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Q: sorting with KnpPaginator I have an issue trying to make my sorting with KnpPaginator works. I followed many links and try a lot of iteration in my code, it can't seem to work properly. i'm missing something but can't locate it
The only thing that works at the moment si the table headers where i can click on it but nothing happens except refreshing the page and refreshing me back on pagination 1.
I'm working on symfony 2.3
Here is my bundle configuration
knp_paginator:
page_range: 5                      # default page range used in pagination control
default_options:
    page_name: page                # page query parameter name
    sort_field_name: sort          # sort field query parameter name
    sort_direction_name: direction # sort direction query parameter name
    distinct: true                 # ensure distinct results, useful when ORM queries are using GROUP BY statements
template:
    pagination: 'KnpPaginatorBundle:Pagination:twitter_bootstrap_v3_pagination.html.twig'     # sliding pagination controls template
    sortable: 'KnpPaginatorBundle:Pagination:sortable_link.html.twig' # sort link template

Here is my controller where I actually setted up Knp with the getRepository
private function resultsAction(Request $request, User $user, $type, $archive)
{
    $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

    $query = $em->getRepository("STUserBundle:Operation")->getQueryByTypeAndPro($type, $user, $archive);

    $paginator = $this->get('knp_paginator');
    $results = $paginator->paginate(
        $query,
        $request->query->getInt('page',1),
        $request->query->getInt('limit',50)
    );

    return array("results" => $results, "archive" => $archive);
}

public function offreAction(Request $request, User $user, $archive = false)
    {
        return $this->resultsAction($request, $user, Operation::OFFRE_COMMERCIALE, $archive);
    }

here is my repo where the query is done:
public function getQueryByTypeAndPro($type, User $user, $archive)
    {
        return $this->createQueryBuilder("opn")
            ->andWhere("opn.type = :type")
            ->setParameter("type", $type)
            ->andWhere("opn.resellerId = :reseller")
            ->setParameter("reseller", $user->getId())
            ->andWhere("opn.archive = :archive")
            ->setParameter('archive', $archive)
            ->orderBy("opn.dateCreation", "DESC")
            ->getQuery()
        ;
    }

And here is my view where I try to make things work with Knp

       {{ knp_pagination_sortable(results, 'general.vehicule.ref'|trans, 'opn.type') }}
       {{ knp_pagination_sortable(results, 'general.vehicule.vehicule'|trans, 'opn.resellerId') }}
      {{ knp_pagination_sortable(results, 'notifications.client'|trans, 'opn.??') }}
      {{ knp_pagination_sortable(results, 'general.date'|trans, 'opn.??') }}
      {{ knp_pagination_sortable(results, 'commerce.achat.encours.etat'|trans, 'opn.??') }}

And in my table, when I click on  it refresh the page but doesn't sort it. I'm having a hard time understand how to make that work?
The place where I putted 'opn.??' its because I don't know what to put at that particular place, I don't seem to understand the query
I would like the last dated item to be first, but being able to sort it with Knp

A: Okay i succeeded in making that work, here is what I've done.
config.yml
knp_paginator:
page_range: 5                      # default page range used in pagination control
default_options:
    page_name: page                # page query parameter name
    sort_field_name: sort          # sort field query parameter name
    sort_direction_name: direction # sort direction query parameter name
    distinct: false                # ensure distinct results, useful when ORM queries are using GROUP BY statements
template:
    pagination: 'KnpPaginatorBundle:Pagination:twitter_bootstrap_v3_pagination.html.twig'     # sliding pagination controls template
    sortable: 'KnpPaginatorBundle:Pagination:sortable_link.html.twig' # sort link template

repo
public function getQueryByTypeAndPro($type, User $user, $archive)
    {
        return $this->createQueryBuilder("opn")
            ->andWhere("opn.type = :type")
            ->setParameter("type", $type)
            ->andWhere("opn.resellerId = :reseller")
            ->setParameter("reseller", $user->getId())
            ->andWhere("opn.archive = :archive")
            ->setParameter('archive', $archive)
            ->orderBy("opn.dateCreation", "DESC")
            ->getQuery()
        ;
    }

controller
private function resultsAction(Request $request, User $user, $type, $archive)
    {
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

        $paginator = $this->get('knp_paginator');

        $qb = $em->getRepository("STUserBundle:Operation")->getQueryByTypeAndPro($type, $user, $archive);

        $results = $paginator->paginate(
            $qb,
            $request->query->get('page',1),
            $request->query->get('limit',50),
            [
                'defaultSortFieldName'      => 'opn.dateCreation',
                'defaultSortDirection' => 'desc'
            ]
        );

        return array("results" => $results, "archive" => $archive);
    }

and twig

          {{ knp_pagination_sortable(results, 'general.vehicule.ref'|trans, 'opn.id') }}
          {{ knp_pagination_sortable(results, 'general.vehicule.vehicule'|trans, 'opn.vehiculeMarque') }}
          {% if typeOffre is defined and typeOffre == 'devisWeb' %}Financement	{% endif %}
          {{ knp_pagination_sortable(results, 'notifications.client'|trans, 'opn.clientNom') }}
          {{ knp_pagination_sortable(results, 'general.date'|trans, 'opn.dateCreation') }}
          {{ 'commerce.achat.encours.etat'|trans }}
         {{ 'commerce.achat.action'|trans }}
        {{ 'commerce.vente.operation.basculer'|trans }}

and so that works

A: remove ->orderBy("opn.dateCreation", "DESC"). KnpPaginator have special Listener and Walker that can modify your query with correct ORDER BY based on request and then eqecute an paginate it for you.
Config sortable look at here.
Translation look at here.

