Read this (I cannot post on that thread) but Pogue posted and his comments I thought were fair.
Like the report, it's fair balanced but as this is such a fractious issue, it's just being used to scream and claim all sorts of nonsense.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Like the report, it's fair balanced but as this is such a fractious issue, it's just being used to scream and claim all sorts of nonsense.
Jesus H Corbett
Ah yes the last referendum went so well. This is Farage’s new grift it seems.
So Farage doesn't understand that the ECHR is not an EU institution.
He now wants the public to vote to cancel the Northern Ireland protocol and Windsor framework and all trade deals, especially the one with the EU and people would fall for this complete nonsense because he's a racist xenophobe. Come on you Brexiters, press the self-destruct button yet again.
When will someone lock this moron up?
I don't know why you allow german citizens to get elected
They refused his application. His only hope is that a senile Trump will look after him.
Don't forget the peace process too.
And just about everything on the international front. At some point in time, surely it must dawn on the British public that this tw@t has taken them for a ride for over twenty years and an angry mob will chase him through the gates of Pentonville Prison.
This clown just parrots anything the Republican Party says in the US. He’ll be screaming about stolen elections next.
Having worked in elections, postal voting in the UK is one of the most secure methods to vote by. There are numerous checks involved throughout the process. If Farage had any evidence, he would go to the authorities but he's talking bollocks.
You're not Angela Rayner are you?
Anyways robot Thatcher is back in the news
Are we getting paid more to work these weekends or is it the same salary but more work? Our salaries are already crap as it is
This is scandalous.
Be grateful that we give you jobs.
I just came here to post that. Very suspect vendetta against that academic and dodgy using her comment on that Guardian article as part of her evidence. Serious McCarthyist witch hunt.
We came so close with that plane crash. Heartbreaking.
The fact his plane crashed after a UKIP banner got entangled with it, is alongside the ‘This does not slip, followed by a slip’ in the hall of fame.
Someone has found a magic money tree for bombs.
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If we sacked a load of healthcare workers, that would allow us to reinvest the money into defence.
Forget Michelle Donelan and her £34k, these are the real villains we should be going after...
Carer convicted over benefit error worth 30p a week fights to clear his name
George Henderson had to sell his home to repay nearly £20,000, years after ticking wrong box on carer’s allowance form
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/carers-allowance-benefit-error-30p-a-week-dwp
Carer convicted over benefit error worth 30p a week fights to clear his name
George Henderson had to sell his home to repay nearly £20,000, years after ticking wrong box on carer’s allowance form
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/12/carers-allowance-benefit-error-30p-a-week-dwp
I'll be generous and assume you are referring to the commitments to trident otherwise you've missed the whole 'when resources allow' comment in your haste to get a dig in
"When resources allow" is subjective and could potentially mean the moment they get in and make cuts to benefits or something like that to facilitate it.
It's also subjective and could mean by the end of parliament or never.
Again, they are saying that their plan to reduce spending on benefits is to fund the NHS and mental health services to support people into recovery because the numbers are too high because of austerity leading to delays in treatment.
They have to talk with firm rhetoric because they are Labour are don't get away with anything with the press we have.
So the problem all these poor people have with their health is that they're too rich compared to the NHS which is making them sad and sick and so they need their benefits cutting?
Makes perfect sense to me.
What
Oh sorry is the plan confusing?
No. When they are saying that the numbers of people on disability benefits has increased to unacceptable levels due to underfunding and they are proposing fixing the problem. Ie people not receiving treatment
This has the added benefit of enabling people to work and increasing productivity
If you took a breath to think about it it wouldn't be confusing
Taking their benefits away to "fix the problem" creates a new problem. It's stupid posturing.
Why is there a need for an individual to claim disability benefits if they are now fit to work?
So I take £50 a week off them and they're cured?
If they were cured they wouldn't be claiming the benefit so you wouldn't need to cut it...
If for example, 650k people are on disability benefits. Say 400k are never going to able to work the remainder can be treated
They are saying that if they receive the treatment and are now able to work that they will no longer be claiming disability benefits as they will be working.
Over time, the figures will go down when the public has quality health treatment.
It's not difficult to understand
I will be shocked if there aren't real terms cuts to the actual benefit so they can satisfy the Victorian Tory cnut vote that they're slavering over, regardless of how counterproductive it is to society or the economy.
The benefit system, coeval, in the UK is among the worst in Western Europe. I'll have to triple check that one. Cancer patients were forced to work because they were deemed fit by the Tory auditing-austerity system.
When it comes to disability benefits, what, broad view, individual is sitting at home fit to work but surviving on a miserable state pension instead? There's a risk of Benefit Street by the back door with some of this rhetoric, though not aimed at you personally.
Sitting at home on 40 to 80 quid when absolutely fine and fit for work. It's complete nonsense. Getting those who are on that benefit back to work might be helped if they weren't barely surviving in the first place. It's not unemployment, it's disability. People who have no say, at any given time of life, as to whether they can work or not. It's a disgraceful rate as it is.
