The Mail vs Benefits

office_tramp · **Posted:** Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:46 pm

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This article is the straw that broke the camels back im packing my job in, ive worked from 16 to 38 years old. I cant be taken for a mug any more. Those that dont work are doing better than me and half the working population, enough is enough. Every day i read another article thats telling me ive got mug stamped on my forehead. Its time for cash in hand jobs and benefits. British pride is getting me no where.

Chris Northampton Rating +189

Wow. I'm glad I don't let Mail articles dictate my life choices! If I dif I'd be sleeping with Russell Brand and getting my hooters out and all sorts! Lets hope Chris recovers (unless he's actually talking utter bollocks of course - which is a possiblity!)

Socket · **Joined:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:10 pm **Posts:** 291

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Every day i read another article thats telling me ive got mug stamped on my forehead.

So many possible punchlines from one sentence.

bairy · **Joined:** Tue May 08, 2007 1:40 pm **Posts:** 2807

2 weeks later

"Wow, turns out that 'well the bloody pakis get it don't they' isn't a valid reason for signing on. I also grew a brain cell and worked out that 42 quid a week wouldn't be quite as much as I thought it was.
I can't get my sodding job back because of the crunch. But it's all okay cos at least I've got more free time to read the Daily Mail site.... or I will have until they cut my electric off. Think I'm gonna get another whiskey"

Adam · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:28 am

I'd like to see his face when he discovers "I quit my job entirely voluntarily" doesn't cut much ice down at the job centre.

sven945 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:49 pm

Or even better, "I quit my job in order to get free money".

tc-obo · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:49 pm

bairy wrote:

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I remember when there was NO Welfare State.

What we are seeing today isn't madness - it is sheer insanity.

Time to consider the taxpayer, especially those who have worked all their lives and are still paying taxes, and put these lazy sods to work for the community. NO WORK.
NO PAY.

- TESS NASH, HELSTON, CORNWALL, 29/12/2008 06:39

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"If it means I'll save a few pence on my income tax, I don't give a fuck who becomes homeless and starves to death".

Lovely.

Bloody hellfire, she's well over 100 years old.

Dimmimar · **Posted:** Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:28 am

Hmm. If you classed Poor Law reform as a crude form of the welfare state; she must be a few hundred years old.

AOB · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:24 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1125041/Employment-minister-new-green-shoots-gaffe-jobless-total-soars-near-TWO-million-record-numb

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Labour's 'jobless total' must be a work of fiction.
Does anyone know the total of the non-working population, including 'students', long term sick and everyone except those drawing the state pension ?
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- Peter, Sutton Bridge England, 21/1/2009

Students don't count, bloody hell. Surprised Peter doesn't want to also include the Royals, people living on inheritances or lottery winnings, housewives/husbands? Oh pets as well. And birds. Knobhead.

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Rotten dictatorship!

Get them out NOW!
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- Nomad, London, England, 21/1/2009 9:31

Speaking of knobs, Nomad is to clearly unaware that if he was living in a dictatorship he wouldn't be in a position to publicly whinge about it.

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2 million unemployed
2.5 million on incapacity
7 million on part time
5 million public sector

Were is the growth going to come from this is a disaster of an economy Mr Broon
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- craig, camberley, 21/1/2009 10:57

Cunt. If someone has to ring the fire brigade (public sector) to rescue you then they shouldn't bother. They should let you burn. (c) Basil Fawlty.

IanC · **Joined:** Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:30 pm **Posts:** 1404

I like how Peter puts '' around students.

Wonder what he is trying to say there...

Link is dead btw.

Asylum Seeker · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 7:03 pm

Fixed link.

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What a complete and utter con from the Labour Party

They want our money without even asking and now most share prices are falling thanks to Gordon Brown and we have even less money to look after our families

Send them back to Scotland and why do we need people from Scotland running England and taking all our money. Send them back!!

The whole of the UK has now changed and all falling apart and all thanks to Gordon Brown

- Brian Challis, Southend on Sea, Essex,, 21/1/2009 10:27

So hang on, the government takes our money? Well, that can't be right! I'd expect some sort of return on that, perhaps through free services such as public healthcare and road maintenance. Maybe what's left over could go towards educating my children and providing a safety net should I become unemployed.

