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kle4 said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

When is it all announced?

Tonight apparently.

Thanks is there a govt website or crown one whereon it's listed?

It'll be on the main gov.uk site like so.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-years-honours-list-2019

Thanks

isam said:

I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.

It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!

Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.

Congrats on the newborn isam.

kle4 said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

When is it all announced?

Tonight apparently.

Thanks is there a govt website or crown one whereon it's listed?

It'll be on the main gov.uk site like so.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-years-honours-list-2019

Sir Alastair Cook!
Sir John Redwood MP

Sandpit said:

kle4 said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

When is it all announced?

Tonight apparently.

Thanks is there a govt website or crown one whereon it's listed?

It'll be on the main gov.uk site like so.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-years-honours-list-2019

Sir Alastair Cook!

That was last year?

ydoethur said:

HYUFD said:

ydoethur said:

HYUFD said:

ydoethur said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Sunil_Prasannan said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

ydoethur said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Cyclefree said:

You can still get 33/1 on him on Ladbrokes.

Whenever I’ve heard him he has not particularly impressed me. A bit of an automaton in the way he speaks. And, groan, another ex-GS alumni. Bad enough having an ex-DB banker as Chancellor. The amount of damage those two firms have caused ........

What we need is more lawyers in government.

There is no space-time continuum that would be improved by having Richard Burgon in government.

I’ve actually got an explanation for how Richard Burgon was accepted into St John’s.

My friend’s brother was also at St John’s at the same time as Burgon and that Burgon was very good at English literature but he was a proper lefty (his uncle was a Labour MP) and that Burgon engaged in some shocking logic defying positions to support a left wing agenda, which has become worse with age.

He may have done it to impress a lady as well but he ended up as Chairman of CULC.

So the issue isn’t Cambridge letting in a duffer but the law firms that hired Burgon.

Didn't Nick Griffin go to Cambridge?

He did, which is a shame as Cambridge is well known and well honoured for producing alumni who fight against fascism.

https://nyti.ms/2Q0slra

That’s an extremely generous interpretation of their position.

Almost as generous as a review that gives The Last Jedi one star out of five rather than a minus number.

I think you mean Cats rather than The Last Jedi

Wouldn’t know, haven’t seen cats. Well, other than my two, obviously.

It currently has a 17% favourable rating on Rotten Tomatoes

Blimey. It must be very nearly as bad as Solo then.

The Room (Tommy Wiseau version) has a 30% rating.

So Boris Johnson can find the time to award Iain Duncan Smith a knighthood but not Ken Clarke a peerage nor a knighthood.

TheScreamingEagles said:

He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.

So why did Watson not have the balls to defect with the others?

Because he prized his position in the hierarchy above his integrity or even apparently his personal safety.

What a chump.

TOPPING said:

Cyclefree said:

Nigelb said:

Cyclefree said:

You can still get 33/1 on him on Ladbrokes.

Whenever I’ve heard him he has not particularly impressed me. A bit of an automaton in the way he speaks. And, groan, another ex-GS alumni. Bad enough having an ex-DB banker as Chancellor. The amount of damage those two firms have caused ........

Doesn’t harm that he’s filthy rich, though.

A filthy rich ex-GS banker will have such an understanding of the issues for people living in towns like Millom and Workington and Barrow, won’t he?

You can’t make sensible public policy just by looking at a spreadsheet.

All of which more or less you could have said, and many did, about Boris. We've moved on from there I think.

Well no. Boris has not worked in the City. I doubt he does anything by spreadsheet and he does have a way of communicating with people outside his inner circle which Sunak has shown precious little evidence of. So far.

Whatever makes Boris special - and I am largely immune to his charms but am not his target audience - we should not assume that it will transfer itself to other Tories.

I have a long shot (very long shot) idea of who might be worth looking at. But you will need to wait for my next header or one after to find out.

Brain working v slowly atm inbetween sleeps and dosage. Hence non-appearance of headers.

Sandpit said:

kle4 said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

When is it all announced?

Tonight apparently.

Thanks is there a govt website or crown one whereon it's listed?

It'll be on the main gov.uk site like so.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-years-honours-list-2019

Sir Alastair Cook!
Sir John Redwood MP

Dame Twiggy

There are 1,150 of them!

isam said:

I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.

It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!

Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.

Oh what lovely news! Many congratulations!

Barnesian said:

Sandpit said:

kle4 said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

When is it all announced?

Tonight apparently.

Thanks is there a govt website or crown one whereon it's listed?