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Like other financial institutions, credit unions face a growing number of cyber threats. Cyber criminals and terrorist groups are using malware, social media and other online methods to steal money or personal customer data, invade computer networks, and cause business disruptions.
With these issues in mind, the National Credit Union Administration announced at its September 2016 board meeting it would build an extensive cybersecurity assessment into its examinations of credit unions by sometime in late 2017. The NCUA said in a January update that cybersecurity remains a key supervisory focus, and encouraged credit unions to use the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, while it prepares a structured assessment process.
With the introduction of the Cybersecurity Assessment Toolby the FFIEC in 2015 to assist financial institutions in identifying and preparing for cyber threats, cybersecurity risk assessment has become an increasingly important issue for the credit union industry.
Segerson said using the FFIEC cybersecurity tool is voluntary, but is strongly encouraged because it helps to assess a credit union's level of risk and preparedness with regards to cybersecurity.
The new cybersecurity assessment for credit union examinations, which is still being developed by the NCUA, is "not replacing the cybersecurity assessment tool or anything else but will help to add another layer of security for credit unions by providing a comprehensive, strategic view in great detail of cybersecurity," he said.
Segerson said with the industry's shift toward technology-based solutions, such as online banking and the use of social media, it has increased the level of exposure. While many institutions have a strong security posture, others face higher risks. The goal is to have an examination approach that will allow examiners to collect information and document findings for each institution when assessing their cybersecurity measures and internal and technology-based controls, along with other factors such as the credit union's size, scope and level of risk, he said.
Credit union industry groups seem generally supportive of the NCUA's heightened focus on cybersecurity.
Lance Noggle, senior director of advocacy and assistant general counsel at the Credit Union National Association said, "in general, financial institutions have been at the forefront of information technology," and cybersecurity is a major issue. Given that major breaches have occurred at a variety of financial institutions and large corporations, credit unions generally use the same advanced data security measures as other financial institutions.
Joey Griffith, compliance officer with Communication Federal Credit Union in Oklahoma City, supports the NCUA's effort to develop a new cybersecurity assessment.
Griffith said the general consensus is that the new NCUA assessment will help to improve cybersecurity for credit unions, especially for those that may not have dedicated resources to cybersecurity. "Having this tool and evaluation will enable institutions to make the necessary enhancements to protect themselves and their members," he said.
Read article about the National Credit Union Administration's top supervisory for credit unions in 2017.
Some credit unions already have been working to improve their cybersecurity measures.
Part of the developmental process for the new cybersecurity assessment is training the NCUA's examiners in its use and application when examining credit unions, according to Segerson. Once examiners are trained and the new assessment tool is complete and in its final form, he said "it will be made public and shared with the industry" in the spirit of transparency.
Griffith said one concern he has is examiner preparedness.


