Absolutely ridiculous! Surely we need benefit reforms
Looks like they have eaten at least 20 of them already!
Us Brits are Beautiful ! ! !
Agenda driven right wing newspapers are adept in seeking out the one in a million people who play the system as cynically as this family. All it achieves is propagation of the myth that the benefits system is broken and it diverts attention from genuine reasons for our prolonged recession. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people living on benefits have no choice in the matter and are falling deeper and deeper into poverty. Of course, it's not in the interests of rags like The Express/Mail/Sun/Star/Times to report the truth because then people would start asking real questions rather than demonising poor people.
I didn't see that article in the Guardian !
Any bloke willing to blow his beans in that walking bag of blubber deserves all the financial support he can get.
comment by ColneyGooner (U1292)
posted 4 minutes ago
Any bloke willing to blow his beans in that walking bag of blubber deserves all the financial support he can get.
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Shortlight
Benefits are a tiny proportion if the governments outgoings, yet the media go on about then endlessly.
Ask yourself why that is? Why are we having to set up food banks to feed the poor in major cities if benefits are so high and easy to obtain?
Pensions are a much bigger drain on resources than benefits but all we ever hear about pensioners is how they are struggling in the cold weather.
What about all those people getting a state pension who don't need it?
Benefits are alright but we shouldn't encourage slob like this man to keep abusing it.
Can't complain about benefits, getting me through University with a small family. We get in £22k a year plus school fees, and I have 2 kids.
System is pretty messed up, better for my wife to stay at home than work and we just found out we are getting rates relief and a small amount of housing benefit (back-dated from last year no less) despite the fact that I own my house outright
posted 42 minutes ago
Any bloke willing to blow his beans in that walking bag of blubber deserves all the financial support he can get.
lmfao!
I live in Northern Ireland by the way, it may be a little different in England.
Another load of old gash pumped out by the media.
This freak show and his missus are pumping out children left right and centre, and then are held up as reasons for benefit reform, when they in no way represent what is going on within the benefit system overall.
The truth is somewhat different.
Out of 1,354,280 families claiming benefits, nearly 80 % had either 1, or 2 children, putting paid to the lie that people on benefits were looking to have as many children as possible, to bump up their benefits.
Also, the line being fed by the tories, regarding many benefit claimants being paid sums in advance of £50,000 a year, was also shown to be somewhat overblown.
DWP figures showed that some 160 claimants out of more than 3 million were getting the equivalent of £50,000 a year or more in 2010. That’s 0.0004 per cent of cases.
I thought the goverment were bringing in a first child only benefit scheme.
comment by Earl Brutus (U1449)
posted 4 minutes ago
I thought the goverment were bringing in a first child only benefit scheme.
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Second child actually, Seems some people are against that though...
I'd take this story with a pinch of salt. Tory newspapers run these every so on to get Middle England frothing at the mouth.
How about the sell off of Royal Mail where the shares were undervalued so Cameron's buddies could make a quick buck or the millionaire's avoiding tax. This blokes a drop in the ocean compared to all this.
Shortlight, Righteous, jlou
I'm more concerned about about the loopholes in the Governments tax system, which allows mega rich corporations to avoid paying tax.
This for me is more unfair than a bunch of scroungers being used to stigmatise and stereotype the poor in this country.
Whilst I know that these cases are very very rare, when highlighted I can't help but get annoyed.
My wife and I are homeowners with one child (2 yrs) and are still paying off the debt we got into to cope with the maternity leave. We would LOVE another child but simply cannot afford it.
I must admit that we are not on the breadline by any stretch but I can't see how people who live in council supported lifestyles can afford 2/3/4 children.
A family on benefits has 1 or 2 kids who grow up seeing their parents get free money....
They then decide this is the life for me, they then look at kids and a life on benefits. This group living on benefits are now so powerful the government now pander to them. Yet they look to kick kidney transplant patients off the disability to save money. How can someone who is still terminally ill get nothing and a baby machine everything?
Whilst I know that these cases are very very rare, when highlighted I can't help but get annoyed.
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the guy stays at home with his misus making babies and gets to live in 300,000 pound house while getting loads of money every week
for doing what exactly? thousands of people who work there asssssssss off gets to pay for him to have this flamboyant lifestyle
When you get into full time work as I have done recently since graduating, early a pretty good starting salary and I couldn't even think about having a child due to the financial implications and luxury items are beyond my pay packet as I had to move out of my parents' place for work yet you see this guy who doesn't work 9-5 Monday to Friday and beyond but has that giant flat screen TV behind him and a house about 5 times the size of my flat why does that give him or anybody else the desire to actually go out and work?
