campaign against welfare cuts and poverty
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BigTom
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Agree, a thread for UC would be good - news today, 3/4 of the UC trials have been delayed and won't start until July:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21972026
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21972026
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
So, just like has been said since the slap-headed fuckpig first announced UC, they still don't know if the systems they're using are robust enough to run 24/7, or even if they're actually scalable beyond a handful of pilots. What a bunch of money-wasting shitcunts.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
It's going to be a disaster. What happens to someone on JSA who gets to be one of the first to go on Universal Credit, and then they move out of the pilot area because they get a job, but it's still a low-paying job so they need housing benefit and tax credit topups? It's only the 'easy' straightforward single unemployed no dependents who're getting put onto it at first. It's going to be a huge headache.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
or even ends up relocating because of bedroom tax?
savoloysam
Pigman's pigman's ha ha charade you are..
They just need to throw Capita a few extra million pounds.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
elbows
Well-Known Member
I thought this piece by Mark Steel was pretty effective for what it was.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...nd-all-the-money-isnt-it-obvious-8553643.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...nd-all-the-money-isnt-it-obvious-8553643.html
I'd like to think so but I fear he lacks the awareness, sensitivity or capacity for self doubt that might make him vulnerable to a breakdown. One can always hope though.
That is a really interesting article in my view. The point he makes about the dialogue now being that "the poor are richer than the rich", is exactly the subtext to a lot of the things being said and done, but it's not made explicit.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
...nice cartoon.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
...nice cartoon.
What the hell does it mean? IDS is a Kaled? Or Pontius Pilate? Or Both? What's the blue thing?
The blue thing is a Fat Cats(businessman/boss of gas companies) backside, the audience isn't you and the Tory boys..
TBF, I didn't really get the cartoon either - Why's there a snapped in half dalek on the floor? I can see it says make your own universal dalek on the box and that must be a reference to universal credit, but for the life of me I can't see what universal credit's got to do with a dalek. And what are all them crosses on the hill?
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Reference to Pontius Pilate and Jesus.
Well yeah, but what's that got to do with the UC? And what have daleks got to do with jesus? Or the UC? It's fuckin greek to me.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Jesus was a timelord.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Came across this one.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
That's more like it - I get that one
Same as. I was looking at that other one last night and trying to figure out what the dalek was.
I need simple
"And what are all them crosses on the hill?
The crosses are for all the people who have died as a consequence of all the various welfare reforms, ATOS medicals, cuts, etc, many from suicide(see Calum's list) and which the BBC refuses to cover as they say "they are not connected"
Rowson is a great cartoonist, not sure about the Dalek, if you go on the site lots of people spend ages decoding them, its very popular...
AH, I think the Dalek indicates the collapse of UC's implementation
The crosses are for all the people who have died as a consequence of all the various welfare reforms, ATOS medicals, cuts, etc, many from suicide(see Calum's list) and which the BBC refuses to cover as they say "they are not connected"
Rowson is a great cartoonist, not sure about the Dalek, if you go on the site lots of people spend ages decoding them, its very popular...
AH, I think the Dalek indicates the collapse of UC's implementation
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Or Dunked-in-Shit's plans to exterminate the poor, the sick and the elderly.
Bit fuckin tenuous then. He's had to write on the dalek thing "universal dalek" and then that box under the table has got something about sanction targets written on it - Now to my mind, the whole point of a cartoon is that the cartoonist shouldn't need to write bits on his/her cartoon explaining what they're supposed to represent. After having Rowson's effort explained to me, I'm mildly relieved to learn that it wasn't so much that I didn't get it, but rather, that as a piece of satire, it was a bit crap.
I agree with the sentiment though.
I agree with the sentiment though.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Always preferred Steve Bell myself.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
1,200 people in for 9 jobs (DFS)
A SOFA shop that advertised just nine jobs received applications from more than 1,200 people.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/388015/1-200-people-in-for-9-jobs
A SOFA shop that advertised just nine jobs received applications from more than 1,200 people.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/388015/1-200-people-in-for-9-jobs
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
The Daleks were created when the nasty war like Thals attacked the peaceful Dals/Kaleds. The Dals/Kaleds became mutated by nuclear shit and all went mad and started driving round inside Daleks. So the metaphor is obviously Thals = Tories and Dals = people on benefits and Daleks = either mobility scooters or Vauxhall Corsas.
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