Thursday 31 December 2015
Tuesday 29 December 2015
Tuesday 15 December 2015
Sunday 6 December 2015
Saturday 5 December 2015
Saturday 28 November 2015
Thursday 26 November 2015
Monday 23 November 2015
Wednesday 4 November 2015
Monday 2 November 2015
Thursday 29 October 2015
Tuesday 27 October 2015
Monday 26 October 2015
Thursday 22 October 2015
Sunday 18 October 2015
Tuesday 13 October 2015
Wednesday 7 October 2015
Tuesday 6 October 2015
Monday 5 October 2015
Artist Taxi Driver People's 'Revolution' Speech to the masses
Artist Taxi Driver
People's Revolution Speech to full to
capacity inside and repeated to even bigger masses of thousands outside arena
at Manchester Cathedral Monday October 5th 2015. Thousands attended the rally and speakers included
Jeremy Corbyn, Natalie Bennett and Owen Jones amongst union leaders to raise
awareness of workers' rights of postal workers being hit by job cuts, worsening
worker conditions, pay and job security, whilst privatising to create profit
for big corporate business from a monopoly public service. It was also part of
a series of peaceful but powerful Anti-austerity protests taking place
throughout the time of the Conservative party conference taking place behind a
wall of steel set up in Manchester around the conference centre and hotel where
MPs and party members were staying, to keep the public away from the
Conservative government and conference, whilst the counter rally was very
public.
People's Revolution Speech to full to
capacity inside and repeated to even bigger masses of thousands outside arena
at Manchester Cathedral Monday October 5th 2015. Thousands attended the rally and speakers included
Jeremy Corbyn, Natalie Bennett and Owen Jones amongst union leaders to raise
awareness of workers' rights of postal workers being hit by job cuts, worsening
worker conditions, pay and job security, whilst privatising to create profit
for big corporate business from a monopoly public service. It was also part of
a series of peaceful but powerful Anti-austerity protests taking place
throughout the time of the Conservative party conference taking place behind a
wall of steel set up in Manchester around the conference centre and hotel where
MPs and party members were staying, to keep the public away from the
Conservative government and conference, whilst the counter rally was very
public.
Saturday 3 October 2015
Tuesday 29 September 2015
Sunday 6 September 2015
Tuesday 1 September 2015
Monday 31 August 2015
Friday 28 August 2015
Wednesday 26 August 2015
Saturday 22 August 2015
Tuesday 18 August 2015
Thursday 13 August 2015
Thursday 6 August 2015
Tuesday 4 August 2015
Monday 3 August 2015
Sunday 2 August 2015
Saturday 1 August 2015
Thursday 30 July 2015
Wednesday 29 July 2015
Sunday 26 July 2015
Thursday 23 July 2015
Friday 17 July 2015
Tuesday 14 July 2015
Saturday 11 July 2015
Monday 6 July 2015
Saturday 4 July 2015
Thursday 2 July 2015
Wednesday 1 July 2015
Tuesday 30 June 2015
Monday 29 June 2015
Thursday 25 June 2015
Wednesday 24 June 2015
Tuesday 23 June 2015
Sunday 21 June 2015
A passionate speech by @CharlotteChurch for the #EndAusterityNow demo
Also transcript in her blog:
https://twitter.com/charlottechurch/status/612338554547634176
https://charlottesayshmmm.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/anti-austerity-rally-speech/
https://twitter.com/imajsaclaimant/status/612296717862633473
https://twitter.com/charlottechurch/status/612338554547634176
https://charlottesayshmmm.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/anti-austerity-rally-speech/
https://twitter.com/imajsaclaimant/status/612296717862633473
Saturday 20 June 2015
Friday 19 June 2015
Tuesday 16 June 2015
Wednesday 10 June 2015
Sunday 7 June 2015
Friday 5 June 2015
Thursday 4 June 2015
The Work Programme: Cost per person. Also NHS fireside sale!
This video is excellent in covering what's happing to employment in UK and the destruction of the health service sold off to private vulture capitalists.
"NHS taken to bits under cloak of Austerity" video
This video also highlights UK Unemployment, Underemployment, DWP Job Centres, The Work Programme. A person sent to work low pay, no pay zero hr contract pseudo self-employed, whatever the UK fake economy, divided society:
".. sent to work knocking on doors asking someone if they want a brush or some polish... workfare.. housing crushed..jobs crushed.. low paid workers and cant afford to pay the rent.. £27 billion going to private landlords.. going to work and not able to feed your children.. this is what austerity is all about.."
