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Is government reassurance that care charges won’t swallow cost of living payment true?

Money: Rishi Sunak is offering cost of living payments of £800 for people with disabilities – but are government assurances that the payment won’t be taken by councils worth the time taken to provide them?

Are you convinced by this?

Concerns had been raised that people with disabilities will not gain any benefit from government payments of £650 for those on means-tested benefits, and another £150 for recipients of disability benefits.

This is because disabled people receiving social care provided in their own homes by their local council must make a financial contribution – usually everything above the minimum income of £94.15 per week.

So, in theory, all £800 of the cost-of-living support provided by the government could be taken by local authorities in care charges.

Challenged on this by Disability News Service, the Department for Health and Social Care has said it does not think the payment will be taken by councils.

The DHSC reckons that, because the payment is a one-off, it will not be considered as regular income and so will not be included in disabled people’s regular incomes and affect the so-called Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG).

That’s all very well – but why not simply make an announcement to that effect?

If the government stipulates that this money may not be considered in council’s calculations, then councils will have to accept that, and leave the cash alone.

Without such a rule, there is no cast-iron guarantee that this will happen. I wonder why the Tories haven’t bothered to make it already. And I wonder how many other people are in a similar situation.

Source: Government eases concerns over cost-of-living payment care charge fears – Disability News Service

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Cost of living crisis: How will prescription charge freeze help people who need it?

Sajid Javid: the eyes are open but the mind is not.

Sajid Javid’s an ignorant little… banker, isn’t he?

This entitled Tory twit has frozen prescription charges in England, saying keeping the charge at an extortionate £9.35 until next year will “put money back in people’s pockets.”

No, it won’t – certainly not for me. I live in Wales.

And it won’t even do that in England. It just won’t take any more money from people hard-pressed by the cost-of-living crisis.

And, of course, it won’t help everybody – just those who are ill…

… who aren’t among the 90 per cent who already get their prescriptions free of charge.

So that counts those on state benefits, pregnant women and new mothers, people with specified medical conditions or disabilities, the over-60s and under-16s out of having any money put back in their pockets by this change.

And of course people here in Wales, and also in Scotland and Northern Ireland, also have free prescriptions.

“The rise in the cost of living has been unavoidable as we face global challenges and the repercussions of Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine,” Javid said. “Whilst we can’t completely prevent these rises, where we can help – we absolutely will.”

But it seems the only people likely to benefit from this help with the cost of living are people who don’t need it. He’s just saving cash for his fellow Tories.

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Free parking for hospital staff to end as Javid piles insult onto the injury of NHS pay

NHS staff, already insulted by derisory pay rises inflicted on them by the Tory government, are being told they’ll have to find the cash to pay for their parking places again from Friday.*

And the cost is likely to be anything up to three times what they were paying before, because of a Tory manifesto promise from 2019.

The government pledged in their December 2019 election manifesto to provide free parking for some patients and staff on their night shifts.

We know the move has prompted at least one privately run car parking company to pass on the cost to daytime NHS workers.

At the time, I questioned why hospital car parks are run for profit by private companies in the first place. Our health care is supposed to be free at the point of use so I asked, is our useless Tory government getting around that by charging us all to get there?

The question was rhetorical; the short answer is yes.

But neither Sajid Javid nor Boris Johnson, the apparent architect of the policy, appear to have thought it through.

With hospital car park firms passing their losses from free parking on to those who still have to pay, it will soon cost staff too much to work there. Or is that the plan?

*That’s if they work in England, of course. Those of us in Wales (for example) get free hospital parking because healthcare here is considered to be a service to the public, not an opportunity to fleece us.

Source: Free parking for hospital staff to end on Friday – Javid | Evening Standard

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Two Metropolitan police officers charged with sex offences

Cressida Dick: we are slowly discovering evidence that increasing numbers of her officers have turned to crime during her tenure as Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

You have to sympathise with this tweet, I think:

How many 'bad apples' do there have to be before we start to admit the whole damn barrel is rotten? https://t.co/TgO2sBH9U2

— The Prole Star (@TheProleStar) October 29, 2021

Here’s the reason The Prole Star suggested all of the Met may be “rotten”:

Sky news needing to specify the copper was off duty. 🤔🤔🤔https://t.co/cxWAhDO6m8

— Tricky🇬🇧🇮🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Tricky9993) October 27, 2021

That’s two sex crime accusations against Metropolitan Police officers, just in the last week.

They follow the kidnap, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard by then-serving Met Police officer Wayne Couzens.

