REFORM OF UNIVERSAL CREDIT TOO FAR

SUMMARY - Its almost uncountable the numbers of DWP Secr since CONservative are in power and everyone of them is as bad if not worse as the one before.

Update Nov., 2018 - Amber Rudd replaced Ester McVey as DWP Secr - no improvement. Universal Credit still in a mess and people losing their benefits and live; by either starvation or suicide. 

David Gauke was replaced by Ester McVey who seems to be even worse. She won a Bedroom Tax court case against a couple whose wife is seriously disabled. The court expenses are paid by taxpayers

David Gauke worked for a finance company which helps tax avoiding. Nice guy. May knows how to pick them.

Update 6 Oct., 2017 -- Damien Green was replaced  by David Gauke who decided to roll out the Universal Credit despite objection from a number of MPs.

The objection is mainly that payments are withheld for six weeks. How on earth do those fatcats think already down trodden people manage. 

Ah, said wise May, there is a phone line to ask for earlier payment  but it cost 55p per minute. Under pressure from Labour May promised to drop the 55p per minute fee but accordingly, so far it did not happened.

Again, wise May, how will people pay for it and most of the elderly or very old people would not know about it.

All this before we even find out how much we lost and it bound to be a loss for us and a massive gain for May and her money-thirsty
Zombies.

The Winter Fuel Payment had been cut by £100 even after an announcement that 40,000 people died of hyperthermia, last winter, and the energy prices increased by 10 or 15 per cent.  It scarce you to think what will be the outcome of this winter. But they could find the money to print an eight-page leaflet for all sorts of advice. The leaflet was printed with NHS and the cost must have come out of NHS not DWP or heaven forbid from May's handbag.

The Welfare Secretary is now Damian  Green. It is doubtful there will be improvement because he is praising Ian Duncan Smith for his excellent work.

The Resolution Foundation said: "Universal Credit has been taken too far from its original purpose and veered off track because of the cost cutting."

It was announced at a time when the Government announced a further cut.

The new Welfare secretary Stephen Crabb said: "The payment was transforming welfare and getting people into work faster." The problem is that people in work are so low paid; they are starving or cant afford the rent and get homeless. Do Tories have brains apart for their own advantage.

The statement is such a humbug when 3 million unemployed less all the various methods of bringing the figure down with such as Zero-hour-contracts and so forth.

Last month, March, the unemployment has even risen by 61,000. A month where unemployment usually falls because of building sites and outside jobs starting again.

In view of those facts how can Mr Crabb make a statement like that? Surely he knows the full situation.

The original plan was for Universal Credit to replace six benefits - Job seeking Allowances and Employment and Support Allowances with a single payment.

After a long delay and costing an enormous amount of money it is gradually introduced across the UK and is now available to new job seeker in every Job Centre.

It is hoped that the reform be finalised by 2021.

Although the Resolution Foundation had supported the original plan but said now "which have been driven by the government's desire to secure further saving in the Welfare budget....have taken it too far from its original purpose.

"Unless it is reversed Universal Credit risks being reduced to little more than a very complicated vehicle for cutting the benefits bill."

Surely, the fact was obvious to the public from the start and the one and only purpose for the reform.

Welfare ex-secretary Ian Duncan Smith belied his own resignation statement. He went, literally, hopping mad when Chancellor George Osborne announced the £12billion Welfare cut but when Mr Osborne reversed some of the Welfare cut in March budget Mr Smith resigned stating to pressure of "salami slice" welfare.

The government said more than 450,000 people have made the claim for Universal Credit and more than 9,500 new claims every week. This is not a success story but purely due to pressure from the government.

Mr Crabb said: "Universal Credit is transforming Welfare and is central to our vision for our society where people of all background can earn a decent wage and provide for their families, where claimants moving into work faster and earning more then under the old system."

Has it ever occurred to Mr Crabb why people are on unemployment benefit because there are no jobs to be had?

Again, surely it is in their vision but it will bring families down to greater hardship.

The only way to create employment is to stop austerity which would bring back demands for goods to buy and increase manufacturing. At the moment manufacturers are rapidly reducing staff or going bankrupt all together

UK had 6 years of it and it brought nothing but highest debts for 8 years and highest deficit for 67 years despite of austerity and cut backs. Not a success story and if the Government wants to ride the country into inflation it is on the right road.

