Desperate jobseeker sets himself alight outside Selly Oak jobcentre

What is says in the title:

Doesn't seem to be anything in the mainstream media...

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/...vr.it&utm_medium=twitter#.T-2I4cRWB-c.twitter

so it begins

Fuck.

Dear god that is awful, poor, poor man

lovely first comment too

Md dad was going to kill himself outside the exeter doctors they sent him to when they were driving him off DLA.

Fuck.

Don't tell IDS - he might decide that one -off suicide grants are more cost effective than benefits...

This sort of thing ?

Divide and rule works.

yeah and the "oh he'll be on disability benefit too now!"
cretinous lapping up of the gov/media propaganda
e2a - oh they've removed it! 'under review'
had 160 odd thumbs down

Selly Oak's only 10 mins down the road from me, fucking awful.

The only surprise about this story is that it doesn't happen more often

I am so enraged by the comments I am signing up.

had it open in another window

Individual circumstances - remember the TCR standoff a few weeks ago over the HGV thing.

Drip, drip - but don't expect a big rush.

It does, just quietly and without wanting to bother anyone.

yes quite, that Lucy Parsons quote springs to mind

Now is the time for every dirty lousy tramp to arm themselves with a revolver or a knife and lie in wait outside the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot them to death as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination and without pity.

Who could blame them?

You are Ian Duncan Smith and I claim my prize

There's a fuller quote where she starts "If you are thinking of committing suicide then..."

It's the rationality of that quote that gets me. A nation of Winston Smith's - determined to intellectually defeat something far more dark and tumultuous than they will ever experience, set on belittling and dismissing those who actually suffer permanent emotional, mental and physical turmoil as beneath acceptable. Just wait until it's them.

Have you go it there?

Some of the nastier comments have evidently been reported; they have been removed and are 'under review'

no i just tried to find it on the net but it's not there. it might be in Dynamite!

Just checked in there using the index. Not there as afar as i can see, will flick through the biography after the cricket - looks like one we need to dig out.

Lot of detail missing in that article.

found it! http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...ou are thinking of committing suicide&f=false

Got the main ones in though don't you think?

although it is a paraphrased rather then directly quoted

Nice one, ooh, if only the note was available as well!

Not regarding motive, no.