tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61298112196348392862024-03-06T12:01:38.805-08:00Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group — the Kwug BlogSelf-help support vs ravages of 'welfare reform'. Never attend anywhere official alone!
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This blog currently focuses on national policy matters that impact upon KUWG members.
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group as a group focuses primarily on combating benefits injustices locally through advocacy in individuals' benefit claims, and demonstrations that emphasise that there is hope when we come together. We are more angry than frightened.Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.comBlogger1007125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-84692858955006120082018-12-15T13:50:00.001-08:002019-11-12T16:27:35.712-08:00xmas closureDue to the Kingsgate Community Centre being closed over Xmas 2019 the last KUWG meeting for 2019 is Thursday 19th December, recommencing in 2020 Thursday 9th January. Happy Post-Election Xmas, if possible!Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-61433727265895025672018-05-21T03:46:00.000-07:002018-05-21T03:46:02.916-07:00UNITE COMMUNITY NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO STOP UNIVERSAL CREDIT THURSDAY 24TH MAY 2018 CULMINATING IN RALLY AT OLD PALACE YARD OPPOSITE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AT 1PM WITH JEREMY CORBYN ATTENDING.<br />
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group in conjunction with Brent Unite Community Branch will be protesting same day <b>11am-noon outside Harlesden Job Centre</b> -anyone else welcome. We will be handing out Unite Community leaflets, and also KUWG leaflets which follow Disabled People Against Cuts call to SCRAP Universal Credit for good. See below:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Below Q&A From Prime
Ministers Questions 9/5/18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?house=Commons&memberId=4456" title="View member's contributions"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington) (Lab)</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In the past year, the Trussell
Trust has given out over 3,000 food parcels to my constituents in south
Manchester, half of them to families with children. The trust says that the
Government’s flawed roll-out of universal credit has fuelled the 13% rise in
food bank use over the past year. How does the Prime Minister explain the
rise? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Obviously, the Hon. Gentleman
knows that we do not want to see anybody having to use food banks. As we have
rolled out universal credit, we have listened to the concerns raised and we
have changed the arrangements as a result”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CLAIMANTS TO GET A LOAN TO PAY OFF WITHIN 12 MONTHS, AFTER HAVING PUT THEM INTO
DEBT IN THE FIRST PLACE BY DELAYING PAYMENTS BY 5 WEEKS. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GOVERNMENT</b>-INSPIRED DEBT! MAY THINKS THIS SORTED OUT THE PROBLEM!?!
NATIONALISED CAPITALISM? STINKY POLITICS!</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?house=Commons&memberId=534" title="View member's contributions"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Chris Ruane (Vale of Clwyd) (Lab)</span></a><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Waiting times for personal
independence payment tribunals in Wales have quadrupled over the past four
years. My constituent, Alan McKittrick, is suffering from prostate cancer,
angina, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, hernias,
mental ill health, dizziness, blackouts and ulcers, yet his initial PIP claim
was refused. He then waited 56 weeks for an appeal, which he won. Will the
Prime Minister apologise to Alan, and when will she end this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">hostile environment</b> towards sick and
disabled people?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/search/MemberContributions?house=Commons&memberId=8" title="View member's contributions"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Prime Minister</span></a><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Obviously, Members across this
House raise issues about the PIP process, and the Department for Work and Pensions
is consistently looking at the whole PIP process. One of the issues that the
hon. Gentleman raised in his question was the health of the individual
concerned. As he sits for a Welsh constituency, I would have thought that, if
he wants to talk about health, he should talk to the Labour Government in Wales”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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RIGHTFUL MONIES FOR 56 WEEKS, MAY THINKS SHE CAN POINT SCORE ABOUT WELSH
ASSEMBLEY WHO DEAL WITH THE NHS, BUT PIP IS A DWP ISSUE NOT NHS!! HEARTLESS
& BRAINLESS!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Kilburn Unemployed Workers
Group support Unite Community’s Day of Action to Stop Universal Credit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>& we back Disabled People Against Cuts
who say SCRAP Universal Credit. It’s designed to ‘keep claimants on the books”
so they can be hounded off the books. A Virtual Permanent Abuse System!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Workers & Claimants know the
score. Unite & Fight the REAL Scroungers. Cabinet & <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DWP Top Brass!</span></u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-53879448520645694812018-05-03T03:13:00.001-07:002018-05-03T03:13:17.255-07:00Money Saving Expert forum posting warning against 'The People's Postcode Lottery'<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I have seen adverts for 'The People's Postcode Lottery' frequently and wondered who owns it, I just did an Internet search on the matter. So far I've not discovered the answer to theat question, but a Money Saving Expert (MSE) posting about 'People's Postcode Lottery' caught my eye that I believe relevant to this blog and its audience when all the Jobcentre-recommended or directed 'options' turn out to be cues to try anything else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can find that MSE posting at <a href="https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3797123"><span class="post-title">Beware - People's Postcode Lottery!</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="post-title">https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=3797123 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, I know that Jobcentre Plus slogan 'The Help You Need, When You Need It' is a big con, but there are many more cons out there that are television advertised <i>ad nauseum</i>, if you'll pardon the the accidental pun! And it seems, from one of those responses, that while Advertising Standards Authority may seem like a 'toothless tiger' when it comes to banning dodgy adverts, it can be worth placing "asa" in front of any television advertised product or service you are investigating, as Thomas Heald points out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Posted by Dude Swheatie of Kwug</b></span>Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-82816518439023740672018-05-02T08:06:00.000-07:002018-05-02T08:06:18.099-07:00PROTEST AT DWP HQ FRI 4/5/18 NOON-1PM<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><u>THE KILBURN UNEMPLOYED WORKERS GROUP WITH UNITE COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS WILL BE PROTESTING AND LEAFLETING OUTSIDE THE DWP H.Q. CAXTON HOUSE,TOTHILL STREET, SW1H 9NA</u></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FRIDAY 4TH MAY 2018 NOON-1PM</span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AGAINST UNIVERSAL CREDIT AND OTHER DWP SCAMS SIMILAR IN ROTTENESS TO THE 'WINDRUSH SCANDAL'. LEAFLET WRITTEN BEFORE AMBER RUDD'S RESIGNATION-HOPING FOR MCVEY & MAY'S SOON. THEY STILL BELIEVE THAT WITH-HOLDING MONIES FOR FOOD & RENT IS ACCEPTABLE! SAVAGES!!</span></u></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">‘Great’ Britain-Run
by Lazy-Minded Psychopaths, for Lazy-Rich Psychopaths!<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The absolutely Rotten policies of The “Nasty” Party (Tories)
following on from New Labour Right-Wing policies, has caused misery to The
Windrush Generation, and to Claimants seeking Rightful Benefits. Who, has been
sanctioned, or kicked off ESA and PIP, feels surprised that callous bureaucrats
have been demoralised to such an extent, that they push through inhumane
treatment of human beings? We would imagine no-one, although still able to be
shocked at how unreasonable officials can really be, when the spotlight of
publicity shines upon them! The fact that Legal Aid and Welfare Advice Centres,
have had their grants cut, seems to be another contributory factor in these
