Ian Duncan Smith thinks he can live on £53 a week. Lets make him

L2MidgetGem B.H.A Seagull · Apr 1, 2013

Petition | Iain Duncan Smith: Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53 a week. | Change.org

Put your money where your mouth Is an lead by example you pompous git. If he thinks It's so easy to live on It he should prove It.

wellquickwoody · Apr 1, 2013

L2MidgetGem B.H.A Seagull said:
Petition | Iain Duncan Smith: Iain Duncan Smith to live on Â£53 a week. | Change.org

Put your money where your mouth Is an lead by example you pompous git. If he thinks It's so easy to live on It he should prove It.

What has to be paid out of the £53?

Barrel of Fun · Apr 1, 2013

It's a lot more than other countries, assuming they get free prescriptions, housing benefit, free health care and so on. Granted, it is not a lot, but how much should someone who is able to work be given?

L2MidgetGem B.H.A Seagull · Apr 1, 2013

wellquickwoody said:
What has to be paid out of the £53?

Well Gas, Electric, Food and bills and other living expenses. I've been there myself before It's not nice.

L2MidgetGem B.H.A Seagull · Apr 1, 2013

Barrel of Fun said:
It's a lot more than other countries, assuming they get free prescriptions, housing benefit, free health care and so on. Granted, it is not a lot, but how much should someone who is able to work be given?

That's not the point I'm making though. Have you not been unemployed where you can't even afford to live. That choice of either eating or heating?

wellquickwoody · Apr 1, 2013

L2MidgetGem B.H.A Seagull said:
Well Gas, Electric, Food and bills and other living expenses. I've been there myself before It's not nice.

Rent, council tax, mortgage? Bills? What other living expenses?

BigGully · Apr 1, 2013

I dont think anyone thinks it is easy to live on that amount, just as most people accept it isnt easy working for a living either.

You cannot keep paying people £25,000 + a year not to work.

There seems some sort of political culture where state support is demanded by everyone for everything and you are quickly condemned if you challenge it.

oldboy · Apr 1, 2013

If he or his tory cronies lived on a council estate they would hang. Themseves after a week.

Lord Bracknell · Apr 1, 2013

But for how long?

I suggest he tries living on £53 a week until he manages to rehouse himself and his family into a place that doesn't have a spare bedroom.

Cian · Apr 1, 2013

Why am I getting the feeling he'll be asked to do it for TV when he loses power, like this:

When Michael Portillo Became A Single Mum - TV Shows: UK - Digital Spy Forums

Barrel of Fun · Apr 1, 2013

L2MidgetGem B.H.A Seagull said:
That's not the point I'm making though. Have you not been unemployed where you can't even afford to live. That choice of either eating or heating?

I got myself in to a pickle in London. Ended up eating beans and pasta for a year and growing a mountain of debt. In hindsight, I should have taken assistance offered and would have been bettered off than being self-employed.

I do think that IDS was ill-advised to say that (understatement), but a line has to be drawn somewhere.

However, they are chasing after the wrong people to plug the deficit.

bha100 · Apr 1, 2013

L2MidgetGem B.H.A Seagull said:
Petition | Iain Duncan Smith: Iain Duncan Smith to live on Â£53 a week. | Change.org

Put your money where your mouth Is an lead by example you pompous git. If he thinks It's so easy to live on It he should prove It.

Good old IDS, the man who lives rent free in £2million country home.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bedroom-tax-iain-duncan-smith-1794517

Justice · Apr 1, 2013

Duncan Smith is an idiot attacking the poor to make himself look important

L2MidgetGem B.H.A Seagull · Apr 1, 2013

wellquickwoody said:
Rent, council tax, mortgage? Bills? What other living expenses?

Well If you would break it all down those are the ones I'm talking about I don't see where the Idea Is that people can afford Sky, Holidays and 50' TV's

L2MidgetGem B.H.A Seagull · Apr 1, 2013

BigGully said:
I dont think anyone thinks it is easy to live on that amount, just as most people accept it isnt easy working for a living either.

You cannot keep paying people £25,000 + a year not to work.

There seems some sort of political culture where state support is demanded by everyone for everything and you are quickly condemned if you challenge it.

I'd like to know where 25K+ comes from. When I was out of work for about a year. There was no way i was getting that kinda money.

Barrel of Fun · Apr 1, 2013

bha100 said:
Good old IDS, the man who lives rent free in £2million country home.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bedroom-tax-iain-duncan-smith-1794517

Is there any weighting when it comes to MPs and their benefits? I know one has to declare savings when procuring job seekers allowance. Same for MPs?

L2MidgetGem B.H.A Seagull · Apr 1, 2013

Barrel of Fun said:
I got myself in to a pickle in London. Ended up eating beans and pasta for a year and growing a mountain of debt. In hindsight, I should have taken assistance offered and would have been bettered off than being self-employed.

I do think that IDS was ill-advised to say that (understatement), but a line has to be drawn somewhere.

However, they are chasing after the wrong people to plug the deficit.

I think the government have caused a divide within the UK population. Middle class workers look down on non workers. I have seen it myself. When I was on the dole. People would call me a Jeremy Kyle Scrounger.

wellquickwoody · Apr 1, 2013

Having now read an article in The Guardian about this interview, I see that the claimant had £53 a week available AFTER rent and other bills were paid. That is £53 per week for food, or bus fares maybe if job hunting etc..

Friend of my wife claims to spend £30 per week to feed her AND her partner, granted she buys 'value' products, and shops post 8pm to get the best special offers, and actually home cooks rather than but ready made products. £53 a week is starting to sound quite achievable.

GingerBeerMan · Apr 1, 2013

wellquickwoody said:
Having now read an article in The Guardian about this interview, I see that the claimant had £53 a week available AFTER rent and other bills were paid. That is £53 per week for food, or bus fares maybe if job hunting etc..

Friend of my wife claims to spend £30 per week to feed her AND her partner, granted she buys 'value' products, and shops post 8pm to get the best special offers, and actually home cooks rather than but ready made products. £53 a week is starting to sound quite achievable.

£53/week for food and luxuries? For free?

Ernest · Apr 1, 2013

IBS is the **** who had a £35 breakfast and charged it to expenses. I was counting the shrapnel in the Cliftonville to find the extra 10p for my LARGE Full English this morning

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