Meet @TheLennoxP, The Welfare-To-Work Parasites Caught Fining Unemployed People For ‘Tutting’

The list of potential fines first

The list of potential fines first revealed in the Ardossan Herald.

A story so astonishing many assumed it was an April Fool is breaking in Scotland after sleazy welfare-to-work parasites the Lennox Partnership were caught fining unemployed people for looking at their phones or having their hands in their pockets.

According to the local press, the Lennox Partnership are contracted to run training services for unemployed people by the SNP controlled North Ayrshire Council.  This training involved participants being fined for often trivial reasons such as ‘tutting’, swearing or answering their phones.  Whilst the lowest level of fine was just 10p, those on the course could be fined as much as £5 if their phone rang outside of designated break times.  After all it’s not like people looking for a job might have a good reason to take a phone call in the middle of day.

Even the DWP are appalled, with the Daily Record reporting they have suspended referrals to the STRIVE  programme run by the Lennox Partnership.  Those behind the schme are unrepentent, with North Ayrshire Council claiming that they are just trying to “change behaviours and instil a professional attitude”.  Participants who refuse to pay the fines are required to leave the course raising fears they may face benefit sanctions for refusing to take part in ‘work related activity’

The company say that their scheme is entirely voluntary and nobody will be sanctioned should they choose to leave.  This reveals a shocking ignorance of the current situation faced by claimants who are subject to benefit sanctions for ever more trivial reasons.  It is Jobcentres, not the Lennox Partnership, who decide whether a sanction should be imposed.

The STRIVE programme is aimed at long term unemployed people, and it is possible that some participants may have care and support needs meaning safeguarding rules should be in place to prevent this kind of financial coercion.  The Lennox Partnership also boast on their website that some participants in the STRIVE programme have been as young as 16.  It is unclear whether they also fine children.

Whilst the legalities of the scheme are murky this practice is clearly unethical.  With the ever-present threat of sanctions hanging over unemployed people’s heads it is little more than extortion.  Whatever mealy mouthed excuses the Lennox Partnership come out with, the experience of claimants is the same.  This company are demanding money from some of the poorest people in Scotland with the unspoken menace that their benefits may be taken away if they refuse.

You can tell the Lennox Partnership what you think of this vile practice on twitter @TheLennoxP

h/t enigma

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403 responses to “Meet @TheLennoxP, The Welfare-To-Work Parasites Caught Fining Unemployed People For ‘Tutting’

    • There’s nothing murky about it, it’s criminal, if they tried that with me I would arrest the first person who tried to demand payment from me.

    • Sorry to hijack the thread but has anyone tried phoning the Universal Credit number today? No money in bank, a possible induction to get me off the actual dole and I can’t even afford the bl**dy train fare thanks to another admin error. Each time I try to phone the number you get the answering machine spiel then it cuts off a good few minutes later without any explanation in the recorded message. It’s a bl**dy shambles.

  1. Typical of the new approach of systematic contempt for the unemployed.

  2. I thought this was a spoof to begin with. But seeing the story in the Scottish press, and THE NATIONAL too, I realized it was real. But it is also illegal. These folks have no authority whatsoever to impose any kind of such fine, and if they have, I should be arrested for theft ! We could say the same of benefit sanctions, but as that’s the Regime, it is a bit more difficult to prove how illegal it may be in the circumstance. Tho, there will definitely be times when DWP staffs impose illegal sanctions. It’s getting the means to prove that, and get something done about it, which isn’t always easy for many.
    As for this STRIVE thing, replied to another poster earlier on the “April 15 working day” Post. It looks like it deals mainly with the younger out of work folks, and the case histories they give out appear to be the easier to help ones too.
    However, that said, it really is a telling attitude that they view young out of work ppl in this manner, they think such a thing as this is acceptable.
    It should be closed down, or at the very least, the initiative be given to others with a better way of doing things, if it must continue. Tho who would be any better, would be hard to find as most of these things are based on exploitation of one kind or other.

    • I thought this was a spoof to begin with. But seeing the story in the Scottish press, and THE NATIONAL too, I realized it was real. But it is also illegal. These folks have no authority whatsoever to impose any kind of such fine, and if they have, THEY should be arrested for theft ! We could say the same of benefit sanctions, but as that’s the Regime, it is a bit more difficult to prove how illegal it may be in the circumstance. Tho, there will definitely be times when DWP staffs impose illegal sanctions. It’s getting the means to prove that, and get something done about it, which isn’t always easy for many.
      As for this STRIVE thing, replied to another poster earlier on the “April 15 working day” Post. It looks like it deals mainly with the younger out of work folks, and the case histories they give out appear to be the easier to help ones too, and all living with relatives.

      However, that said, it really is a telling attitude that they view young out of work ppl in this manner, they think such a thing as this is acceptable.
      It should be closed down, or at the very least, the initiative be given to others with a better way of doing things, if it must continue. Tho who would be any better, would be hard to find as most of these things are based on exploitation of one kind or other.

  3. BOLLOCKS TO WORKFARE

    Fucking unbelievable. It certainly does sound like an April Fools joke. This cannot be legal, surely. I’m going to email the cunts right now…

  4. Protesters call for new Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb to step down from role as Patron of Pembrokeshire Mencap

    http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/14400134.Protest_held_at_office_of_Stephen_Crabb_MP/

    • paultheswineherd

      sian – that’s really good news – the Tories must be pretty much hated in Wales now!

      • TiredAndEmotional

        Many in Wales don’t like the Tories, but increasing numbers seem to want to vote for them. In 2015 11 Tories were elected as MPs in Wales, (best result the Tories in Wales have had in 30 years) a huge difference to May 1997 when Wales became a Tory free zone. 11 Tory MPs means that more than a quarter of MPs representing constituencies in Wales are Tory.

        I wish it could be said that the Tories were hated by far more people in Wales, but sad to say, more and more seem to be attracted to Tory values, or worse, have become bewitched by UKIP.

    • The really funny thing is… he needed 10 people to stand him, so he lost 3 by the time the vote happened. Now that is bad, LoLz.

  5. paultheswineherd

    I would have thought that this was indeed, illegal.
    Firstly and foremostly, where is the ‘written’ guidance for these fines and ‘who’ have these ‘fines’ been issued by? Is it the ‘provider’? – it certainly sounds very much like it could be.
    It would be interesting to see what would happen if a ‘trainee’ said ‘what authority do you have to do this’? – I AM NOT PAYING ANY FINES IMPOSED. What happens then – is he/she going to be reported for a sanction?
    “Are you going to take me to Court for not paying a 10p – £7.50p ‘made up by you’ fine”?
    I’d have thought that this ‘provider’ could be on very sticky ground here!
    If it did come to Court, surely the ‘provider’ would be found to be acting illegally in this particular case.

  6. I would punch them in the fucking throat if they done that to me. A quiet word with the supervisor when no one else is listening would be enough to make the cunt think twice with fucking with me.

    • If more people in large numbers acted like you say you would, Cephalus, noone would dare sanction anybody.

      • When your back is against the wall you have to fight back. The word with the supervisor would be along the lines of “You better be careful with the way you act, if you get me sanctioned I will find you and i will kill you!” His/hers word against yours if they try to report you.

    • BIG DICK McPHEE

      You sound like a real tough guy, Cephalus. You sound almost like that Richard Widmark character, Commanche Tod. A reeeeeaaaallll tough Guuuuuuuyyyyy….

  7. paultheswineherd

    What! Another Tory landslide – they surely must be fucking joking!
    They definitely must not be allowed to do any of this shite.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-mark-harper-and-the-certain-path-to-a-tory-landslide-at-the-2020-election-a6963826.html

  8. paultheswineherd

    The Tories are in shit up to their ears – but Cameron will of course, not admit any of it!
    http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/apr/02/backbench-pressure-on-osborne-academy-scheme

  9. Obi Wan Kenobi

    Don’t forget people, the last referral date for MWA’s and CWP’s was 31st of March 2016.

    This date has now passed so if a work roach at the JCP tries to refer you to either it is now illegal, call over a floor manager.

  10. Obi Wan Kenobi

    For info on last referral dates on MWA’s and CWP’s – follow link below:

    Mandatory Work Activity and Community Work Placements to go! But what’s coming next?

  11. paultheswineherd

    From one unpopular Tory toff to only just a little more popular Tory toff.
    Fuck them all – kick all of the bastards out!
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-favourite-to-succeed-david-cameron-as-tory-leader-poll-finds-a6960401.html

  12. paultheswineherd

    Whilst on the subject of poor claimants being charged between 10p and £7.50p in concocted fines – please do not forget this one (Channel 4 News has covered this a lot recently, including launching their own investigation into it). Many of Cameron’s high and mighty cohorts may well have broken Electoral Law with this one.
    dpac.co.uk/2016/03/conservative-mps-broke-the-law-to-win-the-2015-general-election-the-canary-torydump/
    The Electoral Commission and the Police really need to look into these very serious and also, potentially criminal actions.

    • paultheswineherd

      The full story can also be found on the dpac website (approx mid-way down this webpage on the right-hand side)

  13. Notjing but OUTRIGHT theft with threats, still, what do you expect from the gestapo when they are looking for disreputable scammers to fleece poor people

    • I would let the first fucker who demanded money off me with menaces know I would call the cops on them for extortion and abuse of office, and when they got back from sorting that out at the knick they could expect a house ‘warming’.

  14. I notice they make a fat profit off the state. Companies House accounts here: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC111183/officers
    I also notice they have a local councillor on their director list. Can’t see from which party.

    • The councilors listed there were all Labour councillors in the Clydebank-Dumbarton area at the time. All are no longer serving coumcillors. All resigned within a year or so of being appointed.

  15. Pingback: Meet @TheLennoxP, The Welfare-To-Work Parasites...

  16. Another Fine Recession

    From JV’s twitter:

    “Fiona loved every minute of her time on placement. She enjoyed the routine of getting up for work again and helping a worthwhile charity. Fiona felt more confident and focused after her time on placement and she went onto volunteer in a charity store nearer her home.”

    The Supervisor rated Christina as excellent on everything aspect of her work

    As excellent as their proof reader ?

    Notice there’s no mention of Paid work anywhere.
    More sick making words here: http://www.thelennoxpartnership.org/case-studies/mandatory-work-activity-mwa

    • I doubt very much, if these a real live ppl, they enjoyed any of it. But such gushing case :”histories” are going to tell us otherwise!

    • Another Fine Recession

      Jobs Growth Case Study
      Jessica is 19 years old with very little work experience.

      OK

      She attended job support appointments with her advisor and applied for a vacancy with Salvation Army

      Oh! The SA, I think we’ve heard of them before.

      offered the job and started work on 19th August 2014 on a part time contract and is still enjoying her job.

      A new variation: Workfare to Workfare ? Is it Paid ?
      http://www.thelennoxpartnership.org/case-studies/jobs-growth

    • Another Fine Recession

      Matt*, a 18-year-old client started the Waste Programme believing there was only one sector he could/wanted to work in and that was construction.

      Matt has now been offered a job with a well-known fast-food retailer
      < splutter >

      *Please note: the name has been changed for confidentiality purpose

      Chinglish!
      http://www.thelennoxpartnership.org/case-studies/ingeus-strive

      • ‘Doublespeak’.

      • 'Zac' and 'Sarah' - The Illustrated People

        As the DWP now say in their press releases: “The use of case studies (including imagery) is for illustrative purposes only”. In other words, completely made up bollocks

      • AFR: LOL! Good god i thought you made that up as a little joke. So i looked at the link, it’s a true story!!!! What an outcome for Matt; he wanted to do some meaningful career in construction and ended up as a worker in a fast food establishment instead. Way to go ‘Lennox Partnershit’ you can be really proud of your efforts that you put in on behalf of Matt.

      • BOLLOCKS TO WORKFARE

        “Matt could have been a fully skilled Bricklayer/Carpenter/Plasterer capable of earning £120 per day, but we bullied him into flipping burgers for minimum wage instead.”

    • Another Fine Recession

      An innovative scheme which has been run over 9 Local Authority areas, is designed to help long-term unemployed people return to work, has achieved a… …

      Terrible grammar, but, Get ready!

      100% success rate in Dundee.

      with all ten of the people who secured funded places moving into full-time employment

      Oh, not quite as many as I was expecting.

      with the likes of St. Andrews Golf Open, B & M Stores and Tesco.

      With them names….. Is it Paid?

      http://www.thelennoxpartnership.org/news/dundee-employment-programme-scores-stunning-success

    • 'Zab' and 'Sarah' - The Illustrated People

      As the DWP now say in their press releases: “The use of case studies (including imagery) is for illustrative purposes only”. In other words, completely made up bollocks

    • paultheswineherd

      Absolutely stunning experiences – they both ended up in ‘charity shops’, probably doing ‘full-time’ hours for fuck all in payment. Disgraceful – and if this Lennox crap think that these are ‘good outcomes’ for these girls, then they really need to look at themselves and exactly what they are doing.

