THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

CHRISTMAS spirit has run dry at Basildon Council this year as authorities have controversially chosen not to host a big lights switch on event in Basildon Town Centre, and the fireworks have been eliminated for health and safety purposes.

It would appear the whole of Basildon has shrivelled up and has been doing so for numerous years as dozens of giants shops lay vacant with £9 million being wasted in business rates as a consequence, and this is an early sign of a descending spiral of a trading area.

If nothing is done about this flag that’s being raised, there could be a knock-on effect and the number of vacant shops will grow, but bringing the cost of rents down and making parking more affordable and more accessible could enable traders to remain and stay.

And so it appears that all that cash Basildon tried to preserve back in the day by flogging off the car parks in Basildon Town Centre to tap a few quid off the Council Tax doesn’t seem such a great idea now! Of course, you can’t bulldoze the town centre if the shops are being used, so perhaps the plan is to price them out and then on with the demolition.

And with no shops to go to, everyone will have to go to other areas to shop, such as Burnt Mills and Mayflower Retail Park along with others, the council seem set to get us to use their costly white elephant one way or the other, and following the dreadful fiasco last year with the Christmas lights it’s feared that this year will be even worse.

It seems extraordinary that a town of Basildon’s stature and distinction that nothing seems to be in the diary so far to launch Christmas in the town square, but then this wall of silence has been the trend over the preceding years.

Maybe nothing has been planned at all, and that’s certainly something that many proposed visitants could assume.

Christmas is quickly approaching and most Essex towns are doing something to launch the celebratory period but there’s nothing anywhere about in Basildon Town Square, and this is about as bad as last year when nothing happened until the last minute and then it was a miserable flop.

Compare this decreasing volume of Christmas launch activity by the council in current years with Matt Cardle’s debut in the town square in 2013, which was one of the best events ever held there, but the council met with a torrent of criticism last year for the Christmas lights display, with residents complaining that there was no stage or fireworks display.

There’s no enthusiasm anymore because there are very little or no celebrations in Basildon, it just doesn’t feel like Christmas anymore, and whatever legitimate grounds Basildon Council might have for all of this, Basildon residents warrant some kind of explanation.

There will be no fireworks this year due to health and safety regulations, and also no stage or special switch-on ceremony, and it seems that Basildon has used up all their cash in their piggy bank on the new market, and what about the Christmas tree which has been banned from the Town Square for so many years because of health and safety reasons until a local retail management company paid for it a few years ago?

Health and safety, they’re simply pretexts because Basildon Council doesn’t want to fork out for a tree, and if they’re skint they should simply say so and stop trying to fool the locals that there are other reasons for their scarcity of support, especially in the declining number of shops in the Town Square as Basildon becomes an ugliness of a Borough.

Christmas in Basildon should be an amazing time with celebrations, markets, songs and laughter, and not full of health and safety regulations…

A man that was diagnosed with a brain tumour diagnosis had to give up his bar job in London and move back to his parents home in Inverness as he battled cancer, but not only that, because he had to give up his job, he was forced to apply for Universal Credit where he was made to fill out forms for six hours so that he could apply for Universal Credit.

Neil MacVicar said he went to a local Jobcentre to apply for Universal Credit and felt like he was punished for being ill after it took so long to fill out the forms, which made Neil feel broken and depressed, and he’s now called for reforms to the awful policy.

Following his treatment, he went to the Jobcentre to apply for Universal Credit where he had to sit in front of a computer for six hours to fill in the forms. He said it was awkward, and he felt like he was being punished for being ill, and is frightened that this may happen to someone who doesn’t have the assistance that he has, and he’s especially annoyed with this dreadful policy.

This entire encounter with Universal Credit has left him feeling broken, discouraged and concerned, and the Cancer charity Macmillan Cancer Support expects more than 2,600 cancer sufferers in Scotland, including some with a terminal diagnosis, are at substantial danger of hardship if the Universal Credit scheme is rolled out further.

Macmillan benefits advisor Elaine Donnelly, who also works for the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), has seen the impact of Universal Credit for the past few years, seeing people die before they get their benefits because the system doesn’t work.

The side effects of cancer and its treatment can impair someone’s capacity to work, and as a result, four in five Scottish patients are hit with an average cost of £420 a month because of lost income and additional outgoings, such as increased household bills due to feeling the cold more, and more than a quarter of those diagnosed have no savings.

The current Universal Credit rules mean cancer patients suffer a five-week delay before they get any money. This pertains to those with a terminal diagnosis because the fast-track process for people with less than six months to live has been eliminated, and under current policies, people with cancer already claiming benefits will have to apply for Universal Credit.

The policy is failing people with cancer and the Government must fix this before tens of thousands more vulnerable people are put in danger of hardship, to the point where there are people out there that have recently had emergency surgery for a life-threatening condition and the Universal Credit team are on the telephone to them demanding they attend back to work interviews, to the degree they’re prepared to force an interview whilst they’re in a critical care unit.

And this is the sort of people who are running our country! When are people going to wake up, strengthen their loins and stand tall, and face these insane entities face on?

The Tories are frequently compared to the Nazi party for their handling of the sick and disabled, and I may well have to agree with that because I can’t think of a better way to illustrate this criminal government.

There are people out there dying of brain tumours and they get nothing because they were daft enough to have savings, and then when their savings run out they have to sell their house, yet they would have worked all their life, and what for? To get nothing, so what did they work for in the first place, no wonder the younger generation don’t want to go to work, and then get blasted for it and called scroungers.

So, here’s the situation, you work all your life, you’re a remarkably hard worker, you pay your taxes like the good person that you are, which never go towards what they’re supposed to, and then finally you retire. Over the years you’ve managed to buy your home, which is now paid off and then you get ill.

So, where did all those taxes you paid go to? Well, they unquestionably didn’t go towards your future for when you get sick because there’s nothing in the cup for you, so you now have to sell your home to fund carers and/or a care home, so what was the point? Well, there is no point!

Years ago, purchasing your own home was an investment for your children when you passed away, so that they had something, your home was a nest egg, not anymore. You can’t even sign your home over to your children anymore because our deceitful government will find out, and then make your children liable for your care home.

So, what’s the point of sweating your nuts off, well absolutely none because anything we do own is never actually ours because we’re owned by the government, and the Tories don’t care about anybody, all they care about is stuffing their own pockets with as much money as they can before they get ousted, and then people wonder why this country is going under fast.

Of course, we can’t wave a magic wand and everything will be okay but this Tory government has proclaimed war on the sick and disabled, and people thought Margaret Thatcher was brutal and hard-hearted, but Theresa May beats them all.

What is it with her treating the sick and disabled as she does? And people who work for Atos gloating about how much gratuities they get by knocking claimants off their Personal Independence Payments (PIP). These policies are pure evil and there’s no excuse for victimising people who are sick whatsoever.

And to repeat once again, no matter how disabled or unemployed you are, the nasty party can’t push this Universal Credit through quick enough, and they don’t care how much misery it causes people, and it will put more pressure on the NHS due to more and more people becoming severely stressed and depressed.

Make no mistake, this government’s policies are really callous towards the vulnerable people of the United Kingdom, and the nasty party should all be ashamed of themselves, and there’s actually not enough cussing words to express what the government actually are!

But this is what happens in every type of government, they have this brilliant idea, but sadly, they don’t consult the voters, they simply say it’s happening, end of, and then they wait and see what happens. The point we should be looking at though is that if it’s not broken, don’t fix because it wasn’t broken in the first place. Of course, these bright ideas work for the wealthy, but the average Joe or poor people always get penalised.

The cruelty tactics of the DWP who have the vulnerable and the severely sick doing immense amounts of form filling when they’re gravely ill and one small mistake in those forms is enough to give the DWP a reason to withhold payment, that is their method in the madness.

And people with mental health problems, for them, simply looking at these kinds of forms can throw them into a tailspin of emotions, which is utterly disgusting, and there’s a subjective and financial cruelty inflicted on the vulnerable, and severely ill people with life-threatening symptoms, and serious mental health problems.

The whole political mafia is responsible for choosing these draconian measures while they line their pockets, and perhaps they should be paid in the same way as benefit claimants to see how they can cope for a few weeks without any means of sustenance.

The policy introduced under the last Labour government was in no way as rigid and unyielding as the wilfully wicked policy the Tories have turned it into. The Labour government had doctors conducting medical assessments and not nurses and sports therapists, and people who were deemed disabled under the Labour party introduced their version of the system where doctors would look at their specialist’s letters where it became pretty apparent that person would never work again.

Then the Tories got their hooks into the system and contracted Atos to administer the assessments, a contract that granted the assessors a cash gratuity for every claimant they assessed fit for work, so of course, the assessors will deem a person fit for work, there’s a reward in it for them.

