UK Austerity Nation

The Tories are spending more taxpayers’ money on assessing whether Britons are fit to work than they are saving in reductions...

Reblogged from  Beastrabban\'s Weblog: : ‘We think of terror as the reign of those who inspire terror; on the contrary it is the re...

The body of a homeless man, forty eight year old Ranjit Singh , has been discovered by sanitation workers having been crushed to death...

Reblogged from Vox Political: Don’t shrug your shoulders, Smith! It’s time the people of the UK found a way to make him care about the...

R (on the application of Wilson and another) (Respondents) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Appellant) The Supreme Court of the...

Private firms in flagship back-to-work scheme complain of too little funding and too much demand A Work Programme session for the lo...

Esther McVey: Talk to the hand The government has cited one line in the guest  foreward of a review of the work capability assessment...

The House of Lords Constitution Committee published its report earlier today on the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill . (Professor Ada...

What is the problem? Forced labour is any work or services which people are forced to do against their will under the threat of some form...

The Salvation army has recently received flak for its involvement with forced labour and the assertion that appears on their web site :  ” T...

Reblogged from Diary of a Benefit Scrounger   This morning, like the night after Agincourt, lefties like me scan the bloody, burnt out ...

The government has announced the name of the man who will continue the crucial task of reviewing its “fitness for work” test. Dr Paul Litc...

We were told that more Work Programme performance data would be published this month.  I would be very surprised if that happens.  It would ...

Fuck Off Smiffy. Okay, lets talk common sense. Ian Smith – because that’s who the cunt really is - couldn’t cut it as the Tory party ...

A little noticed piece of DWP research shows that four out of five claimants spent at least three quarters of the past four years off u...

Christian organisations including the Salvation Army and the YMCA are participating in “workfare” schemes, using workers who must work witho...

It's funny, isn't it. Every one of the policies we oppose are easily defeated. Abolishing Disability Living Allowance, Severe Disabi...

There were shocking scenes at the South London offices of workfare exploiters the Salvation Army today as employees of the charity manh...

This is the first in occasional series on welfare myths - those persuasive facts that everybody knows to be true, but which, on closer exami...

Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has launched an astonishing attack on the BBC for repeatedly referring to one of his we...