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simplicitly.bsky.social
Full Time Carer, Social Housing Tenant, part-time-blogger, videogame player, often ruinously sarcastic https://simplicitly.wordpress.com/
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When disabled people try to get into work...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

There were always these stories about Osborne battling Duncan Smith about cuts but I didn't believe them then, and I don't really believe them now, because both HMT, DWP and the PM have been hostile to social security since July.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Having promised not to raise tax the easy way (income tax, VAT, employee NICs) and discovered how difficult it is to raise it from people with wealth (non-DOMs, farm owners) Govt decides to take money off the poorest in society bit.ly/4gNbqSi cos there’s lots of them and they can’t move to Monaco

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Those stupid DWP vans mean nothing if policy is still making things worse for people.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It's 20 metres since the Tories.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It is utterly unfair that we are making those who can least afford it bear the greatest proportional cost to fund our social housing and local authority service provision. This is not sustainable. It breeds the very conditions that the far right feeds off. High cost of living, low life prospects.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We don't need to denigrate our social fabric any further, we just need to tax the savings and income of Robert Saunders and other people by about 5% more.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Unsurprisingly, the PM speaks exactly like someone who has never had to navigate the modern social security system, let alone who has read any of the stats on fraud and error. Unrelentingly depressing.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

How did the @rspb.bsky.social know our love language is accessible bird dating scenarios? 🫶

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Just homes for working people, is it? What a joke.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

This is so very thorough - not just careful examination of the problems but going over some of the practical solutions to the ingrained things getting in the way of building the homes the country needs. Not the ones the government needs. As you'd expect from @peteapps.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

It is well worth reading @peteapps.bsky.social on how the current Labour government's plans for New Towns differ from - and fall far short - of those delivered by the 1945-51 Labour Government: open.substack.com/pub/peteapps...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Try that down the Jobcentre.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Never in a million years would I think if we had a human rights lawyer as Prime Minister in a Labour government, we'd see actions like this

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Ugly start to #PMQs from both @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social and @keirstarmer.bsky.social. A clear message from both: settlement schemes ok for white Ukrainians fleeing war but not for brown Palestinians fleeing genocide.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Surely the DWP will appeal this? it's a quarter of a billion pounds they're reclaiming from unpaid carer "overpayments". To spend on being more like Reform.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Think the main takeaway from the article is that only one in six employers now use Jobcentres because they have become a place where people are forced to apply for unsuitable jobs or face sanctions. Rules which are still in place. The vans themselves feel icky, regardless of the glowing review.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment