“Just because you receive a benefit from the DWP does not mean you should have fewer rights; our financial affairs should not be spied upon by the DWP. “The DWP should not get greater powers, as this department has already shown it does not exercise its existing powers humanely...
“This emerging pattern of obstruction suggests that a culture of secrecy is entrenched in DWP. It must wake up to the harm that it is doing and commit to a new spirit of openness,” Stephen Timms, chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, told the newspaper...
That’s what makes it so much fun. When a weed pops up, it has usually traveled under quite a bit of mulch to come up in the sun, or it is new growth on a really deep tap root. So it’s like a game to see how far along under dirt a root has traveled, or just how big a...
but this is just as bad, if not worse. They knew about it and did nothing about it. The whole thing is shocking. The ministers in charge of it should have sorted something out, stopped it, changed it, re-directed it, I don’t know what.” ...
But she said that she and others make this decision to stand at the gates in pain “knowing it is going to cost [us] a lot of exhaustion later”. She added: “Just because I can do something for a few hours a week does not mean I have the same ability as somebody else who is ...