Labour Party has more sense and promised to stop austerity

TORIES SOCIAL CLEANSING FORCED TO LEAVE TOWN

Councils treat people without care what will happen to them. In the olden days they were given three choices of accommodations now only one. Take it or get out of here is the attitude but it all comes from the top.

JULIET IN FRONT
OF HER FORMER HOME

100 council estates are planned to be demolished. Is it social cleansing?

It happened to Juliet Aziz and her neighbours because a developer got permission to raise the 140 houses to the ground and build new private ones.

This is the situation today in Britain. The demand for council houses and homes has reached an epidemic state. And there are perfectly 140 council houses, not built so long ago, will be making room for private development.

If that is not a crime at a time of desperate need, what is?

This terrible dead happens at Barnet and Juliet a single mother with four children had to move out. Ever since the family is in temporary accommodation in Potters Bar, Herts which is six miles away.

According to The Independent newspaper 50,000 people were made homeless and had been made to move out of London in the last three year. 2,000 people had to leave London altogether. The reason was the benefit cap and stagnant wages which prevented to pay high council rents. It hit many families and mostly mother with children. Furthermore, due to the cut backs on Council budget the council cannot offer any subsidiaries.

The private developer Annington Homes which will develop the Sweets W\t estate in Barnet.

Juliet’s children are still in the old school and she works at the DIY store which was five minutes walk. Now she has to make a round trip with cost her £240 per month n £208 per month to keep her furniture in store. It takes half of her wage of £13,000 per year.

She had an offer of a house but she refused because it was too far away. Now she is classed as “indentially homeless”.  Now when her emergency accommodation runs out, she fears her children could even be taken into care. She said: “I am so scared they are taking my kids. They have already sent the details to the social service.”

One offer of a house whether it is suitable or not and take or leave it. If it does not suit you  out you go. As before they gave three offers. 

It is the government how they treat people now; right from the top down to the council which gets the order or result of the cutbacks. There was no need to sell these houses to a private developer to be pulled down unless somebody profited by it.

Barnet Council said that they can not comment on individual cases. It is always a good diplomatic answer besides it was not just Juliet and her family but the whole estate.

At the same time the council confirmed that those who did not take up the offer will be excluded from the register for two years. What does the council think or the government which putout this law, people do in the meantime? This is a disgrace to treat people with children like that.

According to the BBC report all London councils offer incentives for tenants to leave London.

Wandsworth offers up to £7,000 to move to Birmingham where to rents are cheaper.

It might very convenient and helpful to the council to keep the cost down but it causes nothing hardship to the families. Fist of all, it is known that there are fewer jobs than in London and the benefit will be less and so on.

It shows again and proves it how little the Tories care about people but in the long run it will backfire one day. The more they cut benefit and other services down it will show in the economy.

When people have no money they can not buy food and things. There already over 1,000 food banks across the country it will increase rapidly due to all the cutbacks the Tories will apply.

Already the FTSE, in the last few days, was showing loses every day. 

TROOPS HAVING TO RELY ON LOAN SHARKS

PRIME MINISTER
DAVID CAMERON 

This is another reason why the Tories should never come into power again. To pay the soldiers such a low wages that they get into depth and have to rely on loan sharks is despicable.  People who risk their lives and some die unnecessarily for a war which has nothing to do with Britain should at least receive a decent wage 

It also bound to play on their minds when they are in the front line fighting the Taliban. How can they be concentrating on their job? It bound to put some into danger or their comrades. They should have no financial worries at all when they out there and their mind is in peace that their family is well provided for.

The report states that it is not a few hundred who might have lived it up too much but thousands who did not live a life on the top but have to use loans sharks. It proves that the family back home cannot manage while the “Elite” is rolling in money.  The same people, who order them to fight in Afghanistan, were stopped by vote to enter Syria’s civil war and most probably will now get involved in Iraq.  These men and women are all right to do their dirty work but paying them properly so that they have not to use loan sharks which charges 1,734 per cent they are not all right for that.