People talking about corporate tax avoidance, while I agree it's an issue that should be addressed and is a serious cancer to the economy, it's deflecting the issue that its becoming more financially desirable to sit at home than go out and get a job these days and that just shouldn't be the case.
LAMBO! If dude wanna make some real paper then fúck benefits dude need to get some grams and hustle hard. Mans ain't in that game no more but trust that's how you make that heavy paper.
Reminds me of this fat white dude on my estate who was a leech. One day when mans was a yout dem we ran up in his flat and stole his Apple Mac. Dude just sat there in his string vest eating chips and ain't even be able to move to protest. Then the next day we ran up again and took his tv. Bwaahahaha. Dude was so shook he ain't even call the police. Next month council moved him out. We drove that non hustling bum outta the estate.
Hustle hard or get the fùck out nah mean? Camberwell kids don't play.
Fred.
You're exactly the type of moron that rags like The Sun and The Daily Mail pander to. I had to claim housing benefit for a couple of months about three years ago and I know for a fact that the vast majority of people are desperate to work. The idea that there's an huge underclass of people who choose a life on benefits is a vicious lie propagated by the Tory media machine.
I was born and brought up in some rough arśe areas and I never saw anyone who'd rather be on benefits than work for a living.
Short light calling somebody a moron, that's rich.
What he doesn't realise is that I'm saying its becoming more desirable to claim benefits than to work. I know most people would rather get a job but there is an underclass that do exist and I don't read the papers as I can't stand sensationalism but there is a situation that makes it more financially viable to get benefits than to work.
If you're denying these scroungers exist then you're incredibly deluded.
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posted on 12/10/13
Absolutely ridiculous! Surely we need benefit reforms
posted on 12/10/13
Looks like they have eaten at least 20 of them already!
posted on 12/10/13
Us Brits are Beautiful ! ! !
posted on 12/10/13
Agenda driven right wing newspapers are adept in seeking out the one in a million people who play the system as cynically as this family. All it achieves is propagation of the myth that the benefits system is broken and it diverts attention from genuine reasons for our prolonged recession. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people living on benefits have no choice in the matter and are falling deeper and deeper into poverty. Of course, it's not in the interests of rags like The Express/Mail/Sun/Star/Times to report the truth because then people would start asking real questions rather than demonising poor people.
posted on 12/10/13
I didn't see that article in the Guardian !
posted on 12/10/13
Any bloke willing to blow his beans in that walking bag of blubber deserves all the financial support he can get.
posted on 12/10/13
comment by ColneyGooner (U1292)
posted 4 minutes ago
Any bloke willing to blow his beans in that walking bag of blubber deserves all the financial support he can get.
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posted on 12/10/13
Shortlight
Benefits are a tiny proportion if the governments outgoings, yet the media go on about then endlessly.
Ask yourself why that is? Why are we having to set up food banks to feed the poor in major cities if benefits are so high and easy to obtain?
Pensions are a much bigger drain on resources than benefits but all we ever hear about pensioners is how they are struggling in the cold weather.
What about all those people getting a state pension who don't need it?
posted on 12/10/13
Benefits are alright but we shouldn't encourage slob like this man to keep abusing it.
posted on 12/10/13
Can't complain about benefits, getting me through University with a small family. We get in £22k a year plus school fees, and I have 2 kids.
System is pretty messed up, better for my wife to stay at home than work and we just found out we are getting rates relief and a small amount of housing benefit (back-dated from last year no less) despite the fact that I own my house outright
posted on 12/10/13
posted 42 minutes ago
Any bloke willing to blow his beans in that walking bag of blubber deserves all the financial support he can get.
lmfao!
posted on 12/10/13
I live in Northern Ireland by the way, it may be a little different in England.
posted on 12/10/13
Another load of old gash pumped out by the media.
This freak show and his missus are pumping out children left right and centre, and then are held up as reasons for benefit reform, when they in no way represent what is going on within the benefit system overall.
The truth is somewhat different.
Out of 1,354,280 families claiming benefits, nearly 80 % had either 1, or 2 children, putting paid to the lie that people on benefits were looking to have as many children as possible, to bump up their benefits.
