Self-diagnosed Dunning-Kruger with personality dysphoria. Member of the alt-Woke.
Joined February 2011
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I'm just always taken by surprise when a review by politician who's politics are 'not political' arrives at a conclusion that is exactly the same belief they've had for decades.
Community note: Sky News has been repeatedly told that claimants do not choose what the DWP records as their primary affecting condition, and most claimants have multiple conditions, and PIP is not based on what conditions or diagnoses a claimant has.
Young people close to a third of anxiety disorder PIP claimants, data suggests trib.al/t2nktKd
Community note: Universal Credit still works in exactly the same way as when Iain Duncan Smith introduced it.
'As the Secretary of State sees fit'.
Universal Credit was designed to make work pay, simplify the benefits system and help people escape dependency. That principle remains as important today as it was when I introduced it. But successive governments have allowed policy decisions to undermine its purpose. During Covid, warnings were ignored, money was handed out with insufficient checks and we are now living with the consequences.
We have created a system where millions are trapped on benefits, too many young people are written off before their working lives have even begun, and the welfare bill continues to spiral. The answer is not simply to spend more money. It is to restore the moral purpose of work.
Work is about far more than a wage. It brings independence, dignity, self-respect and the opportunity to build a better life. That must once again be at the heart of welfare reform.
My interview with @thetimes thetimes.com/article/90fc76f…?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm62… The sensible grown-ups have spent months saying they know better than claimants how their benefit money should be spent, and this describes exactly the issue with that.
They will not draw the obvious conclusions though.
theguardian.com/society/2026… The big clue that he knows 'work support' doesn't work at all: he wants benefits to be cut to pay for it.
If he believed welfare to work programmes did what they said, the reduction in benefit spending would come later.
Government announces they will continue to lie about the benefits system and regurgitate what IDS was saying in 2011.
Restricted who can reply because he has small willy.
Today, I did what our extremely well-educated opinion-formers never seem to do.
I counted.
@SkyNews, being real journalists that they are, decided to broadcast a bizarre graph on the Sunday morning programme. It showed a bar chart with two columns, one labelled 'UK armed forces personnel' N=180,000
The other was 'Pip(sic) claimants aged 16-24 N=430,000
Now I find out Helen Whatley was on that programme. I don't have the energy to untangle two factoid singularities colliding.
Our best and brightest are really unafraid to show pig-ignorance about almost anything.
Churchill famously opposed negotiating with Hitler, and did so publicly whilst calling for rearmament; two conflicting goals enticing the Nazis to attack sooner.
'Could you imagine Churchill doing a deal like this with Hitler?'
Sunday Morning presenter @AyeshaHazarika reflects on the diesel deal Donald Trump has made with Vladimir Putin.
📺 Watch today's episode: trib.al/hnGoyLY
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c875… They want our health data to be accessible across all systems, and got Palantir involved because their spy software is able to transfer it across incompatible platforms.
Any practical benefit depends on a level of trust that no one should give.
theguardian.com/society/2026… I love this: the letters start off with one person summing up the actual problem.
What then follows is a carnival freak-show of the types of opinion-havers that have plagued Autistics for years with their utter ignorance. It ends with the result.
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2/2 However, when questioned what the WPPs could do for disabled older clients with established skill sets, work experience and qualifications they admitted there was very little they could offer.
Its not about disability. Its about school and societal failure.
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OK - back in the day (Ann Begg, chair Work and Pen select committee) there were round table events.
Invited Work Program Providers brought clients - and they were all people who failed to thrive in school, and had work anxiety and zero skills. WPPs provided support.
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Community note: The Fonagy Review(the report being referred to) disputes this. It says there is little current evidence of over-diagnosis, a risk based on old data projecting forwards, and much more evidence of under-diagnosis. 'Overdiagnosis' is also widely misunderstood.
Later today, I am going to argue why the estimated £184 billion contributed by unpaid carers, in addition to unknown self-care by people struggling alone, is *the only additional cost that matters*.
The media won't talk about it, and it outsizes all other considerations.
Benefits and Work want to hear from people with ADHD, autism, anxiety or depression, and their carers, about the extra costs you face. Your contribution will help to build a case for protecting cash benefits for people with these conditions.
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It's frustrating to see an entire national discourse predicated on the basis of imaginary numbers on a screen being the most important thing; all other priorities rescinded.
Even by their own rules though they aren't being honest.