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SR0026: DUNNING KRUEGER
He spent his early days listening to Radiohead, Skunk Anansie and At The Drive In, before discovering trance at 17, then forming a love of garage in all its forms.
Now, Shane McNamara aka Dunning Krueger brings us a garage-influenced mix that features brand new tracks of his own, including an upcoming release on Waze & Odyssey's W&O Street Tracks.
St. Romain · SR0026 | Dunning Kruger
Musical Theatre, Trance + Garage.
So I'm originally from Galway on the West Coast of Ireland but moved to Exeter in Devon where I grew up. I was one of those annoying children who singing and dancing all to time to likes of "You Spin Round" by Dead or Alive and Michael Jackson's "Bad", which got to a point where my mother needed to direct my flamboyant energy somewhere and started a 10-year music journey into Musical Theatre...which I loved btw!
This gave me a great music foundation as a child and then the older I got started getting into bands and playing the guitar, listening to the likes of Radiohead, Skunk Anansie, (Early) Muse, At The Drive-In. Then at 16/17 had my first taste of electronic music by way of Trance but it was when I was 17 I really got into electronic music because I was introduced to what is to this day still one my favourite genres, Garage and all its other forms.
Dunning Krueger.
I started Djing while I was at University mixing hip-hop and funk vinyl records although this was more for fun. I only really got more into it after moving to London and discovering it's hugely varied music scene which has influenced a lot of what I play now.
My latest project Dunning Kruger is the culmination of the last 2 and half years of production as previously my studio was broken into and all my music projects were gone along with backups so had to start from scratch which was tough but ultimately a positive experience so just seeing where that journey now leads.
I also used to have bi-monthly radio show with my brother on Music Box Radio for about 2 years when I was in London. Since moving to Scotland I'm still settling in but started a Friday Instalive thing with the Stepback Records crew here in Edinburgh, which has been some much-needed fun.
The sunnier side.
I think my productions, my DJ sets tend to ride on the sunnier side of things. I've always loved a good outdoor party/festival and think that heavily influences my sound and is the core of where my inspiration comes from. This mix is the first opportunity for me to showcase productions that I've been working on and wanted to see how they worked with tunes I love and play out a lot, so it was fun to play around them and see how they sound.
The last 12 months have been focused on the production side of things, which has been great and finished and signed quite a few bits. So the next 12 months I have a few signed bits coming out, in the summer I have my debut EP coming on Waze and Odyssey's Street Tracks label, a remix for Man Power and a single signed to Dawn State, then a few other bits I'm working on. It's an exciting time. Because I've been quite focused on production, it's only recently that I've started hunting for tunes and DJing again which feels good to find new stuff and artists. Really into Atjazz at the moment and just discovered Subjoi who's Garage sound I'm really into. But whenever any of us get to play again, I definitely want to play out much more for sure.
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iPhone: San Francisco temperature on May 2, 2017, at around 1 p.m.
The skies were clear, the sun shone brightly and everyone was complaining about the heat in San Francisco at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday.
Just how hot was it? The correct answer might be more than 30 degrees off.
Weather.com said it was 70 degrees, while the Apple iPhone Weather app had the temp a bit higher at 73 degrees — though both services us Weather Channel data. KCBS reported 88, while SFGATE reported 90, and the National Weather service reported 33 degrees lower than that at the San Francisco Zoo.
If you look to the various apps and online resources for a single temperature in San Francisco, you'll often find huge and confusing variances in temperatures. This is because the city has microclimates and temperatures from one side of the city to the other can easily vary 10 to 20 degrees on a normal day, and more on a hot day like yesterday.
The sites and apps reporting temperatures are pulling data from different locations around the city, often taking averages, and offering a general cumulative look at the city's temperature. And in many cases, they're pulling data from the nearest airport, which are common sites for weather stations.
"This touches on a really interesting underbelly of the problem with temperature reporting," said Jan Null, a meteorologist for Golden Gate Weather Services. "All these different apps and sites hire developers and they're pulling data from all these different sources. Most likely you have an automated app that's pulling data from the nearest airport.
"San Francisco Airport is a 30-minute drive from downtown San Francisco. If you're in San Mateo and look up the temperature, you might get a reading from San Carlos Airport or the San Francisco Airport and if you're in the San Mateo hills you're not close to either of those places."
An online service and app called Weather Underground, which shares its ownership with Weather.com, aims to tackle this problem. It has a massive network of people sharing data from personal weather stations they've rigged in their backyards. It's a great resource for a city like San Francisco that's filled with microclimates. The site reported temperatures of 91 in Dogpatch, 85 in Union Square, and 60 at Crissy Field on Tuesday. Weather Underground also powers SFGATE's weather page.
"A lot of the other services are pulling data from SFO ," said Weather Underground spokesperson Andria Stark. "We know the airport is 30 minutes south of the city. Our [information] is based on granular hyperlocal stations."
Null says Weather Underground can be a great resource, but it also has its problems and you need to use common sense with it.
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Null likes to use the National Weather Service (NWS) data. The stations are limited but they have been vetted.
What temperature data did the NWS offer on Tuesday around 1 p.m.?
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-If a caravan reaches another city with the correct good demand you will gain money based on how long the caravan traveled and multipliers hit.
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Downcast Eyes
By: Martin Jay
Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle and surveillance.
Martin Jay turns to this discourse surrounding vision and explores its often contradictory implications in the work of such influential figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. From consideration of French Impressionism to analysis of Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes's writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded accounts of thinkers and ideas widely known for their difficulty.
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You told me the other day that you've already seen a lot of positive impact from updating your LinkedIn profile, and it's only been, what, a month? Can you share what kinds of things have been happening?
It's changed how people interact with me at work. My company has also hired a lot of people recently, and when I do intro calls with them after they read my profile, they come to the conversation with a much better understanding of my role. I find that people show me a lot more respect off the bat than they did in the past. This has been a really notable change, and one that helps me start relationships with coworkers in a very positive and productive way.
I've gotten invitations to connect on LinkedIn from some really relevant and senior people. I don't know how the LinkedIn magic works, but suddenly, it was clear that I was coming across as much more relevant than before in the areas that I care about.
I've reconnected with people in my network. I am amazed at the wonderful relationship-building that has come from asking for recommendations. In about five cases, asking for a recommendation led to a wonderful conversation. I've been able to see my story through their eyes, which has been really helpful in evolving my thinking on how to position myself. I've also written a few reviews for others, which has led to similar positive interactions.
Sure, I could have done this before, but having clarity on the story I want to tell as well as having confidence in my LinkedIn profile has made me actually do it, and I am so, so glad.
I've gotten more confident about networking. I sent an invitation to connect to someone super senior at a brand agency I admire with a nice note, and he accepted and wrote back. I can say with absolute assurance, I never would have done that with my old profile.
Aside from external results, did updating your LinkedIn profile shift anything for you, personally?
Definitely. I sometimes go back and read my tag line through a specific lens, or imagining myself as a specific audience, and it helps me gain insights into how to tell my stories, and how to communicate more effectively. It also has given me a place (and a push) to start creating and sharing thought leadership content. I want to grow that aspect of my personal brand in a big way, but for now, it has given me a lot of inspiration to start...somewhere. Plus the social aspect of it makes it really rewarding (love seeing those little thumbs-up come in :).
Any advice for someone holding back from strengthening her online presence?
This sounds silly, but I sort of thought that everyone hated their LinkedIn profile and found it painful to read...kind of like the swimsuit shopping of building your personal brand. Now with my current bio, I am shocked at how much confidence it has given me and how much fun it is to engage with LinkedIn.
If any of that resonates, I can't recommend enough getting some expert help with it. Amanda was able to get the full picture and then narrow in on just the right things to tell my story.
I guess the other piece of advice is that creating a great profile really only requires one great starting point. Everything else flows naturally from there, and the effort overall was a lot less than I had built it up to be.
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TAMPAN has suspended Yomi Fabiyi over his recently released movie, "Oko Iyabo", which many claim trivialised the sexual assault a teenager was subjected to.
The Theater Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners' Association announced Yomi Fabiyi's suspension on Friday, July 9, in a statement titled, "TAMPAN suspends Yomi Fabiyi indefinitely for gross professional misconducts & unethical practices."
The statement read in part, "Having listened to the detailed defense of Mr. Yomi Fabiyi, who is the Producer/Director of the controversial film 'Oko Iyabo' and his Co-Director, Mr. Dele Matti, the Ethic, Conflict and Resolution Committee hereby found them guilty of professional misconduct and unethical practices.
"Although Mr. Yomi Fabiyi insisted that it is his fundamental human right to use his creative talent to produce films that will tell his own account of the trending issue but his Co-Director admitted his fault and regretted his involvement in the film."
TAMPAN also condemned the use of the real names of the people whose story the movie was based on.
The association said that except "the work of art is a 'Cinema Verite', no one is allowed to use real name(s) of other person(s) in a feature film."
The statement continues: "Therefore, it is professional misconduct to use real name(s), stories and factual events of person(s) without their consent not to talk of a plot that is denigrating to that person.
"That the story, plot, theme, title, dialogue, names and general content of the film 'Oko Iyabo' is a factual presentation that may give rise to prejudice since the matter is already In court.
"His misconducts and unethical practices have impacted negatively on the image and reputation of our association. His Co-Director Mr. Dele Matti having shown remorse and admitted his guilt is hereby suspended for 3months."
TAMPAN also said the talents who featured in the film have been summoned to appear before the Ethic, Conflict & Resolution Committee on the 24. July 2021.
Following TAMPAN's announcement, Yomi Fabiyi took to Instagram, asking those interested in watching the movie to reach out so it can be sent privately to them.
The movie was initially uploaded to YoutTube but was taken down after it was reported.
Yomi also released a statement in reaction to the suspension.
The statement reads: "I am originally ANTP member. Worst case I will renew my membership there.
"I have never obtain or sign any form with TAMPAN or joined any guild. I was made to pay for registration which I did but no form collected or formal procedure.
"The letter is inappropriate, not valid for me as a filmmaker.
"Any reaction if necessary will be on the basis of Human Rights Violation if I so wish to seek judicial redress. You don't loose what you never had."
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When I was in high school, I attended an all-girls' boarding school in Glencoe. Oldfields School is a small school but there's lots of cool things always going on. We did not shut down for weather very often and we did not get many of the holidays our public schoolmates received. To make up for that, we had a "free day" built into each quarter to give us a break. Sometimes the free day was was used when so many of us were sick we just needed a day to catch up. Other times it was used to buy travel time in inclement weather.
Oldfields School has a snowy setting Feb. 17.
Free days aside, there was another thing to contend with our psychological well-being: cold, dreary winter days. So what do a bunch of girls at a boarding school do to get out of the winter doldrums? We looked to our a Capella group, the Dubious Dozen, to provide relief through song. You know music makes everything better!
When it was time for a moral boost because the weather was so dreary, Dubious, as we were called (I was a member for one year), had one song to do in order to lift winter spirits: California Dreamin' by The Mamas and the Papas.
Sounds lovely right? We thought so which why it became sort of a tradition.
This is the view from my front porch during the latest snowstorm.
Although I don't own a copy of the song, I still remember the lyrics from my time in the Dubious Dozen. When the temperature started to drop and the snow kept rolling in, that was the first song that came to mind.
While we all wait patiently for warmer weather to return, share your favorite warm weather song in the comments below!


