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kaz7 said:
You have a difficult job and i am sure you are doing a good job :) i have just had my latest decison on pips and i am ok till the next assessment in about two years time , awarded for three but they always send me the forms the year before . It is very worrying every time, just waiting , had to wait a year for this decision , there is much to fix in the system

My last face to face was with an ex paramedic with a month of training , i always ask who they are before i go through three hours of defending my corner , what she wrote down and her assesment of me determines everything , it is a gut wrenching experience

I will wait and see but not very comfortably
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Yes, it must be very uncomfortable having to disclose private matters to a total stranger.

Yet I sometimes think such questions can be very relevant to actually establishing how difficult it is for someone's ability to work.
It's not nice, but I think it helps the person asking the questions to fully relate what the true picture is.

I'm sure you will be fine, and I honestly don't think you have anything to worry about. X
 
Meanwhile Jess Phillips the minister for Domestic Violence was filmed last night singing karaoke at the Labour party conference. Her choice of song " Baby hit me one more time"

The lack of self awareness of this lot and their followers on here is off the scale.
 
maxwellblue said:
Meanwhile Jess Phillips the minister for Domestic Violence was filmed last night singing karaoke at the Labour party conference. Her choice of song " Baby hit me one more time"

The lack of self awareness of this lot and their followers on here is off the scale.
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I’m no fan of Labour or Starmer but the narrative is getting ridiculous!
 
maxwellblue said:
Meanwhile Jess Phillips the minister for Domestic Violence was filmed last night singing karaoke at the Labour party conference. Her choice of song " Baby hit me one more time"

The lack of self awareness of this lot and their followers on here is off the scale.
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I don't think we need to read much into that tbh. In fact, as a survivor of domestic violence I'd dance to it too.
It's got a catchy beat that gets you on your feet ;-)
 
kaz7 said:
The fallout from covid is huge , they could put more money into long covid centres , people want to get well and your local gp does not know how to help you

I dont accept there are millions on sickness benefits who are making it up and the assessments are long and thorough and not easy to get , just to be given a handout that barely cover food and heating and carers

Not having a go at you but the mail and other papers have got it into peoples heads that everyone is a scrounger , unless you have ever been involved in the system and know how difficult it is then i politely reject the figures they pump out

Last time i looked at gov figures fraud is 0.7% including mistakes by the dwp itself . I also dont accept we are all getting healthier 1 in 2 will get cancer in their lives and we are an aging population that have all sorts wrong

Just caught the news saying streeting is sending crack teams to trusts that have the highest number of people on sickness benefits locally , he should be sending them to trusts with the longest waiting lists and getting more drs, nurses and gp's and sorting out the care system, until he does that everything will stay log jammed and it will just be all talk
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Who said millions? Not me Kaz.

ifs.org.uk

4.2 million working-age people now claiming health-related benefits, could rise by 30% by the end of the decade | Institute for Fiscal Studies

Our new report sheds more light on forecasts for a substantial increase in the number of people claiming health-related benefits in coming years.
ifs.org.uk ifs.org.uk

This is an interesting article.

The point is less people are working to pay for this huge cost increase in health benefit payouts, so it's right that those that are able to work should. A good call from Starmer. Whether they can do anything about it is another thing.
 
maxwellblue said:
Meanwhile Jess Phillips the minister for Domestic Violence was filmed last night singing karaoke at the Labour party conference. Her choice of song " Baby hit me one more time"

The lack of self awareness of this lot and their followers on here is off the scale.
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Could have been worse I suppose if she'd decided a particular Prodigy track.
 
maxwellblue said:
Meanwhile Jess Phillips the minister for Domestic Violence was filmed last night singing karaoke at the Labour party conference. Her choice of song " Baby hit me one more time"

The lack of self awareness of this lot and their followers on here is off the scale.
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The song isn’t about violence. Hit me up is Yankspeak for phoning someone.

Still, it makes a good headline, doesn’t it?
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Well, I do live next to one as my wife is a vicar, meaning I do know some of the rules and regs surrounding churches and graveyards.
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Is that not weird or do you get over any qualms? There are a couple of lovely stone Victorian houses in graveyards near me in Guisborough and Gt Ayton - I am not superstitious or anything but I am pretty sure it would take me a wile to get comfortable
 
mosssideblue said:
Indeed we did. No one is going to force anyone to sell their homes, just Tories scaremongering
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I'll be happily take equity release from my home once I need it, however we're all different and I know some people are uncomfortable doing it, it doesn't bother me one bit, if I don't spend my hard earned someone else will.

An old saying "fly first class, because if you don't your kids will".
 
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bluethrunthru said:
Is that not weird or do you get over any qualms? There are a couple of lovely stone Victorian houses in graveyards near me in Guisborough and Gt Ayton - I am not superstitious or anything but I am pretty sure it would take me a wile to get comfortable
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I’m not religious nor believe in any afterlife, so to me they’re just rotting skeletons from centuries ago.

I quite like looking at them as historical things.
 
Eccles Blue said:
These revelations remind me more and more of the joke about the Barber who is doing Community Service.
The first day a florist has his hair cut and the barber refuses payment as he is doing community service. The next day the barber finds a bunch of flowers and a thank you card.
The next day a policeman had his hair cut, barber refuses payment again, next day a box of doughnuts on his doorstep.
The next day a Member of Parliament had his hair cut, barber explains again and refuses payment.
The following day there is a queue of a dozen Members of Parliament waiting for a free haircut.
That folks is the fundamental difference between the ordinary citizens of our country and the people who run our country unfortunately.

I had such high hopes, you'd think at my age I'd realise it doesn't change. :-(
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Too good for just a like.

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Kompany Car said:
Would they ? A single person somehow having some form of spontaneous cell division and making a clone of themselves ? According to recent surveys 40% of young adults don’t want kids and are happy with their double income no kids lifestyle.

There are plenty of one bedroom flats which if you are young and fit you can easily access.

You see how daft the point you’re trying to make is ? Saying who should and shouldn’t have a house of a given size is just plain dumb.

We aren’t building enough houses in the right areas or attracting business to set up in areas where there is a surfeit of cheap property is fundamentally the problem. Forcing developers and businesses who are sat on swathes of building land to build housing or relinquish it would be a good start. The ten biggest house builders currently have 700,000 plots of land sat idle.
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Every time I see a new development it's nearly always two, three, four bedrooms and they're always expensive. There's a development near a Morrison's I use and the three bedroom houses are £300k plus, it's not even a great area and the plot is soulless, at the end of the Development is Dukinfield Crematorium.
 
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