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Having said that, the Bank of England comes to the rescue with a report that says if interest rates went up by 2% in thee years, only 480,000 households would struggle to maintain payments. So that's all right then. I know I keep on about this, but more and more I think that the public schools have...

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Morning all. Tories seek to avert rift with Church of England in wake of food bank report http://gu.com/p/44xdt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Has got me angry for multiple reasons. Firstly, the article is written in the style of 'well we weren't sure what was happening, b...

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Good evening. Benefits and Work has an article on ESA and PIP assessments. It appears that untrained (ie. not decision makers) DWP staff are submitting ESA Atos reports to PIP assessment providers and vice versa. In other words, if you have had a PIP/ESA assessment but are waiting for the other (as ...

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30326161 Calamity Clegg currently "proud" of Autumn Statement. So very proud, in fact, that he ran away to Cornwall for the day to talk to "normal people", while the Ginger Rodent opined that this was the last time the coalition would be agree...

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Guardian Society today -

Prosecutions for begging have increased by 70% in the past year. You read that right - 70%. In a year.

Shameful.

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Over at Grauniad Towers, there's an editorial on Camerons' speech. It's OK - but quite few daft comments, and best of all......NicholasB droning on about weight moving averagely etc.etc.etc. Re.UKIP - whilst I am not looking forward to what I think is likely to be vitriolic campaign by the Tories ov...

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I don't recall this ever being mentioned. Did we missed this release from the Trussell Trust? Almost 500,000 people given three days’ food in six months; 38% higher than same period last year. http://www.trusselltrust.org/mid-year-stats-2014-2015" onclick="window.open(this.href);return fa...

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Good afternoon. Yesterday night at around 10pm I caught Tom Bradby's report on Cameron's immigration speech. Bradby twice used the following phrase: "Those who prefer evidence-based analysis". The second time he used it as a counterpoint to "the responses on the street suggest that e...

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Anti Academies ‏@antiacademies · 4 mins4 minutes ago Academy principal with luminous intelligence (according to #Gove) suspended http://www.enfield-today.co.uk/news.cfm?id=16580&headline=Suspension%20shock%20for%20widely-praised%20free%20school%20staff" onclick="window.open(this.href)...

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I lived in Gloucester in the Martial Home (no typo) for a very long time - then rented in Arle (Sterling Court) than got a council flat in Wasley Road on the "poets" estate facing Lansdown Road just before the GCHQ roundabout. Show had a bedsit in the Suffolks - posh or what - and we used ...

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On EU migrants - I have no idea where this idea that they are entitled to social housing comes from. They really really aren't. If you want to get on the waiting list, before you even get that far, most councils will insist that you complete a very long application form. You have to prove, in the va...

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Busy Nottingham food bank to close in protest at harsh council cuts http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/busy-nottingham-food-bank-to-close-in-protest-at-harsh-council-cuts-9885641.html A busy food bank is shutting down in protest against the local council allegedly using its existence as ...

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I don't know if anyone's posted this before, apols if so. http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2014/11/04/the-personal-tax-statement-george-osborne-doesnt-want-you-to-see" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; from Richard Murphy. It's got a lovely colourful pie chart, all split up w...

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What Ho, Peasants! Lady Jacobia here, and I will spare some of my very valuable time before luncheon to instruct you on the politics of the day. Those of you who are cross about Princess Theresa of the May and her splendid ideas really need to get a jolly old grip! A lady of her seniority does not h...

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Morning all! Also, not long ago, I saw some figures relating to the number of SpAds working in PR for various Government Depts - I think/hope it was in here - does anyone have a link/the info? It was an article in the Press Gazette last week - http://www.pressgazette.co.uk" onclick="windo...

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Re. Migrant children - I'm one of them. Me Mam was a Kraut, Dad a Geordie (and that's a whole other continent) and I live with a Welsh bloke. Nige can deport me any old time he likes. Any Greek island he fancies. Re. Osborne - I am actually quite worried about him. No sympathy for coke/Bullingdon cr...

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I am actually quite concerned about the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I've just seen a video of him at PMQs today, and he looks absolutely dreadful. I can't work out if he looks ill or drugged. Which are pretty much the same sort of thing, really, in effect. Much as I dislike him, my professional eye...