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Pondering Implications of Ghislaine Maxwell eDiscovery
Ediscovery News | By: M.J. Moye | August 11, 2020 | 660 Views , 3 Min Read
If you were, or are, an ediscovery practitioner involved with legal issues, you likely ponder about ediscovery implications of particular cases. For example, how about any ediscovery implications involved with United States v. A&L Mayer Associates, Inc. (Cr. 96-232)?
Talk about some scintillating ediscovery reading! Sure thing, if you're interested in Tampico fiber (whatever the heck that is) and/or efforts to fix prices of Tampico fiber imported for sale into the U.S. Anyway, that case has long since been settled and the best-selling novel and follow-up Hollywood blockbuster are still awaiting the brilliant mind of a writer who can succinctly capture the myriad salacious details and Tampico plot twists uncovered during that case's ediscovery.
Right, yawn….
How about United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell, (20 Cr. 330)?
If your response is "Right, yawn…." then I want to read, or ediscover, what you've been reading of late. Theoretically, the Ghislaine Maxwell ediscovery request could include some of the 21st Century-to-date's most scandalous information involving politicians, royalty, and Hollywood celebrities. That is, if you believe that Ms. Maxwell was the late notorious financier Jeffrey Epstein's procurer of young, underage girls, and that Epstein ran a pedophile ring that captured the fancy and patronage of numerous famous people.
And sure, ediscovery doesn't seem to be as important or prolific in criminal trials as it is in civil trials so any juicy headline-grabbing details about this potential scandal are likely to be released as part of evidence already uncovered by investigators. Kind of like how the judge in Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal case already ordered the release of a trove of documents—including flight logs from Epstein's private jets showing who might have visited Pedo Island—uncovered by investigators (the release is pending appeal).
But what of all and any information not already captured by investigators? Under Supreme Court decisions, Riley v. California (134 S. Ct. 2473) and Carpenter v. U.S. (No. 16-402, 585 U.S.), Ms. Maxwell's cell phone data, not to mention any other data in other devices, may be protected if not captured in an earlier warrant. Little doubt that Ms. Maxwell and her attorney have received a preservation demand, but how far down the rabbit hole does that order go? And, from a contemplative standpoint, how many rabbit warrens does Ms. Maxwell's potentially incriminating data flow through? Her cell phone(s), after all, are just one small portion of discoverable data in today's digital world.
This all begs the question, though, what of any discoverable information in the moribund Epstein case. While that case never came close to trial, some entity(ies) must have been working on ediscovery on a preliminary basis from both sides of the legal aisle. What salacious details might they have uncovered? Pondering minds want to know….
M.J. Moye
M.J. Moye is a demographics researcher and freelance writer. His interest in law was spurred by covering two Supreme Court cases and other legal issues during his stint as a Washington, DC journalist. In addition to Now Discovery, he currently provides on-call writing services to several lawyers. When not counting people or writing, he spends his time sailing the beautiful waters of Nova Scotia.


