THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Impotent Tory Posh Boy Boris Johnson

Efforts to divert attention don’t come more polluted than ashamed Boris Johnson’s election ploy and this is an incompetent Prime Minister who by his own words should be rotting in a ditch after declaring his pledge to leave the EU on Halloween is a Tory fright show.

Of course, his demands are a smokescreen to conceal his latest defeat and he’s so inept he can’t get an election or should that be an erection! And Jeremy Corbyn ordering his troops to abstain again means Boris Johnson will crash a third time to get his necessary two-thirds majority in Parliament.

Yes, Jeremy Corbyn might look like a chicken, but better that than being a turkey gambling a vote for Christmas and we should question whether the Tory Grinch wants an immediate election campaign.

The privileged Old Etonian entitled rich boy Boris Johnson wanted to have his cake and eat it, demanding Labour give him an easy timetable to deliver Brexit and that election and Jeremy Corbyn was right to hold fire and as the clocks went back on Sunday so Labour’s extensive army of foot soldiers would be neutralised as it’s dark by 5 pm and it would have been the first December clash since 1923.

And now the bold strategy is to challenge Boris Johnson’s defective Brexit and prepare for decision day next March and seen from a distance, Brexit Britain has resembled a bluebottle heaving itself at a pane of glass next to an unlocked window.

It’s been almost a year since Theresa May negotiated a way out of the European Union but the window wasn’t good enough for Leavers who thought they should smash the glass instead and on it went, buzzing and thudding, a country going nowhere in a frenzy.

Then Boris Johnson took over, promising deliverance by 31 October, do or die – Buzz, buzz, thud with exhaustion, defeat, frustration and lack of imagination which has ultimately brought Parliament to the verge of destruction.

It’s an erratic motive and MPs on all sides are trepidatious about a December vote and Christmas isn’t a traditional election period and it isn’t clear how kindly the voters will take to the concept.

Brexit has previously corroded traditional party allegiances and incentivised tactical polling and there’s no one pendulum rotating between blue and red and in 2017, polls at the start of the contest demonstrated a hopeless guide to the outcome.

Boris Johnson has no intention of repelling voters as efficiently as Theresa May did. He’s exceptionally better on the stump and the campaign he wants to run has been sitting in a Downing Street drawer for months anticipating activation, a presidential-style race against Jeremy Corbyn.

And No 10 tacticians surmise that Labour’s prospects would be magnified under any other leader but Boris Johnson also fancies his luck as the holder of a Brexit deal and safe exit out of the quagmire, when everyone else in the game offers more swamp.

But many Tories are worried about this plan and a promise to deliver Brexit isn’t the same as Brexit delivered and even Boris Johnson’s promises aren’t a high-value coin.

Even his most familiar allies hesitate to list integrity and consistency amongst his qualities and there’s also scepticism around his supposed electoral attraction and it’s never been tested in Labour heartland seats where, in speculation, Leave votes are up for grabs.

There’s also a cultural inoculation against Tories in those parts that pre-dates Brexit and in Scotland, the blustering Etonian shtick is a hindrance on a paltry Tory Brand.

Factor in a departure of pro-Europeans to the Liberal Democrats and it gets pretty hard to map Boris Johnson’s route to a majority and Jeremy Corbyn’s path is even harder, which is why many Labour MPs resisted the election and some of them further believe he’s unfit for Downing Street and dread having to pretend he should be Prime Minister, regardless of whether they believe it can happen.

The maestro himself enjoys a campaign because that’s the kind of politics he can do but Jeremy Corbyn would sooner be in a town hall, firing up the faithful with desperate warnings about Tories and the NHS than cooped up in Parliament with a convoluted Brexit position.

Labour misanthropes hypothesise that their leader would sooner fight and fail than delay, better martyrdom in the electoral campaign than suffocation in the Commons because the Corbynite faithful expect their champion’s willingness to come alive in the exhilarating air of an election.

Even Tories who believe Boris Johnson’s gamble will work acknowledge that it’s precarious because no one has a clue how a December vote will play out, which would be something to rejoice if there was also a way to believe the air would be clearer following the aftermath.

There ought to be something exciting about a roll of the democratic dice, yet there’s a depressing gloom over the whole enterprise.

Activists would sooner be pounding the streets in the spring sunlight, but winter weather isn’t going to hinder the hardcore. Furthermore, a lot of the message delivery these days is done by algorithms that don’t feel the chill and the sense of dark foreboding in Westminster isn’t meteorological.

Boris Johnson’s Britain and Jeremy Corbyn’s Britain are hugely diverse countries, on starkly diverging paths. Each one contains millions of contestants who will feel more like protesters under an antagonistic ideological regime than citizens under a government they happened not to want.

Also feasible is a Parliament in which forces are as finely tuned as they are now and few MPs expect a vote to determine the economic or political difficulties caused by the decision to leave the EU.

None thinks it will accelerate cultural agreement between those who necessitate Brexit at any price and those who want it abandoned, and the tenor of British politics in recent years hardly spurs belief that a campaign will illuminate the issues or promote a sense of understanding.

And even if headline campaign messages were positive and election law forced a vulgar perspective on broadcast communications, the uncontrolled digital platform would host a grim gladiatorial free-for-all.

The turbines of radicalisation and polarisation that inspire hyper-partisan politics on and offline are revving strong already and it’s a more haunting sound than the needling buzz of the continual Brexit stay.

And the dread of an indecisive result isn’t a reason to avoid an election and it would be unreasonable if we were only called to vote when a landslide outcome was guaranteed.

Parliament is stuck and dissolution is what the constitution prescribes to restart it but electoral uncertainty shouldn’t be cause for alarm in a mature democracy and true democrats don’t shy away from a polling booth.

However, it’s difficult to shake the fear that British politics will be even more hostile and more divided following an election campaign than it is now and no one imagines there’s a result to please everyone.

There must be winners and losers.

Democracy doesn’t require consensus, but it does require losers to accept the authority of winners and winners to recognise the legitimate concerns of losers.

That’s the quality that’s been destroyed by the past few years. The problem is not our failure to reach agreement over Brexit but the gloomy obscuration over an election is cast by the breakdown of our politics to perform in a state of civil disagreement.

So, now there’s going to be a Christmas election and Boris Johnson, Cummings and Rees Mogg are going to be the three wise men bringing cold, frank intent and murk.

Sadly, we’re shuffling the pack of cards on the off chance that we’ll get a better hand next time around and that’s the fundamental principle of democracy, living in the belief that the next batch of shysters will be slightly less rubbish than before and a vote for Boris Johnson is like buying a lottery ticket to lose your job.

