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HILLARY and Bill Clinton have sensationally been branded a "crime family" by a former assistant FBI director.
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James Kallstrom hit out at the Democratic candidate and her husband during an interview for US radio, in which he compared the Clinton family to notorious criminal mob the Gambinos.
The ex-FBI official, best known for leading the investigation into the explosion of TWA flight 800 in the late 1990s, said: "The Clintons, that's a crime family, basically.
"It's like organised crime. I mean the Clinton Foundation is a cesspool."
The former director, who is a Trump supporter, also criticised the handling of the FBI investigation into the presidential candidate's emails, claiming it was impeded by Attorney General Loretta Lynch – a Clinton ally.
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James Kallstrom hit out at Hillary Clinton in a scathing radio interview He said: "The problem here is this investigation was never a real investigation.”
In comments that appear to support Trump's claim's that the investigation was "rigged", Mr Kallstrom said: "That's the problem. They never had a grand jury empanelled, and the reason they never had a grand jury empanelled, I'm sure, is Loretta Lunch would not go along with that."
He added: "God forbid we put someone like that in the White House."
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Work and pensions secretary to launch review of welfare system including how people qualify for sick pay and fit notes.
Work and pensions secretary Damian Green leaves a cabinet meeting at Downing Street.
Work and pensions secretary Damian Green leaves a cabinet meeting at Downing Street. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
Working is better for people’s health than “sitting at home living on benefits” for sickness and disability, the work and pensions secretary has said before the launch of a welfare review.
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Damian Green will launch a consultation on disability and sickness benefits later on Monday. It will look specifically at how people qualify for sick pay and doctors’ notes, and review the controversial work capability assessments which determine whether disabled people are eligible for welfare.
Charities have welcomed the review of the WCA but there are some concerns that sick and disabled people could be pressured to return to work before they are ready.
Green said the purpose of encouraging people to work was to improve their health as well as for the government to spend less on benefits.
“In the long run there is nothing more expensive than saying to someone, ‘Here’s a benefit you can have for the rest of your life and we will ignore you,’” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“It’s not only expensive but bad for the individual concerned. The great mindset change I want to achieve is the acceptance that a good job is good for your health. The idea that sitting at home living on benefits is in any way good for people, particularly people with a mental health condition, is completely wrong.”
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Ministers released little detail about how sick pay and fit notes, previously known as sick notes, would be changed, but said they wanted to “support workers back into their jobs faster and for longer”.
It could involve a more concentrated effort to encourage phased returns to work, so workers continue to get some sick pay after returning to their jobs, and more contact between employers and sick employees.
Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, highlighted the growing cost of long-term sickness to the NHS and suggested getting people back to work had major health benefits.
He said it cost £7bn a year to treat long-term health conditions that kept people out of work, and suggested that employment could be a part of recovery.
“This green paper launches a wide-ranging debate about recognising the value of work as a health outcome,” he said. “With all the evidence showing that work is a major driver of health, this is a big opportunity: to make sure that people get the support they need, improve their health, and benefit the NHS all at the same time. I hope that health professionals will contribute their expertise so that we can ensure the best possible outcomes.”
Duncan Selbie, the chief executive of Public Health England, said health, wellbeing and happiness were “inextricably linked to work”.
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Duncan Selbie. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
“People in work generally have better health, so it makes perfect sense for the government to do all it can to support employers to close the gap around employment, disability and illness and to enable people to work when they can,” Selbie said.
The consultation document will have a specific focus on helping those with mental health problems and musculoskeletal conditions, such as arthritis.
Green appears to be unwinding some of the policies of his predecessor, Iain Duncan Smith, by reconsidering the work capability assessment. He announced at the Conservative party conference that people with severe, long-term health conditions would no longer have to be reassessed for their benefits under the WCA.
In his Today interview, Green also dismissed the idea of halting cuts to universal credit, which Duncan Smith and some other Conservative MPs are pushing to be reconsidered at the autumn statement.
The cuts will be made to the work allowance element of universal credit, which will ultimately replace tax credits as the way of receiving in-work benefits.
Link : The Guardian.
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oh dear another battering for that company g4s
AMBULANCE drivers employed at St George’s hospital in Tooting, south London, by bungling privateers G4S are on strike today.
The G4S Patient Transport employees are in dispute over poor wages and working conditions compared to other staff.
Their union GMB has rejected a last-minute offer from G4S and St George’s NHS Trust which failed to put workers on a similar footing to other patient transport drivers in the area or with other NHS workers at the hospital.
It says conditions for the staff have been allowed to decline as jobs have been outsourced to a number of private-sector contractors.
But G4S has suspended GMB’s workplace reps and sought to talk to staff over the union’s head, the union says.
GMB regional organiser Kieron Merrett said: “G4S must reinstate GMB’s workplace reps and come back to the negotiating table with a deal which ends the undervaluing of G4S workers at St George’s.”
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