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Divisions in Coalition as MPs demand independent inquiry on poverty
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Calls for a 'commission of inquiry' into the impact of the government's changes to social security entitlements on poverty have won overwhelming support from Parliament.
The motion by Labour's Michael Meacher was passed with a massive majority of 123 votes; only two people – David Nuttall and Jacob Rees-Mogg – voted against it.
The debate enjoyed cross-party support, having been secured by Mr Meacher with Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative) and John Hemming (Liberal Democrat).
Introducing the motion, Mr Meacher said: "It is clear that something terrible is happening across the face of Britain. We are seeing the return of absolute poverty, which has not existed in this country since the Victorian age more than a century ago. Absolute poverty is when people do not have the money to pay for even their most basic needs."
He said the evidence was all around:
There are at least 345 food banks and, according to the Trussell Trust, emergency food aid was given to 350,000 households for at least three days in the last year.
The Red Cross is setting up centres to help the destitute, just as it does in developing countries.
Even in prosperous areas like London, more than a quarter of the population is living in poverty.
According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, for the first time, the number of people in working families who are living in poverty, at 6.7 million, is greater than the number of people in workless and retired families who are living in poverty, at 6.3 million.
Child poverty will rise from 2.5 million to 3.2 million during this Parliament, around 24 per cent of children in the UK. By 2020, if the rise is not stopped, it will increase to four million – around 30 per cent of children in the UK.
The use of sanctions depriving people of all their benefits for several weeks at a time, had increased by 126 per cent since 2010 and 120 disabled people who had been receiving jobseeker's allowance had been given a three-year fixed duration sanction in the previous year.
There are now more than 2,000 families who have been placed in emergency bed-and-breakfast accommodation after losing their homes.
The per cent rise in the overall homelessness figures last year included nearly 9,000 families with children, which is the equivalent of one family losing their home every 15 minutes.
A third of families spent less than £20 a week on food and that the average spend on food per person per day was precisely £2.10. That is a third less than those families were able to afford three months before that.
The proportion of households that had to make debt repayments of more than £40 a week had doubled and the average level of debt was £2,250.
A third of families had council tax debt.
2.7 million people had lost out through the Government's changes to council tax benefit – many of them disabled people, veterans and some of the most vulnerable in our communities.
Households were having to spend 16 per cent more on gas and electricity.
There are 2.5 million people who have been unemployed for the best part of two years, and there were 562,000 vacancies when the debate took place (Monday), so four out of five of those who are unemployed simply cannot get a job whatever they do.
Cuts to local authorities mean many home care visits are limited to 15 minutes.
The 10 per cent of local authorities that are the most deprived in the country face cuts six times higher than those faced by the 10 per cent that are the most affluent.
60 per cent of benefit cuts fall on those who are in work.
Mr Meacher said the biggest cause of absolute poverty was the huge rise in sanctioning, often for trivial reasons such as turning up five minutes late for a job interview or the Work Programme:
A dyslexic person lost his Jobseekers Allowance because his condition meant that in one fortnightly period he applied for nine jobs, not 10. He was trying to pay his way and already had work, but it provided only an extremely low income.
The jobcentre didn't record that a claimant had informed them that he was in hospital when he was due to attend an appointment and he was sanctioned.
A claimant went to a job interview instead of signing on at the jobcentre because the appointments clashed – and was sanctioned.
A claimant had to look after their mother who was severely disabled and very ill – and was sanctioned.
A Job Centre sent the letter informing a claimant of an interview to their previous address, despite having been told about the move. The claimant was sanctioned.
A claimant was refused a job because she was in a women's refuge, fleeing domestic violence and in the process of relocating, but I was still sanctioned.
Mr Meacher also quoted what he called a classic: "I didn't do enough to find work in between finding work and starting the job."
The latest DWP figures suggest that more than one million people have been sanctioned in the past 15 months and deprived of all benefit and all income. "Given that the penalties are out of all proportion to the triviality of many of the infringements, and given that, as I have said, four out of five people cannot get a job whatever they do, the use of sanctioning on this scale, with the result of utter destitution, is — one struggles for words — brutalising and profoundly unjust," said Mr Meacher.
Other reasons for the rise in absolute poverty included:
Delays in benefit payments.
The fact that it is impossible for many poor and vulnerable people to comply with new rules – for example a jobseeker who asked to downsize to a smaller flat who was told he must pay two weeks' full rent upfront before getting housing benefit. He does not have the funds to do so and is stuck in a situation where his benefits will not cover his outgoings due to the Bedroom Tax.
The Bedroom Tax, which applies to around 667,000 households, and two-thirds of those affected are disabled. More than 90 per cent of those affected do not have smaller social housing to move into.
The Benefit Cap, imposed on a further 33,000 households.
Mistakes by the authorities; up to 40,000 working-age tenants in social housing may have been improperly subjected to the Bedroom Tax because of DWP error (although Iain Duncan Smith claims a maximum of 5,000).
Mr Meacher said: "The Chancellor's policy of keeping 2.5 million people unemployed makes it impossible for them to find work, even if there were employers who would be willing to take them, and the 40 per cent success rate of appeals shows how unfair the whole process is."
Responding to a comment from David TC Davies (Conservative) that those who are not looking for work must realise there will be consequences, particularly when a million people have been able to come to the UK from eastern Europe and find work, Mr Meacher said, "Those who come to this country are more likely to be employed and take out less in benefits than many of the indigenous population."
He asked: "Is all this brutality towards the poor really necessary? Is there any justification in intensifying the misery, as the Chancellor clearly intends, by winding up the social fund and, particularly, by imposing another £25 billion of cuts in the next Parliament, half of that from working-age benefits?
"After £80 billion of public spending cuts, with about £23 billion of cuts in this Parliament so far, the deficit has been reduced only at a glacial pace, from £118 billion in 2011 to £115 billion in 2012 and £111 billion in 2013. Frankly, the Chancellor is like one of those first world war generals who urged his men forward, over the top, in order to recover 300 yards of bombed-out ground, but lost 20,000 men in the process. How can it be justified to carry on imposing abject and unnecessary destitution on such a huge scale when the benefits in terms of deficit reduction are so small as to be almost derisory?"
Suggested alternatives to the punitive austerity programme of cuts came thick and fast during the debate. Challenged to explain what Labour's Front Bench meant by saying they would be tougher on welfare than the Tories, Mr Meacher said: "As the shadow Chancellor has made clear on many occasions, is that we need public investment. We need to get jobs and growth. That is the alternative way: public investment in jobs, industry, infrastructure and exports to grow the real economy, not the financial froth, because that would cut the deficit far faster than the Chancellor's beloved austerity."
He asked: "How about the ultra-rich — Britain's 1,000 richest citizens — contributing just a bit? Their current remuneration — I am talking about a fraction of the top 1 per cent — is £86,000 a week, which is 185 times the average wage. They received a windfall of more than £2,000 a week from the five per cent cut in the higher rate of income tax, and their wealth was recently estimated by The Sunday Times at nearly half a trillion pounds. Let us remember that we are talking about 1,000 people. Their asset gains since the 2009 crash have been calculated by the same source at about £190 billion.
"These persons, loaded with the riches of Midas, might perhaps be prevailed upon to contribute a minute fraction of their wealth in an acute national emergency, when one-sixth of the workforce earns less than the living wage and when one million people who cannot get a job are being deprived of all income by sanctioning and thereby being left utterly destitute.
"Charging the ultra-rich's asset gains since 2009 to capital gains tax would raise more than the £25 billion that the Chancellor purports to need. I submit that it would introduce some semblance of democracy and social justice in this country if the Chancellor paid attention to this debate and thought deeply about what he is doing to our country and its people."
Ronnie Campbell (Blyth Valley, Lab) suggested that the Government might save a lot more if its members "showed the same energy and enthusiasm for getting those who evade their taxes and run to tax havens as they do for going after the poor, the sick and people on the dole".
Against this, David TC Davies offered insults and distortions of the facts, quoting the Daily Mail as though it provided an accurate account of current events: "Members of the shadow Cabinet might need a boxing referee to sort out their disputes at the moment, as we read today in the Daily Mail."
He said: "We took office with a deficit of £160 billion and a debt that was rising rapidly to £1 trillion. That was after years of overspending in good times, as well as in bad, by Labour, a cheap money supply and lax banking regulation under the former Government." Labour's spending, up until the financial crisis, was always less than that of the previous Conservative administration; Gordon Brown and Tony Blair both ran a lower deficit than John Major and Margaret Thatcher, and at one point actually achieved a surplus, which is something that the Conservatives had not managed in the previous 18 years. While Mr Davies here complained about the "lax banking regulation", Conservatives supported it at the time and in fact demanded more DE-regulation, which would have made the financial crisis worse when it happened.
"We had disastrous economic decisions, such as that to sell gold at a fraction of its real rate," said Mr Davies. Yes – the UK lost around £9 billion. But compare that with the disastrous economic decision by George Osborne to impose more than £80 billion worth of cuts to achieve a £7 billion cut in the national deficit. The UK has lost £73 billion there, over a three-year period.
And Mr Davies said: "Worst of all and most seriously, we had a welfare system that allowed people to get into a trap of welfare dependency, leaving them on the dole for many years, but at the same time filling the consequent gap in employment by allowing mass and uncontrolled immigration into this country, which completely undercut British workers." The first assertion is simply untrue; the second is a legacy of previous Conservative administrations that agreed to the free movement of EU member citizens, meaning that, when the eastern European countries joined in 2004, citizens migrated to the UK in the hope of a better life. Labour has admitted it should have negotiated for a delay in free movement until the economies of those countries had improved, making such migration less likely, but the situation was created before Labour took office.
Challenged on the Coalition's record, Mr Davies fell back on the Tories' current trick question, which is to counter any criticism by asking: "Is he suggesting that we are not doing enough to pay down the national debt? Is he suggesting that we should cut further and faster? If so, and if we had the support of other Opposition Members, that is exactly what the Government could do and, indeed, possibly should do. I look forward to seeing that support for getting the deficit down." This disingenuous nonsense was batted away by Labour's Hugh Bayley, who said "investing in the economy, creating jobs and thereby getting people off welfare and into work" was the way forward.