Also, the line being fed by the tories, regarding many benefit claimants being paid sums in advance of £50,000 a year, was also shown to be somewhat overblown.
DWP figures showed that some 160 claimants out of more than 3 million were getting the equivalent of £50,000 a year or more in 2010. That’s 0.0004 per cent of cases.
posted on 12/10/13
I thought the goverment were bringing in a first child only benefit scheme.
posted on 12/10/13
comment by Earl Brutus (U1449)
posted 4 minutes ago
I thought the goverment were bringing in a first child only benefit scheme.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Second child actually, Seems some people are against that though...
posted on 12/10/13
I'd take this story with a pinch of salt. Tory newspapers run these every so on to get Middle England frothing at the mouth.
How about the sell off of Royal Mail where the shares were undervalued so Cameron's buddies could make a quick buck or the millionaire's avoiding tax. This blokes a drop in the ocean compared to all this.
posted on 12/10/13
Shortlight, Righteous, jlou
I'm more concerned about about the loopholes in the Governments tax system, which allows mega rich corporations to avoid paying tax.
This for me is more unfair than a bunch of scroungers being used to stigmatise and stereotype the poor in this country.
posted on 12/10/13
Whilst I know that these cases are very very rare, when highlighted I can't help but get annoyed.
My wife and I are homeowners with one child (2 yrs) and are still paying off the debt we got into to cope with the maternity leave. We would LOVE another child but simply cannot afford it.
I must admit that we are not on the breadline by any stretch but I can't see how people who live in council supported lifestyles can afford 2/3/4 children.
posted on 12/10/13
A family on benefits has 1 or 2 kids who grow up seeing their parents get free money....
They then decide this is the life for me, they then look at kids and a life on benefits. This group living on benefits are now so powerful the government now pander to them. Yet they look to kick kidney transplant patients off the disability to save money. How can someone who is still terminally ill get nothing and a baby machine everything?
posted on 12/10/13
Whilst I know that these cases are very very rare, when highlighted I can't help but get annoyed.
-----------------
the guy stays at home with his misus making babies and gets to live in 300,000 pound house while getting loads of money every week
for doing what exactly? thousands of people who work there asssssssss off gets to pay for him to have this flamboyant lifestyle
posted on 12/10/13
When you get into full time work as I have done recently since graduating, early a pretty good starting salary and I couldn't even think about having a child due to the financial implications and luxury items are beyond my pay packet as I had to move out of my parents' place for work yet you see this guy who doesn't work 9-5 Monday to Friday and beyond but has that giant flat screen TV behind him and a house about 5 times the size of my flat why does that give him or anybody else the desire to actually go out and work?
People talking about corporate tax avoidance, while I agree it's an issue that should be addressed and is a serious cancer to the economy, it's deflecting the issue that its becoming more financially desirable to sit at home than go out and get a job these days and that just shouldn't be the case.
posted on 12/10/13
LAMBO! If dude wanna make some real paper then fúck benefits dude need to get some grams and hustle hard. Mans ain't in that game no more but trust that's how you make that heavy paper.
Reminds me of this fat white dude on my estate who was a leech. One day when mans was a yout dem we ran up in his flat and stole his Apple Mac. Dude just sat there in his string vest eating chips and ain't even be able to move to protest. Then the next day we ran up again and took his tv. Bwaahahaha. Dude was so shook he ain't even call the police. Next month council moved him out. We drove that non hustling bum outta the estate.
Hustle hard or get the fùck out nah mean? Camberwell kids don't play.
posted on 12/10/13
Fred.
You're exactly the type of moron that rags like The Sun and The Daily Mail pander to. I had to claim housing benefit for a couple of months about three years ago and I know for a fact that the vast majority of people are desperate to work. The idea that there's an huge underclass of people who choose a life on benefits is a vicious lie propagated by the Tory media machine.
posted on 12/10/13
I was born and brought up in some rough arśe areas and I never saw anyone who'd rather be on benefits than work for a living.
posted on 12/10/13
Short light calling somebody a moron, that's rich.
What he doesn't realise is that I'm saying its becoming more desirable to claim benefits than to work. I know most people would rather get a job but there is an underclass that do exist and I don't read the papers as I can't stand sensationalism but there is a situation that makes it more financially viable to get benefits than to work.
If you're denying these scroungers exist then you're incredibly deluded.
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