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A heated row has broken out over a move by Britain's largest bakery chain to launch a vegan sausage roll.

The pastry, which is filled with a meat substitute and encased in 96 pastry layers, is available in 950 Greggs stores across the country.

It was promised after 20,000 people signed a petition calling for the snack to be launched to accommodate plant-based diet eaters.


But the vegan sausage roll's launch has been greeted by a mixed reaction: Some consumers welcomed it, while others voiced their objections.

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Cook and food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe declared she was "frantically googling to see what time my nearest opens tomorrow morning because I will be outside".

While TV writer Brydie Lee-Kennedy called herself "very pro the Greggs vegan sausage roll because anything that wrenches veganism back from the 'clean eating' wellness folk is a good thing".

One Twitter user wrote that finding vegan sausage rolls missing from a store in Corby had "ruined my morning".

Another said: "My son is allergic to dairy products which means I can't really go to Greggs when he's with me. Now I can. Thank you vegans."

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TV presenter Piers Morgan led the charge of those outraged by the new roll.

"Nobody was waiting for a vegan bloody sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr Morgan later complained at receiving "howling abuse from vegans", adding: "I get it, you're all hangry. I would be too if I only ate plants and gruel."

Another Twitter user said: "I really struggle to believe that 20,000 vegans are that desperate to eat in a Greggs."

"You don't paint a mustach (sic) on the Mona Lisa and you don't mess with the perfect sausage roll," one quipped.

Journalist Nooruddean Choudry suggested Greggs introduce a halal steak bake to "crank the fume levels right up to 11".

The bakery chain told concerned customers that "change is good" and that there would "always be a classic sausage roll".

It comes on the same day McDonald's launched its first vegetarian "Happy Meal", designed for children.

The new dish comes with a "veggie wrap", instead of the usual chicken or beef option.
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It should be noted that Piers Morgan and Greggs share the same PR firm, so I'm thinking this is some serious faux outrage and South Park KKK gambiting here.
 
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Morethanabitfoolish said:
But conversely Kier and co. were the ones screaming last winter that the energy prices were tantamount to the Tories personally murdering every single pensioner in the country.
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And as said they’ve already admitted that the benefits that everyone should be put on to get it back will cost them more.

So not only are they being hypocritcs they are by their own admition being pointlessly stupid.

If I were the Unions that’s why I’d hate its removal. The fact they are not saving money and are knowingly causing distress.
 
6MillionCoofs said:
And as said they’ve already admitted that the benefits that everyone should be put on to get it back will cost them more.

So not only are they being hypocritcs they are by their own admition being pointlessly stupid.

If I were the Unions that’s why I’d hate its removal. The fact they are not saving money and are knowingly causing distress.
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Tinfoil hare moment: they want pensioners to die so when they lower inheritance tax thresh holds they can rob off their corpses.
 
FedPostalService said:
Tinfoil hare moment: they want pensioners to die so when they lower inheritance tax thresh holds they can rob off their corpses.
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I’m not even convinced they want that. Considering the people they have in Gov. i’m convinced they thought of something, comitted to it and then actually researched the issue after everyone told them it was stupid. But now it is too late to get out of it.
 
6MillionCoofs said:
I’m not even convinced they want that. Considering the people they have in Gov. i’m convinced they thought of something, comitted to it and then actually researched the issue after everyone told them it was stupid. But now it is too late to get out of it.
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They’ve really fucked themselves. My parents are total Labour Cattle and I’ve never heard them openly badmouthing Labour before.

This is happening during what should be their honeymoon period.

I‘m wondering how many more times they can get caught with their hands in the till.
 
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I‘m wondering how many more times they can get caught with their hands in the till.
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Add this to the list.
Sir Keir Starmer has admitted that Lord Alli gave him £32,000 to pay for clothing, double what he previously declared.
The Prime Minister received clothing donations worth £10,000 in October 2023 and £6,000 in February 2024, his office said on Friday. The donations were originally declared as money for his private office, but have now been “re-categorised”.
The extra £16,000 comes on top of the £16,200 that had already been declared.
His disclosure will raise more questions over how close Sir Keir is to the Labour peer.
Sir Keir also received £2,400 from Lord Alli for glasses, and the use of an £18 million penthouse during the election campaign and on other occasions. Members of his frontbench team have also declared large donations from the peer.
Last night, Labour claimed there were no further re-categorisations to come.
The latest gifts were not previously known as they were described as being “for the private office of the Leader of the Opposition”.