It'll be on the main gov.uk site like so.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-years-honours-list-2019

Sir Alastair Cook!
Sir John Redwood MP

Dame Twiggy

There are 1,150 of them!

Indeed there were. Last year.

TheScreamingEagles said:

He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.

I don’t blame him for giving up, but rather for clinging on for so long for no benefit whatsoever.

TheScreamingEagles said:

So Boris Johnson can find the time to award Iain Duncan Smith a knighthood but not Ken Clarke a peerage nor a knighthood.

Ken Clarke would now be more likely to be a LD peer than a Tory peer

TheScreamingEagles said:

Cyclefree said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Cyclefree said:

ydoethur said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Cyclefree said:

You can still get 33/1 on him on Ladbrokes.

Whenever I’ve heard him he has not particularly impressed me. A bit of an automaton in the way he speaks. And, groan, another ex-GS alumni. Bad enough having an ex-DB banker as Chancellor. The amount of damage those two firms have caused ........

What we need is more lawyers in government.

There is no space-time continuum that would be improved by having Richard Burgon in government.

I think @TheScreamingEagles meant to say that we need more good lawyers in government.

Yes but in my defence there are so few bad lawyers in the world. Ahem.

It's the other way around. A few really good / excellent lawyers. A reasonable number of competent - if unimaginative - ones.
Lots of plodding ones and some absolute shockers.

The Venn diagram of intelligent lawyers and lawyers with common-sense has a surprisingly small intersection.

You sound like one of my tutors.

'The law and justice are not the same thing.'

I am quite sure I could teach you a thing or two ........

😏

TOPPING said:

Cyclefree said:

Nigelb said:

Cyclefree said:

You can still get 33/1 on him on Ladbrokes.

Whenever I’ve heard him he has not particularly impressed me. A bit of an automaton in the way he speaks. And, groan, another ex-GS alumni. Bad enough having an ex-DB banker as Chancellor. The amount of damage those two firms have caused ........

Doesn’t harm that he’s filthy rich, though.

A filthy rich ex-GS banker will have such an understanding of the issues for people living in towns like Millom and Workington and Barrow, won’t he?

You can’t make sensible public policy just by looking at a spreadsheet.

All of which more or less you could have said, and many did, about Boris. We've moved on from there I think.

Despite several goes, Boris never had the political problem of a father in law numbered among the world’s richest men...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._R._Narayana_Murthy

MightyAlex said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain

You really are a lickspittle.

@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.

Cyclefree said:

MightyAlex said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain

You really are a lickspittle.

@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.

Political knighthoods are often reserved for complete duffers, so I can’t get much worked up about it.

If Ken Clarke gets a peerage, it will be via the Dissolution Honours.

Like my Dukedom.

Cyclefree said:

MightyAlex said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain

You really are a lickspittle.

@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.

My understanding is that the issues with UC were not due to the system itself, but the fact that Osborne chose to coincide it with big cuts to welfare.

TheScreamingEagles said:

https://twitter.com/gavinshuker/status/1210663151152304129

Harsh, but fair.

JohnO said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

JohnO said:

If Ken Clarke gets a peerage, it will be via the Dissolution Honours.

Like my Dukedom.

Hope you put in a good word for my GCMG.

But if Dave didn't give me a GCMG I've got no hope from Boris Johnson have I?

I fear the extent your naughtiness has been such that even intervention from me will be fruitless.

Bugger.

Never mind, I shall treat you to lunch in the new year though.

JohnO said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

JohnO said:

If Ken Clarke gets a peerage, it will be via the Dissolution Honours.

Like my Dukedom.

Hope you put in a good word for my GCMG.

But if Dave didn't give me a GCMG I've got no hope from Boris Johnson have I?

I fear the extent your naughtiness has been such that even intervention from me will be fruitless.

Nothing a few grovelling paeans to Boris during the next TSE editorship could not solve. Damn integrity though

kle4 said:

JohnO said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

JohnO said:

If Ken Clarke gets a peerage, it will be via the Dissolution Honours.

Like my Dukedom.

Hope you put in a good word for my GCMG.

But if Dave didn't give me a GCMG I've got no hope from Boris Johnson have I?

I fear the extent your naughtiness has been such that even intervention from me will be fruitless.

Nothing a few grovelling paeans to Boris during the next TSE editorship could not solve. Damn integrity though

There's a piece that's about 40% written that compares a Boris Johnson Premiership to getting a prostate exam from a leper who walks away with four fingers.

HYUFD said:

Cyclefree said:

MightyAlex said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain

You really are a lickspittle.

@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.

John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010

Sir John Major has not been an MP for more than 18 years.

