Suppressed Tory council report: welfare reform link to homelessness and food bank use
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[QUOTE]A Tory council has withdrawn its own official report linking welfare cuts to a range of social problems from food poverty to violent crime.
Now you see it now you don't. No sooner had Kent Online reported the details of an official Kent county council report linking welfare reform to rises in homelessness, food bank use and violent crime, than the report was suppressed.
Council leader Paul Carter, whose name was apparently on the report even though he hadn't read it, told Kent Messenger Group political editor Paul Francis that he had he decided to take it down from the council website because he did not agree with its conclusions.
So what was it about the report's findings that Carter found so disagreeable?
Carter doesn't say. The report is clear, however, that welfare changes - bedroom tax, benefit cap, disability benefit reform, council tax benefit cuts - have helped detonate a small explosion of social misery in the county. We may hazard a guess that this insight is the cause of acute political embarrassment to one of the most senior Tory figures in local government.
Take the following findings:
[B]• Some crime types have increased "significantly" in poorer areas of the county.[/B]
[B]• Homelessness has increased in Kent. [/B]
[B]• The number of people using food banks in the county has "increased sharply". [/B]
[B]• There's been an increase in the demand for so-called "front desk" information and advice services[/B][/QUOTE]
Source: [url]http://www.theguardian.com/society/patrick-butler-cuts-blog/2013/dec/04/suppressed-tory-report-welfare-reform-link-to-foodbanks-homelessness[/url]
doesn't matter if you agree with it or not, the results from the report speak for themselves you tossers!
Bedroom tax is the fucking worst.
It's all fucking terrible. and I think they're underestimating the 'explosion' of social misery.
On a scale of nuclear detonations it's Tsar Bomb levels of misery.
[QUOTE=Source;43172163]doesn't matter if you agree with it or not, the results from the report speak for themselves you tossers![/QUOTE]
The Autarch speaks :P it's same as what they do with drug policy and evidence relating to it. "Oh those findings we don't agree with those, better not publish them or use them as a basis for policy"
Didn't they literally just do this with some other thing, apart from it was a nationwide study and Theresa May was the one who rejected it?
Maybe I'd put a little bit more faith in what the Tories did if they didn't seem to just be actively fucking up anybody less rich than Richie Rich's rich Uncle Richard.
Food prices here have been outrageously increasing in price.
Another example of politics suppressing facts, hopefully it'll blow up and end up everywhere now that it was taken down.
And lets not forget them giving the papers free run on calling claimants "Scoungers" and "Work-shy". Most sickening is the stuff about disabled people on benefits which is actually leading to an increase in disability hate crime.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;43172234]Didn't they literally just do this with some other thing, apart from it was a nationwide study and Theresa May was the one who rejected it?
Maybe I'd put a little bit more faith in what the Tories did if they didn't seem to just be actively fucking up anybody less rich than Richie Rich's rich Uncle Richard.[/QUOTE]
But those people are "job creators"... let them do what they want! DEREGULATE DEREGULATE DEREGULATE.
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[QUOTE=Genericenemy;43172323]And lets not forget them giving the papers free run on calling claimants "Scoungers" and "Work-shy". Most sickening is the stuff about disabled people on benefits which is actually leading to an increase in disability hate crime.[/QUOTE]
And that's before you even utter ATOS (who don't fucking give one).
There has been a definite increase in the type of TV programmes that fit into that category too like "Saints and Scroungers" and shows that cover benefit fraud/alleged benefit fraud and demonise jobseekers. Bet someone in the Tories somewhere is funding them all. The sad thing is a lot of people watch and read all this fucking shit and actually form opinions purely based on it and end up voting Tory or going even further to the right.
How are people not rioting in the streets over this? Deliberately suppressing information and hurting innocent people. The establishment is corrupt as fuck.
[QUOTE=SgtCr4zyGunz;43172409]How are people not rioting in the streets over this? Deliberately suppressing information and hurting innocent people. The establishment is corrupt as fuck.[/QUOTE]
With media outlets like the Daily Mail, prepare to be branded a al-queda loving anarchist.
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And that's before you even utter ATOS (who don't fucking give one).
There has been a definite increase in the type of TV programmes that fit into that category too like "Saints and Scroungers" and shows that cover benefit fraud/alleged benefit fraud and demonise jobseekers. Bet someone in the Tories somewhere is funding them all. The sad thing is a lot of people watch and read all this fucking shit and actually form opinions purely based on it and end up voting Tory or going even further to the right.[/QUOTE]
All fuelled by the papers of course, if there is anything I can personally witness screwing over society on a daily basis its the Tabloid press. Sensationalist biased bollocks, the new press regulation cannot come soon enough.
Indeed. It is disturbing how many seemingly rely solely on these papers when forming their own opinions.
The manufacture of consent has never been so easy.
I've always seen it as a case of people already holding those views and the newspapers "finding" examples of benefits "scroungers" to rile up people with more.
The newspapers are just an echo chamber intending to make money instead of having any real influence on people so that their demographic can feel justified in holding their opinions on benefits seekers.
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