It is understood that Sir Keir sought advice from the registrar of MPs’ interests over the two donations, and they will be re-categorised as “donations in kind” of clothing. The original donations were declared on time.
Sir Keir said last week he would no longer accept money for clothes while in office, as did Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, and Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister.
Lord Alli gave Ms Rayner a donation for work clothing in June. It was declared as a donation in kind worth £3,550, without explaining that it was for outfits.
Labour has claimed that all opposition parties invest in the presentation of candidates, including speech and media training, as well as photography and clothing.
It emerged this month that the parliamentary standards watchdog would not investigate another instance in which Sir Keir initially failed to declare clothes donated to his wife, Lady Starmer, also by Lord Alli.
Earlier this week, the Prime Minister defended the use of the peer’s Covent Garden apartment. He said he took the offer so that his son would have a place to study for his GCSEs without having to walk past journalists and protesters outside their family home. The exams finished in mid-June, about a month before the family moved out.
Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, also used the property to host a fundraising event. Ms Rayner has used another of Lord Alli’s properties, a flat in New York, for a holiday.

The London flat was also used by Lord Alli to host Sir Tony Blair and Sue Gray to discuss the future of the Labour party, months after she became Sir Keir’s chief of staff.
The former prime minister was seated next to Ms Gray during the summit at the flat at the beginning of the year.
It emerged yesterday that the peer also held a number of meetings with Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator, and warned against military intervention in the country.
Lord Alli spoke in the House of Lords about his “several” meetings with Assad, who is responsible for multiple war crimes.
He argued against then-prime minister Lord Cameron’s plan to bomb Syrian troops a week after Assad unleashed chemical weapons against his own people.
In a speech in 2013, he said that if Assad were toppled, the country would be at the mercy of “soldiers with guns but no paymaster”. The following day, the Commons unexpectedly failed to approve military action after Labour – then led by Ed Miliband – refused to back the move.
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While I'm at it.

Green party woes continue
A senior activist who won an unlawful discrimination claim against the Green Party of England and Wales has been expelled and told he cannot return for at least two years.
In February, a judge found that the Greens had unlawfully discriminated against Dr Shahrar Ali during a row over his gender-critical beliefs.
Ali, who is a former deputy leader, was awarded damages of £9,100.
The Greens were also ordered to pay him a further £90,000 in costs in September.
He has now been excluded from the party for a fixed term of two years as a result of complaints made about him in 2022.
The Green Party has said it would not comment on an individual case.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68250071
It is understood that some of the complaints against Ali related to a social media post he shared in July 2022, in which he suggested that teaching the concept of transgender identity to two year olds was a "danger to children".
In a message on X, he quoted a post by the campaign group Stonewall which said that research suggested that "children as young as 2 recognise their trans identity".
Ali added a comment which said: "Off scale of safeguarding risk. Would we teach 2 year olds concept of schizophrenia?"
The party has told him that any future readmission would be conditional on him publicly retracting tweets that had been complained about, apologising and undertaking safeguarding training.
He was suspended from the party in August this year after separate complaints about comments he made on social media relating to the row about the Olympic boxer Imane Khelif.
Ali claimed there had been flaws in the disciplinary process which resulted in his exclusion and accused the party of "corruption" of "breathtaking, Kafkaesque proportions"
He intends to appeal.
A Green Party spokesperson said: "We don't comment on individual disciplinary cases."
The party removed Ali as its spokesman for policing and domestic safety in February 2022 for allegedly breaching the party's Spokespeople Code of Conduct.
At a hearing in February, a court ruled that Ali's removal was "procedurally unfair" because the Green Party had not identified any code breaches at his dismissal.
Judge Stephen Hellman said he could not rule out the possibility that this unfairness had been due Ali's gender critical beliefs.
But the judgement found political parties can remove spokespeople for holding "beliefs that were inconsistent with party policy", if done through fair procedures.
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More charity fraud
The model Naomi Campbell has been banned from being a charity trustee after a UK watchdog found charity funds were spent on luxury hotels and spa treatments.
A Charity Commission inquiry found Fashion for Relief was not passing on as much of the money raised as it was supposed to.
Instead it was being spent on cigarettes and security for Campbell and other unauthorised payments to one of her fellow charity trustees.
"I've just found out today about the findings, and I am extremely concerned," Campbell, 54, told AP news agency.
She added she was not the person "in control" of the charity.

