THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Big Fat Lie!

There is a substantial fabrication going on because 96% of benefit claimants who are being inflicted a penalty on won’t get rehoused because there are plainly not the necessary smaller homes to go around for those that live in larger houses.

The spare bedroom tax simply punishes low-income people because they’re living in a larger house and, even more so, those that have been made to leave their bigger houses because they don’t have the money to stay there; those larger homes are being left vacant and, councils are making it known that they may have to knock them down in the end.

Families that have been hit by the bedroom tax are at the moment trapped in their bigger houses because they have nowhere else to go that is smaller within the bounds of the social housing stock.

Liam Byrne, the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said: “The big lie behind this Government’s spiteful bedroom tax is now plain for all to see. Ministers like to claim it’s not a tax, but the truth is more than 96 per cent of those hit have nowhere to move to.

This bed tax is entrapping thousands of families and coercing vulnerable people to food banks and loan sharks.

There is at the moment the serious possibility that it could end up costing Britain extra money than it retains because tenants are being forced to go homeless or relocate to costly private rented quarters.

It’s now obvious that the government has made a serious error with this strategy and that they must discard it before more lives are destroyed.

Chris Goulden, head of poverty at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: “It is very difficult to see how this policy can work without causing severe hardship, particularly as many of those affected are disabled people. The housing benefit bill could also rise if more people move into the private rented sector because of a shortage of one or two-bedroom properties in social housing.”

In spite of the fact, the DWP are ascertaining that social housing tenants who want to downsize could alternatively spend their housing benefit on private housing, even though there is already a serious sparseness of small, inexpensive private dwellings and, tenants could in fact spend their housing benefit on private housing, but what about the two months retainer they have to put down before they can even move in and, who is going to pay for that?

Hannah Smith, 28, lives in a three-bedroom house in Hyde, Cheshire, with children Gracey, 7, and Jake, 6.

I’ve always said that this house could be for a bigger family. I’ve been asking on and off for the last six years for a two-bedroom place, but the housing association said it couldn’t happen, so I’ve been stuck here.

As well, deteriorating coastal towns all over Britain are at the moment are being afflicted with acute social failure because they’re becoming dumping grounds for people on low incomes or welfare benefits, that have been pushed out from the inner city regions.

Hotels that formerly housed holiday makers are being adapted into inexpensive flats for the vulnerable tenants and, properties are also being used by councils in the more affluent sectors as low-cost alternatives for housing children in care.

One Size Fits All

You can’t by any means cut down someone’s benefits in a “One size fits all” scheme because not everyone is the same. If I purchased a dress that said “One size fits all”, normally it would not fit me because my body dimensions are not suitable for “One size fits” all, particularly in European measurements, that would be like a size 14 and, wouldn’t even go over one of my hooters! What I’m getting at, is that everyone has differing needs that need to be addressed individually, not as a whole.

I think you have to humour Iain Duncan Smith and, let him have his enjoyment with his pet projects, or else he will just toss his toys out of his pram like an overindulgent child, although a spoilt child may fling their toys out of their pram, but they don’t so the story goes, murder people with their actions.

Nonetheless, Iain Duncan Smith’s pet enterprise is having grave problems and, Universal Credit that was initially planned for October 2013, has now been postponed until next year.

Although that is no comfort to Kieran McArdle who’s father, stroke victim Brian, 57, passed away a day after his disability benefits were discontinued.

The benefits system may have been shaky previously, but it generally worked for the most part and, unemployment benefit was a necessary payment and, you either got income or contribution based benefit with housing benefit paid and, the benefits may appear complicated, but the previous system was better for both claimants and advisers, with basic payments being additionally increased by premiums.

Nonetheless, Iain Duncan Smith was attacked for sending an offensive letter to a boy who said that the strain of a back-to-work test by Atos put an end to his disabled father’s life.

The letter that was sent to Kieran McArdle was nasty and, which attempted to send the welfare chief’s sympathy, but then attempted to justify the governments exploitation on disabled people, as well as Kieran’s father Brian.

