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The voters in Rochester and Strood know Cameron has failed them http://labourlist.org/2014/11/the-voters-in-rochester-and-strood-know-cameron-has-failed-them/ But the Tories are on course to lose in no small part because they are defying their leader and fighting themselves as much as they are UKIP...

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Am off to get someone to recommend me for a Commission in the Guards. Ma'am. Honestly, I despair! Young Clanger, this is exactly the sort of thing that proves why PLU are vastly superior. One does not address the aristocracy as "ma'am" That's for the Queen - pronounced Mam - only. Certain...

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Lady Jacobia Rees-Moggy here. Good morning, peasants! Having done my duty and attended service in our estate chapel this morning, I am here to continue your education as promised. Suitably fortified with kedgeree (note to butler - the chafing dishes are not correctly polished) I now have the strengt...

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@Ephermerid I've re-tweeted your link on my account and also posted it on Flythenests Twitter account. Thanks OhSo. Saw your message - of course you don't need to apologise. You can all copy or tweet my stuff any time you like. Whaddya reckon? Will I get a call from a showbiz agent? :lol!: Just a b...

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@Ephermerid I've re-tweeted your link on my account and also posted it on Flythenests Twitter account. Thanks OhSo. Saw your message - of course you don't need to apologise. You can all copy or tweet my stuff any time you like. Whaddya reckon? Will I get a call from a showbiz agent? :lol!: Just a b...

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Such a good article. (Apols if someone has already posted.) Is the DWP even fit for purpose? https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/deborah-padfield/is-dwp-even-fit-for-purpose Implicitly, the report questions ESA's initial premise. ESA replaced Incapacity Benefit (IB), castigated for failing to ...

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This is a post on UKPR by Robin Wilde, a Labour Party member from Sheffield: Evening all. Just got back from canvassing, where I found a very strange leaflet. “WHO WILL STOP THE CUTS?” “Not Labour!” Followed by a bunch of newspaper quotes about Labour and austerity. “Ed Miliband: More Tory Than The...

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I have just Tweeted Deborah Orr and asked her to read my post above. I wonder if she will? And Shiv Malik, Krishnan Gurumurthy and Patrick Butler. Next - Ed M, Rachel Droning Reeves, Kate green. Then - John McDonnell, Ian Lavery, Sheila Gilmore. Who else? I want them to come here and see not just m...

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I have just Tweeted Deborah Orr and asked her to read my post above.

I wonder if she will?

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Apologies if this has been posted before - but I have a thing or several to say about it. http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-admits-investigating-60-benefit-related-deaths-since-2012/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; As is always the case with DWP, it took months on end...

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[quote="pk1"] What is missing from that question is the fact that those doing so don't tell anybody they are going to fight so how the bloody hell are the govt planning on identifying them ? How are they planning to identify those going to Syria & Iraq via Turkey ? How are they going t...

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There is a very good article about Maximus who are Atos who are....etc.etc. http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/deborah-padfield/is-dwp-even-fit-for-purpose" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Along with a very good summary of what has happened with ESA and the WCA since the...

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Sorry about my tone on the Cyberknife posts. I gather things have moved on since my experience with them but it is still raw and I am physically trembling with anger to recall it even after nearly five years. I shall sign off for the rest of the day. I'm sorry if I upset you. Truly. It really wasn'...

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The very splendid Simon Duffy has Tweeted a photo of a Tory mayor cutting a cake to "celebrate" a "successful" year at a food bank. Lovely. Starve the people, leave charity to feed the people, have a fucking party to celebrate. I hope they choke on their bloody cake. I hope it w...

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Something a bit weird happened on Twitter just now. I was commenting on a post from someone I follow about IDS's jobs fair in Chingford. Apparently he ran away before the punters turned up - many of whom had been mandated by the jobcentre to go or face a sanction. I posted - "Any of them got a ...

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Cyberknife is an overpriced sack of shit peddled by a gang of profiteers. Really? So why does the Royal Marsden use it, why do some patients prefer it, and how come it's considered safer in terms of the protection of close vital organs than standard radiotherapy? I've read a bit about this, but I'm...

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The very splendid Simon Duffy has Tweeted a photo of a Tory mayor cutting a cake to "celebrate" a "successful" year at a food bank.

Lovely.