      • There was some girl on a jobcentre ‘course’; admittedly she was one sandwich short of a picnic, but in a garbled voice she said: “I volunteer in the Salvation Army charity shop for 5 days a week and I am really happy”, said with a great big idiotic grin on her mentally-defective lobotomised face. This is what the jobcentre want to turn their clients into; this is the ‘mould’, and they will keep on pressing….

    • Another Fine Recession

      In-Work Progression: Another charity store nearer home

    • Another Fine Recession

      Jamie who is 24 lives with his Gran and Papa in Kilbirnie. Prior to joining Strive on 3rd March 2014, Jamie worked as a lifeguard from 2004 until October 2013 when he was made redundant.

      A lifeguard at age 14 ?

      http://www.thelennoxpartnership.org/case-studies/strive-nac/

  17. Utter BOLLOX.
    I would suspect the venue burnt to the ground after the first sanction.

  18. When I first posted this on twitter, even respected workfare fighters told me it was an April Fools.
    I can not put into words what I think of this without it turning into a foul-mouthed tirade!

  19. From someone who was sanctioned from those ‘holes, Learndirect just because one of their idiots put the wrong day down for an absence when I had for a job interview, I will believe anything I hear from any of these places who waste your time and efforts, punishing you because you can’t find work.

    • From the comments: “ALL the best jobs are taken before they are advertised.” So true. “If you ever get a good job, hang on to it because you wont get another one!” Too right!

    • Fuck the jobcentre

      “There are folks who have been volunteering quite happily, because they wanted to do something they thought useful, but ended losing their benefits, as it was not the kind of thing some DWP advisor wanted their “clients” to do. They wanted them in at some useless course at a jobcenter on how to update a CV or something stupid, when they had no need for that. Or wanted them to work gratis, in a local charity shop, because the charity shop had a contract with DWP from where it would get its staff, or a discount store or something. So if you think volunteering is a good thing, then according to DWP there are the wrong kinds of volunteering, and the right kinds! ” Yup, the only ‘right’ kind of ‘volunteering’ is in a Sally Ann ‘charity’ shop or a ‘recycling’ plant!

      • Shouldn’t be any such thing as volunteering in modern society as the crooks and the con men use it as an excuse to rip the piss out of people, especially unemployed people. Anyone who does any job of work should be paid for it, otherwise you get into this David Camoron ‘Big Society’ mindset. So called well meaning types who volunteer to do jobs for nothing have ruined employment chances for a lot of people.

        • As long as there are charitable organizations there will be poverty.
          We need secure legislation on welfare that prevents this.
          Big Dick talks about achievers and success moving forward, yet wants to move backwards regarding welfare, which was set up to put an end to poverty in cyclical employment.

      • I thought the better of mentioning any actual charities by name, but Sal A. were the main ones I had in mind.

        • Should I ever becomes unemployed, or if I’m told to do more if UC ever comes in, I’ll volunteer like a shot. At our local unemployed workers centre helping ppl in conflict with JCP!

    • Just tweeted our First Minister Nicola Sturgeon about your linked to article, asking her if she thinks that is acceptable and if not then what are the SNP doing about this kind of gross exploitation? I’ll let you know what is said in the reply. BTW i’m an SNP voter so this will be kind of interesting. If i don’t believe the reply is satisfactory then i may have to think about taking my vote elsewhere.

      • paultheswineherd

        Raining – It’ll be interesting to see what she says in reply to you!

        • It’s a no reply Paul. I thought as much! Politicians don’t like being nailed and put on the spot on the big issues like the exploitation of already vulnerable people. They prefer to avoid commenting and pretend they never even read the question.

          • paultheswineherd

            Raining – Yes, I am not surprised at all my friend. These ‘politicians’ want to maintain the ‘status quo’ – not upsetting their ‘hard-working’ voters – anyone who is poor or are ‘low-paid’ – really they do not seem to care about. She is a representative of the SNP – nevertheless – ‘she’ is now quite a ‘high-paid’ politician – who, in reality does not care too much for the ‘poorer’ people of society. It seems to happen all of the time – a local MP gets promoted to Government (and gets more money) – gets promoted to a Government Minister (and gets more money) – gets promoted to a ‘First Minister’ (as in our shameful P.M. Cameron!) and they forget about the poor people. THEY THEN LOOK AFTER THEMSELVES – ONLY! THEY LOVE THE POWER OF THEIR ‘NEW’ POSITION – and fuck everyone who is any way ‘below’ them.

          • Nicola Sturgeon's Boxer Shorts

            😀

          • The Pink Flamingo

            It would be as funny as fuck if Wee Nicola “came out”, to join Davidson, Harvie, that what’s-his-name UK guy, and now Dugdale – who would have thunk, bet Jezza is pissed off the way he had his hand up her skirt as they walked hand-in-hand into that party conference lol 😀 How many of the Jock Parly are hiding in the closet 😉

      • Office of the First Minister for Scotland

        Hello Raining. Thank you for reaching out to the First Minister. Since coming to power the Scottish National Party has brought hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of pounds of inward investment to Scotland. Scotland has been transformed into a vibrant, dynamic powerhouse economy. Scotland is now recognised as a leader on the world stage. We trust we have answered your question.

        • paultheswineherd

          That’s just like the Tories would say – only with them, it’s all a continuing pack of lies, as well as smoke and mirrors!

  20. paultheswineherd

    Osborne’s ‘New Living Wage’ utopia – but it’s not ‘good news’ for everyone!
    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/01/living-wage-retail-worker-george-osborne

  21. This is all “tip of the iceberg” stuff. The “Baal worshipers” have only just started.
    We haven’t seen nothing yet, the true horror is to come.

  22. The Couch Potatoes

    What the fuck is the BBC playing at spending hard working license payers ££money££ advertising the Salvation Army? A six part series on Sunday night! And what the fuck is Paul O’Grady doing fronting this abomination and waste of air-time? Is Mr O’Grady being paid for this? Will he be donating his fee at £19 a month to the Sally Ann? Will be be shown the REAL face of of the Sally Ann? – their prolific use of workfare and their wanton use of benefits sanctions? And why the fuck is Mr O’Grady wearing a Sally Ann uniform?

    • paultheswineherd

      The Couch Potatoes – Well said – you took the very words out of my mouth!
      With these buggers having used workfare people in the past, it is a total disgrace that they are being given this free publicity – and, yes also at the TV licence payer’s expense. Their original aims were good and years ago they were a decent ‘charity’ – but also – no more.

  23. Santa Hates You

    Hey, Lennox Partnership – I’ve tutted and answered my phone a thousand times, ok. So come on you dirty motherfucking arseholes, fine Santa right now you stupid looking cunts. Do you know that Santa is not taking his medication at the moment?

    What? No? Are you frightened of a offending Santa? I know you are you bullying fuckwits – so stop picking on those workfare people right now!!!

  24. paultheswineherd

    Marvellous! – the ‘Nation’ may be celebrating, but I for one, (and I should imagine countless others) will not be.
    May all of her ill-scrounged money over the years make her truly happy!
    http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2016/04/03/queen-excited-about-being-joined-by-thousands-for-90th-birthday-bash/

  25. £30,000 for DWP employee dismissed for disability absences.

    http://www.personneltoday.com/hr/30000-dwp-employee-dismissed-disability-absences/

    Discrimination against disabled staff shoots up at DWP, the home of ‘Disability Confident’

    The number of disabled civil servants who have faced discrimination within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has risen by nearly a quarter in just a year, according to “shocking” and “very worrying” new figures.

    http://www.disabledgo.com/blog/2016/02/discrimination-against-disabled-staff-shoots-up-at-dwp-the-home-of-disability-confident/

  26. paultheswineherd

    “Even the middle classes are not safe – now that the safety net has gone”
    UK Government’s housing policy targeting homeless families is “tantamount to social cleansing”
    (This seems to be a follow up of the story that was reported on here a few days ago)
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/charities-call-for-urgent-action-to-prevent-death-of-more-homeless-children-a6966601.html

  27. paultheswineherd

    Cameron, Sajid David and Osborne have, by their actions and their words,(or lack of them), have shown what the Port Talbot steelworks and it’s workforce really mean to them – very little or nothing – like Crabb, they just try to slip to one side from it all, or disappear altogether – Disgraceful.
    http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/01/heres-what-the-steelworks-mean-to-the-people-of-port-talbot-tata-steel

  28. paultheswineherd

    This Universal Credit cut has been kept quiet – until now!
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thousands-widows-see-benefits-cut-7680615

    • paultheswineherd

      Where is IDS? – This most hated fucker seems to have ‘shut up his mouth’ and gone to ground somewhere – perhaps he is a very scared bunny now!
      Also – where is the next most hated fucker, Stephen Crabb ? – also keeping his gob shut, his head down and is nowhere in sight – not yet anyway!
      Both of them are cowardly gobshite bastards!

  29. Another Fine Recession

    I’d bet that the webshite of these social parasites has had more visitors this weekend than their previous 25 years!

    http://www.thelennoxpartnership.org/case-studies/repasarc-paisley
    just more cobblers.

  30. No to Universal Credit Defend the Welfare State No Austerity

  31. The Free to be a Slave Market is Exploitation and Oppression

    These ” Fines ” take the Biscuit and embody Nazi Tory Austerity Britain

    GORDON KEANE | April 2, 2016 at 5:56 pm | Reply

    I thought this was a spoof to begin with. But seeing the story in the Scottish press, and THE NATIONAL too, I realized it was real. But it is also illegal. These folks have no authority whatsoever to impose any kind of such fine, and if they have, THEY should be arrested for theft ! We could say the same of benefit sanctions, but as that’s the Regime, it is a bit more difficult to prove how illegal it may be in the circumstance. Tho, there will definitely be times when DWP staffs impose illegal sanctions. It’s getting the means to prove that, and get something done about it, which isn’t always easy for many.
    As for this STRIVE thing, replied to another poster earlier on the “April 15 working day” Post. It looks like it deals mainly with the younger out of work folks, and the case histories they give out appear to be the easier to help ones too, and all living with relatives.

    However, that said, it really is a telling attitude that they view young out of work ppl in this manner, they think such a thing as this is acceptable.
    It should be closed down, or at the very least, the initiative be given to others with a better way of doing things, if it must continue. Tho who would be any better, would be hard to find as most of these things are based on exploitation of one kind or other.

  32. Where there are Elections in May 2016 AD Common Sense says No Vote
    For Liberal Democrats or the Anti British so called ” Scottish National
    Party ” .

    The Liberal Democrats Collaborated with the Tories from May 2010 AD
    to March 2015 AD and some Voted to Steal from the Poor and Vulnerable
    more Recently

    The So Called ” Scottish National Party ” are EU Stooges and have Inflicted
    Austerity on the Ground

    Britons Never Shall Be Slaves by Political Common Sense

  33. If it’s crime against people with disabilities, we don’t care

    A spate of horrific attacks has gone almost completely unnoticed

    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-its-crime-against-people-with-disabilities-we-dont-care-a6966776.html

  34. Regarding the Evil ILL Treatment of a Dog such as throwing the Dog down a
    Flight of Stairs and the Lousy ” Sentence ” of 21 Weeks Suspended For 2
    Years there is a Petition On Line for this Sentence to be Increased

    A Society which Condones Sadistic ILL Treatment of Animals is a Sick
    Society

  35. Indeed Sadly that is the Case in Nazi British Society from Disabled People
    being Tipped Over in Wheelchairs to a Disabled Man being Burnt Alive
    after Police Ignoring his Pleas For Help on a Racist Arsehole Ignoramus
    Estate in Bristol .

    ” Musn’t Grumble ” Zombie British Mentality

    It is Disgusting

    sian | April 4, 2016 at 10:56 am | Reply

    If it’s crime against people with disabilities, we don’t care

    A spate of horrific attacks has gone almost completely unnoticed

    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/if-its-crime-against-people-with-disabilities-we-dont-care-a6966776.html

  36. Absolutely

    Too many Politicians like being More Ignorant than Pigs when it comes
    to Addressing Verboten Issues

    Raining | April 4, 2016 at 1:53 am | Reply

    It’s a no reply Paul. I thought as much! Politicians don’t like being nailed and put on the spot on the big issues like the exploitation of already vulnerable people. They prefer to avoid commenting and pretend they never even read the question.

  37. So Called ” Anti Austerity ” Organisations Need to do more than just
    a feel gold grumble march through London once in a blue moon when
    Austerity Needed to of Actually been Stopped Years Once and Never

    It has been as much a Lack of Momentum from ” Anti Austerity ” Organisations as the Bigots Tabloids Brainwashed Zombies out There
    why Nutcase Austerity has been so Inflicted upon this Slavery Loving
    Country

    During the Con Dem Regime Years the Lack of Action from Alleged
    ” Anti Austerity ” Organisations was Worse than Diabolical

    It took at least 10 Months from the Time that the Con Dems formed
    their Power Clique until that too little too late ” Demonstration ” took
    place upon the 26th of March 2011 AD

    Austerity Needed to of been stopped before End of 2010 AD

  38. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “I AM WRITING TO THE DWP TO ENQUIRE IF MY £33.60P PER WEEK DISABILITY MONEY CAN BE RE-ROUTED THROUGH THE FONSECA MOSSACK COMPANY OF PANAMA TO AVOID PAYING UK INCOME TAX”

  39. Another Fine Recession

    Looks like the welfare to workfare gravy train could be coming to the end of the line at last.

