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Nebakenezzer posted:

This is an amazing counter-punch, amazing

this is not sarcasm

Andrei Dorkovsky posted:

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/917340699900760064

i wasnt aware that dorkins was a libdem but its rly obvious in hindsight and also very funny

UrbicaMortis posted:

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/43d38w/are-we-witnessing-the-rise-of-the-woke-lad

I quite liked this article which talks a bit about how a lot of the 'culty' stuff is quite tongue in cheek.

Top City Homo posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMz_SHidVfk

Bryter posted:

Jonathan Pie is worse than Brexit

Taintrunner posted:

Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn and President Bernie Sanders

bump_fn posted:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...n-a7999251.html

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Jose posted:

they're desperate to pretend neoliberalism is working lol

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Every month 60,000 ill and disabled people have their needs assessed for benefits. Some are so worried about the process that they are using mobile phones to secretly record those interviews, critics say. But using that evidence to overturn a decision is not straightforward.

In 2015, Nev Cartwright sat down with his specialist at a hospital in Leeds. He was told his hacking cough and breathing difficulties were caused by a tumour in his left lung. He was 45.

Since then he has had three operations and a lung removed. Nev was awarded the highest rate of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - a benefit meant to pay for the extra costs of his condition.

But a year later he received a letter saying the DLA was being replaced by a new benefit, the Personal Independence Payment, and his needs would have to be reassessed by a private company.

The face-to-face assessment is typically an interview with a health professional, such as a nurse or paramedic, lasting between 30 and 90 minutes. It can also include basic medical tests and a physical examination.

On his phone recording you can clearly hear the assessor carrying out a peak test to measure his lung function, and reading out the data.

But in the final report, his last reading appears to have doubled from 150 L/min to 300 L/min, making him seem better than he actually was.

After his interview Nev had his disability payments cut and had to return the car paid for by the mobility element of his benefits.

He wrote to the DWP and told them about his recording, sending them a written transcript put together by an independent firm.

Under government rules, secret or covert recording like this is banned. If it is spotted, the claimant is told to stop. If they refuse it is likely that their benefit application will be rejected.
The government tried to get his recording thrown out before his appeal at tribunal.

But exceptionally, in his case the judge agreed a transcript could be entered into evidence. He went on to win his case and his car was eventually returned.

"I've wasted 12 months of my life in an unfair fight with a government department and the people who work for it," he said.[/b]

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Rejecting a 2 state solution literally means Israelis and Palestinians coexisting lmao.

https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah/status/919478185359761408

Jose posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41581060

people vote for this to happen because poor people might get benefits "they don't deserve"

bump_fn posted:

guillotine too quick

Inescapable Duck posted:

Probably want to start giving them better reasons why they can't find any work than 'Employers won't hire anyone but immigrants they can exploit' then. Look at the farmers whinging about how lack of exploitable immigrant labour means they can't get people to pick fruit all day for sub-minimum wages.

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Global banks and international bond strategists have been left stunned by revised ONS figures showing that Britain is £490bn poorer than had been ­assumed and no longer has any reserve of net foreign assets, depriving the country of its safety margin as Brexit talks reach a crucial juncture.

A massive write-down in the UK balance of payments data shows that Britain’s stock of wealth – the net international investment position – has collapsed from a surplus of £469bn to a net deficit of £22bn. This transforms the outlook for sterling and the gilts markets.

“Half a trillion pounds has gone missing. This is equivalent to 25pc of GDP,” said Mark Capleton, UK rates strategist at Bank of America.

Making matters worse, foreign ­direct investment (FDI) by companies is plummeting. It fell from a £120bn surplus in the first half 2016 to a £25bn deficit over the same period of this year.

Jose posted:

loving lol. the article is paywalled but there is enough of it available

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/10/15/britains-missing-billions-revised-figures-reveal-uk-490bn-poorer/