I think John Crace will go into mourning when May gets the boot.
She is learning the hard way that when everything that can go wrong goes wrong, there is still more that can go wrong. If Brexit doesn’t get you, then the economy will. And if both of them give you a momentary break, there’s universal credit waiting round the corner.
Laura Pidcock wondered whether her refusal to rethink was “gross incompetence” or “calculated cruelty”. Theresa didn’t know – presumably it was too close to call.
There is nothing they can’t fuck up right now. Ol’ Boris had a go at Corbyn for appearing on Russia Today, not realising his old man was on the station a month earlier. He calls RT propaganda, but BBC News almost completely failed to cover a government position being defeated 299-0. Newsnight managed four seconds.
The fuckers are limping along. It’s only a very compliant media, notably the national broadcaster, that is keeping them in office. I’ve seen sitting governments eviscerated by the Beeb for far less in times past. This timid and mildly inquisitive version pales in comparison.
I think the official government response is “who gives a fuck. It’s no one’s fault but their own that they are poor”.
Nice people tories. We make it, they flog it(underpriced, to their mates).
Oh, just thought of a bright side, they’re going to piss off the buy-to-let parasites, that always voted for them(sorry, that really is as bright as it gets).
As for the poor, they’ll make being homeless illegal, just as we are going down the same road as the American penal system. So lots of poor people in private prisons and the money that was wasted on rent(to the buy-to-let parasites that didn’t go to Eton) will all go to an ever decreasing amount of greedy cunts.
Good couple of posts there.
I’ve got so much time for both Ms Black & Ms Piddock.
One only needs to see the reaction of the throngs of middle aged white men, both in the house and those commenting on it, towards them to see they are doing something right.
Commons needs filling with more of them, please.
Very busy, stressed and a massive feeling of work place impotence, I would imagine.
It’s all part of the grand plan and to give them their due, they have done it very well. Just take a minute to think of the things that you would not have believed would happen in this country(even under Thatcher), but are not only happening now, but are acceptable to to bulk of people.
What would you have said 20 years ago if someone had told you that working people with small children were made homeless and treated like they were the problem? Common as fuck nowadays.
Universal credit was set up for this and people just nod their heads to the lies backing it up.
The malevolence of the philosophy of universal credit is that it backs people into a corner. Take the fact that the housing allowance part of the benefit is to be paid directly to the tenant and not the landlord. This will inevitably mean agonising end-of-month choices about whether to pay the rent or buy the children their dinner. When people choose to buy their children food, they are going to be given patronising lectures about budgeting. This will inevitably be used to blame the poor for their poverty.
How civilised and advanced are we? Because animals don’t treat their own this bad.
Sadly that’s what I was thinking.
Half of my current cases are housing related at present alongside not having recourse to public funds. It’s not what I thougth I would be dealing with so much when I came into the profession. We have to use research in our assessments so I am now having to research the impact of housing and poverty issues on children rather than say neglect and domestic abuse.
I’m not sure why I’m liking what you say in your posts @intiniki @saint-or-sinner @krg_ @goatboy because what you and others are commenting on is about how we in the UK are being shafted but we’ve sleepwalked into where we are today and allow a government who only cares about their well off cronies to erode our rights and standards of living.
These things are not to be liked.
Perhaps Pap could give us a solidarity button instead?
I agree. A solidarity button would be good. Often I don’t upvote something as it may seem a little insensitive when you just want to say ‘yeah, I get it’.
I was just thinking about my training and we are taught to challenge and question. Not just our service users / clients (whatever term we currently use which never feels right anyway) but about power imbalances, discrimination, anti-oppressive practices etc and although we are also classed as ‘agents of the state’ (I am still waiting for my uniform for that job) we are meant to challenge the oppressive structures in place. There are some social workers who are doing that. But I am so shattered from the day to day crisis management and the emotional impact of that, that my fight back is zero most days now. More and more I’d rather be an advocate and be able to challenge those structures.
Referrals to children’s services have been increasing all the time. Children’s centre have been cut since the Tories came in, Early Help is starting to also be cut. I read today crime is on the increase. I see way more homeless people on the streets. These cuts are damaging so many people.
Today I was advocating that we should pay out money for a homeless family to help stabilise the situation and then hopefully they’d be able to resolve their issues, rather than leave it as it is and maybe later take a child into care. My option is likely to save a considerable amount of money in the long term. But there seems to be no spending to sort issues now to avoid huge costs in the future.
I could go on about the impact I see in my work from the impact of this government. I started in this field in 2002. It’s the worse its been.
That leaves three choices.
i) admit the last 40 years have been a lie(very hard for people to admit they have been fooled royally) and change(another thing people find hard).
ii) admit we are weak, spineless, lazy fools, that don’t really give a shit, as long as there is someone/group we feel superior too(and better off than. That’s very important).
iii) my personal favourite at the moment. Go all Barry and incite riots(sentiment, not what he’d really do).
Watching Chris Grayling makes me want to vomit the little cunt.
Not as bad as Gove. He makes me want to choke on my own vomit.
Chris grayling looks like David from The Vicar of Dibley, which is actually a very good show despite all the kool kidz saying otherwise. Grayling, however, seems to be a bigger cunt than a character designed to be a massive cunt.
Fallon resigns as Defence Secretary.
/michael-fallon-quits-as-defence-secretary
Odd video of him resigning still saying lots of the allegations are false.
Mayhem doesn’t help by praising the bastard rather than condemning.
