Full article is here:

www.newstatesman.com/blogs/politics/2012...ther-squeeze-welfare

Meanwhile...
Full article is here:

www8.open.ac.uk/platform/blogs/society-m...ld-corporate-welfare

Makes you wonder if politicians really have a deathwish.

that is insane

This will produce thousands of homless young people

This was always on the cards, fits with the Tory family stiff upper lip arrogant cuntiness.

dantesrevival wrote:
Maybe they are hoping for younger rent boys and hookers on the streets outside Kings Cross station on the way home from Westminster.

mikey mikey wrote:
Heh, or maybe lining 'em up for mandatory military service.

yes that fits andy, cut the regular army and fill it with part timers and when it goes off big style conscritps

dantesrevival wrote:
and in the mean time fill up them privately run for profit prisons

the clincher of whose deal was 90% minimum capacity

Wallpaper tycoon George Osborne's speech at the Tory party conference about cutting a further 10£ million from the welfare budget was appalling this guy is a fucking scoundrel.

Privilege:
Privilege differs from conditions of overt prejudice, in which a dominant group actively seeks to oppress or suppress another group for its own advantage. Instead, theories of privilege suggest that the privileged group views its social, cultural, and economic experiences as a norm that everyone should experience, rather than as an advantaged position that must be maintained at the expense of others. This normative assumption implicitly constrains discussions of social inequality within the dominant discourse: such explanations are limited to factors specific to disadvantaged groups — who are viewed as having failed to achieve the norm — and solutions focus on what can be done to help those groups achieve the 'normal' standards experienced by the dominant group.

In essence, theories of privilege assert that discourses on social inequality do not truly discuss differences between privileged and marginalized groups, but only discuss the failure of marginalized groups to achieve normal social status, effectively turning inequality into an issue that does not involve the dominant group. In this sense it is similar to confirmation biases and the fundamental attribution error in social psychology.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19865692

that's a professional he's sitting next to

and that ain't sugar on the table

(bottom left)

Sounds like Tories are after traveling back to Victorian Britain.

I'm quite confident the exact same scenario would unravel had the lib dems or the labour party won the election.

humanspirit wrote:
Well Thatcher was all for Victorian Values.

Now we have like a flashback of that with Brideshead Revisited and Upstairs Downstairs being echoed in the God awful Northanger Abbey.

Oh waht fun it was being in service and how the lords and ladies were fine.

None of your Dickensian tales of abuse and suffereing of children and the vulnerable. Oh no.

None of you Catherine Cookson tales of raping the parlour maid by young Lord Johnny Gotwood.

Yeah, that's the Zeitgeist getting sold throught the Beeb with its fawning over the royals.

that's your "pleb" comments from your ministers

that's your Bullingdon Club boys in power.

andyh wrote:
I don't doubt it. Looking at New Labour's track record, it is as laughable an alternative to Tories as Democrats are to Republicans.

andyh wrote:
AGREED!!!!!!

andyh wrote:
There would have been differences, more of this budget deficit reduction we're having would have come from taxing the rich, I do agree though that's why many are working within the LP to combat and force a departure from Neo-Liberal economic policies.

Guevarista wrote:
I appreciate your faith in these folks but I don't share it.

The third way was a one way compromise that brought the so-called centre swinging so far over to the right that two political parties on both sides of the Atlantic are unrecognisable.

Besides, whichever party may have wanted to do whatever, but they would not have been allowed to because they no longer run the show.

This goes to explain why a whole plethora of differing parties and governments across Europe have made similar policies.

Foreign policy is the same.

Do you think if Labour had got in, we would have invaded Iraq.

No wait...

There would have been absolutely no difference whatsoever to any of these policies had the so-called 'Liberal Democrats' or 'Labour' party formed a majority government. Britain is completely broke and will never recover economically, unless the banking-military-industrial complex is torn down. The job of the government is merely to deflect attention away from the blindingly obvious reality that private banks are shafting us every day of our lives, and get us fighting among ourselves. It has always worked, it will probably continue to work, and until people realise this, nothing will change in the slightest. You will continue to see the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, whatever the colour of the ties of the bureaucrats are.

That just about sums it up WUB. I don't think we're going to come out of this recession. Alan Watts is a doom and gloom merchant, but he seems to be spot on about a lot of things.

The benefit reforms are shocking. It's supposedly all about making work pay, but that's clearly bollocks.

Everyone in the UK in 2012 should have the right to a roof over their heads and food. I'm deeply shocked that so many people don't share this view, and I don't mean the rich either.