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1 It's not a documentary. But to see how closely #Idanielblake matches reality, let's have a look at some details from the UN report on poverty in the UK: ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…
2 Impact of the delay in receiving universal credit - based on a study on its roll out in the North East.
3 Impact of sanctions in the universal credit system, based also on research
4 Impact of cuts to benefits, legal aid and local authorities
5 More on the impact of cuts to local authorities, including emergency welfare funds for people in crisis situations #Idanielblake
6 Sharp rises in homelessness and food bank use, and inadequate new construction of social housing #Idanielblake
7 Analysis of the disproportionate impact of cuts on various groups - including women, children and those with a disability #IDanielBlake
8/ This is only a selection from the UN report on poverty in the UK (the PDF version has footnotes with sources). The report does also mention some improvements, but this debate deserves more than Mr Cleverly's glib and patronising response to @RLong_Bailey
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1/ Some additional points to add to David's fact check of the latest no deal Brexit claims
2/ The "no deal is more legally certain" claim is false. I debunked this nonsense in a previous thread
3/ As for rolling over existing FTAs: even if they are all in place on time with identical terms, the UK trading position will be worse because the rules of origin will change, ie goods partly produced in the UK may no longer count as EU goods
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1/ Let's take a look at Mr Nelson's support for the rights of @The3Million, shall we? Because the record is...chequered.
2/ He was on a @britishfuture inquiry (with me and others) that recommended unilateral guarantees for @The3Million in December 2016. Details here: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/12/bargai…
3/ The Leave MPs on the inquiry, Stuart and Braverman, then voted *against* such guarantees a few months later. IIRC Nelson tweeted his agreement. The purity of the Article 50 bill could not be sullied etc. My take on Stuart: google.com/url?sa=i&sourc…
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1/ Let's have a look at this. There's some merit to the political arguments, but the EU legal arguments are weak or confused. It's possible to discuss this without the objective of "attacking" - or defending- Jeremy Corbyn.
2/ The core of the EU legal argument is confused, because the EU legislation on allocation of MEPs provides for the election of UK MEPs, as a Plan B, if the UK is an member at the time of the EP elections. No need for Treaty amendments or EU legislation on election to change.
3/ The claim that extension of EU membership would be legally "questionable" is unsubstantiated. The possibility of an extension is explicitly provided for in Article 50, without any conditions attached besides a unanimous vote. The CJEU mentioned extension in a recent judgment.
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Thread. So you might have seen #IDanielBlake last night and were shocked by it. I've been campaigning for approx 5yrs against the inhumane DWP system
I've seen it all, women and children eating the tins of food that we've given them outside the Jobcentre because they were starving. They hadn't eaten properly for days.
This is the system that was created purely to punish the poor for their own poverty. It kills people. People die. People commit suicide because they can't see a way out. In reality there isn't a way out. Universal credit ensures that you stay in poverty
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"The Government’s place is not to be assisting people who think they can’t make it on their own, it’s an absolute last emergency order” --> the words of UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty & Human Rights @Alston_UNSR should shame Britain & need to be publicised. My THREAD:
Professor Philip Alston said that 14 million people are in poverty in the UK (a figure the Government disputes) and that child poverty rates are “staggering” and are predicted to go up significantly over the next couple of years. #poverty #humanrights #austerity
The UN Special Rapporteur said he saw “a lot of misery” during his trip to the UK & met “a lot of people who feel the system is really there just to punish them”. People who could have gotten help in "yesterday's Britain" can no longer count on it #poverty #humanrights #austerity
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Dear anyone who thinks they will vote Conservative when we have a #GeneralElection ...please read the below report from UN Rapporteur on extreme poverty & human rights before you cast your vote.

Let your conscience do the rest.

#ChildrenInNeed #Poverty
ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…
“But through it all, one actor has stubbornly resisted seeing the situation for what it is. The Government has remained determinedly in a state of denial.”

@theresa_may @EstherMcVey1

#UNVisit2018 #poverty
“Even while devolved authorities in Scotland & N Ireland are frantically trying to devise ways to ‘mitigate’, or in other words counteract, at least the worst features of the Government’s benefits policy, Ministers insisted to me that all is well and running acc to plan”
#Poverty
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The UK government has inflicted “great misery” on its people with “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous” austerity policies driven by a political desire to undertake social re-engineering rather than economic necessity: ⁦@Alston_UNSR⁩ theguardian.com/society/2018/n…
This is a scandalous state of affairs for govt ministers, including Esther McVey.

Brexit toxicity has spread so deep that critics of govt policies causing huge social harm aren’t heard, but decried as political saboteurs.

These people say trust us with your Brexit future.
Here are @Alston_UNSR ‘s damning findings on #poverty in the U.K. ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…
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A pathetic letter from @nikkihaley responding to UN @Alston_UNSR report on poverty in the United States. Calls it "misleading and politically motivated." sanders.senate.gov/download/haley…
@nikkihaley @Alston_UNSR Haley blasts the UN for choosing to investigate poverty in the US. The UN visit was at the *invitation* of the US, and the Trump Administration *facilitated* the visit.
Haley says the UN should have investigated poverty in other countries. The UN also does! Recently: Ghana, Saudi Arabia, China, Mauritania, Romania + more.
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We need to have a nuanced conversation about chemical anti-depressants. Take a look at this story: theguardian.com/science/2018/f…
A Guardian blogger claimed that my book tells people to stop taking anti-depressants & this idea got quite widely spread. My book doesn’t say that. Their readers’ editor has now issued a clarification.
In fact it says, p37: “I don’t want to take away anything that gives anyone some relief. If for you the benefits outweigh the side-effects, you should carry on.” That’s been my advice to my own relatives.
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