Amber Rudd insists that criticisms of Universal Credit are “based on one or two particular individuals where the advice hasn’t worked for them.” She should try visiting the real world sometime.
Dear readers, I’ll be blatantly honest with you. Today was awful, really difficult and wasn’t helped by a person insisting that universal credit is the best thing ever.
The conversation went on for about fifteen minutes and took me away from helping people.
It’s not hard to find evidence to prove that universal credit doesn’t help people is it. It’s been plastered all over the newspapers these past few weeks. Anyway at least I wasn’t spat at this time. And we know how much that people are suffering because we see it, we live it.
Anyway today was freezing cold and I can’t thank Roy, Pat and Ron for coming along to help. Also to a facebook friend that joined us for a while. I really do appreciate this.
Today was hard for many reasons, I did my best but I’m not a miracle worker. We handed out our usual…
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