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Appalling, but again, where is the resistance?, where is this chaps Stansted 15, history will look back on this neo-victorian time and progessive society will be found wanting.
 
Age UK: 50,000 elderly have died waiting for social care package
Wed 6 Feb 2019
Age UK estimated that 54,000 people – or 77 a day – have died while waiting for a care package in the 700 days since the government first said in March 2017 it would publish its social care green paper, which has since been delayed several times.

The claim came as a cross-party group of MPs warned that the government was “in denial” about the perilous state of English local authority finances – a crisis driven by a growing demand for the care of vulnerable adults and children.
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UK hunger survey to measure food insecurity
Wed 27 Feb 2019
The government is to introduce an official measure of how often low-income families across the UK skip meals or go hungry because they cannot afford to buy enough food, the Guardian can reveal.

A national index of food insecurity is to be incorporated into an established UK-wide annual survey run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that monitors household incomes and living standards.

Campaigners, who have been calling for the measure for three years, said the move was “a massive step forward” that would provide authoritative evidence of the extent and causes of hunger in the UK. They say food insecurity is strongly linked to poverty caused by austerity and welfare cuts and is driving widening health inequality.
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Life expectancy falls by six months in biggest drop in UK forecasts
Thu 7 Mar 2019
British adults’ life expectancy has been cut by six months in the biggest reduction in official longevity forecasts.

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, which calculates life expectancy on behalf of the UK pension industry, declined to speculate on why longevity is deteriorating for men and women in England and Wales. Some analysts, however, blame austerity and cuts in NHS spending, others point to worsening obesity, dementia and diabetes.
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With regards to the thread. It is my belief that our benefit system is far to generous, and is costing the hard working tax payer far to much. If your lucky enough to have a disability, or are a good enough actor, your going to be rolling in it.
 
existentialist said:
Haha, 0/10.
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Socialist alert, Socialist alert.

I can give you numerous examples of people of people living better on benefits than those people who work hard and offer society something, as well as paying taxes. The country is now a result of Blair's incompetence, and the lazy attitude of so many.
 
Mrs Wiggles said:
So let's get this right. You claim that 77 people a day are dying as a result of government cuts. Whilst I find this figure totally unbelievable, I would suggest that in a country with a population of 67m, losing so many people who offer society nothing can only be considered a good thing.
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editor is it too early for a ban?
 
Mrs Wiggles said:
So let's get this right. You claim that 77 people a day are dying as a result of government cuts. Whilst I find this figure totally unbelievable, I would suggest that in a country with a population of 67m, losing so many people who offer society nothing can only be considered a good thing.
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You probably thought in typing this you were being brave as well, tiresome boring cunt.
 
Austerity to blame for 130,000 ‘preventable’ UK deaths – report
01/06/19
More than 130,000 deaths in the UK since 2012 could have been prevented if improvements in public health policy had not stalled as a direct result of austerity cuts, according to a hard-hitting analysis to be published this week.

The study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank finds that, after two decades in which preventable diseases were reduced as a result of spending on better education and prevention, there has been a seven-year “perfect storm” in which state provision has been pared back because of budget cuts, while harmful behaviours among people of all ages have increased.

Had progress been maintained at pre-2013 rates, around 131,000 lives could have been saved, the IPPR concludes. Despite promises made during the NHS’s 70th birthday celebrations last year to prioritise prevention, the UK is now only halfway up a table of OECD countries on its record for tackling preventable diseases.
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Have been turfed off ESA because of a change in circumstances (youngest offspring leaving home so I have to claim HB). 5 weeks with no money and dealing with an adversarial system which is so twisted, it is prepared to humiliate, bully and undermine people who are already beaten down with illness and anxiety...and yet there seems to be no end of funding for an endless number of scamming 'employment support companies such as Pinnacle People (whoever the useless fuck they might be). Massively suspicious with the over-comfortable relationship between Citizen's Advice and DWP. They seem uncommonly free with sharing information...ostensibly, for 'support'...but colour me cynical. Despite asking NOT to be contacted by phone, have been called by CA already, completely unprompted.
 
campanula said:
Despite asking NOT to be contacted by phone, have been called by CA already, completely unprompted.
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Are you certain that it was CA, as it is rare that they call anyone unless explicit consent is given? There are a number of scam calls claiming to be from CA when they are not.
 
Jackobi said:
Are you certain that it was CA, as it is rare that they call anyone unless explicit consent is given? There are a number of scam calls claiming to be from CA when they are not.
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Well, I saw her at the DWP where she introduced herself. I admit, I was staggered at this reciprocal 'support' thing going on since I had always thought CAB were somewhat independent of the govt. line ...so when she rang up and said, 'Hello, this is R...from CAB', what was I to think? I said I was fine, didn't need any help and was not going speak to anyone over the phone because it freaks me out (I didn't answer, my friend did and passed the phone on).
 
Crippled by Frances Ryan review – how disabled people have been demonised
A powerful polemic, full of telling details, on how government cuts have ruined the lives of disabled people. But is anybody listening?


Crippled by Frances Ryan review – how disabled people have been demonised
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Important new book by Francis Ryan who writes about benefits, cuts, poverty, etc, in the Guardian.

I wonder if it will have the same impact Chavs had, both in terms of coverage and impact.
 
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77 years on from the Beveridge Report, with poverty and inequality running rampant, it is clear that we need a new social contract with the British people. But what might it look like?

First, we need to develop consensus across the country on what our social security system should be for. Attitudes are shifting, but the mainstream media’s shirker scrounger rhetoric still needs to be comprehensively challenged. What we want from a new social security system must be evidence-based, and yet that evidence needs to be driven not just by data but by all of us, ensuring the principle of ‘nothing about us, without us’. That’s why I’m delighted that an expert-user-led commission on social security chaired by Ellen Clifford was launched at the end of May. Alison McGovern’s Make Ends Meet campaign is another excellent example of identifying alternative evidence-based solutions.

I believe that our social security system should be there for all of us in our time of need, just like the NHS, providing: security and dignity in retirement; the support needed should we become sick or disabled; protection from poverty whether we’re in or out of work.

What would a new social contract look like? - LabourList
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New thinking from Debbie Abrahams, former shadow DWP secretary,

and er, Liam Byrne

https://liambyrnemp.co.uk/LiamByrneDraftManifesto.pdf

Why isn't any of this coming from the far left, momentum, etc, too dour for them?
 
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