Category: Poverty
Welfare “reform” kills
December 6th, 2011, 4 Comments
Just some of the people who committed suicide after their (disability) benefits were stopped:
Richard Sanderson, 44, an unemployed helicopter pilot of Southfields in London, who stabbed himself twice in the heart in May. He had been informed that his family faced a £30 a week cut in housing benefit and he feared this would leave [...]
Middleclass families to adopt a scrounger?
August 29th, 2011, No Comments
Here’s the latest ConDemned brainwave to force scroungers to work: get middleclass volunteers to sort out trouble families:
It began in December when the prime minister said: “All evidence suggests that it’s no use offering a range of different services to these families – the help they’re offered just falls through the cracks of their chaotic [...]
The first cut is the deepest
January 13th, 2011, No Comments
How the cuts in the grants central government provides local councils will be divided over London. It’s the poorest countries (deep red and mainly in the centre on the map above) who get the biggest cuts, the richer outer boroughs being hit relatively lightly. From the Londonist, which also has the raw data for the [...]
Social cleansing (1)
October 30th, 2010, No Comments
How the cap in housing benefits will work out, courtesy of Comment is Free commenter Texaspete82 (original here:
There are four parts to the HB reforms which will all be implemented by October 2011. The key reform – which affects 750,000 people and raises half a billion pounds per year – is the first of these.
1. [...]
QotD: conservatism in bus form – the new fake Routemaster
May 31st, 2010, No Comments
Alex on Boris Johnson’s new buses:
In conclusion, this is modern conservatism, implemented in hardware, with your taxes. The obsession with PR, spin, and guff in general? Check. The heel-grinding contempt for the poor? Check. The pride in technical and scientific ignorance? Doublecheck. The low, ugly, spiteful obsession with getting one over on political enemies? (It’s [...]
Pat Robertson is right
January 15th, 2010, No Comments
Haiti has been punished for its founding sin over the centuries. But it’s not the earthquake or any other natural disaster that’s the punishment, nor is what ever diseased idea of devil worship this old asshole has dreamt up that’s the sin. The real sin for which Haiti has been punished ever since it was [...]
Tories say: trust people, but not with money
July 6th, 2009, No Comments
Red Toryism apparantly is taking the worst of New Labour paternalism and combine it with the worst kind of …erm… New Labour free market fetishism, if two recent trail balloons — aid vouchers for people in poor countries to spent on private schools and investment vouchers for the poor in the UK, paid for [...]
You Say ASBO, I Say Eugenics
November 7th, 2008, No Comments
The Dutch Labour party have placed a bill before parliament that would force women judged ‘unfit mothers’ to take court-ordered contraception:
Women in the Netherlands deemed “unfit mothers” may soon be forced to take contraception, if a draft bill currently before the Dutch parliament is passed. The bill “targets women who have been the subject of [...]
Crisis Casualties, No.2
October 5th, 2008, No Comments
So zillionaires are losing billions. How very sad. Oh, how my heart bleeds.
London, Oct 5 (PTI) NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has lost 16.6 billion pounds in the global credit crunch owing to plummeting stock markets in the last four months, media reports said here today.
The 58-year-old Mittal heads a list of ten super-rich losers [...]
A People’s Recession
September 18th, 2008, No Comments
I am so very tempted to wallow in schadenfreude over banking job losses in the City and New York: it’s about time the bloated parasites amongst us had a dose of the real economy most of us live in.
Hurrah, hurrah and let’s dance on the corpse of capitalism!!
No – although there’ll be a [...]
