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Interview with IDS

great interview with IDS in the telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11733810/Iain-Duncan-Smith-the-unlikely-champion-for-workers-on-why-his-benefits-battle-is-far-from-over.html

Apparently universal credit is great, and just a few teething problems with the IT (no mention of costs), now its rolling out across great swathes of the country everything is fine and wonderful, just a few years late, nothing to worry about. Next a crusade presumably to have business refuse to recognise when people are sick. He got the wages of a bunch of cleaners in the ministry past minimum and they were ever so, ever so grateful, what a wonderful human being...

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  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    My Hero, i've got a poster of him on the wall .........
    It replaced the dart board.
    Liverpool is one of the wonders of Britain,
    What it may grow to in time, I know not what.

    Daniel Defoe: 1725.
  • vision2009
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    Pure evil :mad:
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