Governing for the Rich
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/ceo-summit/article3443422.ece#
Business must shout louder for the merits of lower taxes or the Government will be unable to cut the top rate of income tax to 40p, George Osborne warned yesterday.
The Chancellor said that Britain was vulnerable to a return to the “politics of envy” and that anti-business sentiment was on the rise.
Mr Osborne accepted that the Budget had caused “lots of bad headlines”, but he chastised bosses for the “near silence” with which they had greeted his politically tough decision to lower the top rate of tax from 50p to 45p. And he urged business leaders to be much more vocal in helping the Conservatives to make the case for a low tax economy and a smaller State. Without such support Chancellors would find it hard to “put their necks on the line” for cuts in the top rate of tax.
Did he say necks on the line?
Back to the Future
Remember the 30+ changes to unemployment figures in the 80’s and the moving of people onto IB to keep the dole statistics lower than was really the case?
Tory Central Command remember. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18351730
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has condemned NHS trusts in England for changing the criteria for operations, leading to some patients being taken off operation waiting lists.
Some trusts have “re-categorised” patients as no longer needing surgery, a BBC investigation has found.
RCS president Prof Norman Williams says the practice is “outrageous” and “worrying”.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley says treatment should not be rationed.
Under the NHS constitution no patient in England should wait longer than 18 weeks for treatment after referral from their GP, and NHS trusts face heavy fines for having too many people waiting longer than the set target.
However, BBC Radio 4′s File on 4 programme has discovered that in some areas of England patients initially assessed as needing operations have subsequently been re-categorised as no longer in need of surgery – meaning they effectively vanish from waiting list statistics.
Unemployment as Crime
Workfare requires the unemployed do unpaid work, ostensibly for the benefit of the community. Want to know what the punishment is for drink-driving?
Seems the only difference between unemployment and criminality is who mandates your compulsory unpaid work.
Rather Poor than European
The last thing Britain needs is a successful European superstate on its doorstep. If it ever came about, we’d have little option but to join.
Yes, ideology better than prosperity in the minds of the right.
Up to half of ‘jobless’ may be working in the black economy as thousands forfeit their handouts
Almost half of jobless people told to do unpaid work are opting to forfeit their handouts instead.
The figures show that many benefit claimants are working in the black economy, according to employment minister Chris Grayling.
They would rather give up their welfare payments than forego their undeclared earnings, he said.
Chris Grayling, Minister for Employment, has said the Government is aware there are people out there working on the quiet whilst claiming benefits
‘I sat through an interview with a young man in a job centre who was working for a few hours a week, below the benefit threshold, at a local nightclub,’ he told the Mail. ‘But he’d missed the previous week’s signing-on interview, and was told he’d be losing a week’s money as a result. He just shrugged.
‘No one just shrugs if they lose a week’s money, and they’ve got no other means of support. But proving it is easier said than done.
That was one important reason why we introduced a month’s full-time activity in the community for jobseekers who are clearly not pulling their weight, or working in the black market.’
If only Jeremy Hunt had shrugged we’d have conclusive proof that the lying bastard was guilty of trying to rubber stamp the introduction of FOX News UK. Oh, sorry, did I slip into emotive language?
‘I’ve met people who freely admit to having been feckless and lazy, but who have found a working environment to be enjoyable and rewarding, and have started to take the whole job search process seriously as a result,’ Mr Grayling said.
So the Minister for Forced Labour was expanding the Mandatory Work Activity..but wait…. they couldn’t possibly slip out a report in the middle of the night and hope nobody was looking? http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/adhoc_analysis/2012/early_impacts_mwa.pdf
Unlike for benefit impacts, MWA referrals showed no employment impacts.
Yes, we all know by now that DWP Ministers are totally lacking in anything approaching morality, a prerequisite for a job in which one of the duties is denying that the increasing number of deaths and suicides is anything to do with policy decisions.
