Westministenders: The One Where We Finally Get A Leadership Challenge?

[RedToothBrush]

Tick tick tick.

What do we think?

Yes? No?

Another week of wtf-ing at British politics.

[prettybird]

UnMNy {{{{Hugs}}} PCPlums - and some virtual

UC is a bastarding system. It's been pointed out to the Government that because UC is paid to the "head of the household" which still, traditionally is the man, it facilitates financially abusive men in controlling their partners (since in the majority of cases, financial abuse is male on female - I know that there are some cases the other way around) and their response was a pathetic "Ummmm, aaaah, if you're being financially abused, you can ask the payment to be made to you" Clueless Bastards

Hopefully, CAB or WA will be able to help/advise.

Taking it back to the theme of this thread: and some of those that voted Leave think, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that the Government has their best interests at heart? Clueless Misguided bastards

[Hazardswan]

PCPlum-well done for completing rehab number 1!

Website www.turn2us.org.uk check your claiming everything or if your entitled to any grants. So many grants esp for ex nurses so worth a look.

I'm so sorry your going through a hard time.

Lots and lots of love ❤

[PCPlumsTruncheon]

Thanks Hazard I am actually proud of myself because rehab is hard although DH refers to it as ‘lounging around’
I will be 5 months sober next Saturday which really is a miracle.

[prettybird]

Good for you. Be very proud of your achievement (and ignore not so d h )

[Minimammoth]

Thinking of you Plums, you should rightly be proud. Hope that things work out. Day by day step by step. Hugs 🌹

[SingingBabooshkaBadly]

Still horribly behind on these threads but wanted to jump on to send to you PCPlums. You’ve climbed a mountain, be proud of yourself. Please do ask your parents for help. If I’d been in trouble my late DM and DF would have been devastated if I hadn’t gone to them. I know not all parents are the same, but if you have a good relationship they will want to help (maybe even if you don’t). But, as you say, some people don’t have that sort of support. This is a brutal world for them.

And do all the ranting you need to. More

[WhatWouldScoobyDoo]

PCPlums just seen your post now since I had moved on to the next thread early.

Lots of for your awful situation.

[PCPlumsTruncheon]

Thanks everyone. You’re not just a clever bunch, you’re kind as well. I hadn’t noticed the new thread when I posted, will pop over to catch up.
This has just made me so angry and has made me think about how people in a less fortunate position would cope.
I have posted a few times about a young woman I looked after who took her own life after having her benefits stopped and spent Christmas in a flat with no gas, electricity or food. And there are loads of people like her.
I used to regard people like JRM and Bojo as mildly amusing. Now I regard them as evil, particularly JRM who claims to be a Christian as does TM.
I wish there was somewhere to direct that anger.
My phone keeps correcting Bojo to Bono
I honestly feel like rioting right now but you can’t have a riot on your own.

[BigChocFrenzy]

Dreadful hardship when people have no close family to help them
Callous evil bastards who created this situation AND those who knowingly voted for it, not despite it

Do let your family help, PCplum
So you can complete all your counselling, get back on your feet and make a new life away from that horrid OH
💐

[Spudlet]

My neighbours get benefits. The husband is a very unwell man with all sorts of awful conditions that all interact and leave him really quite limited - his wife is his carer. He was given a lifetime grant of DLA, and she was able to claim carer's allowance.

They were then told they had to reapply - and their forms were lost in the post. The first they heard about this was when they were informed that all of their benefits would be removed. They had to go through the whole application process again, including an interview, which sounds absolutely awful - the interviewer was appallingly rude to them. This all started in August - they are only just now sorted out. They've had virtually nothing to live on for all that time. The stress has been awful for them - and has actually made him even sicker.

This guy - he's not going to get any better. These are not curable illnesses that he has. He is going to get worse, if anything - the status quo is the best he can hope for. And it makes me so angry that the JRMs and the rest of them would dismiss them as 'scroungers' because they claim benefits, when both of them would and have worked hard - the wife lost the ends of her fingers at work, FFS! Yet the whole system is weighted against them. And it's shit, it really is.

Sorry, I know that isn't Brexity as such but I saw we were ranting generally, and it makes me so angry that people, real people, get caught up in all these little games that amuse Rees-Mogg and all his friends. I worry about the poor communities that will be losing EU funding - the Welsh seaside town that I visited last year, that had a little plaque on the sea defences to say the EU had paid for them. Who will pay up when they need renewing? It won't be the party of Mogg and Austerity, will it?

Bastards. Bastards!

[mathanxiety]

(((()))) to you, PCplums

[DoctorTwo]

Spudlet, these excuses for human beings despise anybody who isn't like them. This rule that you're employed if you work one hour in a fortnight is partial evidence. IBS saying he could survive on £53 a week when we know his breakfast costs £39. Per day. JRM saying that we could, as a country, be back to where we are now in 50 years!, but it's ok, he and his hedge fund mates are shifting their assets into the EU so they can have seamless trading.

I would love to see those rapacious arseholes in court for their clear lies in the run up to the referendum.