lnkd.in/eAsmByKe CLAIMANTS UNABLE TO AFFORD PHONES HAVE BENEFITS CUT
lnkd.in/eAsmByKe ‘We’ve got a basic subsistence benefit here… if you’re then lopping off money, you really are pushing people into destitution’.
lnkd.in/eAsmByKe Universal credit claimants punished because they cannot afford mobile data and miss their appointments.
lnkd.in/eAsmByKe People without enough money to pay for internet data are unable to check their scheduled Jobcentre appointments and are missing them, resulting in sanctions.
lnkd.in/eAsmByKe Sanctions reduce the amount of universal credit that claimants get as a punishment for failing to meet all the commitments linked to receiving benefits, including attending appointments at the Jobcentre.
lnkd.in/eAsmByKe WORK AND PENSIONS SOCIAL SECURITY DISGRACE: CLAIMANTS UNABLE TO AFFORD PHONES HAVE BENEFITS CUT ‘We’ve got a basic subsistence benefit here… if you’re then lopping off money, you really are pushing people into destitution’. Serina Sandhu 9 December 2022
lnkd.in/e4fRa9WN BRITAIN IS ENTERING A NEW AGE OF CORRUPTION - BRITAIN HAS RETURNED TO THE ‘OLD CORRUPTION’ THE VICTORIANS TRIED TO END - TAKING US FURTHER DOWN A ROAD TO A KLEPTOCRACY THAN MOST PEOPLE IN BRITAIN IMAGINE.
lnkd.in/e4fRa9WN Britain has entered an era of legalised larceny by the politically well-connected some 150 years after the Victorians ended what they execrated as the “Old Corruption”.
lnkd.in/e4fRa9WN By this they meant the toxic system whereby the ruling elite enjoyed a parasitic relationship with the state enabling them to obtain jobs and money through patronage, partisanship and purchase.
lnkd.in/eZCPufeu PEOPLE: A BID TO RIG ELECTIONS UK, TORY VOTER ID LAWS LOOK LIKE AN ATTEMPT TO RIG OUR ELECTIONS, NOT IMPROVE THEM It’s not too late to avoid the disenfranchisement of the poor and the young before the next general election.
lnkd.in/eZCPufeu EXTRACT ‘Rishi Sunak may this week have been battered and bruised by strikes and U-turns, but he has at least made it past one key milestone:
lnkd.in/eZCPufeu his 45th day in power today means he managed to stay in office longer than Liz Truss did before she announced her resignation.
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf NHS WINTER CRISIS ERUPTS AFTER 12 TORY YEARS OF INCOMPETENT TORY GOVERNMENT ‘I’m afraid A&E will collapse’: The NHS winter crisis erupts after years of warnings.
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf EXTRACT
'Whatever happens this winter, the paramedics i spoke with hopes the public will understand why NHS staff are striking.
lnkd.in/epJfpPvf "A year ago, we were clapping for nurses," he says.
lnkd.in/epdpte9n UK PUBLIC BACK STRIKERS RATHER THAN MINISTERS ...AFTER PARTYGATE AND THE DISASTROUS TRUSSONOMICS, MANY MORE UK VOTERS NOW SEE THE TORIES AS INCOMPETENT, SERVING THEIR OWN INTERESTS AND OUT OF TOUCH WITH ORDINARY PEOPLE
lnkd.in/epdpte9n EXTRACTS 'Opinion polls on industrial action show a mixed picture at best for the Government.
lnkd.in/e-QPz9Wd NORWAY MOVES TO GREEN FUTURE DESPITE OIL RICHES
lnkd.in/e-QPz9Wd The Nordic nation is moving faster than most in de-carbonising its economy, but it has faced criticism for not rushing to Europe’s aid in the current energy crisis.
lnkd.in/e-QPz9Wd Norway has become astonishingly rich thanks to its oil and natural gas.
@KevinClimate "We've developed this term 'net zero' which allows us to move the burden of reducing emissions out to future generations, out to 2050 and beyond. It’s vacuous. Completely meaningless. It’s Latin for kicking the can down the road."
Source: How Wealth Inequality Fuels the Climate Emergency: @GeorgeMonbiot, Scientist Kevin Anderson on COP26 11 November 2021