People who work 15 hours a week – or less – will lose benefits in the latest Tory attack on the poor.
It’s not being reported on the BBC today (September 23), but Kwasi Kwarteng was set to announce that from January next year, 120,000 benefit claimants could see their payments reduced if they fail to work up to 15 hours a week, meet regularly with their work coach and take active steps to increase their earnings.
So people who are already struggling to make ends meet amid the Tory-created cost-of-living crisis are to be punished while – for example – bankers are to enjoy huge increases in income with the removal of the cap on their bonuses.
There is no good reason for either measure but the Tory excuse for hammering the working poor is that there are 1.2 million job vacancies after Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Presumably the people being targeted are being expected to take 10 jobs each.
There’s an elephant in the room here, though: how much do these 1.2 million jobs pay? What holidays are offered? What about sick pay? In short: will people actually be better-off for taking them?
New Work and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith says they will: “We are committed to helping people on lower incomes to boost their pay – because we know work is one of the best ways to support your family and help grow our economy.
“Whether it’s increasing their hours in their current role, entering a new sector or switching careers, we want people of all ages and all stages to be able to progress into fulfilling careers.”
But is it just propaganda?
Maximilien Robespierre thinks it is:
“Give them a job – any job – to meet a target… and sell it as work to help people out of a disaster – that being the cost-of-living crisis.
“Notice [Chloe Smith] did not say anything here about better benefits. Many people can’t work, or find jobs that either suit their skills or are in their vicinity.
“This is about punishing people at the bottom and reducing numbers on benefits, which we have seen comes at a huge human cost.“
Uh-oh: once again, public opinion should be against the man whose policies caused the deaths of untold thousands of benefit claimants.
After his persecution of people who are sick, disabled and unemployed at the Department for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith simply has no right to criticise other nations for causing deaths.
He has criticised the decision to invite the Chinese government to the Queen’s funeral, saying it was “extraordinary” that the “architects” of genocide against the Uyghur minority had been invited.
But there is a strong diplomatic reason to do so. Here’s Professor Tim Wilson:
Prof Wilson thinks Vladimir Putin should be invited as well, and it’s a good idea; get him here and we can quietly suggest face-saving ways to end the war in Ukraine, for example.
Now Boris Johnson is no longer in charge and is unable to derail peace proposals, we might actually make some progress.
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Rishi Sunak: he wants you to think people have been attacking his wife for her connections with Russia. But he’s the member of the government that sanctions such connections; why is he indirectly continuing to benefit from them?
Who does Rishi Sunak think he is, comparing himself to Will Smith, talking about defending his wife?
In case you missed it, Sunak was interviewed by the BBC’s Newscast and tried to equate himself with the Hollywood actor:
“Someone said, ‘Joe Root, Will Smith, and me – not the best of weekends for any of us’. But I feel, on reflection, both Will Smith and me having our wives attacked – at least I didn’t get up and slap anybody, which is good.”
But he’s wrong; nobody was attacking his wife. Akshata Murthy can do whatever she wants.
But as a member of a government that has sanctioned firms that operate in, and profit from, connections with Russia, Sunak shouldn’t have anything to do with such firms.
His wife has shares in one such firm.
Therefore – indirectly – Sunak is profiting from a connection that he should not have.
That is the reason for the criticism.
It is hypocritical of him to say that other people’s connections to Russia should be cut while maintaining such a connection himself, even if it is only through his wife.
And it is disgraceful for him to hide behind her in the way he has.
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Not communicating: Angela Rayner (left) and Keir Starmer (right… far right) aren’t looking at each other in the image, and it seems there’s not much communication going on elsewhere either.
Keir Starmer has shot himself in the foot – yet again – with a surprise reshuffle timed to upset his deputy, and that gave his critics a chance to pillory him in public.
Angela Rayner was giving a speech at the Institute for Government think tank on lobbying, following up on the Owen Paterson second jobs scandal, when it became clear that Starmer had started reshuffling his top team.
She had known a reshuffle was coming but had not been given any details, meaning she had no details when asked about it.
Instead, she said: “I do know that what we have to do is show that we are a government in waiting and that we have to be the next government because we can’t carry on like this,” she said. We need some consistency in how we’re approaching things as an opposition.”