JBriskinindyref2 said:

Wolves 3 Man City 2 89 mins

Squeaky bum time for those who followed you in.

Nigelb said:

HYUFD said:

Cyclefree said:

MightyAlex said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain

You really are a lickspittle.

@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.

John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010

You really are nothing more than a party mouthpiece these days.

I correctly predicted Boris would be Tory leader and I correctly predicted Boris would win a Tory majority, if that makes me a party mouthpiece so be it

HYUFD said:

Nigelb said:

HYUFD said:

Cyclefree said:

MightyAlex said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain

You really are a lickspittle.

@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.

John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010

You really are nothing more than a party mouthpiece these days.

I correctly predicted Boris would be Tory leader and I correctly predicted Boris would win a Tory majority, if that makes me a party mouthpiece so be it

It's possible to be one without the other.

Labour continue to surprise on the downside

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/12/27/tom-watson-reveals-quit-labour-due-brutality-hostility-within/

kle4 said:

HYUFD said:

ydoethur said:

HYUFD said:

Cyclefree said:

MightyAlex said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain

You really are a lickspittle.

@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.

John Major has been disloyal to Boris and in retrospect IDS was right to oppose Maastricht and also the lack of proper funding for universal credit from Cameron and Osborne, even so unemployment is half the level Labour left in 2010

Sir John Major has not been an MP for more than 18 years.

He is still a former Conservative PM criticising the current one

PMs are supposed to be immune from party criticism?

Form their predecessors from their own party in public yes, John Major had respected that principle until now

TheScreamingEagles said:

JohnO said:

If Ken Clarke gets a peerage, it will be via the Dissolution Honours.

Like my Dukedom.

Hope you put in a good word for my GCMG.

But if Dave didn't give me a GCMG I've got no hope from Boris Johnson have I?

Why would you want a God Calls Me God?

Floater said:

Labour continue to surprise on the downside

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/12/27/tom-watson-reveals-quit-labour-due-brutality-hostility-within/

or Tom Watson, tried to hand on to all the power he could, but left when he realised his own seat was going to go to the conservatives he quit, to claim and decided it would look better to claim it was a principled position, not just that he had run out of track?

BigRich said:

Floater said:

Labour continue to surprise on the downside

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/12/27/tom-watson-reveals-quit-labour-due-brutality-hostility-within/

or Tom Watson, tried to hand on to all the power he could, but left when he realised his own seat was going to go to the conservatives he quit, to claim and decided it would look better to claim it was a principled position, not just that he had run out of track?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7513607/How-Tom-Watson-pressured-Met-pursue-false-rape-allegations-against-Leon-Brittan.html

The damning Leon Brittan files: After the former Home Secretary was hounded by police on his death bed, we reveal how Tom Watson pressured the Met to pursue false rape allegations - despite his accuser being a known liar and Labour activist.

Cyclefree said:

MightyAlex said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain

You really are a lickspittle.

@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.

The problems created by osbourne removing the funding IDS said was and is required

Amusing to see James Chapman referenced earlier today.

I remember when he was the flavour of the week on PB from:

http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2017/08/10/meet-the-ex-chief-of-staff-to-the-brexsec-now-the-de-facto-brexit-opposition-leader/

to

http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2017/08/17/calling-theresa-may-a-nazi-totally-undermines-chapmans-anti-brexit-crusade/

ydoethur said:

ralphmalph said:

ydoethur said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

He [Tom Watson] said at one point police told him that a Labour supporter had been arrested for making a death threat via the party that Labour officials did not inform him about.

So why did Watson not have the balls to defect with the others?

Because he prized his position in the hierarchy above his integrity or even apparently his personal safety.

What a chump.

I read an article that stated that if Watson had left to join the TIG's 80 other Labour MPs would have gone as well.

In which case we might have been looking at a genuine realignment.

Although you take such claims with a pinch of salt, of course,

I much admire Tom W for his work in the online openness space, but I am not really sure about the polo neck.

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/27/tom-watson-i-quit-because-of-labour-brutality

Luckyguy1983 said:

Cyclefree said:

MightyAlex said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain

You really are a lickspittle.

@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.

My understanding is that the issues with UC were not due to the system itself, but the fact that Osborne chose to coincide it with big cuts to welfare.

The UC system is fucked by design. If you get paid early in a month (say for instance December) the UC system sees that as an increase in your pay and so automatically cuts your UC payment for that month.

Hurrah for Wolves...

Alistair said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

So that Guardian front page does confirm a knighthood for IDS.

