Xann Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Quote Universal credit is so riddled with design flaws and process faults that it is practically guaranteed to generate mistakes and delays that would push vulnerable benefit claimants into hardship, according to whistleblowers. Universal credit staff: 'It was more about getting them off the phone' Service centre workers have told the Guardian that glitches and errors in the “cobbled-together” system have commonly led to claimants’ benefit payments being delayed for weeks or wrongly reduced by hundreds of pounds. One said: “The IT system on which universal credit is built is so fundamentally broken and poorly designed that it guarantees severe problems with claims.” He said the system was overcomplex and prone to errors that affected payments and often proved slow to correct. “In practical terms, it is not working the way it was intended and it is having an actively harmful effect on a huge number of claimants.” Grauniad Golly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 23, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 23, 2018 Ah, working perfectly then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 23, 2018 Moderator Share Posted July 23, 2018 Incompetence by design 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 24, 2018 Moderator Share Posted July 24, 2018 Cross thread alert: Whilst doing some reading around the current Labour Party antisemitism thing. I discovered that The Prime Minister lied to parliament again. Whilst berating Corbyn for the Labour Party not adopting the IHRA Working Definition on antisemitism she stated that the Conservative Party had adopted it fully. This is a downright lie. They've done no such thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 1 hour ago, bickster said: Cross thread alert: Whilst doing some reading around the current Labour Party antisemitism thing. I discovered that The Prime Minister lied to parliament again. Whilst berating Corbyn for the Labour Party not adopting the IHRA Working Definition on antisemitism she started that the Conservative Party had adopted it fully. This is a downright lie. They've done no such thing they have the following in their code of conduct under Religion which should be interpreted as fully adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism it may or may not have been there when the PM spoke in the commons though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 24, 2018 Author Moderator Share Posted July 24, 2018 2 hours ago, tonyh29 said: they have the following in their code of conduct under Religion it may or may not have been there when the PM spoke in the commons though It wasn't. She lied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 27 minutes ago, blandy said: It wasn't. She lied. the OP said " They've done no such thing " which is false ..as they have done "such thing " they just did it much later , hence my comment and smiley ... everyone loves a pedant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 24, 2018 Author Moderator Share Posted July 24, 2018 24 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: everyone loves a pedant As a point of order, I think you'll find, actually, that they don't. Statistically only a small percentage of the population loves a pedant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted July 24, 2018 Moderator Share Posted July 24, 2018 44 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: the OP said " They've done no such thing " which is false ..as they have done "such thing " they just did it much later , hence my comment and smiley ... everyone loves a pedant Such a thing Shower me with your affection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, bickster said: Such a thing Shower me with your affection meh , nobody likes a pedant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 24, 2018 Author Moderator Share Posted July 24, 2018 26 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: meh , nobody likes a pedant smart arse 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 4 hours ago, blandy said: It wasn't. She lied. So she lied at PMQs and then someone edited the code of conduct page on their website? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 24, 2018 Author Moderator Share Posted July 24, 2018 1 minute ago, snowychap said: So she lied at PMQs and then someone edited the code of conduct page on their website? Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Just now, blandy said: Yep. Never trust 'em. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 24, 2018 Last day before recess so as is traditional a bunch of dodgy reports get released. This year we have Military bases to be sold Courts to be sold Kids are the fattest they've ever been Nursery children will no longer get free milk (at least that might help the above) As well as the EU stuff. There really shouldn't be long left in this government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 May, May, milk snatcher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 24, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted July 24, 2018 Well actually I'll think you'll find it is actually Labour Labour the milk snatcher because a decade ago they intentionally brought about a global financial crisis that lead to this Tory government having to cut milk from toddlers because the country can't afford it and the Tories have been very chat about whose fault that is. Besides which given Brexit milk might be like rocking horse shit soon and worth more than gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 I bet Mogg still has his own wet nurse, safely stashed away in some Irish apartment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 The cowardly filth quietly approved more fracking before the Summer recess. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Private probation contracts ended early by government Quote The government is to terminate its contracts with private companies that run probation services - after MPs said the set-up had left the system for supervising criminals in a "mess". The contracts began in 2015 to manage low-risk offenders in England and Wales, under a partial privatisation by then-Justice Secretary Chris Grayling. They will end two years early, in 2020. Private firms will still be involved in probation but ministers are proposing further reforms to the system. A report from the Commons justice committee in July said the changes had failed to meet their aims and it was unconvinced they could ever deliver an effective probation service. The arrangements for managing offenders were overhauled in 2014, with the probation service split in two. A new state body, the National Probation Service (NPS), was set up to supervise high-risk offenders, with 21 privately run Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) supervising low and medium-risk offenders. David Gauke, who became justice secretary in January, said that while the £3.7bn Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) programme had been ambitious and innovative, several CRCs had made "very substantial losses". He said the amount of work available for the CRCs "has been lower than anticipated and that has had an impact in terms of their income and the services they are able to provide". The existing contracts will be replaced with new 10 ones under changes that will cost the government £170m. That includes £110m the CRCs owe the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in fines for failing to meet performance targets - but which they will be allowed to reinvest in services to keep them going for the last two years of their agreements. ...more on link If you want something **** up, who you gonna call? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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