8,500 people have now started on Universal Credit, we’re over 1% of the way there!

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Some of you might be starting to think I should leave Iain Duncan Smith alone. All I can tell you is, in the words of the late, great Dave Allen when asked if he would stop making up jokes about the Catholic Church (of which Mr… Smith is a member): I would if I could, but I can’t.

This is from alittleecon:

Today the DWP released some statistics that show that during the period of rollout for Universal Credit which began in April 2013 and up to 31st May this year, only 8,500 people had started on the new benefit.

Read the rest on alittleecon!

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6 Comments

  1. che August 14, 2014 at 10:14 am - Reply

    you can never condemn IDS too much mike

  2. Norma Marguerite Roberts August 14, 2014 at 11:06 am - Reply

    Another 99 years and he’s home and dry then? How on earth he got to be where he is today I do not know. In the cabinet? The only cabinet he is fit for is a china cabinet as a Toby jug!

    • WordPress.com Support August 14, 2014 at 11:32 am - Reply

      More like another 500 years!
      Spot on with your other remarks, though!

  3. Bill Kruse August 14, 2014 at 11:06 am - Reply

    I believe they’ve started including anybody who’s signed a claimant comittment now so the true numbers will be even smaller.

  4. marcusdemowbray August 14, 2014 at 11:13 am - Reply

    Condemning IIDS in the strongest possible terms has to continue as much as humanly possible until his black heart stops beating and that poisonous maggot he uses fro a brain dies.

  5. AM-FM August 14, 2014 at 3:44 pm - Reply

    I’ve read his article and most of the doc, and I can’t see where he gets the “over 1%” from.

    I make it 0.1%.

    I guestimated it at 0.04% in March so I’m sticking with about 0.1% now!
    http://mikesivier.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/elephants-in-the-studio-andrew-neil-interviews-iain-duncan-smith/#comment-27575

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