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[Poi E]

No. China will do.

 

[gentlegreen]

A chink in their carapace, or was this a purely cynical / self-serving move ?

What’s behind the rise in demand for food banks? Over the past few years, the default Conservative line has been that the reasons people need emergency help are ‘complex’. This is certainly true: the figures released by the Trussell Trust, which runs the largest network of food banks in the country, show that there is no one factor in food bank use. But those figures also show quite clearly that problems with the payments of benefits, or cuts to benefits, are a major driver: the top four reasons cited for referring someone to a food bank in 2017-18 were low income (28.49 per cent), benefit delays (23.74 per cent), benefit change (17.72 per cent) and debt (8.53 per cent). Other factors included homelessness, sickness, no recourse to public funds, domestic abuse, delayed wages, feeding children during the school holidays and being turned down for a short-term benefit advance.

Today, Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd took the unusual step of acknowledging this. She told the Commons:

‘It’s absolutely clear there were challenges with the initial roll-out of universal credit and the main issue that led to an increase in food bank use could have been the fact that people had difficulties accessing their money early enough.




‘We have made changes to accessing universal credit so people can have advances, so there is a legacy run-on after two weeks of housing benefit, and we believe that will help with food bank use.’

Rudd did make clear as soon as she was appointed that she wanted to ensure that the welfare system was ‘compassionate’, but this is nevertheless a marked change of tone from the repeated insistence of her predecessors that government policies were not driving food bank demand. So what’s going on?

Amber Rudd changes the Tory tune on food banks | Coffee House

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

A chink in their carapce, or was this a purely cynical / self-serving move ?




Amber Rudd changes the Tory tune on food banks | Coffee House

Angling for the 'marginally more human' ticket for the next leadership election probably. Not a high bar to aim for.

 

[Dogsauce]

Yeah, it’s positioning. Not only for leadership but also for liberal/left-ish/centrist types that are a bit disappointed by Corbyn and looking for a new political home.

 

[brogdale]

This is so spectacularly dumb that i'm not sure this thread really does it justice, but thought it the most appropriate (?).

What an utter cunt ...

 

[danny la rouge]

Fits well with Patel’s smirk while she delivered this sound bite.

 

[billy_bob]

Patel is one of a kind with Chris Grayling: they somehow manage to be dead-eyed, ruthless sociopaths and incompetent at the same time. It's not a winning combination.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Are you a graduate ?
Have you never actually worked apart from a bit of time in corporate PR ?
Are you known amongst your acquaintances as being a bit of a slimy shit ?
And shallow?
And pretty thick?
Are you utterly lacking in any kind of empathy for your fellow man?


John the Conservative party today!

There’s a ministerial post with your name on it!

Plenty of room for extra curricular income from lucrative sidelines as well

Join today

 

[ViolentPanda]

Are you a graduate ?
Have you never actually worked apart from a bit of time in corporate PR ?
Are you known amongst your acquaintances as being a bit of a slimy shit ?
And shallow?
And pretty thick?
Are you utterly lacking in any kind of empathy for your fellow man?


John the Conservative party today!

There’s a ministerial post with your name on it!

Plenty of room for extra curricular income from lucrative sidelines as well

Join today

You forgot "There's a chance to indulge your perverse sexual urges, secure in the knowledge that MI5 will cover up your peccadilloes 'for the good of the country/national security' ".

 

[Anju]

Maybe she's only just become aware of computers but probably just thick as shit.

 

[Teaboy]

The ability to open your mouth and use words without actually saying anything is a skill. Not a prized skill but, you know...

 

[existentialist]

I hadn't realised until watching a bit of Parliament TV just how dim a lot of MPs are.

 

[Poi E]

It's the education system in Britain.

 

[brogdale]

I hadn't realised until watching a bit of Parliament TV just how dim a lot of MPs are.

Everything is done for them by 'their people' in the office save:
1. smiling/glad-handing for photo ops
2. remembering which one of two doors they've been told to walk through
Doesn't need much ability.

 

[Badgers]

 

[not-bono-ever]

Turbo PFI

Costing the NHS billions

There are more sensible ways to fund this given that long term government debt is so fucking cheap atm but obvs that’s not gonna happen

Gerrymandering corrupt self serving lying cunts . When will we learn?

 

[brogdale]

*Blood pressure trigger warning*

 

[existentialist]

*Blood pressure trigger warning*

That man's a cunt. Utterly, utterly out of touch. Elected to Parliament by well-off farmer types, in a county with some of the highest deprivation in Wales. If he even remotely had his finger on the pulse, he'd know how stupid and fucking heartless statements like that were. But he hasn't, and he doesn't. He'll probably get re-elected.

 

[Ming]

*Blood pressure trigger warning*

He’s trolling.

 

[Ming]

Turbo PFI

Costing the NHS billions

There are more sensible ways to fund this given that long term government debt is so fucking cheap atm but obvs that’s not gonna happen

Gerrymandering corrupt self serving lying cunts . When will we learn?

I think we’ve learned. But about one third of voters haven’t. And DeFeffel and Trump have realized this.

 

[brogdale]

Get the knob out.

 

[billy_bob]

'apologises after' is a bit misleading. 13 years after...

 

[brogdale]

'apologises after' is a bit misleading. 13 years after...

He did leave that hanging there for a long while.

 

[teqniq]

Fuck. Right. Off.

Petition: Don’t criminalise trespass

The Government's manifesto stated “we will make intentional trespass a criminal offence”: an extreme, illiberal & unnecessary attack on ancient freedoms that would threaten walkers, campers, and the wider public. It would further tilt the law in favour of the landowning 1% who own half the country.

petition.parliament.uk

 

[gosub]

Tory MP defends 'get a life' tweet sent 'in error' to sick pay query

A Tory MP said a tweet sent to someone asking about sick pay which read "get a life" was not meant to be shared to them.

www.standard.co.uk

 

[brogdale]

Tory MP defends 'get a life' tweet sent 'in error' to sick pay query

A Tory MP said a tweet sent to someone asking about sick pay which read "get a life" was not meant to be shared to them.

www.standard.co.uk

That'll be like the 'error' made when my local tory GLA candidate, then just a borough councillor, told me to fuck off.

 

[brogdale]

Just had this local Tory leaflet/'newsletter" shoved through the door.
WTF are they thinking?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Chancellor Rishi Sunak mistakenly joins rebels in chlorine chicken vote Sunak joins chlorine chicken rebels by mistake

 

[teqniq]

Oops



This appears to be a response to Johnson's apparently dismal performance at PMQ's as a pose to Starmer.

thread here

 

[brogdale]

Oops

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This appears to be a response to Johnson's apparently dismal performance at PMQ's as a pose to Starmer.

thread here

The unpleasant Maria Caulfield has deleted her twitter account!

Having their lying psychopathic leader exposed as such seems to be destabilising some of the dim lobby fodder.