Sonia Poulton

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2900

I think she deserves her own thread.

Yes, we need to get our country working again. Sadly, Workfare is not going to do it.

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The problem with the Workfare scheme is we, the public, have been fed a steady stream of half-truths about it as reactionary commentators have leapt into the fray, usually motivated by little more than giving the 'lazy' and 'feckless' a good kicking.

Some of my professional peers care not about the truth, certainly not when there's a golden opportunity to rail against those who they perceive as the problem child of our nation.

I missed the journalism lesson which said 'never let the facts get in the way of a good story' and so see it as my duty to shatter Workfare myths, if only to enable the reading public to make up their minds based on the reality of the situation rather than the imagined fantasy of it.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7419

Messianic Trees wrote:

I think she deserves her own thread.

Yes, we need to get our country working again. Sadly, Workfare is not going to do it.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1nrJW4bq5

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The problem with the Workfare scheme is we, the public, have been fed a steady stream of half-truths about it as reactionary commentators have leapt into the fray, usually motivated by little more than giving the 'lazy' and 'feckless' a good kicking.

Some of my professional peers care not about the truth, certainly not when there's a golden opportunity to rail against those who they perceive as the problem child of our nation.

I missed the journalism lesson which said 'never let the facts get in the way of a good story' and so see it as my duty to shatter Workfare myths, if only to enable the reading public to make up their minds based on the reality of the situation rather than the imagined fantasy of it.

Dacre's golf afternoon? She won't last long once he finds out.

Arnold · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:25 am

She could be getting a VM at this very moment.

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:35 pm

She does seem to have a deathwish, biting the claw that feeds her.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:35 pm

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Because the lazy so and so's are more than happy to stay at home at other peoples expense. Kids have kids and have to be housed furnished and paid. I believe Joe average would be happy to see them starve. If they tried to help themselves Joe Average would help.If not stop taking money from my pocket when it is harder for me than them.
- Happyexpat, almeria Spain, 1/3/2012 11:39
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Cunt of the Month, and it's only just after noon on the 1st.

shyamz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:57 pm

The timing of her appointment to the mail makes me suspicious.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:02 pm

She's freelance, I believe, and has been published in Mail Online since 2005.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7419

bluebellnutter wrote:

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Because the lazy so and so's are more than happy to stay at home at other peoples expense. Kids have kids and have to be housed furnished and paid. I believe Joe average would be happy to see them starve. If they tried to help themselves Joe Average would help.If not stop taking money from my pocket when it is harder for me than them.
- Happyexpat, almeria Spain, 1/3/2012 11:39
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Cunt of the Month, and it's only just after noon on the 1st.

Well Hi listeners, we have another caller, from Cuntsville, Espana.
So caller, what on your (non-contributing but still happy to gripe about the cost of it) mind...

mattomac · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:23 pm

How is Joe average as described by these people always a cock nugget.

Amazonian · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:42 pm

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If not stop taking money from my pocket when it is harder for me than them.

Firstly, Happyexpat, as already pointed out, you're not contributing.

Secondly, so hard-up are you that you've managed to emigrate to Spain. Diddums.

Oh, and Cunt.

(Heh heh, look at those comments! They've done a good bit to give me a bit of faith in decent people back. Apart from JOHN SMITH of BIRMINGHAM sticking his smug, brainless oar in as usual and somehow getting a healthy green vote. What's THAT all about, eh?)

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4436

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If not stop taking money from my pocket when it is harder for me than them.

I don't even understand that. What's harder for him? His money?

I was thinking about journalists who write decent things for shitrags. Caitlin Moran wrote a good piece in the Times at the weekend about the proposed welfare cuts and their consequences, and not for the first time. So is she a brave voice going against the views of her loathsome paymasters and risking all, or an incredible hypocrite - pretending to be on the side of the vulnerable while taking money form an organisation helping to make it all possible?

oboogie · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:26 pm

mojojojo wrote:

I was thinking about journalists who write decent things for shitrags. Caitlin Moran wrote a good piece in the Times at the weekend about the proposed welfare cuts and their consequences, and not for the first time. So is she a brave voice going against the views of her loathsome paymasters and risking all, or an incredible hypocrite - pretending to be on the side of the vulnerable while taking money form an organisation helping to make it all possible?

To be honest I'm more interested in the long-term outcomes than worrying too much about the short-term morality.
If we want change then, self-evidently, we need to change the minds of people who currently disagree with us, no use preaching to the converted. Sonia Poulton's articles are more effective in the Mail than they would be in the Guardian. If she makes, even a few, Mailites question the shite they are being fed everyday then I won't begrudge her taking Dacre's shilling.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 9:53 pm

Absolutely. Whatever fluke has allowed her to keep writing sensible pieces in the Mail, it is all to the good.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2900

Suicide training in Job Centres? Cancer patients scrubbing floors? Welcome to Cameron's Brave New World

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davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3941

She can't be long for this world.

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