'Ave a word, Gordo!

horacegoesskiing · **Posted:** Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:09 am

I think this is the most appropriate place for this one.

After the case of baby-faced Alfie: The girl pregnant at 13 who got a hatful of exams and a place at university

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When Rebecca Finnis became pregnant at just 13 years old, it could have been the start of a life on benefits.

LOL! Jumped straight in there didn't they?

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Ten years on, with ten GCSEs and three A-levels, she is about to start training to be a teacher.

I would have thought the Mail wouldn't approve of this. After all, she'll only be one of those liberal airy-fairy teachers encouraging her pupils to see if they can have kids at the age of 13 too.

bairy · **Joined:** Tue May 08, 2007 1:40 pm **Posts:** 2807

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: It's a hard life

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Jobless Paul and Amanda Cregan are outraged that their local council has seized their £2,500, 62-inch plasma TV, after repeated complaints from the neighbours about noise.

'It's absolutely disgusting,' says Mrs Cregan. 'My kids just want to watch telly when they get home from school.'

Now the poor mites will have to make do with the wall-mounted TV in the kitchen, or the other one in their bedroom - or the 50-inch set they've borrowed.

It's a tough life, isn't it, living on benefits in modern Britain?

This married couple are jobless with kids. That means they get JSA, child allowance and possibly some income support. I imagine it's a council house so they get cheap rent/council tax. But even then those benefits don't add up all that quickly. A £2500 TV, on benefits? You'd have to save for months and cut down on loads of other things.

Of course the's no background on if either of these two are recently-jobless, or if they've been looking for work. No. Just some opinioned assumptious bullshit written by someone who clearly doesn't understand the first thing about economics.

AOB · **Posted:** Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:59 pm

bairy wrote:

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: It's a hard life

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Jobless Paul and Amanda Cregan are outraged that their local council has seized their £2,500, 62-inch plasma TV, after repeated complaints from the neighbours about noise.

'It's absolutely disgusting,' says Mrs Cregan. 'My kids just want to watch telly when they get home from school.'

Now the poor mites will have to make do with the wall-mounted TV in the kitchen, or the other one in their bedroom - or the 50-inch set they've borrowed.

It's a tough life, isn't it, living on benefits in modern Britain?

This married couple are jobless with kids. That means they get JSA, child allowance and possibly some income support. I imagine it's a council house so they get cheap rent/council tax. But even then those benefits don't add up all that quickly. A £2500 TV, on benefits? You'd have to save for months and cut down on loads of other things.

Of course the's no background on if either of these two are recently-jobless, or if they've been looking for work. No. Just some opinioned assumptious bullshit written by someone who clearly doesn't understand the first thing about economics.

The Mail needs to be very careful that their arrogant, incorrect comments like that don't backfire on them.

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It's a tough life, isn't it, living on benefits in modern Britain?

Whereas in the past their readers would nod while reading that and mutter some obscenities about the unemployed, now however, some of their readers may be experiencing, or about to, unemployment for the first time in their lives. And they'll find out that the Mail is wrong. As you point out they've done no research. If hacks who write stuff like that are made redundant (a possibility in the present climate) then they're in for a shock.

office_tramp · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 1:53 pm

LOOK AT THE BIG FAT CHAV EVERYONE!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1174210/30-stone-mother-feeds-baby-triplets-junk-food-diet--admits-McDonalds-just-months.html

That "the house is full of unwashed laundry and piles of toys, and Miss Salt says she and her babies only get dressed and go out once a week to collect her benefits" suggest to me that this woman is suffering from despression.

Amazonian · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:08 pm

A sound point, Trampy, but do you seriously reckon that it'd cut the woman any slack with the Jacqui Weemses of this world for a second?...

"Depression? What lying rubbish! These lazy malingerers are ruining our once-great country, they're not really ill at all. When I was a girl we didn't call it depression, we called it skiving off and threw white feathers at any so-called "depressive" we saw - socialist leeches the lot of them. These scum today don't know they're born. Toughen up!"

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