And it’s easy for Boris Johnson to win, all he needs to do is drive around the country in a big red bus, with a great big lie printed on the side of it, it’s worked once already and Pandora’s Box has been opened.

And Boris Johnson should stop opportunistically trashing for political gain, he should stop cheapening with his dishonesty, hollow assurances and belligerent repetition and stop using every dishonest trick in the book to evade democratic inspection.

Nevertheless, Boris Johnson is quite fortunate in the same way that Theresa May was, by having Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the opposition.

Boris Johnson would have a rather different ride if Tony Blair was challenging him at the dispatch box but of course, we shouldn’t be knocking Jeremy Corbyn, there are some aspects of his character that we should admire.

However, Jeremy Corbyn isn’t charismatic, he’s not dynamic, he’s humourless, he’s terrible at handling the media and the press and he’s not a player and this matters a lot during an election campaign.

Boris Johnson will probably do well at the General Election and he’ll clean up all of the Brexit Party votes and he’ll mop up the Labour Leave votes.

He’ll also have the full strength of the Conservative party behind him and most of the British press, certainly the zealous right-wing press who will be pitiless against Jeremy Corbyn.

That’s a sizeable advantage and Jo Swinson and the LibDems could become the next opposition which suggests that Boris Johnson could still be remaining as Prime Minister.

Keith Vaz Set To Be Suspended For 6 Months

Disgraced MP Keith Vaz faces the longest Commons suspension of all time after he met two prostitutes while chairing the Home Affairs Committee and the damaging report said that the Labour grandee must face a six-month postponement from Parliament more than three years after the embarrassment was revealed.

The Commons Standard Committee declared the 62 years old displayed disregard for the law by showing readiness to buy cocaine in a rendezvous with two sex workers who he told ‘We need to get this party started’.

And MPs ruled that his actions were a particularly grave violation of the Code of Conduct which states members must not harm the reputation and integrity of the Commons and the Committee rejected his outlandish claims of amnesia as it savaged him for failing repeatedly to clarify questions and MPs dismissed his request a transcript and recording were unreliable following forensic examination.

And if agreed by MPs, the prohibition will trigger a recall petition against the disgraced MP, which will enable voters to force a by-election booting him out of office.

The Committee further took the unusual step of demanding that Mr Vaz is excluded from a former MP pass that would let him wander Parliament at will if he stands down.

The MP described himself to the two men as a washing machine salesperson called Jim, yet he told an investigation that the object of his meeting with the two men was not to engage in paid sex but to discuss the internal design of his flat.

And in a statement, Mr Vaz’s office announced that Keith Vaz had been treated for a serious mental health condition for the last three years as a consequence of the events of 27th August 2016 and he’s now shared all the medical reports in confidence with the Committee.

And he has nothing more to say on this subject other than what was said in his verbal and written statements to the Committee and the Commissioner.

The report confirmed that the Metropolitan Police had chosen not to continue with a case against Mr Vaz, despite two referrals.

The incident was reported to the House of Commons officials three years ago and the matter has stretched over the tenures of two separate Standards Commissioners but the inquiry was repeatedly delayed by the two police referrals, which didn’t lead to a prosecution, the 2017 election and Mr Vaz’s ill health.

MPs took the extraordinary decision to redact delicate information from the MP’s doctors about the precise nature of his continuing poor health and while accepting that Mr Vaz’s well-being has still not entirely recovered, the report is scathing.

It stated “it is more likely than not that Mr Vaz has engaged in paid sexual activity”, continuing: “We are satisfied from the evidence we have considered that Mr Vaz did on 27 August 2016 offer to procure and pay for illegal drugs for use by a third party.”

The report added: “He has not ‘co-operated at all stages’ with the investigation process”.

Mr Vaz had failed, repeatedly, to respond to direct inquiries and he has given sketchy explanations and his account has, in parts, been unbelievable and he’d not given a complete and detailed account of the relevant events.

According to the report, Mr Vaz offered several alternative and conflicting suggestions on what had transpired and he suggested variously that the men were called over to discuss redesigning his flat, and that they were sent there to entrap him.

And that he developed amnesia after his drink was spiked, that the recording of the incident was falsified and that no sexual activity took place.

The report stated: “It is difficult, to put it mildly, to see how all these separate defences could simultaneously be true.”

The report rejects allegations that the Sunday Mirror had ensnared Mr Vaz and it stated that Mr Vaz had not provided compelling or credible proof to prove that they forced or provoked him to act in a way that was out of character or inconsistent with past conduct.

It was almost certainly true that the conversation was being driven by the two men but there was no proof to suggest that Mr Vaz was being steered in directions he was reluctant to go.

It, however, concluded that he breached section 16 of the 2015 House of Commons Code of Conduct, which declares that members shall never undertake any activity which would cause meaningful harm to the character or integrity of the House of Commons as a whole, or of its Members generally and Mr Vaz’s behaviour was a very serious violation of the Code.

But Keith Vaz could avoid his suspension from Parliament thanks to the general election being called which suggests that Keith Vaz could be on a course to avoid his punishment as he will be permitted to stand again at the election and his proposed suspension will be withdrawn if he’s re-elected.

This would mean that he effectively would avoid any punishment, except for the committee’s proposal that when he ceases to be an MP that he’s not given a former member’s pass.

Mr Vaz, who sits on Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, has already been re-adopted as the party’s candidate in his Leicester East constituency but given the incriminating report and his approach to parliamentary rules, he should lose the Labour whip and be unfit to stand as anything other than an independent.

And according to Keith Vaz, that night with the two rent boys was all a terrible misunderstanding and if the Labour party have even the slightest remains of respectability they wouldn’t back this man. So, either they no longer care or fear information he has on them as otherwise there isn’t any way that the Labour party would support this man, who has more skeletons in his closet than a medical school, to continue as a Member of Parliament.

How many get out of jail free cards does this slimebag need? He’s been up to no good for years and constantly uses ill health to get off and if he gets re-elected then his constituents are total fools and should be detained along with this treasonous meat sack and surely his constituents if they have any morals will jettison this guy.

But then if this guy had any morals he wouldn’t be standing for election because this is a confirmed liar who’s prepared to make up absurd tales to get himself out of trouble and yet he will still be voted back in by the red rosette brigade and if anything confirms the deception of Labour it’s this man.

