UN buffoonery for the rest of the world!
The Daily Mail article reports that Conservative MP Stewart Jackson branded Raquel Rolnik as a ‘loopy Brazilian Leftie with no evidence’ and who was ‘masquerading as a serious UN official’. I have no problem with the label of ”loopie”, but whoever has seen a ”serious UN official”?
Road kill for Marx!
A Marxist diatribe! Ministers’ fury as ‘Brazil nut’ UN inspector who lectured Britain publishes report condemning our housing benefit
- Work and Pensions Secretary IDS criticises ‘utterly ridiculous’ report
- It condemns ‘bedroom tax’ and demands it is suspended immediately
- Raquel Rolnik: People have been left in ‘tremendous despair’ by cuts
By JAMES CHAPMAN
PUBLISHED: 18:46 GMT, 3 February 2014 | UPDATED: 23:49 GMT, 3 February 2014
Ministers reacted with fury last night after controversial UN inspector Raquel Rolnik produced a ‘misleading Marxist diatribe’ condemning the Government’s flagship welfare and housing policies.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith described the Brazilian’s report – which criticises the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ and demands better housing for travellers – as ‘utterly ridiculous’.
And Housing Minister Kris Hopkins said: ‘This partisan report is completely discredited, and it is disappointing that the United Nations has allowed itself to be associated with a misleading Marxist diatribe.’
Colourful background: Academic Miss Rolnik, brought up a Marxist, offered an animal sacrifice to Karl Marx (pictured) when she was studying for her master’s degree in architecture, according to her sister
It will also encourage people to move and free up larger properties, helping families currently crammed into homes that are too small.
Miss Rolnik admitted that ‘in principle the policy does not force people to move’ but claimed that it has left ‘many people’ in ‘tremendous despair’.
The report concludes: ‘The removal of the spare room subsidy should be suspended immediately – and fully re-evaluated in light of the evidence of its negative impacts on the right to adequate housing and the general well-being of many vulnerable individuals and households.’
Mr Duncan Smith said the report was ‘biased, poorly researched and contains inaccuracies the author refused to correct even when they were pointed out to her’.
He claimed Miss Rolnik had failed to change several mistakes in her report, including a reference to ‘increasing unemployment’, adding: ‘I welcome scrutiny of all our welfare reforms, but this report is utterly ridiculous.
‘It’s frankly staggering that someone operating in the name of the UN doesn’t appear to realise that unemployment is falling in the UK, not increasing.
‘We have one of the most generous housing safety nets in the western world, and I would respectfully suggest Miss Rolnik could find another more pressing international issue to turn her attention to.’
Miss Rolnik said that she would not be making any further comment on the report or on her findings until next month, when she claims the document is due to be discussed with the Human Rights Council in New York.
As a committed Marxist, this harridan might like to have a word in the ear of that soaring pillar of virtue one Bob Crowe whose tube train drivers in London are about to go on strike.
This bloated hard left wing hypocrite gets paid £140,000 per year, quite enough for him to afford a mortgage on a modest house but no, he resides in a council house intended for people on low incomes. He was papped recently in Brazil on a beach staying in a luxury hotel {or was it a cruise} anyway, he’s a leech on the wallets of Britain’s overcharged tube travelers. As for the other loony tune, she could do with a fizzing squib in her knickers, failing that hopefully she’ll be run over before too long.