Is the Secretary for Work and Pensions Thérèse Coffey unaware that lots of people on #UniversalCredit already work themselves to the bone and still can't make ends meet?
And that it actually would take up to 9 extra working hours for #UniversalCredit claimants to recoup their £20-a-week benefit cut? And that this cut is predicted to plunge half a million more people into poverty, including 200,000 children? independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Iona Hanrahan, a 38-year-old single mother from Newark, Nottinghamshire, got into debt after the birth of her second child. The self-employed solicitor was on #universalcredit as she received no financial support for her four-year-old and two-year-old. bit.ly/3Ejnl8q
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Cutting universal credit by £20 a week is an “unconscionable” move that breaches international human rights law and is likely to trigger an explosion of poverty, the United Nations’ poverty envoy has said theguardian.com/society/2021/s…
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An investigation by @AllTheCitizens has uncovered a group of anti-vaxxers designing fake NHS advice leaflets for members to print and share outside schools across the country. 2/7
The NHS-style leaflet contains six lies about the Covid virus and vaccine which have variously been debunked by the Department of Health and @FullFact 3/7
Department of Health (test & trace) rush to replace Adult Social Care dashboard software run by controversial US firm Palantir. After only using it for one year, they are shifting to an in-house model developed by BAE Systems.
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A newly published contract from DHSC (T&T) reveals that, after only having installed the American analytical firm’s software in 2020, the department is now spending £100k to migrate an entirely new data-analytics platform designed to process Covid-19 data. contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/bc37a8e…
The dashboard itself, part of Palantir’s larger Covid-19 data-store work within the NHS, is aimed at combining “data from the Capacity Tracker and other sources, allowing critical data to be viewed in real time, at national, regional, and local levels” gov.uk/government/pub…
More than a quarter of ‘elite’ Conservative Party donors (giving a minimum of £100,000 in a single donation) have been given a title or honour, raising fresh concerns of a ‘cash for honours’ scandal at the heart of government - from @BylineBITE and @AllTheCitizens
Of the Tory party’s 20 biggest donors since 2010 – individuals donating more than £1.5 million – 11 (55%) hold some form of honour. 10 were awarded these in the last decade
Of 259 donors who gave £100,000+ (where info is available), 67 (26%) hold an honour, title or peerage.
Also, almost all of the 67 decorated donors (96% or 64) were given their titles or honours by the Tories in the last decade - either through New Year, Birthday or Prime Minister’s Resignation Honours or made a life peer by the leader of the Conservative Party.
Average top-tier Conservative donor is a 65 year-old white man called Michael, who gives the party over £500,000. THREAD:
An investigation by the @BITE and @allthecitizens found a startling prevalence for older, white men amongst top Conservative Party donors.
Using publicly-available information obtained from @ElectoralCommUK, individuals who donated more than £100,000 to Tory HQ between 2010 and 2020 were analysed based on sex, age and the economic sector in which they operate.