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https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2017/aug/10/disabled-people-back-pay-sleep-in-carers-mencap Disabled people may be liable for back pay of sleep-in care workers Well, yes. My nephew used to work shifts in a home for learning disabled people, I asked him the other day if he would be d...

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The point is, they can get away with UC - however much of a fiasco it has been, and it has - because it doesn't affect most people. Brexit turning out a disaster, on the other hand........ Hi Anatoly, logged in in spite of my instinct to stay away, especially to gently dispute your statement on UC....

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SpinningHugo wrote:
Blair is Cassandra, blessed with prophecy, cursed because nobody believes him.

A bit hyperbolic, that.

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Best thread yet on Grenfell Tower -its long, but worth it eleste Thomas‏ @mamapie There's so much rubbish/lies being spewed about #GrenfellTower that can't be backed up but fit alt-right narrative (1/?) https://twitter.com/mamapie/status/882744731108859905" onclick="window.open(this.href)...

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dystopia already upon us, CJA, nothing left for government to do, sit back enjoy rich pickings and picking off low hanging fruit reminds me of lazy colonials sitting on verandahs with their g&t's picking off crows in the morning sun, soused on their own importance. on the other hand starting to ...

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Got to hate on new generations because they don't fancy the dire future we have planned for them.

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country awash with robbing bar stewards and others on low pay

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citizenJA wrote:
HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... enerations
'divides generations'
jesus christ

Purveyors of unreality living on a different planet from rest of us.

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I wish I had a quid for every time I have read the word 'triangulation'. I'd have enough to take a bloody expensive long holiday. WTF does it even really mean. Whatever happened to the campaign for plain english or whatever it was called? If Brexit or whatever is to progress in any direction at all,...

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Two excellent quotes from yesterdays posts.

"We haven't been a serious country since 2010."

"The myth is becoming truth."

Just about sums up the lethal Oz-like state we are in.

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@seeingclearly not questioning or lessening your experience,crucially mine was non profit,reasonably paid.I am saying your experience doesn't have to be like that in specific and general terms,it is a societal choice as to how much we value people enough to give a shit beyond making a profit from. ...

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@seeing clearly as an ex worker in such establishments,i see it from both sides,sometimes we in effect rescued people from horrenduous home situations,we did endeavour to make it as personalised and homely as possible,jargon but hopefully you get what I mean. After much editing. Succinct answer. I ...

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The UK has been held hostage by the Eurosceptics of the Tory party long enough. How do we make it end? #proportionalrepresentation Tc2 , having lived and been educated somewhere where the ins and outs of various systems were hammered (gently) into us as teenagers, till we understood and could discu...

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https://www.unison.org.uk/news/press-release/2017/06/residential-care-system-failing-elderly-says-unison/ I spent nearly 4 weeks in one such, I say nearly because I could have stayed longer but discharged myself voluntarily preferring to take chances in unsuitable rather unkempt home, but at least ...

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HindleA wrote:I have cautious optimism,as far as personal rationalism goes...

Apologies here as well. I had cautious optimism, as far as personal rationalisation went. I am finding this ever harder.

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We are still left dripping with whitewash though and nothing changed. Why isn't the topic of discussion the legality or otherwise of a government held together with chewing gum and a possibly illegal agreement? That will if neccessary be bought with loads of money and concessions. Years ago I recogn...

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My apologies to others, the inanity of hugo statements often makes my blood boil especially when I read of current tory antics and their efforts to change all manifest appearances into a vision of their own making. They won't be doing anything for two years except bloody brexit. Well that will make ...

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https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/jun/17/wealth-gap-rises-as-uk-home-ownership-falls-resolution-foundation But......but.......Clive Lewis tweeted something nasty about neoliberalism! Lewis is finished, which is good. I don't know. For someone like me (who wants to Remain because the damag...

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http://press.labour.org.uk/post/161815438069/if-correct-this-is-potentially-another-stunning Labour Press If correct, this is potentially another stunning U-turn from a weak and wobbly Prime Minister - Rebecca Long-Bailey Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Ener...

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OK. A sort of constitutional question. I know that once Parliament was dissolved there were officially no MPs and as such noone could be called an MP in the interim period. Does an elected member take up or resume the title of MP following the election result or when Parliament is reconvened? I mean...

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"....the irony is reversal of the worst "reforms" are actually cost saving."

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Austerity being of course a euphemism in the first place for some kind of eat the poor excercise.

Real austerity is weevils in the bread stuff, and hauling carrier bags of bank notes around to buy a bag of rice. Not garden bridges, bulging supermarkets and breakfasts that cost thirty quid.

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Small list of impending political acts. Implementing the recommendation of Naylor on NHS selloff and the £10 billion sweetner Work and Health disaster Mental health services delivered by untrained DWP programme UC All due this year which is surprisingly half way over. And with Queens soeech bollox a...

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HindleA wrote:Times has" austerity is over"

When they repeal the cuts I might believe that. But then pigs might fly.

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Deleted double post. But just wanted to remark that certainly in my neck of the woods the raising of the Naylor report info most certainly was a factor in support for Labour. Though theres some video by Mark whatshisname theres been little of this in the media since thursday. It needs airing more I ...

