there is and always will be a percentage fiddling the system but they have designed a system for disability benefits with a structure that actually has a structure that helps someone who wants to fiddle the system as the points system with its freely available guidance on what things count towards the points just tells you what to put on the form . Should also point out thats lots of genuine claimants have to exagerrate their impairment these days due the continuous tightening of the criteria for example you got full points if you couldn't walk more than 50m without pain or serious discomfort but it has been reduced to 30m iirc as if anyone who can only do 40m isn't going to just put they can't do 30
He also went on about the number of hours people on UC have to work, yet again, I'm like hang on, that guy you just swapped places with on the podium before your speech wrote the fooking rules for those hours lol.
i didn't see it but the constant tinkering is pointless imo and often leads to unexpected consequences .
Oh dear, think we can all have a good guess if sunak and his mates was on the skim. I sense another WhatsApp deletion/lost/changed the phone excuse coming up.
Labour have promised to renationalise the railways if elected All of those profits creamed off by the private operators will now go back into investment in the infrastructure and service
Yeah the devil will be in the detail. But the basic principle that public services should be owned and accountable to the taxpayer is sound
Just listening to Anthony Blinken speaking in Beijing about the US / China relationship. Got a lot of respect for this man, being able to negotiate with the Chinese about issues ranging from weapons supplies to Russia, trade deals not undermining US production and jobs, clamping down on fake fentanyl being sold into the US market, AI, Chinese military presence in the South China Seas etc. Makes you realise just what a **** nugget a bloke like Trump is, who just goes in with his massive orange ego and tries to make himself look important people like blinken must shudder at the thought of having to work with him if he’s elected
My idea has been to have a nationlised service but allow private competition, the issue is not if they're national rails or private rails. The issue is that industries become stagnant when they have a monopoly and don't need to think about losing customers. Neither the gov nor the private rail firms are sitting about thinking "oh **** if we provide bad trains everyone will just go out and buy a car!"
Blinken is a Democrat politician. He'll be replaced by a Republican if Trump comes in. Until that one is sacked and then the next one... and then the next one... and the next one...
Yeah, I forget. Unlike our civil service, they chuck everybody out and put in a whole new team in the US at election time