Now people have to fight every time they’re assessed as Atos assessors say they’ll be able to return to work in spite of their specialist with over 35 years of experience saying differently, so how much longer is this going to be permitted to go on?

People pay their taxes and National Insurance, and this should be sorted as soon as possible so that we can stop this treatment of people being handled like animals, and if they can’t bring themselves to treat people like human beings, then perhaps we should inspire people to stop paying the fraudulent National Insurance and any other taxes as well because the government will only use it on fake banner terrorism and limousines for Jihadis.

Despite Universal Credit’s botched rollout reportedly being dallied, thousands were put on the new benefits system, and when the Tories first introduced Universal Credit in 2013, it was designed to replace six legacy benefits, including unemployment benefit, tax credits and housing benefit.

It was supposed to be executed across the United Kingdom by 2017, but management failures, IT mistakes and design flaws mean it has now sunk at least five years behind schedule.

On top of that, there have been a wealth of difficulties created by the new single benefit, as well as leaving claimants with nothing to live on throughout the transition phase, which can take longer than a month and many are then finding they’re then worse off than they were on legacy benefits.

In the meantime, imperfections in the system put poorer claimants particularly at increased danger of hunger, debt and rent arrears, ill-health and homelessness. In fact, the Trussell Trust, the UK’s biggest food bank network have announced that food bank referral rates in regions where the full Universal Credit rollout has taken place are more than double as high as the national standard.

Following continuing critique, the government has surrendered to rising demand to delay the next step of universal credit, and the policy is now not foreseen to be completely operational until December 2023, but despite this, government data has shown that the benefit continues to be rolled out to thousands of people across the country.

As of September this year, 1.2 million people in Great Britain were claiming Universal Credit, up from 1.1 million only a month earlier. That means that one in every 52 people living in the country is now on the scheme.

Dartford in Kent has witnessed the most visible rise in Britain, with the number of people claiming Universal Credit up by 67 per cent, from 446 in August to 747 in September, but, Hartlepool still has the highest percentage in the entire country, with one in every 11 people on the scheme, 8,448 people in total, up from 8,262.

And once that rollout concludes in December 2018, Universal Credit will begin a trial for existing claimants from mid-2019, followed by a full rollout for 4 million existing claimants from mid-2020.

And following the referendum in 2010 which was a particularly testing economic time for the United Kingdom, our government chose to use that challenging economic period to their own benefit, and so they re-engineered a narrative that they couldn’t provide benefits and that people on benefits didn’t deserve it.

They continued to act this narrative out and the effects have been horrible, and it looks like things will sequentially get worse before they get better because the government still seem to believe its own propaganda, or at least think they can get away with it.

Yes, of course, it’s insanity because it’s all based on a misinterpretation of the truth, but the truth has a way of coming back to bite you on the arse, and people should be taking to the streets to protest, but then we ask ourselves, well if these people are too poor to feed themselves or travel, how can they protest, well, because most of them are already living on the streets!

And further because the prevailing political attitude is indifference, with people feeling completely disempowered, economically, socially and politically, to the degree that millions of people don’t even vote, because they don’t believe that voting changes anything, but some will go and protest, which isn’t exactly rational behaviour, but there are many people in that political bubble.

Most people don’t even read the newspaper anymore, well, why even bother, it’s all very disheartening and terrifying, and there’s now a feeling of “well this is just the way it is,” and most people don’t even try or care anymore, and most people would rather use their lunch break signing up for an iPhone or a loan for a Ford Focus.

The United Kingdom needs true direction, but at the moment it’s all about debt and how much debt we’re in and how we can condemn others for that debt. The problem is, people, lead by example, well, if the government don’t see a problem with the debt and how it’s going to be paid back, why should the people worry about it? Let’s all get into debt and then criticise somebody else…

And if Brexit totally crashes the market, which it might probably do, then fuck it, who gives a crap, because our government unquestionably don’t while they sit there scratching their heads wondering what to do, because they can’t be arsed, it’s too much effort and it’s like being on the Jeremy Kyle show.

Debt is the slavery of the free, but of course, there’s nothing free about it, and everything that we did has been taken away from us, we’ve all been shafted, and most young people now are not prepared to stand up for their freedoms because they’ve been so conditioned they now don’t believe they exist.

They’ve used the introduction of Universal Credit to wrangle multiple premiums or additional amounts paid for the disabled adults and children. They’ve changed the dictates on overpayments so that they’re always recoverable from the claimant, even when it’s the DWP’s fault that the overpayment occurred.

They punish the self-employed who have changeable incomes across the monthly assessment periods, so that they miss out in the “good” months, but aren’t compensated in the “bad” months, and they routinely disregard doctor’s certificates, declaring people have a restricted capacity for work, and then the DWP expects them to undertake 35 hours intensive work search a week or risk sanctions, soon they’ll be putting financial sanctions on people in the low paid, low hours work.

The government have devised an environment of abject fear amongst the working classes, which makes them fear unemployment, and to make them thankful for whatever morsels come their way, and to create a underclass of willing and compliant worker drones.

From 2010 onwards, the Tories attempted to formulate a particular narrative, and if you tell a lie often enough and powerfully enough, everyone will believe it, and a lie will reach halfway around the world before the truth has had the opportunity to get its trousers on, and if you tell a lie for long enough, you end up believing it yourself, and this is what the government does.

So, what you got was a string of cuts that were all part of formulating and bolstering this false narrative, no matter how many people got hurt in the process, it’s just business, and there’s an opening for a bit of profit, and you can be certain that the worst in society will be sniffing around for a taste.

So, you have the four horsemen, G4S, Serco, A4E and Atos all seeking that extra bit for the shareholders, and it’s the greatest single atrocity in modern history, and someone has to pay for that – 120,000 dead!

If you’re born poor, you’ll die on average 9 years earlier than others, if you’re black, you’re treated more brutally by the criminal justice system, than if you’re white. If you’re a white, working-class boy, you’re less likely than anybody else in Britain to go to University, and if you’re at a state school, you’re less likely to reach the top positions than if you’re educated privately.

If you’re a woman, you’ll earn less than a man, and if you suffer from mental health difficulties, there’s not enough help to hand. If you’re young, you’ll find it harder than ever before you own your own home, but Britain should be a country that works for everyone, but that means fighting these inequalities.

If you’re from an average working-class family, life is much harder than many people in Westminster understand. You have a job but you don’t always have job security, you have your own home, but you despair about meeting the mortgage, and you worry about the cost of living and getting your children into a good school.

People are working around the clock, striving to do their best, with life being a struggle, but our government are motivated by the interests of the vested, and not by the ordinary working class. Our government tell us that we will have more control over our lives, but it’s a lie, and when they make new laws they tell us they’re listening to us but that’s a lie as well, and when it comes to taxes, those taxes aren’t prioritised for you, they’re only prioritised for the rich.

And they tell us that when it comes to an opportunity they’ll do everything they can to support everybody, whatever your background, that’s a lie as well, and Theresa May and her ensemble of Tories don’t mean a word of it…

Universal Credit was an accident waiting to happen, and it’s shocking that the government pushed ahead with this sham implementation despite all the warnings to the contrary, and it was a great idea in theory, but the reason it wasn’t tried before is that it would have taken a genius or a fool to risk implementing it, but of course, we got one of those in Iain Duncan Smith.

Sadly, there was absolutely nothing accidental about Universal Credit, it was intended to make benefits so completely unbearable that you were forced to work under any circumstances, no matter how disabled you are, so after fox hunting was banned, they, of course, had to have some kind of entertainment, 120,000 human deaths!

Now we have this brutish benefit that our Victorian government have defined as being the life of the socially deprived, and now this is an epitaph that has been implemented to so many features of Britain in 2018, and I wouldn’t put it past our government to propose reinstituting workhouses with a bowl of groats and a slab of bread per inmate per day.

But then we shouldn’t give them any ideas, and I’m not totally convinced they haven’t considered it already, but then Universal Credit is just a more modern workhouse for the 21st century.

Yet we’re deemed to be one of the wealthiest countries in the world and yet we have to resort to handouts to feed people, which is an absolute insult, and when will the Tories get it, the system doesn’t work, this is a broken project managed by a group of totally inept ministers, which began with Iain Duncan Smith.

The original concept was a good one, simplify the benefits system, but the effect was stupendous and wasted £15 billion, but then the system was designed by the stagnant Conservatives who don’t really live in the real world, with all their adversarial opinions, preconceptions and presumptions against the poor, sick and the unemployed, with a built-in radar to ensure that most people are viewed as workshy.

Universal Credit was dead before it was even put into the government’s shop window, but it was still sold to us so that we could work as slaves, and £15 billion would have paid for everybody’s JSA for two years, so much for saving money, but they haven’t saved any money, and people are suffering.

