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Yes it tells a shocking story of our collective failure to teach basic statistics.
Interviewing a govt minister Hazarika shows a graph comparing young people claiming PIP to the size of our armed forces & declares it "tells a story about modern Britain" I can't even make a sarcastic comment about our fearless fourth estate, because Hazarika is a Lab politician
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Michael H. retweeted
Never mind the standard of journalism, Statisticians are holding their heads in their hands at this. The use and misuse of statistics llcc.pressbooks.pub/publicsp…
Interviewing a govt minister Hazarika shows a graph comparing young people claiming PIP to the size of our armed forces & declares it "tells a story about modern Britain" I can't even make a sarcastic comment about our fearless fourth estate, because Hazarika is a Lab politician
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Michael H. retweeted
"Tells a story about modern Britain" šŸ˜‘ They're comparing the number of UK soldiers to young people on disability payment. The wealthiest demonising the poor & disabled to encourage more war and weapons spending is really something. The war drum loudens
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Never mind the standard of journalism, Statisticians are holding their heads in their hands at this. The use and misuse of statistics llcc.pressbooks.pub/publicsp…
Interviewing a govt minister Hazarika shows a graph comparing young people claiming PIP to the size of our armed forces & declares it "tells a story about modern Britain" I can't even make a sarcastic comment about our fearless fourth estate, because Hazarika is a Lab politician
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Michael H. retweeted
This is quite clearly not journalism.
Interviewing a govt minister Hazarika shows a graph comparing young people claiming PIP to the size of our armed forces & declares it "tells a story about modern Britain" I can't even make a sarcastic comment about our fearless fourth estate, because Hazarika is a Lab politician
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I'm sorry, but this might be the most batshit graphic I've ever seen.
Interviewing a govt minister Hazarika shows a graph comparing young people claiming PIP to the size of our armed forces & declares it "tells a story about modern Britain" I can't even make a sarcastic comment about our fearless fourth estate, because Hazarika is a Lab politician
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Labour Politician interviews Labour Politicians. What on earth is going on at Sky News?
Labour govt minister Yvette Cooper tells Labour peer Ayesha Hazarika, who is interviewing her, "you're a journalist"
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Labour Baroness Ayesha Hazarika conducted a perfectly neutral interview with Labour Minister Yvette Cooper on Sky News this morning and pulled out two shocking, but completely unrelated stats. The British armed forces currently only have around 180,000 personnel, and there are over 430,000 people aged 16–24 claiming PIP in England and Wales alone. Hazarika and Cooper reached the same alarming conclusion: this proves Russia is about to invade the UK. Tory MP Helen Whately is in full agreement with them on this issue. She revealed on Twitter that the scandal goes deeper than we dared imagine: many if not most of the children claiming DLA go on to claim PIP as adults. For some inexplicable reason, their disabilities don’t miraculously clear up on their 18th birthday. It just so happens that my kid has a disability, but I’m not accepting excuses from him. He’s only two, but I’ve already told him that if he doesn’t learn to walk by the time he’s 18, he’s joining the army. As you can see, I’m a responsible parent. Since I’m a TV superstar, I don’t need to claim benefits for my kid, but I like to smugly look down one those who do. However, I reserve most of my ire for disabled adults. I scream at anyone who parks in a disabled bay that they don’t look disabled enough for a blue badge. I then remind them that I pay for their car, even though they actually pay for it themselves. It’s amazing how lifelong disabilities turn people into massive scroungers. As Helen Whately noted there is ā€œa clear path from child DLA to PIP to a lifetime on benefits.ā€ Obviously, we must get our young people off the benefits conveyor belt, and given that we’re crying out for grunts to throw into the meat grinder, the solution is obvious: Going forward, Fit for Work assessments must ask if the claimant can squeeze a trigger. If the answer is yes, their claim will be denied and they’ll be given a place in the military. Yes, those kids in wheelchairs wouldn’t last a week on the front line, but the same would be true if they could walk. What matters is that the bloke who runs our military said we need to start making sacrifices to defeat Russia, and I vote that we sacrifice disabled people who refuse to work. It’s the only way to cut the welfare budget—I mean, save the country.
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A reminder, Our entire modern Benefits system was introduced by the Tories. They are responsible for both Universal Credit and the Personal Independence Payments system. They think we're stupid.
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When you consider the chain of events that must take place to get Hazarika and Cooper on Sunday morning Sky TV presenting a graphic that directly compares Pip to military personnel, it does not bode well for the state of this nation.
Interviewing a govt minister Hazarika shows a graph comparing young people claiming PIP to the size of our armed forces & declares it "tells a story about modern Britain" I can't even make a sarcastic comment about our fearless fourth estate, because Hazarika is a Lab politician
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A Labour Peer interviewing a Labour minister. This is so utterly absurd. We so badly need media reform.
Labour govt minister Yvette Cooper tells Labour peer Ayesha Hazarika, who is interviewing her, "you're a journalist"
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Target pensions or welfare, don't tax banks, neoliberal IMF tells UK Chancellor. Silence on corporate welfare, bank subsidies and profiteering; poverty, equitable distribution of income and wealth. Sacrificing old, poor, sick to the gods of fiscal rules. theguardian.com/business/202…
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I wonder how much this action by Starmer has cost us? "The government has reached an out-of-court settlement with a senior civil servant who challenged his sacking by Sir Keir Starmer" independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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ā€œIsraeli settlers assaulted European diplomats in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, just a day after a Washington Post photojournalist was severely beaten..ā€ giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…
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Ministers are refusing to publish vital briefings which contain significant material related to Palantir’s NHS software. As the deadline looms to renew the spy-tech firm’s Ā£330m contract, they’re keeping us in the dark. We can't let them šŸ‘‡ goodlaw.social/4pgx
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Racist Reform councillor Alan Feeney has been suspended from his role as a custodial manager at HMP Birmingham.
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There are only 700k job vacancies in the UK with over 1.6million people already actively looking for work. Where are the jobs comging from, for all the young people Milburn wants to force into work? ft.com/content/c6e911dd-440b… via @ft
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Coventry City Council’s decision to renew its Ā£750,000 children’s services contract with Palantir is the wrong choice. Palantir has carried out a deliberate strategy of embedding itself deeper and deeper into our public services. Its goal to make us totally dependent on them, so they can help themselves to our most valuable data. But as the Mayor of London has shown, local authorities can say no. Coventry Council should follow his lead. That’s why I’ve signed @zarahsultana’s motion urging them to cancel the contract.
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ā€œFascism is rising from frustration, born out of a crisis of livelihoods. So, we need to reclaim these essentials now.ā€ I spoke to the @guardian’s @MikeSegalov about ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS and making life affordable for all. šŸ—žļø Read online now. Link below.
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