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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧

@b31bowden.bsky.social

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Proud Brummie. Sceptic, pedant and is frequently sarcastic, but tries to be polite. Retired from Public Service, ex Local Authority Childcare, ex DWP Fraud, ex IPCC Investigator. Assume nothing, Believe nobody. Check everything.

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 11h

Boris Johnson couldn't care less. And, given that there won't be any sanctions, he is correct. Sadly.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 11h

How come the USA politicians - who caused the shutdown by failing to agree a budget - get paid, when the staff (some of whom are FORCED to work for no pay) do not?
And this is intentional?
And has been the case for decades?
What kind of 2nd class Country are you running there?

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 11h

Pretty sure, without even bothering to check, that breaking these rules incurs no meaningful penalty - and there is no intention to change this for the future. Once again Al walks on water.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 13h

First slowly. Then quickly.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 13h

It'll be full of immigrants, like the Hyundai battery factory was.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 13h

Nothing wrong with ketchup (and HP) on a spot of bacon (eggs, sausages, tomato.....)

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 16h

Will the machines refuse to cooperate if not given intellectual credit? I despair.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 17h

And why did you need to do a cognitive exam? QED.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 17h

Then I fail to understand your point. This seems to be in response to my argument SP isn't a benefit because it's unconditional and you're now agreeing with me? Reassuring but confusing HP!
Good talking with you, however.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 17h

Has Jenrick explained why he is supporting an asylum seeker when he wants asylum seekers deported?
Has he been asked?
Why has he not been asked?
(I'm making unsupported assumptions like journalists do).

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 17h

Today seems a good day to re-share this.

Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 1d

On this say in 2009, President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 17h

I'm not, but the internet is.
UC is still conditional, if your health improves, your income rises etc, UC adjusts, or can stop.
UC isn't available to those over State Pension Age unless/whilst they have a partner who is younger.
State Pension is unaffected by anything but death.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18h

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags

It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

Is it the teachers following the National Curriculum who are poisoning our kids, or the ones in Private Schools? Cos he now makes it sound like he is therefore in favour of infanticide.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

I'm using 'conditional' in the DWP sense (I used to work there). A conditional benefit means that it is paid while you continue to fulfil its conditions. I can't think of an unconditional benefit. All have a cutoff.
State Pension, once someone qualifies, is paid until death without qualification.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

OK. Explain how someone can stop becoming older.
I put quote marks around 'choice' for precisely that reason. The fact remains though, you can't get child benefit without a child, but everyone (not dead, before you remind me) gets older, one day per day.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

Plenty eh? So all those stories about people being sanctioned for not meeting DWP conditionality are fake news?
There are so many lovely stories about 'benefit scroungers' where there is nary an example!

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

Trying not to be patronising, it's only paid to people with children. That's the condition. Not having children is a 'choice'.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

Thats what I said. If you don't have the contributions, you claim Universal Credit. You may think separation reinforces that, nobody I know does. State Pension is an earned unconditional entitlement, benefits are conditional.
(un)deserving is a different argument this thread isn't about.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

Please don't tell the UK government, they'll probably start taxing Nobel winners and threatening to rescind their visas.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

So is American Football woke now?

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

I suspect you are thinking of new style JSA, where a divide has been made between contributory and non-contributory. There is also a requirement to look for work, whilst State Pension has no conditionality. I therefore disagree.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

Shouldn't pol;ice forces be already looking at when any vehicles break traffic laws?

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

Hadn't struck me before but 'Trumped up charges' are now just literal nominative determinism.

Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social · 18h

You can tell a clever person because they always show you the evidence to support what they are saying.
As my daughter is fond of saying, 'Nonsense'.

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