You're wrong fanny features. The only person who makes it out like that is you. My problem with you on the benefits subject is that you don't know what you're ****ing talking about, you readily admit you've rarely visited a jobcentre and certainly not in the past 5 years. Just because you read the news it doesn't mean you have the insight into claiming benefits and why everyone is robbing you of your hard earned tax contributions. You seem to think everyone on the dole wants to be there. That's your ****ing problem.
Those people aren't just 'on the dole' though, they'll be working cash in hand/selling drugs/etc... If you look at how much you get it's impossible to do anything fun with it, one night in the pub would **** your finances up for the week. Take food and bills out of the £70 you get and you're not left with much...
It may not be a typical situation, but I know quite well someone with (genuine, quite bad) diabetes who is claiming full incapacity benefit (over £1,100 a month) and who is also working a full time job labouring. He owns a BMW Jeep which he bought last year and goes on several holidays a year. As I said it may not be typical of everyone everywhere, but in the estate I grew up in it was rampant. I don't even blame the person for doing it, humans are inclined to take what they can get and few have the moral fortitude to turn down free money (especially if there is a local culture of everyone doing it).
See my last post, I do know what I am talking about. I grew up in a (free) council house and went to a primary school where almost everyone had parents on benefits.
So there are a few random cases that go wrong, but no one should get help because some pikeys cheat the system? You sound a bit like David Cameron before the election.
So you knew people on benefits mick, big ****ing deal. Tell me mick, whats the standard sign on procedure these days?
There's at least a £28bn per annum discrepancy between benefit fraud and tax avoidance Mick. Benefit fraud costs about £2bn and tax avoidance costs the UK £30bn. Maybe if every **** who was supposed to paid their full tax the benefit system wouldn't be overextended.
Or tell the dole to send a taxi up to get ye as yer gonny be late! While there at it, get the taxi to take them to the housing office afterwards as well.
You only get to sign on by mail if your a teuchter. And being a teuchters punishment enough, don't you think?
There does seem to be a nasty little habbit in the media and among some politicians of picking up on the worst examples of behaviour and passing them off as the norm (not a dig at Mick or anyone else posting on this thread btw). 1 Bulgarian is guilty of rape so we should not let any of them in. 1 woman was asking for a big house for her 13 kids so now it turns out that everyone on benefits is too busy flying to Ibiza, choosing soft furnishinings for their palatial publicly funded abodes, buying new cars or watching the latest films on their 50 inch tvs to apply for jobs. It actually makes me really angry!
I was arguing that the money could be better spent on things that make difference to peoples lives - such as health and education, rather than PS3s and Sky TV. Also I got made redundant in Malta in 2009 and applied for a job labouring in Belfast before going to Guernsey - and actually ended up getting offered positions in Camden Town, Brighton and Sydney - there is work about if you are willing to move. There is also a reason why 100,000 Polish people have moved from Ireland to Britain since 2008 (despite Irish benefits being more generous than British benefits) - there is more work there.
I'm paying about £1200 in tax a month just now. A few tramps and pikeys fiddling the system means **** all when corporations can pay less tax than me.
