Ben

[Ben @HunterB86]

@Shrink_at_Large Stomping on the disabled (also young people too) hasn't done anything to boost the economy since 2010, it is just cruelty for the sake of it.
Why not look at housing benefit - it is a big chunk of the bill but they never tackle landlords or build affordable council homes.

[Ben @HunterB86]

@Minion15374 @lukejcr @ZiaYusufUK Testing "all men routinely" would generate massive amounts of false positive tests leading to unnecessary follow-up investigations and the overall harm caused would outweigh the lives saved.

Plus it isn't like you *can't* get tested at GP if you have symptoms or family history

[Ben @HunterB86]

@cezthesocialist and practically to the left of most of the labour party MPs now....

[Ben @HunterB86]

@SaulStaniforth This guy is awful as a presenter

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

'Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office scandal victims.

7 schemes. £1.5bn paid from public purse, could hit £3.5bn.

Zero contribution by Fujitsu, PO execs, other perpetrators.

No one charged for false criminal convictions.
https://t.co/1pkj4Fx051

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"South West Water is due to be sentenced today after admitting supplying water unfit for human consumption"

A YouGov poll last month showed that 82% want water in public ownership, but the govt won't do it because they're on the side of the profiteers, not us.

[Ben @HunterB86]

@SaulStaniforth Nothing will change until the overpaid bosses are held directly responsible and jailed. Another fine will just get passed on to customers.

[Ben @HunterB86]

@NateB_Panic There is absolutely 0 accountability for the political/ruling class either. From corruption scandals to avoidable public disasters - nobody important is ever fully held to account.

[Ben @HunterB86]

@AllyFogg They are all against PR so we will limp on with it and the system will become even less credible than it is now.

The media will work overtime to spin huge majorities on the back of a 30% vote share as good for 'reasons'.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

One from the archives

Eddie Dempsey: ""Modernisation is a euphemism for making people poorer, slashing jobs and protecting profits".

[Ben @HunterB86]

@LBC @lewis_goodall Nobody will benefit from this policy except for the private companies that win the inevitably huge government contract to administer it.
Can be certain it will be rife with errors and fraud as well.

[Ben @HunterB86]

@labourlewis The idea that people on benefits can't be trusted to choose their own groceries or god forbid might buy a treat like ice cream or a bottle of wine is just ridiculously dystopian.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Many MPs tell us that the current state pension age is 'unsustainable'. Which is odd, really, given that they can claim parliamentary pensions as soon as they turn 55.

[Ben @HunterB86]

@DennyTWright @LBC @lewis_goodall That is a sentencing issue then.
After serving the time and being released they shouldn't be treated any differently to anyone else.

[Ben @HunterB86]

@AaronBastani @EdwardGLuce What if they know exactly what they are doing and just don't care?

[Ben @HunterB86]

@elgarr1 @implausibleblog MPs had free debates and indicative votes in parliament but political game playing was put before country and nothing passed.

The "customs union" option failed by a handful of votes with several supposedly pro eu MPs failing to support it.

[Ben @HunterB86]

@BareLeft This is just another step towards forcing online digital ID for everyone - justified as 'saving the kids'.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Yet another glaring example of how utterly failed the water industry is. All it took was one hot weekend and not one but two water companies have been brought to their knees, incapable of doing the most basic job possible, supplying their customers with water.

And we tolerate this nonsense.

[Ben @HunterB86]

@Heccles94 "a national commission on electoral reform" = kicking the issue into the long grass, absolutely burying any chance of reform for at least a parliament.

Plenty of people buy it though. Very sad.

[Ben @HunterB86]

@WordMercenary virtually never leads to a full time job and just like with other unpaid "work experience" actual employers often don't give you much (any?) credit for it when applying for a real job.