Women on Universal Credit Left Selling Sex For £5

Women on Universal Credit have been left so desperate that they selling sex for just £5 and MPs have been warned that women are turning to prostitution to survive due to the five-week wait for their benefits to be paid.

But a Government enquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee has discovered a fundamental design flaw in the policy and the committee is now asking the Government to withdraw the five-week wait at the start of their claim.

One woman affected by Universal Credit stated that she was thinking of going back on the streets because the last six months of her life had gone down the drain.

She had gone out of prostitution and got guidance on how to apply for benefits and was just about managing but then she was transferred over to Universal Credit.

She got less money but was still managing, but then she got a letter in the mail saying that she was no longer entitled to Universal Credit because she was an EU Citizen and that she had to apply for settled status.

She added that it was difficult to live with no money and she felt she had no alternative but to sell herself and if women are selling themselves for a fiver it’s not because they’re working for an escort company but then this is all down to Ester McVey who was pretty satisfied with herself to save a few quid by coming with these ideals to punish people.

But then when you see articles like this concerning benefits and this Government’s war on them, you can wager the variety of posts you’ll get which are frequently harsh, indifferent and sometimes plain cruel, so welcome to Britain! But then I guess it makes people feel better about themselves and their own ordinary monotonous lives if they’ve got someone to look down on.

And I hope Iain Duncan Smith is enjoying his state handout known as a landowners subsidy, along with the Duke of Westminster and all the other wealthy men and women who are entitled to it – curious how they never get labelled as scroungers.

But then there are people out there that are stating that if you can’t afford children, then just don’t have them because why should the taxpayer pay for other people’s children? But then we’ll cheerfully pay whenever another Royal pops out another baby and not only that, we’ll glorify it as well.

But what some people don’t understand, benefit is not only for the unemployed, there are millions of workers who claim Working Tax Credit which is designed to top up your earnings if you work and are on a low salary.

Nevertheless, it’s being superseded by Universal Credit and most people now have to claim Universal Credit instead and it’s a really great way of pulling the wool over other people’s eyes to make them believe that that said person is on Universal Credit because they’re on benefits when in fact that said person is working but on a low salary.

Brexit: Government Stands Down Operation Yellowhammer

No-deal planning was entirely scaled back on Monday night after hundreds of civil servants returned to their day jobs from full-time operations centres across the country and it’s understood that Operation Yellowhammer was stood down after the EU granted a three-month extension.

Operation Brock, designed to handle traffic gridlock on the M20 which leads to Kent’s ports of Folkestone and Dover, came into force around 6 am but the plan restricting trucks to 30 mph wasn’t expected to be dismantled until at least Wednesday because of the time required to remove the barriers.

Monday, Downing Street confirmed a £100 million advertising campaign around the 31 October departure date was being put on hold but couldn’t confirm how much of the budget had been used and sources said that despite the changes, no-deal preparations remained in place.

Overall the government has spent at least roughly £2 billion or about £30 per person on no-deal preparations up till now and business grudgingly embraced the extension but mourned the ongoing lack of certainty and many have been forced to shell out thousands of pounds to prepare for no-deal only for there to be another extension.

For countless small firms, extensions are double-edged swords and they may safeguard against the damage of a no-deal Brexit but they additionally lengthen doubt without really eliminating the potential of a no-deal further down the road.

And these firms have been starved of certainty, pounding down the hatches for a possible no-deal that would have crippled almost 40 per cent of its members and all this has done is cause them to quit making business decisions.

They’ve quit hiring staff, they’ve stopped investing and they’ve stopped growing and the UK can’t waver on the edge of Brexit indefinitely as Brexit’s uncertainty proceeds to take its toll on retail businesses and the three million retail jobs that exist today.

This extension doesn’t allow time for complacency and Parliament must pledge to resolve Brexit once and for all. However, firms will be relieved that common sense has prevailed and a damaging no-deal exit has been circumvented this year.

But uncertainty continues to be high, and it’s important this time that the additional time leads to a deal because all politicians must break the gridlock and let the country move on but then the economic evidence must be the guiding light as the UK’s future involvement with the EU develops.

Firms are keen to see commitments to regulatory alignment, frictionless trade and the UK’s all-important services sector, shielding the UK market over the longer duration.

The Tories seem to think they’ve got a money tree in their allotment and if they do believe in this money tree of theirs, at least they could do is use the money where it’s needed and not spend it on things that could have waited.

And this country that used to be great is no longer great and hasn’t been for years and those people that have rose coloured glasses on believe we still rule the world, well we don’t and we need to work together with others to be able to survive and we need to take those rose coloured glasses off and have a proper look at what things are actually like.

What we need is to work with our closest neighbours to be able to get ahead now and to quit spending money and time because we no longer own anything and all our chief industries have been sold off by the Tories.

And they will never leave, democracy has been hijacked, the people have been deceived and the United Kingdom is a laughing stock and we the people have been stabbed in the back.

And speaking as a time served proletariat myself, I too have been stabbed in the back by ten cruel years of a harsh Tory class war waged against us under the semblance of austerity, a concept foreign to the wealthy.

And according to the Prime Minister, it’s costing the country £1 billion a month and Brexit is the Tory’s baby, they hatched the monster, brought it to life and then bred and raised the deformity and they own its entirety and to try and condemn everyone and anyone else for this unfolding tragedy is ridiculous but then they simply want us to walk silently like convicted men to the scaffold, I don’t think so.

Universal Credit Staff Taped Making Disgusting Comments About Claimants

Benefits managers have been caught on tape making horrifying remarks about claimants and one advocated blowing them up with grenades, another accused them of getting money for nothing while the disabled were accused of faking it.

And in one disturbing recorded conversation, a manager said: “The police sometimes have sting operations where they gather people together.

“We should nominate one person to throw a grenade in.”

Another reveals a case manager railing at claimants, who can be out of work because of ill health.

They rant: “It does my head in. They’re getting something for nowt, they don’t really have to do a great deal to get it. They still whinge.”

Another said they “have absolutely no time” for claimants with depression and anxiety.

A regular caller with four children, including one who is seriously disabled, is branded a **** after a call.

One manager questions: “Has she got a disabled child?” before another says: “She’s not disabled. She acts it.”

Benefits charities were appalled at the tapes, passed to the Sunday Mirror by a whistleblower and Jamie Grier, of the benefits, support charity Turn2us, said that stigmatising people undergoing financial crisis was divisive and wrong.

And the Liberal Democrat’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Tim Farron added that this sort of language and behaviour was nothing short of heartless and that the Conservatives had created a noxious environment originating from social security cuts that have left thousands unable to afford the basics.