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One thing has to be said here the US looks after its soldiers when they returned wounded far better than Britain. They get the best of treatment and places to recover which all the facilities possible. Mr Cameron does not take an example there.  USA also has established an Armed Forces credit union and US’s Navy Federal to help its four million American military personnel.  Furthermore, it is all state funded and have not rely on endless charities functions to get just the basic treatment, like in the UK.  This government has a lost to answer for.

This government aught to be ashamed but it is known they have no such emotions. Neither do they feel about the millions in the UK living under the bread line. They are so callous that they are even thinking of forbidding the food banks. If they do that there will be people either starved to death like in Dickinson time or such uproar they will never forget it.

Even Margaret Thatcher never got the country down so far as to the troops having to use loan sharks to survive or having hundreds of food banks established.  

In my opinion David Cameron is the worst Prime Minister and his Government since Victorian times.

HARD-UP FAMILIES FORCED TO SHOPLIFT FOOD

Britain’s top police officers claim that families are now so hard up they are forced to shoplift meat and cheese just to put food on the table to survive.  These people are not criminals and most of them have no previous conviction but they steal mainly food like meat and cheese. The police officers also state that they don’t do it to sell.

The Lancashire Chief Constable Steve Finnigan can also see that the situation will worsen.

Food banks also stating that people have reached crisis point.

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It is an absolute disgrace for the government to bring its people down to such a state. It seems like the Victorian age returns but it is the 21^st century and Britain is the seventh riches country in the world.  Yet the Chancellor George Osborne still plans to have more cuts in his next budgets.   It is not a question of any money being available because the MPs had a rise of £7,500 multiply by over 500 MPs. The very cost of the food and drinks is around £7million a year which the MPs and Lords could easily effort paying.  The MPs’ salaries are now around £72,000 per year plus free lunch, dinner and drinks plus all expenses being paid by the taxpayers.  That is were the cuts should be made and they wouldn’t even miss it.

The Lords, with almost 800 members, getting £300 a day when they attend the House of Parliament, free lunch and dinner and drinks.

The endless golden handshakes we read about to executive’s jobs and most of them cause nothing but ruin to their government department, chief executive of companies and NHS. A fine example is the chief executives of the two NHS hospitals which had around 1,500 deaths each due to negligence.  How can a Government agree to that? Especially with the NHS being financially hard-up and 5,000 nurses were axed.

The contribution to the EU of at least £20billion which the people demanding a referendum of IN/OUT but Mr Cameron flatly refuse. This money alone would not only bring the deficit down but also put food on the table.  The Foreign Aid which never reaches the poor of the countries but the pocket of the governments in those countries. People again demand to cut it down because of the fraud but Mr Cameron will not do so.  There is a long list of money going in the wrong direction and at the moment is a complete mismanagement.
 

The Government and Chancellor George Osborne got on their brain is cut back and cut backs. During the three years of the Government and their austerity it did not bring down the deficit on the contrary it increases constantly.  In spite of all Mr Osborne will again make cut backs in the next budget which will be in the following weeks.  He will not CUT BACK the absolute waste of money for a luxurious train HS2 which by now is estimated £60billion and by the time it is finished will be at least £100billion.  Money for such a white elephant is available. It would bring down the debts.

Huge amount of sums are also available for entering another conflict – Syria. Mr Cameron was ready to go with the USA if the MPs had not voted against it even so he still is willing to go ahead and waste another billions of pounds which the country can ill afford it.

Having said all this will the Government not has so much decency and compassion for its own people to ease their burdens and spend all that apparently easily available money on them.  For people being so desperate having to steal food or go to food banks should never have happened again after the Victorian times. Surely Messrs Cameron and Osborne must know what is going on.  Not to speak of that these people are the voters who got them into power and they spit in their faces.  DESPICABLE.

CAMERON'S SPEECH ON EU'S MEMBERSHIP- Update 13 April,2013

PM DAVID CAMERON

UPDATE: 13 April, 2013 --  UK Prime Minister David Cameron is this weekend at the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's official country seat to hold further discussion about the EU membership. Will it make any difference? NO, apart from getting out of the EU it will be always more than costly which the taxpayers have to foot the bill and they are more than cash strapped. They are so badly off that a great majority have to decide whether to buy food or heat their homes.   It is a disgrace to cut down incomes and benefits to that extend. 

