Will this now mean, the likes of #CitySouth, #Manchester start mass evictions? Adding to the already high homelessness in Manchester, despite the fact there are over 5,000 vacant dwellings!
#DWP no longer produce data for Hardship Fund – WHY?
Is the Government hiding facts that show, how its policies are causing so much pain and suffering the poorer members of our country?
In this month we’ve finally seen National (and even International) press, about the DWP’s refusal to publish the numbers of people dying after their benefits had been stopped. This is fully justified and it is with no small thanks to fellow blogger Vox Political for his persistence, that at the time of writing 80,572 people are demanding the DWP release these numbers.
Today in daily updates from whatdotheyknow, another DWP response caught my eye, a FOI request enquiring about a statement from #Cameron re the Hardship Fund for claimant facing financial difficulties. The request asks several questions including what the Hardship fund is, the criteria for application and the number of applicants, both successful and rejected. The DWP’s response did explain what and how but… regarding the numbers, the response intrigued me:
“Data on JSA awards was last published in September 2012 which stated “the number of hardship awards made between April 2011 and March 2012 was about 64,000“; it continued with “A commitment was made…
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No DHP for bedroom tax households after July 2015
We can see a lot of people becoming homeless in the #ManCityCouncil area, on top of the already high level of homelessness. And as the author points out, it was #Labour’s policy as well!
Why housing campaigns are flogging a dead house
You are correct Joe, with even Shelter pushing the need for more affordable homes! In 100% controlled Labour, the council has continued its demolition of perfectly ‘fit-for-purpose’ council homes. To make way for ‘homes-to-buy’, which are built to the lowest energy efficiency. So that property developers, like Tom Bloxham of Urban Splash can accumulate more wealth, at the tax payers expense. Despite the fact, there is over 5,000 empty dwellings in Manchester. And as you state, the social housing sector has done nothing, to highlight the nonsense actions by the council.
Richard Leese, the council leader thinks building more ‘home-to-buy, will bring more young professionals into Manchester. Manchester is already, one of the most deprived areas in the UK. It has the lowest life expectancy for males and third for females. 60% of people who work in Manchester, come from outside Manchester. Therefore, we have high unemployment, in some areas it is 55%, who are ‘economically inactive’. Homelessness, is increasing because of social cleansing, but even the young professionals are finding it difficult to make ends meet.
The big problem in Manchester, is that the electorate are not voting. Lucy Powell elected as MP, with only a 28% turn-out. A recent council election, the turn-out was 11% and this is an area, which has undergone “Regeneration”.
The 2.25 Million Hidden Unemployed People Reveals The Stark Truth: There’s No Fucking Jobs
Something I have trying to get over to people, there is no work out there for people. So, politicians should be looking at ‘Prosperity without Growth’, changing the system completely. Instead of promising this will jobs and that will brings jobs, when there are few jobs about.
A senior DWP manager has a motivational meltdown on twitter.
According to the latest statistics there are currently 1.84 million unemployed people. There are also 1.3 million people working part time because they cannot find a full time job. Nearly half a million people who are officially employed work less than six hours a week. Over 100,000 so-called employed people are actually on unpaid workfare.
But even this only tells half the truth about the number of under and unemployed people in the UK. There are a staggering 2.25 million people who are ‘economically inactive’ and want a job but who are not included in the unemployment figures. That means the true number of unemployed people, if unemployed is defined as not having a job and wanting one – which is how it should be fucking defined – is over four million.
The reason you never hear of the missing…
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These are all the countries where the US has a military presence
Despite #USA rhetoric about past European colonisation, they appear to being a good job in the colonisation of the World!
How I discovered a coffee pot was making my patient sick
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get away from plastics, they are ever where. Especially if you shop at supermarkets, everything is just about covered in the seemingly harmless, fossil-fuel derived and non-biodegradable substance. If you look at a number of organic drinks, they come in glass bottles, not in plastic containers. Organic fruit and vegetables are sold loose, with paper bags being available. It is difficult to get away from it, but you can reduce your exposure.
City Villages – the wrong solution to London’s housing crisis
I wonder if Andrew Adonis has been taking lessons of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council? Hundreds of council homes, most only built in the 1970, some only having been refurbished. To be replaced mostly by ‘homes-to-buy’, for the educated, young professionals. We now have over 5,000 empty dwellings, with over 2,600 being long-term empty (http://www.emptyhomes.com/ 2013). With a very large housing waiting list, in 2012, more than 16,000. What is it about our politicians and their supporters, both Labour and Conservative, that there is an urgent requirement for council homes at affordable rents?
Last week on Red Brick we discussed a series of essays edited by Lord Andrew Adonis for the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) proposing the transformation through redevelopment of existing council estates into ‘City Villages’.
Duncan Bowie has written the following analysis and detailed critique of the report. Duncan writes in a personal capacity but is convenor of the Highbury Group on Housing Delivery – an independent group of specialists from public, private and independent sectors from housing, planning and related professions which prepares proposals for Government – as well as being a member of the EC of London Labour Housing Group. He has worked in London housing and planning for many years, including for Ken Livingstone when he was Mayor.
The wrong solution to London’s housing crisis
By Duncan Bowie
Andrew Adonis’s introductory chapter seeks to describe the housing crisis in London and propose that the shortage…
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Professor Wessely: Knocking the Docs & Overstepping the Mark
Vested interests who are trying to influence our benefit system!
I feel that my last post ended on a somewhat cryptic note regarding Professor Wessely, and that I need to support the claim I made about the undermining of physical medical authority within his ‘doctrine’. This I feel I have previously done to an certain degree with regard to Professor Aylward and his colleagues (here and here), though the potential certainly exists for more to be highlighted.
An insight into what could be termed the ‘under-the-radar‘ approach to undermining the integrity of medical personnel, such as GPs, is provided by Professor Wessely’s article for Unum’s Annual Chief Medical Officer’s Report 2007 entitled “Why and When do Doctors Collude With Patients?” (The CMO for this publication was Michael O’Donnell, now occupying the same role with Atos Healthcare.)
Subtle But Significant
This notion may seem to be introduced with apparent goodwill, even humour, but the important fact…
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The Tory plan to hit 515,000 social housing pensioners with the bedroom tax
Can things get any worse for the poorer members of England’s society
