[Diggers350] Campaign against Bedroom Tax demands Benefit Justice

Tue Jan 15 13:30:46 GMT 2013

What?!?!
Speaking as a self-employed lone parent - who 'took the chance' - and is now (almost) freezing to death with her children in a field in North Norfolk, with her husband the other side of the world, all I can say is Lord Freud is lucky that we were robbed of £13,215 for a 100% gas propelled engine that didn't work.

Working up to 22 hours a day - trying to fit in paid work alongside all the unpaid work I've been doing ever since I dared to diversify my business into 'Green Design' and co-formed 'The Tree Ark Project' intentional Eco-Village 'showcase' community, working as a single parent on top - solely responsible for raising three children, for the shopping, the cooking, the cleaning, the DIY. maintaining the motor, AND paying all the bills, I'd give Lord Freud a run for his money if I were sitting opposite him in 'The Green Party'.

How can a bunch of upper class 'twits' (as the two-headed monster of Cameron & Clegg were once described in the early hours on BBC) - ever manage to make decisions based upon the most ignorant of all foundations.

All lone parents, self-employed, and sickness claimants are 'too comfortable' - are they???

Come on 'Lord' Freud - come an have a go at living in a caravan without heating in freezing conditions with your children, without enough money for food, without laundry, without washing facilities - and tell us all just how comfortable it really is.

65% of all single parents get £0.00 child maintenance from any absent parent - and for once in my life - I'm in a majority group!  (Reference: Professor S McKay, University of Birmingham - I couldn't find this statistic on any Government 'nat stats'.)

4,000,000 children are living in poverty already today - without the cold and heartless 'lizard's intervention - the UK needs affordable housing, BEFORE it needs benefit cuts.

Blithering idiots - what the UK needs is one million affordable homes - and when I say 'affordable' - I mean 'affordable', (I don't mean affordable to the eyes of the person sitting in 'The City' who doesn't have the foggiest idea what it takes to run a self-employed business without earning enough to pay to delegate any of the work, who decides to 'Lord' over us all because he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.)

We all know that living in Eco-Village (type) settlements is the way forward - so why on Earth are we not allowed to live the sustainable lifestyle of our choosing?

Ah yes - of course - it's because we're neither 'Lord' Freud, a 'Rothschild' or 'The Queen of England'.

We don't have any land - and we're not entitled to any, because it's all being held back for 'The Developers'.

'The Developers' - that profiteering bunch of 'businesses' - including those that didn't pay me for over four years work, and which also forgot to pay my husband and hundreds of his co-workers 50% of their agreed wages for up to eight years work.  (Ask the Grenadian Technical and Allied Workers Union - the president of which, Chester Humphrey, has even been imprisoned for asking for 'human rights' for some of his workers.)

As Tony Gosling wrote the other day, the UK - c. 60M population, c. 60M acres.

An acre a piece - and we can live free of all their benefits (which I can vouch for one, never [ever] did cover all the bills anyway), and through 'Green Design', through Eco-Village Network, through Permaculture, cut CO2 emissions, and totally capture all our CH4 to provide us all with free 'Green' BioGas, Electricity and heating - right through a solar winter. 

We can all live in 'Eden', and the politicians who earn £66k (+ £20k wage rises + all their [illegal] expenses), can all go swing like the giant dinosaurs into their own oblivion to become fossils.

Yes please - I'd far rather live on an organic field than a council house.  (I just wish that I had the right to do so!:)

But hey - what would I know, I'm only a single mum & a self-employed Eco architectural designer (who has to follow UK/International Planning, The Earth Charter, the UN Agenda 21, Reap Report, Brundtland Report and 'The Egan Report'), who's joint proposals (co-formed with Avril Fox - co-author of 1989 'Green Design'), were invited for submission to Climate CoLab in 2011, who paid for her education - to learn of this recession in 2002, and was advised 'in class' to follow CAT Eco-Village as an exemplar - and went on to spend ten years working unpaid in all the research, writing, and prep to 'take the risk'.
L.