Mr Davies' Conservative colleague Jeremy Lefroy took a different view, agreeing that increasing numbers of people are finding it impossible to make ends meet, and that job creation and apprenticeships were a better way out of poverty than changing the social security system alone. He agreed that sanctions were applied to his constituents "in a rather arbitrary manner". He spoke against George Osborne's suggested plan to remove housing benefits from people aged under 25, saying this "would have a drastic impact on young people who need to live away from home and who have no support from their families". He spoke in favour of councils increasing their housing stock. And he admitted that disabled people faced severe problems when unfairly transferred from ESA to JSA: "A lady in my constituency says, 'I am simply not fit for work, but by signing on for JSA I have to say that I am available and fit for work.' She does not want to tell a lie."
Steve Rotheram (Liverpool Walton, Labour) spoke powerfully about the effect of being on benefits: "Lots of people in my city are on benefits for the very first time. Far from being in clover — it beggars belief what we read in the right-wing press — they are struggling to make ends meet, and the problem that thousands of Liverpudlians are facing is new to them. For many, the idea that they might miss a rent payment is totally alien. They have not done that in the past 20 years, but since May 2010, their individual household incomes have been on such a downward trajectory that they now find themselves in rent arrears, seeking advice on debt management and unable to afford the daily cost of travel, food and energy. Figures suggest that 40 per cent of the adult population in Liverpool are struggling with serious debt problems."
And he said poverty had health implications, too: "David Taylor-Robinson of the University of Liverpool and his fellow academics have highlighted the doubling of malnutrition-related hospital admissions nationally since 2008."
John Hemming (Birmingham Yardley, LD) raised concerns about "the interrelationship between the welfare cap and victims of domestic violence, and whether there are situations that need more attention. I believe that people can get discretionary housing payment to leave a violent home, but it is important that we ensure that there is a route out of domestic violence for women. I am worried about that issue, just as I am about some wrongful sanctioning that I have seen. That does not help at all, because it undermines the whole process." He also called for "a substantial increase in the minimum wage, because as the economy is improving the Government should look at that, rather than maintain things as they are".
The vote gave huge endorsement to the call for an independent inquiry into poverty under the Coalition.
But with an election just 15 months away, how long will we have to wait for it to report?
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Coalition policy success: 80,000 children homeless for Christmas
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Tory politicians don't care and Liberal Democrats don't have any power – that's why 80,000 children are being housed in temporary accommodation, alongside drug users and enduring threats of violence, as reported by Shelter today.
The government's own figures show 2,090 families living in bed and breakfasts – an increase of eight per cent on 2012 and the largest number in 10 years, according to The Guardian. Of these, 760 have been living in B&Bs longer than the legal six-week limit – a 10 per cent increase on last year.
More than 43,000 other homeless households with children are in other emergency accommodation – usually privately-rented short-term flats, which are expensive. This is an increase of nine per cent on last year.
To put this into context, a Labour government commitment to halve the number of families in this kind of emergency accommodation meant the total fell between 2005 and 2010 – but it has been rising again since June 2011.
This is a human disaster created by the Coalition government.
Most families interviewed by the charity said they felt unsafe, with one child directly threatened by a man after an argument over a shared bathroom. Almost half said their children had witnessed incidents such as sexual offences, drug use and dealing.
One mother of three said: "One of the reasons we left was one of the residents trying to sell us crack cocaine."
Most of the 25 families Shelter interviewed lived in one room; half said the children were sharing beds with parents or siblings and the family was sharing kitchen facilities with others. All but three said it was hard to find a safe place for their children to play. Three families had no cooking facilities and one reported sharing a cooker and fridge with 22 other people.
More than half had to share a bathroom or toilet with strangers, with 10 families sharing with seven or more other people; two-thirds had no table to eat on, and schoolchildren were finding it hard to do homework.
And their health is suffering: "It's so hard to give him a balanced diet as it's impossible to make proper meals here, let alone a Christmas dinner. He's getting really pale and is so tired all the time. He gets so scared but it's difficult when I'm scared myself. This is no place for a child to live," said a mother in a Hounslow B&B.
"This shouldn't be happening in 21st century Britain," said Shelter's chief executive, Campbell Robb, who described the charity's findings as "shocking" and the conditions forced on families as "shameful".
He said: "No child should be homeless, let alone 80,000. But tragically, with more people struggling to make ends meet and homelessness on the rise, we're bracing ourselves for an increase in demand from families who desperately need our help."
Housing minister Kris Hopkins couldn't care less. "We've given councils nearly £1bn to tackle homelessness and to support people affected by the welfare reforms," he sniffed.
"I am very clear that they should be fully able to meet their legal responsibility to house families in suitable accommodation."
Let us be very clear on this: the problem is not that Tories like Hopkins don't understand. This is exactly the result that they wanted; they just won't acknowledge it because it is electorally damaging.
Look at the policies that created this problem: The bedroom tax; the 'Pickles Poll Tax', otherwise known as the Council Tax reduction scheme; the benefit cap that so many people in this country seem to support without understanding any of its implications.
Vox Political reported back in January what they would mean: "There will be a rise in rent and mortgage arrears… affordable housing will be less available and landlords less able or willing to rent to tenants on benefits… Private sector rental may become less attractive to landlords if tenants aren't paying the rent. This will lead to a growth in homelessness. Councils have statutory duties and may see an increasing burden."
But increases to the Discretionary Housing Payment fund have been entirely insignificant compared with the extra burden councils have faced. They received £150 million between them; Durham County Council had £883,000 and spent it all within eight weeks.
We have seen the start of the social cleansing predicted by this blog back in August 2012, when we noted that at least one council would use these measures to "clear out the poor and set up shop as a desirable residence for the rich".
The housing bubble created by George Osborne with his 'Help To Buy' scheme will accelerate this process.
So don't let a Tory tell you it's nothing to do with them. They wanted this. In fact, 80,000 homeless children at Christmas is probably not enough for them.
Reasons to be fearful for a warm Summer's day
Posted by Mike Sivier in Benefits, Business, Conservative Party, Disability, Economy, Health, Housing, Justice, Labour Party, Law, People, Politics, Public services, UK, unemployment
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Hero of the week: Peter Hain put the record straight about the cause of the UK's current economic woes (bankers) and the Conservatives' attitude to bank regulation (they wanted less of it before the crash). At long last, the facts came out on a national media outlet!
There are a lot of potential topics for discussion but yr obdt srvt (that's me) is very short of time on this sunny Sunday, so today's article is going to have to be a quick run through of Things You Need to Know.
First up, following yesterday's feature on how the Tories are blaming the civil service for the problems they have been creating, here are a couple more examples: The Guardian tells us that housing ministers are ordering councils to help families stay in their homes, rather than re-housing them in expensive bed & breakfasts for longer than the maximum period. Apparently this breaks the law. Minister Mark Prisk said he had created a £2 million fund to help councils currently breaking the rules.
Nice one. Shame it won't scratch the surface of the £2 billion that has been spent by UK councils on temp accommodation since 2009 – that's an average of £500 million per year; 250 times the puny amount Mr Prisk is offering, to alleviate problems his government has created with (for example) the Bedroom Tax.
Meanwhile, The Telegraph tells us that Jeremy Hunt has ordered the NHS to find a solution to the crisis in Accident & Emergency departments – that he and other Tory ministers have created – by next April.
These are further examples of the current Conservative 'Create a Crisis and Blame Someone Else' strategy we saw outlined in yesterday's Vox Political article.
The BBC and many others have reported that Tim Yeo has joined the growing ranks of Tory MPs involved in 'lobbying' scandals, alongside Patrick Mercer from last week. Unlike Mercer, the allegation does not involve taking money to raise an issue (paid advocacy) – instead it is alleged that he coached an organisation, telling representatives what to say to the Commons' Energy and Climate Change committee. It's still corruption, and it's staggering that these people are being allowed to continue as MPs while investigations go on, and possibly even afterwards, if they are found guilty. Should we really have people who have been proven to be dishonest, helping to make decisions on the future of our country?
Should we, Mr Cameron? Mr Shapps? Mr… Smith? Mr Hunt?
As some of us predicted long ago, Iain (Duncan) Smith's benefit cuts (you mustn't call them 'reforms' – that only encourages him) have led to a 40 per cent rise in the number of people seeking help from the Citizens Advice Bureau.
It's just a shame that funding for the CAB (much of it from the government or statutory authorities) is declining, isn't it? It's almost as if somebody planned it that way, to make it even harder for poor people to get any justice. (I write as the vice-chair of a Welsh CAB so, believe me, I know my facts).
On the subject of justice, did anyone hear John Finnemore on The Now Show, laying into inJustice Secretary Chris Grayling's 'reform' (there's that word again) of the Legal Aid system that will make it impossible for anyone in that system to get justice, unless – you guessed it – they're rich.
"Legal Aid will have a financial eligibility threshold. To be fair, this doesn't seem like the worst idea in the world," he said. "And I can be confident about that, because right there next to it – as if deliberately placed there for purposes of comparison – are two of the worst ideas in the world.
"One – defendants will no longer have the right to choose their own lawyer; two – legal aid contracts will be awarded on the basis of price-competitive tender, i.e. who's cheapest, to private companies – like Tesco and Eddie Stobart. You know, the lorry guy.
"You might almost wonder whether this might affect the quality of the representation in some way but Chris Grayling, Minister of Justice and dispenser of none, assures us it will not… Even though everywhere else, the government is obsessed with getting us to choose… when it comes to poor people who've been arrested, suddenly Daddy knows best.
"The bargain-basement Eddie Stobart Legal Aid lawyers will be paid a flat fee, regardless of results and, best of all, regardless of whether the client pleads guilty – which is quick and cheap – or not guilty, which is not. Yes, Chris Grayling has actually created a system where privately-run Legal Aid firms have a direct financial incentive to persuade their clients to plead guilty, while simultaneously being under enormous pressure to slash costs to the bone in order to put in a tender low enough to keep the contract.
"Meanwhile, the career crims… tend to trust their regular solicitor and take their advice if they suggest they'd be better-off pleading guilty, but they're certainly not going to take that advice from Eddie McTesco in his 'My First Lawyer' costume. So they're going to start pleading not guilty to everything.
"Well done, Mr Grayling, you've pulled off the double – innocent people encouraged to plead guilty; guilty people to plead not guilty. What a merry, madcap world of misrule you have created, Mr Grayling, you absolute tit!"
