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Purnell: more attacks on the unemployed, etc

sorry Tbaldwin 628,000 vancies mosts on part time temp contracts or below the statutory 6 months period which allows people on JSA to take them in the first place

5.5MILLION on benefits and jobless rising economic downturn looming

I think you should question why uk journalists are meraly acting as PR agents and not giving the real facts or statistics to people nor treating the story with the critical unbiased thinking it deserves

Meant to comment on this earlier. just to say when others were coming out with utter nonsense and hysteria, this was one of the best replies.
 
I wonder if anyone is keeping a tally of the suicides, that this repetition from the government and tabloids of this particular news item, is causing.
:(
 
I wonder if anyone is keeping a tally of the suicides, that this repetition from the government and tabloids of this particular news item, is causing.
:(

If you take the issue of suicides. Being isolated and unemployed can also be a significant trigger. Writing millions of people off is not a good thing.
 
If you take the issue of suicides. Being isolated and unemployed can also be a significant trigger. Writing millions of people off is not a good thing.


So are you admitting the ultra right Labour policies ARE leading to suicides then? If the dole is all a person has got, and you take that away...anything could happen. I know 2 people on the dole who killed themselves WITHOUT having their money stopped...
 
So are you admitting the ultra right Labour policies ARE leading to suicides then? If the dole is all a person has got, and you take that away...anything could happen. I know 2 people on the dole who killed themselves WITHOUT having their money stopped...

tbaldwin would take that as an argument they should have had their money stopped.
 
So are you admitting the ultra right Labour policies ARE leading to suicides then? If the dole is all a person has got, and you take that away...anything could happen. I know 2 people on the dole who killed themselves WITHOUT having their money stopped...

Ultra right? You sad Tory git.
 
Tory? How do you define Tory?
I believe in a massive redistribution of power and wealth.

Doesn't really matter what you claim Baldwin; you may or may not be a Tory. The important thing is you come across as a Tory, tosser, wanker, cunt. Take your choice.
 
Doesn't really matter what you claim Baldwin; you may or may not be a Tory. The important thing is you come across as a Tory, tosser, wanker, cunt. Take your choice.

Sorry that really is just rubbish. You say Tory but you can not back that up at all,in any way.
I say that i think the majority of people on IB could work and some people moronically thinks that means.
1 I want to see peoples benefits cut or stopped
2 I hate the sick and the unemployed....

Who needs the eurostar eh some of you must be able to jump across the channel.....
 
Sorry that really is just rubbish. You say Tory but you can not back that up at all,in any way.
I say that i think the majority of people on IB could work and some people moronically thinks that means.
1 I want to see peoples benefits cut or stopped
2 I hate the sick and the unemployed....

Who needs the eurostar eh some of you must be able to jump across the channel.....

I'll back up what I've posted when you prove your arguments on thousands of employers willing to take on severely disabled people at £25 per hour; who will employ severely disabled people when they know the person may only manage a handful of hours per week; who will then pay the disabled person for say, an agreed 16 hours per week.

Fairly safe to say I won't need to back up anything.
 
Sorry that really is just rubbish. You say Tory but you can not back that up at all,in any way.
I say that i think the majority of people on IB could work and some people moronically thinks that means.
1 I want to see peoples benefits cut or stopped
2 I hate the sick and the unemployed....

I must say that in the current political climate you suggesting " that i think the majority of people on IB could work" agrees with the dominant parties who will implement;
"1 peoples benefits cut or stopped
2 I hate the sick and the unemployed...."

Whether you like it or not that is the most likely/almost certain thing which will happen. In that situation it is not surprising you are called a Tory. Radicals once approached things from a humanist left perspective which would not assume that they couldn't work, it would, in the first instance, look for evidence about their real condition(s) and their beliefs as they are - not how you want them to be. It would certainly never suggest something that they did not want to do.
 
Sorry that really is just rubbish. You say Tory but you can not back that up at all,in any way.
I say that i think the majority of people on IB could work and some people moronically thinks that means.
1 I want to see peoples benefits cut or stopped
2 I hate the sick and the unemployed....

Who needs the eurostar eh some of you must be able to jump across the channel.....


You sound just like a new labour minister, which means A TORY. If you're not a Tory who do you vote for then eh? The BNP? UKIP?
 
You sound just like a new labour minister, which means A TORY. If you're not a Tory who do you vote for then eh? The BNP? UKIP?

tbaldwin decked Griffin (allegedly) one time and is a self-declared 'authoritarian socialist', so no and no. However, he may become a 'minister' one day - who knows? :)
 
If you take the issue of suicides. Being isolated and unemployed can also be a significant trigger. Writing millions of people off is not a good thing.

After my last employer retired me, I re-discovered new talents which I have continually honed in my own home. I cannot tolerate being with people for more than an hour, never have been able to. I denied this however, in my twenty year career, as I wanted to keep all those jobs I lost, through my difficulties.

I have never felt suicidal because I dont have a job. OK Im skint, and the contents of my home from a skip, my clothes are mates cast-offs, but I knew financial sacrifices had to be made, and made they were.

I did, however walk into a road, and also tried to walk off a train platform, during rush hour when I was employed.

There are many many people like me.
 
Sorry that really is just rubbish. You say Tory but you can not back that up at all,in any way.
I say that i think the majority of people on IB could work and some people moronically thinks that means.
1 I want to see peoples benefits cut or stopped
2 I hate the sick and the unemployed....

Who needs the eurostar eh some of you must be able to jump across the channel.....
ok, do you think that people claiming benefits should be forced to undertake interviews, work-related activity (what ever the fuck that is meant to be), workforce labour, skills screening and training, with a punishment of having benefit reduced if you're deemed not to have complied?
 
