Is there a possibility that the deregulation of media sources will usher in a new age of political honesty as the younger voters grow tired of being openly lies to?
'We are too busy, please go away and die in a corner somewhere'
Universal Credit is shaping up to be a catastrophe:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...lnerable-claimants-hunger-chaos-a7998731.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...ts-system-government-food-banks-a7998196.html
I hope the country wakes up before it's too late for some of the most vulnerable members of society.
Pity that were so intertwined with the EU that many cant imagine a life beyond its bureaucratic dictates. Roll on the Brussels gravy train ya.
This isn't a Tory brexit. It is a brexit voted for by the country not a party. There is only brexit not hard or soft. We are in or out.
I think brexit would cause harm in the 1-5 years but longer term there is a chance it could be beneficial for the country but I wasn't comfortable in the end going into the unknown which is why I voted remain.
One thing I would stake my entire wealth on though is that JC and the marxists (sound like a band) will devastate this country. I don't want either party in power if I'm honest in their current guise but as both are going to deliver brexit I think the Tories will do less damage. Brexit is one thing. Brexit plus Marxism would be Armageddon.
One thing I would stake my entire wealth on though is that JC and the marxists (sound like a band) will devastate this country.
Somebody I know well is currently trying to wean themselves off benefits. They are on the Aspergers spectrum, have a good science degree, but had to leave their graduate-level career in the pharmaceutical industry due to bullying (subsequently received a substantial payout following a tribunal). They were effectively traumatised and unable to hold down any job, and have been on benefits for over a decade.
In the last 12 months, they have been making great efforts to turn things around. Retraining as a lifeguard, and working (zero hours, minimum wage, contracts, natch) for a couple of local leisure firms up to the 16 hours per week permitted under the current system. They hate being reliant on benefits, and now feel strong enough to take the next step, moving up to perhaps 30 hours per week, ultimately aiming for 37 hours per week, and eventual career progression into personal training. I applaud their doggedness in dealing with all the difficulties along the way, so far.
They've taken expert advice. Under Universal Credit, moving to 30 hours per week will make them £130 per week worse off due to reduction in housing benefit. Moving to 37 hours per week will make them £150 per week worse off.
The system, intended to make returning to work pay. Simply. Doesn't. Work.
Rubbish, Brexit is all about the tories and a failed vanity project, Remember it was Cameron who offered a referendum, Labour would never have done so and quite rightly, the British people sorry to say should not have been given the choice.
In the Commons the Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston has just said that she is disappointed that the Tories are abstaining. She said that she supported the principle of universal credit, but that it was flawed in its current form. She needed to express a view on behalf of her constituents, she said. And she said that, unless her concerns were addressed by the minister at the end of the debate, she would vote with Labour for the rollout to be paused.
Fingers crossed.A year ago those platitudes represented common sense, now anyone voicing them looks like they've just thrown up in their mouth. Not depressing at all, it's the sound of the Conservative Party dying.