UPDATE:  25 January 2013 -  Well, well, well, Brussels really showing its teeth now.  They threatening  the UK to fine it a £250,000 a day because they haven't applied their full law on gas and electricity. According to the Department of Energy it would make the electricity and gas bills even higher. Or is it another story trying to justify another increase?

If any one still had any doubts about getting out of the EU they surely must change their opinion now. Furthermore, Brussels will also control the press and journalists will be fined heavily if they don't comply with their rules. Well, free press was always the mark of the Western World.

IT WAS NOTHING BUT A VOTE CATCHING SPEECH  AND FULL OF HOLLOW PROMISES.

The long awaited speech of David Cameron was finally delivered. Yet, there was nothing new in it. Everybody is aware that Mr Cameron does not want to get out of the EU.

He did make a great point about given the public the referendum they had been demanded for a long time but it is not the straight forward IN/OUT referendum. He still wants to sneak in his hopefully newly achieved condition. He still thinks he can persuade Brussels to give Britain back certain powers which they took off this country. He couldn’t have heard or listen to the announcement from Brussels that they will not do anything like that because otherwise all the other countries will demand changes in their rules as well.

Even after Merkel quickly reassured David Cameron that she will try and negotiate on behalf of Britain to change Britain’s mind not to exit the EU. The point here is that Merkel wants to keep Britain in the EU for not to lose the contribution and if necessary another bail-out. It is not only Merkel’s negotiation but the other 28 countries have also to agree. This makes it most unlikely. Furthermore, Merkel knows if Britain exits the EU others will follow.

However, whether Merkel, David Cameron or Mr Obama want to keep Britain in the EU or not it is the people who should have given the opportunity for a long time to decide.  The Conservative promised to give an IN/OUT referendum in their last election manifesto but as all their other promises it was not kept. It was promised again for March 2011 but again nothing happen.

The public elects a party to govern the country but it is the public’s wishes the leader supposed to carry out. It is wrong that David Cameron thinks Britain should be kept in the EU and therefore ignores the people’s wishes.

The speech today was a waste of ink, paper and time. The people knew his attention already and to tangle a carrot in front of the public’s noses about an in/out referendum but also with some included decision of new regulations and after the next election was all totally unsatisfactory.  The public is not that naïve any more when is David Cameron delivering a speech with concrete facts and stands by it?

People wanted an in/out referendum now and not after he signed another treaty soon for the next seven years. Brussels interfered enough with the Law and justice which cost a fortune on legal aid and benefit; with the fishery to throw dead fish overboard because it was already over the quota; to give French fishermen the right to fish in British waters; having to pay Child benefit for children not even living in Britain; fruit having to be unformed seizes and tonnes of fruit being wasted; and many more other crazy ideas and made law but the best is yet to come. Brussels plans to control the press and journalists will be find if they step over the rules.

BRITAIN GETS ALL THAT FOR ITS EU MEMBERSHIP WHICH COST A FORTUNE AT A TIME WHEN FAMILIES HAVING TO GO TO FOOD BANKS TO SURVIVE. 

The people want out of it and at the same time want to save the money since Britain is in an economic recession and yet David Cameron refuses.  This policy does not make sense.

WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON?

JACK STRAW CRITICISES GORDON BROWN

From a start Jack Straw has no right or reason to criticise Gordon Brown. When he was Justice Secretary and the mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence managed to bring the murder case into the court once more. Jack Straw named the high profile witnesses which the police tried so hard to keep secret. Stephen was killed by four youth who had 'connection' and therefore the verdict was not guilty. Therefore, witnesses were scared to stand up. They were given police protection and they gave true statements. Jack Straw named them openly.

Gordon Brown might not have the personality but he was a great Chancellor and in his last budget he increased a lot of the benefits to help people just after the credit crunch. The UK would be in a much better shape if the Labour Party had won but miraculously the queue at the voting station in the Midland and North were building up and were up to 200 people long by 10 pm. Usually it was almost empty by 9.30 pm. Then they closed it with these entire people still there not being able to vote. These areas were always Labour’s stronghold.

