campaign against welfare cuts and poverty
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Its on, Evening Standard reporting on it, though using a socialist worker banner on the image and not very good article.
btw2, for twitter, its https://twitter.com/TheMassSleepOut
btw2, for twitter, its https://twitter.com/TheMassSleepOut
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
Citizens Advice Scotland.
In Crisis, A survival Guide.
Minister for Housing and Welfare launches Stirling survival guide for people who have no food and no money
http://www.cas.org.uk/news/minister...survival-guide-people-who-have-no-food-and-no
pdf link.
http://www.cas.org.uk/system/files/In Crisis A Survival Guide august 2013.pdf
In Crisis, A survival Guide.
Minister for Housing and Welfare launches Stirling survival guide for people who have no food and no money
http://www.cas.org.uk/news/minister...survival-guide-people-who-have-no-food-and-no
pdf link.
http://www.cas.org.uk/system/files/In Crisis A Survival Guide august 2013.pdf
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Why widescreen TVs tell us nothing about a family’s food budget – a few basic sums for Jamie Oliver
One going for 99p on ebay last time I looked.
One going for 99p on ebay last time I looked.
J Ed
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15,000 unpaid 'jobs' created by Morrissons and Cadbury's http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/cadbury-and-morrisons-to-help-launch-mass-workfare/
This stuff is fucking awful and infuriating. There is no reason for them not to either, they won't stop until people burn down factories and supermarkets.
This stuff is fucking awful and infuriating. There is no reason for them not to either, they won't stop until people burn down factories and supermarkets.
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taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
Ian Duncan Cunt has just been on R4, flanneling about the Universal Credit clusterfuck.
The next topic under discussion on the Toadie prog was the cast for the "50 Shades Of Grey" adaptation - bringing to mind not only the shite novel writing of IBS, but also the fact that there's considerably less sadism and people getting fucked about in the EL James book.
The next topic under discussion on the Toadie prog was the cast for the "50 Shades Of Grey" adaptation - bringing to mind not only the shite novel writing of IBS, but also the fact that there's considerably less sadism and people getting fucked about in the EL James book.
J Ed
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http://politicalscrapbook.net/2013/...esperate-people-to-food-banks-claims-charity/
The DWP is refusing to refer desperate benefits claimants to food banks, according to the country’s largest operator. The Trussell Trust has claimed that Iain Duncan Smith’s department has “privately reneged” on an agreement for Jobcentres to refer needy claimants using an agreed procedure — and banned the collection key data on food bank use.
After ignorant attempts by a Tory minister to blame increased food bank use on charities, it has emerged that the DWP have dropped the requirement for staff to record the reason for a food bank referral and to provide claimants with vouchers — meaning that food banks cannot assess need at the other end. Conveniently enough, this also reduces the amount of embarrassing statistical data in circulation on food banks.
The DWP is refusing to refer desperate benefits claimants to food banks, according to the country’s largest operator. The Trussell Trust has claimed that Iain Duncan Smith’s department has “privately reneged” on an agreement for Jobcentres to refer needy claimants using an agreed procedure — and banned the collection key data on food bank use.
After ignorant attempts by a Tory minister to blame increased food bank use on charities, it has emerged that the DWP have dropped the requirement for staff to record the reason for a food bank referral and to provide claimants with vouchers — meaning that food banks cannot assess need at the other end. Conveniently enough, this also reduces the amount of embarrassing statistical data in circulation on food banks.
Just read this, its horrendous, from October if you need to appeal a decision on ESA, you won't immediately be able to, the DWP will instead have a mandatory review which at present has no set time limit, during this phase you will not receive any money at all, as ESA passports you onto Housing Benefit, etc, there is a danger you won't receive that without a fight, and of course HB is to be wrapped up with Universal Credit.
this against a background where CABs are shutting down and legal aid cut.
If this is true, it's absolutely criminal.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Both are important.
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
Maybe so, but one has much greater support than the other, in fact its basically the victims of welfare cuts/harassment who are left to fend for themselves, the Peoples Assembly is a case in point, the workshop on benefits, etc was an afterthought and held in a Marquee in the rain.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
That's because party politics tend to be general, even among the supposed left. Most of them are afraid to take a stand on anything, or to make any commitment that they can't later escape from. The peoples' Assembly has the same problem. It wants to appeal to the widest possible base, so it doesn't risk falling in behind anything it knows might be tricky, hence them being happy to go on about the Bedroom Tax, but not about social security in general, just in case the media use it as a "you supports scroungers" stick to beat them with.
