The perfect fumble
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Meanwhile, in the real world, the real idealogues have brought us to this....
Emergency workers being hired to handle post-Brexit disruption...
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-being-hired-to-handle-post-brexit-disruption
The home secretary, Sajid Javid, last month refused to rule out the possibility that a no-deal Brexit could cause a rise in crime and widespread protests escalating into weeks of civil disorder.
Contingency plans for a no-deal departure drawn up by the National Police Coordination Centre warned that shortages of medicine could “feed civil disorder”, while price rises could prompt “widespread protest which could then escalate into disorder”.
The document said there could be an increase in crime, notably theft and robbery, amid shortages of food and drugs, as well as the “expectation that more people will become ill”.
And if we don't have riots and looting over Brexit there's a good chance we'll have them over this...
Halt universal credit or face summer of discontent, Gordon Brown tells PM....
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/10/gordon-brown-halt-universal-credit-rollout
Esther McVey, the work and pensions secretary, reportedly told the cabinet last week that half of all lone parents and two-thirds of couples with children stand to lose £2,400 a year – £200 each month – once they are transferred to universal credit.
Brown will say: “As one of the architects of tax credits I remind people that it was difficult enough to introduce them even when we were spending billions more and raising benefits. But to impose universal credit – and to force 3 million to reapply for their benefits next year – when, on top of a child benefits freeze, the government is spending £3bn less, is chaotic, cruel and vindictive, far beyond austerity.
“For the first time that any of us can remember, the safety net is not now the welfare state but charity – and the lifeline for families in need is not social security but food banks. Voluntary groups are now being swamped with desperate and almost unanswerable requests for help.”
The Tories, one nation, moderate, patriotic.
Emergency workers being hired to handle post-Brexit disruption...
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-being-hired-to-handle-post-brexit-disruption
The home secretary, Sajid Javid, last month refused to rule out the possibility that a no-deal Brexit could cause a rise in crime and widespread protests escalating into weeks of civil disorder.
Contingency plans for a no-deal departure drawn up by the National Police Coordination Centre warned that shortages of medicine could “feed civil disorder”, while price rises could prompt “widespread protest which could then escalate into disorder”.
The document said there could be an increase in crime, notably theft and robbery, amid shortages of food and drugs, as well as the “expectation that more people will become ill”.
And if we don't have riots and looting over Brexit there's a good chance we'll have them over this...
Halt universal credit or face summer of discontent, Gordon Brown tells PM....
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/10/gordon-brown-halt-universal-credit-rollout
Esther McVey, the work and pensions secretary, reportedly told the cabinet last week that half of all lone parents and two-thirds of couples with children stand to lose £2,400 a year – £200 each month – once they are transferred to universal credit.
Brown will say: “As one of the architects of tax credits I remind people that it was difficult enough to introduce them even when we were spending billions more and raising benefits. But to impose universal credit – and to force 3 million to reapply for their benefits next year – when, on top of a child benefits freeze, the government is spending £3bn less, is chaotic, cruel and vindictive, far beyond austerity.
“For the first time that any of us can remember, the safety net is not now the welfare state but charity – and the lifeline for families in need is not social security but food banks. Voluntary groups are now being swamped with desperate and almost unanswerable requests for help.”
The Tories, one nation, moderate, patriotic.
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