tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47482553175885806972024-02-19T17:23:27.290-08:00Hit The Donkey... don't hit the sack.donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-56813077767020505662018-12-06T11:54:00.001-08:002018-12-06T12:02:00.393-08:00Statistics are people, with the tears wiped away<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i><b>Note</b>: this is a previously unpublished blog, that I wrote back in 2013 or 2014 (and 'found' years later on an old hard drive). There are bits that are possibly inaccurate, now. But I wanted to leave it as intact as I could. Apologies for its unedited form for which I make no excuses.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘This is really important, I’ve put an
expectation into Job Centre Plus sites that people will be sanctioned. I’ve
done this because it’s the law. My worry is the variation that we are getting
[between job centre sites].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘I have been to job centres recently where
they’ve admitted that they have not been doing it [sanction]. They now are and
we are getting good results out of it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">These are the words of Neil Couling a
senior civil servant at the Department of Work and Pensions, to the House of
Commons Work and Pensions select committee on 26 Novemeber 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In my opinion I think it's unlikely I will witness a more cruel
civil servant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In his evidence, Mr Couling appeared to be
telling lawmakers that there was a ‘variation’ between the number of sanctions
being dished out by different job centres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Attitudes towards sanctions reflect a
wider, toxic debate about poverty in the UK. When a politician like Nick Clegg can tell his party faithful he’s helping<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘turn Britain around,’ he’s not lying. He literally is turning the
country around, so the people cannot see who is really shafting them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Right now, public opinion is full-square
behind policies that punish the poor and unemployed. If you ask someone in the
street, or at a dinner party, what they think about benefit sanctions, assuming
they’ve heard of them at all (not likely), they will, generally, be in favour
of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Believing, against the evidence, that
sanctions are applied fairly, without malice and as a last resort, this is the
British ‘way’, well the English way, but it’s a lie. The public are content
that punishment should be meted out to a minority in society that senior politicians
and the media agree are a ‘skiving,’ ‘scrounging,’ stain on society. But this
is a lie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And people dislike being deceived so, when
they recognize they have been hoodwinked, they turn. Iraq is one example, I
believe that sanctions, could be similar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Clearly sanctions are being applied unlawfully,
the DWP’s own figures support this (More than 50% of reconsiderations are
upheld, a similar proportion of independent tribunals overturn sanctions).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Couling seems to be aware that, to have
public trust, the DWP’s policy of sanctioning needs to be seen to be reasonable,
he’s many things, including intelligent, but he’s not stupid. Back in November
2013 he told MPs that his department closely monitored its employees to guard
against ‘rogue sanctions.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He told lawmakers that his department kept
data on what individual job centre advisors were doing and that this was
important in order to retain the public’s trust. He was lying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘I don’t want to create an oppressive
regime here,’ he said, ‘but to find out if there are rogue sanctions going on.
We don’t want the sanctions system falling into disrepute,’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mr Couling’s, remarks hinted that he was in
some way sensitive to the idea that policy, in this case a policy of immiserating
claimants, had to be seen to be justified for the public to regard it as
legitimate, like workhouses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I therefore put a series of questions to
the DWP under the Freedom of Information Act, to get a clearer idea of
precisely how the department deals with rogue sanctions, to find out how
effective he was at searching out bad practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I asked:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">How many times has the DWP taken
action against staff who consistently recommend sanctions a high proportion of
which are subsequently overturned?</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
does the action taken against these staff consist of?</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">How many times has DWP taken
action against staff for refusing to refer JSA claimants for sanction, or for
not sanctioning enough?</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What does the action against DWP
staff, who refused to refer JSA claimants for sanction, or did not refer
enough, consist of?</span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The department could not give a single
example of when it had taken action taken against staff for issuing rogue
sanctions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The department could not give details of
any disciplinary action taken against staff who issued rogue sanctions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The department could not say how many
times, if any, it had taken action against staff for refusing to sanction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Finally, the department could not say how
many times it had taken action against staff who had not issued the expected
number of sanctions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In a statement the DWP
said:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">‘</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
do not have a set expectation for how many referrals are appropriate for each
office.’ <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">‘The
information which is gathered regarding the number of sanctions referrals made
for each office is collected purely for monitoring purposes. This is to ensure
that all offices are following the policy and raising a doubt with a Decision
Maker where a doubt exists.’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.0pt;">‘Should
a member of staff be found to be using sanctions inappropriately, or not using
them at all, this should be raised by their Line Manager as part of their
ongoing performance. This may identify a training need, or where appropriate,
the need for a member of staff to be put on a Personal Improvement Plan. We are
committed to ensuring that all sanctions referrals made within our Jobcentres
are made appropriately and it is for this reason that we collect the data
referred to by Mr Couling to the Select Committee.’ <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">The department cannot not cite a single
instance in which it has taken action taken against a staff member for issuing
rogue sanctions. It cannot cite an example of a single case in which it has
taken action against a ‘rogue’ sanctioneer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There’s been a lot of discussion as to
whether the DWP has put in place ‘sanctions’ targets. Couling and the DWP
vehemently deny any such thing, preferring the euphemism of ‘expectations’. In
some ways talk of a target culture is a red herring. And anyone who knows anything
about abuse, knows the maddening fruitlessness of focusing on ‘lies’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Far from falling into disrepute because too
many were being sanctioned, Couling seemed to think the opposite was the case.
On his heroic travels around job centres Mr Couling found that a small number
of advisors didn’t believe in sanctions, were too squeamish and, therefore, refused
to use them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Statistics are people, with the tears wiped
away, but one only has to look at the statistics to see that the DWP consciously,
willfully, rationally and massively raised the bar in terms of how many
sanctions it wants to see. Check the ONS statistics for the number of sanctions
dished out by job centres in Oct 2012, then look again, a month later. Witness that
sanctions leapt by hundreds, even thousands of per cent across every job centre
in the land just a month later. This was an orgy of sanctioning activity and
no-one was spared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Note also that the number of sanctions dished
out have stayed at those elevated levels ever since. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This so-called ‘expectation’, to paraphrase
the Marx Brothers, ‘looks like a target, it behaves like a target, don’t be
misled, it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> a target.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Autumn 2012 will be seen as the moment the
DWP turned the thumbscrews on the unemployed, the disabled and the poor with a
vigorous expectation that more and more people should be punished for being out
of a job, for being ill or for being disabled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So far all the main political parties have
got away with it (until Corbyn arrived, Labour fully supported sanctions). And
it is difficult to see how matters can play out politically, for people in this
part of the population. But play out, it will, somehow. Perhaps we are already
starting to see it in increased levels of violence at job centres (assaults on
staff up 45 per cent), anecdotal reports of mothers stealing baby food and attempts
to burn down job centres Perhaps there will be riots. Or maybe just an
explosion in street homelessness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Meanwhile, the regime of sanctioning looks
set to encompass ever wider swathes of society. And it is here, occasionally,
one hears poverty campaigners hint at a note of optimism, because, the DWP
recently upped the ante once again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Under Universal, for the first time,
workers could be sanctioned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Anyone in receipt of benefit and working
less than 35 hours per week will have to demonstrate to the DWP that they are doing
enough to find additional full-time hours, or else risk being sanctioned. This
is a significant development, with up to 12 million families potentially
affected. That’s 12 million people who will come face-to-face with the reality
of a mendacious sanctioning regime. That’s a lot more dinner parties, chats
down the pub, Saturday nights in front of the X-factor etc where ‘sanctioning’
will become a fractious, despairing and angry topic of conversation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If the DWP behaves true to form, then these
workers, members of the lower middle class (participants in general elections
many of them) can expect to be demonized as undeserving and under scrutiny.
They too will have the activities listed in their ‘jobs seeker diary’ (FOI –
how will the DWP monitor the work-related activity of par-time workers, and
they will be angry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment--><br />donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-63802246779793368282018-09-18T07:00:00.001-07:002018-09-18T07:00:40.486-07:00Momentum: the quickest campaign outfit on the block?<br />
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Momentum comes in for a lot of criticism from the media. I can’t
but help think that this is in large part a consequence of the success they
have had in influencing Labour Party policy making, in particular, the National
Executive Committee (NEC) of the party.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The NEC is obviously a body they’ve set out to influence, as
was demonstrated by their success in getting all their ‘slate’ candidates
elected to the NEC in early September.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But it is not just in their success at winning high profile
elections that’s impressed me, it’s also in their ability to stay on top of the
issues at the NEC and ensure that, when needed, the campaign’s digitally
engaged activists are mobilised to bring external pressure to bear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A case in point was the mini-furore that erupted this week
upon the leaked details about mandatory re-selection, a policy supported by the
Labour Party membership, but apparently subject to a trade union / parliamentary
Labour Party (PLP) stitch up.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I received an email ‘call to action’ from Momentum at 10:08
am, urging me to email NEC members to get them to reject plans that might
undermine the further democratisation of the PLP.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Three hours later and NEC members’ phones had been inundated
with messages from Momentum members urging them to reject the plans allegedly under
consideration by the NEC.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s the Huffington Post’s Paul Waugh commenting on what
he’d heard:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Prominent NEC members with close links to Momentum, ie Jon
Lansman, were quiet on the issue, though his preference for open selections,
was clearly very strongly reflected in the email sent out by Momentum.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Whatever you think of Momentum, as a campaigning group, I can’t
think of anyone else that remains so effective at mobilising its activist base
in this way.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-69394270529187972562018-09-12T03:00:00.002-07:002018-09-12T03:06:32.340-07:00The curse of unlimited choice: music technology<br />
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I’ve never been a fan of the Steve Jobs, Elon Musks and
Peter Thiels of this world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But, the German music tech entrepreneur (sound engineer, musician, coder
and artist) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henke">Robert Hencke</a>, is different. He’s fascinating.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Imagine being the co-founder of a genre defining $18 million
music software company and then decrying what your incredible piece of technology
has done! <o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s what Hencke, co-founder of Ableton, does in this excellent
presentation, which is essentially a treatise about the tyranny of choice that
comes with technological abundance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I've been obsessed with music production down the years and
finally bought my first copy of Ableton about 10 years ago. The software combines incredible power and versatility with
a bewildering capacity to stifle creativity. I have had a love-hate relationship with the programme ever since I bought it. My feelings towards it are well expressed by Robert in this talk.</div>
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That said, I constantly go back to Ableton, knowing that the urge to get
another synthesiser or plug-in, learning or even building a fully modular synth, is almost
certainly unnecessary and will get me no closer to the type of music or art I
want to produce. Certainly no closer than the universe of synthesis, composition and emulation that
exists in Ableton.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Others disagree, having basically rinsed Ableton as part of their studio and liver performances for years already. <br />
There is something intensely creative about limiting your
choices of technology, mastering a piece of equipment, pushing it beyond its
absolute capability and creating something entirely new as a by-product.</div>
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Ultimately, this is what I think Hencke is urging us all to
do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is a great talk by someone who’s clearly still in touch
with his fundamental creative drives and needs, he even comes tantalisingly
close to saying Ableton should be scrapped altogether!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well work a watch.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-88016855402577366542018-09-06T04:08:00.001-07:002018-09-07T01:47:10.178-07:00Hayek, astroturf and centrism<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">I</span><span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">n
my efforts to understand astroturfed political campaigns, I decided to read Hayek’s
polemical essay ‘<a href="https://mises.org/sites/default/files/Intellectuals%20and%20Socialism_4.pdf">The
Intellectuals and Socialism’</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">The essay is the source of Hayek's reference to “second hand dealers in ideas” often assumed to mean think tanks. I’m not sure this is what he meant in
1949, regardless of how apt it feels today.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">Hayek’s "intellectuals" are journalists, school teachers and other purveyors of
knowledge. They are the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">second-hand
dealers in ideas</i> whose role is to act as an intermediary between
social, political and cultural ideas and the public at large who, he assumes,
are inescapably under their influence.*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">In the essay he rails against a media and cultural world dominated by socialist intellectuals , putting this dominance down to the awe-inspiring utopianism
of socialist ideas in contrast to the workaday “practical” “sensible” “realistic” (dare I say)
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">centrism</i> of liberalism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">Hayek
complains that:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “what [liberals] lack is
a liberal Utopia… a program which seems neither a mere defence of things as
they are nor a diluted kind of socialism, but a truly liberal radicalism which
does not spare the susceptibilities of the mighty… which is not too severely
practical, and which does not confine itself to what appears today to be politically
possible.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">This
quote could literally have been uttered by David Cameron or Tony Blair. It is precisely the kind
of “what works is what’s best” managerialism that guided first term New Labour.
