(not satire – its Iain Duncan Smith!)
Plenty in the news today about the ‘Titanic’ disaster that is the government’s plans to introduce Universal Credit for benefits claimants.
However, despite lots of discussion about the reasons why the project has become such an expensive disaster, I haven’t seen much said about the fact that work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has replaced the head of the Universal Credit project 3 times in less than a year.
First of all we had Malcolm Whitehouse CBE.
He was replaced in November 2012 by Hilary Reynolds.
She was then herself replaced by David Pitchford just 4 months into the job.
And then, amazingly, Pitchford was replaced by Howard Shiplee, again just months into the job.
Unsurprisingly, in characteristic style, Duncan Smith himself has today blamed civil servants for the huge mess.
Of course, as everyone knows, a bad workman always blames his tools.
Or perhaps in this case – more like a tool blaming his workmen?
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IDS is a dreadful man. He is actually a cousin of mine, so I find him particularly odious. Our politics are very different, and I’d like to believe I’m not as incompetent and greedy as he is.
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Jaypeden in the Guardian
05 September 2013 9:30am
What an arsehole, what an absolute shit this man is.
Says all that needs to be said about this vile, cretinous bastard
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There is one silver-lining in all of this: the longer the implementation of Universal Credit is delayed, the better the probability of the most vulnerable in our society getting out of this Tory government alive.
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hes made a fatal mistake blameing the civil service.
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Universal Credit is very simple to implement the whole of welfare is simple the trouble is that you have to many people involved where you only need one balanced person
in the same way you have a royal wedding undertaken by one person the master of the house who like me is a proceduralsst
a person who knows how structures work and how to implement major change that’s easily understood by one and all
And as we saw in the royal wedding all went to plan as expected
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The clear advice from the Civil service was that a genuine single working age benefit was a very difficult/well nigh impossible task to implement ,and extraordinary expensive to set up.This is a reduced version(only six benefits-and only the income based versions of some of them) and a dogs breakfast-it brings further complexity.Bad enough you would have thought but given that it will affect everyone at some stage ,the vanity project of IDS is a wholesale disaster in waiting and not leastan absolute scandalous transfer of monies from citizen to private profiteers.No money apparently for that dialysis room now deemed spare but a limitless amount to waste on this.
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What gets my goat most about this news being all over the papers is that it’s only when it comes to loss of money that the papers take it up but never when it’s a question of the survival (or not, of course) of actual human beings. Universal Credit is a disgrace from every point of view but it’s about time the usual news outlets caused a stink about the reality for all of us and before the bulk of the population becomes extinct.
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I never warmed to the odious IDS (Irritating Dodgy Sod). He is the type of arrogant person who relies on acquired authority to command obedience, and is so bereft of inspiration and necessary knowledge to carry out his acquired function, must rely on people over whom he wields that authority.
He resents his need for their help; modifies the things they suggest to him so that it appears to originate in his own barren imagination – and then blames those whose advices he failed to understand properly when his input buggers the expected results.
Such characters in any walk of life need a lot of luck to continue unchallenged. He’s been rumbled – and the people he is now so anxious to blame for his shortcomings are sufficiently influential in their own right to arrange his eventual, justly deserved comeuppance.
I’ve despised the Tory mind all my life. Maggie was responsible for much damage to my country by her determination to impose her idea of what that Toryism really is all about. She was utterly wrong in her assumptions – perhaps misled by the work of honourable Tory predecessors. However, despite a terrible hatred which, had it been properly harnessed in my distant youth might have resulted in the need for a mainframe computer to assist with the Tory body count, it was still possible to admire her humanity, derived as it was in a less exalted background than that enjoyed by the Dodgy Sod.
The Tory Party showed a smidgeon of sense to get rid of him as Leader – but their insane belief in the rectitude of their privileged milieu blinded them to the fact that he was, is and will ever remain, a total, useless, evil bastard. Rant over!
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Indeed, we can only hope enough of them have been careful to gather incriminating evidence (and have saftey in numbers) to bring IDS down in a spectacular way, which is no more than he deserves.
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Reblogged this on The Greater Fool.
