Oh Come All Ye Faithful, Frothy and Triumphant! Oh Come Lefties, Come Ye to anti ConDem-nay-tion!

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This is our 4th thread now!

Well of course, although my family are rural which complicates things.

And I will race you to the PM job although I'd accept the DWP role gladly.

Ah x posts with TeWi LMAO

Mum's a Somerset lady. Nuff said!

Re: being apolitical: while I do believe this is an ideologically based attack on the welfare state by those who govern by the rich, for the rich, I also agree the Labour party wouldn't be much different because they are spineless and won't stand up to the City etc. We need to look at the policies and the practice - Greens look great until they get power - and start cutting.
I have actually wept reading this thread; the needless stress and misery will never be faced by the people making the decisions.

Tell mea about it MrsM; as I am permanently at risk of losing my licence (eyesight not points!) I am well aware that should that happen (and it will eventually) i will be unable toa ccess either of the boy's SN Schools for meetings, plays etc. If they have an appointment they will have to miss the entire day. It will take almost 2 hours to cobble buses together for the schools- by which time it is bound to clash with another drop off (DS3 attends half days), pick up or make collecting the other impossible.

I've started a thread on NM, just a gentle one to start off a discussion, not all frothy...

I don't see any reason why that couldn't happen MM :) we're all in it together right ;)

Oh wow, I utterly despise dc and plebby, marking my place !!!!!!!!!

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Lord Freud just announced to peers £30m for councils to support tenants in adapted accommodation & foster carers. Press release to follow.

oookay?

Where's that come from then?

Shall we place bets now on:

it'll be up to council's how to deploy,
it won't be ringfenced
it'll only be available to hrc...

Just feels like they are trying to cover up the cuts to real families budgets with something that may help some but probably won't help all... or am I being a cynic?

Not being a cynic

Plenty like us don't need adapted accom. It's like gold dust in fact.

It seems to me that what most families with a family member with disabilities need is more space - whether they've got mobility issues or not there always seems to be a lot of extra 'kit' required. So taking into account SS recommendations for how many bedrooms are required would make the most sense as a small action.

Not cutting their UC would also be pretty damn grand...

From Twitter TeWi.

Can someone please confirm for me that the plans to make lone parents/disabled work 24hrs a week for TC were in fact changed back down to 16hrs?

We would need to find the relevent part of the HoL transcripts/video - might be quicker to ask gingerbread? They ought to have been following as the debates happen.

If it was debated today the transcripts/video won't be up until it has finished either - vid might be up late this evening.

I've been waiting 7 years for an adaptation that was meant to be put in before I moved in. . Maybe this money will get me a wet room fitted so that it is safe for me to WASH myself in private without one of my dc present? My council suspended the fund that pays for adaptations ohhh - about 7 years ago...It's seven years since I have been able to wash in private.

AvadventKalendar - no, it has been dropped from 24 to 20, IF your child is under 12yo. If your child is OVER 12yo, even if they have SN, you will be expected to work for 35 hours a week, unless you get HRC for them...

Oh, is that part being debated again? Would it be on BBC parliament, or online or something?

I'm not sure. Just wondered if that was where the 16hrs thing was coming from.

Do you remember which source the hours thing came from Hunty?

Thank you Hunty, Tewi, yes source would be fab if you have one, I need to start bookmarking things I was worried I'd posted wrong info on NM after someone questioned it and was going to check but couldn't find it again!

I haven't had anything to do with the single parents angle, so I have no idea unfortunately!

If it's in the big UC document then I can give you that.

Saw on youtube, David Cameron - The Common People and thought of all the Frothers.

PMSL at the link