It feels entirely apt for a society chugging along with 3% growth, decent wage growth and a public
sector borrowing requirement of 37-40% of GDP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">Hayek didn’t believe he was living in an actually existing capitalist
society.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">And I
think it is precisely this that's is at the root of the failure to adequately respond to the crisis of
2008. It is the reason why liberalism offered, <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c85b9792-aad1-11e8-94bd-cba20d67390c">at most,
an apologia</a> to 2008 according to this week’s Financial Times. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">It
is possible Hayek would have campaigned for Brexit, though our current no-deal
trajectory sits ill with the centrism in his 1949 essay.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">All
of which is to say that Hayek and today’s “intellectual neoliberals” in the
media continue to spectacularly miss the point. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">In
a society marked by social distress, it is insanity to think a media ‘huddle’
with Michael Gove a masterstroke of social action.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d;"><span style="background-color: white;">When <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/05/four-million-uk-children-too-poor-to-have-a-healthy-diet-study-finds">millions of children cannot get a decent diet</a>; if you don't know where <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/0429bda2-af65-11e8-99ca-68cf89602132">next week's wages are coming from</a>; if one of the great <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/bmjopen/2017/11/15/health-and-social-care-spending-cuts-linked-to-120000-excess-deaths-in-england/">markers of human progress has gone into unprecedented reverse</a>, then no amount of editorializing, lobby briefings or press releases is likely to shift public opinion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">Because
Hayek was wrong, fatally wrong, if he believed that public opinion turned</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;"> solely on whatever
vision or anti-vision is on offer from media intellectuals.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">Surely
this is what the 2017 general election result, and all opinion polls since, conclusively demonstrated?
Public opinion does not turn on whatever latest smear is concocted in the
Westminster lobby, it turns on the deep and long-standing churnings in people’s everyday material conditions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">Unless
and until liberals are able to understand that a politics that addresses 2008 and its fallout <i>is </i>the new centrism, they will stay irrelevant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: inherit;">*Note
- I find the essay useful in getting my head around the funding decisions of
charities like the Political and Economic Research Trust (PERT). Not just the
money it gave to the TaxPayers Alliance, but the money doled out to early culture
war outfits like the New Culture Forum. I’m researching a longer piece on this,
including how PERT ended up funding a campaign to have traffic lights abolished).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-34455148842768137762018-08-29T03:53:00.000-07:002018-08-29T03:59:32.873-07:00A letter to the patrons of the CAA<br />
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All reasonable people should be working hard to ensure Antisemitism is stamped out and that the issue is not inflamed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unfortunately a petition by the Campaign Against Antisemitism
appears to have done just that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The title of the charity’s petition ‘For the many, not the
Jew’ could hardly
have been more inflammatory.<br />
The result has been an outpouring of violent comments in support of the petition that are nothing less than incitement to political violence (I won't share or link to the comments here, the petition is easily found). Thankfully, in his response to questions raised by the Skwarkbox blog, the Chairman of the CAA condemned the comments.</div>
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The Charity Commission has also <a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2018/08/28/charity-commission-confirms-investigating-concerns-re-caa-petition/">confirmed it is in contact with the charity after concerns were raised by members of the public about it</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am struggling to think of another campaigning organisation (perhaps other than Leave.EU or UKIP) that has acted in such an
irresponsible way.</div>
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It is true that neither the CAA, nor its patrons, are responsible
for comments placed in support of its petition. But it is equally true that the
comments do the charity, its officers, trustees and patrons no credit
whatsoever, in fact they devalue it.</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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The charity counts a former Archbishop of Canterbury,
sitting MPs, lords and high profile barristers among its patrons. In addition
to writing to them, I have also written to the charity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is beyond comprehension that those associated with the CAA would not do
whatever they can, however small, to de-escalate this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The text of my letter is below.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i>Dear Sir /
Madam<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i>As a
patron of the Charity ‘The Campaign Against Antisemitism’ I must draw your
attention to the charity’s petition ‘For the Many, not the Jew,’ currently
hosted at Change.org ( <a href="https://www.change.org/p/the-parliamentary-labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-is-an-antisemite-and-must-go" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.change.org/p/the-parliamentary-labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-is-an-antisemite-and-must-go</span></a> )<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i>In
particular, I wish to raise with you the many instances in which petitioners
are choosing to deploy violent language against the leader of the UK
opposition, Jeremy Corbyn MP.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i>Whilst
neither the charity, nor you as a patron, are in any way responsible for the
comments people chose to make, I do feel that in the current climate you and
the CAA have a responsibility to help de-escalate and perhaps even distance
yourselves from these comments.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i>Barely two
years have passed since a sitting MP was murdered in the street by a man who
espoused hard right views. It is a tragedy to see comments of a similar,
violent nature being recorded alongside the CAA's petition.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i>It is
incumbent on all people involved in public life to act in a responsible way
and, where possible, to use their influence to de-escalate this type of
inflammatory and violent rhetoric.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i>I look
forward to hearing from you.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<br />donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-28735195763266564842018-08-24T02:34:00.002-07:002018-08-30T06:00:36.966-07:00'Cults’ 'Cranks' and understanding fake news<br />
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<b>‘Cranks</b>’ recently became a shorthand to describe a particular group of social media campaigners who support the leader of the UK opposition, Jeremy Corbyn.</div>
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It differs from the ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cult’</b> catch-all beloved of a section of commentators. An important difference being the consensus, even among Corbyn supporters, that ‘cranks’ are a particular sub-set whose views are informed by questionable conspiracy theory.<br />
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Still, as a label, ‘cult’ is also problematic. It writes off whole swathes of digitally engaged people,
mostly motivated by a sense of injustice, and hope for a better future.<br />
<o:p></o:p></div>
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The notion of the unthinking, unquestioning cult-like dupe is not
particularly helpful for us in trying to understand what is going on in our society. Take the phenomenon of 'fake news' and a paper <a href="https://www.georgetownlawtechreview.org/why-do-people-share-fake-news-a-sociotechnical-model-of-media-effects/GLTR-07-2018/">by Alice Marwick</a> which questions the effectiveness of traditional fact checking or media literacy
campaigns in countering it.<br />
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There’s no reasoned or rational ‘magic bullet’ to fake news. A well argued or irrefutable fact is rarely sufficient to end a fake news narrative, it probably never was. Instead, Marwick argues, we need to understand how people ‘make meaning’ from media and stop pretending that shot-in-the-arm fact checking or media literacy projects will change things.<br />
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She argues:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A socio-technical
approach to understand how and why people share fake news reveals complex
social motivations that will not be easily changed.” (p480)</i></blockquote>
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Though US-centric, her paper has helped me understand what
motivates, and gives agency to, those in and around digital activist spaces who
are often described as Corbyn ‘cultists’.<br />
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Fandom: Trekkies, Brosettes and Dungeons and Dragons</h3>
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There is often something herd-like about the way people get behind Corbyn on Twitter. At times I find it a bit uncomfortable with it (who am I to criticise?).<br />
But in her paper Marwick suggests the
possibility of using ‘fandom’ as a frame to understand what could be going on in these digital activist circles.<br />
<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fandom<b> </b>is a
phenomenon cultural theorists have written about for decades, from: Klingon-speaking
Star Trek groupies to the Brossettes, Beatlemania and football fanzine editors.</div>
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The relevance of fan culture here is summed up by the observation that: </div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Fans did not simply consume content:
they produced their own in the form of fan art, fan films and fan fiction.”</i></blockquote>
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It’s easy to label people a ‘cult’, all the better to
dismiss them, but isn't it more likely that Corbyn activists are simply bringing a pretty standard cultural tradition, that of 'the fan' to their organised digital activism? Of course Trekkies and fanzine editors were rarely political. In contrast today’s digital activists have agency and, in the case of Corbyn, a political figurehead. I suspect it's really this latter combination that really irks people.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Voice and agency</b></h4>
History is replete with examples of elites horrified at the
sound of the politically disenfranchised finding their voice.<br />
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<a href="http://coreyrobin.com/">Corey Robin’s book, The Reactionary Mind</a>, notes that US
elites were often at least as disgusted by the verbal speech acts of women or slaves,
as they were of their emancipatory ideas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In their ‘catch all’ denunciations of ‘cultists’ it feels
like ‘sensible’ media commentators, politicians and influencers are,
at least partly, objecting to the same thing.</div>
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<br />donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-78270990795320284682018-06-15T07:08:00.003-07:002018-06-15T07:11:44.112-07:00A lie is halfway round the world before the truth gets its boots on (pt2)<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.7); font-family: "source sans pro" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif , "hiragino kaku gothic pro" , "meiryo" , "hiragino sans gb w3" , "noto naskh arabic" , "droid arabic naskh" , "geeza pro" , "simplified arabic" , "noto sans thai" , "thonburi" , "dokchampa" , "droid sans thai" , "droid sans fallback" , , ".sfnsdisplay-regular" , "heiti sc" , "microsoft yahei" , "segoe ui"; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I like a bit of symmetry in my social media content. So, after Tuesday's post about how fake news outruns truth on Twitter, I’m following up with an example of a bit of ‘truth’ that’s taken nearly half a century to catch up with an apparently false cultural idea.
You may be familiar with the ‘infamous’ Stanford Prison experiments of the 1970s? These ethically dubious experiments saw students voluntarily incarcerated in a mock prison, policed by ‘mock’ student prison guards. Soon into the experiment the mock guards began mistreating the volunteer prisoners.
A chilling conclusion drawn from the study was that even ‘normal’ people tend to abuse their power over others, given a certain set of circumstances.
But a new French documentary blows the lid off the 46-year-old experiment. The film includes in-depth interviews with students and academics who were there.
Is the truth finally catching up with the ‘fake’ findings of the Stanford Prison experiment, nearly half a century after its findings became embedded in western cultural lore?
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donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-8035524200170218652018-06-12T07:05:00.000-07:002018-06-15T07:06:13.826-07:00A lie is halfway round the world before the truth gets its boots on (pt1)<div class="commentary Sans-15px-black-70%" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", Meiryo, "Hiragino Sans GB W3", "Noto Naskh Arabic", "Droid Arabic Naskh", "Geeza Pro", "Simplified Arabic", "Noto Sans Thai", Thonburi, Dokchampa, "Droid Sans Thai", "Droid Sans Fallback", -apple-system, ".SFNSDisplay-Regular", "Heiti SC", "Microsoft Yahei", "Segoe UI"; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 16px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Finally we have proof! A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has its boots on.
This MIT research finds that false news travels faster on Twitter, by orders of magnitude, than 'truth' (though 'truth', as ever, is probably doing alot of heavy lifting here).
Interestingly it's not robots spreading disinformation at an exponential rate, it's us.
And what does the research conclude makes people engage with false stories more easily? Yes, you're right: emotion.
There's strong research in the area of 'affective intelligence ' that's been saying this for a while now.
Research is here</div>
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donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-22985903464679655842018-06-08T08:30:00.004-07:002018-07-11T02:55:09.747-07:00What are campaigning charities really afraid of?Something that interests me is the
disparity between mainstream charity campaigning and politically-motivated campaigns, on the right.<br />
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I was prompted to think about this again in the wake of yet more research about the impact the Lobbying Act has had on charity campaigns. The <a href="http://smk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/SMK_The_Chilling_Reality_Lobbying_Act_Research.pdf">Sheila McKechnie Foundation</a>, finds 90% of charities blaming the Lobbying Act for
having a chilling effect on their campaigning activity, forcing them
to avoid being critical of government on contentious issues like welfare
reform, for example.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Ultimately, it is up to the Government as the accountable body for
such freedoms and regulations, to ensure that the interaction of policies and
legislation do not unreasonably constrain what civil society may speak into
public life, and how.” </i></blockquote>
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But a cursory glance at the actions, activities and networks around organisations like the Taxpayers Alliance reveals that some campaigners are clearly feeling none of the ‘chill’ that is paralyzing mainstream
charities and NGOs. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A further quote from the SMK report, this time from the
Salvation Army included an incredible (for me) assumption about the 'public imagination' when it comes to campaigning. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The original intention of the Lobbying Act was good, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">but the public imagination now says that any
attempt to influence is illegitimate</b>. But an uninfluenced democracy is a
dictatorship. There’s danger that the voluntary sector makes itself illegitimate by
ceasing to influence. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We see influence
as good as long as it is transparent.”<br /><o:p></o:p></b></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(The Salvation Army)</i></blockquote>
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Of course transparency matters. But what <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> this public imagination the Salvation
Army speaks of? Is there evidence people actually think charity campaigns are illegitimate? Is
it real or in the mind of the Salvation Army’s own campaigns team?<br />
For sure the media does seem more critical of charities these days, but this isn't entirely unjustified, given recent issues around fundraising and safeguarding affecting charities and NGOs. It is also true that certain right wing campaigns (for example, the IEA) have played a role in creating an air of skepticism about the advocacy work charities do. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But huge public support for campaigns like Stop Funding Hate
and the groundswell behind movements like Momentum would appear to contradict the notion
that the public has lost faith in campaigning. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Perhaps certain charity campaigners have lost faith in themselves? Perhaps the public has simply lost faith in certain charities?<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-20740047479756967112018-06-01T09:52:00.001-07:002018-06-01T23:40:53.327-07:00Back to the future for Onwards: a new think tank for t'yoof<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s been a dazzling few weeks in Westminster
village think tank world with</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> tanks close to Conservative Party MPs continuing to make the biggest waves (where <i>do</i> they get their money from?).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Onward’ with its plethora of ex-Policy Exchange hands, is the interesting new outfit on the block. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But what’s driving this spontaneous flowering of Conservative
wonkery? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's t’yoof innit? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Huffington Post reckons:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/think-tanks-conservative-tories-onward-freer_uk_5b04492ce4b0c0b8b23ec51d/?__twitter_impression=true">‘…<span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">many [Tory] MPs realise that unless they can appeal to
younger voters the election after the next one could be disastrous.’</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So who better to lead this new generation of <a href="http://www.desmog.co.uk/2014/09/24/second-hand-dealers-ideas-who-sold-us-neoliberalism">“second
hand dealers in ideas”</a> than…. Michael Gove MP!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not like he’s been a more-or-less
ever present cabinet minister for eight years is it? </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And as a massive Brexiteer, he'll easily endear himself to young people, surely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And to top it off, Michael </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was himself</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
young once.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here he is on TV in the 80s… being youthful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Micky will, of course, be partnered by that saviour of Scottish
Conservatism, Ruth Davidson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, for me it's the collection of ex Policy Exchange staffers, trustees
and associated fellow travellers that's notable about this new 'Onwards' outfit (The Times' Sam Coates noted it, the Guido blag noted it too). Former Policy
Exchange Trustee Lord '<i><b>finger on the pulse of yoof</b></i>' Finkelstein has apparently signed up, though he's been coy about out it on Twitter, imo. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Back to the future?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ex Policy
Exchange Comms head, Nigel Faith, is chief among the luminaries heading up this new forward-looking
thinky tanky thing. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Faith left Policy Exchange to set up</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> lobbying company <a href="http://wpi-strategy.com/people/">WPI</a>. There he was joined by ‘<a href="http://wpi-strategy.com/people/">respected economist and policy expert’ </a> Matt Oakley, the architect of Iain Duncan
Smith’s benefit sanctions policy. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A policy which, new research, has [again] confirmed has been </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/22/benefit-sanctions-found-to-be-ineffective-and-damaging" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">an
absolute catastrophe for young people</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.
Oakley himself formerly worked for Policy Exchange. See Donkey passim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another WPI staffer is Guy Miscampbell, someone who seems
to be really likeable on social media. Back in 2014, Guy <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?rinli=1&pli=1&blogID=4748255317588580697#editor/target=post;postID=723083138799865757;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=11;src=postname">wrote a paper (you guessed it for..... Policy Exchange!) on benefit sanctions</a>. The paper was heavily
criticised by academic Dr David Webster a respected benefit sanctions academic,
see Donkey passim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(In passing – and for no other reason than mischief – I must also draw the reader’s attention to another member of the team at
WPI – John 'Come to Peckham and say that' McTernan – mastermind of
Labour’s 2015 Scottish General Election campaign. The south London slugger is listed as an ‘associate’
at WPI.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So it’s great to see ‘<i>Onward’</i> adopting
such a forward looking recruitment strategy. I'm sure it will it will soon have much
to commend itself by way of further immiserating t’yoof over the coming years.</span></span>donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0Brighton, UK50.822530000000008 -0.1371629999999868250.742308000000008 -0.29852449999998681 50.902752000000007 0.024198500000013168tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-962831618265756422017-07-21T03:26:00.002-07:002018-06-01T23:53:02.009-07:00Sockpuppet IEA slapped down by charity regulatorIt was delicious this week to see the <strike>business lobbyists </strike>think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs called out by the Charity Commission for breaking rules on political campaigning during the recent UK general election.<br />
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Although the Commission hasn't made a big deal of it, the small matter of an upheld complaint about the IEA's party political bias is contained in one of the charity regulator's reports (read the full report <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/campaigning-and-political-activity-by-charities-prior-to-the-2017-general-election-case-report/campaigning-and-political-issues-arising-in-the-run-up-to-the-2017-general-election">here</a>). <br />
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It's a welcome comeuppance for the IEA, which really is little more than a business lobbying outfit that masquerades as a research institute and is among the least transparent 'think tanks' in the UK.<br />
The IEA has been behind a series of smears against the charity sector down the years, at various times attacking the Child Poverty Action Group for being <a href="https://iea.org.uk/blog/politicised-poverty-research-misses-the-point">too 'political'</a>. It's infamous sockpuppet 'research' was used to smear the charity sector. <a href="http://www.tobaccotactics.org/index.php/Preventing_the_Government-Funded_Charity_Sector_Lobbying_Government#cite_note-ditch-18">Then, last year, the IEA was behind an announcement by the Cabinet Office that charities who receive UK funding would themselves be banned from lobbying the government on legislation. A move considered by civil servants themselves to be stupid, unworkable and unnecesarry. It was eventually dropped.</a><br />
Anyway, it turns out that the real sockpuppet in all of this was... the Institute of Economic Affairds itself.<br />
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.<br />
<br />donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-86858570309693876562016-10-04T05:26:00.000-07:002016-10-04T05:26:53.519-07:00Why does the world need a fund to support LGBT people whose rights are under threat?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The following is a
fictional account, but drawn from real-life testimony about an ongoing situation.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>You arrive at work like any other morning. The sun is
shining and you’re positive about the day ahead, but something’s not right. There
are police officers outside and the door to your office has been smashed in,
papers with private details of people from the LGBTI community in your town are
strewn across the ground.
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At your desk sits the country’s Minister of Interior. He
raises his gaze from the list of beneficiaries that your organisation works
with and fixes his eyes on you.</div>
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“Report to my ministry within 24 hours,” he demands, “You
need to prove to me that you have the right to work in this country. We want
your registration documents, a list of the people you work for and who funds
you.</div>
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“We have reason to believe that your organisation’s
activities are unlawful in this country. If we are not satisfied with your
answers, we will shut you down and imprison you.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4748255317588580697#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></div>
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What do you do? Do you need a lawyer? Do you need to
leave town?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Physical attacks on the LGBT
community – the need for a ‘safe house’ during an emergency.</span></strong></span></div>
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Beyonce, 35, was attacked by a mob outside her home in
October, 2015. For 12 months she had been receiving threats of violence after hosting
a social gathering for transgender women at her home.