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She has been banned from charity involvement for five years with two other trustees, Bianka Hellmich and Veronica Chou, being banned for nine years and four years respectively.
Representatives for the British model have been contacted by the BBC.
The inquiry found that unauthorised payments totalling £290,000 for consultancy services had been made to Ms Hellmich, which was in breach of the charity’s constitution.
Whilst Ms Hellmich had proactively proposed repaying these funds, the Commission-appointed interim managers secured repayments to the charity.


A sum of nearly £345,000 was recovered from the charity by investigators and protection for a further £98,000 of charity money has been established.
The funds have been used to make payments to two other charities - Save the Children Fund and the Mayor’s Fund for London - and to cover the cost of Fashion for Relief's liabilities.
The inquiry, which looked at Fashion for Relief's expenses between April 2016 and July 2022, found that just 8.5% of funds raised were spent on grants to charity.
Following the opening of the inquiry, both Save the Children Fund and the Mayor’s Fund for London made complaints to the commission regarding Fashion for Relief.
Fashion for Relief held fundraising events for the vtwo charities, but the inquiry found that it failed to manage its partnership arrangements.
Tim Hopkins, who was part of the investigations team, said in a statement: “Trustees are legally required to make decisions that are in their charity’s best interests and to comply with their legal duties and responsibilities".
He added: "Our inquiry has found that the trustees of this charity failed to do so, which has resulted in our action to disqualify them".
Fashion for Relief was removed from the register of charities on 15 March 2024.
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I suspect there's more to this story but it's disgusting as is
A couple are calling unfair a £3,000 fine they received after informing police they had found a migrant hiding in their van as they arrived in the UK from France.
Jane Cave and her husband Ed Masters from Broomsthorpe in Norfolk had initially found a man in the back of the van at a supermarket on their way to the French border, and he was removed.
But when travelling through Suffolk on the journey home, they heard knocking and found another migrant and called the police.
Several months after the incident, they received the fine from Border Force, which said it had "sufficient evidence" for the penalty.
Ms Cave said: "It's not our fault. We did everything right."
The couple had been in France on a trip to buy antiques for Ms Cave's business, as first reported by The Telegraph, external.
On their travels back through France, they stopped at a supermarket and said they had exited the van to fill out paperwork for Border Control.
At this point, Ms Cave said her husband had noticed the van moving despite it not being windy.
He then saw a leg and found a man attempting to hide himself, which Ms Cave said left her "a bit shaken up".
The man was removed and left the area before they were back on their journey to the Channel Tunnel.
Once back in the UK, customs teams checked the van, and they were cleared to carry on, Ms Cave said.
However when they got to Barton Mills in Suffolk, they heard a sound.
A picture of Jane Cave. She has a large smile on her face and is wearing a white item of clothing which can be just seen on her shoulders. She has blonde hair and is wearing gold earrings. In the background decorative colourful umbrellas can be seen on the ceiling behind her.
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Ms Cave said they were questioned for two hours by Suffolk Police after reporting they had found the migrant in their van
"We got to Barton Mills, heard a knock on the van, and thought there's someone in the back," Ms Cave told BBC Radio Suffolk.
"There was traffic at the roundabouts, so we stopped.
"Ed let him out, and I called the police, and he got apprehended at the service station.
"We met the police at the next service station and had to explain for two hours about what had happened."
Ms Cave believed it was a young male who had made his way into their van.
Police questioned the couple about whether they were helping the migrant.
Ms Cave said they were too scared to inform them that their van had already been checked by custom teams.