That could be interpreted as criticism of Starmer’s behaviour.
Of course, as Deputy Leader, elected by the party membership, Rayner is the only senior Labour representative Starmer can’t sack. He should be ensuring that she is always fully-informed but instead he appears to be playing silly games.
At the other end of the spectrum, Starmer did have the power to sack Cat Smith – but she didn’t give him the chance. Instead, she turned down his request for her to remain Shadow Minister for Young People and Democracy, in protest at his mistreatment of Jeremy Corbyn.
“It’s been an honour to serve on the Labour front bench since 2015 but I’m looking forward to spending even more time at home here in Lancashire and standing up for my constituents,” she wrote. “Even more time at home”? Was this a veiled claim to have been excluded?
On Mr Corbyn, she said Starmer’s position was “utterly unsustainable” and told him: “It is important that you truly understand how much damage this is causing in Constituency Labour Parties and amongst ordinary members, a number of whom are no longer campaigning.”
Mr Corbyn isn’t the only reason people are deserting Starmer. A recent appearance on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show was featured on Channel 4’s Gogglebox – and you can see support for the Labour leader draining away as the segment progressed:
This clip is a good illustration of why Starmer still hasn't cut through with the public despite being Labour leader for over a year and half and crucially, despite the worst government and Prime Minister ever.. https://t.co/A2JhDAd6lu
His reshuffle decisions won’t win back any doubters either. Headline appointment was Yvette Cooper, replacing Nick Thomas-Symonds as Shadow Home Secretary.
Just when you think starmers labour could not get any worst
David Lammy replaced Lisa Nandy as Shadow Foreign Secretary, and Wes Streeting replaced Jonathan Ashworth as Shadow Health Secretary.
A Starmer reshuffle, will anyone bloody notice?
I mean the three names being bandied around have only done exactly as Starmer does – stand for nothing, take no concrete positions on anything, deny ever promising a damn thing & supporting the Tories!
Still, what could we expect from the Labour leader who, we were reminded over the weekend, has put homophobia up with anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism in general and sexism as his most clearly-supported policies?
David Blunkett at the end of this makes your jaw drop. In 2021 @Keir_Starmer has given him a position reviewing the future of work. If a Corbyn supporter had said such a thing it would be the topic of a panorama doc and a week of James O’Brien rants on LBC pic.twitter.com/4uG6S2nwlG
Could we maybe have some sort of statement from Starmer's Amazing Collapsing Circus about whether they too think gay people have 'bizarre and unacceptable lifestyles' (David Blunkett)?
Will this get me banned? I don’t know, but David Blunkett – what an absolute c**t. Obviously such homophobic c**ts are welcomed by @Keir_Starmer and @UKLabour. Unlike socialists, who are being shown the door at a rapid pace. #DavidBlunkett#homophobes
— (((Brian Capaloff))) #GTTO 💙 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@cocteau8) November 28, 2021
Blunkett has made appalling gay-hating comments: Starmer has appointed him to a 'council of skills advisers'. Any other demographics you'd care to alienate, Sir Keir?
Flailing, Starmer tried to regain some credibility by swearing on Tory supporter Nick Robinson’s show, Political Thinking.
Trouble is, he was talking about honesty – and we all know that he is thoroughly dishonest. Below please find just one (mild) example of Starmer’s fibbing.
Blimey what with his 10 pledges, he must be relying on the media not to annihilate him 😂 pic.twitter.com/mYzlMJCQqK
Starmer can’t even properly shaft political opponents in his own party. He’ll never get the better of the Tories.
What a missed opportunity that he didn’t reshuffle himself out of the Shadow Cabinet.
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Good point, that. He said he could live on £53 a week – talking the talk.
But he’s got a second job worth £25,000 per year. So he doesn’t walk the walk. What a surprise.
And guess what?
Ian Duncan-Smith chaired a task force that recommended approving non-alcohol based hand sanitizer in the UK, but he "forgot to mention" that he's employed by the main supplier of the said product to the NHS.https://t.co/l1uFiK6dwx
That’s probably even more corrupt than Owen Paterson.
