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AmexRuislip
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All wasters the lot of them, no time for people who cannot help themselves.
Taking the piss out of tax payers.
Taking the piss out of tax payers.
Hotchilidog
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- Jan 24, 2009
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What's the point of watching crap like this. Cheap tabloid tv designed to demonise those at the bottom of society while those at the top who are really robbing us blind continue to get away with it.
All systems are there to be played, but if anyone loses their job and has to resort to benefits they'll find that benefit and job seeking life is not the life of riley it's cracked up to be.
All systems are there to be played, but if anyone loses their job and has to resort to benefits they'll find that benefit and job seeking life is not the life of riley it's cracked up to be.
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I'm working for about 2.00 per hour being self employed, and my wife was made redundant a few weeks ago. We have paid thousands in to this system over the years, but there will be nothing from the government to help us out. I'm in the process of now looking for extra work. What I have learned over the years, it doesn't matter whether it be Labour or Tories in power, the workers have always got penalised and always end up paying for the people you saw on the programme.
What we have now thou is a Tory hating agenda as well, where people cannot distinguish from lazy scroungers, because we are not allowed to say lazy scroungers anymore, and the people who really really need it, which has blurred the whole debate on benefits.
I would rip up this whole benefit system up, I would make sure ALL disabled and people with serious illness got enough, I would stop giving it away to people who have made zero contributions to the system, and reward it to the people who have made an effort. There is nothing wrong with this, its called fairness.
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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The wife is a carer and has to provide care to one of the people featured on the show. She said the flat is so bad she wears latex gloves just to make them a cup of tea.
The single bloke who played Father Christmas came across as a nice fella. He did complain about lack of money and worry about bills after coming back from a £ 400 holiday to Tenerife though
Post of the week for me. Nuanced, elegant, poignant. Nice work, sir.
AmexRuislip
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My wife gave up work five years ago for health reasons, and is not claiming anything from government.
We are just living on my wage, our choice, no complaining here.
AmexRuislip
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Just seen Sidley surgery oh my God...
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And in your case, and I understand your reasons you should be given something to help you live on for the contributions you have made.
AmexRuislip
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You may be right, but the word pride has a lot to do with it.
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I know it's pride, I understand you reasons, but I have no problems paying in to the system knowing people like yourself get the help you need.
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AmexRuislip
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Thank you.
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Blimey I work fulltime have a 16 month old baby and my partner has decided not to go back to work and be a stay at home mum. We are skint but happy I wish I could afford a £400 holiday to Tenerife. Funny old world.
There are always going to be hopeless sad-acts unwilling or unable to pull their weight in society. But let's be clear, most of society is NOT galled by someone for whom life has been a one massive wasted opportunity, simply asking for a free bus pass. It would take a very special bitter kind of individual to be galled at such a situation.
The solutions to the problems of tax dodging scroungers at the top, and the true benefit scroungers at the bottom are clearly not easy ones to solve. I think they both need cross party solutions and joined up thinking of the like we have never ever seen before except in war time. Until then, we will simply get buck-passing or wishy washy drivel cooked up by people unwilling to roll their sleeves up and solve the problems.
Just for a bit of context, it was clear that this old guy couldn't afford it either. He was down on his luck, he'd worked briefly, and decided "everybody deserves a holiday sometimes don't they?". It was an impulse purchase he couldn't afford, and he was sick with worry when reality hit.
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AmexRuislip
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My wife tried to get a job through the job centre, as this was part of the process for claiming mortgage payment, through the mortgage protection insurance.
Went to the local job centre, as per above, and as you said it is not easy.
Cut a long story short, it made her stressed even more going there, so both decided health more important, and now just living on my wage.
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- Apr 5, 2014
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I’m out of work at the moment, since my employer suddenly ceased trading without notice, and would now be what some love to term a ‘benefits scrounger’.
My benefit entitlement comes in at around £12,000 per annum, although the figures need to be broken down for a more realistic view. For after the housing element is taken off I am left with £74 a week which must also pay for any bills I have to pay. The reality is that the government assumes that between £40 and £50 a week is enough to live on for food, clothing and most other one-off expenses that occur. I know that it is an obvious struggle for many and understandably so. I need absolutely no sympathy in this myself, as for now, I can fall back on the savings I have as a result of my redundancy (although they are well below the threshold), but I will stand up for those who aren’t- especially those who I worked with who qualified for no pay-out whatsoever.
For most of those without personal resources, or supporting family, unemployment is a struggle. And under the draconian commitment to work they have to make these days (I’ve had to sign this myself) some are treated in a humiliating way. Yet the overwhelming majority don’t get ‘sanctioned’ suggesting their cases are real. It’s the obvious slackers that the rotten media love to create sensation over. But most do struggle, most do want to work, and most also struggle to meet their financial commitments.
So just because a scuzzy television channel seeks out scuzzy people to make a scuzzy show about the scuzzy situation a lot of people find themselves in, don’t assume that the majority of folk are like that. Perhaps HB&B might like to write an article about it, then I can use the word scuzzy again.
I’ve bought a £2 ticket for the beamback tomorrow and will be buying a pint. But don’t worry, I’m using my own resources for this. There is no season ticket for next year though. If I could get one of those off the state that would be splendid…
My benefit entitlement comes in at around £12,000 per annum, although the figures need to be broken down for a more realistic view. For after the housing element is taken off I am left with £74 a week which must also pay for any bills I have to pay. The reality is that the government assumes that between £40 and £50 a week is enough to live on for food, clothing and most other one-off expenses that occur. I know that it is an obvious struggle for many and understandably so. I need absolutely no sympathy in this myself, as for now, I can fall back on the savings I have as a result of my redundancy (although they are well below the threshold), but I will stand up for those who aren’t- especially those who I worked with who qualified for no pay-out whatsoever.
For most of those without personal resources, or supporting family, unemployment is a struggle. And under the draconian commitment to work they have to make these days (I’ve had to sign this myself) some are treated in a humiliating way. Yet the overwhelming majority don’t get ‘sanctioned’ suggesting their cases are real. It’s the obvious slackers that the rotten media love to create sensation over. But most do struggle, most do want to work, and most also struggle to meet their financial commitments.
So just because a scuzzy television channel seeks out scuzzy people to make a scuzzy show about the scuzzy situation a lot of people find themselves in, don’t assume that the majority of folk are like that. Perhaps HB&B might like to write an article about it, then I can use the word scuzzy again.
I’ve bought a £2 ticket for the beamback tomorrow and will be buying a pint. But don’t worry, I’m using my own resources for this. There is no season ticket for next year though. If I could get one of those off the state that would be splendid…
Hotchilidog
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- Jan 24, 2009
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