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A few months later, they received a letter informing them that they were being fined.
"It said we are fining you for bringing in a clandestine immigrant," she said.
"[I thought] why? It's not our fault.
"We did everything right."
The couple must pay the fine within the next two years but was paying monthly due to not being able to pay it off in full.
They had the option to appeal the decision within the first two months; however, Ms Cave said for reasons she did not know her husband had not made this decision.
"I hope the fine will be taken off us," she added.
"We'll think twice about going [back to France]."
A general view of Barton Mills roundabout in Suffolk. It shows vehicles on approach to the roundabout. A road sign can be seen offering directions drivers can take around the roundabout.
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The couple heard knocking sounds when travelling along the A11 close to Barton Mills in Suffolk
A Home Office spokesperson said: "We are fully committed to stopping people from illegally entering the country and cracking down on people smugglers.
"We do not issue clandestine entrant civil penalty fines without sufficient evidence."
A spokesperson for Suffolk Police added: "Police were called at approximately 1:35pm on 23 November 2023 to reports that a couple travelling home to Norfolk from France had discovered a male hiding in their vehicle, discovered on the A11 at Barton Mills.
"It was reported that the couple had heard banging from within their van while they were driving near the Fiveways roundabout, so they stopped their vehicle, at which point the male [described as a teenager] jumped out.
"Officers attended, located and detained the male concerned.
"The incident and any further action against the van driver were subsequently dealt with by Home Office Immigration Enforcement."
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Get back to work you filthy malingerers says Kier
Keir Starmer has said he believes that people claiming long-term sickness benefits should be expected to look for work.
He added that there would be "hard cases" and that the government and businesses should help those who may feel anxious about re-entering the workplace, but that the "basic proposition that you should look for work is right".
The prime minister was speaking to the BBC's Today programme, following his party conference speech in which he said he wanted to "level" with the country about the "trade-offs" people would face.
He told Labour activists: "If we want to maintain support for the welfare state, then we will legislate to stop benefit fraud, do everything we can to tackle worklessness."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vk93dnpwpo
Following the speech, he was asked in an interview with the Today programme if he agreed with the proposition that virtually no-one should claim benefits without trying to get back to work.
"The basic proposition that you should look for work is right," he replied.
"People need to look for work, but they also need support.
"That's why I've gone out to look at schemes where businesses are supporting people back into work from long-term sickness.
"Quite often, I think what lies behind this is a fear for someone who's been on long term sickness that - 'can they get back into the workplace? Are they going to be able to cope? Is it all going to go hopelessly wrong?'"
The inactivity rate - the number of people out of work and not looking for a job - surged during the Covid pandemic and has since remained at a persistently high level.
Nearly 3 million people are out of work due to ill health, a 500,000 increase on 2019.
The Office for Budget Responsibility says the cost of sickness and disability benefits will increase by £30bn in the next five years.
Following Sir Keir's conference speech, Labour announced that doctors, expert in speeding up operations, would be sent to areas with the highest number of people out of work due to ill health.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting set out the measure to Labour activists on the last day of the conference in Liverpool.
He said "the best of the NHS" would help "get sick Brits back to health and back to work".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52660591
He said people with concerns should be listened to but added: "We want cheaper electricity, we need cheaper power, we can't pretend that can be done without the need for pylons above the ground.
"Politics is about being honest with people, saying: 'If you want xyz then we are going to have to do the following things'."
On illegal migration, Sir Keir said there was a backlog of tens of thousands of asylum seekers waiting to have their claim processed, while the government was paying for their accommodation.
He accused the previous Conservative government of "pretending there's some magical way to wish away that number".
He said his government would process the backlog and return those who had no right to be in the UK.
"But I was being clear, if you have that process, there will be people who are processed, who then are able to claim asylum."
Around 97,000 people claimed asylum in the year to the end of June 2024, with the largest number coming from Afghanistan. Other nationalities applying in large numbers include those from Iran, Pakistan, Vietnam, India, and Bangladesh.
In the same year, 7,190 people who were not granted asylum were returned to their home country.
One of the prime minister's first decisions was to scrap the Conservative government's Rwanda scheme, which aimed to deter people trying to get to the UK illegally by crossing the Channel in small boats.
The prime minister dismissed the policy as an expensive gimmick and have instead said they want to tackle the smuggling gangs that arrange the crossings.
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Another Covid scandal for Kier swept under the rug
Downing Street has said Sir Keir Starmer did not break any rules when he used Lord Alli's London penthouse to record a COVID-era broadcast urging people to "work from home".