The root idea was peddled as a simplification, but the baseline theory was to save money, but Universal Credit was administered in an eruption of ill thought, through methods that have enhanced 3rd party corporates but have crucified thousands of people who are not able to express themselves or support themselves during its implementation.

Six weeks is a long time waiting for your money, particularly if you don’t have any monetary resources at your disposal. Honestly, who has 6 weeks money saved up while Universal Credit sits on their hands sorting out the money they owe you?

But then there’s this notion that working people are propping up an entire host of feckless people who exploit the system to live in extravagance, and who are apparently defined by viewing Sky TV on a huge television set at the working class expense, but for every sneering abuser there are ordinary people out there trapped in an abyss from which they have no release.

Nevertheless, the government have devised a scheme that most of us generally agree is useless, brutal and cruel, yet they proceed to roll it out, and they’re competing amongst themselves in their cowardly retreat from the EU.

This country truly is in a mess because the whole thing, if you think about it is about social cleansing, and things will get worse, and despite everything being cut to nothing and all services being driven into the ground, many people still vote Tory.

At the end of the day, we are human beings, but we must stand up and say enough is enough, and we must do something about it. Our life has a purpose!

Universal Credit was designed to fail, it had design faults built in because the Tories loathe those on benefits, and the design of Universal Credit was to push people off any kind of welfare inside a decade, and this Universal Credit rollout will only lead to grave social problems rather swiftly, and it will affect many who never thought they would be subjected to this ideological massacre against the poor.

This, of course, is all down to Iain Duncan Smith and his unwillingness to heed to any rational objections raised by outside experts or the people who have had to use the system, and it’s an outright insult that a system that has been rolled out so gradually has still had extensive and visible imperfections that should have been discussed at the development stage.

What the government have actually done is simplify the system so that they can allow state-led bullying, costing us a fortune to administer, and the plan is operating flawlessly for the system designers, and the delays have been masterminded into the system to decrease the amount being claimed, even further than it was intended to cut spending by.

And it’s ironic how the blunders and delays always end up financially benefiting the organisation making them because our government doesn’t give a crap about the people it steps on, and if you were on Employment and Support Allowance and have now been put onto Universal Credit, on Universal Credit you will not be entitled to your severe disability gratuities anymore, which means sick and disabled people will lose £40 a week.

It’s a disgusting system, and if you’re sick and disabled in the United Kingdom you’re proverbially up the swanny without a paddle, and these are calculated and deliberate attacks on the countries most defenceless citizens.

Universal Credit is a repugnant, cruel, planned ideological assault on the countries people by its own government, and they should be badgered from office for this alone.

Iain Duncan Smith woke up this morning from his well-quilted mattress, wandered down to his well-stocked pantry for his first coffee of the morning, and after taking a bath he retreated to his kitchen for a full English breakfast and then retired to his study to check his emails and read the Financial Times.

He’s probably already ordered his Christmas Turkey, and I’m confident there are countless people out there who hope that he will gag on it because honestly, how long will it be before people start starving to death because of this Machiavellian policy?

But we’ve seen nothing yet, wait until they have absolute control when we leave the regs of the EU, but the nitwits that vote Tory will still vote Tory because they’re either the rich or thick, and people have already starved to death or killed themselves, but there’s no known body holding records of them, so we can only go by what the newspapers tell us about it, or deny what happens.

But there are countless people who are found fit for work and have died or had delays in their benefits and so on, but there’s no formal record, and frequently details vary, so you have to do a bit of looking, and some people would never believe it anyhow.

We so far know of a minimum of 60 disabled or vulnerable people who have died. But, the UK amount is akin to 4,000 but it could be as high as 81,140 welfare reform deaths.

A mum died alone in her freezing home after her benefits were terminated.

Elaine Morrall couldn’t afford to pay for the heating, so she turned it off and only switched it back on when her four children came home from school.

Her benefit payments had been withdrawn after she was too sick to attend a meeting.

The 38-year-old mother, from Runcorn, who had been battling depression and an eating disorder, and who had recently been in hospital in intensive care, had covered herself in her coat and scarf inside the house, but how many people have got to die before this government realises they are killing vulnerable people?

And even though she had recently been in hospital in the Intensive Care Unit, she was still considered not sick enough for Employment and Support Allowance, and her benefits were suspended many times, which in turn ended her housing benefit.

So, she finished up with no income but was expected to be able to pay full rent, and even though ESA knew that she’d been in intensive care, that was not a satisfactory rationale for failing to attend a universal credit interview, and yet the uncaring housing took her to court.

Do people really have to be dead to justify their illness? And what are councillors doing to protect their constituents?

This is such a terrible tragedy, and this Tory government is disgusting and should be dismissed with immediate effect. There are laws preventing animals from suffering in this way, yet human beings get treated like this every day.

Why are there no laws preventing people from being starved and frozen to death by benefits cuts? Cuts that are being carried out to support a wicked financial sector.

It’s high time that we brought DWP civil servants and government ministers to court who were notified of these deaths by HM Coroners and doctors numerous years ago and failed in their duty of care, because there are too many DWP deaths and a paper trail leading to DWP decision makers, Atos, Capita and Maximus contracts.

All the way up to the private sector of CEOs and DWP ministers such as Esther McVey, Chris Grayling and Iain Duncan Smith, all associated indelibly to the Atos association of UK disability payments.

Elaine Morrall should not have died. Her death was completely avoidable.

There must be some legitimate challenges to this insanity or was the slashing of legal aid done to stop these outrageous arseholes in the government facing blame? Getting rid of legal aid was another shocking, savage cut in the name of austerity.

Iain Duncan Smith should have been made to get down on the shop floor to get his hands messy to know about those lives he’s ruined. He’s never worked hard a day in his life past flicking paper clips, and if he had got down on that shop floor to get his hands dirty, he might then understand that people work their cobblers off and don’t get paid nearly enough to live on.

But like with all Tories and the thoroughly despicable Iain Duncan Smith who was the author of the Universal Credit fiasco, he buggered off, just like David Cameron with the Brexshit, and those of us that are old enough to remember, the Tories always do this, and most Tory MPs or rather the ones with power that usually sit in the cabinet have absolutely no concept of how the average person lives.

That’s why they can introduce Universal Credit, have it inextricably connected to the internet or premium rate lines and have never once considered how people on low incomes would ever be able to access the system, and that’s why Iain Duncan Smith launched Universal Credit whilst sitting on his keister having £40 breakfasts.

And what will happen, as what always happens with the Tories, in the end, the shallow electorate will wake up, usually because the cuts will begin to affect them, so much so that even the stench and deception from the right wing press will not be enough to disguise the stench of a rotting party.

The Tories are trying out an experiment to prepare for much greater levels of unemployment, either through another banking racket or Brexit or just the natural increase in joblessness, we’ll encounter because of self-regulation.

Their solution appears to be making people disappear into a bureaucratic labyrinth and the government are spoiling for a fight, let’s face it, how far will people be pushed before they snap?

It appears that this country is falling apart and the government is not fit for purpose, and we should never under any circumstances support or take part in an election because we’re being manipulated by people who have slightly more power to create situations which satisfy their own agenda which isn’t good for the country, which was once loved and people were proud of, but now it’s being run by ideological insane sociopaths.

And now there’s evidence that nothing much has altered since the days of the workhouse, and we need a Charles Dickens to expose these violations and shame this appalling government into taking action to change the lives of the common man.

And the people in the management of Universal Credit are quite like the old workhouse masters, and the system has been designed to be challenging and to make it practically impossible for people to get by on Universal Credit, and this saves the government nothing because Universal Credit has been a complete balls up, wasting billions of pounds, but largely satisfied the right wing fools who look down on anyone unfortunate enough to be on low wages or unemployed.

Meanwhile the United Kingdom gives the lowest corporation tax in Europe and supports wealthy people use tax havens, and honestly, it’s felonious and this shower of a government should be up on manslaughter charges, and Universal Credit has been a failure from the start, and it’s only just getting the coverage it deserves, and despite all the difficulties, the government ploughs on as if nothing’s wrong.

We shouldn’t believe all the hype in the papers because the governments entire initiative was clearly intended to schtup over the poor, and as far as the shortsighted, ideologically contaminated poop running the country are concerned, it’s bang on target.

The fact that you can only apply for Universal Credit online is wicked, and the 6-week wait is inhumane, spiteful and cruel, and the system was intended to get more people in social housing into difficulty so that their houses could be repossessed and flogged off, and in some areas this is used as part of an ethnic and/or social cleansing programme.