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HindleA wrote:I have already written my Queens Speech,can't see the reason for the delay to be honest.

Will you go public though?

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...the EU probably wish he was negotiating rather than the bumbling threesome If Labour are to get a shot at this then, in reality (because whilst it's not impossible for them to form a minority government on the current numbers and make progress it's very very unlikely), they will have to present ...

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More pensioners forced to rent as housing crisis grows https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/more-pensioners-forced-to-rent-as-housing-crisis-grows-xfbkqnm0g?shareToken=c3d40674fa120f78c0903b03dbbbafe2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; One in 12 private rental tenants is a pensi...

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Watching the whole charade, and it is one, they even frame it in terms of performance. Someone else more correctly called it pantomime.

Hoping they can eventually be hoist with the rope they have made.

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Tired of seeing that council house tbh. Is it the only one? Plenty in that article to get people on the mainland frothing, a reason it is not in the mainstream? More devolutionionary divisiveness in action. Sorry, don't see anything changing. It is how they control us. Easy to forget in days the pre...

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HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... priorities

Queen's speech: what the Tories' overhauled priorities may look like

May/may speculation.
The G should know better.

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Not a new minister that will make a difference. Building more houses at genuinely afforable prices. Not a tory strong point.

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People don't like talking about Brexit because it is hard. Other issues are easy: but they all depend on Brexit in the end. That people don't care or understand was demonstrated by the election we just had. Thats an odd statement. We have had around two years of endless dissection of Brexit, and ma...

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I agree by the way that the whole brexit situation is nigh on inpossible. For any party. Which is why a referendum should never have been offered. But spilt milk and all that stuff. Corbyn and Starmer look at lot better than wobbly may and her merry morons.

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But you are still focusing on what may or may not be wrong with the Labour approach to Brexit, instead of saying how can we define what is needed given the current state of play, and how can wevmove things in a direction where there will be a good outcome. As for this. The options are 1. Remain 2. ...

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UKIP's Scottish MEP David Coburn has said he will stand for the party's leadership. "I have had enough of pashmina sofa politics pushed on ukip I want a return to the good old days." (BBC News website) Pashmina sofas? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-40247180 No suc...

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@seeingclearly I for one am always interested to read posts on benefits and IDS's hideous legacy, but don't feel qualified to comment. This goes for some other topics. I'm very glad those posts are there though ;-) Hi Paul. UC is not about what we traditionally call benefits. You must have noticed ...

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Leg hurts a lot, but up and about on crutches. Thanks for asking. NHS was great (unlike my GP surgery which has been crap for over a decade.) As for the negatively: I'm not a Labour supporter. I voted Green. I think, as I said before the vote, that the crushing of the kind of politics I support by ...

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Worth watching this again David Schneider‏Verified account @davidschneider Enough of pretending a vote to leave the EU was a vote to leave the Single Market. Leave promised Norway, EEA, even the Single Market https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/874177941923606528" onclick="window.op...

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And it is not impossible that if the UK asked for major Treaty changes the other 27 member states would not just dismiss it. Incredibly unlikely though, and so not sensible to base any plans upon it. But, it is impossible to have a single market without freedom of movement. The latter is part of wh...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-40188948 Can disclose this now. Once was responsible for helping produce an information video on short breaks and respite care, which as anyone in the disability world knows are vital for family carers to recharge their energy, such as it may be. These are...

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@seeingclearly ATOS have always done PIP assessments,not fully getting your point. That they will now appear to be something else to many people. A rebrand does not make them different in any way. They are now a minor deliverer of PIP assessment because they became a toxic brand. Maximus and Capita...

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See my post on last thread. ATOS morphs into Independent Assessment Services. So they have plans for us. But hoped it would pass under the radar.

Morning all. Except it is more like very late evening for me. It is going to be a long day.

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You know where ro shove that, Hugo, you have already been told. The IFS are calling this one wrongly. So are you. To be a little clearer I have lived through this cycle before, and the missing piece to it all is an elusive quantity called hope which is entirely missing from the tory project and enti...

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Just learned, maybe has already been posted here?, that ATOS is to be rebranded as Independent Assessment Services and will do PIP assessments. ffs are our governments addicted to these companies, that they keep on letting them in again and again. Do they think we won't notice?

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Hugo. Don't be a prat all your life. You can take a day off. What I am talking about is not bloody sodding distributional analysis. I am talking about lived experience - including mine. What Labour will do is take some of the fear and shame of being a claimant away by simply doing what I outlined a...

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According to Politics Live, Guardian, Theresa May is being interviewed at 7pm (Jon Snow, Channel 4). Jeremy Corbyn (who would have been interviewed on Channel 4 by Krishnan Guru-Murthy) is not going to appear. Not sure that's wise. Still time to change his mind, I suppose? ITV covered Corbyns final...

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sorry. Old information, though somehow I missed the passing of Maya Angelou three years ago. I was pretty unwell in 2014 which might explain why.

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Radio or mumsnet?

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Yes of course Corbyn (and Watson and others) said that. But I'm not sure they actually really believed it. Just weeks before its announcement, No 10 explicitly said there would *not* be an early election. It caught virtually everybody by surprise. I am not sure it did, AK. I know I was aware that p...

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