campaign against welfare cuts and poverty

[existentialist]

Indeed.

But this is in print: someone has said on a document of some legality that the person has given themselves bone cancer. This must create an opportunity to respond.

Don't for a minute think that I don't wish that they could be strung up for this. But accountability is never any government department's strong suit, and my guess is that, even if the person could find a lawyer and a point of law on which to base an action, the DWP would make sure to stonewall it to the nth degree, and expensively protract any legal hearing, just to make sure that no precedent got set.

I would love to see a pro bono lawyer take it on and push it all the way through, just like the Poundland case, but even if they did, I fear that we'd be sitting here in two years looking at - at best - an equivocal judgement that the DWP/IDS would sneeringly write off as some kind of victory against the work-shy dolescum proles.

 

[Awesome Wells]

From the DPAC site:

“I just got this information from a nurse friend of mine last night…….a man who has diabetics type 2 and severe copd was brought in to hospital last night…..aged 61 his esa was stopped 8 weeks ago after being found fit 2 work….. it turns out he has been eating dried corn flakes for the last 5 weeks and has no electric on for 5 weeks….. he has had no heating or even able to boil a kettle for a hot drink…..he was not even able to use his nebulizer without electric…..the cold has got to his lungs and his blood sugars have gone dangerously low as type 2 diabetics must eat 3 times a day 2 keep blood sugars level……the nurses have chipped in to get him a bottle of squash and some fruit ….apparently this gentleman is very unwell at the moment and if the Tories and Lib- Dems find peoples hunger something to laugh at will they also find this funny? The sick will end up in hospital beds if they cant eat and stay warm……this mans situation is just a taste of what the future holds for thousands…….”

While a cunt tory heats his fucking HORSES with taxes paid in like he's the Sherriff of Nottingham, this poor sod can't even afford to run his fucking nebulizer and has wound up in hospital. How on earth can this make any sense? How much does it cost to treat people? HOw many beds are being taken up by these cases that shouldn't exist?

Meanwhile IDS sees fit to call Chris Bryant a 'pantomime dame' and blame Labour for his own inability to understand the welfare system - a department he was so desperate to take over.

Hanging's too good for this creature. There must be a reckoning. That link is one of the most heartbreaking things I have ever read.

 

[BigTom]

DPAC/Black Triangle Campaign national ATOS demo, 19th Feb: http://dpac.uk.net/2014/01/atos-national-demo/

 

[treelover]

Good to see they have given plenty of notice this time and supporters can go before work, college, etc.

btw, I am going to send the above dreadful story to Newsnight, they have been a bit more balanced recently, it doesn't seem to have gone viral yet though it should.

 

[Bakunin]

MP's just voted by a majority of 132 in favour of an inquiry into welfare reforms and their links to poverty.

Cue another Mekon Meltdown from IDS, methinks.

 

[Bakunin]

Confirmation of the inquiry vote here:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/benefit-cuts-uk-mps-vote-3020200

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

MP's just voted by a majority of 132 in favour of an inquiry into welfare reforms and their links to poverty.

Cue another Mekon Meltdown from IDS, methinks.

"Mekon Meltdown"

 

[Bakunin]

"Mekon Meltdown"

Separated at birth..?

Mekon:

IDS:

 

[treelover]

MP's just voted by a majority of 132 in favour of an inquiry into welfare reforms and their links to poverty.

Cue another Mekon Meltdown from IDS, methinks.

Good news, I think, but this means Lib Dumps supported it, but they have enabled all the recent legislation.

 

[treelover]

Tory MP David T.C. Davies claimed his party was united in backing the welfare cuts - and sparked fury by suggesting that the jobless are "watching television all day".
Unemployed people should have to take the first job that becomes available to them, the Commons select committee chairman said.


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showing their fangs now

 

[Awesome Wells]

But they do have to take the 'first' job that becomes available. It's always been a sanctioning offence - certainly under Labour it was (after the Tories morphed unemployment benefit/income support into JSA) - to refuse any offer of a job while claiming, no matter if it's the first, second or third.

That's if your claim survives long enough to be offered a job.

