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Post by The Doctor on Dec 17, 2012 18:01:11 GMT
A GP at least has access to medical records. ATOS do not.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 20, 2012 15:57:24 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20799963I first became aware of this website last week and have used it in a work capacity. It's so unadvertised no-one else at work had even heard of it. It's a punishment system not a proper job search tool. I used proper website search tools and sites when I was an Employment Advisor. In other news, I saw some up to date figures today for cuts regarding DLA/PIP and HB. Put it this way, with everything I have learned in recent months, I think you'll see some changes in public attitudes a year from now. There is no way these things can go through without inevitable front-page shocking headlines when the hardships properly hit. -Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 20, 2012 16:55:34 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Dec 20, 2012 19:20:23 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20799963I first became aware of this website last week and have used it in a work capacity. It's so unadvertised no-one else at work had even heard of it. It's a punishment system not a proper job search tool. I used proper website search tools and sites when I was an Employment Advisor. What's wrong with the site then? (I've listened to the news article but am none the wiser) |
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Post by blueshift on Jan 6, 2013 9:36:09 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 6, 2013 11:35:24 GMT
An MP claiming money he does not need? That would never happen!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 6, 2013 15:05:21 GMT
But if MPs don't need child benefit, then nor do other people who earn more than £50,000... so given that cuts have to be made somewhere, the government is right to be cutting that particular benefit this week... right? I agree Osborne shouldn't be praised for voluntarily giving up a benefit he doesn't have a need for in the first place but shouldn't he get some credit for removing it from others who don't need it? Even if he's wrong 9 times out of every 10 things he does, we should at least acknowledge when something's done more or less right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20924581(I do realise the change has some flaws, loopholes and absurdities for some people, but I think it's right in principle.) Martin |
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Post by blueshift on Jan 6, 2013 16:36:58 GMT
Frankly I never realised people that well off COULD get child benefit. I was also shocked at the amount of people whining that they would get their child benefit stopped because they 'only' earned over £50k. It's outrageous that such a system was even allowed to exist in the first place!
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 8, 2013 20:06:37 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 9, 2013 0:14:41 GMT
Yup.
They think the riots last year were a big problem, only going to be worse this year.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 9, 2013 8:11:17 GMT
I agree with many of the specific points in this thread (such as the disappointment in last night's vote) but not the passionate hostility to elected politicians in general (they didn't elect themselves, and almost half of MPs did vote against last night's motion).
However, as I see a large part of what MPs earn as going not to pay them for their work they do so much as for taking blame for the collective flaws of everyone including themselves, and it stirs such strong passions, I'm not going to argue the point any further and so will bow out of this thread.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 9, 2013 8:14:55 GMT
I agree with many of the specific points in this thread (such as the disappointment in last night's vote) but not the passionate hostility to elected politicians in general (they didn't elect themselves, and almost half of MPs did vote against last night's motion). Martin The current administration is systematically destroying the NHS and the terms and conditions of the police and teachers as well as dismantling the welfare state (which I have been watching fall apart before my eyes in my work). Anyone who wants to be part of that system has nothing but my disgust. I'd cross the road to avoid MSP's/MP's by this point. And as my office is very close to the Scottish Parliament, I often do. -Ralph |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 9, 2013 16:52:07 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 9, 2013 18:09:02 GMT
I sat in a meeting this morning finding out some new facts about the attack of the poor and what we can do to help and concluded there was nothing that could be done as all the safety nets are going. And the politicians are to blame because all the support is going because they decreed it. Fucking scumbags. I will never ever stop fighting aginst such loathsome moral slime.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jan 11, 2013 14:01:35 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 11, 2013 18:37:51 GMT
Utter contempt for the lot of them. Every single one of them should be fired.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 14, 2013 7:55:27 GMT
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Post by kayevcee on Jan 14, 2013 12:31:04 GMT
I saw this on the news this morning. There are no words.
-Nick
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Post by legios on Jan 14, 2013 12:56:30 GMT
It is not a pretty situation, not a pretty situation at all. It is well on its way to working out worse than I thought it would nine months ago.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2013 18:44:40 GMT
I saw a handy chart of all the welfare cuts this morning at work. Fucking hell.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Jan 15, 2013 1:58:55 GMT
Would it do any good if such a chart were to appear in a mainstream newspaper?
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 15, 2013 7:43:26 GMT
It's got too many words...
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 22, 2013 8:31:07 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 22, 2013 15:08:44 GMT
That's my friend Jane again who's quoted in the piece linked above. She's been very busy campaigning round this issue recently.
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Post by kayevcee on Jan 22, 2013 15:14:07 GMT
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Post by legios on Jan 22, 2013 21:13:48 GMT
It is a very good forthrightly-argued piece. Whilst a lot of my colleagues are primarily concerned about the impact of other elements of the current welfare changes (and rightly so considering the potential impact on the sector in which I work) I have a lot of concern about the introduction of the PiP and the impact that it is going to have on people. It is good to see the issue getting raised in the public eye - it has been brushed under the carpet a bit by the media. Kudos to people like this Jane Young and all the others who are bringing it up the agenda and out into the light where folk can see it. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 23, 2013 18:31:13 GMT
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Post by legios on Jan 23, 2013 20:17:18 GMT
Indeed. It would be easy for her to stay, but she has put her position where her mouth is. I have to admire that decision. First heard about this use of Voice Stress Analysis (I wish the media wouldn't call it "lie detection", it doesn't detect lies it detects stress. Not the same thing at all) a while back and I thought then, and stand by the view, that - bearing in mind that these things remain sufficiently controversial that you will find very few places in the world where they are admissible in a court of law - I find there use in this kind of application very questionable.
Karl
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Post by kayevcee on Jan 23, 2013 22:24:30 GMT
"Private outsourcing company Capita says on its website that VRA is "capable of identifying stress and emotion in a caller's voice pattern"."
If I lived alone and was struggling with money and somebody phoned up threatening to take £30 a month off me, I think I'd be both stressed and emotional no matter what!
This article was in the Metro today too- I couldn't believe it at first. Lie detectors are unreliable enough as Karl has just said, but over the phone? I always try to see the other side and understand the motivations of a council desperately trying to keep all its services running and cutting costs where it can but this just sounds like a moustache-twirling villain playing mad-libs with public policy.
EDIT: Looking further down the comment section on that Guardian article, one "Variant" has a laundry list of related articles where parole boards, councils and the DWP have tried "lie detector" technology and generally chucked it for being unreliable.
-Nick
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 23, 2013 23:06:09 GMT
I'm sorry something so bad that the DWP won't use it?  ? |
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