The coldness of the reply to Kieran McArdle from the Tory minister, proposed that Kieran get in touch with the Jobcentre about his dead father’s appeal, but the poor man’s dead and, talk about passing the buck.

The letter was hand-delivered to Iain Duncan Smith’s Whitehall office and, he gave his word of honour that he would correspond to Kieran, aged 13. It took IDS 21 days to respond to Kieran, of Larkhall, Lanarkshire, who felt bitterly let down with the response he received from Iain Duncan Smith.

The letter was machine printed on DWP paper and, the sole sign of humanity was an unreadable scribble, which I presume was Iain Duncan Smith’s signature, but it was so undecipherable; it could have said Joe Bloggs.

Kieran desired at least an expression of regret and, an explanation and justification for his father’s horrific treatment, at least that would have given this young teenager some closure.

His father Brian had been left paralysed (which means loss of muscle function for one or more muscles) from a stroke last year on Boxing Day, yet this man was still ordered to attend an Atos “work capability assessment”. One month later, this person got a letter telling him he would lose his disability benefits, but the day after his benefits were taken away from him, Brian died.

A great deal of people have passed away after their benefits have been taken away from them, it is too much of a coincidence and, the Department of Work and Pensions is withholding to make it public on updates concerning the deaths of people who had been receiving benefit and, that had been taken away.

The thing is, by nature, disability demands for differing methods and, whilst some people will be fit to work, where the company are prepared to hire them; some firms will not.

So, the concept that entitlement for sickness benefit requires recurrent evaluation, which is expensive, particularly where there are appeals, is laughable.

It seems that the DWP will not make available how many people are dying because of this modification in benefits, so what are they hiding?

Basildon’s Accident and Emergency is Third Lowest in UK

Sick people who have to sit in Basildon Hospital’s accident and emergency department have given it the worst scores in the United Kingdom as stated by a new census.

Patients are grading Basildon’s Accident and Emergency department the lowest in the United Kingdom and, when sick people are coming into the department they are asked if they would favour Basildon Hospital to their friends and family.

Accident and Emergency at the hospital in Basildon, Essex rated the third lowest in the whole country in April, 42 per cent of consumers said they would not recommend it.

Being a consumer myself and, living not far from the hospital, I would have to evaluate the hospital at a big fat zero and, although, on the odd occasion, the service is what I would call adequate, a lot of the time, it is shocking, staff are ill-mannered; doctors have no bedside manner and, student doctors have no concept of what some of the medication is and, I always take someone with me so that I’m not named a fibber later on down the line.

I must point out that I have in fact been to a hospital (of whom I cannot name) out of my locality that was much worse and that I couldn’t conceivably score at all because it falls beneath any scale.

The Basildon trust spokesman said: “We are committed to ensuring our hospitals provide high quality, safe care and, every patient has a positive experience.”

The last time I had a positive experience in Basildon Hospital was around 29 years ago, since then the service has struggled over the years, resources have been slashed, as well as money for those resources. I seldom feel that I experience high quality care; it is extremely haphazard and, I had been made to walk around to the X-ray department when I obviously was not well and, they couldn’t find a wheelchair for me, so that my son could wheel me in.

I felt belittled and, was made to feel like I was a liar and that I was wasting their time and, should not be there and, I frequently ponder on what their meaning of high quality, safe care and positive experience are because it evidently isn’t the same as mine.

Night Shelters

The council has a legal responsibility to house you in some kind of accommodation if you convince them that you’re genuinely homeless.

You may then inquire, well why are there so many people of no fixed address on the streets?

Nearly all people that are out on the streets don’t have any ID to show whom they are, such as a Drivers Licence, Passport or Birth Certificate and, I dare say you’re thinking, well why don’t they just go and get a birth certificate?

Once more without any ID they can’t sign on because you require ID for everything these days, or you don’t qualify to anything.

