{"id":59669,"date":"2017-12-20T12:15:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/david-gauke-vows-not-to-let-hard-left-win-on-social-media-battlefield\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:15:26","slug":"david-gauke-vows-not-to-let-hard-left-win-on-social-media-battlefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/david-gauke-vows-not-to-let-hard-left-win-on-social-media-battlefield\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gauke Vows Not To Let &#8216;Hard Left&#8217; Win On &#8216;Social Media Battlefield&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>David Gauke Vows Not To Let &#8216;Hard Left&#8217; Win On &#8216;Social Media Battlefield&#8217;<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/5a3a6a4e1600002100c51049.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\" alt=\"\" data-credit=\"Barcroft Media via Getty Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"Barcroft Media via Getty Images\" data-provider=\"getty\" data-provider-asset-id=\"895347292\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"true\"><\/p>\n<p>Work and pensions secretary David Gauke has vowed not to let the \u2018hard left\u2019 win arguments over Universal Credit on the social media \u2018battlefield\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet minister entered into a Twitter spat &#8211; with mixed results &#8211; after Labour MP and work and pensions select committee chair Frank Field claimed the roll-out of the controversial benefit system had left one <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> with no income until after Christmas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gauke said the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> had in fact already been paid her advance and had not been specially sought out after Field raised the case, citing it as an example of the new system &#8211; which replaces the six current main benefits &#8211; \u201cworking properly\u201d.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Important to note that the payment was not as a consequence of FF&#8217;s tweet or an intervention from the centre. Just UC working normally.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Gauke (@DavidGauke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidGauke\/status\/943240099445268480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s my letter to Frank Field. We only found who Frank was tweeting about on Tuesday. By which time, \u00a3688 had already been paid in UC. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vdjTqn86aD\">pic.twitter.com\/vdjTqn86aD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Gauke (@DavidGauke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidGauke\/status\/943406844814520320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>But the Labour MP hit back on Wednesday afternoon, claiming the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a> in question was still in need of help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great that you\u2019ve found and helped someone in such desperate need,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the mum to whom I referred still hasn\u2019t had an appointment. The public has ensured she has money for food and heating today. She\u2019s still seeking help from DWP and I hope you\u2019ll ensure this happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s great that you&#8217;ve found and helped someone in such desperate need. But the mum to whom I referred still hasn&#8217;t had an appointment. The public has ensured she has money for food and heating today. She&#8217;s still seeking help from DWP and I hope you&#8217;ll ensure this happens.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Frank Field MP (@frankfieldteam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frankfieldteam\/status\/943474335595057152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>During a briefing on Universal Credit roll-out hosted by the Centre for Social Justice, alongside former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, Gauke told journalists: \u201cI think it\u2019s important that we don\u2019t desert the battlefield.\u00a0 Social media can at the moment feel almost dominated by the hard left, and I think it\u2019s important that we engage and make the points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI strongly believe that we have got a really good policy that has positively transformed lives, but &#8211; and I am not for a moment suggesting Frank is part of the hard left &#8211; there is almost a sort of knee-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">jerk<\/a> criticism, and a temptation, I think in particular with Universal Credit, that you can almost say anything critical and it goes without challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said reports of problems with the system from Labour MPs had led to claimants becoming anxious about the process, while Duncan Smith blamed \u201cirresponsible\u201d reporting of the issue in the media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gauke said: \u201cWe are definitely picking up within the Jobcentres that people are coming in to make their claim for universal credit more anxious than would have been the case three months ago. They are generally leaving the Jobcentre reassured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think there needs to be a responsible debate.\u00a0 Of course there is legitimate debate about any major reform, and looking at case studies is a legitimate part of that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I am concerned that there are vulnerable people who are scared, not by actual cases, but by some ill-informed criticism, or cases which are not as they are first portrayed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen that pretty consistently.