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Some cracking posts here today - I've been catching up on and off. TGS - I've told you before and I'll tell you again: you are not at fault in the matter you ask us about and you have my unequivocal support. Three things have been occupying my remaining brain cells today. Remembrance; embarrassment;...

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About to lose internet. Does anyone want to carry on this conversation on Twitter? Two or three weeks ago, Nev off of The Call Centre soundalike Carwyn Jones gave a perfect dissection of the Mail's assault (which seems have to have died won thankfully). It amounted to a few things; if I can recall ...

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Reincarnated? Has Rusty finally been sent to the naughty step or even *gasp* been deaded? No. You can still see his profile but he hasn't posted since 22nd October. Useful I guess to keep a few identities open.... https://id.theguardian.com/profile/rustinpeace/public" onclick="window.open...

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Frances Ryan @frances__ryan · 16h 16 hours ago IDS now trialling IN-WORK sanctions. People who reject extra hours will lose benefits via "in-work conditionality". http://www.expressandstar.com/business/uk-money/2014/11/05/in-work-benefits-sanctions-trialled/" onclick="window.ope...

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Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose........ Maximus, the company taking over from Atos for the WCA, has some very interesting members of staff in the UK. Alasdair Emslie, whose company Health Management is a subsidiary of Maximus in the UK, is also working for OHAssist, which is the new name fo...

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Thanks, Ephemerid. I'll consider all that. One point I can see straight away that I didn't appreciate was how quickly the test kicked in. 13 weeks seems far too early. The other point about the WCA is the difference at the decision-making stage from the PCA. When a doctor reported on the PCA, he wo...

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Kate Green on the WCA/Maximus http://leftfootforward.org/2014/10/labour-demand-big-improvements-to-work-capability-assessments/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; And once again, Kate Green has chosen not to mention sickness once. Not once. Disabled people this, disabled peopl...

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Kate Green on the WCA/Maximus http://leftfootforward.org/2014/10/labour-demand-big-improvements-to-work-capability-assessments/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; And once again, Kate Green has chosen not to mention sickness once. Not once. Disabled people this, disabled peopl...

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Single mother-of-five made homeless by benefits cap turns to Supreme Court over Westminster Council's attempts at 'social cleansing' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/single-motheroffive-made-homeless-by-benefits-cap-turns-to-supreme-court-over-westminster-councils-attempts-at-social-c...

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Following on from the various posts yesterday and a few this morning - on Labour and social security...... Green and Timms continue to conflate sickness with disability. From a Shadow Disability Minister that is inexcusable. Green, like Reeves, continues to make both sickness (which she calls disabi...

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Ernst - that is really really shitty. Have a hug. Re, Ed - if they get rid of him, I will cut up my card. Me and Show have taken delivery today of hundreds more leaflets. We're doing a leaflet run, new ones each time, every 2 months from now to the election. It's people like us and millions of other...

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Yes, things are looking fairly grim on all fronts tbh - have started in the last few weeks to wonder, for the first time, if the next GE might be a good one to lose :( Labour needs to offer something to inspire and banish such heretical thoughts. Urgently. Now I am seriously worried. Me too. There ...

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Morning. Link to UC pathfinder evaluation page 55 has the eligibility criteria (or more correctly what excludes people) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-pathfinder-evaluation" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; PS I note their glaring error of Disabil...

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Re. Samosas - my pal taught me how to make them (very easy if you use ready-made filo). When I lived in Gloucester, our corner shop sold them and pakoras and onion bhajis and stuffed bhindi (okra) for 20p each. Lush. We also had neighbours who insisted on giving us food when they had their Eid huge ...

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Does signing a death certificate count? Used to be how the housemen/women topped up their income years ago,my boyfriend used to get £10 a time,this was in the seventies,and in a busy hospital it soon added up,especially in the winter. Morning all. Possibly not - I'm not in any way medically trained...