So why isn’t the man we call RTU (Return To Unit) being Returned To his family Unit (they always quit saying they’re spending more time with their family), never to return?
Is it because the Tory media have decided that Owen Paterson was the sacrificial lamb and now the Tories have “suffered enough” (another media claim)?
Or is it because his “broader experience” in selling non-alcoholic hand sanitiser to the government of which he has been a member is supposed to benefit the nation – as Sajid Javid’s roles advising banking giant JP Morgan and artificial intelligence firm C3.ai benefited the nation because it gave him broader experience?
Hilarious. Sajid Javid arguing that his "external interests" may not benefit his Bromsgrove constituents, but the nation benefits when MPs have broader experience. When it suits them they argue from the national perspective; when it doesn't, they say it's a constituency matter.
But, but, but… Javid only advised these outside organisations on matters in which he already has knowledge and experience (although not very much in the case of banking; he’s allegedly one of the damned fools behind the Great Recession of 2008 or thereabouts).
The nation would be better-off without him getting in the works and stinking them up, wouldn’t it?
All in all, Skwawkbox’s suggestion seems wise:
Here's an idea: ban second jobs, keep MPs' salary where it is – and any MP who isn't happy can resign his/her seat and go find another job while people genuinely interested in serving their constituents stand instead… pic.twitter.com/ZpQ3VfwTD6
And it’s not because of any flannel about helping the government with outside expertise.
It is simply because they are all on the take. They should all be in prison, not on the Green Benches.
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Iain Duncan Smith: on his way into the office? Or working from home?
If this is how Iain Duncan Smith hopes to break back into mainstream politics, he’s a worse idiot than we all thought he was.
He has joined the apparent Tory campaign that says it is unpatriotic to work from home because people still went into their offices “while Hitler’s bombs were raining down”.
So, inbred Tory idiot Iain Duncan Smith has declared that it’s unpatriotic to work from home because (and I quote) people still went into their offices “while Hitler’s bombs were raining down”.
His logic has it that this means office workers should go back, risking infection with Covid-19 and the possibility of death.
There are several problems with this:
Firstly, people didn’t stay in their offices while Hitler’s bombs were raining down. They went to air raid shelters.
Secondly, Hitler’s bombs weren’t contagious.
And thirdly, there was no Internet in 1940, so people had no choice but to work in the office when the bombs weren’t raining down.
Which, of course, blithely ignores the fact that:
This Writer is grateful to a good friend on Facebook who explained why it is “strangely appropriate” that Duncan Smith should attempt to invoke the Blitz Spirit, “but not in the way he thinks”.
It is a reminder that the Tory-led government of the day was just as happy to let the working class of London die as the Tory government of today – and for the same reason: to keep the economy going:
“Remember that the government of the day didn’t want to open ANY deep underground shelters precisely because they feared the shiftless working classes *wouldn’t* go back to work if they did.
“The East End was reportedly on the brink of ‘open revolt’ due to the lack of adequate shelter from those bombs, and the authorities put guards on the tube station entrances
“Eventually several stations were stormed and opened up, by a combination of communists and anarchists.
“The government didn’t give a sh*t — they were quite happy for the working class of London to die, as long as the wheels of the economy kept turning.”
And there’s another lesson to take from the war – one that is as relevant today as it was then:
Why are Brexiters and Tories obsessed with The Blitz? It was 80 years ago. The only lesson to be learnt is that people who lived through it knew that we could not return to the inequalities of the past so the welfare state and the NHS were born. That was building back better.
Sadly, we did return to the inequalities of the past. And – worse – it seems our Tory-complicit media are successfully brainwashing the majority into thinking they’ve never had it so good.
Most people are happy to continue throwing away all the gains made with the welfare state and the NHS.
Still, plenty of people are putting out the right messages, if only everybody else could be bothered to pay attention:
The video in the article below is particularly good:
Bombs are not like viruses, war is not the same as a pandemic, working from home is a choice we have now, that we didn't in the 1940's. Iain Duncan Smith is still a Tory dumbass though. #blitzspirit#DamoRants
Of course the article by the man whose own military career resulted in a failure to win promotion and the nickname, on This Site, of ‘RTU’ (Return To Unit – the worst disgrace for an officer candidate), is just part of a “Get Back To The Office” campaign by the Daily Heil.
