YouGov asking whether people on benefits should be allowed to vote
This year, the UK has rightly been celebrating the centenary of the extension of the right to vote to women. However, fewer citizens are aware that 1918 also marked the […]
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Excl: DWP slows DOWN processing of emergency energy payments to poorest
In the wake of the recent bitter weather, emergency ‘cold weather payments’ have become due to thousands of low-income households across the UK – a £25 cash payment to […]
DWP: no denial of blanket harvesting of CCTV or fake-friending of disabled people
Disability support group Fightback4Justice posted shocking claims last week on its Facebook page about the DWP’s (Dept of Work and Pensions) treatment of disabled benefit claimants. The group claimed that: the […]
McVey steps down from Samaritans advisory board ‘due to DWP commitments’
Controversy has raged this week over Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey’s membership of the ‘advisory board’ of the Samaritans, an organisation that helps those feeling suicidal or otherwise in […]
Effective opposition: 20 U-turns forced from the Tories in 2017
Comment In spite of Labour’s General Election surge and its continued polling strength – not to mention more than thirty u-turns Labour under Corbyn had already forced from the Tories before […]
Excl: Universal Credit – DWP reverts to ‘legacy benefits’ in ‘live service’ areas
The roll-out of Universal Credit (UC) has been a national disgrace to the government and a disaster to claimants, many of whom have found themselves penniless and forced into debt […]
Are you one of 75k people owed money by DWP? This letter may help you
Last month, the BBC revealed that huge numbers of disabled people, already hard-pressed by government cuts and a level of targeting by this government amounting to persecution and condemned by […]
‘Odd couples’ article misses point – shows Establishment still rattled by Pidcock
A Gaby Hinsliff article in today’s Observer lists a number of supposedly-unlikely parliamentary ‘odd couples’ under the emetic title: The piece amounts to little more than a barely-veiled attack on […]
Penniless woman breaks down on TV after EIGHT-MONTH UC delay
Treasury Secretary Liz Truss has featured twice on the SKWAWKBOX in the last week or so for her abject attempts to defend the government’s Universal Credit (UC) system. Confronted by […]
Video: Yes. Liz Truss really did just say that on national TV #CPC17
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss was interviewed on Monday’s Daily Politics programme on the BBC at the Tory party conference in Manchester, on the topic of the government’s disastrous […]