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That nice Mr.Dilnot's been writing his letters again, love him. Full Fact asked the UKSA to clarify how certain types of expenditure should be presented to the public. Sir Andrew wrote back, describing how the original Osborne plan in 2012 to send letters about how their tax was spent included a mor...

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letsskiptotheleft wrote:Alex Andreou has just started tweeting #Osbornemustbeurinetested.

Get trending folks!

That came from Martin Rowson.

I've been Tweeting away but I don't have many followers.

Osborne looked ill or strung out today. Whichever it is, he should not have been there.

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Good morning everyone. Universal Credit. The NAO report now tells us that the "net present value of introducing Universal Credit in the Department's Autumn 2014 business case is £20.7 Billion" - in other words, this is the money that UC will "save". That is dependent on several a...

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Re. Greens - The Green Party are hosting a public meeting in Witney (ooooooer!) on the subject of deaths/suicides of people on benefits. Correction - not on benefits as they got stopped. The speakers include the sisters of David Clapson and Mark Wood. I asked Natalie Bennett on Twitter yesterday if ...

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Morning. @LadyCentauria from DWP : "The last new claims to legacy benefits will be accepted during 2017. Following this the stock of remaining legacy claims will progressively decline, and the department will migrate the remaining claims to Universal Credit. Should there be no change in the la...

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The Conservative mug, as described by Sir David Whispering Attenborough: And here, in this leafy Surrey avenue, we see the Conservative Mug in its natural habitat. It tends to make its home in large boxes, decorated with mock-Tudor accoutrements; it likes to be surrounded by various types of herbace...

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The infestation of the UKIP trolls continues apace at the G. They are blind to fact, deaf to reason, and now that they have a youth division with their own shirts and salute, how long before we start hearing "Seig Nige"? Little Mr.Toad will save us all. Pint in hand, fag in gob, bum not on...

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May on immigration, eh? So it's now a really really good thing that she hasn't a snowball's chance in a furnace of getting close to the "tens of thousands" and she looks likely to be presiding over a continued increase.......and it's all the fault of those EU people who won't say where the...

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Re. Twitter: #CameronMustGo is trending 4th - worldwide. (Miley Cyrus' birthday is a bit more important to the rest of the world.....) Re. Heavy horses: I had a flat just round the corner from the Wandsworth Youngs Brewery. Had my wedding reception upstairs in the Brewery Tap, and the big horses wer...

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I'm probably not the first person here to think of this but let's assume that come next May we get the outcome that the UK so desperately needs and Labour win enough seats to form the next Government. How likely is it that Cameron and his desperate band of terrorists will actually step down and lea...

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Rebecca wrote: edited to add;ok,who eats potatoes with pie here?

Potatoes IN pies - Cornish Pasties, proper Northern Meat and Potato Pie, Turkish Feta and Spinach Borek.....

I eat spuds with pie. Not apple, pie, obvs. Although I have been told you can obtain an apple pie with potatoes in it at Macdonalds.

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Re, NHS commissioning - when it works, it's fantastic. My last job till I got sick in 2009 was running a county-wide project to set up networks for parents/children/concerned others of people who misuse substances. I was part of a DAAT which, unusually, was entirely funded by the NHS (many are part-...

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Electrification of Welsh railways??!! You mean this isn't typical of Welsh rolling stock? Another dream dashed on the rocks of sad reality. :? Ivor the Engine of the Llantisilly Railway Traction Company, with Jones the Steam and Evans the Song. Accompanied by Idris the Dragon who not only sang in t...

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The Welsh dragon roaring once more and this is a great place to invest and grow. So says David Cameron, only a few short months Offa's Dyke was the line between life and death. Excuse me while I :sick: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/business-news/airbus-invest-48m-site-broughton-8150112"...

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I am getting so tired of the constant whining about Ed/Labour from people,who,if they have the sense to see what the coalition govt is doing to this country,are unable to then have the sense to be supportive of the only party who will be able to replace them in 2015. No politician can be perfect,no...

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Central government has 1,524 WTE staff working on press and communications only. The Home Office has 276, the Cabinet Office has 205, and DWP has 184. I do not know how many of these are civil servants and how many are SPADs or whatever. See - http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/central-government-has-nea...

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THE problem is the MSM, not Ed or Labour. If even people here are playing their game, there really is no hope. The problem is indeed the MSM - as evinced by the Tweet I've just seen of a man the Sun now calls White Van Dan pictured with the Sun's very own white van emblazoned with its logo standing...