The majority of homeless people will go to night shelters, but the government has now adjusted their stratagem and, at the moment night shelters are being threatened with being closed down.

People are requesting Lord Freud to take into consideration the implementation of the recently revised definition of “dwelling” so that housing benefit can be paid to night shelters who give urgent overnight accommodation for homeless people.

These funds give critical finance to night shelters and, the night shelters may close if the money is removed, which will impose unnecessary suffering on society’s most vulnerable human beings.

Up until February 2013, night shelters met the requirements of a “dwelling” and were entitled to housing benefit payments for each night that a person of no fixed address held an area in that shelter.

A court of law ruled (“the Anglesey Judgement”) that night shelters from this time fall outside the interpretation of a “dwelling”. So, for the time being the rules have now changed once more to seemingly preserve money that the government no longer want to pay out.

This indicates that the local authorities can from this time decline to pay housing benefit to night shelters for the reasons that they don’t offer the facility for the homeless person to remain at least 24 hours in an area where they can leave behind their possessions and, come back the next day and, although night shelters close throughout the day so that the people who maintain them can sleep, so there would be no difficulty if the homeless left their belongings there, but that’s irrelevant.

The fact is this if you remain somewhere with your worldly goods; it then becomes a “dwelling”, nevertheless, if you can no longer leave your property there, then it’s not a “dwelling” and, welfare benefits only pay for a “dwelling”.

Nonetheless, if a person with no fixed address then lives in a cardboard box with their valuables, that then becomes a “dwelling” and; consequently a homeless person should qualify to housing benefit.

http://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/cute-cardboard-shelters

The most unpleasant thing is that across the nation, local authorities are interpreting the decision of the court differently and, a number of local authorities have terminated payment, maintaining that’s law and, others haven’t and, are satisfied they can carry on paying housing benefit.

The matter of remittance for overnight shelters was heard in a Tribunal court and, the verdict was maintained in the Isle of Anglesey County Court to the effect that the appellant did not qualify to housing benefit to pay the costs of the times he stayed overnight at the night shelter in Holyhead in the space separating December 2007 and June 2008.

Nevertheless, it needs to be emphasised that this situation turns on its own particular facts and, that the issues resulting in this sort of case are “fact intensive”, to borrow that expression from Lord Justice Mance as he then was, in the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Nonetheless, nothing said was intended to stipulate how housing benefit entitlements from rough sleepers should be determined.

The council was eager to emphasise that its decision in this instance was restricted to its specific facts that it was not authority for, nor was the council saying that people staying in night shelters could at no time be eligible for housing benefit.

This is all extremely unclear and, the vulnerable are going to suffer considerably because there is no long term stability for people of no fixed address, so they can’t invest in their futures.

Even so, if you altered the name of “Shelter” to “Hostel”, then you would qualify to housing benefit, so long as you had your own sleeping area and, showers were on the site, as well as food supplies, whether being given by workers, or cooked for by the homeless person.

Welfare Reform

Confusion at the DWP concerning top-of-the-line welfare improvements, with the absence of leadership and demanding conditions.

Staff Members at the DWP said that the working framework was soul destroying, with a lack of leadership and too much dishonesty and that a large number of people working on the programme had negative experiences.

One of their employees said: “After 29 years of service this has been the most soul destroying work I have done. There is too much dishonesty and no one ever admits to making a mistake.”

Seemingly the whole system needs to be upgraded and, certain issues with communication that needs to be resolved.

One civil servant communicated: “I have never worked somewhere where decision making was so apparently poor at senior level and, communications from that level was totally nonexistent.”

One could overlook what’s going on, but in fact people have to be courageous enough to entice the masses into speaking out and, to fight off what they know is inappropriate and, occasionally illegal.

What is going on is abhorrent and, we have to be against what is happening to the people of England.

While the government and its successors grow, the people of England are gradually going to wither away while the coffers in the government’s pot becomes vastly bigger.

