campaign against welfare cuts and poverty

[Bakunin]

 

[Awesome Wells]

This has to be read to be believed.

"we would take the details of what you have been doing over the past fortnight and totally change your answers, thus guaranteeing a sanction."

 

[Greebo]

This has to be read to be believed.<snip>

Read and passed on - I knew it was bad, but not this bad.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Likewise.

 

[Awesome Wells]

The Startling Stupidity of Esther McVey.

Ms McVey said: “What’s a teacher do in a school? A teacher would tell you off or give you lines or whatever it is, detentions, but at the same time they are wanting your best interests at heart.

“They are teaching you, they are educating you but at the same time they will also have the ability to sanction you.”

How the hell did this creature ever get any power?

 

[Greebo]

The Startling Stupidity of Esther McVey.



How the hell did this creature ever get any power?

Entropy.

 

[ViolentPanda]

The Startling Stupidity of Esther McVey.

Esther McVey in "dumb cunt" non-shocker!

She doesn't appear to grasp that teachers are responsible, in loco parentis, for their charges, whereas jobcentre advisors have no legal responsibility to their charges at all. A teacher who wrongly disciplines a child can be sanctioned. An advisor wrongly sanctioning a jobseeker in order to "make quota" cannot be sanctioned.

How the hell did this creature ever get any power?

A pact with Satan?

 

[Awesome Wells]

Of course she doesn't believe people are wrongly or maliciously sanctioned. That's part of the problem. These people need to be wired to machines, clockwork orange style,w here they see what's really happening in Jobcentres. If that doesn't stimulate evne the impression of a conscience then feed them to the dogs.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Of course she doesn't believe people are wrongly or maliciously sanctioned. That's part of the problem. These people need to be wired to machines, clockwork orange style,w here they see what's really happening in Jobcentres. If that doesn't stimulate evne the impression of a conscience then feed them to the dogs.

I'd say she's fully aware that people are maliciously and/or wrongly sanctioned, but that her politics (basic incestuous "my wonderful dad pulled his socks up/got on his bike, so can you") mean that she's too self-righteous to give a fuck about it. After all, if daddy dear took any job he could get, so should the scroungers down the dole!

 

[campanula]

and the insulting fucks are ever-ready with their protestations regarding their 'hard work' - nepotistic, crony ridden, stupid, smug, self-satisfied, lying parasitical cunts

 

[Lo Siento.]

If you are in London and free there's a noise demo to against some if the most odious workfare pricks imaginable. They're having a big conference at senate house. Demo at 1230

 

[Lo Siento.]

If you are in London and free tomorrow lunchtime there's a noise demo against some if the most odious workfare pricks imaginable. They're having a big conference at senate house. Demo at 1230

 

[Awesome Wells]

If the Salvation Army are there, let them know I fucking hate them.

 

[Imagine]

Looks like Rachel Reeves intends to copy the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme/DisabilityCare system:

"Labour believes all disabled people who are able to work should work, and should have the chance of decent employment."

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/12/labour-will-always-defend-rights-disabled

http://liambyrne.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/1Making-Rights-a-Reality-Consultation.pdf


Australia’s new disability scheme: A vehicle for austerity:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/13/disa-j13.html

 

[ViolentPanda]

Looks like Rachel Reeves intends to copy the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme/DisabilityCare system:

"Labour believes all disabled people who are able to work should work, and should have the chance of decent employment."

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/12/labour-will-always-defend-rights-disabled

http://liambyrne.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/1Making-Rights-a-Reality-Consultation.pdf

Australia’s new disability scheme: A vehicle for austerity:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/13/disa-j13.html

I become less and less astounded by the day that none of our so-called policy think-tanks are unable to formulate policy themselves, so proffer policy formulated elsewhere, then generally trim some of the edges off in an attempt to make it a better "fit" to UK circumstances.

Wankers, all of 'em.

 

[treelover]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/war-welfare-petition-100000-sign-2870513


Some positive news WOW petition reaches 100'00, not sure why it has taken so long(maybe the name) but its a serious petition and will have to be taken seriously

 

[ddraig]

that happened a few days ago

 

[treelover]

Yes, I note Celebrities including Stephen Fry, Russell Brand, Yoko Ono and Bianco Jagger have endorsed the campaign, and am a bit surprised..

