Pledge “TruthOrDare”
"I will agree to take a DWP Incapacity Benefit lie detector test but only if 10 members of the Cabinet including Blair and Blunkett will do the same at a televised event."
— bedblogger (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 31st December 2005
7 people signed up, 3 more were needed
Country: United Kingdom
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The news that claimants for welfare benefits will be subjected to lie detector tests is a deeply disturbing, Orwellian move.
Some of the most vunerable in our society, the sick and disabled, are to have their ability to work tested using a technology that is at the least ineffective and at worst inappropriate. The private company employed to use the Voice Risk Analysis (VRA)is Capita Group plc.
Unjust though this is, I will agree to submit to this test as part of my renewal for benefits only if members of government including MRs Blair & Blunkett agree to be asked about their own lives while undergoing a televised lie detector test.
Questions that can and will be asked of them include the topics Lying to public, Parliament and UN; The nanny's visas; train tickets; inappropriate housing payments and of course Iraq War and WMD.
I, unlike them, have nothing to hide.
- contribute $20 to the "Stop the Silence" charity, for the victims of child sexual abuse, on the behalf of Daniel Felix for his marathon run with the Marathon Charity Partners (MCP) fund raiser group
- create a blog for the sole purposes of reporting, analysing and publicising the most interesting, important or amusing reponses to Freedom of Information requests produced on WhatDoTheyKnow
- become a liberty activist in New Hampshire by September 30, 2011
- set up a standing order of at least £5 a month to help the Open Knowledge Foundation keep developing and promoting open knowledge
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bedblogger, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Justin McKeating
- Paul Martin
- Dave Lambert
- Andy
- Steven Smith
- Rick Wakeman
- Jez
