Video: Watson hints strongly at exit from politics
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has kept a low profile for the last few months – apart from an attempt to coerce the party’s leadership into a better conference speaking […]
Tag Archives: coercion
Academic paper: fake DWP psych test is tool of neoliberal manipulation
Back in April, the SKWAWKBOX started to expose how the government, via the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) and David Cameron’s pet project the ‘Behavioural Insights Team’ (BIT), colloquially […]
DWP minister Hoban gets JSA amount WRONG – and jobseeking unaffordable
What I’m about to share with you demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt the reckless, couldn’t-give-a-**** attitude of the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) toward the people it is supposed to […]
Major DWP UJM security flaw – but forces claimants to use anyway
Please circulate this as widely as you can. I think it is even more massive than the issue of the DWP’s fake ‘psychometric test’. There has been much attention in […]
Did ‘Cure the NHS’ break the law to try to silence a critic?
I will state at the outset of this article that the actions outlined are not proven to originate with ‘Cure’ – at least yet. I will lay out the facts […]
DWP psych ‘test’ devised by US ‘torture guru’
I wrote last week about a bogus online personality ‘test’ of 48 questions that Jobcentre Plus is forcing claimants to complete on behalf of the DWP – bogus because whatever […]
The file the DWP doesn’t want you to see
Over the last couple of days I’ve uncovered how the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is conducting trials that force unemployed people to take a meaningless online ‘test’ (which […]
De facto Teesside NHS cartel being formed
I wrote earlier today about the continuing assault by North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust on the pay and conditions of its staff. As reported in the local newspaper, the […]
Latest from N Tees NHS – please write to them to oppose it
The email below was sent out to all Unison members at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust today, giving an update on the Trust’s plans to dismiss & re-hire all […]
Why BBC funding is a blackmail issue, not a deficit issue
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written several posts condemning the BBC’s lack of coverage of the damage that the government is doing to treasured public institutions like the […]