The Politics Thread

Would you Adam & Eve it...?

 

So much change going on right now...

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Have to agree 100%, although the first is less of an issue for me than that 2nd picture.
Cosying up to Harry Cole is beyond the pale.

 

Oops...

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I've seen crack addicts who look better

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Shots fired on golf course while Trump on it.

 

Well that's a take...

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Another ear to miraculously grow back?

Oh, and guess what?

 

no it won't as it is really easy quick adjustment of the RP and PC payment systems

 

Yes it will, considering every other time means testing has been brought in as an efficiency measure it has cost more than continuing as is

Case in point, the BBC decided to means test free TV licenses for the over 75s as that was costing them an estimated £745m a year - yet means testing cost £250m to set up, £40m in costs per year, and the £500m they clawed back to immediately get fed back into means testing which left the BBC at least £45m worse off than if they continued as before

And this is the issue with means testing: it massively increases costs by design so any potential savings are fed into the machine to keep it running, and considering there's increased chances of error it also costs more in financial settlements than the existing system

...which is probably why when David Lammy was prattling on about clothing allowances at the weekend he never mentioned that beings means tested

 

Says it all that it took me a minute to realise the latest episode uploaded was from February 2018, and not a new one...

 

In some good news, it looks like End Wokeness might not be tweeting as much in future which has absolutely nothing to do with Jack Posobiec being busy...

 

means testing is expensive when there are variables in this case it just means removing the WFP instruction from the RP payment system and attach the same to the PC system . Just don't let the service provider try and claim silly money for it .
It was expensive with the original version as Brown didn't consult with the DWP and didn't know with lots of older pensioner RP computer records had been "cleansed" (Mancob cases iirc ) to save computer space so we had no idea if they were manged

 

The service provider will charge silly money for it, or it won't happen

That's how things always go with government contracts, where they claim "efficiency" but end up spending more than they ever would have saved

 

still would be nowhere as expensive as carrying on with universal provision though .

 

Yes it would, given the setup costs alone would make up a significant chunk of any potential saving

 

what possible set up costs it is just transferring an already existing bit of code from one benefit to another .

 

Citeh have recruited Lord Pannick as Chief Counsel in their defence team. Yes, Johnsons favourite KC, who sat behind the blonde blancmange in the Select Committee Hearings happy to just check his bank account to hiw many millions he was raping from the UK Taxpayer... (Johnson billed his legal expenses if you remember)

I know Barristers at some level have to take some cases, but at that level it is all a matter of personal choice. Choosing Citeh and Johnson as clients says everything you need to know about him - and them!

 

I still say, if I were in the dock, I wouldn't have somebody named Pannick representing me. It gives off a certain impression