It’s massively segregating the people into thinking that there is an exceedingly high amount of out-of-work people that are attempting to discredit the structure of the DWP, which then exhibits a new ad campaign between the “Shirkers and the Workers.”

Nonetheless, before the hard worker ascends himself on that high horse he sits on, start to look on all sides of that coin, but of course, they are two sides of the same coin, both are used to control people and, neither normally works very well.

In accordance with the DWP’s own statistics, a large part of all welfare expenditure is consumed on pensioners. 53% on out of work benefits balances for less than a quarter of the welfares budget.

It may well surprise you to learn that benefit spending as a share of GDP fell throughout the first 11 years from the previous Labour government; it only began to improve in 2008, after the economic crash, as hundreds of thousands of Britons found themselves out-of-work through no misdeed of their own.

Jobseekers Allowance is at this present time £71 a week, or £10 a day. Could Mr Osborne, or any other Tory cabinet minister live on £10 a day, could anyone live on £10 a day?

Well, as Iain Duncan Smith said, he could survive on £53 a week, that’s £7.57 a day.

Currently the National Minimum Wage is £6.19, which over 39 hours a week comes to £241.41 for anyone 21 years old and over, take away £4.64 for tax, which leaves you with £236.77, but evidently they are paying the unemployed in line with the Minimum Wage, which undeniably as one can see, they’re not!

So where did the other £165.27 go to?

Although reportedly Kath Kelly sustained herself for a full year on just £1 a day – I’m just wondering what year that was, perhaps 1812, but this ladies looking good for someone who’s birthday would have been the same year as my great grannies, with that silky hair, gleaming eyes and sparkling teeth she still has, after living off free serve-yourself meals, shopping at church jumble sales and, cadging uneaten food from grocery stores and restaurants, but beggars can’t be choosers and, she wasn’t purchasing the food, she was scrounging leftovers and, If she had to pay for the food for a £1 a day, she’d never do it.

So what, is there going to now be a two mile lineup at the end of each store and restaurant and, what did she do for her lady days, reclaim the sanitary towels – How much is a sanitary towel these days, more than a £1 and, what about toothpaste?

Ms Kelly it seems even managed a free holiday in France by hitchhiking to the Channel Tunnel and, convincing a French woman to take her as a passenger. I don’t know about you, but I’d be extremely observant whom I cadged a lift off, if anyone, particularly in this day and age where the crime ratio has grown progressively.

Well done for Ms Kelly, but not everyone seeks to be like the tramps on the street and if we do have to conduct oneself like the vagrants on the street, then what has this world come to, to regard human beings like animals.

So, is that correct George Osborne, are there many of jobs out there and, nearly all out-of-work people are just idle?

Not according to Vicky Harrison who’s vocation and ambition it had been to become a teacher or television producer, but in the end gave up hope for the future and, terminated her life after more than 200 failed job applications.

She was an intelligent young girl, with 3 A-levels and 10 GCSE’s; she had studied arduously and, had everything to live for, but she found it mortifying that she ‘d been out of work for so long and, couldn’t take it no more, or was it because she was so fed up of picking up the morning paper and, reading that somebody had called her a scrounger, when evidently all this young girl wanted to do was work.

Her death tragically spotlights the human sacrifice of the highest level of unemployment since the middle of the 1990s.

Miss Harrison was on £51 a week Jobseekers Allowance and, finally reduced her range of jobs just so that she could bring in some money and, feel useful, but even applications for a waitressing got her nowhere.

After two years and putting in applications for roughly 200 jobs, she still continued to be unemployed, but as affirmed by the government there are plenty of jobs to go around, well apparently whoever totalled up the figures could not count and, maybe they should go back to school.

Vicky Harrison was defeated by the statistics and, lost the will to live because she had been struck with unemployment for so long and; the effect of that was far too much for her.

There is only so many times the government can soft-soap a person and, prompt them into thinking that in order to get a job we must stop being work-shy, well this young lady was far from idle, but she was still unsuccessful in getting a job, even though she had demoted herself from her dream job to stacking shelves and, still no one would employ her.

