Iain Duncan Smith

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Is this government right to set out a new criteria by which poverty in Britain is measured or is it just a case of moving the goal posts to help them meet a target?

Poverty Measure To Be Redefined By Iain Duncan Smith

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/14/poverty-measure-to-be-redefined_n_1595677.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

"Conflation" verb use of numbers by the Tory Party?

A Christmas message from 1944

"All nature is a gigantic struggle between strength and weakness, an eternal victory of the strong over the weak." Adolf Hitler

What goes around, comes around!

Iain Duncan Smith says he’s going to stop benefit tourism. What benefit tourism?

More lies and deception from the scumbag. If British nationals can no longer ‘languish’ on benefits, where is the evidence to suggest that foreign nationals will find it any easier to do so?


Source: Fullfact

http://www.leftfootforward.org/2013/12/iain-duncan-smith-says-hes-going-to-stop-benefit-tourism-what-benefit-tourism/

Duncan Smith has always seemed to me to be a man who would have been a most 'enthusiastic' Concentration Camp Guard.

 To rank as one of the most spiteful of Tory Ministers says a great deal for the depths he is prepared to plumb. He must surely be one of the most despicable of that poisonous Tory breed that we have had the great misfortune to experience...

When Spaniards want to be really scathing about someone, they describe them as sinverguenza for which the word in English would be "shameless".

Our esteemed Minister is undoubtedly one such.

Phil Hornby wrote:Duncan Smith has always seemed to me to be a man who would have been a most 'enthusiastic' Concentration Camp Guard.

 To rank as one of the most spiteful of Tory Ministers says a great deal for the depths he is prepared to plumb. He must surely be one of the most despicable of that poisonous Tory breed that we have had the great misfortune to experience...

But you have to remember that he has never forgiven the electorate for spurning him when he was leader of the Tories from 2001 to 2003 and this is his despite, his revenge...

Apparently a sullen and angry Iain Duncan Smith and Lord Freud turned up to the Work and Pensions Select Committee last week surrounded by bodyguards and armed police, who proceeded to point their machine guns directly at the small group of disabled claimants waiting to go into the public gallery.  
Does this surprise you?

Extract from "Benefits for work" site

The first Rule of protest is

Know your enemy.

No surprise. Last April Esther McVey Conservative Member of Parliament for Wirral West, posted the following report to her constituents:

"I met with Chrissie McLaren who runs the distribution for Wirral Foodbank from the Church on behalf of St Lukes and St Agnes in West Kirby. The foodbank was launched in September last year and it’s the first one to open on this side of the Wirral. The foodbank is open 10.30 am – 1.30 pm every Wednesday and Saturday. For more information contact Chrissie at St Luke’s. "

Seems she likes to think this is something to boast about ow.
Evil is a word that comes to mind.

(backbencher . co.uk)

" My name is Iain Duncan Schitt - or at least it ought to be..."

Nosferatu.  A Symphony of Horror 1922.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu

An unfair representation.

I didn't like to post a picture of him on one of his 'good days'...

Mel wrote:Seems she likes to think this is something to boast about ow.
Evil is a word that comes to mind.

She is not evil simply typically Tory and therefore SMUG.

To be evil requires an active participation. These people are worse. They commit acts of true evil through complacency and neglect. Were you to confront such a person they would express surprise  and resentment at your comment. They would even claim that they were working for the betterment of mankind. At least your average concentration camp guard was honest in their evil.

I think I would probably want to misquote Blaise Pascal here...

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from political conviction.

"Worse" than evil is correct Bell. "SMUG" greedy and mercenary in addition to the Blaise Pascal quotation.. very apt.

A merry Xmas to you Bell, Phil and our learned friend ow.

Many thanks, Mel, and my sincere hope is that all contributors enjoy a well-deserved Christmas. May 2014 be a prosperous year for all of us.

 

IDS criticises food bank charity Iain Duncan Smith has refused requests to meet the leaders of a major foodbank charity
 By Press Association    


Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has refused requests to meet the leaders of a major food bank charity and accused them of "scaremongering", it has emerged.

The Conservative Cabinet Minister told the Trussell Trust he denied claims that benefits reforms were linked to the rocketing number of people turning to it for help and suggested the organisation was political.

Since April more than 500,000 people, of which one third are children, have received emergency supplies from the 400 food banks run by the Trussell Trust charity and it has asked on a number of occasions for meetings with Department for Work and Pensions ministers.

But Mr Duncan Smith criticised the "political messaging of your organisation", which "despite claiming to be non-partisan" had "repeatedly sought to link the growth in your network to welfare reform", according to the Observer.