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She said: “Most people were wondering who these ‘boys’
were and people started spreading rumours that I was recruiting people into
homosexuality. On Sunday while talking to a group of guys in my neighborhood, I
was informed that there was a witch hunt for me and my ‘boy-girl’ friends; they
wanted to cut off our balls and burn us to death.” </div>
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Beyonce escaped the area and secured emergency
accommodation, but after two days she had to move on again, that’s when her
luck ran out.</div>
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“I went to a friend’s house and as I waited at the gate,
a number of guys came and beat me up. The attack lasted about five minutes and
fortunately, a friend of mine happened to be in the vicinity and came to my
rescue. He scared the goons away and managed to save my bag; I was in shock and
tears as I quickly digested what had just happened. I was then taken to Bunga
where I spent the night at another friend’s place. So far I have been supported
by friends who have heard about my ordeal and offered assistance in one way or
the other. This is not the first attack I have gone through but I strongly
believe the people who have been sending me these threatening messages must
have followed me and were determined to kill me. Of all the attacks I have been
subjected to, this is the first time I have dealt with death threats and I am
very scared for my life; I am currently staying at a safe house where East and
Horn 48 has placed me for the time being.” <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4748255317588580697#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The state of LGBTI
criminalisation</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Africa:</b> Thirty
four of Africa’s 54 countries, maintain laws that criminalise consensual
same-sex
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sexual practices between males, with 24 of these applying
to sexual relations between women.</div>
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These laws most often perpetuate stigma, persecution and
discrimination on the basis of a person’s</div>
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sexual orientation and gender identity, and they form the
basis upon which governments deny</div>
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activists their right to freely associate with
like-minded individuals. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4748255317588580697#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Latin America and
the Caribbean</b>: Despite its overall track record of progress in the fight
for legal equality for LGBT people the Americas has the highest levels of
violence and murder against the LGBTI population. However, at the same time,
the region shows the highest levels of violence and murder against LGBTI
population. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4748255317588580697#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a>
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The <a href="http://www.aidsalliance.org/rapidresponsefund">Rapid Response Fund</a> has
been set up by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance to support LGBT-led organisations in 29 counties considered hostile to LGBT and MSM human rights.
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The overall objective of the fund is to alleviate
specific risks from stigma, discrimination and violence that threaten the
provision, access and uptake of HIV services for LGBT people. Grants of between
$5,000 and $20,000 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for organisations
that face an immediate or longer term threat are available</div>
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<br /></div>
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For more information visit <a href="http://www.aidsalliance.org/rapidresponsefund">Rapid Response Fund </a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4748255317588580697#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
Although fictional, this account is based on testimony from an incident that
occurred in one of the 29 countries covered by the EJAF Rapid Response Fund.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4748255317588580697#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a> <a href="https://sexualminoritiesuganda.com/press-statement-smug-report-finds-264-cases-of-human-rights-abuses/">“And
that’s how I survived being killed” – Testimonies of human rights abuses from
Uganda’s sexual and gender minorities.</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4748255317588580697#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a> <a href="http://ilga.org/what-we-do/state-sponsored-homophobia-report/">ILGA,
State Sponsored Homophobia 2016</a></div>
</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4748255317588580697#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a> <a href="http://ilga.org/what-we-do/state-sponsored-homophobia-report/">ILGA,
State Sponsored Homophobia, 2016</a> </div>
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donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-2013405540466522482015-06-02T06:04:00.000-07:002015-06-02T06:04:22.343-07:00IDS: Ignorance, Agnotology and Gas Lighting?<div class="MsoNormal">
It is well known that Iain Duncan Smith has a limited
patience for reality.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He has faith in a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/23/iain-duncan-smith-politics-faith">calamitous policy of Universal Credit</a>,
he believes that unemployment has no structural causes and that the unemployed
can be sanctioned into work. The evidence, at every turn, shows he is wrong
(see Donkey passim). But evidence long since passed being relevant.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve been party to conversations about IDS. I’ve spoken to
high profile anti-poverty campaigners who ally an intimate grasp of his
damaging policies with a surprising forbearance for his desire to be seen as a
sympathetic social reformer. (Incredibly some <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really do</i> see IDS as a social reformer, see t<a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9116801/the-return-of-compassionate-conservatism/">his Spectator</a> piece by
Isabel Hardman).
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Other people, while not necessarily ruling out his good
intentions, think him a bungling idiot. Surely this was behind the media’s
wrongly held belief, last year, that he was due to be sacked. In the event neither
reshuffle, nor a subsequent general election left a mark on this most shambolic
of ministers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This tells us a lot about mainstream journalists and commentators,
but precious little about IDS.<o:p></o:p></div>
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George Osborne, according to right wing commentator, Matthew
D’Ancona, thinks IDS an <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10342039/Inside-the-Coalition-Iain-Duncan-Smith-was-not-clever-enough-claimed-Osborne.html">intellectual lightweight</a>, an observation that, if true, is especially interesting if
added to D’Ancona’s other revelation that IDS was shocked, upon entering
government, at just how jealously the Treasury guards its power over public
spending (how can a politician be unaware of this?).</div>
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Still, IDS survives concurrently with a reputation as a
deeply ignorant politician.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was with this in mind that I read an interesting paper by
<a href="https://values.doc.gold.ac.uk/blog/18/">Edinburgh University academic,
Tom Slater</a>. It enjoins us to pay closer attention to something that
IDS <i>is</i> very good at: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology">agnotology</a>, or the promotion of ignorance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And we should pay attention to Slater’s thesis. Because if
we are to stand a chance of fighting the drip of poison aimed against society’s
most vulnerable, then we need to confront the reality that a formally ‘liberal’ or
reason-based politics has long since ceased to operate in this country. We need to confront the fact of a
deliberate campaign of ignorance-inducing propaganda, honed by neoliberalism
during countless skirmishes against practical reason (think climate change
denial, big tobacco, Greece or austerity more generally).<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s a thesis (unwittingly?) echoed by Adam Curtis, whose <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02gyz6b/adam-curtis-bitter-lake">last
documentary</a> tackled a similar project of political ignorance, but this time
at the level of culture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Agnotology is the process of sowing doubt with the aim of
keeping people sufficiently unsure about reality, such that they are dissuaded from
acting to change it. Philip Mirowski in his book <a href="http://www.versobooks.com/books/1613-never-let-a-serious-crisis-go-to-waste">‘Never
Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste’</a> recounts how this process ran its course in
the run up to 2008 crisis and in its subsequent fallout. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mirowski painstakingly depicts what sometimes feels like a
conspiracy theory-sized account of how reasonable, rational positions (on
issues as varied as climate change, tax and macro economics) were
systematically undermined with the sole aim of preventing change contra to the
interests of the wealthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A further
collection of articles on this burgeoning area of academic inquiry is contained
in the book ‘<a href="http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=11232">Agnotology: the
making and unmaking of ignorance</a>,’ including research which
uncovered the famous tobacco industry memo declaring ‘Ignorance is our product'.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Students of agnotology say it is qualitatively different from
simple propaganda, in that it’s object is the social and cultural production of ignorance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m often struck by the similarity agnotology bares to the
phenomenon of ‘gas lighting’. Gas lighting is a form of psychological abuse,
diagnosed by feminist thinkers, that convinces its object (usually a female spouse,
but also children) to doubt their memory, perception, reality and, ultimately, their
sanity (the term ‘gas lighting’ is from the 1944 film ‘<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPcYkxmhGs0">Gas Light’</a>). Feminists
have noted the way abusive men routinely enact the technique through a
combination of lies, deceit, rumour (and just enough truth) to keep their
victimised partner or family, unsure, unbalanced, emotionally
drained, isolated and thus easier to control. The technique is an acknowledged
favourite of the narcissist and the psychopath, also the torturer (Read this blog for a delicious example of how
a <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/34qch1/my_22f_boyfriend_25m_is_hiding_all_my_stuff_and_i/">woman
turned the tables on a gas lighting partner, by making him watch the film ‘Gas
Light</a>’. As an aside, the Greek film <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/apr/25/dogtooth-film-review">‘Dog Tooth</a>,’
while fictional, seems to me to come close to depicting the workaday horror of
a family marked by this kind of abuse.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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For me there is something uncannily familiar about the gas lighting
favoured by the domestic abuser and the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/12/iain-duncan-smith-feckless-layabouts-work-shy">deceitful
propaganda about benefit scroungers, skivers and foreigners spouted by our
media and political class</a>. The ‘look over there’ smears parroted by the
likes of Osborne, Farage and others in our political class. The hatred whipped
up against the poor by programmes like Benefits Street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sense that the BBC may <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not</b> have crossed the Rubicon in the
public’s mind with its idea of making poor people compete against each other
for the title of ‘<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32956969">Britain’s Best
Grafter</a>.’<o:p></o:p></div>
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In IDS’s favour, I can’t find a single example of him ever having
uttered the word ‘scrounger’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed he
denies ever saying it (George Osborne came close in his infamous‘shirkers versus
skivers’ budget speech). But to chase around looking for a verbatim record
of what IDS or Osborne did or didn’t say is to miss the point entirely, indeed
it is to fall victim to the self-same mind games so beloved of the gas
lighting, agnotological abuser.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some advice</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The best defence against narcissism is to run. </div>
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Unfortunately, the poor, the disabled, the young, the sick and the unemployed
cannot just up sticks to Bermuda to spend time with their offshore accounts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The second best defence is to be prepared to count everything as a lie, to judge these
people by what they do, and allow no mitigation in their endless fork tonguery.
