Ramsay Bolton tipped to replace Iain Duncan Smith at the DWP

[blacksunday]

Following on from the release of figures showing how many people have died since being declared fit for work and the news that the UN is to investigate his welfare reforms, Iain Duncan Smith is set to resign in a matter of days and be replaced by Ramsay Bolton.

“Ramsay will be a worthy successor,” Duncan Smith said. “We have much in common as military men who share a similar outlook. Of course he’s got where he is today thanks to his incredibly wealthy landowning father whereas I’m completely different as I’d be nothing without my incredibly wealthy landowning father-in-law.”

Bolton, widely regarded as a psychopath who gets off on torture and bloodshed, said that he is looking forward to working in government and is fully qualified to run the DWP because “My mother taught me not to throw stones at cripples… but my father taught me: aim for their head!”

“It may seem like the DWP is going from bad to very much worse,” said Hattie Edwards, spokesperson for the disabled rights campaign group Compassion Not Cuts, “but we’re feeling optimistic. After all Ramsay Bolton is known to have only killed a few people. Iain Duncan Smith has killed thousands.”

eveningharold.com/2015/08/31/ramsay-bolton-tipped-to-replace-iain-duncan-smith-at-the-dwp/

jesus!

I'm a bit slow on irony and wittiness tonight, whats the story here?

Ramsay Bolton is a far softer option than IDS, David Cameron will never agree to it

ssd: It's a parody news article. The implication being that IDS is less of a psychopath than a fictional character from Game Of Thrones who is a violent sadistic who tortures people.

I think it's a good move.

With much less skin to heat the poor wont need to make the heat or eat decision so much will they?

All those southern softies will be in uproar though. They have no idea what a real winter is.

*IDS is less of a psychopath

More of a psychopath. Sorry.

I was hoping this article was real

You mean Ramsey Bolton, the kindest man in Westeros?

He'd do a better job and more efficiently.

Can I be your assistant, SlightlyJaded? I'm kind, work hard given the chance, and I could be your token Disabled Person. I've worked in that sort of environment before, and I know exactly what those politicians are like.

Jux as perfect as you sound, I'm not up for the job, maybe apply directly to Ramsey?

The part about the UK Government being under investigation by the UN for Human Rights violations is real.

UN investigating British Government over human rights abuses caused by IDS welfare reforms

The UN is to visit the UK to investigate whether Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare reforms have caused “grave or systematic violations” of disabled peoples’ human rights, it has been reported.

A leading disability charity says that they have been contacted by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of an investigation into human rights abuses against disabled people in the UK.

Inclusion Scotland, a consortium of disability organisations in Scotland, says the UN committee has advised them that they will be sending a Special Rapporteur to the UK in the “near future” as part of their probe.

Director of Policy Bill Scott told The Sunday Herald: “The UN have notified us they will be visiting Britain to investigate… and want to meet with us when they come, sometime in the next few months.”

The UN conducts such investigations “confidentially” and will not confirm or deny if they are currently investigating the UK.

The UN’s special investigator on housing has previously urged the government to scrap the bedroom tax, after hearing “shocking” accounts of how it was affecting disabled and vulnerable people.

Last week, the Department of Work and Pensions revealed that 2,380 people have died within six weeks of being declared ‘fit to work’ by the government between 2011 and 2014.

The Department for Work and Pensions battled for months against disability charities and campaigners in order to not to release the numbers, with Mr Duncan Smith at one point telling Parliament they did not exist.

However, the Information Commissioner ruled that the government had no justifiable reason to withhold the figures.

Disability rights campaigners and charities have argued that disabled people have seen their quality of life decline under welfare reform and government cuts to services.

Research by The Centre for Welfare Reform found that disabled people have already been hit up to 19 times harder by cuts than others.

When contacted by The Independent , The Department of Work and Pensions declined to comment.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/un-to-investigate-uk-over-human-rights-abuses-against-disabled-people-caused-by-welfare-reform-10478536.html

Blacksunday, that's good news.

SlightlyJaded, no I don't think I want to get that close to him!