It has been mistake after mistake with Universal Credit, and this is all pretty deliberate because Universal Credit was introduced to demolish social security, full stop, and we might believe these Tories are fools, but they’re certainly not, just like the dimmest conman, they know precisely what they’re doing, and the kindest thing you can say about the Conservatives is that they’re out of touch.

One of the principal factors in the Tories ingenious policy is that they want to dismantle the benefits system. There now stands a total division between the claimant and the DWP. Everything’s online, and you can’t talk to a human being, and you’re in perpetual dread of doing something wrong and being sanctioned, and you have no sense how the calculations of benefits are done.

There’s an estrangement, the public now sees claimants as scroungers or at best undeserving of the money that they get from the DWP, and it’s a disgrace what’s happening because the Tories don’t mean well, they’re merely algae and their entire underlying conception is one of stark self-interest.

 

Universal Credit will be replaced under Labour’s wide-ranging benefits review. These remarks were said hours after the Mirror launched a petition to halt Universal Credit’s rollout, which appeared to show John McDonnell’s warning that the Tories flagship benefit has got to go.

It is a huge change to the party’s earlier plan to “pause and fix” the benefit, which has forced families into rent arrears and turned them to food banks. It further suggests Labour’s language has hardened significantly since two weeks ago when the Mirror announced the party could scrap Universal Credit.

At the time, shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Margaret Greenwood stated Labour was “in the process of looking into” whether Universal Credit could be jettisoned. But she stated she was “not ruling anything out” during a year-long review because Labour wanted to be “on top of all the detail”.

Following that discussion, it appeared Tory welfare chief Esther McVey had clandestinely warned countless families could lose £200 a month. That prompted Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell to announce on Sunday: “The reforms haven’t worked.”

He continued: “I think we are moving to a position now where it is just not sustainable. It will have to go.” And in a briefing for journalists in Westminster, a spokesperson seemed to support Mr McDonnell’s comments and added the current review will examine at “what should replace” Universal Credit.

The government is obviously unable to cope with the collapse of its own benefit reforms, and the Universal Credit scheme is not working, it’s not delivering what it was meant to do.

This is a policy that’s not delivering, that isn’t working and must be discarded, but Tory ministers warned discarding Universal Credit and returning to the old policy would create huge disruptions and would be complicated and costly because the changes have become more embedded.

It’s claimed by 1.1million and counting low earners, the jobless and sick or disabled are getting an average of £630 per household per month. Thirty-Seven per cent of claimants are in employment.

Universal Credit will be in every Jobcentre for new claimants by December 2018. There are 3.95million current benefit claimants, in around 3 million homes, that will then be migrated to Universal Credit from July 2019.

After eight delays Universal Credit will only achieve its rollout in March 2023, and Universal Credit could trigger a deadly reminisce of the Poll Tax.

There are terrible consequences when a six-in-one-benefit, which cuts millions of families payments and will be rolled out to 3.95 million more claimants from July 2019, and it could create the kind of problems that the Conservative Party ran into with the Poll Tax.

For those who don’t remember or were too young to remember, the Poll Tax triggered disturbances and public disobedience and toppled Margaret Thatcher in 1990 before it was discarded and restored with Council Tax, although I’m not specifically predicting riots.

But the Government should rethink its nationwide roll-out of the benefit after its opening roll-out to 1.1 million people left them in rent arrears, and along with it, the usage of food banks.

At the time Universal Credit appeared flawless and totally reasonable in speculation, but it was only a theory and it didn’t work and now its implementation should be amended.

Unfortunately, it was launched too quickly and in the wrong circumstances, and that was extremely dangerous, and our government should have looked really carefully on how it was organised and introduced.

There are presently three options, redesign Universal Credit so it’s fit for purpose, axe it in support of the old system if Universal Credit is unfixable, or introduce a brand new system.

There are people out there that love the Universal Credit system, and that’s great for them, but think about the ways in which it has been used to very cleverly force work upon people who can’t work.

Most people just keep their family afloat, managing on what income they bring in, with wages and Universal Credit, until they get sick and then have to visit food banks, why because Universal Credit took off the previous months wages.

It simply proves how ruthless and uncaring the Tories are, and hopefully, people will stand up against this injustice, and Theresa May and her gang have gone too far.

The Tories might not meet an Oxford dictionary definition of a fascist government, but they come pretty close if we look at how they treat the sick, disabled, single parent families, the jobless and the old, and perhaps the Tories have gone too far this time.

Ester McVey is the most irritating politician, her voice drives you nuts and when she talks it’s like she’s weighing up her words one by one, but this is typical of the Tories who aren’t bothered about the pain and suffering they create.

The fact is the government should be taken to court for breach of contract on the social contract, where we pay in our money to ensure that those of us who require it get a moderate standard of living, and sadly, there genuinely are some claimants that milk the system, but we shouldn’t let that tar everyone with the same brush.

The problem is, there are people out there that do this and then treat people who actually need the money to feel like they’re a sub-standard human being who is actually struggling to make ends meet.

Based on people that are on or were on benefits very few people really choose benefits as a lifestyle option, even though there’s plenty of media coverage on this, and sadly, the right-wing media has done a pretty effective job at demonising all benefit claimants.

And most people that have difficulties paying their rent because of Universal Credit aren’t using it on cigarettes, booze and drugs, and Universal Credit can still be paid directly to a landlord for rent.

The difficulty is that there’s a 6-week delay in getting your rent paid by Universal Credit and by that time most landlords can’t afford not to be paid for 6 weeks and are forcing tenants out who get Universal Credit. Furthermore, if a family is paid weekly, many months of the year have 5 weeks, and on those months they get 5 wage packets, they’re considered to have earned too much and they get limited or no Universal Credit, which means that the next month they’re left struggling.

So, you might get a person in their late 50s who’s worked all their life, has brought up kids on their own, but is now in poor health and can barely walk. The DWP put her on Universal Credit rather than putting her on the sick, which means she gets £200 a month and has to spend £85 a week rent out of that, as well as gas, electric, council tax, TV licence and has barely any food to eat.

This person doesn’t smoke or drink, yet there are hundreds of people out on the streets, and families simply can’t sustain on that money, they have to go to food banks and food kitchens, it’s horrifying.

Yet there’s absolutely no human sympathy from people until those people fall on hard times, let’s face it, it could happen to anybody! Thing is, not everyone makes the connection between this kind of thing, that it can happen to any of us, losing our livelihood, and people being on benefits, but they’re simply seen as scroungers.

This is simply another means of decreasing genuine claimants benefits. Universal Credit must go along with the pernicious bedroom tax et cetera, and the oppressive incompetent fools that have fulfilled their cruel policies and appear to stop at nothing to create pain and misery to the defenceless in our society.

Theresa May should do us all a huge service and go…

And the only people wanting Universal Credit to remain are Theresa May’s government who are the most dysfunctional, incompetent, false government that Great Britain has ever had to endure.

Today Prince Eugenie married Jack Brooksbank, and as she made her way into St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle today for her wedding, she looked utterly astounding.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were all in attendance for the magnificent royal ceremony, joining an 850-strong gathering of dignitaries, royals and VIP guests.

It was absolutely wondrous as people came from far and wide to attend the union of the happy couple.

Guests arrived clutching onto their hats in what were gusty conditions, as the staff were seen replacing a fallen potted tree which was knocked over onto the West Steps of the venue.

David Emanuel, who created Princess Diana’s wedding dress also arrived donning a dark suit over a white T-shirt, as the supermodel, Naomi Campbell walked out in the grounds of Windsor Castle, and slightly ahead of her was Hollywood star Demi Moore, donning a burgundy dress and matching fascinator.

A 22-year-old lady, Amy Gardner travelled from Luton last night before the wedding and stayed in a hotel in Egham. She also went to see Kate and Will’s wedding, so it seems Royal wedding frenzy is back again.

Numerous people travelled from far and wide to see the marriage and many stayed in hotels so that they could see the royal wedding, and the ambience there was surprisingly nice, even with all its grandeur.

Robbie Williams arrived hand-in-hand with his wife Ayda Field, and a photograph of the group was taken outside the church moments before Mr William’s mother-in-law lost her hat.

Princess Eugenie arrived at St George’s Chapel in a 1977 Rolls Royce Phantom VI, accompanied by her father, the Duke of York. The Rolls Royce was given to the Queen in 1978 for her Silver Jubilee by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

 

The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, travelled to Westminster Abbey in the same vehicle on her way to marry the Duke of Cambridge in April 2011.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived at St George’s Chapel only five months after Harry and Meghan tied the knot in the selfsame church.

The Duchess of Sussex arrived with Harry and was attired in a navy dress and coat by Givenchy and a hat by Noel Stewart, and the Duchess of Cambridge arrived with the duke bearing a dress by Alexander McQueen and a Philip Treacy hat.