It is a sign of weakness, like blood in the water, to engage a narcissist in a
discussion about reasons. Similarly it is a proper defence mechanism against the crazy-making barbs of politicians to dismiss everything they say, offhand.</div>
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Forget about the lies. Fixating on the lie is their trick, a means to an end. Insanity and
anomie lie at the end of any attempt to reason with such people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Condemning all politicians is no new thing. Indeed from the
comfort of the commentariat it is a position often sneered at. Well, it may be
‘unsophisticated,’ it may be uncouth to them, but what difference should that
make? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The food poverty report
published this week drew lots of attention to the role that benefit delays and
sanctions play in forcing people to rely on foodbanks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But despite <a href="https://foodpovertyinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/food-poverty-feeding-britain-final.pdf">speaking toclaimants who have been sanctioned for unfair reasons, the report still insiststhat unjust sanctions are unusual </a>(see page 39). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The idea that unfair
sanctions are unusual, or some kind of -one-off, is utter nonsense.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The regime of
conditionality operated by this government has given rise to a scale of unfair
sanctioning that is systemic in nature. So much so that the system of
reconsidering sanctions has <s>been dismantled</s> completely broken down
(<a href="https://paulspicker.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/14-11-sanctions-stats-briefing-d-webster-nov-2014.pdf">see David Webster’s evidence passim</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfair sanctions aren’t
some rogue aberration, as the DWP has already conceded (see Donkey passim),
they are systemic to the benefit system itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A mere glance at the
proportion of sanctions that are subsequently overturned by claimants points to
a huge, organised and deliberate system of injustice directed against
claimants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently the report's
chair, Frank Field, (himself a former Secretary of State for work and pensions)
can’t join the dots between ‘anecdotal’ cases of sanctioning injustice and the
overnight explosion of sanctioning since October 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That he apparently sees no
connection between ‘anecdotal’ evidence of unjust sanctions and a tribunal
system that previously recorded a 90% success record in favour of claimants
overturning sanctions beggars belief.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’ve been researching a story about social
landlords involved in the Work Programme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I wrote a news story about the experience of <a href="http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/care/bromford-joins-exodus-from-work-programme/7005032.article">Bromford Support for InsideHousing here</a>. </span>I’m hoping to write a longer follow-up that covers the issue in more detail.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In the course of trying to speak to around
16 landlords on the programme, I learned that Bromford pulling out of the scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This was a shock. Bromford had been a high
profile backer of the WP (<a href="http://www.24dash.com/news/housing/2012-04-29-housing-associations-guide-to-work-programme-success">see here</a>, <a href="http://www.24dash.com/news/housing/2012-04-17-housing-association-reports-work-programme-success">here</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJFYe1jcH3w">here</a>). It was also criticised for its involvement in the scheme by campaign groups such as Boycott Workfare and Refuted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If u want to live in <a href="https://twitter.com/Bromford">@bromford</a> social housing, u must do volunteering or get evicted <a href="http://t.co/9XjhlUgCcN">http://t.co/9XjhlUgCcN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/workfare?src=hash">#workfare</a> <a href="http://t.co/GLsTtuEqbh">pic.twitter.com/GLsTtuEqbh</a><br />
— refuted (@refuted) <a href="https://twitter.com/refuted/statuses/462331238242865152">May 2, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">I managed to speak to Bromford Support’s
Managing Director, John Wade, at some length. It is clear that all is not well
with housing associations involved with the policy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Bromford along with other social landlords
was never a prime contractor, landlords usually seem to be second or
third tier sub-contactors to the scheme. This has implications in terms of the
people who end up being referred to them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In the course of my research it emerged
that the types of barriers these people faced are commonly: homelessness,
mental health issues, disability, debt etc. These are the people pushed into
the Work Programme by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), then ‘<a href="http://www.gmcvo.org.uk/creaming-and-parking-common-practices-work-programme">parked</a>’
by the prime WP providers because, right now, they are simply incapable of
work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Creaming and
parking’, the use of mandatory work placements (aka workfare) and benefit sanctions were
common themes in my conversations with housing association WP providers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anyway, below is a partial transcript of my
interview with Mr Wade of Bromford, it’s worth a read.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Barriers
to work<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘The big thing we realized is that most of
the people referred to us were just not ready to get into a job. Generally now
[Bromford continues to run a welfare to work scheme focused on its own tenants
and residents, ‘Bromford Connect.’ And ‘Connect Extra’]. We are trying to
identify which of our customers are not ready for work. Our focus is on those
other issues, the barriers to work that exist now. At the point when we think
someone has got enough control over those issues in their lives, or they feel
they are in a better place, then we start to engage more around employment.’</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US">‘We run a six day course over six weeks
with the initial aim of getting people to re-think themselves in terms of
working out “am I employable?” and “how should I prepare for getting a job?”</span><span lang="EN-US">‘It’s about preparing them to play the game
and understand how to get a job. It is uncanny how similar what we are doing is
to the advice that is given to young people when they are first starting out.
It’s about re-packaging themselves, getting them to think about how they can
feel more positive about themselves and think about what they have got to
offer.</span><span lang="EN-US">‘The success rate of people that go through
the course is 60 per cent, the reason for that success rate is down to the fact
it is focused on trying to do one thing only: to work with people who have
already reached the point where they have decided they want to get back into
work.</span><span lang="EN-US">‘By contrast, most of our Work Programme
work was actually about addressing the pre-employment issues. We might be
referred a client who was facing a debt problem, or at risk of homelessness and
trying to get that sorted out. We’d end up helping them to sort the issue out,
because that’s a major barrier to finding work: being homeless. But it’s not
Work Programme work, it’s more like Supporting People (link) work.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span> </blockquote>
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<b>There is something wrong with the Job Centre </b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘It’s easy to take the Daily Mail view of
people living on benefit: that these claimants are totally capable of work, but
would rather scrounge and watch Jeremy Kyle, or whatever. But that’s not the
situation of the people we were seeing, if indeed, such people exist at all.</span><span lang="EN-US">‘We were engaging and meeting with people
who had been ground down by their circumstances and needed help and the
overwhelming message was that they did not get that support from Job Centre
Plus. Instead, their interaction with Job Centre Plus was merely confirming
everything negative and bad that they felt about themselves: that they were
worthless, that they were not capable of much. There is something wrong.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US">‘Our staff would meet regularly with people
from Job Centre Plus, we worked really closely with them. When you meet them,
they are the same people, decent people who seem to be genuinely motivated by
wanting to help others.</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘But something is wrong with it. It’s about
relationships, it’s about trust and it’s about people engaging with other
people in a relationship of mutual respect and it’s about having the time to do
all of those things.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></blockquote>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Unpacking
the lives of the long-term unemployed</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US">‘When we engage with someone on our Connect
scheme a lot of the focus is about getting people to put together a CV. But
it’s more than that, especially for people who are long-term unemployed, for
example. You ask people: “What have you been doing, what’s going on in your
life?” They might not have been working, but they will have been budgeting,
having to manage their time, meet deadlines and things like that. Basically
they have been doing lots of things that that can be unpacked and re-packaged
and be useful skills in lots of jobs.’</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">The BBC’s Becky Milligan <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04cc7kh">interviewed Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan-Smith, this week.</a></span></div>
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It is well worth a listen (scroll to 50
mins). The interview is part of Milligan's award-winning series of on the record lunchtime chats with politicians for Radio 4's 'PM' programme.<br />
The light-hearted nature of the interviews reveals a lot. </div>
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He loves Italy, the food, the country but
denies he was the ‘Iain’ referred to in that infamous overheard reshuffle
conversation on the Chichester to London train. But intriguingly he does know who
the ‘Iain’ referred to was.</div>
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His lesson for aspiring SPads?</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Don’t talk on bloody trains, ‘I
know very well that both ends were not talking about me…’</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">On a sartorial level, it's not quite Dorothy Parker but:</span></div>
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‘Men who wear glasses
on their head look silly.’</blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">But it’s IDS’s ‘vocational’ commitment to welfare
reform and how stories about poverty affect him that are really of interest in this interview. Plus a new DWP chant apparently doing the
rounds at Caxton House.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘I just know that I should be doing this…[welfare
reform] I see this as a vocation… these stories about people in difficulty
didn’t start the day I walked through the door. Of course those stories are sad
and terrible, you want to find out about them, the speed with which you pick
these up, is what you test yourself upon.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-US">‘The reality is that the change [to
Universal Credit] itself should ameliorate the problem, if you don’t change it,
they’re still going to be screaming.</span></blockquote>
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Universal Credit was supposed to have been
rolled out in one go. Having missed the deadline, and learned lessons, the
department has apparently adopted a new slogan. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Our phrase is ‘test, learn, implement,’ says IDS.</span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US">Hmmmh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Not had a chance for a detailed look
through this yet, but the DWP has at last published the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jobseekers-allowance-sanctions-independent-review">Oakley review into the way benefit sanctions are communicated</a>.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis-RYHRzatJzbxsQmSKnohFDrAAHYXrmbThgr3QoUBtupgqsKjfw9xENf1NWwROOR7UN2e-YTBFDzLOyph3amaV_18eecJFNsDUv_eysmnDThPivdvpWtHMpLmWXtRw1yOPRhEUTQkG5E/s1600/thumbnail_jsa-sanctions-independent-review-print.pdf.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis-RYHRzatJzbxsQmSKnohFDrAAHYXrmbThgr3QoUBtupgqsKjfw9xENf1NWwROOR7UN2e-YTBFDzLOyph3amaV_18eecJFNsDUv_eysmnDThPivdvpWtHMpLmWXtRw1yOPRhEUTQkG5E/s1600/thumbnail_jsa-sanctions-independent-review-print.pdf.png" /></a><span lang="EN-US">The review’s terms of reference were always
too tight. This was a common theme of criticism from organisations that
responded to the consultation earlier this year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But a wider ranging review of sanctioning
would inevitably have called into question the policy itself and the principle
of ‘conditionality’ that underlies it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">These are emphatically not up for review
yet. The report’s author, Matthew Oakley, is himself committed to the current
policy of sanctions (<a href="http://hitdonkey.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/policy-exchange-smearing-poor-from.html">Donkey Passim</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Oakley’s report includes references to the consultation
responses and the Child Poverty Action Group has a page on its website where many
of the responses can be read. Most of the responses criticized the tight terms
of reference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There were rumours going around that Oakley
was going to step beyond the narrow confines of his remit and he hints at this
in saying that the report has implications for sanctioned claimants across the
board, not just those on the work programme. But I’ll have to read it more
closely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Oakley’ review was about the way conditionality
and sanctions are communicated, it was a review of the processes, in itself
this is no small issue. Communication between advisors, claimants, local
authorities and others who interface with the policy of conditionality and its
attendant sanctions, is awful. From the dreadful job seekers agreement, the
woeful ‘job seekers diary,’ which is a regular source of ‘raised doubts’
against claimants (I know of claimants who have been threatened with a sanction
for failing to include a job reference in their diary). The squalid
relationships that exist between claimants and their advisors to the almost
willfully poor letter writing on behalf of work programme providers and the DWP
itself - the system works terribly and Oakley makes some important
recommendations on some of these processes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But the truth is that an orgy of
sanctioning activity is taking place in job centres right now. Since October
2012 when it upped the expectation on job centre managers that they would
punish more people, sanctions have gone through the roof. No amount of
‘behavioural’ approaches to communication (as recommended by Oakley) will make
a difference to a policy like this. It is the deliberate decision to ramp up
sanctioning activity in October 2012 that needs sorting, not how those
sanctions are ‘communicated’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s worth noting that employment minister
Esther McVey MP, previously committed to a wider sanctions review. That was
dropped pretty quick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The bottom line is sanctions work, they are
brilliant at driving people off benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-12666854709656936812014-07-17T06:20:00.000-07:002014-07-21T02:29:59.590-07:00Would benefit sanctions have stopped three million people becoming unemployed in the 1980s?<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #1f2326; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In April this year Neil Couling, Director of Benefit Strategy
at the </span><span style="color: #1f2326; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #1f2326; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)and one of Iain Duncan-Smith’s most senior civil servants </span><span style="color: #1f2326; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament on benefit sanctions
and foodbanks. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f2326; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can read about the session <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28862.aspx?r=9133&mode=pdf">here</a>: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f2326;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or watch the session here: </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f2326; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the time several newspapers picked up on his comment to the