The prime minister revealed on Wednesday he used the millionaire Labour peer's home, estimated to be worth £18m, for his son to study for his GCSEs this summer so he could do so undisturbed during the election campaign.


Sir Keir declared the use of Lord Alli's penthouse as being worth £20,437.28 from 28 May to 13 July, although questions remain about why he continued to use it after exams finished on 19 June.

It has now emerged the Labour leader used the penthouse to record a Christmas video message in December 2021 during the COVID pandemic, as first reported by the political news website Guido Fawkes.

A Downing Street spokesman said no rules were broken.

The Tory government had announced new guidance five days before, asking people to work from home where possible to limit the spread of the Omicron variant.

Behind Sir Keir were pictures of his family and Christmas cards, however, the same shelving had previously appeared in a video from inside Lord Alli's flat.

In the video, he said: "At times like this, we must all put the national interest first and play by the rules.

"Of course, I understand that sticking to the rules can be inconvenient.

"Getting jabbed, wearing masks and working from home if you can will really help prevent infections and help prevent the NHS being overwhelmed."

On Wednesday, Sir Keir defended using Lord Alli's home, telling Sky News he had "promised" his 16-year-old son he could get to his school and sit his exams without being disturbed by photographers and protesters outside their home.

The prime minister said he had made a pledge to his wife, son and daughter that he would "protect them".

Sir Keir told political editor Beth Rigby that when the election was called ahead of the exam period, it meant there were "a lot of journalists" and also protesters "outside my front door".

At this point he told his son, who is 16, he would find somewhere he could "just study and get to school and back without having to go through all of that".

Sir Keir said it was after this that "someone" offered to make a flat "available" for his son - but claimed "no money exchanged hands".

"I wasn't going to let my son fail or not do well in his GCSEs because of journalists outside the front door," the father-of-two added.
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Funding cut but allowed to continue operating. Truly a great solution
Confucius Institutes operating out of British universities have been stripped of their Government funding amid fears over potential Chinese influence.

Thirty of the organisations are active across UK campuses, which were set up to deliver culture and language classes to international students.
But the bodies have been accused of acting as a front for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to clamp down on critical views of Beijing.
Likened to “Trojan horses”, Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said last year that Confucius Institutes are “run and part-funded by the Hanban, an educational organisation that is ultimately controlled by the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department”.
It found that the organisations are “utilised by the Chinese Government in order to dissuade universities from engaging in debates that the CCP considers to be unsuitable topics”, such as teaching about Tibet and Taiwan.
Rishi Sunak promised last year to withdraw their funding, having watered down a previous pledge to ban them altogether after concluding that doing so would be “disproportionate”.
The Department for Education (DfE) told the Telegraph that the push to stop subsidising the bodies has now been completed, meaning Confucius Institutes no longer receive funding from the UK Government.
However, it will still raise questions over whether they should operate in the UK at all, amid growing fears over Chinese interference on British campuses.
The number of Confucius Institutes at US universities and colleges has plummeted from about 100 in 2019 to fewer than five today, after the White House raised “concerns about undue influence and more”.
Lord Patten, the chancellor of Oxford University and the last governor of Hong Kong, urged the new Government to reconsider its position over Confucius Institutes.
“If they are literally just going to be a help in teaching Chinese, that’s fine, but I think it’s very difficult to guarantee that. There’s evidence of some of them trying to get involved and manipulate what’s happening in the university as a whole,” he told the Telegraph.
“We should say we’re not prepared for that to happen. I’d be perfectly happy to welcome support in teaching the Chinese language and teaching other things about Chinese civilization, but not at the expense of anybody trying to manipulate other aspects of the curriculum.”
A Government spokesperson said Confucius Institutes must “operate transparently and within the law”.

