(not satire – it’s Iain Duncan Smith!)
A whistleblower at the Department for Work and Pensions who was contracted to work on Iain Duncan Smith’s disastrous Universal Credit IT system has said the department’s first priority is to please the Daily Mail.
Computing magazine has the extraordinary interview with the whistleblower:
Disaster at DWP: the full interview with DWP’s former employee
So now it’s confirmed what we knew all along.
Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms are nothing at all to do with making the system fairer, or more efficient, or even more cost-effective and everything to do with pleasing the tabloid newspapers to save his own skin.
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Let’s be clear – Tory and Lib Dem MPs have decided terminally ill patients should work or starve
“Back to work” scheme prevents unemployed from …. getting back to work!
UK pulls out of 2016 Paralympics after ATOS declares no disabled in UK
ATOS declare Richard III fit for work
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ATOS to reduce ‘fit for work’ test to one question: “Are you alive?”
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Reblogged this on Translation Scrapbook and commented:
No, this is serious.
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If the Universal credit IT system is not coming up to scratch then why doesn’t the government sue the company responsible?
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
I’ve no doubt whatsoever that this story is absolutely true. One of the Tony Blair’s cabinet has said that Rupert Murdoch was a looming presence, or words to that effect, at cabinet meetings, as Blair worried over how his policies would play in the press. A friend of mine remarked how shocked he was when he read the account of how Cameron formulated his policies in Peter Snowdon’s ‘Back from the Brink: The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection’. Cameron basically had no considered ideological basis for his policies. He simply made them up according to what would sound good and appeal to the public. This latest description of IDS’ priorities by the DWP whistleblower simply bears this out. We really are being led by liars and propagandists, with Dacre, Murdoch and the rest of the Right-wing press standing behind them, pulling the strings.
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All of the newspapers are either right wing or sit on the fence in the centre ground, none are left wing.
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I believe for every drop of rain that falls
A flower grows,
I believe that somewhere in the darkest night
A candle glows,
I believe for everyone who goes astray,
Someone will come to show the way,
I believe, I believe.
I believe above the storm a smallest prayer
Will still be heard,
I believe that someone in the great somewhere
Hears every word,
Every time I hear a newborn baby cry,
Or touch a leaf, or see the sky,
Then I know why,
I believe.
Every time I hear a newborn baby cry,
Or touch a leaf, or see the sky,
Then I know why,
I believe.
This Number One hit was sung, written & produced by Iain Duncan Smith
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Jed Goodright
Who does IDS believe in other than himself, oh yes- fascism?
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typo. who should read what.
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