campaign against welfare cuts and poverty
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Too afraid of IDS' hatchet men: that article's comment section is already closed!
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
They often close articles comments overnight if it's a touchy subject. Some newspapers don't have comments on IDS articles, can't imagine why
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
Excellent report, pics and vids from Kate Belgrave. SaveILF Westminster Abbey protest. https://www.facebook.com/kate.belgrave
""Why I don't do God reason #100000000000: Video and pics from today's protest at Westminster Abbey - the police stomp on tents, rush disabled protestors who are desperate to save their care funding - and the church just lets it happen.""
http://www.katebelgrave.com/2014/06...ice-at-the-westminster-abbey-saveilf-protest/
Guardian article and surprising BBC article
""Why I don't do God reason #100000000000: Video and pics from today's protest at Westminster Abbey - the police stomp on tents, rush disabled protestors who are desperate to save their care funding - and the church just lets it happen.""
http://www.katebelgrave.com/2014/06...ice-at-the-westminster-abbey-saveilf-protest/
Guardian article and surprising BBC article
Cops letting disabled protesters, denying their support workers access as well as preventing food and water getting through. Utterly disgusting.
Fuck god and his army of willing cunts.
Fuck god and his army of willing cunts.
Tory toff scrounger about to evict a bunch of families.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...e-eviction-after-3786578#.U7D40btre2I.twitter
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...e-eviction-after-3786578#.U7D40btre2I.twitter
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
More unpleasant tinkering ..............
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27289148
How can they say, "average of 25 hrs / week" ?
Zero hours contracts (even non-exclusive ones) are no use if you have any sort of fixed outgoings.
How are you expected to budget (or keep up your Wonga repayments - so they can fund the tory twunts) on a variable wage ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27289148
How can they say, "average of 25 hrs / week" ?
Zero hours contracts (even non-exclusive ones) are no use if you have any sort of fixed outgoings.
How are you expected to budget (or keep up your Wonga repayments - so they can fund the tory twunts) on a variable wage ?
Was it ever otherwise? Any claimant who refuses a job will always get sanctioned. They have never cared what the circumstances are, they just hit the big red SANCTION! button.
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Do a survey with a big enough sample size of people who have zero-hours contracts, asking them how many hours they worked last week (or if you wanted to do it properly, track people through a year and record their hours each week), average out the answer.
Awesome - you can currently refuse zero-hours contracts jobs, they want to change this. You can refuse jobs for a limited set of reasons which are set out in the JSA regulations, guidelines or legislation. It includes things like sex work or allowances of refusal on religious/ethical grounds eg: vegan should be able to refuse to work in an abbatoir (I say "should be" because I think it's definitely true that they can but I'm not certain enough and can't be bothered to check).
I bet lots of people have been sanctioned for refusing a ZHC job, but it's one that should be won on appeal (not that I'm saying it's ok because of appeals, they take fucking weeks or more and you don't get money in that time, plus HB stops which you have to sort out etc).
Exactly. It doesn't matter what their rules say; if you refuse a job they will refer you to a DM and because your money is stopped in the interim (something that Labour changed) you're fucked.
Treacle Toes
Time
Scathing; shame then it will fall on deaf ears.
What was the outcome of this debate, a anything?
What was the outcome of this debate, a anything?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Duncan Smith's ears may be deaf, but there will be people who will listen to what Jackson says - it's all part of the steady drip-drip that will eventually see him buried. Not soon enough for me or a lot of the country, sadly, but we are getting there.
The only way to bury him is to vote him and his government (which would include this repugnant Benton character) out.
Unfortunately that means voting labour.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
What if you live in a safe tory seat, as you do? This daft approach means that millions of people, including you, cannot participate in politics.
On both sides, especially as Rachel Reeves called this (iirc).
other than stakling every post i make to bully and harass me, your alternative is what? youre a joke
I don't know.
I wish there was an alternative. Despite my asking, noone has provided one.
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
The hansard of Yesterdays DWP performance debate *30/06/2014*
http://www.publications.parliament....140630/debtext/140630-0002.htm#14063023000001
http://www.publications.parliament....140630/debtext/140630-0002.htm#14063023000001
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Wrong. people have provided you with alternatives, and you've dismissed them.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Is it the job of other people to provide you with alternatives?
Sometimes, the answer is to find different ways of looking at the problem, and nobody else can really do that for anyone.
It's not a job, it's what people do when they talk and discuss things. I don't pretend to be an expert and have never professed to be. Ever. So if there's a better alternative - tell me! That's dialogue.
All I get from this site it seems is "FUCK OFF YOU CAAAAAAAAAAAAAHNT LABOUR ARE SHITTERS!!"
Where are the solutions? DOes anyone have anything better to offer? I'm not criticising people who don't unless they dish out that kind of shit as a response. We're not all experts and we don't all know the answers, but the problem is that if you don't vote Labour or if you don't vote then the TOries will get back in, and we enable the likes of Benyon by legitimising them through a position they don't merit, we enable that fucking maniac IDS to continue to bash and sneer at the less well off.
I think it would be the worst outcome for that to happen and I am willing to risk a vote for Labour, safe seats notwithstanding (which is out of our hands), if that keeps the Tories out.
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
I cannot stand either of them and am seriously hoping for a YES vote at Indyref. If it's a NO vote I will definitely vote labour as there's a better chance of them listening to those most brutalised over recent years than trying to make IDS and his cohorts take any notice.
It's shit that there's only a choice of two and the one most likely to lend an ear can be the only option.
In any/all events I, and others, will still need to rant. I've no answers, but, I've a whole barn full of questions.
It's shit that there's only a choice of two and the one most likely to lend an ear can be the only option.
In any/all events I, and others, will still need to rant. I've no answers, but, I've a whole barn full of questions.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
So basically McVey has taken a page out of her boss's book, and is telling wholesale untruths about Universal Credit?
Now there's a surprise!
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