Ian 'Dunkin' Smith

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:01 pm

IDS caught overstating the number of vacancies in job centres by a factor of 10.

http://fullfact.org/factchecks/are_5000 ... week-27413

The same as he did 2 years ago.

In the meantime, a wonderful rant by a friend of mine on another board:

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You rotten, unbelievably vicious and vindictive fucking fellaters of the self-pitying super-rich. Seriously, you absolute dried out pillars of loathsome scum. Do you think anyone living on or around £13,000 a year who goes on strike is doing so out of some sort of old-fashioned Northern accented, Fred Kite-style perverse desire to put a broom in the wheels of industry just for the sake of being bloodyminded? Would a glassy-eyed Tory ideologue like Ian Duncan-Smith even know how to get by on that sort of money? Does it not cross his mind, long since ossified by dogma, that industrial action is the last, desperate resort of working people being priced out of existence by you moneysucking cunts, as opposed to having a jolly at the expense of the taxpayer? God, this government is detestable beyond belief.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:15 pm

Please pass on a round of applause from me.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:27 pm

Will do.

IDS seems to be another that didn't reply to Full Fact. That old-fashioned gentlemanliness. Where did it go?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:28 pm

Apparently he was going to write to them but his crayon broke.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Mon Jun 18, 2012 4:31 pm

**Rises from chair to applaud**

Lovely ranting.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7330

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Will do.

IDS seems to be another that didn't reply to Full Fact. That old-fashioned gentlemanliness. Where did it go?

There's a reason he's called the quiet man.
Particularly when his opponents stump up with a fact or two.
(Dashed unsporting, unmilitary too, when I was at Sandhurst we trained to fight natives with nothing deadlier than a pointed stick).

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:57 am

Millions of working families one push from penury, Guardian research finds

Findings that 2.2m children live in households on economic cliff-edge challenge coalition claim people are better off in work

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Almost 7 million working-age adults are living in extreme financial stress, one small push from penury, despite being in employment and largely independent of state support, according to the most comprehensive study yet of the finances of employed households, commissioned by the Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/ ... rom-penury

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 2:30 pm

Over 20 deaths possibly attributable to welfare reforms. Ian Dunkin' Smith indicted for corporate manslaughter?

http://iainduncansmith.com/

I don't think it'll was, but it needs publicising.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 3:14 pm

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2012/07/04/birmingham-dad-dies-of-heart-condition-after-being-ruled-fit-for-work-97319-31317519/

Fozzy · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:10 pm

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During the medical assessment Mr Turner’s family claim he did not undergo any physical tests, which could have picked up problems with his heart.

Mum-of-three Sheila added: “The observations of the healthcare professional were based on dialogue as the only two tests performed involved Paul either sitting in a chair or kneeling on a chair.

“They just asked questions about how long he could sit for, and looked at his back and hips.

Sounds like an unusually rigorous assessment compared with normal ATOS standards.

Giant f*cking Sudoku · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:12 am

They're vastly different across counties, and, frankly, whether or not you get an English-as-a-first-language HCP can have an impact, plus if you've gone in with a professional representative or not. In some cases, they've said that if you can actually get to the centre, you're fit for work, which seems an almost sadistic catch-22.

'Minister for Manslaughter' does have a good zing to it, and of course, he's a practising Christian, just like Hitchens :roll:

Over the last few months, from what I'm hearing as a disability charity trustee, it's getting harder and harder to get AtoSS officers to come out for home visits, which previously would indicate a high degree of dependency by default. They even have a list of conditions that should preclude the sufferers from being called in, but this is being breached.
It really does need to be investigated into whether their people get financial incentives for shutting claims down. If the 'market is being rigged', so to speak, then clearly, just like Diamond, the top man needs be off.

Squeaker · **Joined:** Sat Mar 31, 2012 3:23 pm **Posts:** 725

This could also go in the 'All in this together' thread :

Iain Duncan Smith mingles with the finest at Pratt's

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When Tory leader, IDS declined an honorary membership of the men-only Carlton Club in a bid to look more inclusive

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1zkExbZex

Obviously looking inclusive is not a priority for IDS now.

Compare and contrast with this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/ ... intcmp=239

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