IDS calls "War!" on the Great Unwashed.

[banjo]

i live in clydebank where there are twelve bookmakers and two gaming shops to choose from.labour did not do their homework.

[The Egg Man]

Have a listen to IDS on Today (Radio 4 from 08.10ish Mon 15/7/13). It'll be on iPlayer or whatever Auntie uses for such things.

[pingu]

now the govs appealing the ruling that workfare was/is illegal

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/ ... reme-court

[Doorstop]

MP decides it's about time he and his colleagues were allowed to rob the public purse blind again.

[Josef]

MP decides it's about time he and his colleagues were allowed to rob the public purse blind again.

The 'no receipts' thing sounds a tad, well, open to abuse.

It's important to remember, though, that salaries and expenses were introduced to parliament to make sure we didn't just get rich folk and Londoners representing us.

It's a damn sight cheaper and easier for Bercow to get to work than it is for Alistair Carmichael.

[Disclaimer] : Examples chosen for geographical reasons rather than political ones. [/Disclaimer]

[The Egg Man]

How Bob Holman, the guy who 'invited' IDS to Easterhouse on how he (Holman) was fooled. Written by Polly Toynbee.

"Iain Duncan Smith's second epiphany: from compassion to brutality
I've seen his benefit sanctions inflict misery on places like Easterhouse, where poverty made him weep a decade ago"

"In Easterhouse this walk has become a Via Dolorosa, a path trod regularly by visiting journalists and TV crews seeking the sacred spot where Iain Duncan Smith (nearly) wept in epiphany a decade ago. It sickens the locals, groaning when yet another visitor asks the way. The picturesque boarded-up Glasgow tenement, where Duncan Smith was photographed looking stricken, was already condemned, and long ago replaced under Labour's Decent Homes programme. But life behind front doors took a desperate turn for the worse, largely due to the man who underwent a Damascene conversion here – only to undergo a reverse conversion later."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... asterhouse

[banjo]

oh aye ,the easterhouse trip and how he was a caring politician,ians drunken myth.

[Doorstop]

[banjo]

spot on bigstuff.

[Botanic Squirrel]

Man's a villain.

[Doorstop]

“If you’re a single person claiming benefits and your Valentine’s Day romance leads to something more serious, make sure you inform the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) of any change in circumstances, or you could find yourself being investigated for benefit fraud,” ~ DWP.

[yoker brian]

Vulnerable woman forced onto work programme still being hounded by Atos despite being in a coma: http://t.co/v2Kz9NVRI7

[banjo]

tommy sheridan on independence.just watched this on you tube.worth a look whatever your thoughts on the man himself are.

[The Egg Man]

The words 'you tube' could have been invented for Tommy.

[Fat Cat]

Vulnerable woman forced onto work programme still being hounded by Atos despite being in a coma: http://t.co/v2Kz9NVRI7

Nae excuse