Other articles on the same line include the gem below, in which the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is blamed on home working, rather than the incompetence of the Conservative Cabinet Minister responsible for the mess.
It had nothing to do with the Defence Minister not being arsed to make phone calls, or the entire decade during which we WERE in the office, but failed to plan. pic.twitter.com/309s8gZYxH
I can only hope that those who are gullible enough to believe this tripe have strong enough bodies to recover from the Covid-19 doses they’ll undoubtedly catch – and to make up for the weakness of their minds.
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Don’t play the victim, Iain: This is the man who inflicted Universal Credit and the Bedroom Tax on the UK, and whose other benefit policies caused thousands of deaths.
This Site does not approve of violence in any way shape of form; I must make that clear at the outset.
Because it is telling that reports of an assault in which former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith was hit on the head with a traffic cone have been met with applause and humour, rather than condemnation.
The former army officer, whose time as Work and Pensions Secretary led to the recorded – unnecessary – deaths of thousands of people (and, it is believed, the unrecorded deaths of hundreds of thousands more), was branded “RTU” by this site.
It refers to the mark of failure in officer training: “Return To Unit”.
Duncan Smith told the Spectator magazine: “I can’t tell you very much other than they just followed us, used abusive language, attacked us and used a cone.
“I have to say I would have very nearly been done for assault myself. I turned after them and they sort of backed off and I dropped the cone.
“They were shouting all along and then they smashed the cone on the back of my head, and so I turned and grabbed the cone and looked at them, and I took a pace towards them and they backed off.”
Latest developments in the Ian Duncan Smith assault investigation…police hold an I.D. Parade to identify the sixth member of the gang pic.twitter.com/PPztQNLNGq
Oh, and for those who will insist that any of the above shows that left-wing politics is about abuse and violence, let’s just have a little reminder of something that happened a while ago…
Tories declare violence in politics is unacceptable, unless it's a Tory MP assaulting a woman, of course. pic.twitter.com/HuXqlaLG3s
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Hypocrite: Iain Duncan Smith oversaw the deaths of thousands of unemployed, sick and disabled people who were victimised by his ‘reforms’ to the UK’s benefit system. How dare he criticise another country for doing the same to its people?
Shame on the Tory MPs who are whining because China has sanctioned them for highlighting that country’s abuses of the Uighurs!
Yes, you read that right. Shame on them, because they are hypocrites.
They seem to think it is perfectly reasonable to claim moral superiority over the government of another country for abusing its citizens’ human rights, while turning a blind eye to the fact that they are doing exactly the same to the people of the UK.
Tory MPs Iain Duncan Smith, Nusrat Ghani, Tim Loughton, Neil O’Brien and Tom Tugendhat all merrily voted in support of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill that will strip many of us of our human rights – and remove from all of us the right to protest in any meaningful way against further Tory atrocities against us.
Duncan Smith is well-known as an advocate of harm against his fellow UK citizens, having presided over the deaths of many thousands of benefit claimants – that occurred for no documented reason – under the cruel regime he imposed at the Department for Work and Pensions. But now he’s saying
Those of us who live free lives under the rule of law must speak for those who have no voice.
He was quite happy to deprive benefit claimants of their voices – and to look the other way when his policies deprived them of their lives. In their thousands, remember – not just one or two mistakes.
Attacking human rights abuses anywhere else in the world must be, for these people, an act of abominable hypocrisy.
Note also the typical reaction of the bully: these are people who sneered at us for protesting against the Police Bill and then went right ahead and voted to strip us of our rights – but when the shoe is on the other foot and they’re being singled out by China, suddenly they’re whining about how unfair it is.
Boris Johnson is, of course, the worst of the lot.
Despite being omitted from the list of UK MPs selected for sanction by China, he had the cheek to say
Freedom to speak out in opposition to abuse is fundamental and I stand firmly with them.
Fine words from the prime minister whose sickeningly draconian Police Bill strips his own people of that very freedom.
