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SSWP resigns - Brexit or UC which is biggest policy farce?
Time for a Rightsnet poll?
And what does this meant for the time scale for the draft managed migration regs (assuming there will be a parliament to debate them by then)?
Good riddance!
But who and what do we get next?
Perhaps an SoS who gives careful consideration to all the blazingly obvious problems and genuinely shakes up UC and makes it work?
Or an android who claims to be ‘listening’ whilst plunging ahead regardless and spouting claims of total success and popularity for UC?
....Gad….......
I think the former would require a change of governing party. As long as we have the current shower in government, we will get the second option. The only question is how judgemental and talented at whipping up anti-claimant sentiment they will be.
The track record is not good - we have had 4 of them since IDS
The track record is not good - we have had 4 of them since IDS
Corrected for you.
The track record is not good - we have had 5 of them including IDS
I nominate Alok Sharma for the gig- he’s done a lot of the heavy lifting lately and seems able to deny there are any problems, find good news where few others can, and generally ignore facts. Perfect fit.
I doubt Heidi Allen will get the job having raised the odd concern about UC?
Sajid Javid certainly looks the part. (Combination of IDS and Nosferatu). Enough to scare people off claiming!
The track record is not good - we have had 4 of them since IDS
Corrected for you.
The track record is not good - we have had 5 of them including IDS
Thank you
I’m with Andrew - I think Alok has eyes on the prize. But after his performance on Panorama the other night… who knows?
I’ve lost me stake money - it’s Amber Rudd!
I’ve lost me stake money - it’s Amber Rudd!
Can someone please ask a PQ about whether there are targets for mandatory reconsideration outcomes?
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That is very much a joke.
I hope the new SSWP listens to the sector and we look forward to working with her.
[ Edited: 16 Nov 2018 at 04:42 pm by Martin Williams ]A woman forced to resign for lying to MP’s becomes the new boss of Universal Credit. You couldn’t make it up.
A woman forced to resign for lying to MP’s becomes the new boss of Universal Credit. You couldn’t make it up.
“A recent report found Home Office officials gave her the wrong information and then later failed to clear up the problem.”
Now there can’t have been any of that going on in the DWP re UC could there? Of course one wouldn’t want to name any senior officials but one or two names spring to mind!
She doesn’t appear to be any more inclined to listen to the sector than any of her predecessors:
Ms Rudd said she had seen universal credit “transform lives” in her Hastings and Rye constituency but she “recognised there had been some issues with it”.
I wonder how many issues constitutes ‘some’ issues? Rather than, for example, ‘lots’ or ‘overwhelming’?
Oh and my colleague has rightly corrected my English - the title should of course read ‘bigger’.
[ Edited: 19 Nov 2018 at 09:31 am by Peter Turville ]
Oh and my colleague has rightly corrected my English - the title should of course read ‘bigger’.
‘Most Bigly’
Ms Rudd said she had seen universal credit “transform lives” in her Hastings and Rye constituency but she “recognised there had been some issues with it”.
Not that she was reading from an emergency briefing entitled “what the latest new minister has to say when asked about UC, a subject with which they were completely unacquainted until they were given the job” or anything. Tell tale keywords
“Ms Rudd said she had seen universal credit “transform lives” in her Hastings and Rye constituency but she “recognised there had been some issues with it”.”
There is no doubt that UC is “transforming lives”, but not for the better!
I suspect we have yet another blind, deaf and dumb clone in charge of the department. Even better, a clone with a track record of “misleading parliament” (ie lying).
Nothing’s going to change!
But on a positive note….........
Thank the Gods it isn’t Grayling!