And another serving Met officer – David Carrick – appeared in court on a charge of rape on October 4. That case has been adjourned and I see no reports of it since.

So the question is not only valid but urgent: How many bad apples do there have to be before we admit that the whole barrel is rotten?

And, considering that the rot must have been allowed by senior officers…

How long can Cressida Dick – recently rewarded with a two-year extension of her contract – remain Met Police Commissioner while we slowly discover how many of the so-called apples in her team are rotten?

Another Metropolitan Police officer is charged with rape

It seems Vox Political was right again.

I wrote, a few days ago, that after Wayne Couzens was jailed for life for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard, a culture of fear would settle on women in the UK.

I stated that “women will be left in greater fear of violence against them than ever – not because of men, as some in politics and the media are signalling, but because of the police.”

I continued: “You can bet the Met won’t do anything to change that. If you want proof, all you have to do is wait for the reports of the next crimes committed by officers of the Metropolitan Police.”

Well, we didn’t have to wait long, did we?

David Carrick, 46, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was arrested on Saturday over an alleged offence in St Albans on 4 September last year.

Mr Carrick, who is based within the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, was charged with rape by Hertfordshire Constabulary on Sunday.

I am legally bound to stress that the new allegations against David Carrick, a Met police officer from the same unit as Couzens, are only allegations at this time; he has been accused but any guilt or innocence must be established after a trial.

An initial court hearing was set to take place today (October 4).

Met Commissioner Cressida Dick has put out the usual circular that she releases when claims are made that harm her organisation:

“I am deeply concerned to hear the news today that an officer from the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command has been arrested and now charged with this serious offence.

“I fully recognise the public will be very concerned too. Criminal proceedings must now take their course so I am unable to comment any further at this stage.”

But we have to wonder how long she can stay in her post. The Met’s reputation has been dragged through the mud since she has been in charge and she has made no visible attempt to change its culture of abuse.

Source: David Carrick: Met Police officer from same unit as Wayne Couzens charged with rape | The Independent

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Tory Kawczynski faces second probe into his behaviour as an MP

Well, he was last time. What will be Daniel Kawczynski’s excuse if he’s found guilty of the latest accusations against him?

Daniel Kawczynski is under investigation – again – by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over “actions causing significant damage to the reputation of the House as a whole, or of its Members generally”.

This comes after he was found to have drunkenly bullied civil servants over an IT issue.

He was ordered to apologise, which seemed a shockingly lenient punishment for a man who is a serial offender, as This Site described in a previous article.

I wonder how voters in Shrewsbury feel about their disgrace of a Parliamentary representative.

Details of the new accusations are not clear at the moment, but bringing the House of Commons into disrepute is a serious charge against members.

What will he get if found guilty this time – a slap on the wrist?

Source: Tory MP faces second probe into his behaviour after apology for “bullying” staff – Mirror Online

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Tories plan to hit people over 60 with prescription charges

Prescription: if you’re over 60 and you need one of these – especially if it’s on a regular basis – then the price is set to skyrocket under a new Tory plan to make money for private healthcare firms.

Is this some of the government policy Lord Bethell has been discussing on his private email account, to keep it away from pesky Freedom of Information requests?

The Conservatives are planning to raise the age at which people may receive free prescriptions in England from 60 to 66, in line with the state pension age.

That’s the wrong yardstick, of course.

Firstly, prescriptions should be free to everybody because we all pay into the National Health Service via our taxes. If you are in England and you pay for prescriptions, you are literally paying twice for your medicine.

Secondly, if free prescriptions must be rationed, then in a country where many people are extremely poor, it makes sense to provide them to those who are most likely to need them – meaning, if they must be pegged to age, that they should become available at the age when most people start to suffer the illnesses associated with age.

The problem is that this is not a matter of medical need; it is about giving more money to the private companies that the Tory government has allowed to flood into the health service in order to make a profit from your pain.

That’s around £300 million per year, according to Lord Bethell – around £46.75 for an average person without need for regular medication – or £130.90 for people who need more than 12 prescriptions a year. And that’s at current prices which are sure to increase.

It’s a typical Tory back-of-a-fag-packet idea, based on a desire to rake in cash for people who don’t need it, from people who desperately do – but aren’t being given a choice about whether to give it up.

In other words: extortion.

Ministers are consulting on raising the age when people become eligible for free prescriptions in England to 66-years-old – but pharmacists branded the plan ‘unacceptable’

Source: People over 60 could be hit by prescription charges under new Government plans – Mirror Online

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Nazanin to go back before Iranian court to face new charges – linked to Johnson’s blunder

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: this wrongly-jailed woman has become a pawn in an international power struggle.

