Number of homeless people in London doubled in the last five years.
Tory membership shrinks by nearly half under Cameron.
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Originally posted by @pap
Number of homeless people in London doubled in the last five years.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/01/london-rough-sleepers-double-in-five-years
All down to bad moral attitude, clearly, If they had a good moral attitude theyâd have nice, comfy homes to live in.
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Originally posted by @pap
Number of homeless people in London doubled in the last five years.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/01/london-rough-sleepers-double-in-five-years
While the FCA shelves its review into the culture of excess and carelessness in the Banking industry - suggestions theyâve been heavily leaned on by a certain man whose name rhymes with Shmorge Gosdorn.
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âŚAnd to demonstrate that Iâm not really fond of politicians Blue or Red.
Nicky Morgan, the latest in a long line of Tory Ministers living by the priniciple of âdo what I say, not what I doâ.
The Education Secretary expects children to memorise timestables, but refuses to do so herself. Slightly worrying that the person in charge of kids education in this country doesnât see it as important to live up to the standards they expect of 11 year olds.
Also, what is the Tory obsession with this archaic form of learning? Itâs completely outdated. Teach actual useful lifeskills, FFS.
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Originally posted by @KRG
Also, what is the Tory obsession with this archaic form of learning? Itâs completely outdated. Teach actual useful lifeskills, FFS.
If you teach the masses knowledge then you can control the knowledge they have access to. If you teach the masses useful skills then they can use those useful skills to become critical thinkers. Which of those approaches would a Tory government be most interested in perpetuating?
I simplify obviously but in essence this is an ideological battle that has been fought for as long as I have been teaching and for some time before that too.
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Originally posted by @TheCholulaKid
Originally posted by @KRG
Also, what is the Tory obsession with this archaic form of learning? Itâs completely outdated. Teach actual useful lifeskills, FFS.
If you teach the masses knowledge then you can control the knowledge they have access to. If you teach the masses useful skills then they can use those useful skills to become critical thinkers. Which of those approaches would a Tory government be most interested in perpetuating?
I simplify obviously but in essence this is an ideological battle that has been fought for as long as I have been teaching and for some time before that too.
Itâs a good point, well made. Interesting to get the views of someone that has taught on the matter too.
The Tories still havenât done anything concerning Lucy Allan. They will need to pick another candidate come 2020, but I suspect that if they donât do anything now, it wonât matter. No-one really gives much of a toss if an organisation ends up choosing someone inherently unsuitable for the role, as long as it is sorted when recognised. People do give a toss if wrongdoing occurs and there is no follow up.
Compare and contrast with Danczuk, presently suspended from the Labour Party for a much lesser offence.
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Not sure I would class it as a much lesser offence, rape allegations and all, but surprised they havenât done something about it.
Yeah, I posted that two days ago before the rape allegation was made public.
Apologies, didnât notice the timestamp!
It didnât take that long for the Tory Party to get re-toxified. I know a couple of traditional Tories that are having real problems with just how nasty the party is getting. Weâve covered some cases of MPs saying or doing things extremely incompatible with their representative roles.
Hereâs another sad example of Tory policy at large. A woman is informed that she is too healthy to receive sick benefits on the day she dies.
On a related note, a study suggests that DWP fit-to-work assessments âcost more than they saveâ
The Government is spending more money assessing whether people are fit to work than it is saving in reductions to the benefits bill, a damning official report has revealed
The study by the National Audit Office (NAO) found that the Department for Work and Pensions is handing over ÂŁ1.6bn over the next three years to private contractors who carry out the controversial health and disability assessments.
But at the same time, the Governmentâs own financial watchdog has warned that savings in benefits payments are likely to be less than a billion pounds by 2020 as a result of the new tests.
The NAO report also found:
- The cost of carrying out each employment and support allowance (ESA) test had risen from ÂŁ115 to ÂŁ190 after the controversial outsourcing firm Atos pulled out of its contract to run the tests last year.
- Benefit claimants are still waiting for more than six months before they are assessed during which time they are not entitled to full payments.
- None of the companies carrying out the tests met the Governmentâs own quality assessment threshold â with reports including spelling mistakes and unintelligible acronyms.
The report found evidence that ministers set completely unrealistic targets for the number of ESA assessments that could be carried out each year.
As a result, there is a backlog of at least 280,000 new claims while ministers have been forced to suspend plans to carry out periodic reassessments of those already claiming the benefit.
âThe Department is paying more for assessments, but providers are still not meeting expected performance levels,â said Amyas Morse, head of the NAO.
Other than stubborness or pure ideology, what justification can actually be made for this any longer? Thereâs been links to suicides caused by this programme, waves of piss poor PR for the govt and now it is suggested that itâs actually costing money.
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Its an ideology and the money lost on it doesnât even come into it, its hatred of the working classes and more unfortunate.
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Originally posted by @Barry-Sanchez
Its an ideology and the money lost on it doesnât even come into it, its hatred of the working classes and more unfortunate.
I am inclined to agree with you on that one.
UrghâŚfed up with this shit now, as I mentioned to you at West Ham Pap. Canât support this bollocks any more.
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Weâve turned Cherts! You can close the site now pap.
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It is a classic government run fuck up. It doesnât matter what programme or scheme that is trying to be introduced, every government fucks it up. What is the issue? Wishing thinking at the concept stage? Crap costing and planning? Incompetent / uncooperative implementation?
How can every government get it wrong every time?
Because the vast majority of them have never lived in the real world?
Most are full of blustery bullshit and devoid of talent or understanding.
Doesnât warrant a thread of itâs own so Iâll shoehorn it in here -
Isnât it a bit sad that a cabinet minister has to get to 52 before he is brave enough to announce that he is gay?
On these occasions I normally think, âfair play mate, whateverâ, or âyeah, we knew before you didâ, but my immediate thought on this is âwhy the fuck did you keep it secret so long? Its not a shameful confession of wrongdoing, itâs just you being honest with everyone, and yourselfâ.