cases, so that JUSTICE is seen NOT to be done. Of course this Tory Government,
will (we hope) pay out compensation to damaged people, but ultimately Tories
who don’t like State intervention, will not be paying out themselves, in their typically
unaccountable fashion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There were warnings that Thuggish Immigration policies would
harm, but these warnings just fell on deaf-like ears, as Ideology came first,
just like with Austerity, and the clamour to Scrap Universal Credit. Seems
obvious that the DWP/Home Office ‘thinking’ is people <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“slipping through the net” is to be a fact of
life, an actual ‘unintended’ consequence, if we want to rid ourselves of
“Scroungers” –“Illegal Immigrants”- the “Non-deserving.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The DWP - The Home Office, and The Ministry of Justice are
“Unfit-for-purpose” because they have been deliberately made so. To those
affected by these “Great” Departments, look at them in the same way The
“Stasi”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>became a hated institution, and
we are all sure that one day the truth will out. Workers in these institutions,
with their unions, should band together with the people who suffer from
outrageous decisions, and refuse to implement such Draconian policies-Social
Cleansing is NOT in an official’s remit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">“The former head of the civil service, Lord Kerslake, said that
some ministers were "deeply unhappy" about the introduction of the
"hostile environment" strategy under then Home Secretary Theresa May.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Speaking to </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk25"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #222222; font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">BBC Newsnight</span></b></a><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">, Lord Kerslake, said some saw the
policy, which has come under the spotlight during the Windrush row, "as
almost reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the way it's working"”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">FROM: </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-43818762/windrush-lord-kerslake-says-policy-reminiscent-of-nazi-germany"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-43818762/windrush-lord-kerslake-says-policy-reminiscent-of-nazi-germany</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When Tories are worried, so should we! Kilburn Unemployed
Workers Group worry & act!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCRAP UNIVERSAL
CREDIT AND SHAMEFUL IMMIGRATION POLICIES!!</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-38746005856127211522018-05-02T04:10:00.000-07:002018-05-02T04:10:32.446-07:00Brexit as a lever for further Tory attacks on our rights<div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A KUWG member has asked me to publish the below as a blog post after I had e-mailed it to him as an update on the Green Party's response to Labour's 2008 'welfare reform green paper'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I suspect that the Tories are seeing Brexit as an opportunity to
further attack disabled and other people's rights by rewriting our laws.
The EU has a Working Time Directive that limits the hours that Brits
have to work, for example. <a href="http://www.jeanlambertmep.org.uk/?s=Working+time+directive&x=0&y=0" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">http://www.jeanlambertmep.org.uk/?s=Working+time+directive&x=0&y=0</a></span><div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br clear="none" />Remember Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary saying that Britons should learn to work "more like the Chinese"? <a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/05/hunt-tax-credit-cuts-make-britons-work-like-chinese-or-americans" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/05/hunt-tax-credit-cuts-make-britons-work-like-chinese-or-americans</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Chinese 'guolaosi' would think differently, no doubt. As Johann Hari reported in the Independent in 2010: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Deaths from overwork are so common in Chinese factories that they
have a word for it: guolaosi. China Daily estimates that 600,000 people
are killed this way every year, mostly making goods for us. Li had never
experienced any health problems, his family says, until he started this
work schedule; Foxconn say he died of asthma and his death had nothing
to do with them. The night Li died, yet another Foxconn worker committed
suicide – the tenth this year."<br clear="none" />Souce: <a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-and-now-for-some-good-news-2044578.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-and-now-for-some-good-news-2044578.html</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is also this involving the Justice Minister</span><div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-suggests-realities-of-the-world-mean-government-will-not-halt-attack-on-rights/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-suggests-realities-of-the-world-mean-government-will-not-halt-attack-on-rights/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It fits in with Naomi
Klein's concept of 'disaster capitalism' as turning catastrophes into
opportunities for more of Milton Friedman's </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"holy trinity" -- privatization, deregulation and cuts to social
spending -- in which governments dismantle trade barriers, abandon
public ownership, reduce taxes, eliminate the minimum wage, cut health
and welfare spending, and privatize education. She calls the means of
achieving this goal "disaster capitalism" and describes how it has
resulted in a worldwide redistribution of income and wealth to the
already rich at the expense of economic solvency for the middle and
lower classes. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source: <a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850ydpce094742yiv4290362165" href="http://www.naomiklein.org/reviews/ms-magazine-review-shock-doctrine" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">http://www.naomiklein.org/reviews/ms-magazine-review-shock-doctrine</a><br clear="none" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As was merely touched upon in <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/reports/GPEW_writing_off_workfare_final.doc&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjDrNq6k-XaAhWDfiwKHcoMBuYQFggEMAA&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=014602880548773237108:bfmqbz3c1w4&usg=AOvVaw3p2yZ3w6FxUsZuVo2OegcX" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">Writing off Workfare</a>
by Anne Gray and myself in 2008, UK 'welfare reforms' since the time
Peter Lilley was the responsible government minister/secretary of state
have been strongly influenced by dodgy American health insurance giant
Unum who regard the UK as a 'potential market'. Medically retired RAF
veteran and health care professional Mo Stewart has elaborated much of this with documentation.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-researchers-book-exposes-corporate-demolition-of-welfare-state/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-researchers-book-exposes-corporate-demolition-of-welfare-state/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fundamental
to the way the UN Disability Committee regards disability is the
Social Model of Disability. <a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850" href="http://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/5/3/35" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">http://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/5/3/35</a> <br clear="none" />The Social Model of Disability focuses on physical, economic and social
barriers to the inclusion of people with impairments that makes us
disabled. That perspective is fundamental to Green Party of England & Wales policy on disability. <a href="https://policy.greenparty.org.uk/dy.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://policy.greenparty.org.uk/dy.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unum's model is called the 'bio-psychosocial model' and is
fundamental to the Health & Work Programme and its