 

[treelover]

Just read that Frank Skinner, a native of Birmingham, turned down the job of narrating the Benefits Street programme, good for him

btw, second episode, many are saying it sets up the 'lazy indigenous' vs industrious migrants' dichotomy (even if the Roma featured didn't have 'normal' jobs.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Just read that Frank Skinner, a native of Birmingham, turned down the job of narrating the Benefits Street programme, good for him

btw, second episode, many are saying it sets up the 'lazy indigenous' vs industrious migrants' dichotomy (even if the Roma featured didn't have 'normal' jobs.

Why did he turn it down? Was it for the right reasons?
Or is he still a wanker who sticks his finger in his ear every time he tells a joke.

 

[treelover]

because he didn't want to offend fellow citizens of Birmingham

 

[treelover]

http://www.theguardian.com/media/me...testors-love-productions?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Unite Community Protest against Benefits Street outside Love Productions

is that guy in the window sneering?

 

[treelover]

'tourists' outside the street

 

[Jackobi]

MP's just voted by a majority of 132 in favour of an inquiry into welfare reforms and their links to poverty.

Confirmation of the inquiry vote here:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/benefit-cuts-uk-mps-vote-3020200

"Mr Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton) (Lab): I beg to move,

That this House believes that a commission of inquiry should be established to investigate the impact of the Government’s welfare reforms on the incidence of poverty."

http://www.publications.parliament....140113/debtext/140113-0003.htm#14011328000001

 

[BigTom]

DPAC/Black Triangle Campaign national ATOS demo, 19th Feb: http://dpac.uk.net/2014/01/atos-national-demo/

Link for this isn't working anymore - this is the facebook page with all the events listed on it, will try to find a non-fb link too: https://www.facebook.com/ATOSNationalDemo

 

[Dr Jon]

The Ongoing Assault On Ordinary Working Class People In Britain

 

[Greebo]

The Ongoing Assault On Ordinary Working Class People In Britain

Thanks for the link.

 

[treelover]

http://www.theguardian.com/society/...owance-jsa-benefit-english-maths-basic-skills


Rachel Reeves is going to announce tomorrow as part of N/L's (ongoing) welfare reform plans that all claimants will be obliged to undertake both Maths and basic English tests to receive benefits and more training courses. The infantilisation of young adults will continue as H/B is abolished and a new 'allowance' introduced.

btw, the Guardian' Journo Uber Blairite Wintour seems to relish all this

 

[DotCommunist]

thats a me too from the labour party wrt mandatory lit & numeracy training- the tories floated the same last nov iirc

 

[treelover]

wasn't that for migrants?

 

[DotCommunist]

wasn't that for migrants?

all under 25's iirc

 

[BigTom]

Maths and English tests are already pretty standard for work programme attendees afaik, even made my friend with a maths degree do a sub gcse maths test ffs.

 

[existentialist]

Maths and English tests are already pretty standard for work programme attendees afaik, even made my friend with a maths degree do a sub gcse maths test ffs.

In his shoes, I'd have been so tempted to fuck the test up, just to see if they'd notice. And do it in crayon.

 

[Awesome Wells]

http://www.theguardian.com/society/...owance-jsa-benefit-english-maths-basic-skills


Rachel Reeves is going to announce tomorrow as part of N/L's (ongoing) welfare reform plans that all claimants will be obliged to undertake both Maths and basic English tests to receive benefits and more training courses. The infantilisation of young adults will continue as H/B is abolished and a new 'allowance' introduced.

btw, the Guardian' Journo Uber Blairite Wintour seems to relish all this

And so Reeves' is reinforcing government propaganda that her own party fucked up education. That kids graduate only knowing how to sext and stab and are unemployable because they can't read write operate a mop or stack a shelf. What an idiot.

 

[treelover]

The obsession with punitive conditionality is obscene, people would jump at genuine help perhaps offered at a multi-purpose centre,

I know lets call them community centres, but aren't they being closed down?

 

[treelover]

So, perhaps unsurprisingly, I'm not prepared to claim that it was my "hard work" that got me where I am today. I won't be Boris Johnson's atomistic cornflake that shakes off the rest to get to the top of the packet; I'm not prepared to kick the proverbial ladder from under the feet of my peers by peddling the myth that it is only the lazy who stay behind.


http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...idge-benefits-cut-welfare-under-25s-education

 

[treelover]

btw, read above this inspiring story of a young woman who went to Cambridge despite being kicked out at 16, and her conclusions.