Camerons Britain

DWP staff given suicide guidance ahead of Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reforms.

Frontline staff at the Department for Work and Pensions have been given guidance on how to deal with suicidal benefit claimants, it has been reported.

The Sunday Herald newspaper says workers have been handed a six-point plan on how to deal with people denied benefits who appear to be suicidal.

Staff at call centres have been instructed to allow rejected claimants for Universal Credit to talk about their intention to kill themselves.

A DWP spokesman did not deny that the guidance had been handed out, and said: “Our frontline Jobcentre staff work hard every day supporting people to find jobs and it is only right we provide a range of training and guidance to assist them in their work.”

Info from here http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-staff-given-suicide-guidance-ahead-of-iain-duncan-smiths-welfare-reforms-10470754.html

Although the cuts have had and will have a devastating effect on many disabled and impoverished people, the savings if any amount to a pittance in the big scheme of things. I reckon Iain Duncan Smith was born decades too late, he would have made a top notch concentration camp commandant.

I first read the title as meaning that DWP staff were being counselled because they were suicidal - mind you it might yet end up like that.

Why am I reminded of this (CAUTION not for those of a nervous disposition)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZEEgIti8sM

Net immigration soars to record high of 330,000 as Cameron's pledge to cap numbers arriving in UK is left in tatters.

"Net migration into Britain hit a record high last year, official figures revealed this morning.

In the 12 months to March, 330,000 more people arrived in the UK than left - smashing the previous record of 320,000 at the height of the Eastern European immigration boom under Tony Blair in 2005.

The revelation is a huge blow to David Cameron who gave a 'no ifs no buts' guarantee that he would slash net migration to below 100,000 a year.

Compared to the previous year, net migration has soared by 94,000, with 636,000 migrants moving to Britain and just 307,000 people leaving, the Office for National Statistics said."

Info here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3212572/Net-immigration-smashes-previous-record-hit-330-000-Cameron-s-pledge-cap-numbers-arriving-left-tatters.html

Has Cameron ever been right on anything? If we stay in the EU and over a million want to come to the UK every year Cameron can do zilch. Meanwhile our infrastructure is collapsing by the day and will reach a point of total collapse, just before the money runs out.

Gooooood Moooooorning (Carol Kirkwood accent) everyone.  

David Cameron takes the war against Isil onto Twitter

The Government have launched a Twitter account @UKagainstISIL to provide updates on how the UK Government's ongoing work to defeat extremists.

Info from here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11830727/David-Cameron-takes-the-war-against-Isil-onto-Twitter.html

Those barbaric savages must be shitting themselves now that big Dave has taken them on via twitter. Jeez is that bloke living in a dream world or what.

What's REALLY scary is that New Labour are even more terrified of socialists than the Tories.

Allegedly someone asked Margaret Thatcher what was her greatest achievement: she replied "New Labour!"

Someone called Blair Margaret Thatcher in drag, and someone (else?) called Cameron Tony Blair in drag . . .

That's what it is all about. So many do not vote because they see correctly almost all politicians are the same these days, regardless of political party. Fresh out of Public School or Uni and never done a proper job in their lives. Complete muppets that would never get to be MD of a big company or head teacher of a large school. Too many career politicos out to line their own pockets, incapable of making decisions and live on lying morning noon and night. Jeremy Corbyn is clearly different, and all and sundry are petrified of him, he is growing on me big time.

Agreed! My mother was a great fan of Tony Benn and Ken Livingstone - but strangely she also liked Boris Johnson and Ken Clarke, and I have to confess our local Therese Coffey isn't all bad. Her greatest regret was that she never lived to see Margaret Thatcher die. I heard of someone recently who had a kidney stone he called Margaret Thatcher because of the pain it caused him.

I HAVE seen the same types become managers and even company directors. Some of them I wouldn't trust to manage a bowel movement without written Procedures, or to direct a stream of piss into a bucket without a Steering Committee. On the other hand I've known some VERY clueful managers and directors so I know how to tell the difference. None of the clueful ones would have any interest in politics though they would make a far better job than most of the current incumbents.

Some of them visited the area a while back, here they are standing in the Economy



(picture courtesy of a friend, the scarecrows were put there by his farmer neighbour, sorry it's a bit big, I can't find the reduced version I made)

In the papers the big headline "Jeremy Corbyn calls death of Osama bin Laden a 'tragedy'" He did say this but he also said he should have been captured alive and put on trial. The special forces that killed him could have taken him alive I reckon. It would have been the trial of the century, the only problem, he would have had lot's to say, ya folla? The last thing the powers that be wanted. Osama bin Laden had too many links to the CIA and George Bush.

Spin, spin and more spin . . .

In the last few days I'm seeing an increase in military aircraft activity around these parts. I wonder where we're going to invade next? Maybe bomb Calais . . .

Does anyone else see the irony from the last seventy years?

Here's Germany welcoming the refugees on the one hand, while Hungary came close to implementing the Final Solution - well the sending them to camps on a train bit anyway.

Meanwhile Britain, who fought Hitler, has reverted to the old stereotype of "the wogs begin at Calais"

I find a delicious irony in the fact that the racist Aussies opposing immigation and wanting to keep everyone out are the same people who think the Aborigines should just "suck up" and move past what has been done to them since Invasion Day. Don't think they're gonna enjoy it too much when the shoe is on the other foot

Indy51 wrote:I find a delicious irony in the fact that the racist Aussies opposing immigation and wanting to keep everyone out are the same people who think the Aborigines should just "suck up" and move past what has been done to them since Invasion Day. Don't think they're gonna enjoy it too much when the shoe is on the other foot

It does make me laugh when you think most white Australians were immigrants themselves not so long ago, and the Black man has been there for many thousands of years. Oh the irony eh. That's British Imperialism for you, rob, rape and plunder and then get all self righteous.

A friend had a Jamaican wife. Her family name was the same as part of my family.

The thought that a few generations back we might have OWNED her was a bit scary.

chris c wrote:A friend had a Jamaican wife. Her family name was the same as part of my family.

The thought that a few generations back we might have OWNED her was a bit scary.

So do you come from a long line of slave traders 

Well I HOPE not but you can never tell, history is full of horrors that were then taken for granted. I once knew a couple of people with the same surname who were unrelated, except one came from a family of horse traders and the other came from a family of horse thieves. Maybe I come from the side of the family that released their slaves, and they took the name in thanks.

One day maybe people will look back at high carb low fat diets and "epidemics" of obesity diabetes and other metabolic diseases with the same kind of horror as we regard slavery. <pop> what a nice dream I just had

Well it's been a good news/bad news week.

Jeremy Corbin was elected with an absolute landslide. He'll never be PM as he isnlt a public school oik, but hopefully he'll put the wind up a few politicians.

The Assisted Dying bill failed yet again. What a total farce, doctors euthanase patients by starvation all the time and get away with it by calling it the Liverpool Care Pathway. I thought seriously about taking out a DNR order as if I'm hospitalised again I'll have difficulty surviving the diet, but I've been told that doctors routinely ignore them unless they write them up themselves.

chris c wrote:Well it's been a good news/bad news week.

Jeremy Corbin was elected with an absolute landslide. He'll never be PM as he isnlt a public school oik, but hopefully he'll put the wind up a few politicians.

Never be PM   at present I would agree but after another five years of austerity who knows he might look an attractive alternative to the electorate