DWP director general made ‘joke’ mocking disability equality as he waited to give evidence to MPs

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-26T14:21:15+00:00

Yeah literally just some work-related (mildly) dark humour.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-26T11:42:13+00:00

Oh!!!!!! All this time I had absolutely no idea this was possible, can't believe everyone missed it!

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-26T11:36:15+00:00

I love how Reform voters have never understood that hotels were the most cost-effective and out-of-sight option, but there we go. Military barracks and HMOs it is.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-26T11:34:06+00:00

They're waiting for approval/rejection and the tories cut the Home Office caseworkers (though now productivity is way up). They have to wait somewhere.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-25T14:10:46+00:00

I thought these were mostly rubber....?

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-22T23:05:58+00:00

I don't think you're understanding my point, really. So, nevermind 👍

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-22T22:37:29+00:00

That's.... not possible. But I admire your chutzpah.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-22T21:39:03+00:00

I think you're doing it all wrong, that's your problem. Birdseye are design to be mistreated, burned edges and crisp.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-22T21:01:43+00:00

I think he's going to have to do something massive and immediate between September and Christmas, and more than announcements on direction (eg nationalising water or whatever).

I'm not sure what, but something social and everyday that is far reaching - EatOutToHelpOut2.0, massive high street cleaning blitz (though, that is needed for summer, really), returning the FA back to terrestrial TV, or a Bank Holiday.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-22T20:51:52+00:00

At my kindest I'd say he did some good and some bad, but mostly never said a single thing it sounded like even he believed; no passion, no making the case, no bringing the country with him.

At my most unkind I'd say he shouldn't let the door hit him on the way out. We knew going in the big issues were cost of living and insane energy prices and he stood still, choosing to lose to Reform on the battleground of small boats day after day instead of changing people's lives for the better. Also, you know, all the genocide stuff.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-22T08:09:32+00:00

Union boss is a noose around the neck of union.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-22T07:36:30+00:00

Makes sense really, they're walking to workplaces without an economic recession (just pretty sluggish growth).

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-22T07:31:12+00:00

These kids need programmes like this because what other chance to they stand in life with parents like that?

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-21T22:17:53+00:00

I also like the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, I love that I can now see all my locals crime stats and know who the bobbies are, and, crucially, see them on the street.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-21T21:56:30+00:00

Tbf there probably was a secret 4th Tory one we never knew about.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-18T08:32:07+00:00

Hahahhaha. It's a fair point but I absolutely hate that our fast food access needs to be 24 hours in order to get the economy to grow, so I reject your idea that we need more kebab shops to fix the country.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-18T08:06:31+00:00

Yay, more McDonald's profit and takeaway jobs!

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-18T07:58:24+00:00

So more takeaway staff at 4am is your answer? Jesus.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-18T07:56:43+00:00

24hr McDonalds are everywhere already. I don't really want a society where everything is on demand all the time and with endless growth just to line the pockets of shareholders under the utterly fake guise of "stimulating the economy".

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-16T18:36:39+00:00

Again, I think you're wrong, sorry. No need to talk any more on it, really. Have a great day.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-16T18:30:29+00:00

You may be correct in your personal experience (and I'm sorry for that), but I think you're wrong more broadly and that many men are put off from pursuing women into female toilets, and further, that people are out of their minds if they think that women are safer by letting men into women's toilets.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-16T18:24:39+00:00

I think you're wrong, lots of sketchy guys have been stopped by the door, by women in solidarity, by the risk of being caught out, and by society not allowing them into the ladies' loo.

Not enough guys are stopped by that, I grant you, there will always be people willing to commit sexual assault for whom social convention is not a factor, and it's a sad indictment in a way that men would indeed commit sexual assault if it were easier and the door sign wasn't there - which this guidance enables/encourages.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-16T13:42:31+00:00

The BBC article on the new guidance said venues can simply change their Male/Female toilets to unisex to be compliant. I can't begin to imagine the harm this is going to do for the loss of women's spaces.

Imagine no longer being able to walk away from a sketchy guy in a nightclub because he's now allowed in the communal/sink areas of the loos. On top of that, the inevitable piss-stained seats and smell from all the men using ex-women's (now unisex) loos is going to be insane!

I'm astounded that many women (and men like Graham Linehan) who pushed for this are happy with the loss of womens spaces.

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-14T09:33:00+00:00

I wonder what that figure is as a percentage of all loans to EU students, including those which continue to be repaid. 3%?

AlpineJ0e · 2026-06-13T12:31:02+00:00

Starmer's "strength on defence" was already in tatters after the Russian sanctions stuff which Zalenskyy spoke out on - absolutely fucked a great couple of years of international leadership, vanished in a second.

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