Say Goodbye to the £20 Uplift,Hello Poverty

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Those On Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit are in for a right jolt to the family finances.The 30th September is when the £20 uplift temporarily given is removed, despite warning it will be plunging many into poverty from cross party supporters who think it should remain, given Covid remains and is still killing many people and will leave them with long term problems.

By removing this lifeline, poverty will increase among the 6 million claimants of Universal Credit. 40 percent of these claimants – over two million people – are in work. 

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“The government justifies the £20 cut by saying its focus is to move people into jobs, but this misses the point. Many of those on Universal Credit (40 percent of claimants) are already in work.  

2.3 million workers,manyof whichare key worker households,will be worse off as a result of the government’s plans to cut universal credit.

The working tax credit is also being cut, having also been raised by £20per weekin early 2020.Thiscut…

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CET 30-Year Averages

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

The World Meteorological Organisation is clear about defining climate average:

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It is disappointing then that the Met Office still continues to use the 1981-2010 period as its base. By doing this, of course, it exaggerates temperature increases in the UK.

If we look at the Central England Temperature mean temperatures, for example, we see that both winter and spring this year were colder than average, whilst summer was only 0.3C warmer:

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https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/index.html

The calendar year to date is actually 0.5C colder than average.

What the climate used to be forty years ago, I would suggest, is utterly irrelevant to most people, who are used to living in the current climate.

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