effect that sanctions were a good thing for claimants, a kick up the backside,
if you will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f2326;">Mr Couling said sanctioned claimants: ‘</span><span style="color: #1f2326;">recognise
that it is the wake-up call that they needed.’ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f2326;">A short time later, he was asked (surely rhetorically?) if he had been</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f2326;"> </span><span style="color: #1f2326;">’inundated with thank you cards’ from people who had
received sanctions?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f2326;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f2326; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Yes—that is not so remarkable.’ Replied Mr Couling. sanctions</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1f2326;">Now, okay – let’s conclude Mr Couling was replying
sarcastically to what was surely a sarcastic question. S</span><span style="color: #1f2326;">urely we have to assume that Mr Couling has not
actually been inundated with </span><span style="color: #1f2326;">thank you</span><span style="color: #1f2326;"> cards from people grateful for having their benefit sanctioned? </span><span style="color: #1f2326;">Let’s put this down to defensive ebullience on Mr
Couling’s part. Though I do wonder if it’s worth putting in an FOI
so we can see the display of</span><span style="color: #1f2326;"> thank you cards for ourselves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f2326; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*** BREAKING ***: <a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/211153/response/521256/attach/html/3/WDTK%20response.2217%20Stones..pdf.html">Someone already put in an FOI along these lines, to Leigh Job Centre</a>, in the north west of England. During a six month period the centre received 11 thank you cards from sanctioned claimants. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f2326; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Astounding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1f2326;">Anyway, I digress, this is nothing compared to what was to come.</span><span style="color: #1f2326;"> Because later in his evidence, Mr Couling was to make
a claim that, if true, was worthy of a PHD. A</span><span style="color: #1f2326;">n incredible claim, a whopper in fact that, when I
think about it, sounds totally unhinged for a bureaucrat of his seniority. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f2326; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here
is what he said:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f2326;">'During the recession in the 1980s, my predecessors… abandoned
the sanctions and conditionality regime</span>… unemployment grew to three million—it was probably going to do that
because of the nature of the economy—... it stayed at three million until 1986 and started to downturn only when
we reintroduced [sanctions] into the system.'</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now this seems an incredible statement to make, let me recapitulate it. Mr Couling's hypothesis is that:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Thatcher government, being a liberal administration, pressured the DWP not to sanction people;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under pressure, the DWP relaxed sanctions; and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It wasn’t until sanctions were re-introduced (with the introduction of 'Restart') that unemployment started to come down from its
1986 peak of three million.</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, wait, there’s more and it is classic Whitehall Mandarin stuff. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘…when we worked hard—as we did in the 2008 recession—to hang on to the
conditionality regime, the unemployment rate fell very fast,' he said. 'In the 2008 recession, unemployment was much lower than most external
commentators suggested that it would be….’ </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The key point to bear in mind here is the date: 2008.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By Mr Couling's reasoning 2008 was the year that sanctions proved their worth at preventing mass unemployment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But if this was the case in 2008 why did Mr Couling personally order job centres to increase their use of sanctions four years later in October 2012?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why tell job centres to increase the use of sanctions, when
unemployment was already apparently under control?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me, this does not make sense.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Couling continued:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Some former members of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee
said that it would rise to 5 million, but it did not… it peaked at between 2.5 million and 2.6 million, and it is now falling
back towards 2 million.’ </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do sanctions really get people into work? This is a red herring. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you look at the rising number of unemployed people who do not claim JSA and compare it with the explosion of sanctioning behaviour from October 2012 onwards, I think the answer is a clear: no. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are sanctions a brilliant way of reducing the claimant count, of driving people off benefits? Yes, without doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is this the real reason Mr Couling is so committed to them?</span><br />
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<font lang="EN-US"></script>Many are asking how it is that Iain
Duncan-Smith remains Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions
in the wake of a deep and wide-ranging reshuffle this week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Patrick Wintour, without citing the
evidence argues that, in contrast to Mr Gove, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/15/tale-of-two-careers-michael-gove-iain-duncan-smith">Mr Duncan-Smith’s policies are‘popular’ with the electorate</a>. The BBC’s Nick Robinson is unequivocal – IDS has
‘won’ the debate on welfare.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/creativeblock_">@creativeblock_</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WTF_EEK">@WTF_EEK</a> look at the polls. Tories winning argument on welfare. You may not like it but ...<br />
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Others think Cameron didn’t sack IDS because no-one else wanted the job. But I
find this a bit of a stretch.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Granted, the DWP is in a mess: Universal
Credit is failing; the Work Programme works poorly; sanctions against people with a disease of disability are <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/328222/foi-2282-2014.pdf">going through the roof</a>; the system of Mandatory Reconsideration of appeals seems close to breaking point,
the Ministry of Justice recently billed the DWP £20 million after receiving a
tsunami of unexpected appeals against DWP decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Practically anyone you speak to whose job
involves engaging with DWP officials talks of a department on the defensive, a
department in crisis even.</div>
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But this would not have deterred an
ambitious MP from taking Duncan-Smith’s job. Afterall, as Wintour and Robinson
argue, his policies are ‘popular,' aren’t they?</div>
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In truth I doubt the electorate has a clue
what IDS’s policies are. I doubt that Wintour or Robinson have a clue either.</div>
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What they and the electorate <i>are</i> familiar
with is the rhetoric about 'welfare reform' and claimants who rely some form of social security.
What the commentators really mean is that IDS is winning the propaganda war on
welfare policy.</div>
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For the past few years we have seen
‘welfare reform’ framed as a battle between ‘<a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/george-osbornes-speech-conservative-conference-full-text">strivers and shirkers</a>’ (and <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2012/11/shirkers-v-strivers">here, for Labour's contribution</a>) accompanied by a rhetoric of ‘hard-working families’ that ignores the fact
that, for many, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/17/social-mobility-tsar-work-route-poverty">work is not a route out of poverty</a>. It is a rhetoric in which the media portrays claimants as <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2652096/Thousands-benefits-claimants-win-legal-right-money-government-officials-turn-4-tribunals.html">dishonest for exercising their rights</a>. It is a rhetoric in which the employment minister seeks to <a href="http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/esther-mcvey-says-benefit-sanctions-6323730">infantilise the unemployed</a>. It is a rhetoric deployed in a criminalising way to marginalise the unemployed for
the crime of being… unemployed (Donkey Passim). It is a rhetoric that is reproduced
in shows like Benefit Street, a form of ‘poverty porn’ <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10590933/Iain-Duncan-Smith-Ill-stop-Benefits-Street-Britain.html">lauded by Mr Duncan-Smith</a>. </div>
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But if you speak to people whose job involves engaging
with actual policy, they repeat the same message: the welfare reform
debate has become toxic beyond rational discussion.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And in large part this must be down to the
rhetoric of politicians. They should know better, but they indulge in it
anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The problem when debate degenerates to this awful level is that ‘you
reap what you sow.'</div>
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I recently spoke to a charity that has persuaded the DWP to make concessions on aspects of its welfare to work
policies. The concessions, though small, seem hard won and
potentially significant. They were the result of sustained, but evidence-based, campaigning
and engagement with DWP officials. The concessions will not change the world
but may be a start.</div>
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But pressure groups and members of the
public rounded on the charity when news of the concessions leaked. Much
of the anger seemed to come from people who have borne the brunt of
‘welfare reform’ and the rhetoric that comes with it.</div>
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A member of staff at the charity told me he felt that this reaction, whilst
depressing, was understandable and predictable. The rhetoric of welfare reform
affects the way everyone thinks, he argued, including those worst affected by
actual policy.</div>
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The well has been poisoned. And despite the
charity’s efforts to change policy for the better, there is a disillusion,
to the extent that people have started to mistrust the motives of the charity itself.</div>
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Commentators who argue that Mr Duncan-Smith’s
policies are popular, should reflect on this.</div>
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It has been suspected for a while that
sanctions were being used to drive down the Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) claimant
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I hadn't realised they were keeping tabs on this but <a href="http://www.cesi.org.uk/statistics/labour/may-2014">a briefing noted issued today (</a>14 May
2014) by the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion (CESI) shows that people really are being driven from JSA as a result of sanctions, but not into jobs.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Whilst observing that the JSA count
continues to fall sharply the number of people who are unemployed but not
receiving JSA jumped by 3,000 in a single month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘the number of unemployed people who are
not receiving benefits or support remained high at 1.036 million, 3,000 up this
month.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The briefing goes on to make an explicit
connection between the rising proportion of unemployed people not claiming JSA
and the harsher sanctioning regime insisted on by the DWP since October 2012
(Chart 2, below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #150b53;">Chart 2: Percentage of unemployed people not
claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance</span><br />
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">The proportion of unemployed people not claiming JSA has risen to 46.9% (1,036,000)</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">The number and proportion of unemployed people not claiming JSA have been rising since the </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">new</span><br />
<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">JSA sanctions regime started in October 2012.</span></div>
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donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-7230831387998657572014-04-29T05:11:00.001-07:002014-04-30T01:24:09.635-07:00'Not so smart': Dr David Webster responds to Policy Exchange<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">David Webster, a leading authority on UK benefit sanction statistics, has responded
to last month’s report by the Policy Exchange
think tank </span>(<i><a href="http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/publications/category/item/smarter-sanctions-sorting-out-the-system">Smarter Sanctions: Sorting out the system</a>)</i>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A copy of Webster’s report can be found at the website of Conditionality *<a href="http://www.welfareconditionality.ac.uk/2014/03/the-great-sanctions-debate/">here</a> (you have to scroll down to the bottom of the blog entry for the link). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(<a href="http://hitdonkey.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/policy-exchange-smearing-poor-from.html">Hit the Donkey has noted the ‘media blinder’ played by Policy Exchange when it issued its misleading report into JSA and ESA sanctions</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Webster has consistently
rejected sanctions, but in his latest </span>report he also<span style="font-family: inherit;"> draws attention to the criminalising language
increasingly used when referring to claimants by organisations like Policy Exchange (PE).
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He highlights the way PE frames the debate
through words like:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘offences’, ‘failures’, transgressions’</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">He points to their use of 'throw away' phrases about sanctioned claimants such as </span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span lang="EN-US">‘serial and deliberate breach’ or ‘failure to meet their responsibilities,’ </span></span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is important that Webster emphatically refuses to accept this way of framing the debate. In doing so he shows how this kind of language has come to define
the debate about benefit conditionality, sanctions, welfare reform and
unemployment more generally.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Obviously you should read Webster’s response in full at <a href="http://www.welfareconditionality.ac.uk/2014/03/the-great-sanctions-debate/">Conditionality</a>. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But below
is a smattering of quotes from it.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">On Policy Exchange's uncritical use of criminalising language about claimants</span></b></span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘The Coalition has
changed the official language used in referring to sanctions in such a way as
to imply that sanctioned claimants are in effect a type of criminal… Thus we
read of ‘offences’, ‘failures’, transgressions’, ‘serial and deliberate
breach’, ‘failure to meet their responsibilities’, and the like. The Policy
Exchange report adopts this language uncritically, and adds to it… In what
follows it has not been possible to avoid using the language of ‘offence’ and
‘punishment’ in reporting what the Policy Exchange has said, but it is
important to bear the above points in mind.’</span></blockquote>
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">On PE's dodgy decision to focus on the 68,000 wrongly sanctioned for the first time</span></b><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘[Policy Exchange’s] identification of first-time
‘lower-level’ ‘offenders’ as the only claimants who should be treated less
harshly is odd’</span></span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span>Because it leaves out:</span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> '</span></span><!--[endif]-->second and subsequent time lower level ‘offenders’
including successful appellants<br /><o:p></o:p><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->all intermediate and higher level ‘offenders’, whether
first-time or not and whether successfully appealing or not.'</span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘There is no justification for the
[sic] Policy Exchange proposal to treat these groups less favourably… Repeat
‘offenders’ are just as likely as first-timers to be wrongly sanctioned.