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I know most here avoid the G but I'm not, yet anyway. AS regarding Cameron's reaction to the tweet. He was asked if he would have fired one of his frontbenchers out for sending out the picture that Emily Thornberry posted, and saying what she said. He could have said: “Well, she says she did not in...

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The coverage of Ed Miliband and Labour in the Guardian for the past year (at least) has been nothing short of appalling. The stuff in all the other papers, the BBC, and other media has been worse. Horrifically biased reporting everywhere. It's pretty obvious now that the G will support Cameron - the...

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Good morning everyone. I am reminded of that Sondheim song - "Send in the clowns". "Don't bother, they're here" - they are indeed, alive and well and living in what used to be a decent country. So now we have two Nu-Tory MPs who are the same Ex-Tory MPs in the constituencies they...

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The Welsh government and health care unions have agreed a package for staff in the Welsh NHS. All staff will be paid a living wage; at least £7.65/hour. The lowest-paid will see an annual increase of up to £470 in their basic wage. 80,000 staff are guaranteed at least a 1% pay rise - the only except...

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Good morning everyone. The people of Rochester and Strood vote today. Well, some of them, anyway. They might elect a Tory who's a Tory, or a Tory who pretends he isn't a Tory any more but is a Tory really - or they might go bonkers and vote for one of three independents, Britain First, People before...

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I spent a long time building that wall. http://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2014/november/freud-announces-review-ssac" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Freud announces review into the Social Security Advisory Committee on whether it needs to exist. For the second day runni...

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Morning folks, Did anyone notice Sajid Javid saying, on "How the rich get richer" last night, "Look, we've just come out of the worst recession for 300 years". I thought OGRFG denies that there ever was a recession? He used to. Now, it's "The Great Recession" brought a...

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Longtermeconomicplanlongtermeconomicplanlongtermeconomicplan(TM) This long-term economic plan is so long term it was invented in 2013. OGRFG and Gidiot pretend they've had it all along. They so haven't. The AAA rating that was so desperately important before February 2013 became irrelevant after Feb...

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HindleA wrote:http://thepoorsideoflife.wordpress.com/ ... its-worst/

Job seeker threatened with sanctions for joining a demonstration.

This is fascism.

No other words are necessary.

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Our Glorious Ronsealed Fishpointer General has written an article in the Guardian. Is there no beginning to his talents? It's utter bilge - and "I forged agreements", "I brought leaders together", I, I, I, I, ......zzzzzzzzz....... Showmaster posted "He's pissed again" ...

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quote="ohsocynical"] http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRRTteC_76q1BVbtXZXo2N9Fzn0OGEr7S1wnZMa_i2o9w4SP9u3 I see what you mean about Matt Barber Lady C [haven't seen him before]. A definite contender for Ed M in a film, but of course the Indie/Com Res preferred to get the Rowan Atki...

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Crystal Palace Sports Centre "could" be demolished to make way for a free school and a proposed new college? Bung de bung de bung de bung. Sorry, being unduly cynical in my middle age! I trained there every weekend when I was 15/16 (I was a swimmer) Used to chat to the likes of Geoff Cape...

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Been watching a Synnedd debate on housing - glad to hear that Carmarthen council is building proper council houses again. Hopefully that'll spread - they're also trying to do something about abandoned/empty houses too. All the AMs think that a waiting list of up to 5 years is appalling - it is, but ...

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Crystal Palace Sports Centre "could" be demolished to make way for a free school and a proposed new college? Bung de bung de bung de bung. Sorry, being unduly cynical in my middle age! I trained there every weekend when I was 15/16 (I was a swimmer) Used to chat to the likes of Geoff Cape...

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News from DPAC - and not good. dpac.uk.net/2014/11/urgent-people-awaiting-wca-assessments-particularly-in-birmingham-please-read/ DWP is planning to "invite" people in the Assessment Phase of ESA - ie. those who are waiting for their first WCA to determine their entitlement - to interviews...

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http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRRTteC_76q1BVbtXZXo2N9Fzn0OGEr7S1wnZMa_i2o9w4SP9u3 I see what you mean about Matt Barber Lady C [haven't seen him before]. A definite contender for Ed M in a film, but of course the Indie/Com Res preferred to get the Rowan Atkinson result. Have that boy wash...

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