The video also highlights how NHS is being sold off to corporations: ".. with endoscopy in the street, paid money to provide slop, a trailer in the street, send the money to the Cayman islands whilst services cut.. the Shock doctrine the philosophy of Austerity.."
Artist Taxi Driver (at 3:40) mentions the incredible amount of money Work Programme Providers are paid, again private corporations paid for from public finance that should be used to help those in need, regarding the job centre and work programme providers, such as Staffline subsidiary that is formerly the provider A4e, G4S, Serco, etc. The figure £3000 and similar figures have been mentioned on social media and in articles on the Work Programme. There are different cost components that are paid to Work Programme providers (start, job outcome and sustainment), with a total that includes all of these.
There are different rates paid for different categories. Its incredibly even worse than the figure given of £3000, as typically the payment for 1 year is from £3,700 (min), £3.800 for 18-24yr old job-seekers, £4,400 (over 25), to £6,500 (if been on ESA in past) up to £13,700 (if recently been on ESA) so can mean any disabled person forced into low paid work. Also the figure is for 1 year, but all providers have clients assigned, referred from DWP Job centres to them for 2 years, so they are also paid in the second year (presumably possibly, but not confirmed, a similar amount of sustainment rate as in first year). Rates, via UKGov link published by DWP (2012) paid to providers (page 7):
The Work Programme (DWP, 2012)
It doesn't have to be low paid work, but if that's all they can get or even worse if they are matched to poor quality low paid work, in effect forced into slave labour on threat of sanction, its much more likely to be both poor quality and low paid and not necessarily secure. In fact any job that means stopping signing on is considered as a job, this includes part-time low paid, temporary, zero hour contracts. Even worse, as there is not even a guaranteed minimum, or a very low guaranteed minimum number of hours, that are very insecure. Usually there is also no permanency and if the work is both awful and low paid, someone may well not want to stay. Also to stay may mean the work could both damage their health, especially if they aren't that well or disabled forced to do inappropriate work. But also inadequate and insufficient income that doe snot provide in return for labour or forced labour, a required means to sustain a living in UK, with the very high cost of living there is in UK.
"NHS taken to bits under cloak of Austerity" video
This video also highlights UK Unemployment, Underemployment, DWP Job Centres, The Work Programme. A person sent to work low pay, no pay zero hr contract pseudo self-employed, whatever the UK fake economy, divided society:
".. sent to work knocking on doors asking someone if they want a brush or some polish... workfare.. housing crushed..jobs crushed.. low paid workers and cant afford to pay the rent.. £27 billion going to private landlords.. going to work and not able to feed your children.. this is what austerity is all about.."
The video also highlights how NHS is being sold off to corporations: ".. with endoscopy in the street, paid money to provide slop, a trailer in the street, send the money to the Cayman islands whilst services cut.. the Shock doctrine the philosophy of Austerity.."
Artist Taxi Driver (at 3:40) mentions the incredible amount of money Work Programme Providers are paid, again private corporations paid for from public finance that should be used to help those in need, regarding the job centre and work programme providers, such as Staffline subsidiary that is formerly the provider A4e, G4S, Serco, etc. The figure £3000 and similar figures have been mentioned on social media and in articles on the Work Programme. There are different cost components that are paid to Work Programme providers (start, job outcome and sustainment), with a total that includes all of these.
There are different rates paid for different categories. Its incredibly even worse than the figure given of £3000, as typically the payment for 1 year is from £3,700 (min), £3.800 for 18-24yr old job-seekers, £4,400 (over 25), to £6,500 (if been on ESA in past) up to £13,700 (if recently been on ESA) so can mean any disabled person forced into low paid work. Also the figure is for 1 year, but all providers have clients assigned, referred from DWP Job centres to them for 2 years, so they are also paid in the second year (presumably possibly, but not confirmed, a similar amount of sustainment rate as in first year). Rates, via UKGov link published by DWP (2012) paid to providers (page 7):
The Work Programme (DWP, 2012)
It doesn't have to be low paid work, but if that's all they can get or even worse if they are matched to poor quality low paid work, in effect forced into slave labour on threat of sanction, its much more likely to be both poor quality and low paid and not necessarily secure. In fact any job that means stopping signing on is considered as a job, this includes part-time low paid, temporary, zero hour contracts. Even worse, as there is not even a guaranteed minimum, or a very low guaranteed minimum number of hours, that are very insecure. Usually there is also no permanency and if the work is both awful and low paid, someone may well not want to stay. Also to stay may mean the work could both damage their health, especially if they aren't that well or disabled forced to do inappropriate work. But also inadequate and insufficient income that doe snot provide in return for labour or forced labour, a required means to sustain a living in UK, with the very high cost of living there is in UK.
