Off Topic General Election Special

There's a huge difference between the deliberately feckless and those who work hard, have been lumbered with zero hours contracts, and / or minimum wage jobs, who struggle like **** to put food on the table and keep a roof over their families heads.

The former still need to be educated that benefits aren't a career choice, but the latter need to be able to earn a living that sees them out of poverty and rewarded for not being feckless themselves. The current incumbents have reduced the tax burden on the richest whilst squeezing the balls of the most disadvantaged, that simply can't be right

 

I do wonder how some people actually live. The company I work for employs staff on living wage in London when they're the main breadwinner and they have a few kids. Seriously - how? I have no kids, live oop north and earn comfortably more than that but am always ****ing skint.

 

I come from a working class family, brought up on a council estate and know all about decent, honest folk grafting their balls off to provide for their families.

I would gladly pay more tax to help such people but in the real world it's the 'deliberately feckless' as you rightly call them that a massive wedge of your taxes go on.

My mate is a paramedic and some of the stories he tells me are beyond the pale.

 

Lay off the prossies and Charlie then.

 

Yeah, but that's completely bollocks because most spending goes on public services, pensions and welfare for those already in work. The Tabloids spin that everyone on benefits is a scrounger? Yeah, that's bollocks, most are in work. Wanna know the figures for benefit fraud? It's 0.8% of welfare spending.

 

You've got a lot of growing up to do pal.

 

Bugle, surely?

 

Tax evasion accounts for way more than the truly feckless though, and yet this Govt employs 5 times the number of staff chasing dole cheats than it does tax dodgers, never right.

 

He's bang right there though

 

Who are the disadvantaged in your eyes? Serious question? Zero hours works for some people! If you've got zero hours you find 2 or 3 that suit you and bounce from one to another! I'm self employed as you've gathered but I still work 6 days a week as most small businesses do I can imagine! I'm all for paying more for the NHS, police, security and disabled etc. BUT there are way too many who don't want to work or are too drugged up to even bother with! I'm not a typical conservative voter but I'm not a labour voter because they've never covered themselves in glory for me! If you look at Blair now he doesn't look like the voice of the people in his big house earning big money! I'll give corbyn his dues hes labour through & through but when push comes to shove with our security can we trust him? And can I trust him not make my business unsustainable with wage rises and tax rises???

 

Agreed.

 

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There goes your argument.

 

Zero hours does work for some, students and the like, but would you want to live trying to bring up your family not knowing from one week to the next how many hours you were going to allocated? I know I wouldn't.

I'm not particularly a Corbyn fan, albeit I think he's done extremely well in the main during the campaign, as he's actually had his voice heard and people have definitely warmed to him, me included.

I wouldn't trust the flip flopping, wooden May as far as I could throw her. Strong and stable my arse, she's governing by populist opinion in the run up to this election.

 

Don't blame me on the current situation, I voted for Kodos.

 

Why?

 

Despite being a lifelong Labour voter, I've never been far left, and I saw Corbyn as a bit of a throwback to the traditional 70's Socialist worker type, but I've really warmed to him, I think he's a good man with a good manifesto

 

I'd be less worried about Corbyn if he got rid of McDonnell, Abbot and the complete arse lick that is seumas milne.

 

So about 9 billion quid per year is being diddled from you in fraud?!?! You could do quite a bit with that money. And that's just the theft just think of the number for people claiming legally but only because they choose not to work.

 

The cost of welfare payment tends to miss out the associated costs to organisations such as social services, NHS, police etc that is part of the package for many in that bracket.

 

In the workers paradise no one works but everyone has a Ferrari.