Boycott Workfare

Campaign to abolish forced unpaid labour.

[Boycott Workfare @boycottworkfare]

@LizCarlton2 @charlotteh71 Hello. Don’t recall #universalcredit mentioned much by @UKLabour as it hostage to fear of looking soft on claimants. Most welfare rights campaign/ers funded by @DWP staff via @pcs_union #Fact wonder why...@boycottworkfare only campaign to point it out. Guess what happened next..

[Boycott Workfare @boycottworkfare]

#universalcredit claimants now getting blamed across social media as reason for @BorisJohnson #government #GE2019 result . Some @UKLabour & @Conservatives MP’s , activists, party members & voters share far too much in common...

[Boycott Workfare @boycottworkfare]

@BobbitTina @deb1712 @Monkeystink @ernieT99 @DailyMirror The #GE2019 ended yesterday. Suggest as you are a #healing tory you go & examine @DWP #universalcredit & #benefitsanction data . But then you have a lot in common with @PeoplesMomentum when it comes to being out of touch with reality & clearly spending far too long online...

[Boycott Workfare @boycottworkfare]

@deb1712 @Monkeystink @ernieT99 @BobbitTina Hello @deb1712 . Yes as you cleverly point out as a former Trinity @DailyMirror features editor /Sub editor #universalcredit did not exist when you were young - you had luxury of brand new welfare state. The good old days. #healing #tories

[Sarah Nealey @Monkeystink]

@ernieT99 @BobbitTina No it’s not the truth. I work in social housing where people are waiting up to 6 weeks for a Universal Credit payment. People are forced to choose between heating their house, getting food and feeding their kids and paying their rent. I see it first hand every working day.

[Boycott Workfare @boycottworkfare]

#GE2019 . Some thoughts on #universalcredit it will now impact 8 million people . It is a catastrophic & cruel social policy - yet it took @UKLabour until 2017 manifesto & @ very last minute to come out in favour of scrapping it. Yet to see #MSM reffer to fact Surely had impact?

[Birmingham Live @birmingham_live]

Universal Credit campaigners are devastated and heartbroken https://t.co/2QalqrIjpo

[Are We All Asleep ? ▄▀▄▀▄∆▄▀▄▀▄ @demindblower]

People receiving Universal Credit have racked up nearly £1 million in rent arrears https://t.co/qsvw0FXzmf

[shiner_sam @shiner_sam]

@chrishall_chris Well a lot of people are acclimatising to Universal Credit. Some new claims can take up to eight weeks, that’s the main reason for the sharp incline in need for food boxes, while they have no income

[Aidan Knight @1AidanKnight]

@Lee66317155 @EmmaPencheon @TfL @JackMilln @izzybraithwaite @DrRitaIssa @Drjamesszy @robdelaney @jessphillips @jeremycorbyn @SJimons What about a single widow/widower with a disabled child who's universal credit doesn't cut it? There may be work for you now but by 2035 unless you're in arts, sports, science (and arguably care/service) your job is being done by a robot. Only labour had a plan to phase in UBI.

[David Woods @davethewoodsman]

@tonypatt2000 @LenMcCluskey @HuffPostUK No, you see this is no longer something I can do anything about. I had a conversation today about how I will soon be losing the small amount of work I have. So as soon as that goes well here comes Universal Credit. I may or may not have ten weeks up to April. (1)

[🌹©ourtney🌹 @CourtneyJayneB_]

While conservative voters look forward to closure on Brexit, I will be thinking of the 4 million children in poverty and those forced to go to food banks as a result of universal credit. BYE

[Boycott Workfare @boycottworkfare]

We do not endorse any political parties welfare policies for #GE19 @UKLabour claim it will scrap #universalcredit but not scrap #benefitsanctions , #conditionality @LibDems helped @Conservatives introduce #UC & #foodbanks + suffering. Voters claiming UC not seen as #voters at all

[Boycott Workfare @boycottworkfare]

@Anoosh_C Because 8 million voters do not matter.

[John Layman @layman_h]

My Universal Credit account tells me that this month, I will be receiving £63 less than in October. Most of this is to pay off Tax Credits from two years ago. The rest is to repay part of the budgeting loan I took out two weeks ago to pay for clothes for my father's funeral.

[FunkLip @funkomi]

When Universal Credit was proposed, we were told it would cost about £2.2billion to implement. This country was willing to *pay* £2.2billion to put families into crisis...

To date, the project budget has increased twice and now stands at ❗️£15.8 billion❗️

[liane gomersall @ligomersall]

Royal Navy amputee stranded with £16 Universal Credit told 'get a job' by the DWP: Only three weeks after Kevin, 62, had his leg amputated, the DWP has said he must prove that he wants to return to work to receive £16 a month https://t.co/JRqMIoPz7Y

[Boycott Workfare @boycottworkfare]

@cjayanetti Unsurprising when @UKLabour has exact same attitude & non policy re 8 million of the electorate experiencing poverty via #universalcredit as the @Conservatives & @LibDems .

[Boycott Workfare @boycottworkfare]

@benefitforums @CPAGUK Disappointing response. We’re not paid by political parties, trade unions, & being independent under constant pressure from your “comrades” . You were invited to workshop & didn’t attend. Suggest social media reflection might be required. Still waiting for answer re @CPAGUK cost