It comes amid increasing concerns over UK universities’ dependence on lucrative Chinese students, who make up the second-largest intake among international students.
Experts warn this has made some higher education leaders willing to bend to pressure from Beijing to stifle debate on China-critical subjects, and treat Chinese students differently to their peers.
The Telegraph revealed this week that the Chinese embassy has persistently messaged some universities in recent months asking to arrange meetings with their Chinese student bodies on campus.
The University of Cambridge in September became the latest institution to host a private visit from the Chinese ambassador, during which he told Chinese students to “serve the motherland”.
Zheng Zeguang also “briefed the students on the achievements of China’s development [and] inspired them to love the country”, according to a report of the visit on the Chinese government website.
The ISC has previously warned that Beijing has actively sought to “monitor and control Chinese students’ behaviour” at British universities through a network of more than 90 student Chinese student groups, partly funded by the Chinese embassy.
It warned that there was a “culture of fear and suspicion among Chinese students in the UK”, and that “pressure is exerted on institutions, academics and students to prevent engagement with topics that harm the positive narrative presented by the Chinese Communist Party”.
Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, has so far declined to call China a “threat” since entering No 10, but has launched a major new defence review and a separate audit of UK-China relations.
A Government spokesperson said: “The ongoing audit process on the UK’s relationship with China as a bilateral and global actor will improve the UK’s capability to understand and respond to the challenges and opportunities China poses.
“Like any international body operating in the UK, Confucius Institutes need to operate transparently and within the law, and with a full commitment to our values of openness and freedom of expression.
“The Education Secretary has also made clear that international students will always be welcome, but we are also clear that migration needs to be managed carefully. We welcome international partnerships, including with China, where they add to the academic richness of our universities.”
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Just let us access people's bank accounts we'll only do it for legitimate reasons.
Labour has promised to crack down on benefit fraud by reintroducing “snooper’s charter” proposals mooted under the last government that would allow welfare officials to request information from claimants’ bank accounts.

A fraud, error and debt bill will require banks and other financial institutions to share data that may help identify benefit fraud as part of a package of measures designed to “catch fraudsters faster” and save £1.6bn over five years.


Keir Starmer, the prime minister, announced the bill during his speech to Labour party conference on Tuesday, when he argued that legislating to stop benefit fraud was essential if the government was to “maintain support for the welfare state”.

Campaigners warned ministers against adopting any legislation based too closely on the previous government’s widely criticised data protection and digital information bill, which had similar anti-benefit fraud aspirations.

When that bill – condemned by campaigners as an invasion of privacy likely to disproportionately affect older and disabled claimants – was passing through parliament Labour opposed amendments that required banks to share their customers’ data with the department to help it tackle benefit fraud.

The government said the new bill will include enhanced measures to protect vulnerable claimants, and establish safeguards to ensure the new powers are not misused by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The DWP said: “Staff will be trained to the highest standards on the appropriate use of any new powers, and we will introduce new oversight and reporting mechanisms, to monitor these new powers. DWP will not have access to people’s bank accounts and will not share their personal information with third parties.”

It added: “This legislation delivers on the government’s manifesto commitment to safeguard taxpayers’ money and demonstrates the government’s commitment to not tolerate fraud, error or waste anywhere in public services, including the social security system.”

The DWP is under pressure to tackle huge losses to benefit fraud and error, which more than doubled in cash terms since the pandemic to £9.7bn in 2023-24. It admitted it is unlikely to see fraud and error fall back to pre-2019 levels and has blamed societal trends including “a softening of attitudes regarding fraud”.

The biggest area of benefit fraud, accounting for two-thirds of the total, is in universal credit. It has been subject to large-scale fraud by criminal gangs who exploited flaws in the online benefit’s design to make multiple fraudulent applications – sometimes running into tens of millions of pounds.

The department’s own management of benefits has also come under scrutiny, with its mishandling of carer’s allowance, resulting in hundreds of millions of pounds in avoidable overpayments that landed carers with hefty debts, blamed by MPs on its own administrative failures.

Silkie Carlo, Big Brother Watch’s director, said: “Everyone wants fraud to be dealt with, and the government already has strong powers to investigate the bank statements of suspects.