Department for Work and Pensions Staff were taped making the smears working at a call centre in the Midlands where they complained of balancing 700 cases each and said despised Universal Credit is a nightmare to grasp and one stated that they didn’t know what they were doing half the bloody time.

Universal Credit merges existing benefits to simplify them but has been slammed after deaths arising mistakes or delayed payments and the whistleblower stated that these people hold claimants with thinly-veiled disdain.

And they become so ground down by the scale of the work they give up being nice and they strive to exceed the other in all the nasty things they say and the Sunday Mirror is not publishing the recordings to preserve the anonymity of the whistleblower, who fears retaliation from the DWP if their identity was discovered.

And the DWP has said that the Sunday Mirror had not presented them with the recording, or any additional details so they were therefore at this stage unable to confirm the origin of the recording but that they were however very concerned by the allegations and were taking them seriously.

And that they would urgently investigate the matter, so far as they could with the limited information that they had and that where wrongdoing has been identified, they would take suitable disciplinary action.

In fact, we should be saving the disdain for rich people who pay limited to no taxes and the wealthy corporations that get corporate welfare, subsidies, bailouts et cetera because the above-entitled entities are playing those who are not rich, pitting the poor against each other, so that the poor, including the working poor, will not unite and rise against the people and corporations who are schtuping them over.

Hopefully, these people will never get anxiety and depression because then they will sadly see that it isn’t a joke and that it’s a nightmare to live with.

The bedroom tax has always been unjust, immoral and unfair and to be clear about this tax, a person doesn’t have to pay the bedroom tax if they pay rent in full without the help of benefits, and it appears it’s only those who receive benefits that has to pay.

If you have a child who lives half time with the other parent, then you pay bedroom tax, if you have a disabled child who doctors state requires a separate bedroom space or if you have a girl and boy both under 13 years old, that is you have two children, then you have to pay bedroom tax – this is an unjust tax.

And the Tories have always been ready to waste our money to support their ideological onslaught on the disadvantaged and this makes no sense when housing is not available and they’re not offered other accommodation and it’s merely another excuse to fleece the poor.

Perhaps the Queen should pay the bedroom tax, she has loads of rooms to spare. Think of how many rooms she has spare and that she could help the homeless with, after all, she lives in London and has 52 bedrooms, all funded by the taxpayer.

She also has various other houses with multi bedrooms. Balmoral, Sandringham, Osborne House, Kensington Palace, Edinburgh Castle and Windsor Castle and yet she’s never mentioned when it comes to taxpayers money, although Balmoral and Sandringham are not publicly funded.

Although some people might tell you that we shouldn’t be having a pop at the Queen and that she’s an asset to this country’s finances and yes, they might be right, after all, no tourist ever came to see me, they come to see the Queen and her Palaces which of course, does aid to attract millions of tourists to London every year, although they won’t get to see the Royals unless they’re going to stand continually at Buckingham Palace and wave at them all day, perhaps that’s what excites them, the Royal wave.

But the fool and their money will quickly be parted where tourists to old Blighty are concerned because this is the land of Rip Off.

And according to O’Donovan and The Times, the hardest working royal in the monarchy goes to Princess Royal Anne, Prince Charle’s sister. In 2018, the 68-year-old Anne attended 447 engagements in the United Kingdom and 71 overseas.

Of course, the Queen isn’t on benefits, she doesn’t have to be, she’s paid by the taxpayer, but the point is, why does this woman require so many bedrooms and why does she need so many homes?

And why is the taxpayer funding them? Well, of course, Buckingham Palace is not owned by the Queen, it’s not the private property of the Queen, it’s just somewhere that she resides while she’s the Queen and it’s held in trust by Crown Estates for future generations.

But it’s shameful that the taxpayer has to be made to suffer so that we can finance the Crown Estates, after all, we come into this world with nothing and we were not genetically engineered to believe that we had fund this but once we’re born we’re conditioned to believe that we have to. Why? It’s not like she’s the air that we breathe or the water that we drink!

As for being an asset, there’s some scepticism about the money that she brings into this country against what the taxpayer has to pay and people come to see the taxpayer-funded palace, not her and the palaces will still be here when she’s gone.

And if she’s an asset to our country, then so are all the people that live in this country because most of us give something back, whether we have worked all our lives, served in the forces, or volunteered at some point in our lives and all of us have served, we serve the Queen by paying our taxes to the Crown Estates.

The bedroom tax is a shameful and sickening attack on the poor, elderly and vulnerable with the assessments of a health assessor overriding medical consultants at DWP meetings, meaning that the sick and vulnerable are being pronounced fit to work when not fit to do so and this has to end.

And Boris Johnson will soon be rid of the European Court of Human Rights, so the poor can just die without a voice but then that would suit him and his oppressive friends but then the bedroom tax has always been an excuse for the Tories to steal from the poor and those people should not be charged more unless they’ve been offered suitable housing and this bedroom tax is almost like we’ve been raped, stalked and brutalised.

Our benefits system is funded by all of us for when we need it but the bedroom tax was never about benefits, it’s about charging people more for having additional bedrooms even when suitable housing is not accessible and it’s Torie’s justification to rob the poor.

Number Ten doesn’t come with a spare bedroom tax nor all the other housing held by Royals and others owned by the people, this is simply aimed at the poor and it’s being robbed by those who have more than enough already.

This is simply a sad tax from the sad Tory government and it should be torn up because it’s an unfair strain on Council Tenants and its an insulting tax plucked from thin air from a Government with no thought to the suffering it would cause like a vast number of their ideas and this tax should be repealed.

And it might have seemed reasonable on paper but the thing is there were never enough places to downsize to and most people who’ve lived in their homes all their lives and have brought children up in that said home because all of their memories are there and they don’t want to relocate and leave their memories behind.

This might seem a tad sentimental to those with no compassion and have the funds to up sticks and relocate whenever they want, well that’s just dandy, but a number of these people who’ve brought up their families and their children have now left home are too exhausted to up sticks and move because our government deemed it fit to do so.

Then you’ve got someone who’s lived in their council house for over 50 years, worked and paid rent all their life, a generation that owed nothing to anybody and that person if you count up all the rent they paid has kind of bought their home many times over, so why should they be forced to pay more because their family have either died or grown up and moved out?

Pensioners are of course, exempt from paying the bedroom tax but because pension age has gone up dramatically there are some people still paying bedroom tax that would have not have done so before pension age went up.

