If you didn't know which party this guy was from, you would have to google it, because it's a pretty consistent policy across all parties to wrongfully blame sick and disabled people for their poverty.
Never have I seen such a perfect example of Schrödinger's Migrant.
Zia Yusuf, asked whose PIP Reform would cut, talks about "foreign nationals". Less than a minute later, same "foreign nationals" are taking all the jobs and damning British youth to life on PIP.
🤡 Utter clownshow. ~AA
Zia Yusuf, asked whose PIP Reform would cut, talks about "foreign nationals". Less than a minute later, same "foreign nationals" are taking all the jobs and damning British youth to life on PIP.
🤡 Utter clownshow. ~AA
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If you didn't know which party this guy was from, you would have to google it, because it's a pretty consistent policy across all parties to wrongfully blame sick and disabled people for their poverty.
Often wondered if it's just as frustrating a task as an employer as it is as a claimant to engage with an organisation that has predominantly been turned into a harsh gatekeeper for social security entitlements.
New today from DWP: Claims that just one in five employers have engaged with Jobcentre Plus. Actually, it's worse than that - the DWP employer survey says most of the contacts are about workplace pensions, apprenticeships (then not DWP), child support and disability issues, not JCP services.
Businesses missing out on specialist JCP recruitment support worth thousands
UK businesses are being offered no-fee specialist recruitment support to fill vacancies as the full rollout of a national campaign launches today (Monday 3 November) targeted at key sectors.
www.gov.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Often wondered if it's just as frustrating a task as an employer as it is as a claimant to engage with an organisation that has predominantly been turned into a harsh gatekeeper for social security entitlements.
Reposted by Rob Gershon
New today from DWP: Claims that just one in five employers have engaged with Jobcentre Plus. Actually, it's worse than that - the DWP employer survey says most of the contacts are about workplace pensions, apprenticeships (then not DWP), child support and disability issues, not JCP services.
Businesses missing out on specialist JCP recruitment support worth thousands
UK businesses are being offered no-fee specialist recruitment support to fill vacancies as the full rollout of a national campaign launches today (Monday 3 November) targeted at key sectors.
www.gov.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
New today from DWP: Claims that just one in five employers have engaged with Jobcentre Plus. Actually, it's worse than that - the DWP employer survey says most of the contacts are about workplace pensions, apprenticeships (then not DWP), child support and disability issues, not JCP services.
Reposted by Rob Gershon
Never mind shrugging aside nurse's advice, I have come across a totally unqualified "medical adviser" to a social landlord asserting they knew better than a *professor consultant* at a London teaching hospital specialising in tenant's rare illness.
November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Never mind shrugging aside nurse's advice, I have come across a totally unqualified "medical adviser" to a social landlord asserting they knew better than a *professor consultant* at a London teaching hospital specialising in tenant's rare illness.
Are the TSMs out yet?
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Are the TSMs out yet?
Urgh, Sovereign. This is clearly Not Fixed.
Tried to help a tenant last/this year with something almost exactly the same, they eventually just homeswapped because Sovereign thought they had fixed it, but they had not. An internal comms and systems problem that leaves tenants unhelped.
Tried to help a tenant last/this year with something almost exactly the same, they eventually just homeswapped because Sovereign thought they had fixed it, but they had not. An internal comms and systems problem that leaves tenants unhelped.
November 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Urgh, Sovereign. This is clearly Not Fixed.
Tried to help a tenant last/this year with something almost exactly the same, they eventually just homeswapped because Sovereign thought they had fixed it, but they had not. An internal comms and systems problem that leaves tenants unhelped.
Tried to help a tenant last/this year with something almost exactly the same, they eventually just homeswapped because Sovereign thought they had fixed it, but they had not. An internal comms and systems problem that leaves tenants unhelped.
So important to tie all these issues together, and very neatly and carefully done by @hannahfearn.bsky.social. Some of these things have felt inevitable since the coalition's swingeing welfare cuts after 2010, and the solutions now require a real policy shift.
The latest edition of HQM is out now! Read Hannah Fearn last word column in which she outlines why living through scarcity opens the door to bad actors hqm.hqnetwork.co.uk/the-last-wor... #ukhousing
November 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
So important to tie all these issues together, and very neatly and carefully done by @hannahfearn.bsky.social. Some of these things have felt inevitable since the coalition's swingeing welfare cuts after 2010, and the solutions now require a real policy shift.
Reposted by Rob Gershon
Isabel Oakeshott on behalf of Reform calling for Sharia law in Britain. No, I'm not even joking. That's literally what she's saying here.