I do not wish to defend China. It’s treatment of the Uighurs is vile and should be opposed by all those of good faith. But these Tories are not opposing China in good faith. They’re trying to steal undeserved good publicity by attacking a country whose human rights abuses are – currently – worse than their own.
But it doesn’t work that way – or at least it shouldn’t.
Any attack on anybody’s rights as a human being is an attack against all of us – everywhere.
Johnson and his other little Tories might think they can take what moral high ground there is to be gained because their abuses aren’t quite as bad. But we know where that thinking leads.
The abuses become worse.
The number of people being oppressed grows.
The UK’s Tory government already fits every description of a fascist state that is worth reading. If you’re not feeling Johnson’s jackboot on your face yet, it’s just a matter of time.
So don’t waste any sympathy on these liars. They don’t deserve it.
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The pick of the Tories: Iain Duncan Smith is a creature of odious habits and even worse politics.
The former Tory leader whose ‘reforms’ of social security have led to the deaths of thousands upon thousands of people has been appointed to lend his ignorance to the government again.
Iain Duncan Smith will chair the new Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform.
The title of the organisation creates the acronym TIGRR – tiger, get it? But Duncan Smith is no kind of tiger. As benefit claimants know from his time as Work and Pensions Secretary, he’s a little bitch.
This Site has its own acronym for him – RTU. It stands for “Returned To Unit”, the message of shame on the record of armed forces personnel who fail training for promotion up the officers’ ranks – as he is said to have done.
The government has claimed that the TIGRR will “identify and develop proposals across a range of areas that will drive innovation and competitiveness, reduce barriers to start-ups and scale-ups, create opportunities for innovation to make the most of cutting-edge technologies, and support growth and dynamism right across the UK economy”.
But with RTU at the helm it is more likely to reduce competitiveness with new schemes that will be massively expensive while helping nobody (like Universal Credit), create barriers that stop people getting what they need (as he did with all benefits, particularly those for the sick and disabled), and abandon cutting-edge technologies for paper and ink (as DWP workers were forced to do when his plan for Universal Credit to be fully computerised fell on its ass).
He didn’t even help his own government! All his so-called “reforms” created more expense and none of them saved any money at all.
Labour has said it is ready to fight over any reforms that could be harmful – particularly to employment rights.
While This Writer has nothing personal against Andy McDonald, I remember when the party under Ed Miliband, in the dying days of its previous right-wing, neoliberal incarnation, voted in support of RTU to harm benefit claimants and I have a doubt.
The simple fact is that the appointment of this death machine should tell us everything we need to know about what his organisation will do. And it won’t help anybody.
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The Palace of Westminster, home to both Houses of Parliament. Who knows how many drugs are holding up the elected and unelected representatives inside? Well… we won’t, because Downing Street is refusing to allow random testing.
This is almost poetic, although there’s no justice involved.
Iain Duncan Smith tweeted a link to a Sun story claiming that drug tests should be carried out randomly at people’s places of work, to catch users.
This Writer only discovered he had done so because a twitter friend then added her own spin to the story, thus:
Particularly in the House of Commons 🙂 for anyone falling down drunk or drugged up to the eyes on coke. https://t.co/pOXedi5A36
The Independent had picked up on the original story – Tory London Mayoral candidate (and himself a disgrace to politics) Shaun Bailey saying he’d demand random drug tests on all firms with more than 250 employees if elected mayor – and asked the same question as MaiaB, above.
The response from a Downing Street spokesperson does no credit to the Conservative government at all and can only boost fears that they not only consider themselves to be, but have actually put themselves, above the law:
“We expect the highest levels of professionalism from everybody in government. That remains the case, but there are no plans for that.”
What a crock!
If the last six months of Covid-19 cock-ups have demonstrated anything, it’s that there isn’t an ounce of professionalism in Boris Johnson’s rabble. It is, quite simply, the worst excuse for a government the United Kingdom has ever had to suffer. And that’s amid stiff competition!
The latest evasion shows that the Tories can’t even be trusted not to be dosing themselves full of recreational substances when they’re supposed to be – and bear these words in mind – serving the nation.
Because if they weren’t, they’d have no objection to the tests, would they?
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