However, take one example from Gordon Brown’s budget which was the winter fuel supplement. Till that was introduced old people were dying by the dozen. The last winter fuel supplement was paid £250 and Gordon Brown promised to increase in the following winter to £300. The Conservative came in and it was reduced straight away to £200 and now they talking about to stop it altogether and they will. 

He also wanted to increase the pay of the police, military, nurses and not one word about breaking the NHS

Therefore, Jack Straw shouldn’t criticise Gordon Brown. He might not have the charm of Tony Blair, but this is another story altogether, but he understood hardship and knew money was there to be able to help.

He had 1.5 million unemployment at the height of the credit crunch and the UK had improved its budget to 1 per cent which vanished within a couple of  months when the Conservatives came in. Ever since there is nothing but recessions.

TWO CRIME FAMILIES COSTS £37 MILLION - Updated 23 August, 2014

UPDATE: 23 August, 2014 -- Why is that £37million taxpayers'money are wasted on criminals? Surely there must be a way of closing them down and with the new law confiscated their properties, other assets and cash to be spend on honest, hard working people who can not cope any more.

This is a crime in itself to spent £37milllion on two warring crime families in Birmingham. The inner-city gangster who includes the notorious Johnson Crew and Burger Bar Boys costs the taxpayers so far £37 million in Birmingham alone. Their three generations are responsible for the costs of prison, health and probation in the last 30 years.

All this does not include social benefits and educations.

It is assumed that a murder costs £1.5million to be investigated and brought to court. An attempted murder cost the taxpayers £500,000 and criminal use of firearms £169,000.

Keith Barton remarked that it would be cheaper to pay every family one million pound to keep out of trouble.

The Johnson Crew and the Burger Bar Boys came to the attention nationwide with the murder of Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis.  They were killed by a drive by shooting on New Year in 2009. Four men were convicted two years later. The girls were 17 and 18 years old.  The gangs motto, belief it of not, is “Revenge, Revenue, Respect”.

This situation described here is only the cost of one city and it is totally shocking. What must be the total? Surely there must be an answer somewhere to curb or cut crime. Certainly the soft footing of the government is doing now, is nothing but a joke. This soft footing is applied only to safe on prison budget but in the long run it is more expensive as this case shows.

Law-abiding, hardworking people have to foot the bill which isn’t fair. A harsh sentence which would keep them off the street from a start and it might be deterrent to the younger member of the family, would be far cheaper in the long run. Furthermore, there is the no-job situation which turns youngster to crime and getting involved in gangs? Of course, there is always the incurable criminal but this would be a lower number as it is now.

This enormous amount of money could have been spent on creating jobs which also would have saved state benefit. The whole public is aware of this solution and thinks it is the way to go forward but the government. Is the government really that arrogant, reclusive, way above on a pedestal that they can’t think this out or take advice from ordinary people?

COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT CUTS 2012

It is said they are planning to cut the council tax benefits. This would hit around six million households with low-income. These households either have qualified for no paying or reduced paying council tax.  It will hit the poorest or poor,

The infamous Coalition demanded from the councils to reduce the benefit bills by 10 per cent. This will have to be found either be reducing their service or payouts to poor families.

The chief of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, thought it could be done by either taking 10 per cent off the council tax benefit which causes more hardship but it will even cause more problems for families who receive a 100 per cent council tax benefit.

Labour peer Baroness Hollis called it completely unfair.

The Tory MP Bob Neil on the other hand thought it would give the councils a chance to get people back to work.

Which planet does Mr Neil live on?  Apparently he has no idea what it means to live on a low income and therefore shouldn’t put out remarks like that. Furthermore, has he ever look out of his Parliamentary window and noticed there are no jobs available. There is unemployment of 2.5million and they are not all scam and skivers as those sitting in the fat think. The people they are withdrawing any benefits from in order to so-called “get them back to work” is another smokescreen to cut. There has been cases in the paper and quite a number of it where people with all sorts of qualifications and experiences have written and tenth or hundreds of applications to avail.

SO WHERE DOES THE TORY MP BOB NEIL LIVE?