Universal credit rollout linked to rising food bank use, Rudd admits

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Please don’t report announcements as changes! Nothing has so far been done to ensure UniversalCredit amounts go to the main carer of any children in the household. Intentions & proposals don’t equal actual change!

Grr! This Govt. They've known about this since the pilot schemes but chose to ignore it.

Gosh, leaving people, with absolutely no money at all to live on is linked to them not being able to feed themselves. Who knew? Who could ever have guessed?

Cannot believe how long it's taken these thick Tory MPs to wake up to the truth, ordinary people have been telling them this since Universal Robbery first started

Y' don't say!

Why isn't she wearing a deer stalker hat and smoking a pipe?

Dear Britain, you need Europe and Europe needs you, so sort yourselves out. And stop trying to compete with United Stated for dumbest Country. We have the Trump card; you lose!

Old news, Guardian...

Specialist subject: the bleeding obvious.

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