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Dude Swheatie of Kwug, Human Placard Flower of the KUWG
Self-help support vs ravages of 'welfare reform'. Never attend anywhere official alone!
This blog currently focuses on national policy matters that impact upon KUWG members.
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.
Showing posts with label democratic scrutiny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democratic scrutiny. Show all posts
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Placard: Tell DWP to FoI!
Placard inspired by the work of Kate Belgrave,(1) and John Pring.(2)
Dude Swheatie of Kwug, Human Placard Flower of the KUWG
Dude Swheatie of Kwug, Human Placard Flower of the KUWG
Friday, 8 July 2016
While KUWG is starting to draft a statement against the coup against elected Labour Party leader Corbyn ....
Yesterday's Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group meeting unanimously and enthusiastically supported a call for the drafting of a KUWG statement of support for elected Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn against a coup of Labour MPs and right wing lobbyists against his leadership. The drafting of that statement is likely to start in earnest next week. That statement basically will point to the non-party-political alignment of Kwug while Kwug members are members of diverse political parties and none.
Like, those right wingers and their lobbyist allies have been attacking us for years, while Jeremy Corbyn has been one of our greatest supporters; and how dare they accuse Jeremy of a lack of leadership when the vast bulk of those Labour MP rebels 'sat on their hands' as the Welfare Reform & Work Bill passed against your opposition and the opposition of the bulk of other opposition parties' votes....
Meanwhile:
And Jeremy Corbyn's opponents within the Parliamentary Labour Party and colluding with 'austerity government' Labour councils should realise that he was elected Labour Leader by a much greater populace than those on MPs' salaries; and in Jeremy Corbyn MP's support for vulnerable people, Kwug caseworkers who give their services out of a sense of solidarity rather than anything more than photocopying and postage type expenses have a great role model.
Like, those right wingers and their lobbyist allies have been attacking us for years, while Jeremy Corbyn has been one of our greatest supporters; and how dare they accuse Jeremy of a lack of leadership when the vast bulk of those Labour MP rebels 'sat on their hands' as the Welfare Reform & Work Bill passed against your opposition and the opposition of the bulk of other opposition parties' votes....
Meanwhile:
- Disability News Service reports: Labour left with no disability spokesperson after its Disability Spokesperson Debbie Abrahams is promoted to Work & Pensions Secretary; (2)
- A car boot businessman has escaped unpunished for a disability hate blog; (3)
- A former diplomat, who was forced to give up her job after the Foreign & Commonwealth Office refused to fund the lip-speakers she needed to do her job, has called for more government-funded research to examine the benefits of disabled people finding work; and (4)
- Experts demolish government excuses for [Employment & Support Allowance Work-Related Activity Group benefit level] cut. (5)
- While 'hostage taking' (6) Theresa May, who says that her leadership of the Conservative Party and country would make Britain work "for everyone" (7) started her bid to become Prime Minister tour in the Hampstead & Kilburn Parliamentary seat (8) while Camden Council is set to sell off £150m worth of council homes every year under the Housing & Planning Act 2016; (9)
- Homelessness and eviction matters make it more difficult for the people displaced to do anything,
- Another (England & Wales-based) political party has a leadership election that the BBC News gives scant attention to in terms of 'alternatives'; (10) and
- Support for the so-called UK Independence Party under Nigel Farage's leadership became strongest in the former Labour heartland of North-East England (11) presumably among those white working class people keener to scapegoat other poor people than unite against the real causes of oppression. (12)
And Jeremy Corbyn's opponents within the Parliamentary Labour Party and colluding with 'austerity government' Labour councils should realise that he was elected Labour Leader by a much greater populace than those on MPs' salaries; and in Jeremy Corbyn MP's support for vulnerable people, Kwug caseworkers who give their services out of a sense of solidarity rather than anything more than photocopying and postage type expenses have a great role model.
Link addresses
- Corbyn link pending
- http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-left-with-no-disability-shadow-after-abrahams-promotion/
- http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/call-for-action-after-car-boot-businessman-escapes-hate-blog-punishment/
- http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-employment-gap-former-diplomat-calls-for-government-action/
- http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-employment-gap-experts-demolish-government-excuses-for-wrag-cut/
- http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/hostage-taking-by-government-as-act-of-terrorism.html
- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-can-make-britain-work-for-everyone-g5hxzxx29
- http://www.camdennewjournal.com/may-west-hampstead
- http://www.camdennewjournal.com/council-home-sales
- https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2016/07/05/green-party-leadership-candidates-announced/
- http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/how-nigel-farages-party-fruitcakes-11565970
- http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/uniting-against-real-causes-of-oppression-is-better-than-people-lashing-out-at-the-nearest-scapegoat.html
Monday, 20 June 2016
BBC News reportage of the EU referendum vs its reportage of the Housing and Planning Bill 2016
A Google search of items related to the "EU referendum" on the BBC News website reveals 1,430,000 results at present:
The EU has brought some measure of Proportional Representation to UK politics. Has the debate about EU referendum matters obscured mainstream public debate about the Housing & Planning Bill 2016 to the point that it has been passed against the interests of vulnerable people by a very lopsided 'winner takes all' lopsided Parliament that was elected by a 'first past the post system' that the EU did not impose upon us?
And has the British Broadcasting Corporation's bias eclipsed potential scrutiny of those already marginalised by a diet of 'home owner TV'?
About 1,430,000 resultsA Google search of items related to 'housing' on the BBC News website reveals just 380,000 results:(0.98 seconds) (1)
About 380,000 resultsA Google search of items related to "housing bill" 2016 reveals just 212 resuls:(0.64 seconds) (2)
About 212 resultsA major thrust of the Vote Leave / 'Brexit' camp in this EU referendum has been that laws made 'in Brussels' have little or no scrutiny from within the UK. Yet if "democracy presupposes knowledge" has the BBC's focus on the EU referendum to the virtual exclusion of the Housing & Planning Bill 2016 contributed to a stifling of debate about its contents prior to the passing into UK law of the Housing & Planning Act 2016 last week?(0.63 seconds) (3)
The EU has brought some measure of Proportional Representation to UK politics. Has the debate about EU referendum matters obscured mainstream public debate about the Housing & Planning Bill 2016 to the point that it has been passed against the interests of vulnerable people by a very lopsided 'winner takes all' lopsided Parliament that was elected by a 'first past the post system' that the EU did not impose upon us?
And has the British Broadcasting Corporation's bias eclipsed potential scrutiny of those already marginalised by a diet of 'home owner TV'?
Links — note: results are likely to vary through time; your results from clicking these links are likely to differ depending on when you do the searching
- https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=LRNoV8OcMeqg8weqq4HYBA&gws_rd=ssl#q=%22eu+referendum%22+site:+http:%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk
- https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sclient=psy-ab#q=housing+site:+%22http:%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%22
- https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sclient=psy-ab#q=%22housing+bill%22+2016+site:+%22http:%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%22
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