January 26, 2014 – 1:33 am
I’m sure his family love him but I am REALLY getting tired of spending my Christmas with Iain Duncan Smith and am hoping the bi-annual ESA renewal form isn’t going to turn into a new household tradition. Wrapping paper? Check. Tinsel? Check. New nerve conduction test? Damn, there’s always something… Nearly a million people who applied […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, Fark!, Personal, Politics, Public Policy, Welfare
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Also tagged department of work and pensions, disability, disability benefits, disability living allowance, DLA, employment and support allowance, ESA, fit for work, housing benefit, Iain Duncan Smith, welfare reform
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December 6, 2013 – 9:33 pm
The welfare state is unaffordable, George Osborne will tell MPs this week, and permanent cuts will be required to make the public finances “sustainable”. The Chancellor will use his Autumn Statement on Thursday to set out more details of a new cap on welfare spending after the next general election. It is an attempt to […]
February 20, 2013 – 7:46 pm
Anjem Choudary was secretly filmed mocking non-Muslims for working in 9-5 jobs their whole lives, and told followers that some revered Islamic figures had only ever worked one or two days a year. “The rest of the year they were busy with jihad [holy war] and things like that,” he said. “People will say, ‘Ah, […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Immigration, Law, Politics, Society, Welfare
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Also tagged anjem choudary, Department for Work and Pensions, jihad seekers allowance, job seekers allowance, JSA
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August 30, 2011 – 2:46 am
Private security firm G4S has sacked two members of staff who tagged a man’s false leg allowing him to remove it and break a court-imposed curfew. The pair were fooled by Christopher Lowcock, 29, who wrapped the prosthetic limb in a bandage when G4S set up the system at his Rochdale home. He was then […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Funnies, Law, Politics, Technology, Welfare
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Also tagged bret ravenhill, christopher lowcock, criminal justice, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, electronic tag, false leg, G4S, group 4, Iain Duncan Smith, incapacity benefit, ministry of justice, nick buckles, the work programme
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Okay, I really have reached the end of my tattered patience. I WAS going to post a thoughtful piece about the market clearing rate/efficiency wages and the Conservative MP who told the commons recently that disabled people are not as productive as their ‘normal’ colleagues and therefore ought to be free to accept less than […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, Human/Civil rights, Law, Media, Personal, Personal liberty, Politics, scotland, Society, Welfare
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Also tagged charity, chris bryant, Chris Grayling, citizenship, crofting, david cameron, david laws, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, flying squad, habeas corpus, Iain Duncan Smith, Immigration, jobcentreplus, national fraud taskforce, New Zealand, parliament, philip davies, revenue and customs, rule of law, shetland, the work programme, UK coalition government, UK politics, UK Supreme Court
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Please excuse this extended exercise in textual analysis. I’m quoting from a form letter which was the response to a constituent’s enquiry by Maria Miller, the minister for disabled people: I believe that the Government owes a duty to disabled people to promote their independence and equality and I also believe that it has a […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, Personal, Politics, Public Policy, Society, Welfare
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Also tagged Department for Work and Pensions, house of commons, maria miller, personal independence payment, PIP, sheila gilmore, UK parliament, welfare reform bill
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Celebrity squares are: Top left: Jacquie Smith MP (Lab) – former Home Secretary who claimed her husband’s pay-per-view porn on expenses. [no action] Top right: David Laws MP (LibDem) – almost coalition Home Secretary until he admitted claiming for rent paid to his undeclared male partner. [suspended from Parliament for a week, under police investigation] […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Funnies, Law, Politics, Public Policy, Society, Welfare
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Also tagged benefit fraud, crime, david chaytor, david laws, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, elliot morley, false accounting, fraud, jacquie smith, jim devine, lord hanningfield, lord taylor of warwick, MPs expenses, right dishonourable members, UK coa, UK conservative party, UK labour party, UK liberal democrats
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April 24, 2011 – 12:01 am
Enjoying the peace of absent window installers this Easter Weekend (back on Monday unfortunately due to the ‘negotiable’ religious holidays of the Roman Law tradition here in Scotland) I’ve been sparing a thought for what Easter means to me as a non-religious Christian of Quaker affiliation. After a childhood of Sunday School thanks to the […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Privacy, Public Policy, Religion, Skeptics, Society, Welfare
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Also tagged alarm-clock britain, Catholic Church, christianity, crucifixion, david cameron, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, disability living allowance, DLA, do unto others, Easter, empathy, golden rule, Iain Duncan Smith, incapacity benefit, isaiah berlin, Jesus of Nazareth, native american proverbs, Nick Clegg, protestantism, quakers, symbolism, the sermon on the mount, The Sun, walk two moons in a man's moccasins
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Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to face fines of at least £50 for “preventable” errors in their benefits claims. The government expects to levy more than £60m in these civil penalties in the next four years, it revealed in its welfare reform proposals. Errors could include failure to inform the authorities of a […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Law, Personal, Politics, Society, Taxation, Welfare
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Also tagged benefit fraud, civil penalties, Department for Work and Pensions, HMRC, Iain Duncan Smith, welfare reform
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Work and pensions minister Chris Grayling is conducting an urgent review into a new medical test for incapacity benefit after fresh figures showed only 6% of those tested were deemed to be totally incapable of working. The figures, covering all new claims from October 2008 to the end of November 2009, show 39% are being […]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Personal, Politics, Popular culture, Society
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Also tagged ATOS, Chris Grayling, computer says no, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, employment support allowance, LiMA, UK coalition government, UK politics, welfare, welfare reform, work capability assessment
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