Edward Snowden granted temporary asylum in Russia

The White House appears to be truly upset with Russia’s decision, they have allowed US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden short-term refuge in their homeland.

Edward Snowden’s location will be undisclosed for security reasons, but the US are demanding that Russia sends Snowden home to the US to face legal proceedings on espionage allegations, even though when said and done, it’s not in fact espionage because he did not spy for anyone else.

He may have accumulated proof against the US government, but he did not accumulate evidence for someone or somebody else, though admittedly he did it in the absence of permission from the US government, so while he is guilty of that, he is not guilty of spying for anyone, which is what he would ultimately be imprisoned for if he went back to the US.

Seemingly if the information that the US government have is so top secret and restricted, then their security is not that superior, or else Edward Snowden would have at no time been able to retrieve it without it coming to their attention, but he did manage to retrieve it and, disclose the information.

The only thing that one could see from this time on is the problem that there will be no dealings between the US and Russian government; they will now be enemies in opposition to each other.

The decision that Russia made on Thursday to allow a safe haven to Snowden at present threatens to send an already awkward relationship between the US and Russia to the lowest level in years.

And what with Russia protecting the ex US spy agency contractor is at the moment viewed as a smack in the face and, the White House is measuring up whether they should now back out of the Moscow summit in September.

The fact that Washington is even sending out this behaviour towards Russia is potentially harmful and, may have consequences and, the two nations are not expected to sort out their dissimilarities because they already have bad personal rapport with each other.

The governmental conditions in Washington on Russia is toxic and; Snowden has for the time being developed this further.

Jeremy Hunt overruled by High Court

Jeremy Hunt acted illegally and, misbehaved badly, using his authority to endeavour to cut facilities at a London Hospital in Lewisham.

If Jeremy Hunt had achieved this, it would have had serious consequences for the future of the NHS hospitals.

The residents of Lewisham fought in opposition to Jeremy Hunt and, were victorious in that battle when a High Court judge ordered that cuts at Lewisham Hospital that were endorsed by Mr Hunt earlier this year should’ve never have been set forward in the first place.

There were rounds of applause in court as Mr Justice Siber pronounced that the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt had violated the terms of the National Health Services Act 2006.

It’s an act of parliament that lays out the formation of the National Health Service in England and, it doesn’t matter who’s in government after that time, that law remains until it’s amended.

Consequently it has to continue to be the same, except in a case where a government or high court alters that enactment.

Anyway, we are far from secure of anything because someone will eventually come along and, amend that law when they feel like it, or when it’s no longer of use to them.

The residents of Lewisham may have won their battle for the time being and, Lewisham Hospital is protected for a while, but in due course some bright spark will come along and try to modify that ruling because laws were meant to be broken.

It’s in human nature to break the rules because they were made by man himself.

Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral Exhausts Taxpayers Money

Her laying to rest came to the price of £3 million pounds, which could’ve gone towards the economic deficit that the government keep on about.

It was said that direct policing and security spending came to £943,833, and the costs of the interment itself came to £261,976.

I’m not sure about you, but why would anyone want Margaret Thatcher watched over with security when she was evidently dead anyhow.

It was stated by ICI personnel after they turned down her job application that she was headstrong, obstinate and dangerously self-opinionated, no wonder she made Prime Minister, although they shouldn’t have named her Margaret Thatcher, they should’ve dubbed her Caligula.

The Cabinet Office established the Opportunity Cost of the guarding the funeral, made it impossible for the police force to be free for duties somewhere else, which was calculated roughly at £2 million pounds.

The honour of a state funeral is normally available for the sovereign as head of state. Spouses and widows of monarchs are given an official state funeral, which differs merely in the fact that the gun carriage bearing the casket is pulled by horses as opposed to sailors, as well as an undertaking of Parliament not being needed.