Cancer Sufferer Has Benefits Axed

A cancer victim who was given months to live claims she has had her benefits terminated because she’s survived longer than anticipated.

Single mum Kathy Hall says she has always sought to fight her disease but feels like she’s being punished and says she now feels like she’s deteriorating and is a hostage in her own home.

Kathy Hall was told she had only six months to a year to live in 2016 when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Yet in August this year, the 44-year-old was assessed at home and considered eligible to work despite experiencing severe headaches and lethargy and Kathy’s disease makes her forgetful and causes her speech to slur.

The former charity shop manager is now in despair as she has lost £140 per week from her Personal Independence Payment (PIP) when it was discontinued just after the assessment.

She now struggles to get by on Universal Credit, providing her and her 17-year-old son, Luke Godden, whose in full-time education, at their home in Buxton, Derbyshire and Kathy Hall, whose a keen car enthusiast said that she’s always tried to fight her cancer because she didn’t just want to give in and die.

She wants to fight to live for herself and her son and her doctors have told her to remain positive and to get out and exercise, so every day she takes her dog, Stewie, out for a stroll to get out in the fresh air, and she and her son are doing their best to spend time together on good days, going to car shows that they love, to make memories together.

But now she’s being penalised for this and she said that as far as the DWP are concerned she’s lived far too long for their liking and because of this, she now feels that she’s getting worse and is now suffering from her pain and her mood.

Kathy Hall was diagnosed with a grade four tumour after complaining of headaches and falling in and out of consciousness while on holiday in Wales two and a half years ago.

She was taken for an MRI scan which found her brain was being crushed by fluid between her skull and her brain.

An emergency helicopter rushed her to Salford where the fluid was drained off and surgery removed 95 per cent of the tumour on her brain and she was then given between six months and a year to live.

She had daily radiotherapy at The Christie in Manchester for six weeks as well as rounds of chemotherapy.

She said: “I’m a very strong person and I refused to let it beat me.”

And she would love to be able to work and once she had her diagnosis she continued to work for two days a week, although working part-time ended up losing her managerial post but at the end that proved challenging and it was difficult to maintain those two days.

Her consultant accepts that she can’t work. She is dying of cancer and even though at the moment her cancer is stable, anything could occur at any time because it’s still there and now she’s worried that all this stress will make her lose her fight.

The DWP stated that people with a terminal diagnosis, such as Kathy Hall, are given the higher rate of PIP allowance for a specific period of time but what that means is as long as you die.

Kathy Hall was assessed in the summer by the DWP and they have stated that her consultant reports state that her prognosis has changed and that her PIP needs to reflect this, that’s seemingly because they believed she would be dead by now.

Apparently, the DWP is committed to ensuring disabled people and those with health conditions get the support they’re entitled to, well, obviously not because now they believe that because Kathy Hall is still alive and has lived longer than expected they don’t have to help her anymore.

Are the DWP that stupid as they make themselves out to be. This woman has cancer and she’s trying to stay as positive as possible, not only for herself but for her son and wants to make as many memories for him as possible. She has cancer of the brain and the DWP are acting like it’s nothing.

This lady has terminal brain cancer, it’s not like it’s going to swiftly go away and the pain that it causes makes it difficult to concentrate on the simple things and even the chemotherapy that this lady has had would have decreased the number of white blood cells produced by the bone marrow which can have a significant impact on the immune system and which diminishes your body’s resistance against infection during and following treatment.

But then the DWP will try anything to avoid paying the suffering what is due and it’s shameful but then that’s the government for you and they treat disabled people like they’re a burden to society.

This has caused her stress and it’s victimisation which is cruel but then I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the purpose of denying her money and this is sickening and just because she’s not dead yet, that doesn’t negate her disease and this is a prime illustration of the brutality under the evilest Tory government and welfare department in living memory.

But this is beyond just evil at this point, it’s a holocaust and it doesn’t get much crueller than this and what’s worse is this poor lady has been told it’s the correct decision, fewer benefits because she’s lived longer than they thought.

The DWP is designed and staffed by sociopaths who have no shame or compassion and presumably they want her to die so there’ll be more cash for the next Royal wedding.

This lady still has cancer, it’s simply dormant but that could change at any time and knowing you have cancer and could die at any time is like a death sentence hanging over your head and this really shows the lack of understanding in the system and she’s still ill and PIP should be paying her something.

But the whole point of this is that they’ve stopped her PIP because she’s overstayed her welcome on this earth and it’s called Personal Independence Payment for a reason, but what people fail to understand is that when people are refused their PIP, their independence is taken away from them.

This government are monsters towards the disabled and ageing and it’s appalling but then who’s to say that any other government will do things differently or not, they might even attempt to reduce the ever-growing welfare benefits bill.

It’s wrong and should be stopped but it’s reached the stage that you can’t trust any politician to be honest and fair and this is what happens when we allow ourselves to be governed by insane, cruel, thick-witted Tory government but these are the outcomes that the Tories want, and punishing the have-nots is what gets them up in the morning.

Jacob Rees-Mogg Suggests Crackdown

Jacob Rees-Mogg has announced there may need to be a crackdown on demonstrators outside Parliament after the Tory and his 12-year-old son were taunted with screams of ‘traitor’ and the Leader of the Commons said MPs must consider about whether there’s more they need to do after he suffered wailings of ‘f**k off’, ‘utter prick’, ‘Nazi’, and ‘shame on you’.

He added that sessional orders may be necessary, a reference to an obscure order last invoked in 2005 that tells the police to keep the streets clear and free near Parliament and he stated that he believes it’s extremely crucial that MPs can come and go from the confines of Parliament feeling safe.

And he said that all MPs are serving 70,000 sometimes more constituents and must be able to come here and go without any sense they’re under any pressure from any gathering outside Parliament.

This came about after Jacob Rees-Mogg and his son Peter were heckled by an irate mob as they walked out of the Commons and they were accompanied by numerous police officers during the jeering, which seemed to be from both anti-Brexit and Brexiteer protesters.

Sessional orders, which started in the 17th Century, are orders acknowledged by the Commons that only affect one Parliamentary session, normally a year. They have limited or no direct legal influence but express the intention of Parliament.

Crucially, they were last used in 2005 to tell police the passages through the streets leading to Parliament must be kept clear and free and that no obstruction be allowed to hinder the passage of MPs.

The order also told Scotland Yard to stop anyone hindering MPs by any means in the pursuance of their Parliamentary duties in the Parliamentary Estate but it was no longer required thanks to an extremely contentious law several months later, which made it a crime to protest in Parliament Square without approval from the police.

