{"id":16318,"date":"2018-09-24T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=16318"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:58:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:58:12","slug":"16318-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=16318","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stop and scrap&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>In a brief interjection, Unite delegate Dave Allan spoke about the need to stop and scrap Universal Credit at the Labour Party conference today (September 24)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was my privilege to move at the TUC Congress in Manchester earlier this month that the policy on Universal Credit should be to immediately stop and scrap,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This was agreed unanimously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He told conference that &#8220;your disabled colleagues in the party are unanimous in demanding that this be done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sorry, [shadow work and pensions secretary] Margaret [Greenwood], but it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t good enough to stop and fix the anomalies,&#8221; Dave argued. &#8220;This is not possible as these anomalies are too numerous and wide ranging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please support your disabled comrades and make the policy of our party in line with the disability and trade union movement. That is &#8212; a Labour Government should stop and scrap Universal Credit on day one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a brief interjection, Unite delegate Dave Allan spoke about the need to stop and scrap Universal Credit at the Labour Party conference today (September 24) &nbsp; &#8220;It was my privilege to move at the TUC Congress in Manchester earlier this month that the policy on Universal Credit should be to immediately stop and scrap,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[872,106,462],"wps_subtitle":"Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dave Allan calls for Universal Credit to abandoned","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25849,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318\/revisions\/25849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}