Another excellent piece of journalism uncovering the illegality (under UK and EU law) of the DWP’s fake psychometric test. My guess is that whoever devised this particular piece of torture for jobseekers was relying on the probability that nobody would be aware of the EU law, or have the ability to look it up.
One thing that does concern me – especially considering the coverage in the Guardian and HuffPost, is the low number of shares on the social media, especially Facebook. Please help make sure this message gets out by sharing it as widely as possible yourself.
It’s been a big day. My articles on the fake psychometric ‘test’ that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is forcing unemployed people to take on pain of losing their benefits were picked up by the Guardian’s Shiv Malik, and subsequently by the Huffington Post’s Felicity Morse. As a result of Shiv Malik’s article, the Guardian asked me to write a brief piece for its ‘Comment is free’ section – my first ever piece of mainstream journalism.
Malik’s article was the most-read of the day in the newspaper’s ‘Society’ section. Clearly the unethical actions by the DWP have struck a chord in people – and rightly so. It’s been great to see such a spotlight shone on such a fundamental issue as the way in which the government is cynically manipulating – and nakedly threatening – disadvantaged people.
However, it appears that the government’s behaviour in this…
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Have shared and will share – my circle of friends is limited but will do my best.
never saw it or i would have shared it i am anti government illegal laws from the right to bear arms to the illegal compulsorily wearing of seat belts they are dictators scared of what the people will do if they illegally re-arm as a country and revolt against the suppression of rights
thats legally RE_ARM as a country
Great expose. But I don’t like that we have to look to the EU for redress. We haven’t consented to that either.
Illegal tests by an illegal government with no mandate to govern in a corrupt
Parliament that allows it’s MPs and Lords to debate and vote according to
their financial interests, see privatisation of the NHS via reg.s75 vote.
Excellent article – this lot don’t give a flying monkeys for consent….
Psychometric tests, the next thing we know it will turn into a polygraph, may be Mr Cameron and company could take it; but then again we know they are all pathological liars.
This is definitely serious stuff. Research ethics is important. I work in a university and even undergraduates have to get informed consent in writing for very small research projects. If they fail to do that they have to destroy their data and start again. Also their projects have to be classified according to potential risk to participants. If its high risk they have to go before an Ethics Committee. This Behaviour Insights stuff is definitely high risk.