'psycho-coercion'. Useful links on this include:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850ydpce094742yiv4290362165" href="https://dpac.uk.net/2012/04/a-tale-of-two-models-disabled-people-vs-unum-atos-government-and-disability-charities-debbie-jolly/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://dpac.uk.net/2012/04/a-tale-of-two-models-disabled-people-vs-unum-atos-government-and-disability-charities-debbie-jolly/</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850ydpce094742yiv4290362165" href="https://scottishunemployedworkers.net/2016/07/11/psychocoercion-and-unemployment-a-marriage-made-in-austeritys-hell/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://scottishunemployedworkers.net/2016/07/11/psychocoercion-and-unemployment-a-marriage-made-in-austeritys-hell/</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850ydpce094742yiv4290362165" href="https://scottishunemployedworkers.net/2016/06/22/psycho-coercion-and-workfare-fighting-back/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://scottishunemployedworkers.net/2016/06/22/psycho-coercion-and-workfare-fighting-back/</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850ydpce094742yiv4290362165" href="http://www.unum.co.uk/media/unum-and-professor-dame-carol-black-launch-new-essay-collection-on-work-and-health" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">http://www.unum.co.uk/media/unum-and-professor-dame-carol-black-launch-new-essay-collection-on-work-and-health</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/?s=human+catastrophe" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/?s=human+catastrophe</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/amnesty-international-express-grave-concerns-about-uk-governments-outsourced-back-to-work-therapy/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/amnesty-international-express-grave-concerns-about-uk-governments-outsourced-back-to-work-therapy/</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850" href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/charities-delivering-dwps-work-programme-must-promise-not-to-attack-mcvey/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/charities-delivering-dwps-work-programme-must-promise-not-to-attack-mcvey/</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unum
is not the only global company involved in UK 'welfare reforms'. The
principal contractor for the 'Universal Credit' IT deal is Accenture.
The subcontractor for the forms used for online application for UC is
Atos!<br clear="none" /><a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850ydpce094742yiv4290362165" href="http://www.information-age.com/dwp-awards-accenture-500m-universal-credit-it-deal-1666348/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">http://www.information-age.com/dwp-awards-accenture-500m-universal-credit-it-deal-1666348/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Accenture,
incidentally, is now providing much of the reporting for centre-right
think tank Reform.uk in its promotion of 'digital jobcentres' and more,
much more.</span><blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"... <span><em>The future of public services: digital jobcentres</em>, sets out
the opportunity to transform public employment services in the UK. This
paper is the fourth in a series, conducted in partnership with
Accenture, which looks at the role technology will play in the future
delivery of public services.
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Jobcentre Plus – the UK’s public employment service – won plaudits
for its performance over the financial crisis, but the story may be
different if Brexit triggers an economic slowdown. The introduction of
in-work services under Universal Credit will increase demand, while the
Work and Health Programme will require jobcentres to take a more central
role in the delivery of disability employment support services."<br clear="none" />Source: <a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850" href="http://www.reform.uk/publication/the-future-of-public-services-digital-jobcentres/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">http://www.reform.uk/publication/the-future-of-public-services-digital-jobcentres/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What
were the sources of those 'plaudits' that "Jobcentre Plus — the UK's
public employment service — won ... for its performance over the
financial crisis"? One of those sources, as I recall, was David Cameron
and I think the other was the National Audit Office. You can find out
for yourself at <a href="http://www.reform.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-future-of-public-services-digital-jobcentres.pdf" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">http://www.reform.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-future-of-public-services-digital-jobcentres.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and remember that Reform.uk is a registered charity. See also <a class="yiv9248213594ydp60039f02yiv7890617850" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=nao+dwp" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?q=nao+dwp</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br clear="none" />Had
they spoken to the people that blogger Kate Belgrave talks to in her
'Talking with people dealing with public sector cuts' blog, no doubt
they would have got a different story regarding how well the Department
for Work & Pensions has performed. <a href="https://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=dwp&submit=Search" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=dwp&submit=Search</a> and <a href="https://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=dwp+foi&submit=Search" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">https://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=dwp+foi&submit=Search</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br clear="none" /><br clear="none" /><span>Alan Wheatley</span><span></span>Co-author of 'Writing off Workfare', writing in a personal capacity</span>Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-35398605795894679372018-02-02T05:08:00.004-08:002018-02-02T05:08:43.129-08:00is there anybody there to talk to us?<div class="jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 16px;">
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px;">KUWG are protesting Tuesday 6<sup>th</sup> February 2018 2pm-2.30pm Outside DWP HQ Caxton House, 12 Tothill Street,</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #545454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px;"> <u>SW1H 9NA</u></span></b><b><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px;"> to ‘welcome’ Esther McVey as the new boss, with then a coffee-break and walk to the Ministry of (In)Justice, for 3pm-3.30pm,</span></u></b><span class="yiv8319470201ydp1a4f096street-address"><b><u><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #0b0c0c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px; padding: 0cm;">102 Petty France, </span></u></b></span><span class="yiv8319470201ydp1a4f096postal-code"><b><u><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #0b0c0c; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.5333px; padding: 0cm;">SW1H 9AJ to say “Hi” to ex-DWP boss David Gauke, <i>Lest he forgets us</i> (St James’ Park Tube Station is between them both & both near Westminster Tube)</span></u></b></span></div>
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-28869335769859149412017-12-18T06:18:00.001-08:002017-12-18T10:48:17.877-08:00Benefit exam exemptions: a briefing paper by Winvisible for caring professionals<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Women with visible and invisible disabilities — aka Winvisible — write:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dear all,</span><br clear="none" /><br clear="none" /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is our latest leaflet directed at GPs and others about exemption from</span><br clear="none" /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the ESA and PIP exams.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://winvisibleblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/benefit-exam-exemptions-briefing-for-professionals/">https://winvisibleblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/benefit-exam-exemptions-briefing-for-professionals/</a><br clear="none" /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Happy Christmas!</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-62157657330443973932017-12-18T05:31:00.000-08:002017-12-18T05:31:48.765-08:00KUWG Christmas Party, Monday 18 Dec 2017, 7pm-10pm at Prince of Wales PH, 101 Willesden Lane, London NW6 7SD<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt; text-align: center;">
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"COME ON DOWN"</span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THE KUWG CHRISTMAS PARTY THIS YEAR</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MONDAY 18<sup>TH</sup> DEC</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> 7PM-10PM (SETTING UP FROM 6.30PM) </span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PRINCE OF WALES PUB, 101 WILLESDEN LANE, KILBURN, NW6 7SD</span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 28.0pt;">WELCOME
TO THE PLEASURE-DOME!</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">6.30PM SETTING UP, 7PM MUSIC STARTS, 7.15 SPEECHES-WELCOMES