All preparation of the wedding was not personally planned by the Duke of York, all consent has to go through the Queen, and Eugenie was told where the wedding would take place and the Queen adamantly informed her that the wedding was going to be at St George’s.

And the church was packed out ahead of the 11 am ceremony with some 800 people, 200 more than at Harry and Meghan’s nuptials were gathered outside St George’s chapel and attended the afternoon reception, hosted by the Queen in St George’s Hall.

About 1,200 members of the public were given balloted invites to the castle’s Lower Ward, as were charity delegates, children from Eugenie’s old schools and the Royal Household staff.

Prince Charles, Eugenie’s uncle arrived at the church, he also celebrated his own wedding to the Duchess of Cornwall at St George’s Chapel in 2005.

The Queen arrived at the church in Windsor for the wedding, Prince Phillip was by her side as the masses outside St George’s Chapel cheered their appearance.

 

Jack Brooksbank and his younger brother Thomas were at the top of the aisle moments before the ceremony, with the guests all now seated as Princess Eugenie strolls down the aisle. Princess Eugenie who is ninth in line to the throne was seen donning a pretty white dress with no vail.

Princess Eugenie stood with her soon-to-be-husband Jack Brooksbank as the music inside St George’s Chapel ends and the service starts, with the couple now giving their vows in the church and the exchange of wedding rings.

Princess Eugenie was wearing the most gorgeous wedding dress which was impeccably crafted to fit her perfectly and it was nice to see all that craftsmanship in the dress today.

Partying MPs face stringent new rules about their conduct after cleaners complained of finding used condoms and barf in their Westminster offices, and appalled cleaners are sick of being made to clean up after partying members and staff.

Commons authorities are now thinking of introducing a “service agreement” about the proper use of workspaces in the Houses of Parliament because this is the sort of behaviour you would expect from students enjoying freshers week, not MPs and their staff, but cleaners are being confronted with vomit and used condoms in offices used by MPs and their staff.

Cleaners are not there to clean up after staff and MPs lasciviousness, and this is clearly not appropriate in the office workspace, and following the Westminster sex scandal thing, it was decided to restrict the subsidised drinking habits in Parliament which included closing the Sports and Social bar after Alice Bailey, the former manager stated she was harassed for sex by MPs, including one who followed her out and groped her.

The bar closed in December following a confrontation between two male parliamentary staffers but re-established as a wine bar The Woolsack with decreased opening hours, and last year Andrea Leadsom, leader of the House of Commons had overseen the introduction of parliament’s independent grievance policy to dispense with accusations of wrongdoing, and a phone line was set up for people to report any violation of the new behaviour code.

These MP’s should be identified and harshly admonished. After all, no employer would allow such behaviour on their premises. Besides as it is a publicly maintained building and their workspace no less, shut the bars that they have there.

How many companies fully kit out bars in their staff-rooms? They’re paid to work, not to have a drink on your behalf, and the same rules should apply for MPs and their staff, and if companies don’t permit their workers to booze alcohol during their work hours, neither should this lot.

And to think these low lives dictate our country, which only confirms they’re in it for themselves, along with the expenses and salaries, and the sleaze of all those concerned have no morals, and they’re never confronted about these revolting antics.

How can we trust these people, what is it? Do as I say and not as I do comes to mind, and we should be at a loss that people like these are in a position of authority and get to run our country and handle case sensitive information. Particularly when these clowns are gratifying themselves, boozing and perhaps there might even be drugs involved, which leaves them susceptible to exploitation or extortion because loose lips sink ships.

Obviously, not all of them are like this, but as a whole, the entire place is a rodents retreat. They’re supposed to be governing our country and all they do is sap the working class dry, and the more people work to earn for themselves or their families, the more people have to give to this pack of vermin and their drug-fuelled benders.

A young mother was beaten up following a Brexit meeting but this mother was assaulted just for supporting Labour.

Jade Unal was booted in the head, required stitches and was left with an unsightly bump after thugs ambushed her and her mum in a working men’s club when they’d stopped off for a late night drink after attending a Labour talk about Britain’s departure from the EU.

They just had the one drink and were minding their own business. The group must have had their eye on them when they started calling Jade Unal some rather offensive words and a ‘posh snob’, it was horrific and they said they knew where she lived.

And before she knew it they were laying into her screaming. They knocked her out and kept on hitting her even when her mother attempted to defend her, and now Jade has had to go into sheltered housing for fear the thugs who struck at Brook House Working Men’s club in Wakefield, West Yorks, could target her house.

Jade runs the local Young Labour section and was hoping to stand as a councillor in next year’s polls, but now she worries it could be too risky to speak up and become a public figure.

She has a three-year-old daughter who motivates her, as Tory cuts affect everything around them, and as austerity is obvious and instead of dealing with the poorest parts, people are left to fend for themselves.

It’s no surprise these people dislike politics and those concerned, they could have killed Jade, and even though she knows they could have killed her, she still understands to a degree why they assaulted her.

Jade who is studying for a degree in public service management said that the attack was a sad echo of what happened to Jo Cox, the MP murdered in nearby Batley and Spen in 2015.

Her gravest concern was that somebody would know who she was and hurt her, and it’s come true.

Wakefield’s Labour MP Mary Creagh spoke of the assault on Jade: “I was shocked and upset. I am working with her to make sure she gets the support she needs.”

Brook House Working Men’s Club did not comment, but the Police are investigating it.

It’s not right for any man to hit a woman, but this assemblage were simply far-right thugs, and they beat her because she was a Labour supporter, and we just need to look back at Germany in the early 1930s to see Nazi stormtroopers beating up Jews and political players to see where this kind of thuggery gets us.

The nearest we came to this was The Battle of Cable Street, where socialist and others stood up to these agitators, and now we have the momentum stormtroopers attacking anyone who doesn’t like their views.

This is utterly wrong and really sad to see and to be honest, no one should be beaten up for their opinions.

Everybody is allowed their views, but that doesn’t imply that we should go around whacking everybody because they don’t agree with what you might do or say, or that their view is an inferior one. The thing is, some people do respect other’s views and opinions but the preponderance of people don’t because they feel like there can only be one true mindset and that the so-called correct opinion is undoubtedly theirs because they must be correct.

Most people tend to think in a comparatively restricted and single-minded way which stops them from considering other viewpoints on their own, and when you think of something, you’re most likely pretty clear on why your viewpoint is justified because you came to your conclusion and judgment based on a collection of reasons which is rational and makes complete sense to you.

This is why your view is ‘correct’ and ‘right’, to you at least, and this happens for every single person. They know why their opinion is rational and demand everyone else to come to the same conclusion as them because they overlook the fact that not everyone thinks in the same way as them and will make the same connections and links as them to come to the same conclusion as a similar event.

Another reason that some people may be unable to consider opposing viewpoints is that a prejudice against a particular viewpoint has been instilled in them. For instance, if a child, has been told that opinion or viewpoint A is incorrect, this prejudice against opinion A could become very ingrained enough that when the child grows up, he won’t even ask why opinion A is ‘wrong’. This would lead him to be unable to understand opinion A and therefore, be unable to respect it.

In conclusion, people may not consider others views because they think that only one idea can be the ‘correct’ opinion, and they lack the understanding of the differing viewpoint or they have prejudices against particular views.

So, here we have Theresa May dancing away to Queens “Dancing Queen” only the hapless thing looked like an elderly woman who’d just dropped an acid tab and finished up on the stage at a Tory conference.

And if you look at all the social embarrassment and personal incompetence in the world, she just fashioned herself into this animated mannequin, and obviously someone, somewhere decided it was a great plan, and what’s more, Theresa May believed them.

Ordinarily, I’d say don’t give up your day job, but in this instance, I actually hope she does, she’s far better at dancing.

Look at her, she’s attempting to look like she’s got a sense of humour – she’s supposed to be our Prime Minister, not Mr Bean!

Theresa May how ridiculous could you possibly be, net alone embarrassing, you do know you actually can’t dance?

It’s like Star Trek: The Next Generation where data is given an upgrade to feel human. Theresa May kind of acted like a human, but she was sort of disturbing, awkward and unconvincing, this must be the new humour update.

Or it would seem that someone has reactivated her emotion chip. It needs a bug fix though, the new dance mode stops after a couple of swings. On the other hand, it could be a long-awaited pissed up nan version to give a more familiar feel for older users.

I’m surprised she doesn’t trip over her hands, her arms are just too long, like an Orangutan, and she’s got no rhythm, no spirit, no compassion and no understanding.

She should take a deep sigh and smile because honestly, your shrivelled little soul will appreciate it, but to be fair it makes me want to be sick, you know, it’s that stomach-twisting sensation you get when you watch her on TV attempting to be happy and entertaining, but really she’s as entertaining as Chlamydia, the only difference is, you can get rid of Chlamydia.