    Ministers are set to slash funding for programmes to help the long-term unemployed, sharply reducing the role of private companies in delivering “welfare to work” programmes.

    Priti Patel, employment minister, told welfare-to-work providers at the end of last year: “We have largely overcome the issue of long-term unemployment.”

    LOL

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d0c75710-c11b-11e5-846f-79b0e3d20eaf.html

  40. This craphole country is becoming more of a Hitler nation everyday!

  41. GEOFF REYNOLDS
    • Saving any jobs in an industry that cannot compete is trying to buck the markets.
      The people that will pay for the jobs to be maintained from the public purse will be the poorest in society as usual.

  42. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “THE NEW LIVING WAGE CON TRICK”

    I am really rather concerned at the publicity and celebration surrounding the new ‘living’ wage.

    The television advertisement tells us, unequivocally, that every person currently subsisting on the minimum wage, will be better off, to the tune of 50 pence for every hour you work. This is clearly untrue, and verges upon deliberately misleading, and perhaps, should be referred to the Advertising Standards Agency.

    Firstly, in order to receive Working Tax Credits, someone must work 16 or more hours per week. Anyone working 16 hours per week, will receive £115.20, which is above the upper threshold to claim Working tax Credits. Consequently, anyone earning the new ‘living’ wage will gain 50 pence an hour, at the expense of their Tax Credits. Consequently, they will not be 50 pence per hour better off.

    Similarly, those working more hours, who will also find their Tax Credits evaporating, will find that they suddenly cross the threshold for Income tax and, increased, National Insurance payments, so the, much lauded, 50 pence per hour extra will be diminished further.

    Workers on the minimum wage may well see themselves much worse off, even those receiving Universal credit, following their ‘generous’ pay rise, their 50 pence per hour will, literally, end up being a pocket full of nothing!

  43. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    Stephen Crabb has put Maximus ‘Under Scrutiny’

    STEPHEN CRABB, the new work and pensions secretary, is seeking to tear up government contracts with private “welfare to work” contractors as part of a radical overhaul of Iain Duncan Smith’s benefits revolution.
    In the first sign that Crabb will make changes to the government’s flagship reforms, he held a crisis meeting about the troubled universal credit on Thursday and ordered officials to come clean with him and the public about the problems.

    Whitehall sources say one of Crabb’s first moves will be to “get out of” problematic government contracts.

    One firm under scrutiny is Maximus, which replaced Atos in providing health assessments for claimants of the employment and support allowance, the new benefit for the disabled.

    The National Audit Office (NAO) reported in January that since Maximus took on the contract for fitness-for- work tests in March last year the cost to the taxpayer had doubled to £579m. It also said that one in 10 reports is rejected by the government as below standard, compared with one in 25 under Atos.

    Maximus did not respond to a request for comment but at the time of the NAO report a spokesman said the company had brought in new staff “to meet the requirements of the contract going forward. We are confident about the future and remain fully committed to delivering a high quality service.”

    A senior Whitehall source said: “Stephen [Crabb] is a sceptic of throwing ever-more millions [at private companies]. One contract in particular — Fit for Work — he will be looking to get out of that contract pretty quick. Fit for Work is an early candidate for some serious reworking.”

    During Thursday’s meeting, which lasted for six hours, Crabb “lifted the bonnet” on universal credit.

    Only 200,000 people have claimed the benefit despite forecasts that 1m would have enrolled by 2014.

    Crabb ordered weekly updates on the programme, which merges six benefits into one, and told officials to stop blocking freedom of information requests.

    From next month five jobcentres a month will begin operating the full universal credit system for whole families, not just servicing single claimants.

    The source said: “We need much greater transparency. This is such a public-facing project, we have nothing to fear from public scrutiny.”

    Crabb will lay out his approach to welfare in a speech on April 12, saying he wants “work coaches” who are delivering universal credit to be held in the same esteem as nurses are in the NHS.

  44. FUCK CAPITALISM

    OMG just heard the Conservative Party political broadcast on tv, nearly puked. Lost count of how many times they used thewords “hard work”, “decent people who get up early”, “hard working people”, “people who work hard” etc etc. Aaaaaaargh! FUCK OFF CAMERON.

    • DECENT PEOPLE WHO DO THE RIGHT THING

      Talking of “decent people who get up early”, I have a 8.50am signing appointments tomorrow, FFS. I’ve done all the required jobsearch but I bet the idle bastards can’t be arsed reading it.

      • Not worked it out yet? It is on purpose! And eventually you won’t bother. And then you will get pulled up by the ‘hit squad’. And what have you got to show? Nothing! Instant sanction for not actively seeking employment. Don’t fall into the jobcentre’s trap. ALWAYS cover your butt and keep a job-search record. And make sure they are aware of it too. They try all sort of trick even down to lying that they don’t have any diaries. And look at you as if you are a fucking idiot for coming in with a job-search log. They are waiting to pounce.

        • FUCK THE JOBCENTRE

          I recorded it all on UJM, every website I looked at, what time I look, every job description I read and what time I read it, every job I apply for, where it’s at, on which website, what time I applied, Reference number of the job, what time I leave home & how long it takes me to walk to them jobcentre and vse versa. There’s reams of it and it would take them à while to read it, plus it would be a very boring read. But they want jobsearch evidence, so I make sure there’s tons of it, fortnight after fortnight, I never stop recording every slightest detail. It’s easy really, and it pisses them off big style. ;p

          • paultheswineherd

            Fuck The Jobcentre – That’s the way to do it – record everything – and then read it back to them – they would probably really enjoy listening!!

            • I signed on early this morning and sure enough they didnt check my jobsearch or even mention it.Its fucking absurd, just à charade.

    • Santa Hates You

      Cameron and the rest of his Tory scumfuckers wouldn’t know what hard work is even if it jumped on them and shagged their arses!!!!

  45. Meanwhile, Cameron’s late father is in the news for running dodgy companies in Panama and not paying a penny in tax.

  46. Santa Hates You

    It appears that Cameron’s late father was a FUCKING TAX DODGING SCUMBAG. As Prime Minister, David Cameron on behalf of his thief of a father needs to pay back every last penny of the tax money owed to the state. Why should Ian ‘I’m a CUNT with no shame’ Cameron avoid paying tax when the rest of us have already paid into the system?

  47. paultheswineherd

    “FOODBANKS AND SANCTIONS” for the very poorest claimants!

    In an evening where we’ve seen both a BBC 6.55PM “Election Broadcast” on behalf of the “Conservative Party”, extoling the hallowed virtues of the Tories – ranging from ‘looking after the NHS’ to the ‘fake families’ – buying their own ‘Tory subsidised’ homes and ‘looking after the ‘hard-working’ families in Britain – those families ‘doing the right thing’ of ‘being in work’ (this is nauseaously sickening) – then, we were confronted with the revelations from the BBC ‘Panorama’ programme that ‘our’ P.M.’s father Ian Cameron was fully involved in a ‘legal’ tax avoidance scheme.
    WHAT A LOAD OF SHITE – I WOULD RATHER VOTE FOR SATAN THAN VOTE FOR CAMERON – FUCK HIM – AND FUCK HIS GOVERNMENT.
    Meanwhile – IDS & Stephen Crabb – we have not forgotten you twats – both of you have got to watch your backs!

  48. Meanwhile back in Blighty the land of the con man, bent politician and crooked banker, there’s more bad news on the pension front as tons of people are warned they might lose all their pension savings and most younger people in their 20’s and 30’s are warned they will lose sums like £19k over their retirement years.

    Ah yes good to see that when you’re a Hard Working Taxpayer Who Does The Right Thing then you’re looked after when you’re a pensioner in the good ole UK.

    Of course then when your money runs out they’ll put you back to work in a fast food establishment or similar to pay for your pension.

    What a wonderful country we have eh.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35560788

    • paultheswineherd

      Raining – or even be ‘put into’ a Charity shop – with no pay at all – you would have to be a ‘volunteer’ pensioner – what a fucking load of big bollocks indeed!

  49. paultheswineherd

    BBC News has just reported that 100,000 homes in the U.K. are owned by ‘offshore companies’ – where has all of this come from I ask myself!

  50. What witchcraft and bollocks are the controlled media throwing at us now, 11 million pages of utter shite, telling us that the worlds leaders and a few Z-celebrities are offshore whores. Tell us something we don’t know.
    However Gidion and his mates will be between page 6 million and 9 million, and by the time we get to that page Russia will be at war with China, aliens would be plotting to crash into Big Ben, and the Anti-Christ will arise with Atlantis.
    Just another day in the UK, and the DWP will still try and squeeze out a few more sanctions.

  51. Iain Duncan Smith ‘wept about plight of single mother’ in TV interview

    Ian Hislop says former work and pensions secretary broke down during filming of new Workers or Shirkers documentary

    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/05/iain-duncan-smith-wept-tv-interview-ian-hislop-workers-or-shirkers

  52. Nazi Britain Indeed and some still think it is the best country in the world

    To be a Zombie perhaps

    mrmarcpc | April 4, 2016 at 2:59 pm | Reply

    This craphole country is becoming more of a Hitler nation everyday!

  53. A Lot of ” Newspapers ” and the Bigots Tabloids Need to be just be
    Ripped Up and Binned

    The sage | April 4, 2016 at 10:26 pm | Reply

    What witchcraft and bollocks are the controlled media throwing at us now, 11 million pages of utter shite, telling us that the worlds leaders and a few Z-celebrities are offshore whores. Tell us something we don’t know.
    However Gidion and his mates will be between page 6 million and 9 million, and by the time we get to that page Russia will be at war with China, aliens would be plotting to crash into Big Ben, and the Anti-Christ will arise with Atlantis.
    Just another day in the UK, and the DWP will still try and squeeze out a few more sanctions.

  54. No to Universal Credit and No Nutcase Budgets

  55. Cuts to the NHS but Not to EU Funding

    The EU has Nothing to do with Human Rights for Decent People and
    Drains Money Needed For Public Services in the UK

  56. It Astonishes and Appals Me that Instead of Protesting En Masses
    against Council Tax Hikes from Lands End to John O Groats the
    Silly ” Great ” British Public are more Zombies than Zombies

  57. More on Saturday’s Crabb Resign protest

    Haverfordwest: Protesters want Stephen Crabb MP to resign as Mencap patron

    http://www.pembrokeshire-herald.com/23218/haverfordwest-protesters-want-stephen-crabb-mp-to-resign-as-mencap-patron/

  58. Meet the Fockers

    Meet the Lennox Partnership 😀

  59. Will Ian Duncan Smith Receive a Knighthood or an MBE by the
    Establishment one Wonders ?

    Traitors like Edward Heath and Mutant Margaret Thatcher got given
    the Most Noble Order of the Garter

  60. No to Tyranny No to Slavery and No to Nazi Britain

    Yes to Defence of the Welfare State

    Santa Hates You | April 3, 2016 at 7:07 pm | Reply

    Hey, Lennox Partnership – I’ve tutted and answered my phone a thousand times, ok. So come on you dirty motherfucking arseholes, fine Santa right now you stupid looking cunts. Do you know that Santa is not taking his medication at the moment?

    What? No? Are you frightened of a offending Santa? I know you are you bullying fuckwits – so stop picking on those workfare people right now!!!

  61. Public Accounts Committee urges DWP to challenge fit-to-work test contractors.

    The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) “appears to have repeatedly misjudged what contractors can deliver and the uncertainties underlying what can be achieved”, according to the Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) latest report on health and disability assessments.

    The report examines delivery of assessments for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), and Personal Independence Payments (PIP). It finds that despite reductions in the backlog of assessments, and a major contractor change after the early termination of Atos’ contract in 2015, claimants are “still not receiving an acceptable level of service from contractors”.

    There are “particular concerns for claimants with fluctuating and mental health conditions,” it says.

    http://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/news/public-accounts-committee-urges-dwp-challenge-fit-work-test-contractors

  62. David Cameron PMMP

    I’ve got a job lot of unused £25 notes, can’t say much but you’re the sort of people who might be able to use them – any offers??

    • Santa Hates You

      I suppose these notes came from your crooked father. I’ll bet there’s a lot more where these came from.

  63. Seems like Volunteering to be a Slave

    No to Slavery

    Raining | April 3, 2016 at 4:30 pm | Reply

    Shouldn’t be any such thing as volunteering in modern society as the crooks and the con men use it as an excuse to rip the piss out of people, especially unemployed people. Anyone who does any job of work should be paid for it, otherwise you get into this David Camoron ‘Big Society’ mindset. So called well meaning types who volunteer to do jobs for nothing have ruined employment chances for a lot of people.

  64. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    ………..IS THIS SOME KIND OF SICK JOKE?

    David Cameron will meet world leaders next month to work on new tax avoidance measures but today’s massive leak of the Panama papers could overshadow the London summit.

    No 10 today insisted the Prime Minister and Britain had been global leaders on cracking down on tax evasion and aggressive avoidance.