7.45 ACTS UNTIL 9PM, THEN SECRET SANTA, THEN 9.30 ALTERNATIVE CAROL SINGING.
10PM TIDYING UP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">One free drink if you pick up a ticket, entrance free,
food free...if you want to bring a delicacy for sharing please do. If you can
sing, play an instrument, anything, please do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Due
to events last year, no TWERKING permitted <u>before</u> 9pm. No use of 4-letterish
words like “Gauke”, “IDS” or “Tom Watson.” ALL FRIENDS OF KUWG INVITED!</span></div>
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-92001852372795797922017-12-15T17:25:00.003-08:002017-12-18T05:58:42.139-08:00KUWG to appear outside DWP HQ, Monday 18 December 2017, 2pm-3pm, proclaiming what we need for protection<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caxton House <span class="_eph"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="rtng" style="margin-right: 5px;"></span><span class="fl" data-ved="0ahUKEwiDqpqD2pPYAhUoJcAKHbeYAJQQiCsIhwEwDA" style="font-size: 13px; margin-left: 5px; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="r-iXJ08KlyXCzY"><a data-async-trigger="reviewDialog" data-fid="0x487604db65b0b103:0x2a76e6dc55987779" data-is_owner="false" data-reply_source="local-search-reviews-list" data-rtid="iXJ08KlyXCzY" data-sort_by="qualityScore" data-ved="0ahUKEwiDqpqD2pPYAhUoJcAKHbeYAJQQ8msIiAEwDA" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span></span></a></span></span></span><br />
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-10293523314514777602017-12-15T16:48:00.001-08:002017-12-18T05:24:04.220-08:00KUWG Christmas Party, Monday 18 Dec 2017, 7pm-10pm at Prince of Wales PH, 101 Willesden Lane, London NW6 7SD<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: right 451.3pt; text-align: center;">
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"COME ON DOWN"</span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 115%;">THE KUWG CHRISTMAS PARTY THIS YEAR</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MONDAY 18<sup>TH</sup> DEC</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> 7PM-10PM (SETTING UP FROM 6.30PM) <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">PRINCE OF WALES PUB, 101 WILLESDEN LANE, KILBURN, NW6 7SD<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 28.0pt;">WELCOME
TO THE PLEASURE-DOME!<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">6.30PM SETTING UP, 7PM MUSIC STARTS, 7.15 SPEECHES-WELCOMES
7.45 ACTS UNTIL 9PM, THEN SECRET SANTA, THEN 9.30 ALTERNATIVE CAROL SINGING.
10PM TIDYING UP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">One free drink if you pick up a ticket, entrance free,
food free...if you want to bring a delicacy for sharing please do. If you can
sing, play an instrument, anything, please do.</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Due
to events last year, no TWERKING permitted <u>before</u> 9pm. No use of 4-letterish
words like “Gauke”, “IDS” or “Tom Watson.” ALL FRIENDS OF KUWG INVITED!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t the great
unwashed know their place anymore? </span><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Sin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aparajita" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">PC gone BONKERS! </span><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Financial Crimes </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Unfair to the Rich! </span><span style="font-family: "arial rounded mt bold" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">illuminati news<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-33883344977673455722017-12-15T16:44:00.001-08:002017-12-18T06:02:40.992-08:00Leaflet for protesting and Alternative Carol singing by KUWG outside DWP HQ Caxton Hse, SW1H 9NA, Mon 18 Dec 2017<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><u>Leaflet for protesting and Alternative Carol singing by KUWG outside DWP HQ Caxton House, 12 Tothill Street, SW1H 9NA Monday 18th December 2017, 2pm-3pm</u></b></div>
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<b><u>Still confronting the 'Rotten Rulers' ru(i)nning our lives, especially this Xmas. </u></b></div>
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<b><u>UPDATE ON THE DESPICABLE ‘IDEAS’ AND ‘POLICIES’ PUSHED THROUGH BY
THE PYSCHOPATHIC HIERACHY AT DWP HQ CAXTON HOUSE, AND WHY THESE SHYSTERS SHOULD
BE OUSTED.<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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Workers at the Rotten Caxton
House have told us when we have leafleted that awful place that they are only
pushing thru policies set by their bosses, and don’t agree with them. The
Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group are on the side of Workers and the PCS Union,
and know it’s the vile ‘ideas’ of people like IDS (who resigned due to his own
rottenness being too much for his own Tory MPs) which are still being pushed
hard by the likes of extremely ambitious planks like David Gauke. He is on <i>Huffington Post</i> video expressing his greasy
desire to be Chancellor. Wotta Rotter!</div>
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He was a Parliamentary candidate
for Brent East in 2010 and lost so he’s not a total ‘winner’ and amongst the proposed
nationwide jobcentre closures, Kilburn and Neasden, which were in that old
constituency, are included in the list, so proof he doesn’t form attachments to
places which get in the way of his ambitions. His sidekick Damian Hinds-is
booted into the Commons when Gauke is too ‘busy’ to show his face...not that
anybody wants to see that face of his. When reading <i>Hansard</i>, one easily sees how Gauke and Hinds twist themselves into
answers that are only logical to themselves. For instance jobcentres are being
closed because Universal Credit online is such a success, not so many JCPs
needed. But when people have problems with UC they say there will be “Work
Coaches” in <u>jobcentres</u> on hand to help. Completely contradictory! They
have no shame!! Numb-Skulls!!</div>
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On Universal Credit the Tories
have put an <b>extra </b>£1.5 billion in to
help, but the 7 day wait was the government <b>stealing</b> money from the poorest people in Britain...bit like a
burglar being caught taking your goods & handing them back but saying they
are<b> giving</b> them to you as they are
so kind.</div>
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Universal Credit Implementers
like Janice Hartley and Neil Couling have actually been given CBEs! What sort
of world is this? Harvey Weinstein has a CBE too by the way...so has the new Minister
of Defence Gavin Williamson...he’s the guy whose CBE was controversially given
to him from the coward David Cameron in his resigning Honours List...nobody
seems to know why...although suspected of Cronyism. Williamson is now
‘confident’ enough to be claiming ISIS Terrorists (who kill people without due
process) should be killed on sight (without due process). Does seem that this
Tory Government is a group of Psychopaths, who make laws, while disregarding
laws like the Geneva Convention. The United Nations have reported that Britain
is treating disabled people in an awful way...wotta lorra rot we got ‘in
charge’. Stingy Scrooges still only giving 10 quid extra for Xmas!</div>
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David Davis stutters on providing
Impact Studies regarding Brexit...when any organisation researches
possibilities that may occur in the future. Gauke and Hinds refused Equality
Impact Studies on Jobcentre closures, stating they will produce them AFTER the
closures have happened!? Gauke is also reluctant to hand over DWP analysis on
the history of implementing Universal Credit to the public. It is the PUBLIC
that pays his wages & has paid for the reports. Gauke, like IDS, should resign,
with Hinds, Hartley and Couling, and CBEs should be stripped off the people
mentioned, or do they want to stay in the same realm as Weinstein? And let’s
stop Patronage and Cronyism which is NOT part of a <u>real</u> Meritocracy.