Just when it seemed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Iranian prison ordeal was coming to an end, she’s being dragged back into court.

And that country’s officials have taken great pleasure in letting us know that her plight is due to blundering Boris Johnson, the UK’s prime muppet.

Johnson was the idiot who blurted out in Parliament – in 2017, when he was Foreign Secretary – that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been “training journalists”.

She had been doing nothing of the kind.

A project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, she had been doing nothing more sinister than visiting her family for the Persian New Year celebration when she was arrested in 2016.

But the Iranian authorities seized on Johnson’s idiotic remark and threatened to use it to add five more years to her five-year prison sentence.

Now – three years after Johnson misspoke, it seems they have decided to follow through on the threat:

Richard Ratcliffe said his wife will appear in court on Sunday accused of “spreading propaganda against the regime” in Iran.

Apparently that’s how they describe the teaching of journalism – which she wasn’t doing in any event.

Of course we all know that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s imprisonment has more to do with the £400 million that the UK government owes to Iran.

It could not be paid before because of international sanctions – but when Boris Johnson’s career was in danger, it seems such concerns evaporated.

How contrary, then, for us to find that the money has not been paid, apparently because Johnson doesn’t want to upset Donald Trump.

Johnson, it seems, wanted to wait until after the US presidential election on November 3 because he wanted to know whether Trump would still be US president before taking action.

So the Iranian decision to go back to court now has put him in a particularly sticky situation.

Will he pay up and get Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe back?

Or will he delay, to stay on the right side of Donald Trump?

I think we all know the answer to that. Johnson is the runt of international politics.

When powerful people squabble, it is always the innocents who suffer.

Source: New Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe charges linked to Boris Johnson’s infamous gaffe – Mirror Online

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Vox Political scrapbook: June 7

Imagine if you called firefighters and they just beat the shit out of you instead of putting the fire out

— Ethel Furuta (@Ethelmonster) June 5, 2020

The Metropolitan Police has joined the government in losing public confidence after reacting with violence during a peaceful anti-racism protest:

Solidarity with the people protesting outside Parliament today. The death of George Floyd in the United States was an atrocity. But police brutality is real here in the UK. Stay safe #blacklivesmatter #LDNBLM pic.twitter.com/RfEd79Yxn9

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) June 6, 2020

Officer falls from horse as mounted police 'charge UK anti-racism protesters' https://t.co/cydmr34XNP

— The Independent (@Independent) June 6, 2020

Police officers in London are charging at protestors with horses. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/CPtzsXVl6y

— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) June 6, 2020

Sky News is reporting that protestors knocked a police officer off his horse. THIS IS A LIE. While charging into protestors, he slammed into a traffic light and fell off. They’re trying to paint BLM protestors as violent.

— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) June 6, 2020

I’m sorry for making insensitive jokes about the police officer who was hurt. I still think it’s wrong to deploy horses at protests which escalate tension and cause panic. It doesn’t help anyone.

— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) June 6, 2020

traffic lights are Antifa terrorists, tear them down🤣pic.twitter.com/hse0bmVHDK

— Another Angry Voice (@Angry_Voice) June 6, 2020

WHY were police horses running at demonstrators?

It is a tactic only acceptable in absolutely extreme circumstances

The chance of an accident is always high

It is sad that one of the police officers was injured. WHY was he told to go on the horse in the first place?

— Tom London (@TomLondon6) June 6, 2020

Then don’t put horses in situations they may find terrifying and in which they have the capacity to seriously injure and kill human beings. FFS. https://t.co/eyrZrYZebt

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) June 6, 2020

Maybe it’s my age but seeing rows of mounted officers just reminds me of the miners strike. Instant hostility. I know I’m losing followers because of my views . I don’t fucking care.

— feckless fox 💙💙💙 (@fecklessfox100) June 6, 2020

No comment… pic.twitter.com/KWCgfN0ODb

— The Agitator (@UKDemockery) June 6, 2020

The same out of control police horse whose rider went into a lamp post also collided with a pedestrian. @metpoliceuk need to be asked about the wisdom of deploying horses in crowded, wet streets. Shouldnt be allowed to happen again pic.twitter.com/td9rDpRoJK

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) June 6, 2020

How does anyone think horses, charging a crowd, in the rain, will maintain ‘public order’?

Someone explain this to me.

