Now, it's not an easy job to manage billions of pounds (yes, that's right, billions), he has to decide who deserves benefits and who doesn't, how much money a person needs to survive, and he has to think of ways to reduce the amount of money spent by his department.
It's not a job I'd like to do.
That said, in the grand tradition of every person who's ever yelled a referee despite having no interest in the job, I'd like to say "I don't want the job, but you don't do it well".
Recently IDS (that's how he's commonly known) has decided that a good way of reducing spending is by reducing benefits to people. That's hard to do if people are in need, so his efforts have been put into how to show people aren't in need.
Today's news is that he's redefining poverty. Poverty doesn't mean 'not having enough money', it now means something about life choices.
My usual question is... why?
Why bother changing what a word means, what does that achieve?
Well, that's an easy question: if poverty means not having money, tackling poverty means giving people money (duh!), but if poverty means people making bad choices, then tackling poverty can be something else, something like teaching people to make better choices, or doing nothing and blaming people for the choices they made in the past.
(I'm buying myself a hoodie...)
In related news: don't feed the homeless, they'll come to expect food whenever they see humans.
Local News
There's a new multi-million pound boost on the cards for Copeland towns - plans to build home for 4,000 nuclear workers along with a new train station in Mirehouse and the plans for the location homes are in Mirehouse, Cleator moor, Hensingham and Corkickle.
If planning permission is given building work would start in 2017, this sound good but will the local people benefit? Will local tradesmen be building them? We'll have to see.
And finally...
Someone has decided that it would be a great idea to start using Minecraft for education, It is a great idea in some ways: the educators think that it will engage young minds better. But of course, we all know it really means that it'll spoil Minecraft for millions of people.
When you start taking fun stuff and using it in schools you spoil the fun. You know that, I know that, how come the educators don't know that?
It would be a little bit like seeing some infant school kids playing hopscotch, having fun, and then making them do it for an hour in a PE class.
As soon as you're forced to do something in school, you don't want to keep doing it at home.
What is this madness.... I reckon it's the death of Minecraft (you heard it here first)
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