Benjamin_Nevis Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Get this spamming arsehole binned ffs -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Is there a market on when Hanvey is explicitly welcomed back into the SNP? Joanna Cherry already seems to be acting as his legal adviser online. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Joanna Cherry despite being an astute and learned solicitor really comes across as being a fucking horrible person. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieThomas Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Due to the absolute froth this has got the fat bald cretin demographic in, I'll be firing right down to Dunkin' early tomorrow for my large macchiato so I can settle in for live coverage of the glorious pettiness to follow. Love it lads, love it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 DWP starve a man to death 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeperDee Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 15 hours ago, GNU_Linux said: DWP starve a man to death Not going to lie, was a bit teary reading that. Blood on UC supporters hands. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 (edited) 33 minutes ago, oaksoft said: It's not a UC issue. It's exactly what UC is about, creating a hostile environment and assuming everyone is lying. Any DWP workers who didn't go along with that have been culled. Edited January 29, 2020 by welshbairn 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunfermline Don Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 Northern: Rail firm brought under government control https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51298820Isn’t that a wee bit socialist. I am so glad we elected a hard left government last December, oh wait ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweeperDee Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 It's not a UC issue. It's about how the DWP staff treat people in these situations. It's about having benefits cut off for trivial reasons. It's about handing power of life and death to people who shouldn't be trusted with a tin opener. Nobody should be in a position where benefits are simply removed leaving them with nothing. There is no good argument for doing that even when the claimant is taking the piss.See Welshbairn’s response. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 4 hours ago, oaksoft said: It's not a UC issue. It's about how the DWP staff treat people in these situations. It's about having benefits cut off for trivial reasons. It's about handing power of life and death to people who shouldn't be trusted with a tin opener. Nobody should be in a position where benefits are simply removed leaving them with nothing. There is no good argument for doing that even when the claimant is taking the piss. 4 hours ago, welshbairn said: It's exactly what UC is about, creating a hostile environment and assuming everyone is lying. Any DWP workers who didn't go along with that have been culled. It's a mixture of both tbh. UC in is most often workable with people who have straightforward circumstances and competent work-coaches. Basically single, healthy adults in rented accommodation. The problems arise with changes in circumstances that the UC system can barely cope with and staff who don't understand how to resolve the issues. When you throw in work-coaches who either don't give a shit or take a dislike to a claimant, it becomes a total clusterfuck. I have a couple of UC cases at the moment which are absolutely mental. Under the old ESA system they would have been easily overturned through our escalation routes with DWP before getting anywhere near an Appeals Tribunal, however UC is so inflexible with piss-poor escalation routes that we do end up with a lot of needless appeals. One of my cases is a young lad with PTSD who was sanctioned for failing to attend an appointment - he had been taken into Carseview (a mental health facility) for making an attempt on his own life the day before. Previously that would have simply required handing someone in the local JCP a fit note or some sort of paperwork confirming his admission and it would have been overturned. In UC he has to access his journal to lodge a mandatory reconsideration which a decision maker will look at in the next 28 days. He now has no phone so can't remember his access info, meaning he has to make an appointment at the job centre to reset his login, get on one of the computers there and lodge his MR. The other is even dafter. A single dad who was sanctioned for 91 days for not completing enough work search activity. He was incorrectly placed in the 35 hours per week work search (it's meant to be 25 if you have a dep child over 5 and under 13). He lodged his Mandatory Reconsideration stating his daughter was sick for three days so only had time to apply for 10 jobs. The decision maker refused this on the basis that the daughter wasn't on his claim and it is the claimant's fault for not updating his UC claim to include her. If the DM had taken literally 30 seconds to check his UC claim he'd have noticed that she'd been on from the start and he was in the wrong work search group in the first place. This can't be overturned because the appeal process has been started, meaning he will have to wait until his tribunal goes ahead a few weeks from now, for something that could have been a complete piece of cake to resolve. It also means this guy and his daughter were living off £277 a month for three months. The only positive i suppose will be watching the Tribunal Judge utterly shred the DWP's Presenting Officer. DWP also have considerable staffing issues, which they bizarrely tried to resolve by transferring loads of PIP caseworkers across to UC for Limited Capability for Work processes, when surely it would have been more logical to move across most of the ESA staff who were doing literally the same job. TL;DR version, UC staff are frequently beyond shite but the system's inflexibility is a huge and expensively counter-productive issue. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zidane's child Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 4 hours ago, Dunfermline Don said: Northern: Rail firm brought under government control https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51298820 Isn’t that a wee bit socialist. I am so glad we elected a hard left government last December, oh wait ! Corbyn proposes this back in 2017 and was met with the usual “commy Marxist leftie” comments. Fast forward 2 years and its “taking back control” stuff from the current government. Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson are c**ts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Day of the Lords said: TL;DR version, UC staff are frequently beyond shite but the system's inflexibility is a huge and expensively counter-productive issue. That makes horrific reading and those poor souls are seeing the harsh reality of a system that a political group thinks is appropriate in 2020. What a scandal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 29, 2020 Share Posted January 29, 2020 But it’s not the Kafkaesque system that’s to blame, it’s a few malicious colleagues. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 Javid has changed his stance and now saying that austerity isn’t over at all and everything has to be cut by 5%. Shocking that a Tory would tell lies to get what they want. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 The Brexit thread isn't really about the EU anymore so i'll stick this here. The parliament in Wallonia has voted against the Mercosur trade deal. It'll be interesting to see how the EU pushes this through while Bolsonaro is destroying indigenous rights. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbitterandgrumpy Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 (edited) On 25/01/2020 at 09:25, MixuFixit said: Lol, you did this to yourselves https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/25/former-red-wall-areas-could-lose-millions-in-council-funding-review Only just noticed this post. I don't think I've ever used 'lol' in a post before. But if this comes to pass, lol . . . Ha, Ha, Ha . . . lol. Edited February 6, 2020 by oldbitterandgrumpy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Liam Fox clearly has some powerful 'friends'. He will be gone for as long as Priti Patel if at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTG Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Cost of repairing Big Ben goes up to £79.7m from £63.1m having been estimated at £31m in 2017. Would welcome several tweets on the matter from Jackson Carlaw just so we know why it's Nicola's fault. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted February 16, 2020 Author Share Posted February 16, 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/feb/16/food-poverty-millions-children-uk-not-enough-to-eat “More than four million children in one of the richest countries in the world are growing up in poverty, their access to adequate nutrition compromised.“ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 oaksoft will be along to explain why this isn’t actually poverty shortly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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