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Amazing isn't it? Someone has finally realised that there's pretty large number of lazy individuals in this country who are more than happy to sit on their backsides, do nothing and claim benefits. It's just a shame that it's the Conservative opposition party that's finally woken up to this reality and not the present government. For once in my life I'm considering voting Tory at the next election and my parents would probably turn in their grave if they knew.
We all know who these people are. I'm willing to bet that each and every one of us could think of a couple of faces that fall into the "work shy" category. A friend of a friend, someones son or brother. They don't work, have never worked and have no intention of working. They'll sit at home watching daytime telly, spending their benefits on fags and booze. Maybe they are a bit younger and don't quite fall into that stereotype. But they know the rules and they play the system just the same.
I'm not talking about people who are genuinely unemployed here. A couple months between real jobs is one thing, but a couple of jobs in five or ten years is another matter all together. This is seriously taking the proverbial by the way, and I for one don't like the thought that my (seriously inflated) taxes go towards keeping these benefit scroungers in a comfy lifestyle whilst other more deserving individuals struggle to make ends meet.
Some people genuinely can't work for health reasons
The men and women who are genuinely unemployed have my sympathy and deserve help. They will through their own merit find work and may well still struggle to survive (some employers should be locked up for taking advantage too!), but they'll take pride in themselves and earn a living for themselves. Likewise some people genuinely can't work for health reasons and they too deserve assistance. As for the fraudsters who claim incapacity benefit when they know damn well they can work, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
I just can't understand the all take and no give attitude of these individuals. How can you feel good about yourself knowing that you spend a large chunk of your life living off other people and giving nothing back? It would be interesting to see how these leeches would fair if there were no benefits system.
So go ahead, let's get the long term unemployed out doing some useful community work and cut back their benefits. It might look like a form of punishment for being lazy, but if the cap fits...
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If there was a job there that needed to be done then he should have been paid for doing it. How can an employer expect to receive free labour like that and how can his benefits be stopped under those circumstances.
I think that he would stand to gain a fair amount if he got in touch with a decent lawyer.
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SILLY BOY .
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/03/dwp-benefits-electrician-work-placement-labour
"A man who was let go at the end of a temporary job has been ordered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to work for the same firm for six months without pay.
Electronics specialist John McArthur, now unemployed, says he is living off 16p tins of spaghetti and without heating after being sanctioned by a jobcentre for refusing to work unpaid for LAMH Recycle in Motherwell, a Scottish social enterprise.
He says he was happy to work for LAMH under the now-defunct future jobs fund for the minimum wage in 2010-2011, but refuses on principle to do the same job unpaid.
...the DWP stopped his unemployment benefit until January as punishment for his refusal to go on the 26-week community work placement (CWP)."
The companies and charities get paid by the government for each person placed with them on these community work placements so this is a way to further undermine powerless working class people who now are not even allowed to work for minimum wage.
This is the reality of "working for benefits". Instead of the "employee" being paid benefits and the "employer" being paid to take them on, the worker should be paid a wage for their work, with the self respect and dignity that entails.
DOES THAT MEAN THE EASTERN EUROPEANS WILL HAVE THEIR BENEFITS FROZEN & THE COUNCIL HOUSES THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN WILL BE HANDED BACK TO THE BRITISH ....?
Time for a quick exit to him and his toff mates !
Lonzie