Workers, whether waged or not, should stick together and next time Gauke is too
busy to talk at the House of Commons, transport him there in a Gramsci
Wheelbarrow!!</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine these Ministers’ Christmases, compared to Claimants
on Universal Credit this year! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-24366977901836285212017-11-28T11:41:00.000-08:002017-11-28T11:41:06.319-08:00Child Poverty Action Group says cuts to Universal Credit push up child poverty<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From CPAG enews</span><br />
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CREDIT IS POVERTY-PRODUCING</b><br />
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<span class="yiv3596988203" style="color: #240828; font-size: 14px;">Evidence from
CPAG's Early Warning System
and analysis from our new
report on the impact of
cuts, 'The Austerity
Generation', helped secure
important improvements to
how Universal Credit is
delivered in last week’s
Budget. We’ve raised our
concerns about the 6-week
wait and the difficulty in
securing advance payments
extensively with the DWP, in
Parliament and in the media.
However, a key finding of
our new report is that<b>
cuts to Universal Credit
will push 1 million more
children into poverty by
2020.</b> To restore
Universal Credit’s promise
of greater rewards from work
and to be poverty-fighting,
not poverty-producing, we
need work allowances to be
restored and a triple-lock
on child benefit and the
child element of Universal
Credit. The announcements in
last week’s Budget are
welcome, but they don’t go
nearly far enough to make
Universal Credit fit for
families. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://cpag-mail.org.uk/5MH-5AY6O-HLQZQ-2WINBV-1/c.aspx">http://cpag-mail.org.uk/5MH-5AY6O-HLQZQ-2WINBV-1/c.aspx</a> </span>Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-22723332875690252862017-11-28T02:22:00.001-08:002017-11-28T11:10:58.602-08:00A royal wedding announcement is a great time to bury bad news about benefit cuts<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is this from the Independent:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefit-freeze-working-people-typical-family-300-real-terms-cut-inflation-a8079196.html">Government confirms freeze on working age benefits minutes after Prince Harry wedding news revealed</a></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Freeze continues amid the longest fall in living standards for 60 years</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"According to Clarence House, the wedding will take place in Spring 2018" — by which time many more parts of the UK will be experiencing the 'shock and awe' of 'Universal Credit full roll-out'. That in itself will be an opportunity to 'bury bad news'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, there is this excellent Zoe Williams article from The Guardian: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/27/poverty-tory-ideas-budget">Such is the poverty of Tory ideas that they deny poverty even exists</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.... good intentions would manifest in curiosity about the lived experience
of one’s policies, which would in turn entail figuring out what those
policies amounted to in the aggregate. Failure to ask such questions is
not born out of ignorance: it is critical to the Conservative narrative
to deny, forcefully and sometimes gleefully, that anyone in the country
is struggling.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The contrast between the royal wedding announcement and UK poverty reminds me of lines in a Harvey Andrews & Graham Cooper song, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpsSb8AHIQ4">'Targets'</a> that was written to commemorate Margaret Thatcher's election as Tory Party leader in 1975:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We would have married long ago </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And we're still hoping one day </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two up two down and a little lawn </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And time to rest on Sunday. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wish the ones who left us here </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Could live like us and borrow </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'd place a pound for what it's worth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That they'd be gone tomorrow</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We'd like a yacht, some rooms to spare </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And horses in the stable </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We might as well believe that we </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Could buy meat for the table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Call us equal, call us proud, call yourself a liar </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No matter what the people do, they set the target higher</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Zoe Williams article even mentions nurses using food banks. So much for 'the pursuit of inequality'. Where has it got us?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blog post by Dude Swheatie of Kwug </span> </h4>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefit-freeze-working-people-typical-family-300-real-terms-cut-inflation-a8079196.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefit-freeze-working-people-typical-family-300-real-terms-cut-inflation-a8079196.html</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpsSb8AHIQ4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpsSb8AHIQ4</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/27/poverty-tory-ideas-budget">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/27/poverty-tory-ideas-budget</a></span></li>
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<br />Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-54794809034320879832017-11-17T11:04:00.000-08:002018-02-16T07:50:30.996-08:00Devisers of Universal Credit blithely wish claimants a rotten Christmas 2017?<div id="yiv4058664163">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Placard: "Government knows what it's doing."<br />
Do you know what they are planning?</td></tr>
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<span id="yiv4058664163yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510939282560_16505">From Private Eye, 3-16 November issue 'In the Back' p37 (the one with a 'sex shop' photo on the cover):</span></div>
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<span id="yiv4058664163yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510939282560_16510">With
the opposition, the Commons work and pensions select committee and even
universal credit's instigator, Iain Duncan Smith, lining up to condemn
the minimum six-week which new recipients must undergo before they see
any cash, pressure is mounting on the government to reduce the arrears
period. But this initial wait for cash may not be the only period during
which UC claimants go without funds.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv4058664163yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510939282560_16514">For
claimants who are in work and paid weekly (which is the case in many
low-paid jobs that will qualify for UC top-ups), the small print of the
benefit makes it clear that they will run into problems whenever they
receive five pay packages withing the calendar months that are used to
calculate their UC eligibility.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv4058664163yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510939282560_16518">"When
you have five weekly earnings payments within an assessment period,
your income may be too high to qualify for universal credit in that
month," say the DWP rules. "If this happens you will be notified that
your income is too high and you will no longer ge universal credit. You
can re-apply the following month as you should only get for wage
payments in your assessment period then."</span></div>
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<span id="yiv4058664163yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510939282560_16522">The
vagaries of the calendar will not, of course, affect the amount workers
are actually earning — but a month with five Fridays (this December,
for example) will see them automatically lose their entire universal
credit for that period. "You will need to be prepared for a month when