How does the Minister respond to the report? http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jun/13/mandatory-work-scheme-government-research?newsfeed=true
“This was a scheme our own Jobcentre Plus advisers wanted to introduce. This impact analysis only covers the first three months of the programme a year ago and is already out of date.
“What it shows is we had teething problems in the first three months and since then we’ve taken a number of steps to tighten loopholes and are continuing to do so. It’s a relatively new and experimental scheme which is improving all the time.”
Oh that’s alright then, the figures are unreliable and shouldn’t be quoted.
Up to half of ‘jobless’ may be working – James Chapman, Daily Mail
UP to a third of benefits claimants have secret jobs in Britain’s black economy – The Sun
NEARLY half of unemployed people got out of a compulsory work scheme – Daily Express
So having expanded a scheme that doesn’t work according to figures from an official report, that he dismisses as inaccurate, it seems the DWP were quite happy to brief the press using figures from the same report!
I wonder what the punishment would be for someone who breaks the rules and benefits sufficiently to fund a house? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180656/Attack-dog-Tory-Chris-Grayling-brought-heel-properties.html
Chris Grayling, who already owned three houses within the M25, used thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money to help fund a fourth home in London.
Oh, it seems he didn’t break the rules he ‘did a deal’ with the regulator, well isn’t that nice! When I was unemployed they allowed me to keep £5 from a part-time job I was doing to keep my skills up, when I asked if I could claim for the £6 in travelling costs they said no, but as long as rich hypocrites are doing fine that’s alright.
Liberal Democrats have a New Mascot
Jeremy Cable
Let’s Update the Civil Service
Tens of thousands more civil servants face losing their jobs over the next three years under sweeping reforms which will see the size of Whitehall slashed by a quarter, ministers were told yesterday.
Well someone has to do the work
The plan, expected to be unveiled next week, will also call for government policy-making to be contracted out to academics and think-tanks.
Spending plans decided by Taxpayers Alliance, Employment by the IOD, auditing by IEA…. wonderful, fools, criminals and liars in government paying fools, criminals and liars to make policy. Well it can’t get any worse than that.
Lord O’Donnell, the former Cabinet Secretary, called for major reforms to Whitehall including the sponsoring of some Treasury civil servants by the City.
Fuck me, I was wrong, the banks won’t have to ask for a bail-out and the execs won’t face attacks on their bonuses because they’ll be making the fucking rules, investigating breaches and imposing the remedies!
Minister for Social Cleansing
Sorry, I thought I’d finished but another millionaire hypocrite wanted in on the action, step forward Grant Shapps.
Grant Shapps, the housing minister, will announce a consultation shortly on new rules to charge higher rents to tenants with a household income of more than £60,000.
Why?
“For far too long, millions of people on waiting lists have watched helplessly as high–earning social tenants continue to occupy homes designed to help the most vulnerable,” he said.
“These high–income tenants are not only blocking homes that could benefit those in greater housing need, they’re also relying on poorer taxpayers to subsidise their lifestyle.”
Whaaaaaaat?
Social housing was not built for the most vulnerable it was built for the residents in the areas where there were housing needs. The housing wouldn’t be blocked if fucking ideological arsenoses didn’t keep selling the stock off without replacing it, passing nimby charters and failing to build new homes. Perhaps the Minister would like to say what the subsidy is that these tenants receive as social housing has to be self-financing, indeed the government creams off money.
By the way did you notice the implied extra bonus? Yes, working people are going to means-tested on a household basis under a system of individual taxation.
“We want to call time on this blatant unfairness and these handouts to the very rich,” said Mr Shapps
But, but,..
Business must shout louder for the merits of lower taxes or the Government will be unable to cut the top rate of income tax to 40p, George Osborne warned yesterday.
I haven’t even mentioned Leveson, PMQ’s or the wonderful way that little shit Gove was told to behave or fuck off by Mr Speaker Bercow