    But after the leak of millions of papers – suggesting among others Mr Cameron’s father and a string of Tory donors sheltered money off shore – threatens to undermine the talks.

    ……………..IT’S TANTAMOUNT TO THE NAZI SS SELLING SHOWER CUBICLES………

  65. Where is Momentum’s Actual Momentum in Defending the Welfare State
    and Having No Austerity ?

    Another Phantom Pretend to Oppose Austerity Organisation ?

  66. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    ……………IS THIS SOME KIND OF SICK JOKE?

    David Cameron will meet world leaders next month to work on new tax avoidance measures but today’s massive leak of the Panama papers could overshadow the London summit.

    No 10 today insisted the Prime Minister and Britain had been global leaders on cracking down on tax evasion and aggressive avoidance.

    But after the leak of millions of papers – suggesting among others Mr Cameron’s father and a string of Tory donors sheltered money off shore – threatens to undermine the talks.

  67. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “HONEST DAVE, THE BIGGEST CROOK ON THE PLANET”

    • Thanks for the update. At least the councillors are talking it a bit more seriously now. However, if I had anything to do with it, I would dismiss the Lennox lot now.

    • Another Fine Recession

      As a Council we are working tirelessly to boost the local economy

      By paying pimps to force others to stand in a charity shop for their benefits and calling it ‘a job’.

      seen 90 per cent of people taking part in our most recent programmes going on to find work.“

      And before ‘these programmes’ even existed… 90%+ of the unemployed went on to find work.

      The whole thing is just a scam.

  68. Santa Hates You

    I would like to avoid paying any tax for the next thirty years just like David Cameron’s father. Come on Dave, you know all the right people to make this happen. Give Santa a call now.

  69. Santa Hates You

    I’m still waiting for your call Davey old boy. Oh I get it, it’s only for the likes of dodgy millionaires and Tory donors, not honest people like us.

  70. FUCK THE LOT OF 'EM

    I don’t know if it’s wordpress or this fucking phone but the comments are invisible again. Anyway, I was just going to say that whilst the Labour party political bradcast on tv just now went on about Oosbrne missing all his targetsand making pensioners & mothers worse off, note that there was no mention of the unemployed, no mention of sanctions or universal credit, no mention of JSA being illegally underpaid by 40%, no mention of people being expected to survive on 73 poxy quid a week, or of thoudands left to simply starve, no mention of endless jobsearch requirments when there are no fucking jobs, no mentipn of the deliberate demonization and persecutipn of anyone without à. Job. The unemployed are far too toxic to deserve even Corbyn’s support.

    • The unemployed are not getting their fair share of the benefit pot which is a disgrace, especially like you said there are no jobs available worth having, that is why they are using the unemployed to do the crap jobs or charity work – again a bloody disgrace which I hope this government answers for as well as the last two governments tory/lib and new labour also.

  71. Iceland’s prime minister has resigned – the first major casualty of the leaked Panama Papers that have shone a spotlight on offshore finance.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35966412

    As for the US

    Unscripted remarks come as Justice Department confirms it is examining US links to leaked documents from Panama-based tax firm Mossack Fonseca

    http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/05/justice-department-panama-papers-mossack-fonseca-us-investigation

    • Its is all planned, the PM of Iceland was smiling as he got onto his car, he has played his part in this “controlled” cull and will be paid well, so will Cameron, he has his script and he must not deviate from the theatre that is being played out. Its all one big mind game for the masses.
      Meanwhile in other news, poor people will still have to pay tax, clean their own toilets, pay for a spare bedroom out of 73 quid a week, and suffer the on-going social engineering of the governments efforts to place all the poor people north of Birmingham.

      • The Couch Potatoes

        We are still suffering from withdrawals symptoms from ‘Trapped’ – the Icelandic thriller which has ended it’s run recently on BBC4. We had to wrap up warm it watch it what with all that stunning snowy scenery. At least it will save us having to turn up the heating 🙂

  72. paultheswineherd

    One thing still stands – one does not go off and get involved in offshore companies unless one has either something to hide and/or do not want to pay any of the ‘tax’ required. Either way – it’s potential for ‘crooked dealing’ or at least, being accused of having done so. Ian Cameron has only done what so many of these rich and uncaring cunts have done and are still doing, burying any conscience that they may have – getting ever richer, whilst the poor get poorer. Working people have to pay tax in Britain whether they like it or not, (once a certain level is reached).
    This one today that Cameron has ‘fluffed’ may well come back to bite his arse in the future! He should have answered the question(s) directly and it makes his views of tax crackdowns look very dicey indeed!
    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cameron-just-refused-to-give-a-straight-answer-about-whether-hed-benefited-from-tax-avoidance-big-a6969941.html

  73. The Poor and Vulnerable have been the Victims .

    Labour has been an Utter Failure of an Opposition

  74. Jeremy Corbyn is Not being an Effective Leader of the Opposition

    It is Not Politically Correct Shit like All Women Carriages and a VegeFascist
    Agenda that the Country Needs but the Bridging of the Gulf between Rich
    and Poor and No Austerity

    A Politician does Not Stand Up for the Poor and Vulnerable do Not Vote
    for Him

    FUCK THE LOT OF ‘EM | April 5, 2016 at 7:31 pm | Reply

    I don’t know if it’s wordpress or this fucking phone but the comments are invisible again. Anyway, I was just going to say that whilst the Labour party political bradcast on tv just now went on about Oosbrne missing all his targetsand making pensioners & mothers worse off, note that there was no mention of the unemployed, no mention of sanctions or universal credit, no mention of JSA being illegally underpaid by 40%, no mention of people being expected to survive on 73 poxy quid a week, or of thoudands left to simply starve, no mention of endless jobsearch requirments when there are no fucking jobs, no mentipn of the deliberate demonization and persecutipn of anyone without à. Job. The unemployed are far too toxic to deserve even Corbyn’s support.

  75. Yes to Political and Religious Freedom of Speech and No to
    Austerity Slavery

    No to the Liberal Democrats

    • @geoff

      Cosy little set up;

      Sounds fair enough. According to reports, Smythson is now controlled by a holding company called Holdsmyth Ltd, which is in turn owned by Greenwill SA, a company incorporated in Luxembourg. According to documents filed at Companies House, Greenwill itself is ultimately controlled by The Barracuda Trust, in Guernsey.

  76. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    It has been 1,456 days since David Cameron agreed to publish his tax returns …………………………..

    On April 11th, 2012, David Cameron agreed to publish his tax returns.

    Unfortunately, he didn’t say when he’d do it.

    At the time, some 1,456 days ago at the time of writing, The Prime Minister was reportedly “relaxed and happy” about the idea of making his tax affairs public.

    And not just him – Downing Street signalled all senior ministers should make an open declaration of their financial records.

    According to the Guardian, sources close to the PM said: “The prime minister is relaxed about the idea of the tax returns of senior cabinet ministers being published – but wants the opportunity to explore how this might work.”

    Presumably, he’s still off exploring.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/been-1456-days-david-cameron-7693791#ICID=sharebar_facebook

  77. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “NICE ONE”

    20 hours ago

    thecynic

    As Edward Snowden says. David cameron wants YOU, to surrender your privacy, but he doesn’t want to surrender his own. If you’ve got nothing to hide Dave? Then you’ve nothing to fear. Isn’t that what you promote?

  78. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “AMNESIA, RIFE AMONG THE TOFF’S”

  79. GEOFF REYNOLDS
  80. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “CUNTFACE CRABB READY TO STEAL REST OF YOUR DISABILITY ALLOWANCES”

    So the plan is to continue using the discredited perversion of ‘biopsychosocial’ theories (that claim illness is a personal choice and is all in the mind) as the basis for any assessment of a claimant’s illness; to put anyone with “mild or moderate” health conditions such as cancer or Parkinson’s on the welfare-to-work treadmill, with sanctions applied if they fail to participate (even if that failure is due to their illness); and to have all sickness benefit reduced to the same level as Jobseekers’ Allowance.

    That’s right. Cutting ESA for people in the Work-Related Activity Group was only part of it. If the plan to roll sickness benefits into Universal Credit is implemented, then people in the Support Group – those with serious conditions that are not expected to improve within the foreseeable future – will also lose a huge amount of their weekly income.

    All this from the Conservative Government that has claimed it has no further plans to attack benefit claimants.

    Here’s the icing on the cake: The Reform paper recommends that savings from the ESA rate reduction could be reinvested in PIP and in support services – but there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that Mr Crabb is planning to do so. Quite the opposite, in fact. It seems he is cherry-picking the recommendations that suit him and abandoning the rest.

    It seems clear he is also planning to abandon the sick and disabled to an uncertain and desperate future.

    Brace yourself for the next assault on the sick and disabled

  81. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    @geoff

    and IAIN DUNCAN SMITH cried in a television interview,

    the tears rolling down his cheeks onto the deaths head, totenkopf skulls emblazoned on the collar tabs of his dark uniform, forming a small puddle on the ribbon of his first class, iron cross, before dripping onto his highly polished jackboots then onto the ground where thousands of his victims now reside.

  82. Its becoming more and more obvious that the agenda for disability and out of work sickness benefits, is that EVERYONE regardless of disability or sickness or unemployed will get basic money, everyone the same.
    There will be no more ESA WRAG or support group.
    PIP will be the only way sick or disabled folk will be able to scape a few more pennies.

  83. The Country Needs to Say No to any more Victimisation

    No to Universal Credit and Increase Welfare Benefits

    GEOFF REYNOLDS | April 6, 2016 at 11:55 am | Reply

    “CUNTFACE CRABB READY TO STEAL REST OF YOUR DISABILITY ALLOWANCES”

    So the plan is to continue using the discredited perversion of ‘biopsychosocial’ theories (that claim illness is a personal choice and is all in the mind) as the basis for any assessment of a claimant’s illness; to put anyone with “mild or moderate” health conditions such as cancer or Parkinson’s on the welfare-to-work treadmill, with sanctions applied if they fail to participate (even if that failure is due to their illness); and to have all sickness benefit reduced to the same level as Jobseekers’ Allowance.

    That’s right. Cutting ESA for people in the Work-Related Activity Group was only part of it. If the plan to roll sickness benefits into Universal Credit is implemented, then people in the Support Group – those with serious conditions that are not expected to improve within the foreseeable future – will also lose a huge amount of their weekly income.

    All this from the Conservative Government that has claimed it has no further plans to attack benefit claimants.

    Here’s the icing on the cake: The Reform paper recommends that savings from the ESA rate reduction could be reinvested in PIP and in support services – but there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that Mr Crabb is planning to do so. Quite the opposite, in fact. It seems he is cherry-picking the recommendations that suit him and abandoning the rest.

    It seems clear he is also planning to abandon the sick and disabled to an uncertain and desperate future.

  84. The Welfare State Needs Not only to be Defended but Expanded

    The Country Needs a Voice For the Underdog Not A so called ” Opposition ”
    that Fails the Poor and Vulnerable Slave Labour For Instance

  85. There Needs to be a Lot More Protests in Defence of the Welfare State
    and against the Victimisation of the Poor and Vulnerable than there is
    with so called ” Anti Austerity ” Organisations and their once in a blue
    moon strolls through London

  86. No to Universal Credit Hands Off The Poor

    GEOFF REYNOLDS | April 4, 2016 at 6:53 pm | Reply

    Stephen Crabb has put Maximus ‘Under Scrutiny’

    STEPHEN CRABB, the new work and pensions secretary, is seeking to tear up government contracts with private “welfare to work” contractors as part of a radical overhaul of Iain Duncan Smith’s benefits revolution.
    In the first sign that Crabb will make changes to the government’s flagship reforms, he held a crisis meeting about the troubled universal credit on Thursday and ordered officials to come clean with him and the public about the problems.

    Whitehall sources say one of Crabb’s first moves will be to “get out of” problematic government contracts.

    One firm under scrutiny is Maximus, which replaced Atos in providing health assessments for claimants of the employment and support allowance, the new benefit for the disabled.

    The National Audit Office (NAO) reported in January that since Maximus took on the contract for fitness-for- work tests in March last year the cost to the taxpayer had doubled to £579m. It also said that one in 10 reports is rejected by the government as below standard, compared with one in 25 under Atos.

    Maximus did not respond to a request for comment but at the time of the NAO report a spokesman said the company had brought in new staff “to meet the requirements of the contract going forward. We are confident about the future and remain fully committed to delivering a high quality service.”

    A senior Whitehall source said: “Stephen [Crabb] is a sceptic of throwing ever-more millions [at private companies]. One contract in particular — Fit for Work — he will be looking to get out of that contract pretty quick. Fit for Work is an early candidate for some serious reworking.”

    During Thursday’s meeting, which lasted for six hours, Crabb “lifted the bonnet” on universal credit.

    Only 200,000 people have claimed the benefit despite forecasts that 1m would have enrolled by 2014.

    Crabb ordered weekly updates on the programme, which merges six benefits into one, and told officials to stop blocking freedom of information requests.

    From next month five jobcentres a month will begin operating the full universal credit system for whole families, not just servicing single claimants.

    The source said: “We need much greater transparency. This is such a public-facing project, we have nothing to fear from public scrutiny.”

    Crabb will lay out his approach to welfare in a speech on April 12, saying he wants “work coaches” who are delivering universal credit to be held in the same esteem as nurses are in the NHS.

  87. Down with the Liberal Democrats and Shame on Slave Labour

    For a Real Voice For the Poor and Vulnerable Not Controlled Not to be an ” Opposition “

  88. FUCK THE JOBCENTRE

    The Jobcentre computers are not working, again, just getting “This page cannot be displayed” and “Navigation was cancelled”. Well my jobsearch is also cancelled. It’s a fucking joke. Osborne needs to spend some money on a system that works if he wants us to spend our time looking for non-existant jobs.

  89. ok , lets clear up this issue of fines for tutting and hands in pockets ect.
    first of all there is ” ILLEGAL and unlawful ” these are 2 very different terms that apply 2 very different definitions.
    what these scum bag cock roaches are doing by fining people is UNLAWFUL!!.
    they are basically demanding monies with menace.
    these twats have no authority under the law what so ever to initiate these so called fines. that’s why the dwp has pulled the plug on this bunch of creatures because the dwp know full well this practice is unlawful!!.
    it it was not then the dwp would happily endorse this tactic.

    • It is all very illegal. The local council has suspended all referrals to the thing for the time being. They ought to have ended the whole setup.

  90. Hands Off The Poor No Austerity Defend the Welfare State

  91. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    @ Marie

  92. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    @ Fugue

  93. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    @ Sarah

  94. Another Fine Recession

    Another article:

    But as North Ayrshire Council make a u-turn on the issue, the Herald can reveal that those attending the course this week are STILL being fined despite national derision of the way in which the scheme implements the system which has been described as “Victorian”.

    They just don’t get it do they.
    http://www.ardrossanherald.com/news/14407607.Job_course_suspended_by

    • “Zac, a volunteer on the Stride course said: “Stride has really helped with managing my money. I kept forgetting to turn my phone off before attending classes. Stride kept some of my money to help me remember the rules. I think this was really good because it helped me to learn how to be a good employee.”

      Case studies (including imagery) are for illustrative purposes only

  95. If Lennox are still attempting to ‘fine” ppl, then, they ought to be reported to Police Scotland. Lennox has to be taken to Court. In fact Lennox, all involved ought to be in the nearest penitentiary!

  96. Big Dick McFee

    You sons of bitches should be fined for tutting. it will teach you losers discipline. You bastards have had the fucking carrot for far tooo long – now you bastards are gonna get the stick.

  97. Give us your fucking money

  98. It is scum like this that give disabled people a bad name. Despicable!

    A couple who claimed £64,000 in benefits for severe disabilities have been caught on camera lifting heavy hanging baskets at their local florist.
    Arthur McCarroll, 58, and his wife Susan, 65, were targeted by undercover investigators from the Department for Work and Pensions.

    McCarroll claimed it took him four minutes to walk just three metres (9.8ft) and said he was so ‘severely disabled’ he was in danger of falling on a daily basis.

    The pair from Larch Road in Kingswinford were both handed suspended sentences at Dudley Magistrates Court.

    The video, which was shown to the court, shows the husband and wife walking freely across the road carrying hanging baskets. It also captured Arthur loading heavy boxes into a car.

    Susan McCarroll had wrongly claimed £35,040 in disability benefits since 2002 while her husband received £29,203. Both pleaded guilty to fraud.

    McCarroll was sentenced to 36 weeks in prison suspended for two years while his wife was handed a 26-week sentence suspended for two years.

    They were also both given a six-week curfew from 7pm until 7am.

    His wife said she was unable to walk, couldn’t cook a meal and needed help going to the toilet as well as getting in and out of bed and chairs.
    Disability benefits couple caught lifting heavy items

  99. Instead of Wasting a Fortune on overseas ” Aid ” for those Dictators
    to have Palaces and Jets the Money Needs to be Spent on Helping
    the Poor and Vulnerable in the United Kingdom

    Trendy Liberal Lack of Actual Thinking Fails the Poor and Vulnerable

  100. Controlled Opposition Controlled Not to be an Opposition Slave Labour
    Party even under Jeremy Corbyn more Concerned with Political Correctness than Standing Up for the Poor and Vulnerable

  101. GEOFF REYNOLDS
    • paultheswineherd

      Geoff – Yes, exactly – what did happen to the remainder of the ‘investments’ after Ian Cameron’s death – and who, if anyone has profited from them!
      I would have hardly have thought that all of the accounts would be ‘frozen’ and never to be touched from that day on, following his demise!
      Is there yet more revelations yet to come!?

  102. I Really do Despair .

    Things have got Worse since May 2010 AD since September 12th 2015 AD
    and Jeremy Corbyn is Not Really Seen Defending the Poor and Vulnerable of this Country

    The I Am All Right Jack Middle Class are Clueless to put it mildly

  103. GEOFF REYNOLDS
  104. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “DODGY DAVES DAD’S DUBIOUS DEALINGS DISCOVERED”

    The nondescript £61.05 per year PO Box ensured Blairmore Holdings avoided paying a penny to the Treasury for three decades according to Panama Papers

    This is the faceless metal postbox in the Bahamas David Cameron’s father used to avoid having to pay UK tax.

    It was here Ian Cameron and his “small army” of local staff – including a part-time bishop – would collect and sign paperwork which allowed them to shelter their funds on the Caribbean Island.

    The nondescript £61.05 per year PO Box ensured Blairmore Holdings Inc avoided paying a penny to the Treasury in three decades of operating, according to documents .

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/postbox-used-david-camerons-father-7704980#ICID=sharebar_facebook

  105. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “SHAFTING THE SHAFTED, THE TORY MANIFESTO IN A NUTSHELL”

  106. I Completely Oppose the David Cameron Regime Wasting Millions of
    Pounds on Pro EU Propaganda Leaflets

    Leave the Neo Liberal EU Spend the Money in the UK House the Homeless and get a Better Prime Minister

  107. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “QUEEN ELIZABETH II MAKES CANCER SUFFERERS FIND WORK”

    ………….PICK THE VENISON FROM YOUR TEETH, THEN CHOKE……….

  108. More Life in Zombies than the Masses in this Country

    Look at the Lack of Protests over Council Tax Hikes

    Masses Mentality Sheep Mentality

  109. April the 8th Mark’s The Anniversary of the Death of that Evil Tyrant
    Margaret Thatcher in 2013 AD

    That Evil Tyrant Margaret Thatcher Jimmy Savile’s Bitch Instilled
    Greed and Selfishness via Nihilistic Obnoxious Ignoramus Individualism
    with her Creepy ” No Such Thing as Society ” Moronic Mentality

    A Traitor to the United Kingdom like Sir Oswald Mosley the 1930’s Fascist
    Leader both this Evil Bitch and Mosley Campaigned for the United Kingdom
    to Stay Entrapped in the ” European Economic Community ”

    Traitor Margaret Thatcher kept the United Kingdom Trapped in the ” Common Market ” Chucking Away Money to a Bureaucratic Ivory
    Tower Money Needed to be Spent in this Country

    Nutcase Margaret Thatcher was a She Demon of Neo Liberalism and
    the Free to be a Slave Market

    Shed No Tears For Tyrants like Margaret Thatcher Shed Tears For
    the Victims of Tyrants of Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism

  110. Gormlessness Absolutely Gormless

    People of Wales should Remember that the Dragon is on the Flag of
    Wales Not a Sheep in Chains

    Wales Suffered under the Tories like England has and Scotland has

    TiredAndEmotional | April 6, 2016 at 4:47 pm | Reply

    Many in Wales don’t like the Tories, but increasing numbers seem to want to vote for them. In 2015 11 Tories were elected as MPs in Wales, (best result the Tories in Wales have had in 30 years) a huge difference to May 1997 when Wales became a Tory free zone. 11 Tory MPs means that more than a quarter of MPs representing constituencies in Wales are Tory.

    I wish it could be said that the Tories were hated by far more people in Wales, but sad to say, more and more seem to be attracted to Tory values, or worse, have become bewitched by UKIP.

  111. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Stephen Crabb on his new job, ‘gay cure claims’ and the bedroom tax

    http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/14410614.EXCLUSIVE_INTERVIEW__Stephen_Crabb_MP___I_do_not_and_have_never_believed_in_gay_cure_therapy_/

    • So the bedroom tax is the reasonability of “local” councils, not DWP policy.
      Postcode lottery on who gets DHP.
      The social cleansing of the south of England.
      They still class DLA or PIP as income to pay for rent.

  112. The interview was recorded before Saturday’s protest, but not published until today (Thursday).

  113. £9 Million Pounds Wasted on Pro EU Propaganda Leaflets under the
    David Cameron Regime can be Better Spent on Proper Funding to
    Local Government and the Welfare State

  114. Ian Duncan Smith may of Resigned as Secretary of State For Work and
    Pensions but what about George Osborne as Chancellor of the Exchequer and where is Jeremy Corbyn to be Seen in Defending the Welfare State ?

  115. A Written British Constitution Needs to Guard the Welfare State Welfare
    Benefits the National Health Service and Free Access to It Requiring
    British Governments to Properly Fund these

  116. The Foreign Policy of this Country Needs to be that of an Independent
    Country Not to be a Lapdog of War of any other Country and to Support
    in Principle Peace in the World Now and Forever , Namely No Nuclear
    War No more Wars in the Middle East or against Russia and Not to have
    the UK Dragged into any more Gormless Wars such as the War against Iraq in 2003 AD

    After All Veterans when they come back from War often got Forgotten
    and Ignored and it is a Waste of British Money

    • Anthr fn rcssn

      Wll ppl pls pst wthut usng ny kywrds in yr psts, yu kp sttng ths bldng thng off.
      if w al pstd lk ths w mght gt som pece frm it. 🙂

  117. Obliviousness is what let Austerity Happen

  118. BIG DICK McPHEE

    The guys at the DWP are not your enemies. They are lowly civil servants eking out a meagre wage, trying to help you scroungers get work. You need work. It’s good for your physical and psychological wellbeing. You need to be a part of fruitful and productive society. Not the underclass faux society that you scum belong to. Listen to your DWP advisors. They know what is best for you scum and, crucially, have your best interests at heart.

  119. Easter Bunnies

    Us scum can see you are all heart big Dick 🙂

  120. paultheswineherd

    fly hawkes – indeed so! Perhaps more to come as well!
    Cameron should ‘resign immediately’ say M.P.’s
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/uk-news/panama-papers-david-cameron-admits-7711340

    • paultheswineherd

      The shit could hit the fan over this one. How can this man’s HMRC Dept go chasing after some self-employed person who they think that they owe them £30 when Cameron has done this sort of thing?
      His position is, at the very least untenable with regard to him chairing the talks on ‘tax-transparency’ which are coming up shortly – he is now seemingly a dishonest laughing stock!

      • Thanks for 2nd link. Cameron’s biggest mistake here, is to claim it a “private matter” a few days back when the story first broke. The fact is, it would indeed be a private thing had not this info come out. It would have been a bit much for him to be able to control his old Pop’s accounts, but that he must’ve known about this since his late high school years must be obvious. And he would have been benefiting for all of that time.
        We wonder how many other top tory MPs are part of this, and are themselves avoiding tax, etc. The entire Government should go, not just Cameron. Anew general election is what we need. Corbyn may not be too great, but can only be better than this lot!

  121. paultheswineherd

    IDS crying! – He should be put onto the receiving end of his hideous and cruel policies – it is he and he alone at the top of the DWP who gave all of the orders – and no doubt, the suicides are still going on even now.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ids-made-the-news-today-for-crying-about-a-single-teenage-mum-its-a-shame-he-didnt-find-his-empathy-a6970006.html

  122. Now we all know why Osborne sold everything that was not nailed down, and where all the money has gone.
    Tax is one big con, always has been.
    The poor and disabled have propped up this country with the lie of austerity, and were spat at by the public for being feckless and scroungers.

    Fucking wake up people.

  123. BIG DICK McPHEE

    What I, Big Dick McPhee, have learned in life is that we are all created equal, we all have the same opportunities and chances in life. You “people”; you whiners, you need to stop feeling sorry for yourselves and – and start showing some appreciation for the winners. People of the calibre of Cameron, Osborne, Johnson and even IDS are successful, successful through their own endeavours. Remember that you jealous rabble of underachievers. Remember that and say a prayer of thanks to the millions of citizens who rise early and work all day, or even throughout the night so that you scum can get a free house, and free money, and can buy fake tobacco and booze and watch daytime tv. Remember that You ungrateful feckless and fecund scum – and say thank you.

    • ?????????
      George Ian is only where he is because he married into money. Cameron is only where he is because his Pop had money. Boris and Gideon are only where they are because their folks had many pesos too……Otherwise, nobody would ever have heard of them, as they have not the slightest bit of talent. Okay…..of the four listed, Boris does have perhaps the most intelligence. All this “Buffoon Boris” stuff is a getup. However, his views on things are a bit weird a lot of the times.
      Some of us by the way don’t smoke, and don’t have televisions!