________________________________
 From: Tony Gosling <tony at cultureshop.org.uk>
To: diggers350 at yahoogroups.com; TheLandIsOurs at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Diggers350] Campaign against Bedroom Tax demands Benefit  Justice

Thanks for this Dave,
Right on the money.
This has all being drawn up in the city and is being implemented by
former UBS investment banker fraudster Lord Freud who rarely dares to
appear in public but did this morning on BBC Radio 5 Live
T

The UBS Libor-Fraud E-mails Are a Gift for Regulators
By Nick Summers on December 19, 2012  
Just a week before Christmas, the Libor scandal is a gift that keeps on
giving. The Swiss bank UBS (UBS) has been fined $1.5 billion and two of
its former traders were charged with conspiracy in the United States,
while U.K. regulators released a report (PDF) that captures the bank’s
employees engaging in routine, casual, and brazen manipulation of what
has been called the world’s most important number.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-19/the-ubs-libor-fraud-emails-are-a-gift-for-regulators

Lord Freud: People “too Comfortable” on Benefits. 
November 24, 2012 
Andrew Coates 
http://intensiveactivity.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/lord-freud-people-too-comfortable-on-benefits 
The Guardian reports, on the latest wit and wisdom by our old friend Lord
Freud, 
The government’s welfare reform minister has suggested lone parents,
sickness claimants and other people on benefits are too comfortable not
having to work for their income, saying they are able to “have a
lifestyle” on the state. 
In an interview with House Magazine, Lord Freud is reported to have said
the benefits system is “dreadful” and discourages poor people from taking
the risks he implied they should be willing to bear to change their
circumstances. 
“The incapacity benefits, the lone parents, the people who are
self-employed for year after year and only earn hundreds of pounds or a
few thousand pounds, the people waiting for their work ability assessment
then not going to it – all kinds of areas where people are able to have a
lifestyle off benefits and actually off conditionality,” the Conservative
peer said. 
They add, 
Freud, a former journalist and investment banker, told the magazine that
his background did not make him unable to understand the reality of
living on benefits. “You don’t have to be the corpse to go to the
funeral, which is the implied criticism there,” he said. 
What an odd metaphor. 
No doubt he was thinking of us as living corpses. 

Looking at the register of Lords interests he is a trustee of
something called the Jecda foundation a ‘charity’ worth 1.6 million. 
Trustees: David Anthony Freud, Priscilla Jane Freud, Mr Andrew Alexander
Freud, Ms Emily Annette Freud, Miss Juliet Freud (nothing like keeping it
in the family) 
Based at Eastry Court, Church Street, Eastry, Sandwich, Kent, CT13 0HL
(next to the church – use google street view it’s not labeled properly on
the map). 

3. THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE: 
3.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY; 
3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND HEALTH; 
3.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT; AND 
3.4 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS SHALL BE
EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE 

Perhaps we should ask it for a grant. 

Someone called ‘David Anthony Freud’ is a director of ’29 Montpelier
Grove Management Company Limited’. This will probably be the freehold
company for a London flat – which he may or may not be renting out to
another MP.

