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One In A Million

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 | Posted in Britain, Economics, Fark!, Personal, Politics, Public Policy, Welfare | Also tagged department of work and pensions, disability, disability benefits, disability living allowance, DLA, DWP, employment and support allowance, ESA, fit for work, housing benefit, welfare reform | Comments (7)

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary

November 24, 2013 – 12:04 am

“It’s the most ambitious episode we’ve ever done,” he said. The episode, The Day of the Doctor, will be broadcast in more than 90 countries at the same time as it airs on BBC One on Saturday night. The BBC says it is likely to be the largest simulcast of a TV drama in history. […]

By DeusExMacintosh | Posted in Events, Funnies, History, Popular culture, Religion, Technology, Welfare | Also tagged BBC, bedroom tax, david tennant, doctor who 50th anniversary special, matt smith, science fiction, television | Comments (0)

Balancing Act – UK Conservative Party Conference 2012

October 8, 2012 – 10:19 pm

The government is determined to cut a further £10bn from the benefits budget to fight the deficit, Chancellor George Osborne has told the Tory conference. One idea he suggested was limiting the number of children in a family that should be supported on benefits. He said the better-off would pay more in taxes, but the […]

By DeusExMacintosh | Posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Politics, Welfare | Also tagged £10bn welfare cuts, Department for Work and Pensions, George Osborne, housing benefit, The Treasury, Tory Conference 2012, UK conservative party, welfare reform | Comments (9)

Back to the Future

March 2, 2012 – 4:00 am

The government’s controversial Welfare Reform Bill has passed its final hurdle in the House of Lords. The bill introduces an annual cap on benefits and overhauls many payments within the welfare system. David Cameron has said it marks an historic step in the biggest welfare revolution in more than 60 years. But a report from […]

By DeusExMacintosh | Posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Law, Personal, Politics, Popular culture, Public Policy, Society, Welfare | Also tagged david cameron, disability, disability benefits, disability living allowance, incapacity benefit, independent living fund, parliament, social security, UK coalition government, UK politics, welfare reform bill, westminster, WRB | Comments (9)

Workfair?

February 18, 2012 – 4:00 am

Tesco has come under increasing pressure from customers to stop participating in government unemployment schemes which allow the company to take on jobseekers to stack and clean shelves for up to eight weeks without paying them. After a link to a job centre advert was posted on Twitter on Wednesday evening, appearing to show that […]

By DeusExMacintosh | Posted in Britain, Economics, Funnies, Politics, Society, Welfare | Also tagged benefits, boycott, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, disability living allowance, employment and support allowance, ESA, Jobcentre Plus, jobseekers allowance, JSA, mandatory work activity, minimum wage, sanctions, slave labour, tesco, unemployment, work experience, work for the dole, work related activity group, workfare, WRAG | Comments (13)

As Blind as the Prat

December 28, 2011 – 2:47 am

A CWMCARN man faces having his incapacity benefit stopped after being declared fit to work despite being registered blind and suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Tony Harris, 51, of Tribute Avenue, was called for a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reassessment in November due to him claiming £199 every fortnight in incapacity benefit. Mr […]

By DeusExMacintosh | Posted in Britain, Economics, Fark!, Funnies, Personal, Politics, Public Policy, Wales, Welfare | Also tagged ATOS, Department for Work and Pensions, employment and support allowance, guide dogs for the blind, incapacity benefit, UK coalition government, welfare reform, work capability assessment | Comments (1)

Iain Duncan Smith is a cheap f*ck

December 24, 2011 – 11:55 pm

I imagine that £10 is less than even the most desperate British street-walker would accept for being screwed in this economic climate. It is however the generous “Christmas Bonus” I’ve received as a benefits claimant just days before the DWP sent me a lovely additional present in the form of a distinctive brown envelope […]

By DeusExMacintosh | Posted in Britain, Economics, Politics, Popular culture, Society, Welfare | Also tagged ATOS, Department for Work and Pensions, employment and support allowance, ESA appeals, incapacity benefits, UK coalition government, welfare reform, welfare tribunals | Comments (3)

Compassionate Conservatism

December 7, 2011 – 9:00 am

Thousands of seriously ill cancer patients will be forced to take medical tests and face “back to work” interviews, despite assurances from ministers that they would not make it harder for the sick to get welfare, charities have warned. Buried in a report to ministers by Prof Malcolm Harrington, the government adviser on testing welfare […]

By DeusExMacintosh | Posted in Britain, Funnies, Politics, Welfare | Also tagged benefits, betsy duncan smith, chemotherapy, employment and support allowance, macmillan cancer relief, professor malcolm harrington, UK conservative party, UK politics, welfare reform | Comments (13)

False Sense of Security

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 | Posted in Britain, Funnies, Law, Politics, Technology, Welfare | Also tagged bret ravenhill, christopher lowcock, criminal justice, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, DWP, electronic tag, false leg, G4S, group 4, incapacity benefit, ministry of justice, nick buckles, the work programme | Comments (7)

The Begging Letter

July 10, 2011 – 11:29 pm

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 | Posted in Britain, Economics, Human/Civil rights, Law, Media, Personal, Personal liberty, Politics, scotland, Society, Welfare | Also tagged charity, chris bryant, Chris Grayling, citizenship, crofting, david cameron, david laws, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, DWP, flying squad, habeas corpus, 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 | Comments (10)