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wowpetitions-success-incredible-result-britains-2880511

anyway, new article here, well done all and daily mirror

 

[J Ed]

http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/n...nefits_cut_because_he_sold_poppies/?ref=var_0

60 year old ex soldier thrown off of JSA for selling poppies. Notice how nonchalantly the paper reports the fact that he, a 60 year old, has been forced to do workfare in Asda. He obviously applied for a job there afterwards thinking that the scheme was designed to find him a job, poor bloke.

 

[Greebo]

<snip>60 year old ex soldier thrown off of JSA for selling poppies. Notice how nonchalantly the paper reports the fact that he, a 60 year old, has been forced to do workfare in Asda. He obviously applied there thinking that the scheme was designed to find him a job, poor bloke.

FFS! If he'd been as IMHO crooked as the person who sanctioned him, he'd have spun the time which he spent selling poppies as "confidence building and enhancing my communication skills, thus making myself more employable."

 

[Awesome Wells]

Not to defend the DWP, because noone should be sanctioned, period. But:

Mr Taylor was told he had not fulfilled a number of tasks, such as handing out CVs and applying for jobs, which were agreed require-ments in order to receive his benefit.

Has nothing to do with volunteering to sell poppies, since doing so is obviously not going to be a hindrance. This story is presented poorly IMO, and does a disservice to the genuine problem of the sanction regime.

However this business of handing out CV's is ridiculous; it is far too easy for Work Programme/DWP scum to
resort to lazy models of helping people that are completely out of touch in the modern world. How many employers are going to want to be inundated with CV's, especially when most of them have recruitment webpages and at best any response will tell you to apply online.

Some of these DWP types think that life is like Neighbours where all you have to do is send your CV to Harold at the coffee shop to show you've got a bit of 'get up and go'. Ridiculous.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Also, would there be as much sympathy if his time volunteering had been to sell the Socialist newspaper at the weekend or something? I can't imagine people being quite so charitable, looking at the comments section of that article, had he not been a soldier.

And shouldn't the British Legion be helping him? Isn't he exactly the sort they should be working with?

 

[alonsoss]

proportion are important http://gyazo.com/b1d03d7a1dbc16d0de482a157dd13431

 

[alonsoss]

did I say important? Nooo sorry mate, it is very important http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tel-NINE-WEEKS--costing-taxpayer-300-000.html

 

[alonsoss]

very very important http://gyazo.com/102439a58d69a3aec549119930713c6a

 

[ddraig]

what point are you attempting to make here?

for starters, don't you think that maybe councils should have proper provision and not have to put up people in hostels and hotels?

 

[DotCommunist]

oh joy

 

[Awesome Wells]

Not just a hotel of course; a LUXURY hotel.

Luxury = that thing the readers can't have because they are all slogging their nuts off every day.

Natch!

 

[yield]

Millions of families living in poverty despite being in employment says new study
Independent Sunday 08 December 2013

There are more working families living in poverty in the UK than non-working families for the first time since the birth of the welfare state, according to a new study.

A report by a development charity attributes the figures to a sustained and “unprecedented” fall in living standards that has hit UK households, in which average incomes have fallen by 8% since a peak in 2008.

As a result, around 2 million people have an income that would have been considered below the poverty line in 2008.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) found that according to the current definition, the figure is increasing as 500,000 more working families live below the poverty line than last year.

6.7 million families with adults in employment meet the worrying criteria compared with a combined 6.3 million of retired and unemployed families.

There is also a smaller but growing number of people living on incomes below the value of out-of-work benefits in very deep poverty.

The JRF said 400,000 families have suffered from a combination of benefit cuts from the bedroom tax, and council tax benefit. Two thirds of these families were already classified as living in poverty.

Beggars belief. Massive increase of hospital admissions for malnutrition while George Osbourne spends £10 million doing up his Whitehall hq.

 

[ViolentPanda]

proportion are important http://gyazo.com/b1d03d7a1dbc16d0de482a157dd13431

Interesting link. It's so badly done it doesn't even discriminate between nation-states with whom we have a reciprocal arrangement, and those with whom we don't.

I wonder why that is?

Also, no sources are given for the data, something even a hack would demand, before taking those figures seriously, even if they get past the whole "registering for an NI number to claim benefits" schtick.