I expect nothing from those involved in party politics, because even the most socially-committed tend to also have their eyes to the main chance.
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Paraphrased from the above video, from the Work and Pensions Minister, Mark Hoban, on benefit sanctions:
'This government, yes this government removed the targets that had been put in place by the previous government'.
If true, then pretty damning on the last Labour, yes Labour government?
'This government, yes this government removed the targets that had been put in place by the previous government'.
If true, then pretty damning on the last Labour, yes Labour government?
I'm in no way sticking op for the last govt, but anecdotally I've been hearing a lot more about people being sanctioned since these clowns got in.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
This government removed official targets, and then imposed unofficial regional and local "aspirations" - the kind of "aspirations" that get you a lousy annual performance review, and ultimately the sack, if you fail to live up to them.
All the Cuntalition has done is use NewSpeak in an attempt to flim-flam people. Same old dog-fuckers, whichever colour rosette they wear.
All the Cuntalition has done is use NewSpeak in an attempt to flim-flam people. Same old dog-fuckers, whichever colour rosette they wear.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Yeah. Which poses a bit of a problem, come election time. It's all very gratifying to give them the "plague on all your houses" treatment when they come grovelling for our votes, but WTF do you do in an election when nobody's really trustworthy or electable?
I wrote a blistering email to my local MP (Simon Hart) about this lobbying bill, and have just had some bit of anodyne boilerplate sent by by way of response. Nothing we do, within the system at least, is going to change the way these cunts operate, is it?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The current electoral system pretty much stitches us into a cycle of "this cunt, that cunt, then the next cunt", so what we need to do, outwith disposing of the current system entirely, is to agitate, and agitate massively, for ballot papers to include a "none of the above" option.
While this wouldn't immediately solve the issue, it would force the Establishment to do one of two things:
To cede some power back to "the people" in the face of their shills having no mandate, or
To seize power outwith the constitution.
If they chose the latter option, we (the people) would no longer be bound by our obligations to the Social Contract, and could resile from them as easily as the state has been doing for the last 30 years.
If they chose the former option, we'd have mechanisms by which to escape the "this cunt, that cunt, then the next cunt" problem.
Utopian, I know.
Bradford Council to probe work ‘disability tests’
6:00am Monday 9th September 2013 in By Claire Armstrong, T&A Reporter
A full-scale investigation into controversial Government disability assessments is to be started by Bradford Council – the first local authority believed to be doing so.
The Council has branded the tests “unfair” and could hold public hearings as it investigates their effects on vulnerable people in the district.
Anyone who wants to claim disability benefits now has to undergo a test called the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) to see if they are able to work.
But the testing scheme, contracted out to healthcare firm Atos, has come under fire from disability rights groups. And in July, the Council branded the process “unfair, inaccurate, and bad value for money”.
A motion passed by the full Council said the tests were “causing fear and distress” among vulnerable disabled people, that they discriminated against those who had fluctuating conditions and that the appeals process was too lengthy.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co....ouncil_to_probe__work____disability_tests___/
Some really positive news for a change, Bradford Council(which is NOC and must mean Tories have supported it) has savaged the WCA and voted in full council to robustly investigate it and maybe call for evidence from victims,
Respect initiated it, so kudos to them..
J Ed
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http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/
Sue Marsh of Diary of a Benefit Scrounger' blog and other Spartacus members had a 45 minute meeting with Mark Hoban yesterday, Tuesday, there is a summary here, not sure what to make of it, Sue got a lot of flak from DPAC etc, for not demanding WCA abolition.
on first reading of the summary of the meeting, I have some concerns Sue/Spartacus are doing the policing of the WCA, bit close for comfort, etc.
Sue Marsh of Diary of a Benefit Scrounger' blog and other Spartacus members had a 45 minute meeting with Mark Hoban yesterday, Tuesday, there is a summary here, not sure what to make of it, Sue got a lot of flak from DPAC etc, for not demanding WCA abolition.
on first reading of the summary of the meeting, I have some concerns Sue/Spartacus are doing the policing of the WCA, bit close for comfort, etc.
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Frankie Jack
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What feckin next... The start of the closing down of local Jobcentres to make people traipse to the bigger towns/cities to sign on perhaps..? I despise these fucking think tanks..!!
Policy Exchange: Unemployed people should be made to commute for up to 90 minutes - just to sign on, according to David Cameron's favourite think tank.
Policy Exchange: Unemployed people should be made to commute for up to 90 minutes - just to sign on, according to David Cameron's favourite think tank.
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