“But to force banks to constantly spy on benefits recipients without suspicion means that not only millions of disabled people, pensioners and carers will be actively spied on but the whole population’s bank accounts are likely to be monitored for no good reason.

She added: “A financial snooper’s charter targeted to automate suspicion of our country’s poorest is intrusive, unjustified and risks Horizon-style injustice on a mass scale.”

Crossbench peer Beeban Kidron said she hoped the new government was not proposing to resurrect the “egregious proposals” made by the last one. She said: “If the government introduces spyware as previously proposed, I will oppose it with the ferocity that Labour colleagues in opposition did.”

Caroline Selman, a researcher for the Public Law Project charity, said the bill raised questions about whether ministers had learned lessons from the last proposal. “If they are serious about building trust in government use of technology, introducing invasive powers of surveillance with a high risk of harm is not the way to do it,” she said.
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Morethanabitfoolish said:
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Another blair-era law fucking people over. They fine you if you're honest, which leads one to infer that they'd rather you just let the migrants out somewhere quiet. The immigration and asylum act 1999 seems purposely written to encourage as much immigration as possible.
 
They already have the power to look at your bank if you are on benefits. It’s like the whole ‘get people on long term sickness into work’ bs. They know the people actually cheating the system is so small that it practically does not exsist. It’s for no other reason to be cruel and control people.
 
Blaming the benefit scroungers for the shit shape of the economy is political deflection used by both parties; Conservatives use it to cover for the rich who tax-dodge, and Labour use it to take eyes off of the cost of immigration.

According to Sunak, it will cost £10 billion just to house the ones that have floated over since covid until 2030. That's not to mention the other 1 million+ illegals and their sponging ways.

White scroungers bad, brownoid scroungers good.
 
OK so there is pretty major political tea happening so this will be a long post so apologies in advance, I will post videos accordingly with timestamps.

Before we start, I see Starmer is trying to label people on benefits as a problem when actually its a very small figure compared to the boat people who infact never work or illegally work. This fucker forgets that UC is a top up for stingy companies to not pay accordingly. As someone who has a few contacts in the DWP at various levels this procedure will be not used or a beaurcratic hellscape. You just cannot look in people's banks willy nilly, you would need to request a FOIA and those take weeks to file and approve, even then you need to produce evidence to even get it granted. Banks will fucking hate this too as it goes against multiple types of certification types that they need to operate accordingly. It id also a direct counter to the data confidentiality act which is of course majorly important, it would massively affect how legal foreigners use British banking. The DWP does not have the staff to do this, their turnover is insane and the caseload alone is brutal. On average the standard case amount per staff is minimum 2000+. Remember these cases need to be looked at regularly, so its pretty bad and on top of that they pretty much pay minimum wage. The DWP have been trying to offload their duties to the county councils which has failed miserably because the councty councils are starting to cut back to mitigate costs. Someone I know was doing it for a month and quit because it was minimum wage and caseloads were unreal, they lumped all this is too in the social care and children area whivh is already an insanely overworked area. Expect this to have a lot of abstained votes as the labour bacn benchers won't back this.

So the major news is this

There are numerous alternative sources picking up the story that Kier Starmer is in actuality a faggot.

So this happened amid the alternative media picking it up;
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So how this story come about?
On Thursday and Friday the story was picked up that Starmer's totally platonic friend Lord Ali lent his 18 million apartment to Kier's son so he could do his GCSE's for 6 weeks even though he was 3 weeks in his exams when they were there. Again in Christmas 2020 Starmer gave a speech about lockdowns from here;

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Turns out this was also Lord Ali's flat and he was staying there meanwhile he would not shut the fuck up about Boris and cake for months on end. So then Kier the Queer was caught partying with Lord Ali and Sir Ian Maccellen
They are just friends OK!
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It's all a bit suss but it is 2024, year of the clown world.
 
I sure hope Sir Ian had better standards.

But honestly, you tell the gossips to piss off.

Cause kissing for the public never looks right anyway and Starmer is not photogenenic. Being forced to kiss your wife for the nutters is just mad.

And that’s how you know he is queer as fuck. A straight person would not do this.
 
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