Who gives a fucking shit, that doesn't absolve anyone of anything. If they did it they would get the bloody blame.
I worked in the tribunal service for social security benefits with the MOJ. After being through the system myself with ESA.
You think Tories got a majority locked? That's all what this election is about[
This thing is over. Labour are not making any headway and polling suggests that only 20% of the electorate is yet to decide. Labour would need to get a 13 pt lead to 5 or 6 to have a realistic shot of limiting Tory gains to the 30 odd seats they're likely to lose.
They were, and would have been moreso if the New Labour ghouls got the leadership in 2015.
Yeah there is so many fucked up decisions on ESA. People dying or with no limbs told they are able to work etc. I was on ESA for like 7 months after having mental health issues. They gave me like 2 points even though I was a mess. So had to go to a tribunal and then waited for 4 months...
Why does that matter when her position has gone from having a referendum that started this mess to cancelling brexit and ignoring the referendum result. It's not about being remain or leave it's about having fundamentally zero backbone.
Frankly, just stopping it is undemocratic as fuck and would do nothing to "bring the country together".
Ok you know what I'm going to retract my earlier hardline stance that hardly any economists advocated for austerity because I forgot about the influence that flawed Reinhart and Rogoff paper had on political thinking, and also how much of a backlash there was to the Keynesian fiscal stimulus of 2008-10. I've also allowed the economists I read, who tend to be quite strongly against austerity, to colour my impression of the entire economics world.
Am just hoping all polls are underestimating the youth vote. One sees a 30% drop in turn out if I remember rightly. Hope they all are wrong and we get a hung parliament.
Yeah, I was on it for depression too. The cunt doing the assessment totally lied on my report, they routinely did it as I would see later.
Damn that poor woman.
Yeh, it basically the same.
Yeah it's the same, I saw all social security but it was mostly DLA and ESA, pip hadn't been rolled out nationwide. It's horrible, I've seen a lot of things, at disclosure I dealt with barring women beaters, paedos etc that was just dealing with court papers etc so you can distance yourself a little. But what I saw with my own eyes in that place still hits me.
Yeah, I am 24 and black. I have a few friends that have given up on politics sadly.
All my mates and my only hope was independence. I then tried to get out of politics entirely, including the civil service then fucking brexit happened.
It absolutely is, and a calculated attempt to make Johnson's many lies, indiscretions and corruption seem normal - because they're all it dontchaknow so it doesn't matter.
It's more the UK is right leaning. The people leaning right don't care about bigotry. Corbyn isn't doing badly cus he is deemed antisemitic, he is doing bad cus he is very left leaning (yes the antisemitism doesn't help, but it isn't the major factor of why he is so low).
I am sure I read that the Government spend more trying to battle appeals than what it would cost to just accept people are too ill to work.
You can explain it in a single sentence, yet the media and opposition willfully act confused by it
Yep was 2k minimum when I was there, but it came out our budget, not the DWPs. Most appeals won too so the DWP then had to pay out, can't remember if they had to pay interest.
Tribunals are dope, mine was like why are you even here. Kept asking if I was ok etc
Nah if this was the only debate in the entire campaign sure, but it's a single head to head between the only two people who can feasibly be PM. There's nothing wrong with such a debate and it was rightly dismissed.
