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Showing posts with label unemployment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unemployment. Show all posts
Monday, May 6, 2013

The Tory Trussel Trust: Food Banks replacing benefits?

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The Trussell Trust Food Bank founders, The people behind it: The Trussel Trust, was introduced to dole offices specifically as an alte...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

What is forced labour?

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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...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Workfare: Will we get more results?

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

Chris Spivey on Ian Duncan Smith [Contains strong language]

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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 ...

Contact workfare exploiter Salvation Army – Day 2 Workfare Week of Action

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Salvation Army International and UK HQs were paid a surprise visit to launch the week of action. [Photo: Sinister Pics] Join the onl...

The myth of the “welfare scrounger”

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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...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Christian charities face Christian protests over use of workfare labour

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Christian organisations including the Salvation Army and the YMCA are participating in “workfare” schemes, using workers who must work witho...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Welfare Myth Number One - Benefits Are Expensive

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This is the first in occasional series on welfare myths - those persuasive facts that everybody knows to be true, but which, on closer exami...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Iain Duncan Smith Bashes the Bishop [the void]

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As if we didn’t already know that Iain Duncan Smith is a wanker, the bungling Work and Pensions Secretary has resorted to bashing the bish...

What was the real purpose of David Cameron's visit to India?

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With little mention from the British media, Cameron is negotiating trade agreements that will open the UK jobs market to considerable inflo...

‘May? Fox? Nobodies! Don’t forget my benefit cap will ruin workers’ pay claims’, says Smith*

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Return of the savage: Iain Duncan Smith is using his benefit cap to claw back workers’ rights. YOUR rights. It’s as if they’re having...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Cameron's Bullingdon Club 'burn £50 notes in front of beggars'

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Bullingdon Club initiation ceremony claim: New members of David Cameron's old club 'burn £50 note in front of beggar'    ...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Iain Duncan Smith's delusional & self-righteous defence of workfare

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Michael Heseltine Mocks Iain Duncan Smith

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Friday, March 1, 2013

Government deliberately misrepresenting the poor, say churches

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 Churches claim several "myths" have emerged as a result of the way information is used  By John McManus BBC News ...

Open Letter to Salvation Army by former Member

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An Open Letter to the Salvation Army July 8, 2012 by Liz Ely Dear Salvation Army My name is Liz, I grew up in the Salvation Army ...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Charities using forced labour supplied by the DWP

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I would avoid giving anything to a charity which uses labour supplied free by the DWP. Nor would I buy from a charity shop which used forced...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

IDS slips up: “She was PAID jobseeker’s allowance to do this”

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 Illustration by @dochackenbush  Iain Duncan Smith was interviewed on the Andrew Marr show today. He made some telling statements...

IDS confirms: IT IS WORKFARE!

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On the Andrew Marr show on BBC  IDS was speaking about the Poundland case in which Cait Reilly was forced to work in a Poundland store for ...