I'm earning £1300 a month after tax. Where can I get the benefits that will get me that sort of money?

I remember a mate of mine at college. He was in his mid 30s lived with a bird and their kids (3 I think). The council paid for the rent, child allowance, the bills etc as they were both out of work

When he got his HND he was gutted that he could never get a job as the start off money you'd get would be nowhere near his benefit allowance. He would have accepted a job if the money was right, but as he had kids to look after, it wasn't as simple as that.
I was living at home at the time and gladly took a low paid IT job just to get my foot in the door; last I heard, he was in the same situation. Poor bastard just wanted to better himself.

Its not the state's or his fault - there is no real fault here - just an unfortunate situation. The Mail and Express would probably blame the government instead of thinking of positive solutions.

Some people just find themselves in a hole and want to better themselves, but its incredibly difficult sometimes with the systems we have.

Saturday's headline wins....



Hope it's not sarcasm.

hahaha, that is brilliant

there's even a blonde lady (now with royal connection!) in the corner... not quite diana, but still.

Oh, it's real. I honestly had to check the Express website before I believed that wasn't a Photoshop.

She's also dead

SAVERS STAMPEDE IN MAD DASH TO SHIFT CASH

How irresponsible is this??

Complete with an old pic of people queing outside Northern Rock

Followed by an ad: "PROTECT YOUR SAVINGS: CHECK OUT OUR MONEY SECTION"



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I'd have no problem with that provided they changed that god-awful name to something like sterling and printed the queen's head on all the notes and had them signed by the governor of the Bank of England.

I have just bought £300 worth of Euros, guess how many I got?

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I dunno, I just liked this headline

So he's being paid by the Government, not the Beeb? After all, that's Taxpayers money. Is he on benefits?

That's it. That's the final bloody straw. I'm emigrating to Spain next week. They don't stealth-tax your fucking tree house there.

Shit. I was really looking forward to when Cliff Richard's secret was finally exposed.

He had a sordid tryst in a tea-fuelled, two-in-a-bed sex romp at a seedy love nest with Sue 'Don't Like It Up The Bum' Baker. Hence the short relationship.