The law was revoked in 2011 but sessional orders were not brought back and now it’s understood that Jacob Rees-Mogg thinks the topic may be one for Parliament’s Procedures Committee to take up.

Jacob Rees-Mogg announced to the House of Commons that he wanted to add his gratitude to the police for the protection they provide to get people home, including himself and that he’d had numerous kind inquiries about his son.

He said that he’s a 12-year-old boy and found nothing more appealing than being accompanied home by the police but what a surprise, Jacob Rees-Mogg parading his son seems it was more of a publicity stunt, taken straight from the fascist playbook – provoke, plead victim and then demand an absolute crackdown.

And this was smug of Jacob Rees-Mogg taking his son with him to stage an incident and all those media boffs fell for it, making it more of a problem than a solution and the vile Jacob Rees-Mogg should be ashamed of himself for letting his child be a tool in this twisted Tory propaganda.

And it was a bad decision to drag his son along, clothed like something out of the Addams Family in a suit fit for a bank manager from the 1950s and why did Jacob Rees-Mogg take his son through or near an anti-Brexit demonstration when his son could have watched the debate on TV like the preponderance of us.

And given the increased emotions and potential for violence that encompasses Brexit, Jacob Rees-Mogg taking his son to the House of Commons was both dense and irresponsible.

He was a complete fool for taking his son to a demo with a million people in attendance, I mean, what did he expect? These people don’t live in our world.

Or did Jacob Rees-Mogg take his son because he knew precisely what would happen? He knew that he would get insults from both Leavers and Remainers and is now attempting to use this to win sympathy.

This one’s really going to get a Father of the Year award, purposely taking his son into a hostile situation merely for a photo opportunity and where a massive crowd is predicted or already in situ, then a rational parent has to determine on whether it’s prudent to walk their son through it particularly when days before, organisers were talking of a million people being there and how dim does a parent have to be to consider the safety of their child in such a large crowd?

And why did he take him with because he simply wanted to make a point? But a child shouldn’t be used as a human buffer and the Tories must go.

They’ve already destroyed thousands of lives and now they’re offering up their flesh and blood and now Jacob Rees-Mogg is attempting to introduce martial law. This guy has a ministerial car, so there was no need for him to be pulling a stunt like that because no parent should be putting their child in jeopardy like that.

Drivers Could Get A £1,000 Fine

We all know what to do when we hear or see an emergency service carrier with its blue lights on, you pull over to make room for them whether it’s a police car, ambulance or fire engine, you do your best to make as much room for them as possible but sometimes it can be especially stressful.

You might be on a gridlocked street or the motorway and there simply isn’t any room for the emergency services to get through but now it’s all about safety and if you don’t follow the rules you could get a £1,000 penalty and in some cases, the way you let an ambulance pass you, could be illegal.

According to the Highway Code, you should give way to vehicles with flashing lights including ambulances, police cars, fire engines and emergency doctors but you should also avoid doing the following and that’s driving through a red light, which will also spank you with three penalty points on your licence, moving into a bus lane to free the path or entering a yellow box junction.

The Highway Code states that you should look and listen for ambulances, fire engines, police and doctors or other emergency vehicles using flashing blue, red or green lights and sirens, or flashing headlights, or traffic officers and incident support vehicles using flashing amber lights.

The Highway Code says that you should consider the route of such a vehicle and take suitable action to let it pass, while complying with all traffic signs and if needed, pull to the side of the road and stop, but try to dodge stopping before the brow of a hill, or a bend or narrow section of the road.

Clearly, drivers should not compromise themselves or other road users or pedestrians and now drivers can’t mount the kerb or brake harshly on approach to a junction or roundabout but of course, there will be occasions when there just isn’t room for an emergency services vehicle to get past, or maybe its crew are activated by their control room to respond to an emergency while they’re waiting with everyone else at the traffic lights.

On these occasions, they know that other drivers are not permitted to jump the red light, and the emergency vehicle would ideally not activate its sirens and lights until it was safe for the vehicle in front to cross the solid white line at the junction and on the hopefully rare occasions that a blue light vehicle, in emergency mode, is sitting behind another vehicle at a red traffic light, it’s important to understand that it would be both extremely dangerous and illegal for the other vehicle to drive across the solid white line.

Although failure to comply with the other rules of The Highway Code will not, in itself, cause a person to be prosecuted, The Highway Code may be used in evidence in any court actions under the Traffic Acts to verify liability and this includes rules which use instructional wording such as ‘should/should not’ or ‘do/do not’.

However, motorists have been moving out of the way for ambulances, fire engines and police cars since I can remember, it’s always been the norm and in the case of an ambulance we move out the way because at the back of our head is what if someone we know is in the back of that ambulance or what if the person in the ambulance has had a heart attack? Next, they’ll be telling the emergency services that they can’t have their sirens and lights flashing in case it upsets residents but if it was their relative that was in need, they’d have a somewhat different point of view.

This is sickening and all emergency services with flashing lights and sirens on route to an emergency or possible fatality, people have moved out of the way if it was safe to do so because morally it’s the right thing to do.

I wonder how many idiots make up this drivel and I wonder that those that enforce it would be okay with a loved one dying because the ambulance, police or fire was unable to get through traffic because drivers wouldn’t move for fear of getting points on their licence or a substantial fine.

There need to be exceptions for this sort of thing when emergency services are hurrying to a scene that none of us knows whether it’s life or death, yet the law would sooner concern itself about whether motorists are violating the law or not – another way to make money I imagine.

Sadly, the law doesn’t practice common sense with penalties that are issued by the Council and their cameras, despite their crime prevention mantra, they’re essentially a money-making tool and nothing more.

The law is a jackass because there need to be exceptions because if a driver is obstructing the road to let emergency services through its because there is no other alternative and motorists shouldn’t get any penalties or points because by letting the emergency services through you could be saving someone’s life.

This is absurd, why block the way of an emergency vehicle at any time? Because this is just another government red tape thing and the law should be changed now but then this is just another cash cow for the councils I suppose and these councils and government know that motorists aren’t going to simply sit there blocking an ambulance on an emergency in case they violate the law.

Everyone’s first impulse when emergency services come roaring up behind, siren in your ear, is to get out of the way, not to check that you’re moving into a bus lane et cetera but then your damned for doing the right thing and damned for doing the wrong thing.

Extinction Rebellion Protester Climbs Big Ben

An Extinction Rebellion demonstrator clothed as Boris Johnson soared the scaffolding on the Elizabeth Tower after Westminster Bridge was blocked off following an unconnected suspicious package fear.