Why did this problem not exist thirty so years ago could it be the neo liberal dismantling of our manufacturing industry and mass unemployment cause by this policy.that their are more than four million econmically inactive and six hundred thousand vacancies.the working conditions of today are the prime cause of the mental health issues that abound and to have this kind of crap put onto clamiants will push them to suicide or a worstening of their condition
 
Why did this problem not exist thirty so years ago could it be the neo liberal dismantling of our manufacturing industry and mass unemployment cause by this policy.that their are more than four million econmically inactive and six hundred thousand vacancies.the working conditions of today are the prime cause of the mental health issues that abound and to have this kind of crap put onto clamiants will push them to suicide or a worstening of their condition
I agree.
 
ok, do you think that people claiming benefits should be forced to undertake interviews, work-related activity (what ever the fuck that is meant to be), workforce labour, skills screening and training, with a punishment of having benefit reduced if you're deemed not to have complied?

Probably...I mean if people receive benefits i think it is fair enough they do something for those benefits where they can.
But i dont support the idea that people should be forced to work. I think that everybody should get the chance to work.
I think one of the present problems with the benfit system is that it actively discourages people moving back into work. Stuff like therapeautic earnings disregard needs to be increased.
Benfits for the disabled should be much more about benefits you can get if your in or out of work.
 
You sound just like a new labour minister, which means A TORY. If you're not a Tory who do you vote for then eh? The BNP? UKIP?

I vote who ever i think will be best for the country or area...Sometimes Labour sometimes Liberal sometimes Green...Never Tory,UKIP or BNP.

New Labour doubled spending on Health and Education to call them Tories is just infantile nonsense.
 
I vote who ever i think will be best for the country or area...Sometimes Labour sometimes Liberal sometimes Green...Never Tory,UKIP or BNP.

New Labour doubled spending on Health and Education to call them Tories is just infantile nonsense.

But where's that spending going? Into the hands of PFI companies, a Tory idea if i ever saw one. Now come on, if you wanted to build a house and could get a loan for 8 percent you wouldn't get a private company to do it for you instead and pay them 50 per cent would you?
I am very surprised you vote for those parties actually...

I do think even New Labour are better for the HNS than the Tories would be though...just a shame they gotta line their cronies pockets in PFI companies
 
Trev.....I think PFI is a really shit idea.....
But only a very small proportion of the massive increase in public spending has gone on PFI.....

The shit some people come out with you would think that private companies and individuals had only just started to milk the public purse....
 
I'll leave the content to you pumpkin; as you're extremely qualified in sending angry threats to vulnerable people.

I bet you’re the scourge the old ladies and babies in your manor, eh? No gossiping old dears or squawking kids in Nigelland.

You're the sort of person who hides behind any alleged ailment you may have.
You instigate situations, then hide behind your disabilities.
Go wallow in your own socially inadequate hell.
 
Trev.....I think PFI is a really shit idea.....
But only a very small proportion of the massive increase in public spending has gone on PFI.....

The shit some people come out with you would think that private companies and individuals had only just started to milk the public purse....

Like i say...a Tory idea, well not really, it goes all the way back to Mussolini , but the Tories were the first to introduce it here to my knowledge, and every PFI scheme fucks the country up for 20 years to come. It will get to a stage where half our taxes go direct into the pockets of the PFI companies...
 
That’d be everyone on IB. Therefore, you are categorically stating that every single disabled person on IB is capable of working. You are not making any provision for those people who consultants have warned that working could kill them; or, that working could make their conditions irreversibly worse. Yours is a black and white solution; if you breathe and claim IB, you’re fit for work.

You’re an advocate of the run before you can walk school of thinking, aren’t you. If you were a town planner you’d build the houses first; then worry about roads, links to utilities, shops, schools, GPs surgeries, libraries, public transport etc – if indeed, you even felt a need for such tiresome infrastructural excess or basic amenities.

But then, this is how government has operated in this country for decades – why change winning ways. Telling us they’re serious about lifting disabled people from poverty and social exclusion is different to putting in place the means and infrastructure to carry out such a gargantuan task. Are they opening more job centres; employing more DEAs; putting more money into Access to Work; making it more difficult for employers to discriminate against disabled job seekers; encouraging organisations such as Remploy to open more factories.

No, they’re doing none of these things. They’re closing job centres; they’re moving staff from redundant job centres to existing ones – hardly an environment for employing more DEAs; they’re excluding whole government departments from AtoW – with the view to withdrawing it from the whole of the public sector (this can only mean the private sector will follow); they’ve not toughened the DDA in any meaningful way to deter employers from discriminating against disabled people – especially at the recruitment stage; they’ve rubberstamped the closure of 30 Remploy factories, adding another 2,500 to the 2.3 million they want back to work; and, they’re going to phase out all local authority supported employment schemes.

All this as we enter a recession. Are these the actions of a government serious about helping disabled people?

Everyone can contribute something to society.
If they are payed some sort of wage, most morally decent people would see this as redeaming dignity and self respect.

The liberal lefty nanny state is pulling this society into moral degeneration!
 
Everyone can contribute something to society.
If they are payed some sort of wage, most morally decent people would see this as redeaming dignity and self respect.

The liberal lefty nanny state is pulling this society into moral degeneration!

No not SOME sort of wage. A LIVING wage. Most people on the dole would work for a living wage if they are treated well, but all my mates who have been in low paid jobs were treated like shite and worked until they nearly dropped.
 
Surely it is of relevance that the workers at Remploy wanted to work there, rather than the dubious liberation of being desegregated-via-P45 into some poorly paid agency McJob. Some empowerment that is.
Better than being some social parasite.
 
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