Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Monday 15 November 2010
Unaided
No more Legal Aid for benefits cases, so what will become of the Citizens' Advice Bureaux? The Government has engaged a private company to handle Incapacity Benefit, and fifty per cent of its rulings are overturned on appeal, with that figure rising to eighty per cent where there is proper assistance from the CAB or some such. It would be one hundred per cent if the process had not physically and mentally exhausted most of those who are subject to it. So the CAB has to go. And ending Legal Aid for benefits cases does that nicely.
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