Westminster Politics 2024-2029

OK, I said before the e;lection these people would be no good, but this is going to end very very badly for everyone.

This shows such a basic lack of understanding of what their job is, that I genuinely think they could put our society in a place it cannot recover from. The reason CEOs like it is because they can make us pay for water while they save costs by shoveling shite into our rivers. And dereulation means they can do the equivalent in every industry.

It doesn't help the economy, it just boosts profiteering. I'd put money on farage as PM right now, because they seem determined to make it happen.

 
Nogbadthebad said:
OK, I said before the e;lection these people would be no good, but this is going to end very very badly for everyone.

This shows such a basic lack of understanding of what their job is, that I genuinely think they could put our society in a place it cannot recover from. The reason CEOs like it is because they can make us pay for water while they save costs by shoveling shite into our rivers. And dereulation means they can do the equivalent in every industry.

It doesn't help the economy, it just boosts profiteering. I'd put money on farage as PM right now, because they seem determined to make it happen.

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Don't forget the fact that the pound is worth a lot less than it used to be, making us more attractive to US and European companies. Which obviously is the opposite situation to one that the average British person would benefit from.
 
A DWP computer system that automatically allows landlords to grab money from the benefits of their tenants has been ruled "unlawful".

The court ruling follows a challenge by a tenant who was outraged to find the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had docked £500 from his Universal Credit payment at the request of his landlord.

The money involved was at the centre of an unresolved dispute around repairs on a property.

It subsequently emerged that a so-called “click-screen” program used by the DWP means tenants can lose up to a fifth of their monthly universal credit standard allowance – and have their rent paid directly to the landlord – without being consulted by either the landlord or officials.

The legal ruling raises serious questions about the government's plans to increasingly rely on computer systems and AI to operate the benefits system, taking human beings out of the process

The decision by the courts means that the DWPmust now introduce tenant safeguards into a process that approves tens of thousands of benefit deduction and rent diversion requests by landlords each year.

The process was declared unfair and unlawful by a judge earlier this month in a hearing brought by Nathan Roberts, a law graduate and former police control room worker who argued it was “clearly arbitrary and an abuse of process”.

Mr Roberts, who had been in dispute with his landlord, Guinness Partnership Trust, over its alleged failure to carry out repairs, argued that it was unlawful for DWP to pay the £460 rent element of his benefits and a £44 deduction for alleged rent arrears direct to Guinness without consulting him.

The judge, Mr Justice Fordham, said it was unfair that tenants on universal credit who could be adversely affected by rent arrears deduction and rent diversion requests had no opportunity to make representations before the deductions were approved.

He concluded there was a “real possibility” that DWP "decision-makers" were being directed by the computer to approve deduction requests regardless of whether delaying or blocking the request was in the tenants’ best interests.

https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/2006058/DWP-computer-system-ruled-unlawful
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dumbo said:
Fecking hell, there was a different government cnut on the Today programme this morning talking about an "animal spirit" to attract investors. I think it was Emma Barnett on and she chewed him out immediately for that. Everything is Slop now.
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I might be wrong but I think it’s a reference to Keynes -

Even apart from the instability due to speculation, there is the instability due to the characteristic of human nature that a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic. Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as a result of animal spirits – of a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.
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Although Labour use of it is meaningless nonsense. As you say it’s pure slop.
 


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