      • BIG DICK McPHEE

        Those guys I mentioned would have always made it, Gordo. Afterall, cream always rises to the top. Those guys would’ve made it even if they’d have grown up in a Romanian orphanage. Get your facts right Gordo. And remember, jealousy’ll get you nowhere.
        Just work hard … And climb that ladder.

    • Since when were people born equal?? Some have difficult entrances some are plain sailing some have silver spoons.

  124. The Country Needs to be Out Protesting against David Cameron Regime
    wanting to Waste Millions on EU Propaganda Leaflet

    Look at the Council Tax Hikes and Cuts to Services from Local Government

    The Country has been in a Trance for too Long

  125. Malcolm X
    ” If You are Not Careful the Newspapers will have You Hating the People
    who are being Oppressed, And Loving the People who are doing the
    Oppressed ”

    The Underdog is the Victim of the Oppression Prejudice and Ignorance
    of Society

  126. Is Universal Credit doomed to fail? (with John Slater)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35995313

  127. Can I just say that cameron is a cunt and should resign now

    • GEOFF REYNOLDS
      • Santa Hates You

        CAMERON YOU CUNT – FUCKING RESIGN NOW YOU TAX AVOIDING LIAR. BETTER STILL ADMIT YOUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR FORCING THOUSANDS OF BENEFIT CLAIMANTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE.

        CAMERON, SANTA WILL SEE YOU IN HELL AND THAT’S WHEN THE FUN WILL REALLY START. I WILL MAKE YOU FUCKING PAY FOR ALL THOSE MURDERS FOR EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  128. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “SPARKING THE RISE IN SUICIDES”

  129. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “NOTHING TO HIDE CAMERON?”

    ……….THE HMRC ARE PAID TO LOOK AWAY

    “2015 Financial Secrecy Ranking

    1. Switzerland
    2. Hong Kong
    3. USA
    4. Singapore
    5. Cayman Islands*
    6. Luxembourg
    7. Lebanon
    8. Germany
    9. Bahrain
    10. United Arab Emirates (Dubai)
    11. Macao
    12. Japan
    13. Panama
    14. Marshall Islands
    15. United Kingdom*

    * British overseas territory or crown dependency. If Britain’s network were assessed together, it would be at the top.”
    (source: financialsecrecyindex)

    • Resign David Cameron: Calls for PM to go snowball ahead of Downing Street Protest.

      Furious demands for the resignation of David Cameron grew overnight, following his sensational admission that he had £30,000 stashed away in his Dad’s tax haven.

      The hashtag #ResignCameron is the number one trend on Twitter at the time of writing, with MPs, celebrities and furious Brits calling for the PM to step down.

      Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden led the charge last night, within hours of the Prime Minister coming clean about the offshore trust.

      And support for a protest planned for Saturday outside Downing Street is gaining momentum.

      Here’s how it developed, and who’s calling for David Cameron to go.

      http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/resign-david-cameron-calls-pm-7713837

  130. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “CIVIL UNREST, CLASHES WITH POLICE AND RIOTING IN MAJOR FRENCH CITIES………………YET OUR MEDIA SUPPRESS THE STORY???”

    How come our government controlled state media are holding back a major story happening just a stone throw away over the channel?

    Is the neoliberalism under attack and they fear it may occur on our shores as well?

    Hollande is trying desperately to change the French working week from 35 hours up to a whopping 48 HOURS…………………

    He is also pushing for overtime payments to be cut from from 25% down to 10% and the whole of France is kicking off, yet they don’t want you to be aware of it…………………………..

    The BBC and SKY are not fit for the bin, gutter propaganda for the elite.

    Wake up to the truth, not the spoon fed claptrap……….

  131. No to Universal Credit . It Needs Not only to be Opposed but also Stopped
    and Reversed

    Reverse the Damage that Ian Duncan Smith Presided Over

    sian | April 8, 2016 at 11:44 am | Reply

    Is Universal Credit doomed to fail? (with John Slater)

  132. Controlled Media

    GEOFF REYNOLDS | April 8, 2016 at 2:34 pm | Reply

    “CIVIL UNREST, CLASHES WITH POLICE AND RIOTING IN MAJOR FRENCH CITIES………………YET OUR MEDIA SUPPRESS THE STORY???”

    How come our government controlled state media are holding back a major story happening just a stone throw away over the channel?

    Is the neoliberalism under attack and they fear it may occur on our shores as well?

    Hollande is trying desperately to change the French working week from 35 hours up to a whopping 48 HOURS…………………

    He is also pushing for overtime payments to be cut from from 25% down to 10% and the whole of France is kicking off, yet they don’t want you to be aware of it…………………………..

    The BBC and SKY are not fit for the bin, gutter propaganda for the elite.

    Wake up to the truth, not the spoon fed claptrap……….

  133. Indeed the Oppression Collaborating Not so Great British Public

    It is the Filthy Rich that are Feckless

    The sage | April 7, 2016 at 10:44 pm | Reply

    Now we all know why Osborne sold everything that was not nailed down, and where all the money has gone.
    Tax is one big con, always has been.
    The poor and disabled have propped up this country with the lie of austerity, and were spat at by the public for being feckless and scroungers.

    Fucking wake up people.

  134. David Cameron does Need to Resign over a Number of Matters

    enigma | April 8, 2016 at 2:30 pm | Reply

    Resign David Cameron: Calls for PM to go snowball ahead of Downing Street Protest.

    Furious demands for the resignation of David Cameron grew overnight, following his sensational admission that he had £30,000 stashed away in his Dad’s tax haven.

    The hashtag #ResignCameron is the number one trend on Twitter at the time of writing, with MPs, celebrities and furious Brits calling for the PM to step down.

    Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden led the charge last night, within hours of the Prime Minister coming clean about the offshore trust.

    And support for a protest planned for Saturday outside Downing Street is gaining momentum.

    Here’s how it developed, and who’s calling for David Cameron to go.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/resign-david-cameron-calls-pm-7713837

  135. There Needs be Protests Across the Country calling for David Cameron
    to Resign as Prime Minister

    I Dread to Think of 4 More Years of his Arrogant Dictatorship

  136. Jeremy Corbyn Needs to be an Leader of the Opposition otherwise
    he cannot be Endorsed as Prime Minister

  137. No to Universal Credit Yes to Defence of the Welfare State

    paultheswineherd | April 3, 2016 at 10:20 pm | Reply

    This Universal Credit cut has been kept quiet – until now!
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thousands-widows-see-benefits-cut-7680615

  138. Studying the Protests in France it Seems Many are Far from Happy
    with Austerity Slavery

    Shocking that a ” Socialist ” President is Pushing Extending the Hours
    of Slavery

    No to Neo Liberalism

  139. Indeed another General Election is Needed 2020AD is too far away

    GORDON KEANE | April 8, 2016 at 1:13 am | Reply

    Thanks for 2nd link. Cameron’s biggest mistake here, is to claim it a “private matter” a few days back when the story first broke. The fact is, it would indeed be a private thing had not this info come out. It would have been a bit much for him to be able to control his old Pop’s accounts, but that he must’ve known about this since his late high school years must be obvious. And he would have been benefiting for all of that time.
    We wonder how many other top tory MPs are part of this, and are themselves avoiding tax, etc. The entire Government should go, not just Cameron. Anew general election is what we need. Corbyn may not be too great, but can only be better than this lot!

    • quick answer – all of them – a more deceitful, inept bunch of right wing loons there has never been – yet they continue to behave as if they own the whole country – voted in on 24% of the population – we should burn all of their fucking houses down, preferably with them in it

  140. paultheswineherd

    Olive Oyl has had a £53000 per year hand out from the taxpayer to employ a ‘fashion adviser’ who is now on this fantastic salary!
    No one seems to be able to stop these bastards from wasting taxpayer’s money!
    Disgraceful – not only that though – isn’t Yardley JCP the one that was reported on here had a poster up regarding ESA claimants?
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/samantha-cameron-special-adviser-fashion-aide-taxpayer-salary-530000-a6974181.html

    • It is totally scandalous that Samantha Cameron hires a fashion assistant at Public expense, when she is herself even richer than her husband. The family lists is like something from the Victorian age, of great great this and that, and links to past Kings, earls, and lords, and prime ministers into the bargain.
      Of course that is not her fault, but taking full advantage of it is!
      It’s not like in USA where the First Lady has some kind of an official role, much the same way the king has a queen in Europe. So if she wants to have all those trappings, she has the pesos to pay for it herself.
      As with Iceland, this folly of the wife should lead to the fall of the Prime Minister.

      • Also, one thing about “Lady” Cameron is that she is an Ambassador for SAVE THE CHILDREN !!! We would hope this charity disassociates itself from this wretched little thing. How can she claim to care about all these poor children, and all the awful things they have to suffer in their little lives, when she is fully supporting policies that are destroying children’s lives in UK? Destroying their families, and she goes in response, hires a 50,000 something damsel to help fill her dairy out, and help her decide which nice stuff to wear to whatever bash she is going to. And no doubt, advise on what would not a be suitable going to some charity thing.when she is going to be with the poorer folks. She will have to look a bit more mundane them.
        Just as tory MPs are being forced out of patron roles for disability groups, she too should be forced out of that charity.
        We wonder what on earth the ppl who run these charities are thinking of getting this crowd involved…..could it be their own personal rewards?
        It certainly isn’t for the good of the charity anyway!

        • paultheswineherd

          Gordon – Well said my friend.
          ‘Save The Children’ (it used to be ‘Save The Children Fund’) is just another so called ‘Charity’ – fully designed to get as much money out of people as possible – often to fund the CEO’s lifestyle – the new ‘mansion’ and the new ‘heated swimming pool for his/her family/friends.
          The ‘Committee’ of this particular ‘Charity’ has, somehow allowed this far too priveleged woman to be an ‘ambassador’ of theirs.
          They think no doubt – Samantha Cameron as a ‘patron’ of theirs – WILL draw more money in.
          They need to kick her out, just the same as many of the other Tory M.P.’s/Ministers – THESE RICH AND PRIVELEGED PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO BE INVOLVED WITH ‘TRUE’ CHARITIES
          Samantha Cameron’s husband David has been at the head of a Government which has brought poverty and death to too many now to be forgotten. His Ministers, including IDS have (by their actions and orders) have murdered and are continuing to murder at will.
          The jury is out on Stephen Crabb – but, the indications are that he will be nothing other than a ‘clone’ of IDS.

  141. in other news

    Nuit debout protesters occupy French cities in revolutionary call for change

    For more than a week, vast nocturnal gatherings have spread across France in a citizen-led movement that has rattled the government

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/08/nuit-debout-protesters-occupy-french-cities-in-a-revolutionary-call-for-change

  142. paultheswineherd

    There’s a big demonstration scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday) at Downing Street calling for the resignation of pig-fuck – the cunt should GO – NOW!

    Please publicise this demo as much as possible – by all means possible 🙂

  143. CassetteBoy has launched its take on the Snooper’s Charter – and it pulls absolutely no punches, as you’d expect.

  144. You’re doing what you’ve dreamed of AND paying the bills! Good on you! Click https://zhoutest.wordpress.com/

  145. BIG DICK McPHEE

    There has always been them and us. That is a fact of life. Fighting it won’t do any good. It never does. Just accept your lot in life. Like the Dalits do. Sometimes you just have to accept the inevitability of the situation. You’re a man with a small cock, you’re gonna be a cuckold. You’re a woman with foetid breath, you’re gonna be an old maid. You have one leg, you’re never gonna run a 10 second 100m or a 32 minute 10k. Just accept your lot in life.
    Do well at school, get a career, get a 25 year mortgage, grow old wnd die.
    I, BIG DICK McPHEE HATH SHPOKANE.

    • ???
      You are beginning to sound a bit like the dude who called himself a name that began with “R”. Same person perhaps?
      I wonder if you make all this stuff up as some kind of provocative thing, merely for the fun of it, or if you really really do believe it.

      • BIG DICK McPHEE

        Listen Kane, I’m not “R”. And whether you believe my sincerity or not means nothing to me. I couldn’t care less what you think.
        We live in a democratic country and we have the right of free speech, and the right to express an opinion. This is what I do. If you don’t like it, TOUGH.

  146. Look everybody, Dave has had a bad week and he’s feeling rather foolish but have no fear he’ll be back killing people next week

  147. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “DWP MURDERS DISGUISED AS UK FLU OUTBREAK”

    Quite enchanting the way our dodgy corrupt government tries it’s utmost to try and cover up the welfare slayings by citing that a rogue flu mini epedemic was the root of the cause………..

    Sky News even had the temerity to feature an expert who put the deaths down to austerity induced benefit cuts. Mind you, the BBC will never seek to publish the truth being the mouthpiece of it’s zionist backers that pull the strings of neoliberal corporate greed that is tearing the very fabric of life apart at the seams.