When all is said and done, the Dancing Queen is all about the Money, Money, Money, but we all know the Name of the Game and we’d don’t want to take a chance on her, because she’s no Super Trooper.

But the audacity of this woman beggars belief because the government have systematically slaughtered our Social Services and the backup systems that the old, disabled and vulnerable peopled depended on, and Theresa May is a brass face of a woman.

And it’s bad advice to whoever gave it to her, to dance like a drunken granny at an old people’s home Christmas party, particularly when carers are underpaid and understaffed, and have no time to clean up poo when she shits herself.

She actually does need to take some dancing lessons, and while she’s doing that, perhaps she should take some lessons in kindness, compassion, understanding, honesty and sincerity, then she might learn something, and she wouldn’t be dancing if she was waiting for her State Pension that the government have cheated thousands of British WASPI women out of.

But I’m glad she’s happy to dance onto the stage while people use food banks and the homeless sleep on the streets.

It’s like someone’s installed a corrupt version of Windows in her and she is malfunctioning. Iain Duncan Smith needs to get on the phone with the IT department and also needs to put a ticket in for an anti-virus scan, but then again I guess he’ll probably be too busy going house to house, robbing the food out of the hands of starving children, that he won’t be able to wait the 40 minutes for an IT technician to answer the telephone.

It must have been the Maybot Malfunction Manoeuvre, and we really should complain to Abba and hope that they sue her because clearly, they didn’t give permission for this classic track to suffer such degradation and disgrace?

We should really be horrified by this behaviour while she’s dancing away and while people are starving on the streets or on benefits. There appears to always be funds for new roads and railways and the military while people are dying on our streets, and whilst we might all find it a tad amusing that our Prime Minister, Theresa May is dancing and making a laughingstock of herself on stage, we shouldn’t be impressed to our Prime Minister referring to herself as our Queen!

It appears that politics is now our new rock, swaggering her stuff like a young Liam Gallagher going up to collect an unwanted Brit Award. Surely she could have picked a song by a British band? Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin comes to mind.

Theresa May is the last nail in the coffin for England, and instead of being our Prime Minister she should be dancing in a nightclub because she’s certainly not fit for her current position.

 

Tory welfare chief Esther McVey has implied her own party’s benefit cuts are “fake news” in a brazen party conference address. The Work and Pensions Secretary lanced an egotistic assault on Labour and “social media” despite cuts being well-documented by think tanks and her predecessor Iain Duncan Smith.

Most working-age benefits have been suspended for four years from 2016/17 to 2019/20, a cut to families real income. The government’s own 2015 Budget said this would cut £4 billion a year from the benefits bill. In the meantime, new benefit Universal Credit is universally acknowledged to be less generous than it was meant to be thanks to cuts by ex-Chancellor George Osborne.

It’s originator, Tory Iain Duncan Smith, announced £2 billion more must be put in to rebuild it, while the National Audit Office has thrown uncertainty on its claim to “make work pay”. The Tories have axed housing benefit for under-22s, only to U-turn and abandon the policy.

They’ve introduced a £20,000 cap on household benefits, and hundreds of thousands of former claimants have been refused disability benefits under the new Personal Independence Payment.

Yet Ester McVey who has herself been forced to correct misleading statements about benefits seemed to imply all these facts were “fake news” because the total amount of money put into the benefits system has gone up.

She told Tory members in Birmingham: “If you were to believe everything you heard from Labour or read on social media you’d think we were somehow letting down the most vulnerable in society – especially disabled people.

“However, those who say we are cutting budgets are peddling fake news.

“So here’s the real news – we have never spent more on those with disabilities and long-term health conditions. We spend over £50 billion a year, up £9 billion in 2010.”

Ester McVey said she became a Conservative to stand against the “ugly, destructive, Marxist, Militant, socialists of the past”.

Blasting the pro-Corbyn campaign group, she told members: “Momentum is the modern day Militant – and remember there are three M’s in Momentum – Militant, Militant, Militant.

“Can you imagine it, this country with Corbyn, McDonnell and Abbott at the helm?

“It would be a political nightmare, with Labour doing what it always does – leaving office with higher unemployment than it inherited.”

She added: “Remember what John McDonnell said about me? That I should be lynched. Well, he picked on the wrong woman!”

(Mr McDonnell has claimed he was quoting an activist who said that, rather than suggesting it personally).

And in a new policy, Ester McVey declared the Citizens Advice Bureau is set to get £39 million to help Universal Credit claimants under the Universal Support scheme, and that the cash will finance advisers to assist claimants to get their first payment on time and be ready to manage it when it arrives.

Ester McVey said the decision to hand responsibility to the Citizen’s Advice Bureau (CAB) was taken following consultation from claimants and charities. She further stated the DWP will work with Barnado’s from January to offer care leavers work experience in the charity’s high street shops.

She continued: “We want to do more than provide financial support, we want to help disabled people achieve their career ambitions and goals.

“In fact from 2013 to 2017 we’ve helped 600,000 more disabled people in to work through personalised and tailored support.

“And don’t let history be rewritten – it was William Hague in a Conservative Government in 1995 who introduced the Disability Discrimination Act – to champion, support and hold up the values of a caring society.”

This woman is simply a rodent of our society, and what is the DWP’s overall spend on the disabled because honestly, it’s not £50 billion per year. Ester has the attitude and arrogance of a rodent, along with her condescending hatred.

The fact is lies were told about the amount spent on disabled claimants per year, it’s about £2 billion per year, not £50 billion, and Ester is a really cruel woman, spitting on the graves of those thousands that have died, and those thousands that have suffered considerably, thanks to her harmful policies.

The Tories cut £60 a fortnight from Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), a benefit for the sick and disabled. This is fact, not fake news, and Ester McVey and the Tories are habitual liars, and the sad thing is they don’t care that the people know they’re lying, that’s how brazen they’ve become.

It’s a little like when foxes used to come out to get food from the bins and they were scared of people, now they simply come out among us and help themselves, and that’s what our government are doing. First of all, they were misleading us cautiously and now they couldn’t care less, while they feast off the sick and disabled like blood-sucking zombies.

Another thing, yes, they are spending more on disability budgets but they neglect to mention the huge amount of money they give away to Atos, Maximus and the workfare training providers, so when they say they’re spending more on the disabled that’s fake news, they’re just a bunch of nasty liars.

They said that they’re supporting 600,000 disabled people back into work, is that the new euphemism for sanctioning their benefits? And we should all be more responsible and we should never vote Tory in again, by doing so you’re putting up two fingers to your fellow man in these despondent times, and one day it could be you.

When is it ever right to say people on their death beds are fit to work? And that people with severe mental incapacity are fit to work, and then remove their benefits in some strange belief that this will magically make them able to go get a job.

Particularly when disabled people with jobs are having their means of transport removed because they’re now not getting the right component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), or it’s being taken away altogether, so then they can no longer work, then they get sanctioned for not getting a job or not being able to work anymore because their transport has been taken away.

Diabetics are having their incomes cut to the point they can no longer afford the diet they need or to keep their Insulin chilled because they can’t afford to pay the electric bill, so it was cut off. All these things have happened and every time it does happen, all the government say is, “Sorry, it shouldn’t have happened” but they won’t do anything about it, they simply carry on as they were.

But the people are just as blameworthy because they’re out there going on about benefit fraud, yes, of course, benefit fraud does happen, but it’s pretty insignificant opposed to the genuine claimants who actually need it and that pales into insignificance.

Ester McVey is a total liar, she lied to parliament and somehow got away with it, and the fact that there were no punishments on her for blatantly deceiving parliament, and hence the people of the United Kingdom, speaks volumes about the rot that is at the heart of this government.

The Tories are the most repugnant, despicable, misleading political party at the moment, with no class, morals or decency, and this evil hag has been proven a liar, and what a barrel of giggles the Tory party is turning out to be, they’re digging their own graves, and they’re so ignorant the people are now laughing at them with their endless deceptions, the juggling of figures, the randy text messages, a buffoon doing a zip wire slide, and the Prime Minister attempting to dance, it’s like a circus.

Why would anyone want to vote for such a repugnant and catastrophic government that squanders its time slagging of the EU, Russia and the Labour Party? And doesn’t have one piece of positiveness.

The Tories are putting more and more of the taxpayer’s money directly into the palms of their buddies in corporations such as Atos, and are spending more money, and we know it isn’t going to those that need it the most, it’s going to Atos and into the pockets of the few.

All this money is being spent abusing the sick and disabled, and they say that they do this to save money, and we’re quite deluded if anybody believes that our government will spend our taxes wisely.