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We were thinking Rachel Reeves had been rather quiet - well, very quiet - of late. She has just written to IDS re Universal Credit ... seeking answers on rather a lot of issues. I'm glad she is challenging him - but the basis of her challenge still seems far too technical. Get an injection of human...

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TGS and Sticky - more of my thoughts..... It seems to me that, over the years, the baby's been thrown out with the bathwater as far as employment for people with disabilities is concerned. When we had the old Green Card system, if someone registered as disabled, they could apply for work under the o...

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Re. Freud. The difficulty with tabling a vote of no confidence in his case is that his many and various incompetencies and insults have gone on for a very long time, and Labour has let them go again and again. If this is on the basis of the straw that broke the camel's back, it's not really going to...

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@Ephe if you're looking in, I saw this & thought of you http://www.tracyscraftshop.co.uk/dragonfly-chunky-cross-stitch-cushion-front-40x40cm-p-1441.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Thank you, pk - lovely, but a bit steep at the price.....perhaps I could make one.......

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Whoops......so good, I posted it twice.....

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Anyone planning to watch the Panorama on Farridge this evening?

I am wondering if they will be in any way honest about what a total prat he is......

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Anyone planning to watch the Panorama on Farridge this evening?

I am wondering if they will be in any way honest about what a total prat he is......

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The Guardian article on the Tories ball has a photo of Cameron in which he is the living spit of....

Neil Hamiltion!

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Here's the full BBC bit. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-29482160" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; To be honest I think its quite a nice idea, and I like that Singapore's new teachers receive a compass to point them in the right direction. It might not be best for UK - I...

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The £8bn is what the Coalition have gone overbudget on disability benefits in this Parliament. http://press.labour.org.uk/post/99533216077/labours-plan-to-turn-around-8-billion-overspend-on" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Labour, mainly in the person of Kate Green, have bee...

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How many people use Foodbanks? (Rhetorical, as we don't know of course - I think they stopped counting in 2011) Trussell Trust started auditing properly in 2011 - their figures are reasonably accurate. 913,138 parcels were distributed via their community food banks in 2013-14, nearly 3 times the fi...

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Good afternoon. Jack Straw has been accused of saying that some people say Ed has "panda eyes" and "a weird mouth". Jack's right. Some people DO say that. What is not being reported is what he also said - "I could say the same sort of thing about David Cameron and Nick Cleg...

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Good afternoon. Jack Straw has been accused of saying that some people say Ed has "panda eyes" and "a weird mouth". Jack's right. Some people DO say that. What is not being reported is what he also said - "I could say the same sort of thing about David Cameron and Nick Clegg...

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Article in the G about David Miliband's visit to Sierra Leone...... full of trolls banging on about the the wrong Miliwagon etc. A disgusting spectacle - people dying, an international health issue, and a man who is the head of a NGO going where he is supposed to go in order to do his job, and all t...

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Why did you start a new thread? There wasn't one when I logged in this morning so I started one. Why have we got two? Morning ephemerid no conspiracy you and Refitman started two pretty much simultaneously - happens sometimes. I've merged them now ;-) I thought that might be the thing.... thank you...

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Why did you start a new thread?

There wasn't one when I logged in this morning so I started one.

Why have we got two?

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More Ebola - I want to know what is going to happen to all the people who are going to be screened at UK airports whose tests are negative. Will they be kept in quarantine at the airports for the 21-day incubation period? If not, why not? This is a very silly idea. Ergo - it must have come from Ed M...

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Good morning everyone! Here is the news - 1. There is a UKIP MP in the House of Commons. But he's actually a Tory really. 2. There is a terrible loss for Labour in H&M. But they increased their vote share. 3. There is bad news for Ed Miliband everywhere. He has another Labour MP. I hope this cle...

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I am now officially furious.

I posted a comment on the Kate Green article on Labour List - yes, it was critical, along the lines of what I have posted here today.

It was not abusive, and it was no more rude than any of the others there.

It has been removed.

I won't bother with LL again.

