Poor People Can’t Cook Says Lee Anderson MP

Originally posted on The poor side of life:
Lee Anderson Tory MP for Ashfield claimed that households in Britain can make nutritious meals on a budget of about 30p a day. He made these crass remarks during the queens speech debate in parliament. He went on to say that his constituency administer a so called…

DWP To Start Planned Legacy Claimants Migration To Universal Credit

Originally posted on The poor side of life:
With much celebration yesterday evening the DWP announced that their plans to start migrating people from legacy benefits to Universal Credit (UC) with a commencement date being May 9th. Their target completion date being December 2024. This will leave approximately 900,000of households worse off whilst claiming UC.…

I have made up my mind

Originally posted on Kay Green:
I’ve had a few friends, both on social media and in real life, getting cross with me lately for giving consideration to all sorts of odd ideas on the situation in Ukraine. On the one hand yes, I know it’s hard to stay calm when something’s suddenly a hot topic,…

I can’t afford to eat and heat. Back outside Ashton Under Lyne Jobcentre.

Originally posted on The poor side of life:
It feels strange to be writing this blog post this week because I’ve actually been able to return to my weekly demo and advice session outside Ashton Under Lyne Jobcentre. The DWP and local council might have mistakenly thought that I had stopped doing the weekly demos.…

I have invented retrospective resignation

Originally posted on Kay Green:
I believe people are allowed to join in politics. I joined the Green Party when the BBC said Nigel Farage could be all over the telly all the time because his then party had more members than the Greens. So did around 60 000 other people – people want to…

No ditch deep enough

Originally posted on Kay Green:
As the UK pulls into position as a world-leader in COVID deaths, as the NHS, the legal system and the economy fall into chaos, as the Home Office scrabbles around trying to retrieve the latest batch of lost files, our PR-dependent government works day and night to keep all media…

Poverty is unrelieved violence that only serves the powerful.

Originally posted on The poor side of life:
I believe that our very being is political. Before and when we are born we are thrust into the world of politics without our knowledge. Our future is dependent upon the opportunities that are given to you from this moment onwards. We are political pawns and are…

Slaves of money

No greater insult or contempt has ever been visited on ordinary working people than the advent of waged work and stealing the fruits of the bulk of our labour and calling it profit. Organised labour has gained us many hard won concessions and protections, but even today a wage does not in any way represent […]

No Going Back,The New Normal Is Coming

Originally posted on blueannoyed:
? ? ? ? ? ? This month we have seen the stark reality of future issues which has been exacerbated by Covid -19 crisis. This blog is going to be a long non sugar coated one. We have seen both of main parties reject a citizens income a version of…

Thousands of people that lost their jobs due to Covid 19 refused Universal Credit and any other help.

Originally posted on The poor side of life:
Dear readers its Thursday and I’ve just returned home from the hospital. I managed to get a cancellation appointment for a CT scan for my lungs. Anyway you can imagine my disgust when I saw this article in The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/30/hundreds-of-thousands-who-lost-jobs-in-pandemic-denied-universal-credit I don’t need to tell you…