Finally, still on the radio, did everyone hear Peter Hain on Any Questions, putting the record straight on the reasons for the economic crisis and the facts about bank regulation – two subjects about which the Conservatives have been hugely vocal in their lies for many years.
He was talking about the announcements last week by Labour's leaders, on their future plans for welfare. He's critical (which is a relief), but he said it would not be right to make promises about things that Labour can't deliver.
"We can't deliver because this economic policy of the Tory-Lib Dem government is failing on a spectacular scale," he said. "They're doing all these things, all these cuts, in order to bring borrowing down, the deficit down, debt down.
"What's happening? Borrowing is £245 billion higher than they said it would be in 2010 when they began this cuts programme. The national debt is £309 billion higher – and the deficit is £78 billion higher.
"It's because cutting and cutting and cutting is a way to putting people out of work, destroying businesses, they don't pay taxes, you don't get government revenues and everybody goes on benefit – that's why this is a spectacular catastrophe and we're going to have to rescue the country from that, and we've got to do it responsibly and honestly."
Owen Paterson, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, went on the attack with the usual rubbish about Labour overspending but didn't get very far before Hain put him straight: "It was the banks that destroyed the economy, not the Labour government – it was the international banking system!"
Uproarious applause from the studio audience in Machynlleth (just up the road from me) where the broadcast was taking place. They – like most of the British population – had clearly been waiting years for someone to come out with that simple fact on a national media outlet: The banks caused the current economic situation, not Labour.
Let's just repeat it: The banks caused the current economic situation, not Labour.
Anyone suggesting otherwise is just plain wrong.
Paterson riposted weakly, "Because Gordon Brown didn't regulate them". But Hain had his answer for that ready, as well.
"You wanted lighter regulation. Come on, remember – you wanted lighter regulation!"
And that was also true.
Paterson went further into idiocy by prattling about breaking the national credit card – the kind of stuff that we all now know is nonsense and that has been disproved irrefutably on this blog and in many other places – and about the private sector creating 1.25 million new jobs, which we know it hasn't done, for example, because 200,000 were education jobs that the government redefined from public to private, probably in order to create another made-up statistic.
In other words, the Conservatives have no arguments for what they're doing. No arguments about the economy. No arguments about the cuts they have been making.
I've met Peter Hain a couple of times, and I've had a few differences of opinion with him – but in this instance he was right on the button and far more effective in putting forward an argument for supporting Labour than anything Ed Miliband said in his "we're supporting Tory policies because we think pretending to be Tories will win us votes" speech last week.
It was one of the worst speeches a Labour leader could have made, but if it prompts more Labour representatives, like Peter Hain, to stand up for the party and present a proper case for opposition to this hateful, incompetent, evil shower – the Coalition – then it might do some good in spite of itself.
Smith v Jones over benefits, the disabled and the truth about homelessness
Posted by Mike Sivier in Benefits, Conservative Party, Disability, Media, People, Politics, UK
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Finger-wagging rant: One tweeter commented, "You just KNOW IDS wanted to call Owen Jones a pleb back there…"
Iain Duncan Smith probably went home last night feeling satisfied that he had done his job well, putting forward his case for benefit cuts that will push thousands – maybe hundreds of thousands – of people out of their homes, on the BBC's Question Time. After all, he had the last word, didn't he?
Perhaps he didn't count on the absolute twatting he received from the inhabitants of the social media.
Those who had seen the show wasted no time in putting forward their opinions about the clash between Smith and socialist "braying jackal" Owen Jones. Here's what happened and what they said.
The question that sparked the clash was about whether the Work and Pensions Secretary's plan to cap benefits would push large families out of their homes in London.
Yvette Cooper, also on this week's panel, said the full consequences of the benefit cap and other measures being pushed through by the government were pushing up homelessness. "We've seen a 50 per cent increase in the number of families – families with children – living in bed and breakfast accommodation… That costs us a huge amount more… It's a mix of the housing benefit changes but also the benefit cap – the way they have been introduced."
Then Owen Jones stepped into the ring: "The reason this whole debate has become so toxic is a cynical demonisation campaign of people on benefits by the government," he said. It's as if he has been reading this blog.
"What they have tried to do is redirect people's justifiable anger over ever-declining living standards from those at the top who've caused this crisis to people's neighbours down the street. The working poor against the unemployed over benefits. Non-disabled people against disabled people. Private sector workers against public sector workers over pensions." Absolutely correct, as pointed out and reiterated here many times in the past.
"Housing benefit is not going into the pockets of tenants, it's lining the pockets of wealthy landlords charging extortionate rents," he said, going on to utter something indistinct because others were talking over him. The impression I got was that he was saying successive governments, New Labour included, didn't build council housing.
He went on to point out a statistic that the Tories have worked very hard to bury: "Most new claimants of housing benefit are in work; they don't have enough money to pay extortionate rents." Again, factually correct – and one must ask why employers do not pay enough. Why do they ask the government to subsidise the workforce?
"If we built housing in this country, we'd bring down the welfare bill, stimulate the economy, and create jobs."
Having scored his first few points, Mr Jones went for the knockout blow. Although blocked in his first attempt to mention the disabled, he tried again: "There is a point that has to be made about the treatment of disabled people in this country, and there are two names I want to give Iain… Brian McArdle, 57 years old, paralysed down one side, blind in one eye; he couldn't speak. He died one day after being found 'fit for work' by Atos. Another example – Karen Sherlock."
For those who don't know, Karen Sherlock was a desperately ill woman, suffering from kidney failure, whose Employment and Support Allowance was cut off by Iain Duncan Smith's minions. She died on June 8 this year, apparently of a heart attack, after an operation was cancelled. Read her story here.
This is where IDS lost it. Irately wagging his finger in Mr Jones's general direction, he barked: "We've heard a lot from you. I didn't hear you screaming about two and a half million people who were parked, nobody saw them, for over 10 years, not working, no hope, no aspiration. We are changing their lives; I'm proud of doing that. Getting them off-benefit is what we're going to do."
What he didn't say was, "We're changing their lives for the better." As for getting them off-benefit – that's a threat, if there are no jobs for them to take (and there aren't – or at least, not enough).
And that was the end of the programme. Owen Jones later commented that, as chairman David Dimbleby was finishing up, "a protestor yelled about Atos and left – not sure that will come across because it descended into total chaos." It didn't, but it would be interesting to know what their point was.
Jamie Laverty made a point about it: "Woman shouting about Atos on BBCQT – how symbolic. The BBC fails to listen to the people whilst giving the Tories a soapbox."
Then came the verdict. Nathaniel Tapley saw through the Secretary of State straight away: "IDS thinks it's unreasonable for anyone to receive more than £35,000 pa from the state. And claimed £98,000 in expenses last year." Hypocritical? I think I've written a blog about that…
'The UK today' tweeted: "Only the wealthy moan about benefits for the poor but don't complain about the bankers and shareholders who created the present problem."
Mark Ferguson of LabourList tried sticking to the thrust of the question: "Shockingly, London MP IDS seems totally ignorant about the impact of his own government's housing benefit cap in the capital. Astonishing.
"Build more houses, lower the cost of renting, save money on benefits. It's not f*cking rocket science is it?"
To Iain Duncan Smith, it is. He's a Tory, Mark! You're suggesting they lay out money on public works. They don't do that! Their plan is to hold money back, and use it to say they've balanced the books a bit more. Pointless and utterly unworkable in the long-term, but it is what it is.
Jenny Landreth made the point that's been on everyone's mind about housing benefit: "Do benefit claimants profit from their rent being paid? No. Landlords do. They are the reason the rents are high. HELLO?" Exactly right. Perhaps it's time to change its title to one that is more appropriate, like Landlord's Benefit?
John McDonnell MP applauded Mr Jones: "Well done for getting the tragedy of Mr McArdle and barbarity of Atos on the record. We must never forget or forgive this cruelty."
Finally, there came the comments on the cabinet member himself.
Zoe Williams, Guardian columnist, tweeted: "'we've heard a lot from you' IDS says to Owen jones. Only narrowly avoids adding 'oik'."
Matthew Walker added: "IDS has finger wagging rant at Owen Jones – he just needed to finish with 'you need a damn good thrashing, lad' and it would have been perfect."
Simplem+ths: "All that remained was for IDS to say 'shut it you fu#@ing pleb best you learn your fu@#ing place'".
And the amusingly-named 'Jeremy Twunt' concluded: "You just know IDS wanted to call Owen Jones a pleb back there…"
Isobel Waby went for the jugular: "Iain Duncan Smith is an insult to the British people. How dare he undermine the British people, insulting our sick, disabled, unemployed kids?
"He should be sacked NOW… MPs' inhumanity to the less fortunate."
And Gracie Samuels made the most telling point: "The lying bastard he's killing people, BBCQT, and we were not allowed to discuss it."
But Diana Foster put viewers' fear into words when she tweeted: "Disability hatecrime up, IDS gets final say – giving impression he's whiter than white and no disabled people are affected by reform. Disgusting."
Well, if Mr Smith (I never call him 'Duncan Smith' because that kind of attempt at a double-barrelled name is nothing other than pretentious) is reading this, I wonder if he'll still be putting that appearance in the 'plus' column. The net result, according to the public is that he is ignorant, cruel, an insult to the British people, inhuman, a lying bastard and disgusting. Wag your finger at that, Iain!
Since IDS got the last word on television, let's give the last word here to Owen Jones: "Blimey, thanks everyone. But what a a shame that stating the bleeding obvious on telly is such a revolutionary act."
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I've removed the Dash from my Capri and it has two long cracks down it. Question is what do I fill them with ? I do have the leather cover to go over it once it has been filled.Thank you for your help.
Before I replaced mine, I checked out a few YouTube videos on this topic. There are also some cheap dash "repair kits" available via online auction sites but not sure on the quality.
Some kits contain the filler that's designed to withstand flexing and vibration plus different "grain" stamps (to try and replicate the dash grain).
Other than that there are covers or try and source a better second hand one but these are scarce and can be pricey.
I used a flexible filler that was sold for dah and plastic bumper repairs. it worked really well.
As a trial I sprayed the dash with a couple of coats of dark grey Halfords flexible trim paint which brought it up well. Because I had applied quite a bit of filler though around the damaged speaker holes in addition to the cracks I felt the difference in texture between the rough textured dash and the smooth repaired areas was a bit too evident for my liking.
I'd already by now bought a leather cover so fitted this (a bit of a task).
If it had just have been a couple of cracks I'd have probably given it a 3rd coat of paint and not bothered about the leather thing.
I've purchased a plastic filler for the repair.Thank you.