\u00a0 There have been many incidences of that, and it\u2019s my job to try to bring a bit of balance to this debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/5a3a8083160000783ecf2411.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Work and pensions select committee chair Frank Field\" alt=\"Work and pensions select committee chair Frank Field\" data-credit=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-provider=\"pressassociation\" data-provider-asset-id=\"2.32763116\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p>He said Jobcentre staff across the country had praised the policy and its \u201ctransformative\u201d impact on claimant\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have met so many work coaches up and down the country who are consistently enthusiastic about the policy, and consistently telling me about how they are shouting at the television or the radio when they see the policy they are working on being &#8211; in their eyes &#8211; misrepresented,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes it is big, yes it is ambitious, but it\u2019s something that on the ground is working well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gauke said take-up of advance payments &#8211; which are available as loans repayable via deductions from future Universal Credit allowances &#8211; had risen from about 34% in the spring to 62%, according to latest figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also pledged to keep the benefit\u2019s \u2018taper rate\u2019 &#8211; the amount every pound of Universal Credit is reduced by if a claimant earns over their work allowance &#8211; under review after it was lowered from 65p initially to 63p.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point both Philip [Hammond] and I have made is that yes, it will be good if we could bring it down further, but clearly that is expensive and has to be viewed in light of public finances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the aspiration to bring it down further is there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/5a3a88d01600002100c510b8.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Former DWP secretary Iain Duncan Smith was one of the driving forces behind Universal Credit&nbsp;\" alt=\"Former DWP secretary Iain Duncan Smith was one of the driving forces behind Universal Credit&nbsp;\" data-credit=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-portal-copyright=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-provider=\"pressassociation\" data-provider-asset-id=\"2.26501830\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p>Duncan Smith, one of the driving forces behind the introduction of Universal Credit, said he believed both the media and opposition parties should deal with the issue more \u201cresponsibly\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Labour has long called for the roll-out of the system to be paused while problems with its implementation are ironed out &#8211; with many MPs warning their constituents would be pushed into poverty as a result of delayed initial payments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are dealing at the end of the day with people who are often in quite vulnerable situations, and to run these kind of stories as though this were a crisis I have to tell you I think is verging on the irresponsible,\u201d the former cabinet minister said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese facts should be fully checked before stories are pushed out and that also goes for the opposition, who are at the moment playing a political game with this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir aim is to make things look as bad as possible.\u00a0 But frankly it is pretty cynical to try and do that, and I would suggest that people behave a little more responsibly, because people\u2019s lives matter in this regard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/david-gauke-vows-not-to-let-hard-left-win-on-social-media-battlefield_uk_5a3a477fe4b06d1621b0a6c5\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/david-gauke-vows-not-to-let-hard-left-win-on-social-media-battlefield_uk_5a3a477fe4b06d1621b0a6c5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Gauke Vows Not To Let &#8216;Hard Left&#8217; Win On &#8216;Social Media Battlefield&#8217; Work and pensions secretary David Gauke has vowed not to let the \u2018hard left\u2019 win arguments over Universal Credit on the social media \u2018battlefield\u2019. The cabinet minister entered into a Twitter spat &#8211; with mixed results &#8211; after Labour MP and work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/david-gauke-vows-not-to-let-hard-left-win-on-social-media-battlefield\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Gauke Vows Not To Let &#8216;Hard Left&#8217; Win On &#8216;Social Media Battlefield&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>David Gauke Vows Not To Let &#039;Hard Left&#039; Win On &#039;Social Media Battlefield&#039; - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/david-gauke-vows-not-to-let-hard-left-win-on-social-media-battlefield\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"David Gauke Vows Not To Let &#039;Hard Left&#039; Win On &#039;Social Media Battlefield&#039; - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"David Gauke Vows Not To Let &#8216;Hard Left&#8217; Win On &#8216;Social Media Battlefield&#8217; Work and pensions secretary David Gauke has vowed not to let the \u2018hard left\u2019 win arguments over Universal Credit on the social media \u2018battlefield\u2019. 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