Lord Freud's welfare 'lifestyle' comments show 'nasty party is back',
say Labour
Labour have seized on comments by Lord Freud, the Minister for
Welfare Reform who likened life on benefits to a funeral. 
Lord Freud, the minister for welfare reform Photo: Allstar Picture
Library / Alamy
By Telegraph reporters
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9698985/Lord-Freuds-welfare-lifestyle-comments-show-nasty-party-is-back-say-Labour.html
2:30PM GMT 23 Nov 2012
Lord Freud said the benefits system was "dreadful" and allowed
lone parents and sickness claimants to "have a lifestyle" on
the state. 
Poor people should be prepared to take more risks because they have the
least to lose, according to the minister for welfare reform. 
The Tory peer, a former banker and descendent of Sigmund Freud, who is
helping to push through a radical overhaul of the welfare state, insisted
he understood the reality of living on benefits, arguing "you don't
have to be the corpse to go to a funeral". 
Liam Byrne, the Shadow Work and Pensions secretary, said the comments
were "disgusting", adding: "The nasty party is well and
truly back." 
In an interview with The House magazine, he said: "We've got the
circumstances now where... people who are poorer should be prepared to
take the biggest risks - they've got least to lose." 
"We have, through our welfare system, created a system which has
made them reluctant to take risks so we need to turn that on its head and
make the system predictable so that people will take those risks. 
"I think we have a dreadful welfare system." 
He added: "You know, the incapacity benefits, the lone parents, the
people who are self-employed for year after year and only earn hundreds
of pounds or a few thousand pounds, the people waiting for their work
ability assessment then not going to it - all kinds of areas where people
are able to have a lifestyle off benefits and actually off
conditionality." 
Lord Freud dismissed the possibility of taking part in a television
documentary which filmed him living on benefits for a week, something a
number of politicians have done in the past. 
"I have thought of the issue," he said. "The trouble is,
it's a stunt when someone like me does it because you do it for a week.
That's not the point." 
He added: "I think you don't have to be the corpse to go to a
funeral, which is the implied criticism there."
Mr Byrne continued: "Lord Freud is a former investment banker and
now a minister of the crown. For him of all people to compare people on
benefits to corpses and likening their lives to a funeral is quite
frankly disgusting. 
"He is quite clearly a man in total denial about the pain his
policies are about to cause." 
Lord Freud advised the Labour government on welfare after publishing an
independent report in March 2007 on the Welfare to Work system. 
He said former prime minister Gordon Brown "thought he could soften
me up and then dump me in with his officials and I would just
capitulate" in talks they had on reforms. 
He added: "Which I thought was a pretty demeaning thing for a
chancellor and prime minister-to-be, to think that was his role. 
"And in practice a pretty foolish strategy when you're up against
someone who's an investment banker, who gets yelled at every day of his
life, if not three times, by chief executives, finance directors and
chairmen for one thing or another. So, if he was wanting to get an
outcome, it was a pretty poor strategy."

At 00:10 14/01/2013, david bangs wrote:

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>    
>Stop privatisation; improve existing and build a new generation of first
class council housing  
>Campaign against Bedroom Tax demands Benefit Justice 
>Tenants and campaigners from across Britain are coming to London next
Saturday 19th Jan to link up a campaign against attacks on Housing and
other Benefits.DCH is organising with Disabled people against Cuts
(DPAC), PCS and Unite trade unions and others to link up tenants and
other groups hit by these changes. Tenants, disabled people and community
organisations, trade unions and local and national campaigns will meet on
19 Jan to co-ordinate and organise.Reminder
>Benefit Justice organising meeting 12-2.00 pm Sat 19 Jan at Unite House,
128 Theobald's Road,London WC1X 8TN (nearest tube Holborn). Email
info at defendcouncilhousing.org.uk for more information.See Leeds Bedroom Tax leaflet 
>
>DCH demands:
>* Direct investment in council housing as a matter of urgency - write off
historic HRA housing debt to enable new council housing
>* Defend security of tenure for existing and future tenants
>* No eviction of tenants in rent arrears due to Housing Benefit cuts
>* Investment in a massive programme of new and improved, energy-efficient
council house building 
>
>To stop getting DCH broadcasts reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in subject. 
>For background information on the demand for investment in council
housing and who supports the campaign see www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk 
>
>   
>
>  Protest Leaflet 15th Nov 
>
>   Election Briefing April 2012 
>
>   Statement from Housing Emergency tenants conference 
>
>   DCH_newspaper_Sept2012 
>
>   Council Housing: Time To Invest 
>
>   Affiliate and donate 
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