Originally posted on Abuse is Abuse:
Have you heard of the ‘Same Roof Rule’? No? Me neither. That is until mid 2016 when my peadephile brother was jailed for abusing me and five other young girls. I had carried the secret with me all my life for fear of upsetting the ‘harmonious’ apple cart. The…
Month: January 2018
Tory vice chair deletes comment saying unemployed should have vasectomies
Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
Tory Britain: The directors responsible for the Carillion bankruptcy should get MILLIONS in pay-offs: Carillion fat cats still earning up to £55,000 a MONTH even after quitting The workers made redundant by the Carillion bankruptcy should get VASECTOMIES: Tory vice chair urged jobless to stop having kids or UK…
Man sanctioned for a missed appointment last year.. That he didn’t receive. Inappropriate questioning by advisor. Don’t go to hospital, attend your appointment instead. Welcome to Ashton Under Lyne Jobcentre.
Originally posted on The poor side of life:
Hello readers, and thank you for reading my blog. It always feels like Thursday comes round very quickly, and because Thursday mornings are usually very busy outside the Jobcentre thats entirely appropriate. I’ll start with the weather, freezing cold, although not quite as cold as some other…
Universal Credit debit
I have received my PIP decision which is to pay me £214.65 every four weeks, that’s a loss of £95.95 from DLA which was £310.60. All else being equal, and it isn’t, I can take the hit, it’s manageable. My first payment is due on 6 February which means neither DLA nor PIP this month, […]
The Tories are ripe for an extinction event
It is not the strongest of a species that survives, nor the most intelligent, it is the one most adaptable to change, that survives. Charles Darwin. The growth of civilisation was made possible because every able bodied person is capable of producing more goods than they need for their own personal survival, bearing in mind […]
From the abstract to the concrete: urban design as a mechanism of behaviour change and social exclusion
Originally posted on Politics and Insights:
I rarely venture into large retail areas and shopping centres. They make me feel unwell. I’m rather claustrophobic to begin with. I also have lupus, one of my symptoms is a quite extreme photosensitivity. The lighting in these places quite often triggers an attack of vertigo, nausea, incapacitating disorientation, co-ordination…
Truth in politics
Seeing the title of this piece, readers can be forgiven if their immediate reaction is that I am just being ridiculously naive. Politicians and lying go together like a horse and carriage, fish and chips, Batman and Robin, Theresa May and Brexit cluster fuck. Surely everybody knows that! When David Cameron became Prime Minister in […]
Happy pro-active new year – the Tories must go
In 1921, C P Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian for nearly 50 years, wrote an essay to mark the papers centenary in which he wrote that the “primary office” of a newspaper is accurate news reporting, saying “comment is free, but facts are sacred”. He would likely have abhorred the present time where news […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 