you get five wage payments in one assessment period and budget for a
potential change in your monthly universal credit payments," the DWP
guidelines state blithely.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv4058664163yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510939282560_16526">In
2018, March, June, August and November will all have five Fridays — so
UC claimants who are paid weekly may have to budget for extraordinarily
lean months for a third of the year. The DWP itself admitted in a report
published last month that delays in UC payments were "a key factor" in
claimants falling into rent arrears.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv4058664163yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510939282560_16530">Given
that UC has supposedly been designed to mimic standard work pay
patterns, this fluctuation seems particularly cruel: no employer, after
all, docks pay following every five-week month, or pays them less
because they are on a weekly wage.</span></div>
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<span id="yiv4058664163yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510939282560_16534">So, for those on UC and getting paid weekly this December, Christmas is cancelled!</span></div>
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<span id="yiv4058664163yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510939282560_16538">I'm sorry to be a bearer of bad news, but maybe to be forewarned is to be forearmed?</span><br />
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-3401239089753076322017-11-14T07:16:00.000-08:002017-11-14T07:16:47.975-08:00Town twinning within UK between those yet to receive Universal Credit 'full roll-out' and those that have already had it?<div id="yiv7072129901yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510655121626_8584">
On this Scottish Unemployed Workers Network blog post,</div>
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there
is a youtube video of demonstration speeches outside Dundee Jobcentre,
in which 'full roll-out' of Universal Credit is compared to the Poll Tax
in terms of its potential to be a counter-productive government policy.</div>
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I
believe that the long delayed introduction of Universal Credit and the
way that it has been targeted first at 'single people making a fresh
claim' in any area has been partly designed so as to avoid Poll Tax
levels of opposition.<br />
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Despite its apparent hap-hazardness, it now looks like Universal Credit roll-out has been conducted as a military operation in the war against claimants </h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Benefit-guides/Universal-Credit-timetable/Universal-Credit-roll-out-2013#guide-content">First Universal Credit targeted single Jsa claimants at Ashton-under-Lyne jobcentre</a><br />
<a href="https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Benefit-guides/Universal-Credit-timetable/Universal-Credit-roll-out-2013#guide-content">making a fresh Jsa claim who met certain criteria</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Benefit-guides/Universal-Credit-timetable/Universal-Credit-roll-out-2013#guide-content">Second, it rolled over similar Jsa claimants using Wigan jobcentre</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Benefit-guides/Universal-Credit-timetable/Universal-Credit-roll-out-2014#guide-content">2014: Divide and roll-over single claimants makingfresh Jsa claim elsewhere...</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Benefit-guides/Universal-Credit-timetable/Universal-Credit-roll-out-2014#guide-content">.... then couples in Hammersmith, Bath...</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Benefit-guides/Universal-Credit-timetable/Universal-Credit-roll-out-2016-2017#guide-content">Universal Credit roll-out 2016</a><br />
<a href="https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Benefit-guides/Universal-Credit-timetable/Universal-Credit-roll-out-2016-2017#guide-content">'Live Service Areas' and 'Full Digital Service Areas'</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Benefit-guides/Universal-Credit-timetable/Universal-Credit-roll-out-2014#guide-content">November 2014: families — couples or lone parentswith children. "Anyone claiming Universal Credit as availy were entitled to Free School Meals for their children."</a></td></tr>
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Universal Credit -- at least in its current design
with income caps -- attacks the working poor as well as the much
demonised claimants of out-of-waged work benefit claimants, and so it
can be regarded as a Trojan Horse for attacking the 'working poor' while
debt slavery is introduced via the back door.</div>
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So what can claimants and their allies do about this 'divide and rule' matter? </h3>
As can be seen from the above screen captures, the history of Universal Credit roll-out can be regarded as a military operation.<br />
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Now for 'full roll-out', there is geographic phasing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Benefit-guides/Universal-Credit-timetable/Universal-Credit-roll-out-2016-2017#guide-content">2016: Universal Credit roll-out 'Live Service Areas' and 'Fully Digital Services Areas' defined</a></td></tr>
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Perhaps a way of overcoming
the geographic phasing barrier could be to do some 'town' or 'area'
twinning between those who are yet to 'get it' and those who have
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-69509382588240313622017-11-12T01:25:00.000-08:002017-11-12T22:49:45.586-08:00Should Universal Credit 'full roll-out' be halted or scrapped entirely? And what of the 'Department for Work & Pensions'?<div id="yiv9594544340yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510423901601_5244">
I would say that this approach</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://uk.yahoo.com/news/jeremy-corbyn-calls-universal-credit-074737762.html">Yahoo News: Jeremy Corbyn calls for Universal Credit to be halted<br />'before millions of people are made worse off'</a></td></tr>
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does not go nearly far enough. What about <a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=universal+credit&submit=Search">those who have already been made worse off under the so-called 'Universal Credit'?</a>(2)<br />
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The 'Universal Credit is too big to fail' consensus of acquescence that has existed hitherto within the Labour Party and also the other main political parties that 'Universal Credit is a good idea' is one based largely on ignorance and prejudice.</div>
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Not only does 'Universal Credit' need to be <a href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/summit-hears-calls-on-direct-action-assessment-boycotts-and-hate-crime/">'stopped and scrapped'</a>(2), but the Department for Work & Pensions needs to be changed from the benefits denial factory it seems to have been designed as</h3>
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A
major problem with any existing DWP system is that it leads the way to
further abuses against claimants, as can be seen from my blog post <a href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/terra-firma-benefits-services-closures-leave-the-economically-vulnerable-in-the-lurch.html">Terra firma benefits services closures leave the economically vulnerable in the lurch</a>.(3) Even before it became the Department for Work & Pensions, its decision-making by remote control mechanisms were designed as what could be called the 'detached torturer syndrome', with pay-per-minute and long delays calls to add to the financial punishment for being poor enough to require help.</div>
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Further
still to the evidence brought up in that blog post about DWP as what might be called a
'claimants' rights denial factory', is Labour's previous role in
bringing in Employment & Support Allowance as a more 'active labour-market
programme' oriented payment, <a href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/timing-of-current-turmoil-and.html">and Yvette Cooper's tightening of 'eligibility' restrictions even further in response to claimants' tribunal victories</a>.(4) The Tories were left to <a href="http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2010/10/15/assessment-that-fails-its-own-test/">pilot the outgoing Labour DWP Secretary's 'Work Capability Assessment' Mk 2 after 2010 General Election</a>.(5)</div>