The UAE where hugging in public can get you arrested, where human rights barely exist, where foreign workers are routinely abused, where critics of the regime routinely disappear, where an Indian nanny was shot by firing squad in March & where marital rape is not a criminal offence but being gay is.
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Isabel Oakeshott on behalf of Reform calling for Sharia law in Britain. No, I'm not even joking. That's literally what she's saying here.
There is still time to book for tomorrow's @hqnmedia.bsky.social Resident's Network annual conference. Book one or more staff places and get 5, yes FIVE, free places for tenants. Hear from MHCLG, Ombudsman & tenants setting up national bodies in England and Wales: hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r...
The Residents' Network annual conference 2025: Amplifying the tenant voice and shouting about success - HQN
Join us as we celebrate resident engagement and how residents are finding their voice at a national, regional and local level through a range of successful initiatives.
hqnetwork.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
There is still time to book for tomorrow's @hqnmedia.bsky.social Resident's Network annual conference. Book one or more staff places and get 5, yes FIVE, free places for tenants. Hear from MHCLG, Ombudsman & tenants setting up national bodies in England and Wales: hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r...
Reposted by Rob Gershon
Our Residents' Network conference is only 2 weeks away, & one of our hosts will be @simplicitly.bsky.social,HQN associate. Find out more & book your place below
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
October 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Our Residents' Network conference is only 2 weeks away, & one of our hosts will be @simplicitly.bsky.social,HQN associate. Find out more & book your place below
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
Perfect timing from the Housing Ombudsman. A day after Awaab's Law was technically passed onto the statute books, a report naming some landlords still failing to address Damp & Mould. Despite years of terrible publicity, landlords still forcing squalor. www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/2025/10/28/l...
Latest damp and mould report
Mushrooms growing on a child’s bedroom wall among cases in latest Housing Ombudsman damp and mould report.
www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Perfect timing from the Housing Ombudsman. A day after Awaab's Law was technically passed onto the statute books, a report naming some landlords still failing to address Damp & Mould. Despite years of terrible publicity, landlords still forcing squalor. www.housing-ombudsman.org.uk/2025/10/28/l...
Why attempt to make this party political? Terrible behaviour. The rules weren't created under Labour and it really shouldn't matter either way. Outcomes of the actual policy are still very much unknown, as the unfulfilled intentions of the rest of the regulation of social housing act have shown us.
Awaab’s Law is a powerful legacy for a little boy who should still be here.
No family living in social housing should have their home blighted by dangerous damp and mould.
Labour's new rules will force action within 24 hours.
Negligence is no longer an option—it’s a crime.
No family living in social housing should have their home blighted by dangerous damp and mould.
Labour's new rules will force action within 24 hours.
Negligence is no longer an option—it’s a crime.
Father of boy, 2, who died from mould in flat hopes new law will save others
Awaab Ishak's death caused outrage and prompted the passage of Awaab's Law with a requirement for landlords to fix hazards in social housing more quickly and rehouse tenants if necessary.
news.sky.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Why attempt to make this party political? Terrible behaviour. The rules weren't created under Labour and it really shouldn't matter either way. Outcomes of the actual policy are still very much unknown, as the unfulfilled intentions of the rest of the regulation of social housing act have shown us.
Reposted by Rob Gershon
If Reform do get into government, the media organisation whose response will most closely resemble the cravenness seen in the US will be the BBC - probably even more than the right wing press
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
If Reform do get into government, the media organisation whose response will most closely resemble the cravenness seen in the US will be the BBC - probably even more than the right wing press
This is just so satisfying for people like me who are very miffed at the entire policy direction. Clearly there will be different factors at play in future elections but the idea their vote can be eroded like this feels possible anywhere.
But Lab falling to barely over 10% has no historical precedent - drastically lower than any vote share they have ever received in 115 years of standing candidates in the area.
October 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This is just so satisfying for people like me who are very miffed at the entire policy direction. Clearly there will be different factors at play in future elections but the idea their vote can be eroded like this feels possible anywhere.
Clarion Housing has featured in 14 out of the entire 18 months' worth of Severe Maladministration failure reports from the Housing Ombudsman, so it's no surprise it has structural problems it is still pretending don't exist.
And so, in light of Clarion's ongoing highlighting of Things Not Yet Fixed: hqnetwork.co.uk/news/opinion...
Opinion: HAs are still cutting corners – so, where's the regulator? - HQN
By Rob Gershon, HQN associate
hqnetwork.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Clarion Housing has featured in 14 out of the entire 18 months' worth of Severe Maladministration failure reports from the Housing Ombudsman, so it's no surprise it has structural problems it is still pretending don't exist.
And so, in light of Clarion's ongoing highlighting of Things Not Yet Fixed: hqnetwork.co.uk/news/opinion...