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The United Nations will be looking in from now on this blog they tell me as i have convinced them all is not well with the welfare death rate on the rise and this will need to stop
IDS will not be backing down UNTIL many more have died as he at this time is still in denial just as the Syrian president will not be backing down so we do indeed have a real problem and I just hope sue can get her message across to save lives
If she fails then it is game over and will then have to think of something else
AMBASSADOR TO UNITED KINGDOM AND NORTHERN IRELAND KURT ALLEYNE has also raised his concerns with me and any deaths or those at risk of death by the DWP should make contact with him for advice
HIS EXCELLENCY
AMBASSADOR KURT ALLEYNE is also a good contact and friend of mine http://www.ihrchq.org/profile%20_ambassador%20to%20uk.html https://www.facebook.com/alleynekurtanthony
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The funniest thing ever is his blaming the civil servants… forgetting that its almost entirely contracted out to the private sector… that very same “do it better” private sector who have… absofuckinglootly failed to provide a working system and who no doubt at this very moment are re-negotiating their contracts for the next tranch of making an un workable system, not work, yet again; while already they have off shored the profit from the first cock up into low tax areas….
But hey, at least its good public money spent if the private sector have made a profit and not bad public money spent if it was in house… cnuts!
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now hes upset the civil service there should be a good few embarrassing leaks coming out thats what happens when you upset them.
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Run that by me again. The I.T. has been outsourced to the usual corporate suspects, including Atos. What could possibly go wrong?
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LoL, yes the very same outsourced contractors who previously screwed up NI2, NHS (how many times?), CSA, and just about every outsourced local council IT and other “managed” services contract… and yet still they are asked back to screw things up again; and again; and again…
The funny thing is all these big companies that propose “outsourcing” as the panacea to all things no longer use the outsourcing model themselves… instead they buy the company that provides a service and put their managers in place at all levels, then use inter company invoicing to show “value/loss” of a specific area of expertise and as the money stays within the “group holding” its outgoings are reduced as any profit of the now in house resource is returned to the holding/parent company and not some outside vested interest who uses the profit for themselves…
Rolls Royce does something similar, it has an internal “pound” that can be spent internally or externally… it means departments that are usually seen as a loss (very typically IT as just one example) are now seen as profitable value areas and can be compared directly with the cost of using an outside supplier (typically a different nominal ledger account and not seen as a “wages expense” but as an asset purchase.).
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Yeah, never upset the C.S… even if there is no “dirt” they will now escalate every small problem up the chain instead of keeping schtum… and IDS will be given a true picture of its abject failure to meet any kind of functional mile stone every damn day…. at which point he will no longer be able to blame anyone as he will be fully informed… bwahahahahaha
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Actually just re-read the second paragraph… I guess you could call it “corporate nationalization of industry…” while telling the gov that if it were just to privatize everything all will be well in the world… its doing the exact inverse.
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is anyone on the Claimant Commitment? can you please post all the tasks and requirements on pastebin.com then post the link back here so we know what we’re in for?
thanks.
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also can anyone complie a list of legal aid solicitors in different areas for welfare benefits? thanks
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Reblogged this on HUMAN RIGHTS & POLITICAL JOURNAL.
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I’ve seen people posting that they’ve been given 24 tasks to do per week.
Now that UC is on the rocks, the CC now applies to plain old JSA of course, apparently being rolling out to 100 JCPs per month, starting next month.
Last page here gives some example tasks.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/163018/response/398294/attach/html/3/CC%20Narrative%20short.pdf.html
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Bah!
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/163018/response/398294/attach/html/4/2451.Annex%201.pdf.html
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Completely Livid at the InJustice and Oppression of Tory Britain
No Degrading Forced ” Treatment ” Torment Torture for people with mental health
difficulties to gain access to ESA
Tax the Rich Hands Off the Poor
Constitutional Protection for Welfare Benefits and Boycott ” Newspapers ” that have
Victimised the Poor and Vulnerable
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as i have always stated IDS has always said he would resign if he was reshuffled out of the DWP and that’s how it’s going to stay
he is to big a player to remove and will no doubt get around to fat people in due course once he has dealt with those with mental issues
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