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Further reading</h4>
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<ul>
<li><a class="yiv9594544340" href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=corbyn+universal+credit" id="yiv9594544340yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510423901601_11112" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=corbyn+universal+credit</a></li>
<li><a href="https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/the-connection-between-universal-credit-ordeals-and-experiments-that-electrocute-laboratory-rats/">https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/the-connection-between-universal-credit-ordeals-and-experiments-that-electrocute-laboratory-rats/</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2008/05/22/voice-risk-analysis-makes-claiming-benefits-more-stressful/">http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2008/05/22/voice-risk-analysis-makes-claiming-benefits-more-stressful/</a></li>
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The above is one benefit claimant's analysis, and I 'declare an interest' in that I am a Green Party member. What do readers of this blog post say? Please comment.<br />
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Blog post by Dude Swheatie of Kwug<br />
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Notes</h4>
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<li><a href="https://uk.yahoo.com/news/jeremy-corbyn-calls-universal-credit-074737762.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma" id="yiv9594544340yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510423901601_5377" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://uk.yahoo.com/news/jeremy-corbyn-calls-universal-credit-074737762.html</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/summit-hears-calls-on-direct-action-assessment-boycotts-and-hate-crime/">https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/summit-hears-calls-on-direct-action-assessment-boycotts-and-hate-crime/</a> </li>
<li><a class="yiv9594544340" href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/terra-firma-benefits-services-closures-leave-the-economically-vulnerable-in-the-lurch.html" id="yiv9594544340yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510423901601_7216" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/terra-firma-benefits-services-closures-leave-the-economically-vulnerable-in-the-lurch.html</a></li>
<li><a class="yiv9594544340" href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/timing-of-current-turmoil-and.html" id="yiv9594544340yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1510423901601_9284" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/timing-of-current-turmoil-and.html</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2010/10/15/assessment-that-fails-its-own-test/">http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2010/10/15/assessment-that-fails-its-own-test/</a> </li>
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-50472336228519598782017-11-09T08:46:00.000-08:002017-11-09T08:46:39.318-08:00Save Our Job Centres — a 1 minute 45 seconds video by Shootroot<h3>
Video of demo outside DWP HQ, Caxton House, Monday 6 November 2017</h3>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" gesture="media" height="320" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p8jnYVjqtfQ" width="569.3333"></iframe>
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This video was originally posted at <a href="https://youtu.be/p8jnYVjqtfQ">https://youtu.be/p8jnYVjqtfQ</a> <br />
with this description: <br />
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Job centre closures will affect the most vulnerable who need personal and human support to find employment. They will also mean job losses and a reduction in civic spaces. There has been almost no consultation with those affected and no equalities impact studies have been done. Shame on the DWP!</div>
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See also the Kwug Blog blog post <a href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/kwuggies-and-friends-at-caxton-house-as-protectors-of-jobcentres-monday-6-nov-2017.html">Kwuggies and friends at Caxton House as protectors of jobcentres, Monday 6 November 2017</a><br />
http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/kwuggies-and-friends-at-caxton-house-as-protectors-of-jobcentres-monday-6-nov-2017.html <br />
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<br />Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-31655179457282347912017-11-08T20:16:00.001-08:002017-11-08T20:16:23.845-08:00Placard: Tell Department for Work & Pensions Freedom of Information is not 55p per minute extortion lines!Inspired by the work of Kate Belgrave on FoI and DWP [supposed] 'helplines'.<a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=foi&submit=Search">(1)</a> <a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=0345&submit=Search">(2)</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tell DWP FoI is not 55p per minute<br />
extortion lines!</td></tr>
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Placard by Dude Swheatie of Kwug, Human Placard Flower of the KUWG<br />
<h4>
Notes</h4>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=foi&submit=Search">http://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=foi&submit=Search</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=0345&submit=Search">http://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=0345&submit=Search</a> </li>
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<br />Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-24344962332127350102017-11-08T19:58:00.001-08:002017-11-09T07:56:01.852-08:00Placard: Tell DWP to FoI!Placard inspired by the work of <a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=foi&submit=Search">Kate Belgrave</a>,(1) and <a href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/?s=foi+dwp">John Pring</a>.(2)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Placard: Tell DWP to FoI!</td></tr>
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Dude Swheatie of Kwug, Human Placard Flower of the KUWG <br />
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<h4>
Notes</h4>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=foi&submit=Search">http://www.katebelgrave.com/?s=foi&submit=Search</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/?s=foi+dwp">https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/?s=foi+dwp</a></li>
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-15858180954995951442017-11-08T07:26:00.000-08:002017-11-08T07:26:48.116-08:00Placard: When I needed a payment, was it there? Was it there?Inspired by report of <a href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/kwuggies-and-friends-at-caxton-house-as-protectors-of-jobcentres-monday-6-nov-2017.html">Giselle's musical interrogation of the DWP at Caxton House</a>.(1)<br />
;-)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/kwuggies-and-friends-at-caxton-house-as-protectors-of-jobcentres-monday-6-nov-2017.html">Placard asks the DWP: When I needed a payment, was it there? Was it there?</a></td></tr>
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Note </h4>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/kwuggies-and-friends-at-caxton-house-as-protectors-of-jobcentres-monday-6-nov-2017.html">http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/kwuggies-and-friends-at-caxton-house-as-protectors-of-jobcentres-monday-6-nov-2017.html</a></li>
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-72953000847986426032017-11-08T06:57:00.003-08:002017-11-08T06:57:38.185-08:00Placard: Kate Belgrave asks, "Is anyone getting any answers from DWP at present?"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/11/is-anyone-getting-information-out-of-the-dwp-at-the-moment/#comments">Placard: Kate Belgrave asks, "Is anyone getting any</a><br />
<a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/11/is-anyone-getting-information-out-of-the-dwp-at-the-moment/#comments">information from Department for Work & Pensions at present?"</a></td></tr>
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<br />Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-36537730104979354902017-11-08T06:21:00.000-08:002017-11-08T06:21:32.353-08:00Placard: What is the point of public services that are democratically unaccountable?Placard by Dude Swheatie of Kwug following discussion on a Kate Belgrave blog post<br />
<a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/11/is-anyone-getting-information-out-of-the-dwp-at-the-moment/#comments">http://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/11/is-anyone-getting-information-out-of-the-dwp-at-the-moment/#comments</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Placard statement: What is the point of public services that are democratically unaccountable?</td></tr>
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<br />Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-55283543110099912642017-11-08T01:43:00.000-08:002017-11-08T01:43:57.558-08:00Kwuggies and friends at Caxton House as protectors of jobcentres, Monday 6 November 2017<div class="western" style="background: #ffffff; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>KUWG
and supporting friends:</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Gerry
Downing with placards made at the last minute for us, Peter Murry of
the Green Party Trade Union Group armed with a GP banner, Rebecca (a Nurse)
and many more besides, converged on Caxton House, Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) headquarters, on Monday 6 November from 3-4pm, a chilly afternoon on which we warmed
ourselves by giving David Gauke a roasting. </b></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;">KUWG and friends with banners and placards outside DWP Caxton House HQ</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
four security guards stationed outside the front doors of ‘Cack’
House at first looked uneasy, then bemused, then hesitantly
amused...and then supportive! One of them looked to be the most
experienced, he actually yelled, "They're rubbish!" in
support of one Kuwg’s rant about DWP policy. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
above mentioned Kuwg, had ranted until he turned their top security
man! Another Kuwg asked this guard if he would go upstairs and fetch
Gauke. He told us Gauke was out. Undeterred, she asked if there was a
deputy! Uncertain if there was, he said he would get someone to come
out to us. Apparently someone did come out but your roving
report-backer had popped into a shop! We read aloud our
statement </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>Save
our Jobcentres</b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rebecca — a nurse — spoke on the bullhorn quite few times, she told of
the time a claimant had been sanctioned, such was his distress that
he slit his wrists, she and her colleagues could not get through his
despair to explain that he had 4 days to tell DWP why he shouldn't be
sanctioned, in order get the decision overturned.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nik —
a Kuwg contributor — also on the bullhorn, very loud and very
scathing, read a list of foul DWP regulations and asked if they
thought these things right?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If
you think things couldn't get any worse (for Gauke & DWP...KUWG &
Co thought it was fab!) a Kuwg member starts singing the song with
lyrics "I was cold, I was hungry, were you there, were you
there?" she then answered the song in her speaking voice "Yes
DWP! You were there, weren't you? You cut people's benefits and
starved them! You were there alright!" and so on, a line of
song, followed by her riposte.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms" , cursive;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then
there was Gerry Downing- the man who organised the placards during
our placard drought. He wasn't short of words either. He led us on
the slogans "Gauke for the walk!" and the uplifting, "Sack
Gauke!"</span></span></span></div>
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Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-62423626750129768252017-10-27T05:18:00.001-07:002017-10-27T05:18:22.563-07:00'Universal Credit'? More like: "Shock & awe if you are poor!"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Universal Credit'? More like:<br />"Shock & awe if you are poor!"</td></tr>
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According to Milton Friedman's 'economic shock therapy', <a href="http://www.naomiklein.org/reviews/ms-magazine-review-shock-doctrine">"traumatized economies should be shocked immediately, before the public can respond to the change."</a>(1)<br />
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See also<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/the-connection-between-universal-credit-ordeals-and-experiments-that-electrocute-laboratory-rats/">The connection between Universal Credit, ordeals and experiments in electrocuting laboratory rats</a>(2)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/10/universal-credit-and-debt-debt-debt-universal-credit-is-really-hard-i-miss-one-bill-to-pay-another-more-foodbank-interviews/#comments">"I miss one bill [to] pay another." Universal Credit and debt, debt, debt. More #foodbank interviews</a>(3)</li>
<li><a href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/dwp-n-uk-state-run-modern-slavery-gangmaster.html">DWP: (n) UK-state-run modern slavery gangmaster</a>(4)</li>
</ul>
Placard and blog posting by Dude Swheatie of Kwug<br />
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Link references</h4>
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<li><a href="http://www.naomiklein.org/reviews/ms-magazine-review-shock-doctrine">http://www.naomiklein.org/reviews/ms-magazine-review-shock-doctrine</a></li>
<li><a href="https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/the-connection-between-universal-credit-ordeals-and-experiments-that-electrocute-laboratory-rats/">https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/the-connection-between-universal-credit-ordeals-and-experiments-that-electrocute-laboratory-rats/</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/10/universal-credit-and-debt-debt-debt-universal-credit-is-really-hard-i-miss-one-bill-to-pay-another-more-foodbank-interviews/#comments">http://www.katebelgrave.com/2017/10/universal-credit-and-debt-debt-debt-universal-credit-is-really-hard-i-miss-one-bill-to-pay-another-more-foodbank-interviews/#comments</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/dwp-n-uk-state-run-modern-slavery-gangmaster.html">http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/dwp-n-uk-state-run-modern-slavery-gangmaster.html</a> </li>
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<br />Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129811219634839286.post-38209630559324539182017-10-26T06:53:00.000-07:002017-10-26T06:53:37.790-07:00Not a person to be messed with!Trawling through my e-mail back catalogue just now in search of something else just now, I came across the following that I believe worth sharing here.<br />
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509019240623_39923">Perhaps a potential advantage of 'being known to the authorities'
can be identification as 'a person not to be messed with'?</span>
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<span>When I had my second 'Work Capability Assessment' [Feb 2011] after
three deferred appointments[1] and after having won ESA tribunal [Dec 2009] they
had the realisation that I had a McKenzie Friend [the person who went to my
second WCA with] who could write a very direct and 'this service [sic] was
substandard and degrading' type letter. (That letter had been in support of my
request for a further deferment on account of the icy conditions grounding her
ComCab support, even while Atos call-centre operative treated me like 'the
accused' who was obliged to attend 'court appearance', with Atos assuming the
role of G4S. My friend has a law degree.)</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509019240623_39961">So this time round, despite the fact that the Atos 'Examining Medical
Practitioner' claimed to have received none of the certification that I had sent
separately from the ESA50 that I had completed with carefully customised word
processed text boxes, I did not have to go to a tribunal. I was told by letter
that the WCA had resulted in no change to my Support Group status.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509019240623_39961"> </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1509019240623_39961">Blog post by Dude Swheatie of Kwug </span></div>
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