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IDS speak..any ideas?
Can anyone else understand IDS’s response to a parliamentary question…? is it good news or bad?
Heidi Allen (South Cambridgeshire) (Con): I have a brief question on universal credit, as we continue to roll it out. Is there an opportunity to extend the dedicated telephone line that housing associations enjoy direct to universal credit to citizens advice bureaux, which do an incredible amount of work but are struggling to make contact with the people who can help them?
Mr Duncan Smith: Under universal support, which is delivered locally, we are talking hugely to local authorities and all the local organisations in the area, and my hon. Friend will find that this will be swept up as part of that process; it is a dramatic improvement on where tax credits are right now, because it brings in all those other benefits as well.
sounds like gobbledegook to me - not answering the question whilst spouting rubbish….
sounds like gobbledegook to me - not answering the question whilst spouting rubbish….
Gobbledegook? Awwww, you are just being nice…........ not sure I can say what I think.
I don’t think he understood the question, and just gave a random general answer
I think he’s referring to localism.
Maybe?
What is talking “hugely”? Also, this HA doesn’t have a dedicated hotline to UC and never has. We have to deal with the same contact centres as anyone else.
IDS can’t even give a straight answer to a friendly question from a member of his own party. Just shows that lies and obfuscation are his default settings.
[ Edited: 14 Jan 2016 at 01:06 pm by Benny Fitzpatrick ]The secret’s out! He’s a Dada poet, shredding structured language and rational thought in order to destroy the barriers between sense and nonsense in pursuit of an ideal of anti-art.
Either that or Benny is spot-on.
Possibly both.
I’m intrigued by ‘talking hugely’ - perhaps they are going to get Brian Blessed to ring local authorities!
Can anyone else understand IDS’s response to a parliamentary question…?
No.
So he’s talking awfully, badly, filthy, frightfully, mortally, roaringly, spanking, stinking, terribly, wicked and wildly?
Benny - what’s your email address? I can send you the UC special number for HA’s. it’s for rent/ housing element type issues rather than welfare rights though
Sean
This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.
UC isn’t delivered locally, is it?
‘Universal Support – delivered locally’ is the renamed ‘Local Support Services Framework’ . It’s about support for vulnerable people to claim and run their Universal Credit accounts. The aim is for local authorities to provide, with other local partners, such support. There is not, of course, enough money available to do it properly.
‘Universal Support – delivered locally’ is the renamed ‘Local Support Services Framework’ . It’s about support for vulnerable people to claim and run their Universal Credit accounts. The aim is for local authorities to provide, with other local partners, such support. There is not, of course, enough money available to do it properly.
Nor does it even indirectly answer the question of whether CAb can have a direct line to UC. Quelle Suprise.
Perhaps he means they’ve hired a 50 foot woman to tour the country to talk to LA staff.