tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post7630978068268295027..comments2023-11-25T01:12:34.326+00:00Comments on Benefit Scrounging Scum: £25bn of extra welfare cuts? LOL DCBenefitScroungingScumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939136229593231935noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-58263235215047181522012-05-17T15:48:57.285+01:002012-05-17T15:48:57.285+01:00Kaliya,
Here is the actual quote from Leveson. Th...Kaliya,<br />Here is the actual quote from Leveson. The Telegraph line I quoted above was a bit misleading. It was refering to the Welfare Reform Bill under Labour, not the current one. But still shows the newspapers influence on government policy when she says "WE" tried again.<br /><br />"..in the latter years of Tony Blair's prime ministership, the hostilities between him and Gordon Brown got increasingly worse and there did become a Tony Blair camp and a Gordon Brown camp, and on<br />particular issues -- say, for example, the welfare reform bill, which I think they first tried to get through in 2004 -- hostilities between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair were such that it didn't get through that time. WE TRIED AGAIN. (my caps)It was very important for Sun readers."<br /><br />To my mind, this suggests the paper sets the agendas and then when the readers go along with it, her excuse is they are following the readers' wishes. Tricky stuff, eh?<br /><br />page 29 Leveson <br /><br />http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-11-May-2012.txtJessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-64441606664294106992012-05-17T14:15:33.873+01:002012-05-17T14:15:33.873+01:00Hi Kaliya,
Did anyone pick up on this?
During her...Hi Kaliya,<br /><br />Did anyone pick up on this?<br />During her testimony at the Leveson inquiry on Friday, Rebekkah Brooks said:<br /><br /><br />“We needed to get the Welfare Bill through.” Which “we” was that, then? Did she mean that her newspaper group regarded itself as an arm of government? Sadly, no one asked her to elaborate."<br /><br />Picked up from Telegraph commentary:<br /><br />(below the bit about 7 Up series)<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/allison-pearson/9269805/Seven-Up-A-tale-of-two-Englands-that-shamefully-still-exist.html<br /><br />If this is correct, do we not have absolute proof from the "horse's mouth" (LOL)that the media is knowingly complicit in publishing inaccurate welfare stories for political purposes??Jessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-14671342708295961632012-05-16T16:58:35.659+01:002012-05-16T16:58:35.659+01:00Its not just the past couple of years we can damn ...Its not just the past couple of years we can damn labour but go back to 2006 and Blair with Fraud Freud.voxpopuli2https://www.blogger.com/profile/00234777228125500842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-46374369859331313732012-05-16T14:26:23.259+01:002012-05-16T14:26:23.259+01:00Unfortunately, for the most part, the Labour Party...Unfortunately, for the most part, the Labour Party has not only been complicit in demonising the sick, they have taken it forward with great gusto.<br /><br />Kicking the sick is seen, by Labour, as vote winning.<br /><br />Tom Harris MP even stated that the Labour Party is not here for the poorest in society, during his campaign to be leader of the Party in Scotland.<br /><br />Labour. I do not trust them. In Scotland the SNP has been consistently against these changed. It would take some very simple, bold, PUBLIC, declarations by all the Labour Front Bench to get me starting to think they might changeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-35231611793921698262012-05-16T13:45:47.693+01:002012-05-16T13:45:47.693+01:00politicians pursue policies they perceive to be &#...politicians pursue policies they perceive to be 'popular' and anti-disability media coverage has ensured this. IDS and Cameron feel there are no lengths they can't go to in hounding the poor and sick and Labour began the ATOS fiasco. What is needed is a major change in public opinion on the issue of Welfare Cuts and that won't be easy.mrswupplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10012555558218665781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-20792541206651154952012-05-16T13:37:11.298+01:002012-05-16T13:37:11.298+01:00Unfortunately, with MP's like mine, John Woodc...Unfortunately, with MP's like mine, John Woodcock, we are going to get nowhere. <br /><br />He has supported the woodlands, bowling greens and one young cancer patient after her bucket list became famous. <br /><br />He has also supported workfare and argued that it didn't go far enough, ignored emails I have sent over the WRB and made little noise that I've heard about the Remploy factory being closed in this constituency.<br /><br />I have no expectations of him at all unless it is something he can use for his own popularity.Tony Holdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09310786024432773213noreply@blogger.com