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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Well, the DWP have been found acting disgracefully again; this time the programme they use that automatically deducts money from Universal Credit at the behest of Landlords has been ruled unlawful.

Of course, that the DWP was acting to help landlords should have come as no surprise to anyone given the centrality of Landlordism to the country's political class & the subsequent normalisation of landlords prejudices (against tenants).

theguardian.com/society/2025/j

The Guardian · DWP program that automatically approves landlord benefit deduction requests ruled unlawfulBy Patrick Butler

@ChrisMayLA6 one of your houses of parliament is made up of lords
Who have titles of land they hold
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@ColmDonoghue

In a formal sense, yes; but now the link between the landed gentry & the actual Lords is weaker due to the political nomination of new peers, but that it its history, yes