Ester McVey is quite stupid beyond belief because simplistic fundamental factors confuse her, and when you have an MP who is as dim as Ester McVey, then it’s no surprise why politics is in such mayhem.

We must change the direction of this country. Austerity and ignorance simply don’t cut the mustard any more, particularly when we have one Tory nincompoop supporting a Mary Poppins Brexit, another one cavorting through fields of wheat to have a pop at his party leaders, and now Ester is attempting to dismiss the indisputable.

Do these jokers believe this is what resonates with the voters, or are they simply taking us all for idiots? But they take us for imbeciles because usually, we are because we vote based on party manifestos which are frequently bent, and we’re easily manipulated by headlines.

But then the government are so deluded by their own dishonesty that they’re starting to believe it themselves, and we all know that the government lies, why do you think CON is in Conservatives because they con the public every day.

They never tell you about their non-achievements, that’s because they’re terrified, and that’s why they’re always slagging off the Labour Party in an effort to make themselves look good.

Iain Duncan Smith must have been so ashamed of what he’d done with his elephant benefit shake-up that he in fact created, all because the government wanted potential savings, and paid no regard to human life at the expense of its implementation.

Iain Duncan Smith was named the Minister for Manslaughter for a valid reason, and he realised it was a step too far, and when George Osborne pushed for the full benefits cuts to be executed, Smith resigned.

Our government must stand down for blatantly misleading its people. They should start telling the truth or move aside for someone else who will tell the truth, and a law needs to be enacted which allows for the prosecution of politicians who intentionally distort the truth, but then that would mean that we wouldn’t have a single politician in Westminster – Now there’s a plan with no drawbacks…

One in four disabled people has been stopped from using public transport by other people’s attitudes in the last year, and 1 in 5 people in the United Kingdom are disabled. That’s 14 million people that face discrimination and negative attitudes every single day.

Disabled people are discriminated against in every way imaginable, but I’m sure those disabled people would trade their health for someone who’s healthy.

Even locating restrooms that are clean and are accessible to get into isn’t easy, but on the continent in some countries disabled people are given priority when queuing, such as in shops et cetera, but there’s no statutory duty on shops to implement this, and it’s a disgrace the United Kingdom doesn’t treat its disabled people with the same respect and humanity.

For a disabled person to get a powered chair, it costs between £3,000 plus but there’s a lot of people who are not disabled that think that disabled people get these things for free, well they don’t, they have to pay for this kind of thing themselves.

People that are not disabled appear to assume and judge those that are, and even bus drivers sometimes drive past the bus stop as if the disabled person is the only one at the stop, and it’s tragic that we still live in a world with a lot of judgement.

But anyone who has a disability and has aids and adaptations should have to rationalise or justify anything to anyone. The problem is, most able-bodied people are blissfully oblivious of the restrictions that face disabled people every day.

It’s only when it’s brought home and a loved one is touched by this that people really notice exactly how hard it is to get out and about every day, and there are many stores and companies that have no or extremely bad disabled access.

It’s time the overall public knew what it’s like to have a disability of any kind, and it’s also high time the government knew what it was like. After all, we’re still human beings and deserve to be treated with respect and consideration.

Disabilities are not always understood by the able-bodied, and new laws on disabilities of any kind should be taught in school and by police forces because this kind of conduct towards the disabled is a form of bullying, and some of our disabled have attempted suicide because the brutality has become too much.

The underground is the greatest struggle and there aren’t enough lifts or any lifts in the stations. Disabled people are really limited from going far from home because they need to have somebody with them, and some are pretty restricted on mobility scooters because of the range of the batteries.

We seem to have wi-fi on trains now, buses, cafes and restaurants and hotspots in various locations and powerpoints to plug our phones into in case we run out of battery, but there’s nowhere that a disabled person can go to get their battery charged up so that they can travel a distance without running out of power and breaking down, or the dread of getting stuck on the underground with all the terrorist attacks and false alarms, which for them is the worst psychological travel.

And all of this is getting worse because the government and the media are portraying the disabled as scroungers and cheats and the United Kingdom has now become a hostile environment.

As a wheelchair user, I experience discrimination at times, I frequently get asked if I want a race, or let me sit on your scooter I could do with a rest, and people look at me like I’m some alien and I have no right to be there.

The problem is, able-bodied people don’t realise that they could end up being disabled one day, and there are some pretty narrow-minded people out there, and it really doesn’t give them the liberty to say these things, and sometimes I really can’t fathom why people are so wicked, they have no idea what disabled people go through in their lives every day, and it seems that it’s open season for disabled people to be discriminated against, and there is no one out there to defend us!

Able-bodied people have no idea how fortunate they are to not have to live with a disability, and nobody should be punished due to having a disability.

There was a duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people, and some people and organisations like employers, shops, local authorities and schools had to take certain measures to eliminate the obstacles disabled people faced because of their disability.

This was to ensure that they received the same services as able-bodied people, and the Equality Act 2010 called this the Duty to make reasonable adjustments.

The Equality Act 2010 says changes or adjustments should be made to ensure a disabled person can access the following things:

Education
Employment
Housing
Goods and services like shops, banks, cinemas, hospitals, council offices, Leisure Centres
Associations and private clubs like the Scouts and Guides, private golf clubs and working men clubs.

Here are examples of physical features which it might be possible to change:

steps and stairs
passageways and paths
entrances and exits
internal and external doors
toilets
signs
lighting and ventilation
the size of the premises.
The kind of adjustments which could be made includes removing, changing or providing a way of avoiding the physical feature, where it’s reasonable to do so.

Here are examples of reasonable adjustments:

providing ramps and stairway lifts
making doorways wider
installing automatic doors
providing more lighting and clearer signs.

But what happens if someone doesn’t cooperate with the duty to make reasonable adjustments?

If someone doesn’t cooperate with their duty to make reasonable adjustments, the Equality Act says it’s unlawful discrimination, and you can ask the person or organisation to make the necessary modifications, and if they refuse, you can make a discrimination claim under the Equality Act.

There have been numerous changes since the Equality Act was brought in, but countless smaller shops don’t appear to abide by this ruling, particularly in London. I travel to London with my son at least once or twice a year and sometimes find it really difficult to access shops that I’d like to go into because there are no ramps or level access into the shops, or the shops are not wide enough to get into.

The London Underground has put in lifts for disabled people in wheelchairs but they are pretty far and few between which makes it really difficult for wheelchair users to travel, and often my son has to walk to where we want to go or get on a bus which is really time-consuming.

We’re supposed to live in a modern age of travel, but not so modern if disabled people can’t access things, and able-bodied people certainly have no idea about the difficulties faced by wheelchair users, and in our supposedly tolerant, modern society, a wheelchair user should be able to get about and do some pretty ordinary everyday activities without too many problems.

The first obstacle is the terrain with all its holes, cracks and gaps in the pavement, and if you’re a wheelchair user, those imperfections the local council hasn’t quite got round to dealing with can end up with a wheelchair user being hurled onto the floor at any moment, or leave you with one wheel stuck off the ground, rendering any movement impossible.

That’s before you decide to venture into a shop, and after 10 minutes of pushing and pulling, a coffee might be just the thing, this should be a breeze because the doors are extra wide, but then you have to navigate the doors that are extra heavy and you can’t navigate them from a wheelchair, so you have to wait for some kind person to open it for you.

But mostly you’re rendered invisible when your sitting in a wheelchair, and that gathering of people that do seem to notice the fact that you’re in a wheelchair want to prove they’ve seen you by being as insensitive as they possibly can.

So, you’re struggling to propel yourself up a gentle slope and the pavement has been obstructed by a bag of rubbish. Does the person coming the other way acknowledge that there’s only room for one of you to get through, no of course not, they merely put their head down, speed up and make you wait.

And then there’s the person in the post office who watches while you haggle your way through the cramped aisle, he could move aside and save you having to go all the way around the counter, but that might involve that person taking a few steps forward, so instead they turn their back on you and carry on chatting to there friend.

Transport is at the heart of how we live our lives. It helps us get to work, stay in touch with friends and family, contribute to society and access important services like healthcare and education, and while many people take this for granted, this is not the reality for everyone.

If you’re disabled, you might face difficulties, as transport and recreation continue to plague wheelchairs with poor treatment, and where many are harried and humiliated.

We’re not just disabled by our bodies but by the way society is organised, and it’s not the use of a wheelchair that makes disabled life hard, it’s the reality that not all buildings have ramps.

Back in the 1980s and early 90s, disabled campaigners used direct action and lobbying to protest for civil rights, from accessible transport to entertainment venues, and anyone who remembers images of wheelchair users chaining themselves to buses in London as police moved in to kettle them, knows equal rights under the law have been hard won.

