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Justin Welby: the Archbishop is right and Boris Johnson is wrong – and racist.
If anything shows that Boris Johnson couldn’t care less about being fined for attending lockdown-busting parties, or his dishonesty to Parliament about it, it is this.
Instead of repeating his apology to each and every Conservative MP in a meeting on Tuesday evening, he instead opted to rally support by singling out an enemy for them to hate together: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the Church of England.
His reason for whipping up this animosity? Senior clergy had been “less vociferous” in their condemnation of Vladimir Putin than of plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Johnson’s claim is not true; both Mr Welby and the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, have denounced the invasion of Ukraine as “an act of great evil” and have called for Russian troops to withdraw.
But it seems Johnson is upset because his racist plan to send people to Rwanda if they arrive in the UK illegally has been opposed by the Church’s leaders on moral and ethical grounds.
In Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday, Johnson said he had been surprised that the Church’s top clergy had opposed what he described as a plan to “end the deaths at sea in the Channel as a result of cruel criminal gangs”.
But he has not explained how a plan to deport people who have arrived in the UK will stop deaths, at sea, of people who have not got here yet.
The plan to resettle migrants in the African dictatorship of Rwanda is riddled with serious issues to do with race and human rights, as described in this Vox Political article.
Johnson’s claim to be trying to stop Channel deaths is an attempt to gloss over the drawbacks in his policy – along with, indeed, his own racism.
Both he and his racist Home Secretary Priti Patel simply don’t want Johnny and Janey Foreigner taking asylum – which is legally theirs – in the UK. He’s upset with Welby and Cottrell for highlighting his shortcomings.
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A question that needs to be asked is: How does #Eton convince its pupils, no matter how incompetent and useless, that they are up to holding the highest offices in the land and, worse still, that holding those offices is their birthright? pic.twitter.com/jSJHHrBMF8
• about fires than fireman • law than 11 Supreme Court judges • about trading across the EU frontier than people who do it • about viral control than epidemiologists.
— Suffolk 🔶 🇪🇺 #FBPE #BrexitHasFailed (@TimInSuffolk) December 22, 2021
Educated at Eton! Now do you understand where his loyalties sit? This man is a Tory! An Eton education provides the key to every 'seat of power' even in the clergy! https://t.co/luGOf29MPc
In 2021, quite a few footballers and ex-footballers showed more moral courage and moral clarity than, say, most church leaders, politicians, cricketers, actors or journalists
In 2021, former pupils of Eton brought disaster and disgrace on this country
It would be fair to say that Eton produces high-flyers who are both arrogant and ignorant, and only ever gain positions of power because of the Old Boy Network.
Maybe once it educated genuinely great and good people. But even that is debatable. And those days – if they ever existed – are long gone.
As a private school, providing education to those who can pay its exorbitant fees, Eton does not take the most intelligent people; it takes those whose parents have the most money.
Teachers there may do their best to implant an education into this stony ground but the evidence suggests that the best way Eton equips its alumni for success is by allowing them to say they were “Eton-educated”, even though (in some cases), it would have been more rewarding to educate a brick. It would do less damage, even if it were used only to break windows.
Former Eton pupils help each other into the plum jobs and deny those jobs to more deserving people who went to other schools.
And that’s why the United Kingdom has flushed itself down the toilet.
The quality of the education provided may be excellent. I don’t think anybody is denying it.
But if Eton’s current owners and staff really want to maintain their school’s reputation, that is being trashed by former pupils including Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Jacob Rees-Mogg and, yes, Justin Welby, there’s something they need potential pupils to do before they take any money:
An intelligence test.
Of course, it’s possible that Eton does actually get potential pupils to take such a test.
The Department for Work and Pensions is to run trials on a new “integrated” assessment service, putting sick and disabled benefit claimants under the same conditions as Universal Credit claimants.
What a disaster for people with long-term illnesses and disabilities.
Universal Credit is known to be harmful to its claimants. The five-week wait before anything is paid puts most people into debt and forces them to take out advance loans, meaning that the amount they receive – when they do get it – is much less than their government-assessed need, and continues to be so for many months.
This creates serious mental and emotional stress and otherwise fit and healthy UC claimants have done horrifying damage to their own health as a result.
People with illnesses and disabilities are already suffering damage to their own health. The current system already piles mental and emotional stress on them –
Only yesterday I wrote about “brown envelope anxiety”, that pushes sick and disabled people (especially) to avoid opening communications from the government, in the expectation that the message inside will inflict harm upon them.
– and putting them under Universal Credit conditions can only make matters worse.
I notice that the new trial is set to start in April, when the effects of Covid-19 are expected to be dying down.
Is it the Tory aim to immediately replace one fatal attack on sickness and disability with another?
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Christine McCluskey: when she died, after your Tory government cut her benefits, she weighed just three stone.
The life expectancy of people with terminal illnesses has plummeted because they are being denied end-of-life state benefits.
The system is supposed to support people who are expected to live less than six months – but doesn’t.
The Tories demand that doctors provide a note predicting when their patient is likely to die.
But many physicians have been reluctant to make such predictions, or feared their patients’ health could deteriorate more rapidly if they learned they were not expected to survive very long.
The Tory government of the day promised to change the system in 2019, saying it would bring in modifications that would make it easier for people with terminal illnesses to claim their due.
And nothing has happened.
DWP minister Justin Tomlinson has apologised for the delay – which is a fat lot of good for people who could starve to death before their health condition kills them.
He blamed the delay on the Covid-19 crisis – and warned that it is likely to run on for many more months yet.
Let’s just remember what this means:
The image at the top of this article depicts Christine McCluskey, who died in a humiliating way, weighing just three stone, after Tomlinson’s department wrongly ended her benefit claim.
The 61-year-old grandmother had suffered long-term health problems most of her adult life including Crohn’s disease – which left her with a colostomy bag – osteoporosis, arthritis, a stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
This housebound lady had a feeding tube and a painful fistula that leaked through her abdominal wall, she was severely malnourished and was being investigated for a worrying cough at the time the Department for Work and Pensions assessed her for Personal Independence Payment.
The decision: her payments of £117.85 per week were removed and her mobility car was taken away from her.
Weeks later she was diagnosed with terminal cancer but her payments were not restored. She died four months after her benefits were stopped, weighing just three stone.
She was unable to receive fast-track access to PIP that is available for people with terminal illnesses who have less than six months to live, because she was unable to show when she was likely to die.
Recent estimates obtained by Labour MP Jessica Morden have revealed that 7,260 people died as they were waiting for a verdict on their claim for Personal Independence Payment (PIP), or 10 people per day.
Yes, these people were going to die soon anyway.
But the manner of their death tells us whether the United Kingdom under the Conservatives is a civilised country or primitive and barbaric.
And the UK under the Conservatives clearly falls into the latter category: primitive and barbaric.
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