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) June 6, 2020

Whoever ordered the use of police horses in a wet, crowded street to disperse a crowd is to blame for this. Beyond foolish.

Hope this person is okay, that’s one hell of a collision. pic.twitter.com/zZxCsJAdz1

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) June 6, 2020

Would that be Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick?

She was the Gold Commander when that Brazilian man was shot on the tube in full gaze of the public – 7 Bullets fired. What did Cressie do – offer his family £3,250.00 compensation for his life. Exonerated her responsibility & then becomes Met in Chief & given a Damehood !!!!!! https://t.co/zYxABuRlY4

— Carole Hawkins (@hawkins_carole) June 6, 2020

The Covid-19 infection rate in the UK is rising:

These R rate uplifts cannot be attributed to the recent #BlackLivesMatter protests – no matter how hard some people will try to say they are.
Surely this is due to May bank holidays, trips to beaches, people returning to work by public transport, etc. https://t.co/Kg0i2RUPQ9

— Corfu Literary Festival (@CorfuArts) June 6, 2020

And the (official) death toll has passed 40,000:

If the Government had acted quicker, deaths would have been 30,000 less than we have seen.

Just think about that.

Death by CV is agonising. 30,000 needless, agonising deaths.

It’s criminal negligence. It’s probably worse than that. https://t.co/Atquwrvt5B

— Wolfie. 🖐 (@Tpopularfront) June 5, 2020

» Prime minister told to dump rhetoric and plan for new Covid wave | World news | The Guardian https://t.co/qpev4yz6jD

— Samuel Miller (@Hephaestus7) June 7, 2020

Fairly obvious that the Black Lives Matter protest will get the blame in the event of a second spike.

Not Cummings, or sending the schools back, or weak messaging, sending people back to unsafe work environments, relaxing measures too soon, being late on face masks…

— Guy Fawkes (@blunted_james) June 6, 2020

Labour has no moral high ground on the race issue:

I’m afraid the Labour leadership sect are in no position to talk about #BlackLivesMatter until they suspend the people who took great pleasure in racially abusing Diane Abbott.

The Labour leaks only revealed a tiny glimpse of reality, believe me on that.

Labour is a cesspit.

— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) June 6, 2020

Remember this racist lynching of Marc Wadsworth, black anti-racist campaigner?
There will be no peace in Labour until there is justice.#LabourLeaks #LabourRacism pic.twitter.com/dGO4AdRrZD

— Mel (@melaniekmelvin) June 6, 2020

Labour is a cesspit if one of the party’s MPs can be shamed into deleting a link to a perfectly reasonable article:

I think this is seriously problematic. The piece Ms Greenwood has been told is 'offensive' is a measured and serious examination of how Corbyn has been treated by media, by @OborneTweets. That Ms Greenwood should feel pressured into *apologising* for it is frankly scandalous. https://t.co/VitpQ8LKOv

— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) June 6, 2020

And the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary has responded to his detractors:

This is the message your DWP shad sec is also sending to society's most vulnerable, with his 'deserving poor' spiel. Fix this @Keir_Starmer, this isn't behaviour or policy I can support. https://t.co/FnnLyMeram

— Damo (@Cornish_Damo) June 6, 2020

Vigilantism has arisen in the US:

A biker gang brutally beat these protesters in Philly today. pic.twitter.com/r1TzXrOpNW

— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) June 5, 2020

Just looked it up. So this is the guy …https://t.co/ZPQgzm3299

— Inga B (@02CRMBL) June 6, 2020

Rightwing vigilantes on armed patrol after fake rumours of antifa threat https://t.co/fGTSnDiryv

— The Guardian (@guardian) June 6, 2020

Who can blame them, considering the state of their police?

How can you use your turn signal in an aggressive manner? https://t.co/ukE8jPYpwv

— ♿️🇵🇸💚⬛🔸🕷️🕸️⚫️MaiaB (@MaiaBug2010) June 6, 2020

Buffalo mayor says elderly protester pushed to ground by police was 'agitator' https://t.co/LDv5HkaBND

— The Independent (@Independent) June 6, 2020

Now you’ve seen that America’s police are:

▪️brutal, cruel, barbarians
▪️liars even w/video proof
▪️falsify reports
▪️work w/white nationalists
▪️give a shit abt Rights

And that’s with WHITE folks in broad daylight.

What you think they’ve been doing to us when no ones looking?

— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) June 5, 2020

But protest is not about to die down:

George Floyd killing: Washington expecting biggest march yet as mourners prepare for second memorial service – live https://t.co/pIKUCpNSKG

— The Guardian (@guardian) June 6, 2020

STAY WOKE: I understand that people want to get back to normal. But normal is toxic for us. Keep your knee on these politians and keep them working in our collective interest. Continue to post, inform and complain. They’re hoping you go back to posting bullshit that don’t matter.

— Ice Cube (@icecube) June 5, 2020

US President Trump has done an about-face on George Floyd:

Trump retweets Candace Owens interview saying ‘George Floyd was not a good person’ https://t.co/pazuCk55CV

— The Independent (@Independent) June 6, 2020

But we all know what he is, anyway:

💥 John Bercow rips into Trump 💥 – "Donald Trump is the most rancid, racist & repellent occupant of the White House in my lifetime… & the government needs to call Trump out… " 👏#bbcaq pic.twitter.com/bk99MsEy9p

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) June 6, 2020

By the way, that stuff he has been taking to keep Covid-19 at bay? It doesn’t work:

Hydroxychloroquine does not cure Covid-19, say drug trial chiefs https://t.co/Hnkk3DegDr

— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) June 6, 2020

More government claims:

Claims government 'on track to meet care home testing target'https://t.co/GkJwFydKBe pic.twitter.com/xVrks3VWdH

— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) June 6, 2020

We will not lower our food standards in trade agreements. 👇 pic.twitter.com/3SBURJoYv1

— Liz Truss (@trussliz) June 6, 2020

But hasn’t the government already lowered its standards? There’s a new petition to stop the importing of chlorinated chicken:

Let's stop the chlorinated food policy in its tracks..Please sign and share ..@paulmasonnews @lionelbarber @carolecadwalla @NHSMillion @NFUPolitical @k_runswick_cole @itvpeston @peterjukes @PeterStefanovi2 https://t.co/G2hs6lnUF6

— Alain Catzeflis #findthingsout (@alain_catzeflis) June 6, 2020

Downing Street has been accused of reopening the door to imports of chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef, after a leaked memo instructed ministers to have “no specific policy” on animal welfare in US trade talks https://t.co/tl7YX7SDDs

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) June 6, 2020

More claims about the government:

Not content with making up coronavirus policy on the hoof, @10DowningStreet has taken to treating the NHS with complete contempt – telling the media of radical changes without even informing NHS leaders in advance. Stuff science, stuff the NHS, it seems. https://t.co/xEUJSTol5d

— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) June 6, 2020

And Dominic Cummings is still hated and ridiculed:

Spotted. In that there London.
Made it. #LoveBarney pic.twitter.com/OkgVddN2lK

— Barnard Castle News (@BarnardNews) June 5, 2020

If you hear Boris Johnson making a claim, it’s probably a lie – as his PMQs performance proves

Duper’s delight: This is the smile Boris Johnson wears when he is lying. He would have been wearing it in Parliament during PMQs but he was too busy wagging his hands around.

How reassuring it was to hear Boris Johnson claim that the bursary for trainee nurses has been restored and that hospital parking is free.

There’s just one small issue: trainee nurses shouldn’t apply for that bursary and anyone visiting hospital should bring their cash with them.

Because both of Johnson’s claims were lies.

The UK now has a prime minister so dishonourable, so low, that he thinks nothing of telling falsehoods to the nation, wholesale.

In Prime Minister’s Questions, he boasted: “We’ve restored the nurses’ bursary, introduced a bill to ensure a record cash boost for our NHS, and ensured there is free hospital car parking for everybody who attends a hospital.”

That reminds me: adjust the figures for inflation and his “record cash boost for our NHS” turns out to be nothing of the sort.

Here’s Nursing Notes on Johnson’s lies:

While a new educational grant of up to £8,000 per year will be offered to all nursing students on courses from September 2020, it falls significantly short of the bursary system previously scrapped by the Conservative Party as students will graduate with up to £60,000 of debt.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has previously confirmed that from April 2020 some hospital staff and visitors will be entitled to free parking. However, this will be limited to blue badge holders and the parents of sick children staying overnight.

And for those of you who prefer audio-visual records:

Boris Johnson just told Parliament his Government

“has ensured there will be FREE hospital car parking FOR ANYBODY who attends a hospital”

That’s news to me! That was Labour’s policy! Is he again lying or do we all now get free hospital Parking! pic.twitter.com/X6jEicDc0g

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) March 4, 2020

Source: ‘Nursing bursary restored and hospital parking is free’, insists PM | NursingNotes

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