Starve the people, leave charity to feed the people, have a fucking party to celebrate.

I hope they choke on their bloody cake.

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Cyberknife is an overpriced sack of shit peddled by a gang of profiteers. Really? So why does the Royal Marsden use it, why do some patients prefer it, and how come it's considered safer in terms of the protection of close vital organs than standard radiotherapy? I've read a bit about this, but I'm...

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http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2014/11/14/comment-let-s-not-get-too-excited-about-miliband-s-fight-bac? This more or less made me cry, not because it is so nasty - though certainly that didn't help - but because it is just such terrible terrible "journalism". If a sixth former...

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I agree with your post Ephe. Where you highlight that the allegation was based on their admission is very powerful & I think there are huge questions around the consent issue. If she was deemed to have given consent to McDonald, why was she then deemed to have been too intoxicated to consent to...

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Don't know if we've already done this and it's listed as "sport" rather than "politics" most places, but I'm full of admiration for Jessica Ennis on doing what she feels is right here http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/olympic-champion-jessica-ennishill-threatens-to-r...

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Morning All! Given the current interest in Julie Bailey, I decided it was finally time to publish this piece Is Julie Bailey, founder of Cure the NHS, guilty of misleading Parliament? http://flythenest.org/viewtopic.php?p=14482" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Good work Paul...

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TORY CHAIR SHAPPS FLOUNDERING OVER NEW ‘MICHAEL GREEN’ CLAIMS http://politicalscrapbook.net/2014/11/grant-shapps-floundering-over-new-michael-green-claims/ :lol: :lol: :lol: Even more :lol!: :lol!: :lol!: The article you link to has a link within it which takes you to another on the same subject. B...

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TE, I am surprised to be having to argue this point. If Miliband is against 'vested interests' and wishes to convince the public of it, he needs to drop the very same vested interests as party advisors on the most important part of public policy - taxes. Otherwise he is open to exactly the sort of ...

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More fun on Universal Credit. DWP has decided to cut payments to claimants if they get into arrears thus - If someone on UC has problems paying their landlords directly, DWP can arrange to have the housing element of UC paid direct to the landlord. Until now, if the person was in arrears with their ...

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Blimey how did I miss the Esther McVey story? This is what happens when you're not on Twitter I guess. Can you expand on that please ? What McVey story ?? There was a comedy night in London on Sunday, "Tony Benn Night" at which John McDonnell related a story from a "SackEstherMcVeyDa...

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There was a bit about that in the Graun the other day: It has been a longstanding, if not greatly publicised, practice in Westminster for opposition parties to receive support from the major accountancy companies in formulating their policies, particularly ahead of general elections. Fine for Cons ...

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Disability News Service has an interesting story on Maximus and the WCA contract. I posted here a while ago about the same people being behind Maximus in the UK as were behind Atos and Unum, so I won't do it again... This story mentions that; but it also says that the only other bidder was Interserv...

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Ed's speech - excellent. He's getting passionate now. Good. Seconds out - Round One! Show and I have been discussing this. We have some to the same conclusions - Ed seems to be coming out of his quiet hibernation where he got on with keeping his party together and working on policies etc. I think s...

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Ed's speech - excellent. He's getting passionate now. Good. Seconds out - Round One! Show and I have been discussing this. We have some to the same conclusions - Ed seems to be coming out of his quiet hibernation where he got on with keeping his party together and working on policies etc. I think so...

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There's a new Patrick Butler article about people relying on food banks.

This time, it's youngsters. YMCA have reported that more and more young people are being sanctioned and need food aid.

I'm glad they're cross. Perhaps they could stop using people on workfare.......

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Hello. I'd like to introduce myself. I am a long time lurker here and former infrequent poster on CiF. I would be happy to provide more info on who I am and where I am coming from (both geographically and politically) if there is a private way of doing so. I was motivated today to sign up - and wan...

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Fun and games on CIF this morning. YouGoReborn - Hugo back for gazillionth time..... I think I'm being stalked on CIF by TwiggyWiggy. This is the 4th day running that he/she/it has either responded to me on various different threads with some nasty personal crap or referred repeatedly to posts I ma...

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Fun and games on CIF this morning. YouGoReborn - Hugo back for gazillionth time..... I think I'm being stalked on CIF by TwiggyWiggy. This is the 4th day running that he/she/it has either responded to me on various different threads with some nasty personal crap or referred repeatedly to posts I mak...