Nevertheless, a small amount of documented civilians of profound attainment, extraordinary military pioneers and outstanding respected political figures have also been honoured with a full state funeral, comprising Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Nelson and, Sir Winston Churchill, who was widely considered as one of the most significant wartime front runners of the 20th century.

Nonetheless, a confidante of Lady Thatcher revealed that the former prime minister did not desire to have a state funeral and that it would’ve been unfitting for her to lie in state and, it would be a waste of the taxpayers money – I’m under the impression that must’ve been the only rational thing that she’d ever said!Nonetheless, a confidante of Lady Thatcher revealed that the former prime minister did not desire to have a state funeral and that it would’ve been unfitting for her to lie in state and, it would be a waste of the taxpayers money – I’m under the impression that must’ve been the only rational thing that she’d ever said!

High-earning Tenants are now expected to show their Incomes

Social tenants that are paid a higher bracket of wages will now be legally required to reveal their earnings if they take home more than £60,000, so that they’re then in line with the market rental.

The Communities and Local Government department indicated last week that the government will set down in law that the burden is on the occupants who are being paid more will have to disclose their income to make sure that they are making a reasonable contribution.

The CLG’s feedback was that the occupant had to pay to stay in their place of residence and, £60,000 was the economical of the three limits set out by the government in its discussion on the pay to stay.

Social landlords will be required to use the additional cash made from this strategy to finance and develop reasonably priced homes.

It’s not the impoverished and out-of-work that this governments cuts will have an effect on, but it will be the hard working people as well, no one is sheltered from the governments control, apart from the exclusively rich and, government themselves.

I Ain’t Got No Home

Edward Snowden’s father made it known that his son should remain in Russia because his son is being discredited by the Obama administration.

Lon Snowden has been working tirelessly behind the lines with legal professionals in attempting to obtain ways for his son to get an impartial trial in the US.

Edward Snowden has been accused in federal court with contravening the Espionage Act and, divulging particulars of NSA reconnaissance.

There have been eight whistleblowers accused with breaching the Espionage Act under Obama.

At the moment, we have a remarkable group of people, or members of this expanding club, comprising Snowden who has been accused by the US government with the stealing of government property and, two counts of violating the Espionage Act.

In a phone conference with The Associated Press, the senior Mr. Snowden declared he had misplaced his faith and, was not sure that his son would be treated without bias by the Justice Department.

Currently Edward Snowden is in Hong Kong and, he intends to remain in the city and contest any accusations against him in a court of law if it is established that he is culpable, he faces up to 30 years in prison.

Government have extensively wrestled with the concept of the limits if any, to chair on the idiom of ideas and beliefs.

The quandary dates back to at least ancient Greece, when the Athenians prized single entitlements, but nonetheless victimised Socrates for his teachings, laying claim that he had lead astray young people and, had disparaged the gods.

Things have altered somewhat since ancient Greece and, Socrates, but we still have Freedom of speech and, it’s one’s constitutional right to convey one’s beliefs and opinions, utilising one’s body and property to anybody who is ready to receive them.

At the moment, Edward Snowden needs to obtain a haven and, relocate to anywhere, or anybody who is prepared to entertain his opinions and ideas, but still it’s his constitutional right to communicate his beliefs and opinions – that is not Espionage that is just telling people the veracity of what he regards as true.

The right to freedom of expression is recognised as a human right and, under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that is recognised in international human rights law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Article 19 of the ICCPR states that everyone shall have the right to embrace opinions without intrusion and everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall incorporate freedom to seek, receive and impart information and, ideas of all kinds, irrespective of limitations, either verbally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.

Consequently Edward Snowden did not carry out Espionage, he did not spy for anybody else, the US government allegedly do that on an everyday basis, so in speculation the US government are supposedly blowing their own trumpet.

Edward Snowden is welcome to a warm sofa in my house anytime he likes because as far as I’m concerned he has carried out no unlawful act, except revealing what happened and if telling the truth is a crime these days, then everyone is guilty of something and, should all be put behind bars.

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