The man, identified by the movement as Ben Atkinson, wore a wig and green trousers as he escalated up the outside of the iconic tower, usually referred to by the name of its huge bell, Big Ben.

He unfolded a banner which read ‘no pride on a dear planet’ in LGBT rainbow and waved at the crowds beneath and a second banner read ‘Citizens Assembly’, one of the group’s three principal demands.

The man was resting on a safety net outside the tower as police and contractors discussed if the mesh could hold his weight.

Specialist police climbers started their climb up the tower at approximately 4.15 pm and a spokesperson for the group said the climber was a 43-year-old tree surgeon and as he stood tens of metres above the street, he posted on Facebook: “Gone and done it… Extinction Rebellion. Here to stay.

“We got the declaration of climate emergency last time. Now perhaps, please Boris, you’re struggling to navigate Brexit let alone work your way out of the sixth mass extinction event.

“Please. Pretty please…. let’s get on with the citizen’s assembly. Thank’s Boris.

“I know somewhere in there you have compassionate feelings towards something other than your career. You’ve got Premiership.

“Now you’ve got a chance to do something that could last for centuries. A legacy of being the man that turned it all around. Dare you.

“Oh, and thanks, Greta. I heard you calling.”

Another Extinction Rebellion demonstrator said he had no idea that another activist was going to ascend Big Ben and Harry who didn’t want to give his last name said: “We all come from different circles but are all part of Extinction Rebellion.”

“We don’t want to bring down the system, we want to shake them enough to get some action.”

The police started removing people from the road underneath the tower shortly before 4 pm and at about 4 pm police had cut through the netting around the scaffolding that separated them from the outer safety net where the man was.

They proceeded to put ropes around him to make sure he was secure between pacing around the red safety net which hung heavily under his weight, the man lay down with his blond wig trailing over the side.

Two ambulances and two police vans appeared a few minutes after 4 pm at the bottom of the tower inside Parliament, as emergency services prepared their attempt to apprehend the climber and at approximately 4.30 pm the climber had moved from the net to a large metal girder, where he sat looking out at the metropolis and eventually at about 7 pm Mr Atkinson was removed from the tower.

Police officers used a lift connected to a scaffolding to bring the protester to the ground and at least six people were seen accompanying him to his descent and as the lift reached the floor, a gathering of supporters applauded from behind a fence encircling the Palace of Westminster.

But there is one simple question to all of this, are we the taxpayers supposed to pay for the damage caused, the special hoist, two ambulances and the countless cops?

These rebels need to learn that climate change is a natural phenomenon according to a shock report which launched a spanner in the works of those who maintain that global warming is a consequence of man-made activity.

Because apparently, global temperatures would have still increased without the industrial revolution, basically dismissing the claim that man is responsible for climate change.

Most scientists will state that climate change is caused by an increase of CO2 being ploughed into the environment thanks to the industrial revolution but Dr Marohasy along with fellow scientist Dr John Abbot state this hypothesis was based on a model which was decided almost 120 years ago.

That model, mustered up by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius who was deemed to be one of the godfathers of physical chemistry, claimed carbon dioxide absorbs infrared radiation.

And while the fact that carbon dioxide absorbs infrared radiation is not disputed, there is an argument that it’s not correlated correctly to a heating globe and limited work has been done in the following century to update this model.

But to accurately examine the impact of CO2 in the environment data was obtained which offered ways to measure temperatures over the last 2,000 years such as tree rings and coral cores.

Dr Marohasy and Dr Abbot issued a paper in the journal GeoResJ describing their study of climate change using neural network technology and they fed this information into a machine learning neural network which gave prediction models of temperatures for the last two millennia if there was not extra CO2.

The computer predicted temperatures which almost exactly matched what global temperatures have been, even if there wasn’t an industrial revolution. They further discovered the world was warmer throughout Medieval times.

Dr Marohasy recorded in her blog there would have further been a spike in temperatures from 1983-2012, something which scientist have indeed observed and in reference to her study published in GeoResJ, Dr Marohasy wrote in her blog: “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates warming of approximately 1°C, but attributes this all to industrialisation.”

To be clear, while mainstream climate science is replete with published proxy temperature studies noting that temperatures have cycled up and down over the last 2,000 years, spiking throughout the Medieval Warm Period and then again recently to about 1980, the official IPCC reconstructions, which underpin the Paris Accord revoke such cycles.

And through this denial, leaders from within this much-revered community can maintain that there is something unusual about prevailing temperatures and that we have catastrophic global warming from industrialisation.

Dr Marohasy, whose long list of credentials include setting up The Climate Modelling Laboratory and director of the Australian Environment Foundation until 2008, brutally concludes that science is far from settled.

Nevertheless, Nasa, for one, has repeatedly asserted that global warming is a consequence of human activity, saying that there’s a 95 per cent likelihood that it’s caused by man.

And Nasa’s Global Climate Change Office has said: “The heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in the mid-19th century. Their ability to affect the transfer of infrared energy through the atmosphere is the scientific basis of many instruments flown by Nasa.

“There is no question that increased levels of greenhouse gases must cause the Earth to warm in response.”

They will never acknowledge that it’s a natural phenomenon and they deliberately use data from tree rings, known to be incorrect in modern times to justify their ideological agenda.

And you must have heard the expression, ‘genius is next to madness’, and even worse, the topic of climate change is now so polarised, some see it as a form of religion and we have become climate priests.

And we have soaked up all the stories and misinformation spat out by these so-called green lobbyists and we should forget about global warming and simply be thankful that the next ice age hasn’t begun yet because governments always want you to fear something and this is it.

And if someone can demonstrate to me how the last ice age ended and the planet began warming up again, I might consider global warming because it couldn’t have been caused by humans, we weren’t here yet. Yet every country in the world has taken millions of pounds in taxes to prevent something which is merely a natural phenomenon, so will they compensate us, I suspect not.

So, this is a natural phenomenon, who knew it, well, well. So, now all the taxes can be lifted and the yearly IPCC yearly bunfest, which was only for those who believed anyway, a little like a Vatican conference.

The BBC will have to update its propaganda programming, and what will these school teachers teach these children now, it’s going to be difficult to find a suitable replacement.

And it seems that man-made global warming and climate change is a huge deception put out there by governments and entrepreneurs so that they can obtain more cash from the people.

Of course, some of the problems in global warming are due to humans but researchers wouldn’t admit that most are due to a natural phenomenon because that would mean that researchers into global warming would lose their funding and support and would be doubted.