Wrongly sanctioned people with a previous ‘offence’ should not be treated less favourably
than wrongly sanctioned first timers. The report does not attempt to justify
this discrimination, which presumably arises from an implicit assumption that
an‘offence’ renders a claimant ‘undeserving’ and that as a result they should
forfeit their right to justice.’ </span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘The report does not offer any
justification for treating ‘higher’ and ‘intermediate’ ‘offenders’ less
favourably than ‘lower’ offenders. It appears simply to have accepted these
distinctions uncritically at face value. But this categorization did not exist
until<br /> October 2012.’</span></blockquote>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">On PE's failure to engage with sanctioned claimants or the qualitative research about them</span></b></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘<span lang="EN-US">It
is striking that the Policy Exchange report makes very little reference to the
British literature on the difficulties of sanctioned claimants. Instead,
references are mainly to US literature on ‘workfare’, revealing the Policy Exchange’s
political preferences and connections. A reading of the British literature
would show that there are considerable objections to both of the proposed more
‘compassionate’ penalties.’</span></span></blockquote>
I'll add that the voice of sanctioned claimants was totally absent from Policy Exchange's report. Not a single claimant was interviewed for it. How can sensible policy be made at such social distance?<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>On the idea that a ‘yellow
card’ be issued to people wrongly sanctioned for the first time</b>: </span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">‘</span>This proposal is modelled on the ‘Azure card’ issued
to asylum seekers denied leave to remain. The British Red Cross is calling for this to be abolished, a fact of which the
Policy Exchange appears unaware. The implied withdrawal of full citizenship recalls the overt removal of
citizenship rights introduced for workhouse inmates by the 1834 Poor Law. The
report itself states (pp.6, 33, 36) that the card would work partly through
‘social pressure’, in other words sanctioned claimants would be publicly
shamed, even when they are subsequently found to have done nothing wrong at all…
Given the shame involved in using the card, it seems likely that only claimants
in dire need of money would opt to pick it up, and for many, there would thus
be a <i>reduced</i> incentive to
‘re-engage’. The report itself (p.10, note 17) references a case where a
teacher was wrongfully sanctioned for attending a job interview which took
place at the same time as her signing-in time. An offer of a ‘yellow card’
would not only make such a person justifiably very angry; it would also most
likely be rejected.’</span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Daily signing-on </b>is an issue in the
news this week, it is an integral part of the DWP’s so-called ‘Help to Work’
initiative. Aside from the cost in time and money
of making people sign-on daily, Webster says the idea: </span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘<span lang="EN-US">has
a strong resemblance to the oakum-picking of the nineteenth-century workhouse –
a deliberately purposeless activity, designed to depress and humiliate.'</span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span>‘Again, the [sic] Policy Exchange proposes
that this penalty should be applied to people who are blameless.' </span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">On punishment<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here I think we get to the
nub of what conditionality and sanctions are all about, especially </span>when considered alongside the criminalising language already referred to.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> There is no evidence
that sanctions lead to sustainable non-precarious employment. What is certain
is that sanctions are effective at disciplining people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But a central strand of PE’s argument was that sanctions simply are not strong enough.</span></span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">'The report does not cite any
empirical evidence in support of its proposal to add further progression of
penalties beyond 13 weeks for a third or subsequent lower level ‘failure’. It
says (pp. 10-11) that ‘more needs to be done to prevent this group of
individuals’ – a ‘hard core of claimants’ – ‘consistently wasting time and
resources’. Sanctions should be ‘more punitive for those who are repeatedly
attempting to avoid the conditionality regime’ (p.7). The harsher progression
‘would increasingly shift the most troublesome cases onto more punitive
sanctions’ and ‘should help provide a more extensive punishment for those who
consistently abuse this system’ (p.37).'</span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>But, counters Webster</b>:</span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘The evidence shows that the great
majority of claimants are doing their best to find work, and that Jobcentres
contribute little of value to their search. For them, what the sanctions system
often does is to enforce contrived and pointless actions which bring no actual
benefit to anyone.’</span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘The report is quite open about its
belief in punishment: sanctions’ ‘purpose is twofold; attempting to ensure
compliance with the conditionality regime, <i>and</i>’
(emphasis added) ‘punishing noncompliant behaviour’ (p.6). This position is
clearly different from that of more moderate advocates of sanctions, such as
Gregg (2008), whose report does not mention the words ‘punishment’ or ‘punish’
at all.’<br /><br />‘There appears to be no evidence
that heavy sanctions are more efficacious than mild ones.’</span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>In conclusion:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">'t</span>he obvious solution is not the report’s proposal to
treat wrongly sanctioned people supposedly less harshly, but to ensure that
sanctions are not wrongly applied in the first place…<br /><o:p></o:p><br /><span lang="EN-US">‘Added to the pre-existing problems,
there is now a deliberate policy on the part of ministers to drive up the level
of sanctions to previously unheard-of levels.'</span></span></blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<div style="text-align: center;">
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘Sanctions should simply be
abolished.’</span></b></div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">*Conditionality is a project attached to
York University, part funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) that is at
the start of an ambitious round of qualitative research into ‘Conditionality’).</span></div>
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donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-35578708211623826472014-04-29T04:45:00.000-07:002014-05-06T04:45:23.782-07:00Teachable moments: the Greens and 'framing' (urgh)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Greens are annoyed that UKIP gets so much
media coverage, but are there questions to ask about the party’s own record of
missed PR opportunities?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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First off, this piece is intended to be
comradely. I have criticisms to make about the Green Party, but I have no
interest in smearing it or its members. I am lucky enough to live in Caroline
Lucas MP’s constituency and will vote for her in 2015.</div>
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But I think the party has a problem getting
its message out and I want to warn against a purely defensive posture of crying
‘journalistic bias’ for the failure to cut through in the media.</div>
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For me, <a href="http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2329013/ukip_and_the_ideal_of_media_neutrality.html">this piece by Matt Hawkins and Clare Phipps in theEcologist </a>illustrated just such an approach. I’d also cite Natalie Bennett’s
comments in this interview with Novara Media.</div>
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In the interview she explains the reasoning behind the Green’s tactical decision not to visit flooded areas,
such as Somerset, earlier this year to explain the party’s policies on extreme
weather and climate change. Finally, I want to flag up <a href="http://novaramedia.com/2014/04/in-conversation-with-neal-lawson/http://novaramedia.com/2014/04/in-conversation-with-neal-lawson/">commentsmade by Neal Lawson of Compass, again to Novara Media,</a> which I think give a
tiny (though I can’t judge how well-informed) insight into things going on behind
the scenes Green Party HQ during the floods. I cite Neal’s comments because I wonder if they highlight an organisational weakness of the
party in reacting to breaking news whilst simultaneously campaigning for
re-election. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">First off, let me caveat that I think our
media strongly manifests the social relations latent in a developed, western
capitalist society, its norms and ethics etc. In addition, I think it is true
that as the primary gatekeeper to public opinion, the BBC reflects the same
norms and ethics and, to compound matters, is more open to the established
parties of power. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In these circumstances it is inevitable
that a party with a critique of capitalism at its root, and which is not
considered a party of power, will struggle to influence the media agenda.</div>
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In response, the Greens have to be
opportunistic and savvy.</div>
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Last winter significant parts of the UK
were flooded. In response, politicians (including UKIP) and the world’s media flocked
to places like Somerset to witness whole villages underwater, homes ruined by
the deluge, lives turned upside down by extreme weather.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The coverage was emotionally affecting and it
engaged many people. The pictures, interviews and words helped people like me
(safe and sound in Brighton) to empathise with the plight of those affected. You
would need a heart of stone not to feel something when confronted with such
footage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now, this is what the media is
spectacularly good at: knocking on doors, finding human-interest stories and re-telling
them to a wide audience (a few excellent reporters are able to go further and
transform ‘topics’ into stories as well).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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But the coverage also prompted me (and
presumably many others) to think more abstractly about what might have caused
the floods in the first place and to consider ‘what needs to be done’ to stop them
happening again.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In short, the coverage provided an
opportunity to ‘frame’ the debate about climate change. There… I said it, that
horribly vogue-ish liberal word: ‘framing’. Now, before I go on, I’ll put on
record my hunch that ‘framing’ is a bit overplayed in some quarters. It is a PR
tactic, nothing more, it is not a grand theory of political communication or
change, it is a tool. It is based on the very simple idea that if you want to explain
something to a person (or audience), you must do it in a way they can relate to
‘start where they are’. Framing provides for a ‘teachable moment’, if you will.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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People often talk about the value of ‘story
telling’ as a component of framing. But it’s really the mechanics of story
telling that enable an idea to be framed, the metaphors, analogies and similes intrinsic
to story telling that allow an abstract argument to come to life.</div>
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Remember sitting on the rug in class at
infant school? Remember how the teacher would often end by rhetorically asking:
‘and the moral of that story is…?’</div>
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Well… that.</div>
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Now, all adults (apart from the malignant
narcissists and psychopaths among us) can relate emotionally to the experience
of a family flooded out of their home. We have a sense of what it would be like
for us if, by bad luck, we were faced with the same situation. This emotional
engagement can provide a bridge to more abstract knowledge, for example, it can
help us to relate the science of climate change to actual, concrete social
events.</div>
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When a parent lays out Smarties in order to
teach a kid to count, they are framing. They are using something the child
understands and can relate to (food they enjoy eating) as a stepping stone to
something more abstract, in this case, mathematics (See my clever use of
metaphor there?)</div>
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This is not rocket science (heh heh) just a
sensible, empathic way of teaching (heh
heh heh heh).</div>
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So why, when all the word’s media and its
dog, was in Somerset filming the deluge, did the Green Party stay in London?