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Man who applied for 60 jobs while protesting at DWP policy sanctioned Blogpost by copywriter Peter Styles, who was forced to sign on daily, attracts widespread support after detailing the dispute http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/12/jobseeker-applied-posts-protest-dwp-policy-sanctioned :w...

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Forgot to say - re. sanctions - The average disallowance is 12 weeks; if the claimant does not re-engage within the standard signing-cycle (which is 2 weeks plus 1 week for reminders etc. to go out) the claim is closed down on the system. As half the total claims sanctioned were disallowed for 13 we...

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Re. unemployment figures etc. The latest DWP press release on claimant numbers, sanctions etc. is out today. As in 2010, there remain just over 5 million people of working age claiming out-of-work benefits. The JSA claimant count may be going down, but the ESA count isn't. More people are claiming I...

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Rewinding a bit. I have been targeted by a CIF poster in the past - Cinimon/Flower3/other/same person - who usually stayed on the cartoon threads until she got a bee in her bonnet about me. She followed me all over CIF wherever I went, making weird passive-aggressive comments to wind me up, then ac...

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@Ohsocynical - How do Tories get that way? What in the world happened in McVey's life or brain to get like that?? Look at that, will you - I used two question marks. I'll be using smileys at this rate. From the articles I've read Conservatives are born that way. Psychopathic to a certain degree whi...

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Deeply unpleasant perfect description of the commentator - thank you for the updated moniker. If I could work out how to cut'n'paste the exchange, I'd post it here. It has got worse....... Now I have my email back, I've sent a letter to the G to express the view that this individual is the latest i...

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New troll alert over at Groaniad Towers..... I've been posting on Aditya's article on Benyon and the New Era housing estate - a deeply unpleasant thing called TwiggyWiggy who has been so rude to me today that I can only assume it is HappyChickie under a new name. Deeply unpleasant perfect descripti...

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New troll alert over at Groaniad Towers.....

I've been posting on Aditya's article on Benyon and the New Era housing estate - a deeply unpleasant thing called TwiggyWiggy who has been so rude to me today that I can only assume it is HappyChickie under a new name.

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Good Morning from a rather wet and wild Wales! And to make my morning better here comes Nick Robinson. Aha, Downing Street calls Labour's debate the day before the R&S by-election a "stunt" coming from a party of stunts I will treat that with the derision it deserves. That is just fab...

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I am enjoying this evening enormously. The sheer arrogance of this shower in government is a wonder to see. They seem to have forgotten that Parliament exists not for them to instruct MPs on what they will vote for and what they must do, but for the MPs to discuss and debate the issues put before th...

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I love Wales, WelshIan, as I've written earlier on the thread. You may not actually be in Wales but it's part of your name & that's enough of an excuse for me to tell the thread I love Wales for the second time today. I live in Stoke & love Wales. Welcome. Hello Welshian - and welcome. Lots...

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Early election while Labour is 'weakened' after the recent onslaught? Explains the concerted efforts in attacks. This all feels staged and that Labour knew it was on the cards as they offered Opposition Day to discuss this law. (Which I found odd at the time). If Labour suspected/knew that May woul...

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I love Wales, WelshIan, as I've written earlier on the thread. You may not actually be in Wales but it's part of your name & that's enough of an excuse for me to tell the thread I love Wales for the second time today. I live in Stoke & love Wales. Welcome. Hello Welshian - and welcome. Lots...

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I am watching the HoC debate on no-the-EAW - it's absolutely bloody riveting. Many of the Tories are are furious about what's happening - they are accusing the front bench of all manner of trickery and even Rees Mogg has gone off on one saying that this motion is an "outrageous abuse of parliam...

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I see my "how do I report Trolling ATL?" for the Watt piece was removed. Shocked. I. Am. Stephen, Stephen, Stephen... what are we going to do with you? Have you not yet learned that the definition of trolling is 'anything that the Guardian management/mods don't like'. If it is something t...

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Ephemerid is on the thread. Life is good. xx JA :hug: How sweet you are. JA is on the thread. Willow is a Twit (soldier on, it's good fun). Life is indeed good. Taking life a day at a time means that there is always something good to be found in the day you happen to be in - and as my AA sponsor te...

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