Lower than Cockroaches: Ian Duncan Smith and his Persecution of Victims of the Bedroom Tax | Beastrabban\’s Weblog
He laughed: Challenged over the decision to charge Bedroom Tax on a rape victim’s panic room, Iain Duncan Smith laughed. Now he is appealing against a crown court decision that his policy was wrong.
Over the past couple of years, there’s been a big debate over whether this country has a ‘rape culture’. This comes after numerous incidents where women have been trolled with threats of rape and sexual violence. One of those who raised the issue was the classical historian, Mary Beard, after she received such threats following comments she made about their being no Muslim threat in one of the northern cities. This controversy naturally extends to jokes about rape. A month or so ago, one British comedienne felt so outraged about it that she delivered a whole evening to attacking it. And you don’t even have to go to see modern, young women voice their condemnation of this type of ‘humour’. Ted Rogers, the old school comedian and game show compere, who brought the world Dusty Bin and 3-2-1 in the ’70s and ’80s, made it plain that he didn’t find rape funny. But from the looks of it, Ian Duncan Smith found it hilarious.
IDS and his policies are dismal failures, yet he continues to support them, even to the point of being accused of effectively writing blank cheques to lawyers so they can continue their campaign of harassment against those who fought against him and one: http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2016/01/28/iain-duncan-smith-accused-of-writing-blank-cheque-to-lawyers-to-defend-bedroom-tax-in-court/. He’s tenacious in his spite, possibly because it’s the only thing he’s done in public life that counts as anywhere near a success. After all, his attempt to steer the Tory party back to electoral victory under his leadership was a dismal failure. The man’s colossal vanity and megalomania mean that he can’t allow it to fail. Even when it does.
The man is truly the Arnold Rimmer of British politics. A shabby, vain, bully, filled with spite for the poor, who laughs at the traumatised victims of real, horrific violence. The kind, which he himself has neither spine nor stomach to stand up to. He really is lower than the roaches.
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Duncan Smith is a nasty vindictive, arrogant and despicable bully. There are absolutely no redeeming features in his favour at all.
Words havent yet been devised to describe what he is.
He’s a devil in human form!
he is like all his cronies couldnt care less about anything except profit margins and power.
I find the terminolgy ” panic room” demeaning and patronising. A young man I know did not understand that what they are really are” safe rooms” for very desperate people. Because of cutbacks to funding there are fewer and fewer womens refuges. Many people hear ” panic room” and think that they are for people who have off the cuff panic attacks and think ” oh its just women being hysterical again” and IDS is promoting this view. I d on’t think he has a clue what they are really for- he pictures women being enabled to go to their spare rooms to have their little meltdowns, which is why he laughed. Such ignorance is stunning; he runs on prejudice not knowledge.
I think people hear the term ‘panic room’ and think of the film with Jodie Foster. If so, they’ll know exactly what a panic room is and what it’s for.
He is doing the job the tories want him to do. Relentlessly and heartlessly and is thick – skinned enough not to care.
A real hatchet job.
Appalling.
I bet he will get his cumuppance . I have never known of a politician in my lfetime, except Thatcher who is the root cause of all this, who has been so universally reviled. Thatchers saving grace was that she did PERSONALLY defend her policies unlike the Roach IDS who puts one of his place men in the Commons to “justify” what he is doing. If he looks like a bully, acts like a bully then he is a bully! Bevan was right when said that Tories are lower than vermin!
dont agree with violence in politics but would make an exception in his case.