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Video: Cleverly defends Bradley on ‘eugenics’. Robinson: ‘what’s wrong with that?’

21/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 18 Comments

Tory MP Ben Bradley has rightly been widely castigated for stating that unemployed people should be sterilised – comments chillingly reminiscent of the nazis’ eugenics-driven attitude toward supposedly ‘undesirable’ groups […]

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Video: Heartless Hammond – ‘there are no unemployed people’

19/11/2017by SKWAWKBOX 28 Comments

Useless and out-of-touch Chancellor Phillip Hammond this morning warmed up for this week’s Budget by reminding us all just how useless and out of touch he is. Asked on this […]

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Great advice centre helps the struggling. Needs to raise £40k for itself to stay open

21/06/2017by SKWAWKBOX 3 Comments

Salford Unemployed Resource Centre does a fantastic job providing unemployed people with the support they need and do not get from a Tory government that has long waged war on […]

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818k benefit claimants sanctioned since end 2012 – and what came before

22/02/2014by SKWAWKBOX 9 Comments

Found this article on the Touchstone blog because it links to my post about this government calling benefit sanctions an ‘achievement’. It’s essential reading, as it shows in clear, graphical […]

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A distressed DWP employee implodes

08/10/2013by SKWAWKBOX 7 Comments

It’s not only the unemployed, the disabled and the supposedly ‘under-employed’ that Iain Smith’s DWP is terrorising. Those unfortunate enough to work for the Department of Work and Pensions are […]

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Referred to a psychologist – for wanting to record Jobcentre interviews

05/09/2013by SKWAWKBOX 89 Comments

My series of posts about the fake psychometric ‘test’ and the DWP/Cabinet Office’s attempts to deny it, became big news earlier this year. Among the facts that the DWP denied, […]

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DWP’s straw-grasping and contortions prove fake psych ‘test’ guilt

13/08/2013by SKWAWKBOX 20 Comments

Regular visitors to this blog (and any Guardian reader) will be familiar with the fake psychometric ‘test’ the DWP and Cabinet Office were inflicting on unemployed people under threat of […]

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Hoban’s letter on benefit ‘reforms’ rewrites history and the lexicon

06/08/2013by SKWAWKBOX 23 Comments

Back again, following last nights excellent contribution from a reader with their email to David Cameron and Treasury Minister Sajid Javid, to the theme of responses from MPs and government […]

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Javid, Cameron torn off a strip, left speechless

06/08/2013by SKWAWKBOX 18 Comments

Back in June, I invited readers to write to their coalition MPs to challenge them to address the issue of the government’s clearly-intentional abuse of statistics to tell outright lies […]

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DWP calls benefit sanction ‘achievement’ and ‘positive outcome’

12/05/2013by SKWAWKBOX 39 Comments

I’ve written much over the past couple of weeks about the DWP’s apparent determination to persecute unemployed benefit-claimants by forcing them to undergo activities and tests which are totally unsuitable […]

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