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Post subject: Best BBC trollbait to date - Benefit cuts
 Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 12:45 PM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16812185
Father of 7 out of work since 2001, £240 weekly shopping spend including 200 fags, 24 cans of larger, mobile phones and sky TV whilst on benefits
The BBC has pulled out all of the stops for this one!
All they need now is to make him an immigrant and outdo the Daily Mail... |
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Post subject: RE: Best BBC trollbait to date - Benefit cuts
Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 01:11 PM
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| A wise man once said "You can't ball on 26k son". |
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Post subject: Re: Best BBC trollbait to date - Benefit cuts
Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 01:18 PM
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Sidget wrote:
All they need now is to make him an immigrant and outdo the Daily Mail...
They should have entitled it "my mate spoke to someone down the pub, who said they heard about this guy...."  |
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Post subject: RE: Re: Best BBC trollbait to date - Benefit cuts
Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 01:48 PM
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Thing is... it's true.
I work at a food shop, and I regularly see the same guy rifling through the bins out the back for food or anything he can get his hands on he can sell and or keep for himself.
At the same time, he spends most of his benefits on booze and fags, which seems wrong to me. If you're in such dire need of financial support, you shouldn't be able to fund booze and smoking habits.
Everyone should have to work for their benefits, too (if able bodied and not in circumstances that should see them considered exempt, carer etc). There's plenty of graffiti to be cleaned up, rubbish lying around to be put in a bin. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: Best BBC trollbait to date - Benefit cuts
Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 02:42 PM
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without wanting to cause upset I do think the £26k cap is still a massive sum. Im sure the BBC found the worst possible case and Im also sure that many folks do not claim nearly that much.
It does grate a bit though that potentially someone can earn that amount without working, as does the women who they interviewed ( again prob worst case ) that stated that if they lowered her benefits that she could afford her lifestyle/ house. Move house to where you can afford to keep a roof over your head ! !
I feel sorry for the familys who perhaps had 3 children and the parents work and through whatever means they no longer work due to sickness or redundancy. Those who keep having kids and expecting child benefit money really makes my blood boil !
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Post subject: RE: Re: Best BBC trollbait to date - Benefit cuts
Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 03:55 PM
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| Your average benefit claimant should not be able to afford more luxuries than your average person at work. Our benefit system is upside down. It should provide enough to survive but if people want to have the luxury of Sky TV and 24 cans of lager a week then they should work to afford them. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: Best BBC trollbait to date - Benefit cuts
Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 04:26 PM
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| its all well and good saying that but 24 cans of lager isn't going to drink itself and if he is going to benefit from the sky tv then a job would only impede his drinking and viewing time. |
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Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 04:56 PM
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Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 05:10 PM
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Some of these comments saying that 26 grand is a huge amount of money and the guy saying he lives quite comfortable on 26 grand are idiotic and irelevant. How many of you think you or them could feed 8 people on 240 quid a month? They have 6 children, 18 quid on sky tv to entertain 6 kids (thats 3 quid a month each child) isn't exactly a luxury in my mind its pretty good value considering what most kids have these days. People always pick on smal details without looking at the big picture.
Remove the beer that everyone seems to offended by and it would save the taxpayer less than 100 quid a year. |
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Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 05:20 PM
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| No its the 200 fags and pouch of tobacco thats taking the piss thats atleast £70-£80 the beers probably less than £15. Stop smoking and they can get by on 26k a year and still get drunk while sitting on their arse watching Sky. |
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Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 05:21 PM
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Or, "Man spends nearly a 3rd of his weekly shop on cigs and alcohol whilst claiming poverty" shocker.
Knock out sky, cigs and alcohol and you've pretty much saved your 82.40 a week deficit that might come into effect, then put ontop of that the 3 or 4 pints he has once a week (not condemning him to stay inside, but pubs are a luxury, beer in a pub even more so) and bingo bango, problem solved.
It's not the fact that he receives benefits (Who knows, he might be actively seeking everyday and it's true there isn't anything out there) that annoys me, it's more that he is misusing the money he does have. Everyone has to Live within their means. The months that the energy bills, MOTs and insurance all come in, or the months where I don't get a race bonus means I have to be more selective with my money. |
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Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 05:22 PM
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Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 05:29 PM
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Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 05:35 PM
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It's 200 cigs and 24 beers a week if you believe what the BBC have written. call that 70 a week, plus the 3-4 beers at the pub (12-15 quid) then thats the 82.40 that will be missing come the reform.
He gets 87 quid in Child benefit and spends that money on beer and fags, without judging I'm guessing that in no way benefits the kids.
Edit - Not saying THAT SAME money goes on beer and cigs, just a similar amount |
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Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 05:40 PM
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nickmotture wrote:
Smoking is an addiction.....
Not the point...... |
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