So farewell Kitty Ussher, who has resigned from government as she doesn’t want to cause further embarrassment regarding her expenses….
Not only did she desire tasteful interiors at the expense of the public purse but she was another ‘flipper’….
Indeed if Kitty had remained in the DWP she was supposed to have been involved in launching a public consultation on housing benefit reform.
Update: Was she pushed or did she jump? Seems like Kitty was pushed..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/18/gordon-brown-sacks-kitty-ussher
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Do you know what does this new HB reform is likely to entail?
lol – I changed the phrasing and forgot to take out the extra word!
The Housing Benefit reform consultation is in limbo since James Purnell left the DWP… I don’t know what Yvette Cooper will do. The DWP’s circular on housing benefit mentioned the consultation without going into too many details (and it is briefly mentioned in the WR Bill re housing benefit reform) but that was March this year before things went pear shaped over expenses and Purnell storming out.
But if they are intent on making severe cuts and incresed sanctions etc. then this contradicts their commitments to ending child poverty but that hasn’t stopped them before… and I think it will drive another nail in the coffin of Labour’s core voters…if they still exist!
Well, I’d never voted any other way, but now I live in New Labour Britain I am unlikely to vote that way again.