Billy Jean King Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 BBC News - Universal Credit: Jobseekers must widen job search more quicklyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60149016On the face of it classic Tory going to Tory stuff but the fact the Scarecrow announced yesterday at PMQs that today would see the launch of a major new policy intended to get more folk into work is simply disingenuous shite. It's another benefit cut plain and simple. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 2 hours ago, Billy Jean King said: BBC News - Universal Credit: Jobseekers must widen job search more quickly https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60149016 On the face of it classic Tory going to Tory stuff but the fact the Scarecrow announced yesterday at PMQs that today would see the launch of a major new policy intended to get more folk into work is simply disingenuous shite. It's another benefit cut plain and simple. It's not disingenuous shíte. It's a bare-faced fucking lie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 The DWP are evil. Pure scum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Andrea Rayner is a shoe in Dominatrix in her spare time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 3 hours ago, Billy Jean King said: BBC News - Universal Credit: Jobseekers must widen job search more quickly https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60149016 On the face of it classic Tory going to Tory stuff but the fact the Scarecrow announced yesterday at PMQs that today would see the launch of a major new policy intended to get more folk into work is simply disingenuous shite. It's another benefit cut plain and simple. I posted last week jokingly that they would go after those on benefits and asylum seekers to get the gammonati raging to change the headlines around bojo but sadly it looks like happening 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 3 hours ago, Billy Jean King said: BBC News - Universal Credit: Jobseekers must widen job search more quickly https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60149016 On the face of it classic Tory going to Tory stuff but the fact the Scarecrow announced yesterday at PMQs that today would see the launch of a major new policy intended to get more folk into work is simply disingenuous shite. It's another benefit cut plain and simple. Given that it can take 5 or 6 weeks to get your first payment from Universal Credit, that means you could could be getting sanctions before you've even received your first payment. You really couldn't make it up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Beginning to think David Frost might be one of the people behind all these No 10 leaks. Quote There are now just two viable options if the party is to bounce back. The first is for Boris Johnson to remain in office, attempt to fix the immediate damage caused by Partygate, and then recant his worst policies and delegate huge amounts of power to a David Frost-like CEO in No 10. We would need the old Boris back: he would have to ditch the National Insurance increase, embrace a freeze on public spending and accept major shifts to his green agenda. There would need to be a clear-out of the Cabinet as well as advisers, with all the neo-socialists, green fanatics and pro-woke crowd exiting immediately. Every policy would need to be judged on whether it makes Brexit Britain more competitive, and/or by how it improves the lives, and addresses the fears, of culturally conservative and aspirational Britain. The aim would be to ruthlessly target the 43.6 per cent of the electorate who voted Tory in 2019, but by following the broadly conservative approach these voters expected, rather than the weird blend of reheated neo-Brownite social democracy and green paternalism that was unleashed upon them instead. Crucially, the about-turn I’m describing is not about lobbing a few shreds of “red meat” to a starving base, penning random “Right-wing” tweets announcing a policy that unravels within hours, or even replacing a few figures in No 10 or Whitehall. No, only a total reset will do. The second option, regrettably, would be for Johnson to step down and be replaced by somebody who follows an improved version of the 2019 strategy. This individual would need to grip a machinery of state recaptured by the Blob – and even more so now civil servants have been tasked with potentially terminating the careers of elected politicians. He or she would then need to impose, at great speed, an agenda that fuses pro-capitalist reforms while appealing to suburban cultural conservatives with a tough agenda on crime, human rights, wokery, Brexit and much else besides. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 (edited) Liz Truss private Jet to Australia is being revealed just now ...cost to the taxpayer 500k Tories going to Tory Edited January 27, 2022 by doulikefish 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 19 minutes ago, doulikefish said: Liz Truss private Jet to Australia is being revealed just now ...cost to the taxpayer 500k Tories going to Tory If only there was a famous quote of hers to deploy here. … nope, can’t think of anything 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 1 minute ago, coprolite said: If only there was a famous quote of hers to deploy here. … nope, can’t think of anything "let them eat cheese"? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 The DWP are evil. Pure scum.The DWP merely administers the schemes per the regulations laid by government. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 28 minutes ago, doulikefish said: Liz Truss private Jet to Australia is being revealed just now ...cost to the taxpayer 500k Tories going to Tory She's getting a constant trickle of bad press, wonder if Sunak's got anything to do with it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 2 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: 1 hour ago, NotThePars said: The DWP are evil. Pure scum. The DWP merely administers the schemes per the regulations laid by government. They've only kept on the psychos who relish every sanction though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 4 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: 1 hour ago, NotThePars said: The DWP are evil. Pure scum. The DWP merely administers the schemes per the regulations laid by government. 1 minute ago, welshbairn said: They've only kept on the psychos who relish every sanction though. As someone who's had to deal with them as a "customer" and as a fellow civil servant, yup. A department that takes its administration from a Kafka novel and is staffed with an alarming number of people who view the people they deal with as subhuman. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 1 hour ago, NotThePars said: As someone who's had to deal with them as a "customer" and as a fellow civil servant, yup. A department that takes its administration from a Kafka novel and is staffed with an alarming number of people who view the people they deal with as subhuman. That reminds me of a high percentage of people who work in any HR Dept these days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 3 hours ago, coprolite said: If only there was a famous quote of hers to deploy here. … nope, can’t think of anything Neither. Can. I. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 4 hours ago, Soapy FFC said: Given that it can take 5 or 6 weeks to get your first payment from Universal Credit, that means you could could be getting sanctions before you've even received your first payment. You really couldn't make it up. That is ridiculous. Even a fortnight is too long when you've no money coming in. I suppose everybody is expected to live off the interest off their trust funds... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 On 22/01/2022 at 13:35, NotThePars said: Normal thing for a nominally progressive politician to say Easy seen she's a QC. They could argue a black crow was white - and have enough of the jury believing it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Yet another Tory sell - off of former public sector assets that's turned out to be an absolute disaster for the public purse.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/27/guy-hands-terra-firma-annington-homes-mod-ministry-defence?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other"However, the National Audit Office concluded in a 2018 review that taxpayers were between £2.2bn and £4.2bn worse off as a result of the arrangement. The NAO said the MoD had “lost out on billions of pounds’ worth of increases in asset values, while Annington has made a significantly higher return on its investment than expected”. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 (edited) 54 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said: That is ridiculous. Even a fortnight is too long when you've no money coming in. I suppose everybody is expected to live off the interest off their trust funds... From the Govt website Quote Your first payment It usually takes around 5 weeks to get your first payment. If you need help with your living costs while you wait for your first payment, you can apply for an advance. The wait before your first payment is made up of a one month assessment period and up to 7 days for the payment to reach your account. It's almost as if they have made it as difficult as possible to get any money. Edited January 27, 2022 by Soapy FFC 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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