and the ESA video currently stands at 1,063.

So, please,make Grayling mad by taking a look at the video and passing the link on to anyone you think might benefit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L8EPHDjeqU 
(external link)

Members can read more and comment here.

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A subsequent Community Care website search reveals far more output written by or quoting Neil Bateman than the two links I put out on this list yesterday, including much more recent items than 2007.
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/static-pages/search/?q=%22neil%20bateman%22

Having removed the contact details of the original forwarder of this Kilburn Uenmployed Workers Group item while sending Bcc -- 'Blind carbon copy' -- to contacts off the KUWG e-list, it is now relatively safe for off-KUWG-list recipients to forward to other e-lists, etc as they see fit. Please, in doing so, remove my own contact details.