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Thursday, June 27, 2013

National police unit monitors 9,000 'domestic extremists'

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'A national police unit that uses undercover officers to spy on political groups is currently monitoring almost 9,000 people it has ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The Work Programme: Is It The End?

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Reblogged from the void: The devil is in the detail so it’s too soon to know exactly what George Osborne meant when he said today that t...

Workfare Week of Action 6th-14th July

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Edinburgh’s actions during the last week of action shut two workfare exploiters down! When the Work Programme launched two years ago,...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Plans to cut through safety regulations for work experience

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The government is relaxing the health & safety regulations businesses have to follow to take on people doing work experience. Plans to...

Welfare reform NOT reducing rents

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Government reforms to the welfare system are failing in their aim to reduce rents and could even be driving price hikes, according to a rep...

DWP refuses to provide information on ESA/IB deaths. What is it hiding?

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Reblogged from Vox Political: Brian McArdle. On the BBC’s Question Time in November last year, Iain Duncan Smith flew into a rage when...

People’s Assembly Could Be Manufactured Surrender, But It Could Be Something Else

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In parts of the UK, especially some areas of London, there is no sign of the crisis that is currently demolishing millions of lives. The...

Benefits Paperwork Overloading Claimants

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Reblogged from Benefit tales: The paperwork for benefits claims is overloading claimants who have to prove they have limited capabiliti...

Privatising probation service will put public at risk, officials tell Grayling

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Senior staff at the MoJ also warn cabinet minister that his plans lack support and will damage the department's reputation Just...

DWP admits MORE lies and misdeeds re fake psych ‘test’

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Reblogged from The SKWAWKBOX Blog: Please share this widely, as I think it’s huge. There has been considerable furore over the fake ps...

Call for Help With Esther McVey

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Reblogged from Ramblings of a Fibro Fogged Mind: As we have still had no reply or acknowledgement from Ester McVey the minister for Disabl...

Gov't plans will put vulnerable workers at risk, says TUC

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The TUC has warned that government plans to remove regulatory powers from the Gangmasters Licensing Authority will put thousands of vulne...

180,000 children with a parent working in public sector 'in poverty by 2015'

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A new TUC analysis shows that an extra 180,000 children with at least one parent working in the public sector will end up in poverty due ...

Why NSA surveillance is a threat to British doctors and lawyers

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Professionals using cloud services will have to guard against the danger of patients and clients being snooped on Illustration by ...

Stuart Hall judge and the “gay brothel visit”

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The leading QC – who will also run Corrie star Bill Roache’s trial – quit over trip to sauna … but was later reinstated   The Daily Mirror...

Mark Littlewood’s Crazy Idea of Public List of Benefit Recipients Would Encourage Vigilante’s…

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Reblogged from Atos Victims Group: Mark Littlewood / Institute of Economic Affairs Once again we see more detritus being written ab...

Name all benefit claimants, says “lover of freedom” Mark Littlewood

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Reblogged from A Latent Existence : Mark Littlewood, director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, has written in the Daily Mail that h...

Fury as boss of Atos gets £280k pay rise while thousands of Scots are plunged into poverty by their benefits assessment tests

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By  Keith McLeod   24 Jun 2013 07:28 CAMPAIGNERS and former Atos employees spoke out at their “disgust” over the rise which takes chie...

As Miliband crosses the Rubicon bragging that Labour will not reverse any of Osborne’s cuts; SNP and Kirk announce strong focus on Jimmy Reid Foundation paper ‘The Scottish Commonweal’

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Miliband: Labour won’t reverse Osborne’s cuts Tom Gordon   Scottish Political Editor   Sunday 23 June 2013     ED...