For services to killing poor people?

Surely these baubles have been so degraded now that only the most debased still crave their precious?

Foxy said:

Hurrah for Wolves...

Alistair said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

So that Guardian front page does confirm a knighthood for IDS.

For services to killing poor people?

Surely these baubles have been so degraded now that only the most debased still crave their precious?

They have. No-one would care, were it not for the fact that in some cases it gives these debased boobies the right to legislate for us.

Byronic said:

HYUFD is a worthy commenter, with much insight, who is seldom as rude to his detractors, as they are to him.

Civility is an overrated virtue when you are speaking to someone who will never, ever admit to be wrong on even the smallest point of fact.

Alistair said:

Byronic said:

HYUFD is a worthy commenter, with much insight, who is seldom as rude to his detractors, as they are to him.

Civility is an overrated virtue when you are speaking to someone who will never, ever admit to be wrong on even the smallest point of fact.

There are quite a few on this forum in that category to be fair

viewcode said:

isam said:

I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.

It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!

Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.

Congratulations, @isam, happy news! Please tell me you called him @himsam ....

My significant event in 2019, if you`re interested, was a spinal cord injury (skiing) in Feb which left me in Grenoble hospital for a week and then having to wear a top-of-head-to-chest neck brace for two months. Was looking at disablement for a while - a dark time - I couldn`t lift either hand above my head. Couldn`t dress or shower myself.

With physio help (not NHS - they were shit) my recovery has been remarkable.

Mobility fully regained, in gym twice a week and I went skiing again last week.

viewcode said:

isam said:

I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.

It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!

Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.

Congratulations, @isam, happy news! Please tell me you called him @himsam ....

My main event, if it counts, is that my mum won Redbridge in Bloom for her front garden.

Big_G_NorthWales said:

Alistair said:

Byronic said:

HYUFD is a worthy commenter, with much insight, who is seldom as rude to his detractors, as they are to him.

Civility is an overrated virtue when you are speaking to someone who will never, ever admit to be wrong on even the smallest point of fact.

There are quite a few on this forum in that category to be fair

So civility is to be abandoned in the face of -

1) Religion
2) Nationalism
3) Personal fundamental convictions

When exactly *should* we apply civility?

I would suggest that the more rigid the beliefs, the more civility is required.

Philip_Thompson said:

Hope everyone has had a good Christmas, I've been off the site primarily playing lego and jigsaws with my children. Spent Christmas evening building my 3 year old's Lego Toy Story 4 sets only to wake up Boxing Day morning to find she'd taken it apart back to its pieces. Feels rather akin actually to arguing politics online

Nice to see my tip was value and has been followed and surprised and honoured to log on tonight to see OGH mentioning it like this.

Oh and great to see Wolves beat City. 14 points and a game in hand - wow!

It was a good call. Are you inclined to take profits ?

.

viewcode said:

isam said:

I see @viewcode is compiling a list of things that happened to people who comment on here in 2019. Well, my first child, a son, was born on November 1st. Leading up to the big day I had thought it would be a happy coincidence if we left the EU at 11pm on October 31st, as the government had said we would, making him one of the first British children to be born a non EU citizen for forty odd years... but it wasn't to be.

It's not that detail that keeps me up at night though!

Condolences to all those on the list who had sad news this year.

Congratulations, @isam, happy news! Please tell me you called him @himsam ....

If the day he was born had been the day we left the EU, as promised, I had floated ‘Independence’ as a middle name 🤓

@sonsam Would have been good... gets stronger with every haircut

Alistair said:

Luckyguy1983 said:

Cyclefree said:

MightyAlex said:

HYUFD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

According to Twitter (so caveat emptor) Iain Duncan Smith is being awarded a knighthood.

Fair reward for his leadership of the party, his social justice campaigns and holding Chingford and Woodford Green against the Momentum onslaught. Well done Sir Iain

You really are a lickspittle.

@HYUFD conveniently forgets IDS's serial disloyalty to two Prime Ministers and the problems with Universal Credit.

My understanding is that the issues with UC were not due to the system itself, but the fact that Osborne chose to coincide it with big cuts to welfare.

The UC system is fucked by design. If you get paid early in a month (say for instance December) the UC system sees that as an increase in your pay and so automatically cuts your UC payment for that month.

I believe you, but I also understand it has replaced around 20 (?) other benefits. Therefore I think it is more likely that governments will work to fix UC than to go back to the system as it was.

There was a good programme I happened to listen to on Radio 4 about this.

TheScreamingEagles said:

Ahem.

Travolta to get a Damehood...