But of course, global warming is profitable and climate change is big business particularly when hit by severe weather and the United Kingdom is now one of the global leaders in this industry and this market for climate adaption and as the world’s climate fluctuates, Britain appears to have more expertise in such fields with weather forecasting, flood modelling, infrastructure and insurance which has now come to the forefront to prepare us for these kinds of events.

And our agriculture proceeds to innovate, using advanced breeding techniques to produce new crops that can flourish even when the weather appears to be against us with genetic engineering which has the potential to make further crop improvements.

With instances of floods that have destroyed Thailand and this has been a high-value business opportunity which is extensively promoted but this global warming is a business opportunity and now governments are encouraging companies on how to turn a profit from something most people view as a serious peril to our collective well being and too many companies are making huge amounts of money at the expense of the poorest people on the planet.

Climate change is a natural phenomenon but typically, the government has to put a tax on it and this is particularly profitable in the wrong hands.

Five hundred million years ago carbon dioxide concentration was 20 times greater than today, reducing to 4-5 times throughout the Jurassic era and then gradually decreasing with a particularly speedy decline occurring 49 million years ago.

But carbon dioxide diffuses in the ocean to form carbonic acid (H2CO3), bicarbonate (HCO3) and carbonate (CO32 and there’s about fifty times as much carbon dissolved in the oceans as exists in the atmosphere and the ocean serves as an enormous carbon sink which has taken up about a third of CO2 emitted by human activity.

Most people already know that global warming is a natural phenomenon but it’s the elite that is continually striving to intimidate us and maintain its existence.

Global warming is something which has been occurring frequently, in a cyclical time scale, since our Earth developed its atmosphere but what’s troubling is what comes next.

Climate change is one of the biggest globalist con tricks to ever be played out on the people, not only is it extremely profitable for the elites but it’s one of the main tools to bring in Agenda 21.

The light finally dawns on the scientific community. The climate has changed, sometimes suddenly and sometimes more gradually ever since there has been a climate. Whatever next? Boris Johnson making sense possibly, unlikely, but you never know.

But there are too many fingers in the £1.5 trillion estimated Green industry to make this con go away and for every climate report that says it’s all-natural these swindlers have ten fully paid up shill scientists saying it’s man-made.

To think all those highly paid people have not only wasted years of time and money they’ve told lies around the world so that we could be taxed to the bone but if you frighten people enough you can charge them unimaginable amounts of money.

The Economistalists will tell you that they can show scientifically that the more CO2 there is the warmer it gets, you can further claim that scientifically the more ice cream people eat leads to more shark attacks and that figures confirm this scientifically.

Of course, this is simply a coincidence of figures and one doesn’t mean that one is the cause of the other just like CO2. It merely suggests that when the weather is hotter more people eat ice cream and that when it’s warmer more people swim in the sea, leaving them more inclined to be attacked by a shark.

You will further notice that they never tell you the amount of CO2 there is in our atmosphere and is that because it’s so preposterously small to bring about the Armageddon they predict.

This is not going to please the global warmists because it tends to make them look ridiculous. It’s not going to please the climate scientists because their distorted reports are how they make their living.

It’s not going to please governments because they need some excuse for all their green tax and carbon tax and any other tax that they claim is saving our planet. So, on the whole, they will continue to dismiss anything other than it’s man-made.

Of course, this is of no surprise, the world is chock-full of fluffy people who are seriously seeking to save the planet. The dilemma is they’ve only been on the planet for a nanosecond and their studies extend for a few nanoseconds and we’re here dealing with something on a galactic scale and nanosecond science is of little value.

But the government would never admit to us that they’re fleecing us from every angle as long as it makes them money and puts more laws and sanctions on what we can and can’t do, they will carry on with this lie.

Of course, these foolish antics will not reap much support but no matter what we think of these rebellion tactics, we also don’t want the police to have powers to shoot harmless nonviolent demonstrators.

But what people should be protesting against is austerity because austerity kills people because this government doesn’t care about the people.

DWP Universal Credit: 700 Suspected Errors

More than 700 suspected errors in Universal Credit have been flagged in 18 months by a single town hall.

Labour-run Tower Hamlets started collecting the figures in April 2018 over concerns the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was not dealing robustly enough with problems.

Since then the deprived London borough’s officers have reported 728 incidents to the DWP, identifying £335,000 in alleged overpayments and £215,000 in underpayments and officials claimed some cases took months and numerous attempts to contact the DWP before they were solved.

The roll-out of Universal Credit should be stopped because it’s failing our most vulnerable residents and pushing them into hardship and it’s just not good enough that these errors continue and these ongoing mistakes that we’re seeing due to Universal Credit show that it’s not fit for purpose.

And it’s impossible for residents to budget when they’re being constantly underpaid or suddenly slapped with a bill for overpayments and cases reported by Tower Hamlets included a single parent in temporary accommodation, who waited eight months for payment because of a dispute between the council and the DWP over who was liable for paying them.

In another case, the DWP handed more than £5,000 to a claimant after it took three months to settle a dispute about their housing and child costs in Universal Credit and other cases led to people being paid too much in benefits.

Tower Hamlets officials alleged they told the DWP four times about someone who was being paid Universal Credit and housing benefit at the same time and by the time the problem was settled five months later, the claimant had been overpaid by £12,000.

In another case, officers identified what they alleged was a contrived tenancy between family members, but it took four notifications and £18,000 overpayments before the DWP stopped the right element of housing benefit.

Tower Hamlets stated it had identified 578 mistakes in cases in 2018/19 and despite the council going public about the first set this spring, 150 additional alleged mistakes were identified up to September, making 728 in total since the work started.

Not all cases are documented errors or received as mistakes by the DWP, as they were settled in different ways without a constant paper trail and a DWP spokesperson said that there were approximately 17,000 people getting Universal Credit in Tower Hamlets and more than 2 million across the United Kingdom in total and that they continue to give the best possible support to every single claimant and that if an error is made on someone’s benefit payment, their staff work to settle the issue as soon as possible, well, clearly not!

And how much longer do we have to drag this pustule along? It’s failing and everyone knows it, but the Tories refuse to accept it, even though it’s dicing with good people’s lives.

And it beggars belief why they don’t just scrap Universal Credit and go back to the old system because even that has to be more effective but it appears that admitting they’re wrong is something abhorrent to the prevailing government but maybe a few more Universal Credit induced suicides and impoverished families will be needed before they truly pull their heads out of the sand.

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