    • On Radio Four ANY QUESTIONS, this Friday, evening, (April 8th), MP Frank Fields, said he thought junior doctors had a point, but that they were in danger of losing public support. He raised the point that If people die because of the strike action, the junior doctors could face a backlash.
      When DWP staff allow thousands, and thousands to die, and thousands others to kill themselves, why is Frank Fields and others not demanding an end to all of that? Why no public backlash, and London media machine condemnation? I was not too impressed with this week’s offing. Digy Jones was, as usual appalling in his comments on just about everything, especially the NHS. “Everybody works a 7 day week”.

      • GEOFF REYNOLDS

        “FRANK FIELD, THE TORY SYMPATHISER”

        He always has. In his youth, he was a member of the Conservative party, but he was thrown out for opposing South Africa’s apartheid system. Shortly after becoming the MP for Birkenhead in 1979, he took on Militant and threatened to stand as an independent if they attempted to deselect him. And then there are his views on the welfare state, which place him firmly in a category all of his own, certainly within Labour. Put most simply, he believes it degrades the very people it is meant to serve, that it creates a benefit-dependent, work-shy sub-class. ‘It’s our fault as politicians to have put temptation in front of people,’ he has said. ‘If the system pays people more on incapacity benefit [than jobseekers’ allowance], it’s human nature to claim the higher amount. We have to remove the incentive.’ In short, Frank Field wants to sack the nanny from the nanny state.

        It was because of these maverick ideas that he was invited, when New Labour was elected in 1997, to serve under Harriet Harman at the Department of Social Security to plan reform of the benefits system. Or, at least, that was why he thought he had been asked to do the job. The green paper he produced was certainly radical: he wanted more people to take out private pensions rather than depend on the state. He wanted an attack on benefit fraud and tighter controls on incapacity benefit as a way of getting more people back to work. He wanted the right to payments from the state to be matched with responsibilities by those receiving the cash. He made it clear that he detested means-testing, regarding it as demeaning and wanted, instead, flat-rate benefits.

        http://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/jul/02/publicservices.theobserver

        • BIG DICK McPHEE

          Sounds like Old Fieldsy was right don’t it? Like he was a prophet on a par with some bearded OT prophet. Welfare has created a benefit dependent sub class. Just watch them docs on Channel 5, or Jeremy Kyle.

          • Your government has created a dependent class because despite being the party of business, it is not creative enough to produce stable employment – IT CANNOT PRODUCE THE GOODS – at least not at a price that could compete with lower economy countries.

    • BIG DICK McPHEE

      You wanna watch your mout. Somewhere in that paragraph uh yourn you used a word that can get you censored – severely. Don’t force me to grass you up. Just watch that mout uh yours from now on, Fool.

    • Well said Geoff – I blame the bstds who operate out of the city of London and who control most of the worlds central banks and controlled mass media.

      • BIG DICK McPHEE

        Oh, and Marie, the reason why there is a Welfare State in the UK is precisely through the endeavours of those bastards working in the city. They make money that keeps the UK going.
        You won’t know this but the reason why the UK is the fifth richest nation on earth is down entirely to the City of London and the banking industry. That is the only wealth creator in the UK and it makes the nation rich and pays for everything. If we were surviving on the revenue generated from tax raised by being a service industry, the nation would either now be a banana republic or bankrupt. Gedd it right, Marie. Godsakes, gedd it rart.

        • The City of London makes money for the greedy bankers, they take from the poor, that’s why there’s so much destitution – get it right Rog !!!

          • BIG DICK McPHEE

            And Marie, the UK PLC makes money from global banking. What do you think pays for the NHS, NHS contributions? Are you that innocent? Outside of banking 90% of the working population work in supermarkets and shops. Their pathetic income tax contributions wouldn’t keep the UK afloat. Get real, Marie.

            • Another Fine Recession

              makes money from global banking
              How does banking make money ?

              90% of the working population work in supermarkets and shops.
              How does moving stuff on and off shelves create wealth ?

              • BIG DICK McPHEE

                Shut up Nonce. I know what I’m talking about. Keep shtum alright.
                Don’t ever question me.
                I’m Big Dick McPhee.
                Now be a good un and go to sleep.

                • Another Fine Recession

                  I knew you wouldn’t be able to handle a couple of real questions.
                  Bye bye, – for now.

            • So bent is the HMRC that a city banker’s cleaner pays more tax than the banker, so I think you will find that it is the working class that keep the economy afloat, daft dick.

              • Global banking makes more money from derivatives which the working class produce, or in payday loans which the working class borrow, nobody can afford a mortgage anymore other than buy to let landlords, so corrupt is the housing sector.

            • Lord Pigby Jones

              Indeed, it is the banking sector that generates the wealth that pays for schools and hospitals. Without the banking sector there would be no welfare state… 😉

  148. GEOFF REYNOLDS
  149. GEOFF REYNOLDS
  150. GEOFF REYNOLDS
  151. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “CHANNEL 4, MONDAY EVENING 8 TILL 8.30PM”

    DISPATCHES, THE GREAT BENEFITS ROW FEATURING RECORDED MATERIAL……….

  152. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “DODGY DAVE AND THE MISSING MORTALITY STATISTICS”
    THOUSAND MURDERED ON DAVE’S WATCH……………

  153. GEOFF REYNOLDS
  154. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “PRITI FUCKING DISGUSTING”

  155. BIG DICK McPHEE

    Just been watching the Cameron Out protest on that Kremlin funded station, RT. The protesters were the kind of Left Wing Pond Life rabble that write to this blog. What you scum don’t understand is that Priminister Cameron got a mandate to do what he does. He got 24% of the overall vote. His policies are popular with the electorate. Fucking you dole-ite scum and fucking you hard is popular. It’s a vote winner. At the next election he’ll get a bigger majority. He’ll get 30 – 35% of the vote. And that’s because we, the Great British Public, we hate you scum, you whingeing whining scum. We hate you and we want to see an end to the Welfare State. And if you can’t handle that, then TOUGH SHIT!

    • You might need the welfare state if you lose your job or become ill or disabled – think on NO DICK McFEE !!!!

      • BIG DICK McPHEE

        People such as myself, Marie, we don’t need the welfare state. There’s work out there for anyone who needs it, yes, that’s right, even you, Marie. Even you could find gainful employment, if only you would try.
        Have you ever thought about cleaning hotel rooms? 30 rooms per day for minimum wage, and if you’re lucky, a generous dollop of Tax Credit. I know people who do this, almost exclusively they are Eastern European. They do the jobs that Brits won’t do, but you could do it, Marie. And get some self respect back. Not living off others, as a parasite; but living from your own endeavours. You know that you want to, Marie.

        • Actually BIG DICK I have applied for hotel cleaning and various other menial low paid jobs, alas to no avail – they seem to prefer eastern europeans for some strange reason, I’d be quite happy to clean hotel rooms as it would release me from the clutches of the Department for Workfare and Persecution ☺…

          • BIG DICK McPHEE

            Marie, they prefer Eastern Europeans because they are hardier. They work hard and just get on with it. UNLIKE US WHINGEING BRITS.

            • So if they prefer Eastern Europeans how the bloody hell are we supposed to get work – they’ve made it damn near impossible for us.

            • paultheswineherd

              BIG DICK McPHEE – I get up very early every morning to go to work every day, including sometimes when required at weekends, Saturday & Sunday. I get paid a basic wage (because my employer does not have enough money to pay me properly) with some Tax Credits for a top-up also
              DO YOU DO THIS?
              Before you start attacking so many people on here – just take a look at yourself. I do not know any of your financial circumstances, – but, if you are in a job and your employer made you redundant – then you also could find yourself out of a job. Your savings would last you for so long, but they would not last indefinitely.
              If this was the case, you would have no alternative then to apply to the DWP for benefits. The system (as I understand it nowadays) is that you could have to wait up to 6 weeks for your first benefit payment.
              Even worse – you could have a heart attack or a stroke, or some other physical disability – nowadays (as I understand it) you would have to apply for Employment & Support Allowance – you yourself would have to go through a widely discredited Work Capability Assessment by a French or an American Private Company (both discredited) using so-called ‘health professionals’ – (not a properly qualified Doctor as such), but a physiotherapist or a chiropodist – a person who may not know nothing about your physical, or indeed mental condition.
              Not all people claiming benefits are frauds – only about 5% or less are fraudulent, or do not want to ‘work’.
              You have been misled by the Murdoch controlled press and Channel 5’s Benefits Street – which is a load of rubbish and do not represent the vast majority of benefit claimants.
              BEFORE YOU SAY ANY MORE – I SUGGEST THAT YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT I HAVE SAID AND THEN YOU CAN HAVE YOUR SAY.

              • paultheswineherd

                Research it all PROPERLY first – and then and only then, are you in a true position to be able to comment on here.

              • 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟
                Well said Paul.

              • Paul the right wingers on here probably have buy to lets which they can make money from, they don’t need to work, they have shares in companies , bonds etc, they know how to make money from money!

                I don’t understand why you are going to work for minimum wage yourself, the likes of Dick would not do that despite all of his blustering about work ethic etc, these people bought property, shares in utilities etc when the going was good, may well be running a small business to put their vat through and are getting the likes of you for minimum wage or someone on workfare.

                You are wasting your breath with scum like him, he probably married money also.

                • paultheswineherd

                  fly hawkes – Yes, you are very right in all that you say.
                  I sometimes wonder too how I do all of this ‘minimum wage’ stuff – but I would rather be ‘in work’ (even though it may sometimes be shite!) rather then be out of it. I have a young family to support also, which makes it even more important. It really gets to me when I see the likes of ‘Big Dick Mc Phee’ slagging everyone off and calling them ‘workshy whingeing fuckers’.
                  Who does he really think that he is – he is, as you say most probably a priveleged person (similar to Cameron et al) who has not had to do a decent day of ‘physical’ work in his life – is indeed probably a ‘buy-to-let-landlord’ etc.
                  He really needs to take a deep look at his life – and why he is like he is.
                  What he really needs to understand is that anyone can become ‘out of work’ at any time for a multitude of reasons and with all of the financial implications that goes with it – and especially now, in this day and age, – in the age of zero hour contracts and no ‘job for life’, as it used to be 🙂

                • People should lead by example. Like military officers pretend to do. Don’t expect others to work for minimum wage if you wouldn’t do it yourself. Roll YOUR fucking sleeves up and get down to cleaning up bogs, making hotel beds, or standing around bored out of your skull as a security guard. “But I’m a buy-to-let ‘investor’ with shares bought in public utilities at the right time, who runs a front small business to claim back the VAT on my flat-screen TV, and who happened to marry into money” just doesn’t fucking cut it! If it is sauce for the goose it is sauce for the gander.

        • BIG DICK you are (conveniently) forgetting that East Europeans over here live 10 to a room, eat the Queen’s swans… claim child benefit for (imaginary) children back home, incidentally paid at the UK rate not taking into account the lower cost of living in Eastern Europe Because of the exchange rate and the lower cost of living East Europeans are working for the equivalent of 100 times the minimum (‘living’) wage. The come here for a couple of years save up almost every penny, return home buy property, a business and retire on the proceeds; they never have to work another day in their lives. Even the ones who come here to claim benefits save up almost every penny just that they may have to spend a year or two more to save the equivalent. So of course East Europeans have an incentive to come here, unlike the indigenous population who aren’t afforded the same opportunities.

          • BIG DICK McPHEE

            No they don’t Nob. I know Eastern Europeans. None of them are living ten to a room. They work hard and do the jobs that scum like you won’t do. Get your facts right You idle layabout dole dossing piece of scum.

        • GEOFF REYNOLDS

          LITTLE PRICK?

          • BIG DICK McPHEE

            And you, you are like the Dole Dossing Witchfinder General. You probably even look like Vincent Price in a goatee You Cunt. All you do, day after day is slag off the gainfully employed and the achievers. I hope that your benefits are rescinded for all eternity You Cunt.

            • my name is "my" name

              What’s so great about being an economic wage slave then and when do you actually work you’re on here all times of the day, every day. Or is this the job. A paid government shill. Or a newspaper prostitute.

      • Big Dick is nothing but a Big Fanny, Cameron will not win the next election.

  156. Glad I left, thank fuck for that, when I was in Edinburgh and Glasgow I was treated like sheite. Moved to central Eu an I am now treated like a human.
    I miss the land, its vibration, but not the state.

  157. paultheswineherd

    David Cameron is, (as in so many people nowadays!) – very intelligent – but really, he has VERY LITTLE common sense – and also, – VERY LITTLE idea of how the poorer ‘real world’ outside of his ‘very priveleged and rich bubble’ actually survive!
    (Please also have a look at the very good ‘comments’ section underneath!)
    http://www.aol.co.uk/news/2016/04/09/david-cameron-i-should-have-handled-offshore-interests-controversy-better/

    • GEOFF REYNOLDS

      …………..BUT WISE ENOUGH TO CLAIM DISABILITY LIVING ALLOWANCE FOR HIS HANDICAPPED KID DESPITE BEING MIRED IN WEALTH GENERATED IN OFFSHORE TAX HAVENS BY HIS, TAX EVADING OLD MAN……..