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Q: Determine inner products If I have two inner products $$(i) \langle p,q\rangle=p(2)q(2)$$ and $$(ii) \langle p,q\rangle=p(0)q(0)+p(1)q(1)+p(2)q(2)$$ and want to determine $$\langle t+1,t^2+t\rangle$$ for these two inner products, how should i proceed then?
I'm a little confused as this is all the information I have and have not encountered such an example before.
What I have tried: $$(i) \langle t+1,t^2+t\rangle=((t+1)(2))((t^2+t)(2))=(2t+2)(2t^2+2t)=4t^3+6t^2+2t.$$

A: We are dealing with the inner product for the vector space of polynomials for the special case:

*

*$p(t)=t+1$

*$q(t)=t^2+t$
and, by the definition, for the first one we have:
$(i)\;\quad \langle p(t),q(t) \rangle =p(2)\cdot q(2)=(2+1)\cdot(4+2)=3\cdot 6=18$
and for the second one:
$(ii) \quad\langle p(t),q(t)\rangle =p(0)\cdot q(0)+p(1)\cdot q(1)+p(2)\cdot q(2)=1 \cdot 0+2\cdot 2+3\cdot 6=22$
As an exercise, you can check that the give definitions for the inner product satisfy the three properties of linearity, conjugate symmetry and positive-definiteness.


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