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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    Amen sister.
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    clarkey cat wrote:
    Amen sister.
    No, wait, come back. You were meant to disagree!
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  • Team4Luke
    Team4Luke Posts: 597
    "Unemployed father-of-seven Raymond"


    says it all doesn't it.
    For me, changes must be made, I would also go as far as limiting benefits to 2/3 children maximum, after that nothing.
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  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    How much do you think Skys profits would be hit by having all the unemployed banned from having it? Just a thought.....
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  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    the article is a bit of a wind up and I'm not one of those daily mail haters who sits at home seething. In fact I deliberately avoid newspapers because of the sh*t they print.

    But as it's been brought to my attention .....I don't have any sympathy for someone like that.
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  • Initialised
    Initialised Posts: 3,047
    Cap child benefit at two kids - unless both parents are working.

    Make living on benefits push people a little farther into poverty by all means but don't go to far, I'd rather give them money from my pay slip than at knife or gun point.
    I used to just ride my bike to work but now I find myself going out looking for bigger and bigger hills.
  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    A couple that live near me are a right pair of champagne socialists. you know the sort, £100k+ a year each, big BMW's, cleaner, private school for the kid etc.

    Anyway they knocked on my door a few weeks ago with their seven year old daughter, Antonia or something and the kid told me they were collecting money for the homeless bloke that sometimes hangs around a few streets away.

    Yeah, I'll give you some money I said. In fact I've got some leaves that need raking up in my garden. If you do that for me I'll give you ten pounds and you can give it to the homeless person.

    The kid thought about this for a moment and then said why couldn't the homeless person come round and rake the leaves up and then I could just give the money straight to him?

    Welcome to the Conservative Party I told her whilst her parents stood there silently seething.

    Luckily it's meant they haven't talked to me since; bliss.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Huh!? I personally think the kids idea brilliant. Why shouldn't the homeless man work/earn money? Why should he rely on other people, 'child labor' no less.
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  • mtb-idle
    mtb-idle Posts: 2,179
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Huh!? I personally think the kids idea brilliant. Why shouldn't the homeless man work/earn money? Why should he rely on other people, 'child labor' no less.

    you errr missed the point
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    notsoblue wrote:
    And another thing... ;)

    Personally I just don't like the fact that these kind of people are occaisionally paraded through the market square and put in stocks for the "Squeezed middle" to throw veg at. I think it just serves to make people feel better about themselves to see others that are considered to be lazy dole scum. In the same way that bankers are scapegoated every now and again. Taking away a knighthood, or putting in place a HB cap to chuck a few Zone 1 benefit scroungers into Newham sink estates is easier for politicians to achieve than a reform of a system that generates appalling inequality with outrageous salaries on one end of the scale and chronically indolent dole scum on the other...

    Best post I've read in a while.
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  • Team4Luke
    Team4Luke Posts: 597
    symo wrote:
    How much do you think Skys profits would be hit by having all the unemployed banned from having it? Just a thought.....


    by directing money saved into creating jobs probably by very little
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  • okgo
    okgo Posts: 4,368
    As usual - far too many kids, ridiculous habits that they can't afford.

    Got no money? Stop popping out kids ffs!

    As an aside, thats very daily mail from the bbc there, haha.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,372
    All but one of the kids preceded him losing his job, and the marriage. Not sure if the marriage was before or after losing his job.
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  • Team4Luke
    Team4Luke Posts: 597
    probably not the example we would like to see affected, both remarried and children from both sides, but still maintenance from the other absent partner should be incoming and less benefits and they could do without some things for certain, £7k a year more than I earn and they have a house.
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