The Work
Programme provider is also paid no matter how anyone gets a job, including when job-seekers find jobs with no help whatever from the provider. If anyone for
instance is unemployed over 6 or 12 months depending on when referred to Work
Programme from job centre. If for instance a person who continues to try to get
work, has no choice but to go on Work program, but if they get a job without
the help I f one can classify it as help, if based on their own job search,
with no help whatever. So, if they hadn't been on the work programme they still
would've got the job, but work programme provider wouldn't not have been paid,
but because they are forced to be on work programme still getting a job through
their own efforts. But work programme provider gets paid vast someone money for
something they in effect have not helped to achieve.
Furthermore, even if
the Work Programme get them via coercion low paid insecure employment and the
person continues to apply for proper jobs with better conditions and pay more
appropriate to their skills, the work programme provider still gets paid as the
stay assigned to work programme for 2 years. Again this means vast sums of
money paid to the work programme provider, even when they do not help someone
get the job they manage to get. As figures of those gaining employment on work
programme are still very low, its possible most of those that gain proper long
lasting employment in jobs with better prospects would've still got those jobs
without work programme involvement but work program receive large payments for
something they really haven't done. Also those who find it even more difficult
finding work still do unless the count a success doing temp low pay, no pay,
zero hrs. Also no matter what no jobs whatever have been created in society
that pay living wage income or even minimum-waged income as a result and there
is still a shortage of numbers of real jobs that pay enough for even a basic
standard of living and enough not to have to apply for benefits on.
This means
vast sums of money paid to the work programme provider, even when they do not
help someone get the job they manage to get. As figures of those gaining
employment on work programme are still very low, its possible most of those
that gain proper long-lasting employment in jobs with better prospects would've
still got those jobs without work programme involvement but work program
receive large payments for something they really haven't done. Also those who
find it even more difficult finding work still do unless the count a success
doing temp low pay, no pay, zero hours.
So no matter what,
no jobs whatsoever have been created in society that pay living wage incomes or
even minimum-waged incomes as a result and there is still a shortage of numbers
of real jobs that pay enough for even a basic standard of living. Its in effect subsidising low-paying
employers by low paid also having to claim benefits whilst paying large sums to work programme providers that dont create any jobs. Also UK
has one of the lowest levels of benefits in the developed world, that is below
the poverty line for the developed world. And to compare with the Third World
is a false dichotomy as Third World poverty is appalling and for generations
has always been a problem that if the world had wealth better divided could be
resolved, but division and inequality is beneficial for those who have over
those who have not. UK is heading backwards towards the Victorian era of haves
and have-nots, where the working class were often not working, but suffering as
paupers, starving and if they had a job were often paid penury and worked so
hard it damaged their health for barely subsistence payments, whilst the rich
lorded it over them.
Wednesday 3 June 2015
Monday 1 June 2015
Saturday 30 May 2015
Thursday 28 May 2015
Wednesday 27 May 2015
Sunday 24 May 2015
Saturday 23 May 2015
Thursday 21 May 2015
Monday 18 May 2015
Saturday 16 May 2015
Wednesday 13 May 2015
Sunday 10 May 2015
Saturday 2 May 2015
Sunday 26 April 2015
Thursday 23 April 2015
Wednesday 22 April 2015
Monday 20 April 2015
Saturday 18 April 2015
Tuesday 14 April 2015
Monday 13 April 2015
Sunday 12 April 2015
Thursday 9 April 2015
Friday 3 April 2015
Thursday 2 April 2015
Tuesday 24 February 2015
Put Rifkind on minimum wage, workfare or a zero hours contr
One of best videos on UK class privilege vs slaves, so good it competes
with #IDS claims underpants:
Saturday 21 February 2015
Tuesday 10 February 2015
Friday 6 February 2015
Thursday 5 February 2015
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