Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
She's referring to "lifetime awards" in her write-up. I thought there were no lifetime awards, only indefinite awards?
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She's referring to "lifetime awards" in her write-up. I thought there were no lifetime awards, only indefinite awards?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
She's referring to "lifetime awards" in her write-up. I thought there were no lifetime awards, only indefinite awards?
You're absolutely correct, Minnie.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Much as I admire all her hard work, using that instead of "indefinite awards" only reinforces what people have been told by politicians (ie. that people get lifetime awards)
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I get the impression lifetime awards became "indefinite awards" in maybe 2010 judging by the thread here on MSE
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=2551555
Still, it makes people assume they'll never be reassessed unlike with an "indefinite award". Think the wording is important and I would have thought Sue would steer clear from using the word "lifetime"
Although I do understand that maybe her writing is directed at disabled people who were given a lifetime award (and so still refer to it as such), even if it has been renamed, but I'd imagine it's not just people who this affects that read her blog
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=2551555
Still, it makes people assume they'll never be reassessed unlike with an "indefinite award". Think the wording is important and I would have thought Sue would steer clear from using the word "lifetime"
Although I do understand that maybe her writing is directed at disabled people who were given a lifetime award (and so still refer to it as such), even if it has been renamed, but I'd imagine it's not just people who this affects that read her blog
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
To be fair, she is posting from a hospital bed, and may have made a slip of the tongue so to speak.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Oh, I realise that, and fair play to her, but I just think that particular word should be swept away with. Only ammunition for politicians/press
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
People who have not been reassessed since 'lifetime' awards became downgraded to 'indefinite' awards may still be categorized as lifetime.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
I feel like crying to be honest.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/birmingham-budget-cuts-how-you-1299659
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/birmingham-budget-cuts-how-you-1299659
BigTom
Well-Known Member
I feel like crying to be honest.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/birmingham-budget-cuts-how-you-1299659
Yep.
facebook event for demos and civil disobedience on the 26th when they'll vote for this crap:
http://www.facebook.com/events/117092498469912/
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Will it be going on into the evening? I start my first training placement on that day, so not the sort of thing I can bunk sadly.
Although frankly with all those cuts it feels like what's the fucking point. How the fuck am I going to find a job in 18 months time I just do not know.
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Will it be going on into the evening? I start my first training placement on that day, so not the sort of thing I can bunk sadly.
Although frankly with all those cuts it feels like what's the fucking point. How the fuck am I going to find a job in 18 months time I just do not know.
There will be a demo/rally probably from about 5pm until 7 or 8, details are not confirmed.
It's so fucked, there'll be little left of the council, you'll pretty well have to hope it gets replaced by centrally outsourced contracts, cos I don't know how they can cut children's services by so much, it'll have to come back in some form, with the children's homes closures this probably just means more money current on placements elsewhere in the UK, like last time they did it
BigTom
Well-Known Member
Really really bad
Might be more like £700m before long, this includes the effect of inflation and rising demand for statutory services. This comes from the discretionary budget which was £1,298 million in 09/10'
Biggest local authority in Europe hence the huge numbers but I bet Edinburgh is losing a similar amount as a %
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
There will be a demo/rally probably from about 5pm until 7 or 8, details are not confirmed.
It's so fucked, there'll be little left of the council, you'll pretty well have to hope it gets replaced by centrally outsourced contracts, cos I don't know how they can cut children's services by so much, it'll have to come back in some form, with the children's homes closures this probably just means more money current on placements elsewhere in the UK, like last time they did it
Makes me so upset and so fucking angry. And it feels so hopeless.
You should be angry but it ain't hopeless. Tell your family and friends. People aren't involved only because they don't realise how it impacts on their daily lives.
Get your message across to those you know and that's half of it done.
BigTom
Well-Known Member
The sad thing is that I can't see this getting turned around through protest - at least not with the size of protest that is likely to happen - it'll take catastrophe to make them stop and change direction
The value of protest/anti cuts groups is to be there when we reach breaking point for people who are looking for an alternative to turn to.
Not before time.
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
Bedfordshire housing association decides to pay board members several thousand per meeting.....
http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/201...per-meeting-whilst-tenants-face-homelessness/
http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/201...per-meeting-whilst-tenants-face-homelessness/
Jesus Christ. I've always had a kind of knee jerk prejudice against HA's without knowing much about them, apart from the fact that the rents are always stiffer - Sometimes councils transfer all their properties over to HA and bribe tenants with new kitchens and a promise of no rent rises for 5 years. Different story after 5 years though.
Cloo
Banana for scale
Blog post-ette from me here: http://ukseenandnotseen.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/just/
I'm sick and tired of an approach to budget cuts whereby rich and privileged people seem to insist that poor people can 'just' do X or Y if they have their benefits cut, while singularly failing to recognise that one of the main advantages of money is choice. A lot of the people they're fucking over with cuts don't have other options they can enact or turn to to help them.
I'm sick and tired of an approach to budget cuts whereby rich and privileged people seem to insist that poor people can 'just' do X or Y if they have their benefits cut, while singularly failing to recognise that one of the main advantages of money is choice. A lot of the people they're fucking over with cuts don't have other options they can enact or turn to to help them.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Hope she gets a job offer soon
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
Lots of support in the comments, I hope she can come through this.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
so someone so desperate they tried to set themselves alight in a job centre as they were owed £1,100 has been jailed for 20 months! 
even tho he failed!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-21462731
"at least he'll get fed in there"
even tho he failed!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-21462731
"at least he'll get fed in there"
Cloo
Banana for scale
Dunno if this has been mentioned here earlier, but here's a campaign seeking to unite all factions opposed to the government, planning big day of action against 'austerity': http://www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk/2013/02/peoples-assembly-add-your-support/
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
so someone so desperate they tried to set themselves alight in a job centre as they were owed £1,100 has been jailed for 20 months!
even tho he failed!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-21462731
"at least he'll get fed in there"
Well I've not read the link, and tragic as it is, judge was probably thinking of the other lives he might have endangered maybe
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