Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

They seem like very nice people.

He means the people at the Royal Mail of course.

cynic.

read the last dozen or so posts (if you haven't already)

they are you to a tee :-)


http://uk.advfn.com/cmn/fbb/thread.php3?id=948390

98.8% Say Iain Duncan Smith Should Resign
BY STEVEN PREECE · 11 DECEMBER, 2013


Iain Duncan Smith MP at a Colchester Work Programme provider. Photo Credit: Regional Cabinet via photopin cc

A Poll carried out by the Welfare News Service shows that 98.8% of people believe the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, should resign.

We asked 3,101 of our readers whether Iain Duncan Smith should be forced to resign. 3,063 agreed, but many added that resigning would be too much of an ‘easy way out’ and that he ‘should be sacked’.

Only 32 respondents said that they felt he should be allowed to keep his job and a further 6 said they were unsure, or didn’t know.

The result of our poll comes after Iain Duncan Smith was questioned by a MP’s Select Committee on Monday over his use of what many would regard as misleading, or in some cases wildly inaccurate benefit statistics to justify controversial reforms to welfare benefits, as well as delays in the national roll-out of the coalition government’s flagship Universal Credit.

Iain Duncan Smith was also questioned over the costs of introducing and implementing Universal Credit and the £140 million which is said to have been wasted so far, part of which includes at least £40 million which has been written off due to issues with software.

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Rachel Reeves, has said that Iain Duncan Smith is in denial over Universal Credit delays and believes the roll-out of the new benefit – which replaces a number of existing benefits and tax credits by merging them into one single monthly payment – is running at least two years behind schedule.

General Secretary of the PCS union, Mark Serwotka told Union News prior to Mr Duncan Smith being questioned on Monday:

“The fact Iain Duncan Smith has clung on for so long is one of the great political mysteries of our time and the question must be asked, how is he still in a job?

“He has presided over not only a disgusting campaign of vilification towards the most vulnerable people in our society but also an absolutely scandalous waste of public money that could have been better spent supporting the sick, disabled and unemployed.”

Dunky Smiff must have the goods on Call Me Dave, cos he's long past his sell by date.

Hmmmmmm yep good point especialy with so many back benches wanting him removed.

That must be a very silky poll. Most people have never heard of IDS. He seems to be doing a good job.

Many more wish they had never heard of him.

They have only transferred a few people onto universal credit as a pilot.

Hays LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL ......"He seems to be doing a good job".


That poll is from a background of mostly disabled people who are historicaly tory voters.

If you go on the site you will see that they are dismayed at the £140 million (and growing) pounds IDS as thrown away on Universal Benefit.

Nothing to do with politics.

he he ha ha LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL Hays again

"They have only transferred a few people onto universal credit as a pilot",,,,ends

It was meant to be hundreds of thousands and now 3 years behind target date.

I think it will be scraped anyway.

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UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 33%, LAB 39%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 13%

Labour majority of 70 plus.

It seems to pretty much on target. It will be a better system as well.

Theirs always one comedian in the room.

Former soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder tells of humiliating Atos medical assessment

http://www.camdennewjournal.com/news/2013/dec/former-soldier-suffering-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-tells-humiliating-atos-medical#.UqmhEiVF_zE.twitter

More nonsense. You expect some claims to be refused and then overturned on appeal. The alternative is giving disability benefit to anyone who asks.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

I know someone who went through the atos thingy.

He filled in the forms truthfully, then sat back and waited to be rejected, but a decision came back a few weeks later saying no action.

Mind, he is genuinely disabled.


Lots of lead swingers on the disability wagon.

hays just admit you dont have a clue how the system works.

Its the Decision Maker at the DSS who makes the decision on wether a claim is successfull or not.

It is quite clear that there needs to be a tougher line taken on all sorts of benefits. The history of disability benefits is that a helpful doctor would say that you needed the benefit and then you would get it forever. It is time to be more realistic. Like it or not, the new policy is popular withe public.