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Kate Green speech . http://labourlist.org/2014/10/under-david-cameron-disabled-people-are-being-let-down-and-left-behind/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.kategreen.org/index.php/westminster-news/shadow-minister-for-disabled-people/790-labour-party-disability-bene...

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Double session on the dentists couch but have never had teeth out [two, a stitch in one of them] where I ended up in more pain than before. Don't know where to put myself. It's so bad it gave me the shakes. Now my ear is aching in sympathy and the pain killers aren't even taking the edge off. Sod g...

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"The new figures, uncovered as part of Labour’s Zero-Based Review of government spending, show that ministers are set to spend over £8 billion more than planned on Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) in this parliament (2010-2015)" "Uncovered" as in being able to read.Politic...

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Morning. http://press.labour.org.uk/post/99533216077/labours-plan-to-turn-around-8-billion-overspend-on" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; "Labour's plan to turn around 8 Billion overspend on disability benefits" Kate Green MP, Labour’s shadow minister for Disabled P...

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Cuba has already sent hundreds of doctors and medical professionals to fight ebola. I read that they have been collaborating with UK who are supplying the tents/hospitals etc that they are working in. China too : http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2014/chinese-ebola-contribution/en/&quo...

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So - Ebola. There is an article on the G's front page about Jim Kim (President of the World Bank) saying that he wants a fund of $20BN to deal with serious outbreaks of disease so that "western governments" can react more quickly. He's quite right to say that help for the affected countrie...

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George Eaton ‏@georgeeaton 52s52 seconds ago Labour reshuffle likely next week, several sources have told me today. Well that should be interesting ..... have to admit to a sneaky little hope that Darling might be waiting in the wings to make a surprise entrance. I don't mind if it's just a bit par...

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Morning all. We can all rest easy in our beds. Our Glorious Leader is chairing a meeting of COBRA today Morning all...has anyone been keeping score on how many times he's chaired emergency meetings in Cabinet Office, Briefing Room A? I'm interested to know if it's more than his great hero, Charles ...

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Ohso - Greg Wood is quite right, and various bloggers have been saying this for a while. Thank you for the linky. Our Glorious Ronsealed Fish Pointer General has had 2 outings on our news this evening - BBC 6 o'clock news and Wales news. He is attempting to imply that Moazzam Begg might "know s...

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Not sure if this post from Diary of a Benefit Scrounger made it to this place, if it didn't it should have. It's a huge issue at the moment, probably worse than ever, but it would not be fair to say it is new. Women in particular may recognise this, I know I do. Don't Worry Your Pretty Little Head....

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Tories David Cameron featuring George Osborne as Uriah Heep Shurely shome mishtake????? David Copperfield, no? Anyway - I'm liking Oliver Twist for the Tories. Ed would have to be Oliver....with John McDonnell as that nice Mr.Brownlow. IDS as Fagin, Harper as Sikes, Shapps as Toby Crackit, and McVi...

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tinyclanger2 wrote:2014 Lib Dem conference:

Far from the madding crowd

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That's good, TC, very good.

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FFS. I've just worked out where the thanks button is....apologies to all those I have failed to thank. I've never been good at it. Must do better....

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Ha! How about for Nigel Farage and Ukip - "Pie-eyed and Prejudiced"? Oh, very good, PF. Songs suit them too - Andy Fairweather-Low's "Wide-eyed and legless" or Dave Edmund's "I hear you knocking, but you can't come in" And for Shapps - with his phalanx of Jack-Shirts -...

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The hall has filled up a bit since this morning, I think - but the camera shots of the audience aren't very clear. Maybe I'll get a better idea once "Tieless in Glasgow" has come to an end. "Tieless in Glasgow"! That's brilliant. Just brilliant. With a sub-title (being Scotland)...

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During a recent sobremesa with Lady R-M, her ladyship vehemently denied that Cameron had verschlimmbesserned the Tory meltdown with his cynical desenrascanco that boiled down to nothing more than Eton votes for English Laws. I must point out to you that we had no "sobremesa" whatsoever. I...

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