"I strongly refute this claim and would politely ask you to stop scaremongering in this way," he said in the letter. "I understand that a feature of your business model must require you to continuously achieve publicity, but I'm concerned that you are now seeking to do this by making your political opposition to welfare reform overtly clear."

This excuse for a man just doesn't get it does he. The way I read this is, he is telling us than anyone who cares a damn about the welfare of the poorest in Society is Anti Austerity = Anti Iain Dumkopf Schmidt = Anti Government = Anti Tory = Anti Lib Dem = Pro Socialist = Pro Welfare = Pro Helping Others = PRO LABOUR there really isn't anyone else out there at "present" that will go anywhere near what is needed. I will relish the day when/if a Tory or Lib Dem Candidate comes knocking on my door asking for my support.
My house is at the end of a longish path, and I will (After telling what I think) tell them to leave my property and if they do not do so very quickly, I will evoke the Law and use what necessary force it will take to remove the scum from my path. Probably easier and cheaper to remove than Herr Cameron's Wisteria

bobby. You beat me to it! Here's another account of the same story:-

Charities condemn Iain Duncan Smith for food bank snub

The hundreds of reader comments which follow the article help to explain why this disgusting excuse for a human being needs an armed guard these days:-

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/dec/21/iain-duncan-smith-food-banks-charities?commentpage=1

" When someone is a few minutes late for an appointment at the Jobcentre because their bus doesn’t turn up, they should not be taking money away for several weeks. It’s inhumane"

Perhaps the answer is to provide a Ministerial car such as the one to which Duncan Slime undoubtedly has access. And in any event, in the eyes of the Tory Goosestepper, surely those on benefits shouldn't have the luxury of sufficient cash to be able to afford 'bus travel. Let them walk...!

When Iain Duncan Smith went to Easterhouse in Glasgow in 2002, he left in tears saying how he wanted to improve the lives of the inhabitants. The bastard has done so well, hasn't he?

http://www.channel4.com/news/benefits-iain-duncan-smith-welfare-revolution-glasgow-easter

Remember the ‘Betsygate’ affair, which ended Iain Duncan Smith’s leadership of the Tory Party in 2003? That vile creature goes out of his way to deny the poor, sick and disabled benefits to which they’re entitled, yet he should have gone to jail for fraud years ago.

Dr Vanessa Gearson worked for Duncan Smith from August 2002 until September 2003, when he was also 'employing' his wife. These were Dr Gearson’s conclusions:-

“I saw no evidence of Mrs Duncan Smith performing a professional role regarding his diary. I saw no evidence that Mrs Duncan Smith wrote any letters on Mr Duncan Smith's behalf. I saw no evidence that Mrs Duncan Smith took any responsibility for financial arrangements. I saw no evidence of Mrs Duncan Smith requesting office supplies that she would have reasonably needed in order to have carried out such a role.”

For Dr Gearson’s full written statement to the Select Committee on Standards and Privileges:-
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmstnprv/476/476we17.htm

It would come as no surprise whatsoever to discover that Duncan Smith was an especially nasty and hypocritical crook who was quite content to grasp all he could from the taxpayer whilst denying necessities to others.

As has been widely rehearsed, he is at the vilest end of the Tory spectrum - and that is an achievement which speaks volumes for just what an obnoxious specimen he is.

It may be the Season of Goodwill but, in all honesty, how many of us would truly grieve were he to suffer a particularly painful accident...?

Are there really those out there whom one might accurately describe as grasping, lying Tory hypocrites?

Whoever would've thought it...?          

Of course, Hitler's domestic programmes were well under way before he involved Germany in a war - I would guess, if another term is offered to this lot, I wonder if we can begin to fear large-scale armed conflict - the time-scale would be about right and they will feel secure with another 5 year term assured.

Many a slip twixt cup and lip has a well-established place in the English lexicon. Two important events occur in 2014 - MEP elections and a referendum on Scottish Independence, either of which can change the political landscape beyond recognition.

We are living in interesting times.

Good point - either could very well be a game changer

That is surely a picture of a slim-line Eric Pickles during his time as a sixth-former at St Lard's Academy for Fat Tory Bastards.

Although - not being infallible anymore - I may be wrong, of course...

Crikey! Hope you-know-who doesn't see this report in today's Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japans-homelessdraftedin-to-help-withfukushima-nuclear-clearup-9031527.html

We haven't got any radioactive waste - yet

Only a toxic Coalition.

boatlady wrote:We haven't got any radioactive waste - yet

To quote McEnroe.... You cannot be serious...