Opinion: HAs are still cutting corners – so, where's the regulator? - HQN
By Rob Gershon, HQN associate
hqnetwork.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
And so, in light of Clarion's ongoing highlighting of Things Not Yet Fixed: hqnetwork.co.uk/news/opinion...
Reposted by Rob Gershon
Our Residents' Network conference is only 2 weeks away, & one of our guest speakers, Tenant Voice Advocate Emma Nichols, will be expanding on creating a national tenant voice for Wales. Find out more & book your place below
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
October 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Our Residents' Network conference is only 2 weeks away, & one of our guest speakers, Tenant Voice Advocate Emma Nichols, will be expanding on creating a national tenant voice for Wales. Find out more & book your place below
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
Reposted by Rob Gershon
Our Residents' Network conference is only 2 weeks away, & one of our guest speakers, Joseph De-Ville, will be focusing on the creation of a new national tenant voice. Find out more & book your place below
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
October 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Our Residents' Network conference is only 2 weeks away, & one of our guest speakers, Joseph De-Ville, will be focusing on the creation of a new national tenant voice. Find out more & book your place below
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
hqnetwork.co.uk/events/the-r... #ukhousing
From yesterday - Clarion Housing (again) manager tells a worker to fake fire safety work in 2022. Worker reports it a year later, manager eventually sacked summer 2025. There is a deep culture problem at Clarion, and elsewhere, and govt/sector response not good enough: news.sky.com/video/clario...
Clarion manager told staff to fake fire safety documents in social housing, leaked recording reveals
In the recording, a manager at the UK's largest housing association instructs an employee on how to pretend he's put up an important fire safety notice.
news.sky.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
From yesterday - Clarion Housing (again) manager tells a worker to fake fire safety work in 2022. Worker reports it a year later, manager eventually sacked summer 2025. There is a deep culture problem at Clarion, and elsewhere, and govt/sector response not good enough: news.sky.com/video/clario...
Reposted by Rob Gershon
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Zero surprises. 'Rolling over to developers' is the only option governments have when they won't specifically invest in social housing. The hats are off-putting but the policy is going to dig the affordability crisis even deeper.
A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty
A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty
Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Zero surprises. 'Rolling over to developers' is the only option governments have when they won't specifically invest in social housing. The hats are off-putting but the policy is going to dig the affordability crisis even deeper.
The idea that there is a cohort of people who want to claim some of the worst benefits there are just so they can be harangued by clueless politicians and subjected to interacting with the dregs of the British workforce at the DWP and Jobcentre is for the birds.
Like the Tories, the Labour government is trying to drive down the number of people who qualify for disability benefits by insisting there has been an epidemic of “overdiagnosis”: a favourite theme of the BBC and the junktanks of Tufton Street. Never mind the science: what outcome do we want?
October 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The idea that there is a cohort of people who want to claim some of the worst benefits there are just so they can be harangued by clueless politicians and subjected to interacting with the dregs of the British workforce at the DWP and Jobcentre is for the birds.
What have LiveWest tenants done to deserve this?
Bromford Flagship and LiveWest confirm merger talks
Bromford Flagship and LiveWest confirm merger talks
Bromford Flagship and LiveWest have revealed that talks are underway to combine the two housing associations
dlvr.it
October 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
What have LiveWest tenants done to deserve this?
There have been 17 monthly reports from the Housing Ombudsman designed to help the housing sector learn lessons from severe maladministration, but the lessons are similar every month. Why aren't social landlords learning them? It can't all be time lag and it's years since spotlight reports began.
In this article for HQN, @simplicitly.bsky.social looks back through the Housing Ombudsman's mountain of reports and asks why social landlords don't appear to be learning anything from what they expose hqnetwork.co.uk/news/opinion... #ukhousing
Opinion: Why aren't we learning lessons from learning lessons? - HQN
It’s enlightening to briefly look back on the summarised conclusions of that first report. There might even be lessons to learn from them. The Housing
hqnetwork.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM
There have been 17 monthly reports from the Housing Ombudsman designed to help the housing sector learn lessons from severe maladministration, but the lessons are similar every month. Why aren't social landlords learning them? It can't all be time lag and it's years since spotlight reports began.
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In this article for HQN, @simplicitly.bsky.social looks back through the Housing Ombudsman's mountain of reports and asks why social landlords don't appear to be learning anything from what they expose hqnetwork.co.uk/news/opinion... #ukhousing
Opinion: Why aren't we learning lessons from learning lessons? - HQN
It’s enlightening to briefly look back on the summarised conclusions of that first report. There might even be lessons to learn from them. The Housing
hqnetwork.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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