Why opt for a press conference at the Thames barrier when the teachable moment
was in a Somerset field? Was the Thames barrier a better device for framing
than the visceral depiction of flooding’s concrete impact on actual human
lives?</div>
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The Green Party has no right to own climate
change as a campaign issue, but it has a better claim to being authentic on this
issue than any other party. And whilst it is crucial to have a well-argued and rational
set of policies about flooding, this is not enough. People need to find their
own way to connect with policy, they don’t always connect on the basis of a
rational and well argued proposition, although, in principle, I they can. To
avoid losing such people, you need a teachable moment: every policy should have
a metaphor, a simile, some ‘Smarties’ that will allow people to make their own
connections between it and their own, concrete, lived reality.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Infographics do this job, they provide a
visual metaphor for abstract statistical facts. Human-interest stories in the
media do the same job, that’s why any campaigning charity worth its salt maintains
a network of people (aka ‘case studies’) to advocate for and illustrate their
research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sadly, as Neal Lawson points out, it is
likely that the intensification of climate change will lead to many more ‘teachable
moments’ like the Somerset floods. I hope the Green Party plans to be chief
lecturer next time around.</div>
donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-84869204291016969592014-04-25T08:31:00.003-07:002014-04-29T06:22:47.680-07:00The rot at the root of the Mail's anti-foodbank campaign must be challenged<div>
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‘Foodbank’ is a word now synonymous with economic recovery in the UK.</div>
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So it was only a matter of time before the Mail on Sunday decided to do a hatchet job on one. It was heartening to see a strong backlash against the story.</div>
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But aside from this, what is it in our collective psyche that makes it possible to believe that there really <i>are</i> people out their vying to rip off foodbanks?<br />
I have a feeling that it is this assumption that the Mail and poverty porn producers like 'Love Productions' feed on. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The following exchange I had with a well-meaning Labour councillor in Brighton illustrates what I mean.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<span lang="EN-US">I fully realise
*some* people will rip off foodbanks to save £30 however it's a risk I
can support to ensure people don't starve <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23endof&src=hash">#endof</a></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">—
Emma Daniel (@huxley06) <a href="https://twitter.com/huxley06/statuses/457833294751870976">April
20, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
<span lang="EN-US">
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<a href="https://twitter.com/prformativcontr">@prformativcontr</a>
because every so often TV or newspaper journos do .. It's not Something
someone without an agenda would do<br />
— Emma Daniel (@huxley06)
<a href="https://twitter.com/huxley06/statuses/457834241741840384">April
20, 2014</a></blockquote>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
(NB - Emma seems to be a decent and compassionate politician who has done a lot to support foodbanks in Brighton and to highlight the issues surrounding them).<br />
Has anyone ever ripped off a foodbank? If they have, does it matter? If we don't question this assumption then, notwithstanding the backlash, the Mail wins.<br />
At this level it has successfully ensured the continued stigmatisation of social security claimants and poor people generally by
fuelling the notion that foodbank users contain amongst their users individuals who will rip
off charities for material gain.<br />
The Mail is like a malignantly narcissistic abuser, it excels at projecting the evil at its own heart onto
everything around it. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
David Wearing puts it into ideological context. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
Any hint that
people can usefully organise on the basis of compassion has to be stamped out.
That's the class logic behind the Mail's
story<br />
— David Wearing (@davidwearing) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidwearing/statuses/457824756902146049">April
20, 2014</a></blockquote>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It's not enough to condemn what the Mail did, we also need to contest the malignancy at the root of it. The widely held notion that people are fundamentally
dishonest, selfish free-riders is what drives the Mail’s reporting and strikes a chord
with readers. This has to be challenged.</div>
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donkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07938519749688348765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748255317588580697.post-3356800700327947452014-03-04T02:38:00.002-08:002014-03-12T04:34:05.378-07:00Policy Exchange: Smearing the poor from the safety of a spreadsheet.<div class="MsoNormal">
This week's <a href="http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/publications/smarter%20sanctions.pdf">Policy Exchange</a> report on sanctions has won plaudits after seeming to add to the criticism of the
government’s regime of benefit conditionality.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I have to say I’m not really convinced by what
some might think is a mea culpa by the think tank. Afterall, they practically
wrote the policy on sanctions in the first place.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But before I go into the detail of the
report, I want to draw attention to how Policy Exchange has managed to ‘frame’ its report in the media and on Twitter. The spin is that 70,000 * people have been wrongly sanctioned. The media has duly reported this line in a way that implies PE is critical
of sanctions, when implacably it is not. This is misleading (a) because on it's own terms the figure is probably wrong, see <a href="http://dpac.uk.net/2014/03/another-dwp-statistics-debacle-the-latest-appeal-outcome-figure-published-by-dwp-and-used-in-policy-exchange-report-is-wrong/#sthash.bbFFGz5k.GcYqip23.dpbs">DPAK here</a> (although the actual number could turn out to be lower) and (b) it's a daft figure as it only represents the number of so-called first time 'offenders' subjected to low level sanctions. Why just focus on them? It's also totally misleading of PE to imply that these 70,000 people represent the totality of wrongly sanctioned claimants, as PE's website does. The true number of people wrongly sanctioned is much higher, perhaps as high as 144,000 a year, if you only include successful appeals. But even that figure is probably an underestimate, because not everyone appeals. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A common tactic employed by think tanks
these days, is to engage elements of the media that ought, in principle, to be opposed to their
own ideological position. It is the kind of ruse that saw the Institute for
Public Policy Research (IPPR) whip <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10461175/Labour-Well-scrap-benefits-for-under-25s.html">up a media storm in the Telegraph last yea</a>r
over proposals to remove unemployment benefits from the under 25s. It later saw
IPPR's media team go into rebuttal mode, this time with more conventional media
allies, after the Telegraph got first bite. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Similarly right now there is 'heat' in the
sanctions story. It’s a good opportunity for a think tank like Policy Exchange to
intervene in the public discourse and trail other ideas such as the
introduction of smart card benefit payments. By initially framing its
intervention within the controversy about the number of people wrongly
sanctioned, it gets a good bite at the cherry in the liberal left media. The
fact this appears to be a stance that is critical of the government’s policy of
sanctions is enough to get the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/03/70000-job-seekers-benefits-withdrawn-unfairly-thinktank?CMP=twt_gu">Guardian</a>, <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/welfare-cuts-benefits-blunders-forcing-3200686">Mirror</a> and assorted left-liberal commentators on-board. But it will be worth keeping an eye out for
a mini backlash from the Telegraph, Spectator et al focussing on the more
controversial, authoritarian recommendations being made in this report.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Anyway, I digress.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Let’s not forget that this is a politically
committed think tank. It is 100% in favour of benefit conditionality and
sanctions, indeed, the present government’s policy was practically written by
Policy Exchange. If you want more evidence of the symbiotic relation between PE
ideas and government policy, one could also cite Matthew Oakley. Oakley is the "independent” economist appointed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to review the way sanctions are
communicated to claimants. Oakley used to work for Policy Exchange (quelle
surprise!!) and was the author of two Policy Exchange reports on conditionality / sanctions back
in 2011! (<a href="http://hitdonkey.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/one-thing-that-struck-me-about.html">Donkey passim</a>).</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Furthermore, read the report itself. It’s a
brilliant example of a what I understand to be a ‘supply side’ approach to unemployment: a cold, abstract, economistic approach to benefit ‘reform’ penned from the safety of a
spreadsheet.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Most crucially, in a report full of sleight of hand, mendacity and cynicism, there is something completely missing from it:
people. The people left destitute, angry and broken by a policy that Policy
Exchange itself dreamed up. Not a single
sanctioned claimant is interviewed in the report. Not a single unemployed claimant
has been spoken to. They are merely numbers. People reduced to abstraction.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Work conducted in this kind of bubble makes for bad policy. It also leaves the report author feeling confident enough to smear claimants.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I think Page 27 is particularly snarky, I
will quote it at length:</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US">‘One of the main post-sanction issues is
the financial hardship which can result from sanctions being imposed. There are
two sides to this argument. On the one hand there are claims that the loss of
JSA can cause hardship for families, with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">marginal</i> amount lost being problematic if alternative sources of
finance are not found. On the other, there are at least some reports of the
sanction forming a small enough portion of income<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> that the claimant did not notice it being imposed.</i>’ (my italics).</span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I had to read that passage several times before
I could bring myself to believe the author had committed it to paper.
I doubt any of the claimants left without food or money to pay their bills
would view the sanctions they received as ‘marginal’. And </span>I think most sanctioned claimants would rightly
consider it a smear to allege that they don't even notice they've been sanctioned (the ‘evidence’ for this smear is based on
the author’s particular interpretation of a study of the effects of sanctions on
lone parents published in 2008 in a completely different economic, social and
policy world).</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But the most glaring problem with this
report, and it is related to the problem of social distance alluded to in the section
quoted above, is its inconsistency. The report’s premise is that sanctions are
necessary. But the report author keeps bumping up against the uncomfortable fact that sanctions do not work
in anything like a sustainable or reasonable way.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
At best, in the report’s view, sanctions ‘discipline’
people:</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
‘… sanctions are to some extent fulfilling
their purpose as the ‘enforcement’ arm of a conditionality regime, with the
emphasis being on compliance with requirements related to directly seeking
work.’</blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> And there's evidence </o:p></span>sanctions tend to drive people off benefits:</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US">‘In Delaware “controlling for other
factors... clients under sanction in a given month were twice as likely as
non-sanctioned clients to leave the rolls in the following month. The effect of
sanctions on welfare exit increased exponentially with each additional month
the sanctions continued.”’</span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p>But s</o:p></span>anctions don’t lead to sustainable employment
outcomes:</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US">‘Many of the conclusions on sanctions
relate to compliance or exit rather than finding secure and stable employment.
Indeed, as the Delaware study warned:</span><i><span lang="EN-US">“After receiving sanctions, many more
clients left welfare than cured their sanctions.”’</span></i></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sanctions deliver poor social outcomes:</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span lang="EN-US">‘The fact that conditionality runs the risk
of both worsening the position of the most vulnerable and reinforcing
disadvantage, is evidently an issue.’</span></blockquote>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So, what is to be done? Well, it’s easy…
sanction more people. The report recommends that the DWP should:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Threaten the 70,000 wrongly
sanctioned claimants by issuing them with a ‘yellow card’ warning them that
they will be at risk of being sanctioned in future.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt;">Restrict the spending choices
of the 70,000 wrongly sanctioned claimants by giving them ‘benefit cards’ that
limit what they can buy, instead of sanctioning them.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Exponentially increase the
length of sanctions.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Make people sign-in every day</span></li>
<li><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Try to find out why so many
people leave the benefit system after being sanctioned.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure that in-work conditionality is applied (in
other words, dock housing benefit, see <a href="http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/legal/dwp-housing-benefit-will-be-sanctioned/7002330.article">my story for Inside Housing here.</a>)</span></li>
</ul>
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have been ‘live tweeting’ </span><a href="http://www.cas.org.uk/news/unjust-and-uncaring-new-report-west-dunbartonshire-cab" style="font-family: inherit;">a devastating report</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> into sanctions by the Citizens
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Over next few days I'm planning to live tweet a report on sanctions by <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WestDunbartonshireCAB&src=hash">#WestDunbartonshireCAB</a> Pls read & RT <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sanctions&src=hash">#sanctions</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CABX&src=hash">#CABX</a> .<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Citzens Advice centres around the UK have
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The ‘factional’ live tweets of @immigrant_X
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creative potential using Twitter to challenge ideological beliefs through
fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And, when he first started up, I was riveted
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I was moved to try something different
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There are so many demands on people’s attention, that I doubt many get to
engage with a full report like this. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(1) ‘it’s time to call to account those responsible for these specific policies’ <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sanctions&src=hash">#sanctions</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WestDunbartonshireCAB&src=hash">#WestDunbartonshireCAB</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CABX&src=hash">#CABX</a><br />
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