Decades later we seem to be edging towards a tipping point again.

The Equality Act was the product of the campaigning in the 90s, demanding that buildings make reasonable adjustments and to give disabled access, but it’s generally unenforced, and Britain’s infrastructure, from the train network to public toilets can be equally inaccessible.

But there are too many women that are being forced to have needless surgery due to the scarcity of toilet provision, and both male and female routinely use adult nappies on a long journey, despite not being incontinent because stations don’t have the amenities, but the other option is to never travel.

The kind of society, that we should aspire to be, would take the needs of all of its members, including the disabled, into account at every stage.

In the more extreme versions, one could picture the USA asserting these requirements in the method of legal action. In Europe, a powerful adjustment to inclusiveness and responsibility is one of the defining traits of the EU, and Britain tends to fall between these two stools.

Narrow commercial interest and casual marginalisation of anyone outside the criteria is pretty much par for the course in England, more in the south-east than in the north and west, less so in Scotland and Wales, and leaving the EU is possible to have a adverse impact on how Britain provides for the disabled and the disadvantaged.

Maybe in ways that will differ negatively even with the “devil take the hindmost” practises so prevalent in the USA. Sadly, the chasm between who we are now, and who we would like to be, is likely to increase with further time in the office of this Conservative government and with the onset of Brexit. It’s a sad prospect.

Let’s remember that we all become disabled. Disability hits us all as we age, and the more accessible the environment becomes serves us all, helps support the quality of our lives and our independence, and to call a person with a disability as a disabled person acknowledges it is the environment not the level of impairment that is the problem, and a suitable toilet in every rail station would be great for everyone.

Locating a toilet for the able-bodied is difficult enough, it’s hellish for wheelchair users. Imagine wanting to go and having to suffer the agony and pain of having to wait for a major station. It is a basic human necessity to go to the toilet, and a public place like a train station should not be able to be open and operate without a functioning toilet available to all passengers.

The problem is even though these laws are made for disabled people they are so readily disregarded, so what hope is there for bigger things that also need to be implemented without issue or objection? And if it’s unlawful to discriminate against for whatever reason, then why are breaches not dealt with as a grave concern, and not something that’s simply disregarded?

For any disabled person that can’t leave the home other than medical appointments, hospitals are frequently the worst offenders for accessibility. Large doors that are difficult to open if you’re in a wheelchair, doorways that are too small to get a chair through, waiting areas that don’t have space for more than one wheelchair, or often not even enough for one.

Corridors that are small and twisty, and lifts in areas miles out of the way of where you might want to get to, and doors are frequently not automatic, and even when they are, they’re usually broken and don’t work.

As for disabled parking, it’s a farce. The outpatient’s entrance which is for disabled parking is difficult to park because it’s also the drop-off and pick up point for the taxis and patient transport ambulances, which not only park in the spaces but also obstruct whatever fortunate person succeeded in getting a place by parking behind them.

Then the other disabled assigned parking spaces have a couple of mobile builders offices deposited on it while building work is going on, and another disabled car park was built on.

Other hospitals might have a car park with an entire level dedicated to disabled parking spaces, which is a fabulous concept, but if there are no places available, which occurs frequently, you’re forced to park on another level, but the lift is on the disabled level, and if you can’t park there, the only access to the lift from the other levels is upstairs or up the actual ramp the cars use, with not only no pavement, but up a slope so perpendicular even an electric scooter can’t accomplish it safely and it’s a joke.

And then there are the pavements with lowered kerbs that aren’t really, a kerb is not dropped if it’s still 2 inches off road level and dropped kerbs to exit a pavement that isn’t equalled by another one to join the pavement, so you’re left stranded in the road frantically seeking to discover a way to get back on the pavement and out of the traffic.

Dropped kerbs are okay, but now they’ve been parked over by delivery drivers or other vehicles, and jagged asphalt surfaces that are a danger to people with mobility problems.

A hospital campus that’s big enough to require its own bus service to get people around it, but the buses don’t drop to the curbstone, needing the driver to get out and manually set the ramp every time a wheelchair user needs to use the bus, and it’s only got one wheelchair area anyhow, which is frequently used by parents with buggies, which isn’t a problem, but you would imagine that a hospital, of all places, and one which is still being developed, would have excellent access and amenities for disabled people.

Many hospitals now have introduced parking charges for disabled people, and this isn’t right because disabled people are much more inclined to need to attend the hospital more often than able-bodied people, and are more inclined to be living in relative hardship or be unemployed, and squeezing parking fees out of them as well seems a little harsh.

Disabled people should be given help and support in every way imaginable, life is hard enough for them without our government neglecting their needs, but it’s not only wheelchair users, what about ambulances that are called to train stations, particularly the underground stations where they have to fight to get through barriers and stairs before getting to the patient who could be dying.

The government’s plan entails making up to £300 million available to extend its plans to make railway stations more accessible, but the Freedom of Information requests by the news site Disability News Service show the Conservatives reduced spending on the project over the last five years from £81.1 million in 2013‑14 to only £14.6 million last year.

Charity begins at home, and not to be mean-spirited, but if the government quit giving money to foreign aid and started putting it where it should go, then they wouldn’t have to decrease their funding for the disabled.

For every hundred pounds that’s made in the United Kingdom, seventy pence goes towards foreign aid. The government has a target to allocate 0.7 per cent of the UK’s Gross National Income on overseas development aid every year.

In 2016, the UK spent £13.4 billion on overseas aid, in line with the 0.7 per cent target, and because the UK economy is set to get bigger over the next few years the true rate of development aid spending is anticipated to increase, and by 2021 we could be spending about £14.5 billion, based on the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecasts in 2016 prices.

That’s a little uncertain though, the amount we really end up spending will depend on how much the economy grows.

But it’s not only about disabled people, what about parents with buggies wanting to access the tube stations that have no lifts, which makes it extremely challenging for parents to take their children out for the day, so they endeavour to take the buggies on the escalators, which is very dangerous.

We live in the 21st century where everything should be accessible to all, and we pay enough in our taxes to cover this, but the government appear to be cutting back on everything, why? Because it appears to be more advantageous for our government to give to foreign aid, rather than putting it back into our country.

Our environment has a significant bearing on a person with a disability, but when we examine easy access, for instance, a ramp, better-designed pavement curbs, lifts, buses, train platforms with a similar height to the train flooring, people who don’t have a disability can also benefit.

For instance, parents with pushchairs and the elderly, after all, our environment has an impact on all of us, sadly, present and former governments don’t appear to view such matters as a priority, and people with mobility difficulties and other disabilities should be given preference, after all, such is given to the royalty of this country, and if the royal family needed all buildings to be accessible by wheelchair, you can bet your bottom dollar it would happen without fail.

Sadly, society treats disabled people as the weakest members of our society, and the United Kingdom scores at the lowest level for this. We have all used or will use wheelchairs, the luckiest of us start in prams, later use prams and eventually end up in wheelchairs, some are less fortunate, and suitable access is to everyone’s benefit, and we all deserve to benefit from that provision.

This is an enormous difficulty, except if you’re not disabled, although being disabled has differing levels of ability, and most people would have trouble somewhere, able-bodied people tend to bypass these kinds of difficulties.

Imagine being plonked on the side of a mountain without any climbing experience, well, that’s what living in a wheelchair can seem like at times, but there’s also degrees of miscomprehension about disabled people, which is a prevalent human shortcoming.

But on top of the problems with the shortage of facilities at train stations, most stations that do have toilets are routinely left in a shocking state and lack of basic hygiene and the behaviour from society as a whole is rather shocking, and we should fail to understand how in this day and age accessible buildings are not compulsory.

There’s no justification for this, and it shows like many other things that this is a total and absolute failure from our government to do what is necessary because our slothful politicians want to control us, and the current laws are not being obeyed, these laws need to be clear with complete access to all buildings, and penalties need to be forced on builders, architects, building owners as long as the problems get resolved.

Of course, old buildings do have problems, but nothing is impossible, and buildings over the last 30 years have no excuse, new buildings, being built now have no excuse, and a 6-year-old could come up with a solution, but our indolent government sit there scratching their arsehole while their falling asleep on the benches.

There is always an obvious solution but no one in government gives a damn about it and always come up with reasons why it can’t be done, usually because they can’t be bothered to consider it a problem to start with, and want to save a few quid at the expense of the disabled.

Sadly, there appear to be some amazingly mean-spirited people out there who seem to think that disabled people should put up and shut up and be banished from society simply because ramps take up space and building renovations might cost a little more.

Listed buildings might be between a rock and a hard place when it comes to accessibility because the necessary adjustment would often breach the listed building regulations, but that could quickly be overcome with portable ramps that stay in place all the time, that way no adjustments have to be done to the building, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out.