      • GEOFF REYNOLDS

        …………….AND ALWAYS REMEMBER TO WELCOME RIGHT WING TROLLS.
        THEIR PRESENCE IS A GOOD INDICATION THAT OUR DISSENT IS HITTING HOME AND INFLUENCING THE MINDSET OF WOULD BE VOTERS.

        KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK EVERYBODY

        • BIG DICK McPHEE

          You’re not influencing anybody. This blogsite has a small number of contributors, about eight in total, some of whom use aliases, thus creating the illusion of maybe twenty contributors.
          You are not influencing anybody.
          You never will.
          You are people of no consequence.
          The sooner a scythe is taken to your tax payer funded handouts and you end up destitute and homeless the better.
          Now be good “little people”, and grass me up to The Master, thus getting me banned. Mwahahaha. Mwahahahahahw … I’ll be back. Heh heh heh heh…

          • You use the most aliases Roger the todger, little dick mc Phee.

          • You come here to say this sheite, and then challenge anybody to confront you. Tell me, who is the troll here then? It is most certainly you. And most here would just skip your stupid paragraphs that men nothing, hold no value. And I expect that many will just leave you alone, you are not worth the steam off my piss, you small minded ape. and don’t expect me to return any comments to you.
            But you most certainly felt that you had to leave a stupid comment, and then say you are not influencing anybody. But if you are not being influenced or effected, why did you comment? (rhetorical, don’t wase my time or yours)
            Now Feck Off!

            • BIG DICK McPHEE

              I’m not a troll, mate, I just happen to believe in free speech and democracy. Something that you scum obviously don’t believe in. You scum just want free handouts – for life. well life just aint like that. And the sooner you scum realise that truth, the better for you. Just go out and get a job. We’re a service industry now. That being so almost every job is in a shop, or get an SIA licence and do security. But don’t just sit there bleating and doing fuck all, otherwise I’ll keep having to address you as “You Scum”, and commenting on this “blog”.

            • When JV returns from his break in Barbados expect BIG FUCKING DICK MCPHEE to be banned for LIFE! Up yours – BIG FUCKING DICK!

  158. lol at the autistc/aspie guy on ‘Unemployable Me’. He would apply for ONE job at a time then wait until he received a reply before applying for the next one.

    • GEOFF REYNOLDS

      “AUTISM, THE TORY MERRY GO ROUND OF DISABILITY DENIAL”

      From: P. Smith

      3 December 2011

      Dear Department for Work and Pensions,

      A disturbing trend is emerging whereby those with Asperger syndrome / High Functioning autism attend a WCA and are failed.
      They wait for an appeal and then pass.
      At a review three months later, they are failed.

      I know of several such cases now.

      Why?

      Please will you supply the supporting policy, procedure details, documents / instructions that allow this to happen – causing phenomenol stress to the individuals concerned – and anything else relevant that would explain this growing practice?

      Is is government policy NOT to support vulnerable individuals with autism?

      Thank you,

      Yours faithfully,

      [P. Smith].

      https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/fail_wca_pass_appeal_fail_3_mont#comment-68287

  159. In only a small number of weeks recently, i’ve talked to more than one or two people locally who read/follow this blig. They don’t necessarily each/always comment but can get their information – including from the comments & the sidebar (of shameful goings-on). This is in just one area of the frozen north/northern poorhouse, obviously, but – Extrapolate That …

    • BIG DICK McPHEE

      Shirley, You’re talking shit. So you’re saying that because three people in Leeds occasionally go on this blog, that this means it has more than eight regular contributors? Shirley, you’re not all there are you? I rest my case. Res Ipsa Loquitur.

      • Eight people writing thousands upon thousand of comments – extrapolate that You Cunt!

        • Chunky Bar & The Big Crunch

          355 comments on this thread already – that’s over 44 for each of your eight contributors lol You realise how stupid you sound BIG DICK? Are you the same person who said that JV wrote ALL the comments on here lol

        • BIG DICK McPHEE

          It’s because those eight people are sad cunts who have nothing better to do with their time than write incessant emails to this shit blog. Geoff Reynolds is a case in point. That cunt writes about 100 emails per day, day in day out.
          Get a job you bone idle scum!

          • If this is a reflection of a real-life persona, it must be nigh-on impossible to have relationships – work or otherwise. That’s why most people are here – because they’re engaged not “sad” (read “angry/sad).

            Of course, rest your case in Latin if it makes you feel happy/superior.

      • shirleynott.

  160. Now that the South has robbed the country of it’s assets, reduced funding to the North, it now wants to devolve nothing but debts to the North East, knowing that Westminster is a dismal failure at providing employment for anyone other than themselves.

    Well they can cough up what the North East made for the Southerners when they were the power house of the country.

  161. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

    You’re a dick Dick you make me sick you better leave now and make it quick. Coming round here and acting like a prick you think you are clever but you are thick. You will be banned tick tock tick when JV comes online and gives you the kick.

    • BIG DICK McPHEE

      And Boy, don’t leave the day job of working in a Scope Shop for your JSA. Trust Old Big Dick McPhee, that would be a really silly move on yout part. Outside of a Scope shop and a Remploy factory, the prospect of you doing anything construed as “work” is an impossibility.

  162. GEOFF REYNOLDS

    “HOW STRANGE OUR ALTERNATIVE NEWS PROVIDERS OF THE BBC AND SKY (THE STATE PROPAGANDA BASE), OMIT TO SHOW THE CIVIL UNREST OCCURING ALL OVER FRANCE?”

    …………….ARE THE TORIES SCARED THAT SOMETHING SIMILAR WILL KICK OFF HERE?

    ……….AND JUST ON THE EVE OF YET ANOTHER GUN AMNESTY BY OUR BELOVED POLICE………

    ANYONE WOULD THINK THEY HAD SOMETHING TO HIDE……….

  163. BIG DICK McPHEE

    Have I been banned yet? Ban me Voydo, You Cunt! Heh heh heh, I’ll be back … and Sooooooonn.

  164. Chief Inspector Paul Breckland (Metropolitan Police - Internet Crimes Unit)

    Poster BIG DICK McPHEE has now been traced. A warrant has now been issued for the seizure of their Internet Access Devices and ISP logs.

    • BIG DICK McPHEE

      Yikes, I’m shitting myself. Get a job You scum.
      Heheheheheh!!!

    • well done hopefully the idiot will get his cummupance

      • Dick is a self-sabotaging PAID troll, the msm is swimming in it, blackmail is rife amongst the privileged, they have to earn their keep. Journalism is one of the worst.
        However back on topic.
        Ever wondered why the DWP new regulations (death) laws came out in 20Thirte3n. Mr. Osborne knows, don’t you Osborne.
        The 2012 Olympic games opening and closing ceremony will tell you everything you need to know.
        But not the version they wanted you to believe in.
        We will all be carted away in Annie Lennox death ship.

        • Notice above he mentions ‘Free speech and Democracy’, the cunt does not even know what that means, as we all know some are more free to speak than others, I don’t see us getting free speech on any msm networks, and if too much is said they cut to a break. You assessment of him is correct. I won’t even begin about democracy, that is even more of a joke, the deluded cunt.

  165. I want my alimony big Dick!

  166. paultheswineherd

    Cameron is worth more than £34 million, (that we know of) – meanwhile, the poorer workers will lose out once again – shameful!
    http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/10/universal-credit-cuts-to-lose-low-income-families-up-to-200-a-month

  167. GEOFF REYNOLDS
    • “NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST HERE THEN”

      foralltime
      10 Apr 2016 21:56
      0 1

      WHAT!…”The boss of Revenue & Customs, Edward Troup, (HMRC) the government department overseeing a £10m inquiry into the Panama Papers, was a partner at a top City law firm that acted for Blairmore Holdings and other offshore companies named in the leak…
      …So no conflict of interest there then?

  168. Ipswich Unemployed Action.

    Campaigning for Unemployed Rights.

    Provider Forms: “Not a mandatory requirement for claimants to fill in or sign any provider forms or documents when participating in a provider led mandatory activity or programme.” Freedom of Information response from the DWP.

    Provider Forms: “Not a mandatory requirement for claimants to fill in or sign any provider forms or documents when participating in a provider led mandatory activity or programme.” Freedom of Information response from the DWP.

  169. “POPEYE’S GIRLFRIEND SWIMMING IN STOLEN DISABILITY CASH”

  170. Chris Holmes head and shoulders
    Equality watchdog to mirror UN inquiry into DWP’s rights violations
    6
    By John Pring on April 7, 2016 Human Rights

    The equality watchdog is to commission a major piece of research into whether the government’s welfare reforms have harmed the human rights of disabled people and other minority groups.

    The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) says it wants to examine the impact of changes to the welfare system on independent living and poverty.

    Its decision appears to mirror the decision of the UN’s committee on the rights of persons with disabilities to carry out an unprecedented inquiry into “systematic and grave violations” of disabled people’s human rights by the UK government, which is examining the impact of a series of welfare reforms and social care cuts carried out since 2010.

    The EHRC announcement was included in the watchdog’s new business plan for 2016-17, which was published on Monday (4 April) without any publicity.

    The business plan says: “Everyone has a right to an adequate standard of living, including a minimum entitlement to food, clothing and housing.”

    It adds: “It is not clear whether the government’s reforms to tax, welfare and public spending have taken into account the cumulative impact of these changes on the standard of living of disabled people and other groups who may have been disproportionately affected.”

    http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/equality-watchdog-to-mirror-un-inquiry-into-dwps-rights-violations/

    • Rich Indians are used to seeing poverty and death all around them, that is why they live in the UK so that they can turn a blind eye. Pritti awful really.

  171. i’ve just heard some cunt on skynews say that mental health in young people is caused by social media. She also said mental health conditions just merge into one another, Bloody criminal

    • Fakebook is EVIL!

      “social media” IS bad for mental health. The most depressed people are to be found on Fakebook, add to that Twitter, ‘internet dating’ and all the other time-wasting pieces of crap. Fakebook and Twitter can even be found on so-called “smart TVs”. The best thing to improve mental health is to turn “social media” OFF.

      • so it’s not due to deliberate propaganda/ lies/ oppression and government cuts to ensure a community with no mental health resources to help those in need earlier then??? that’s okay then – irrespective of the inanity of some social media ……

        • It’s nothing to do with the fact that the pseudo psychiatrists are pedalling their shit to the media, with libelous labels used as medical conditions.

          It’s nothing to do with DWP sanctions if refusing to jump through hoops that may be causing unhappiness (not mental illness).

          It’s nothing to do with all of those that voted for austerity imposing their barbaric will on the poorest in society.

          IT’S ALL DOWN TO SOCIAL MEDIA – RIGHT!!!

  172. This is social media too!

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  174. Indeed Cameron and Co Leave a Lot to be Desired but so do the Trendy PC Left who do Not understand what Poverty and Deprivation is

    Instead of the Destruction of Property the Usage to House the Homeless
    like Property which lays empty and unused

    jeremy | April 8, 2016 at 7:39 pm | Reply

    quick answer – all of them – a more deceitful, inept bunch of right wing loons there has never been – yet they continue to behave as if they own the whole country – voted in on 24% of the population – we should burn all of their fucking houses down, preferably with them in it

  175. Fitness for work assessors ‘mock the disabled’ while earning up to £20,000 a month.

    A fitness for work assessor for Government contractor Capita boasted he “flew through” vital welfare disability tests – earning himself £20,000 a month.

    And another derided a disabled claimant as needing “help to wipe her a*** because she’s too f****** fat to do it herself”.

    The footage was filmed for Channel 4’s Dispatches programme by a reporter who went undercover to expose the hated tests, which have seen thousands of disabled people wrongly stripped of benefits.

    In the documentary, to be broadcast at 8pm on Monday, one Capita employee named Alan crows about raking in vast sums.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fitness-work-assessors-mock-disabled-7730136

  176. British Slavery Loving Oblivious Zombies

    I Cannot Say I Find the Ostrich Like Obliviousness of the Not so Great
    British Public Inspiring it is more Spineless

  177. One Little Stroll through London an ” Anti Austerity ” is Very Unlikely
    by itself to get David Cameron Out

  178. Stooges of Tyranny and Oppression too Thick to have any Common
    Sense to Realize the Truth that the Poor and Vulnerable are the Victims

    Gormlessly Out of Touch they Are

  179. The Country Needs Common Sense and Compassion For the Poor
    and Vulnerable Not Free to be a Slave Market Evilnomics

  180. OT: Work & and Being Poor

    h/t: Refuted/rightsnet

    I also copy below a section which is aimed directly at those who hound/besmirch those who are unemployed and call them workless [I’m talking to you Dr A Prik – Otherwise known as Dr A Perkins] i.e. the Drive by Trolls.

    http://blog.spicker.uk/why-work-is-not-the-best-way-out-of-poverty/

    “Let’s focus, however, on low income. Large numbers of people suffer low incomes for extended periods – previous research suggests that in Britain, well over half of us will have had at least a year on low income in a ten-year period. The reasons for low income include unemployment, but they also include low pay, having young children, divorce, disability, becoming a student, suffering discrimination or falling ill.”

    So for those who criticise, as the Lotto says : “It Could be you.”
    Going by the figures available, it probably will be.

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