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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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I am sick of dole scroungers. An example of this is my cousin, she is in her 50s and has willfully never done a single days work in her life and clearly has no intention of doing so, despite being able bodied and mentally and physically healthy. My uncle said that my cousin is 'too intelligent to have a job' (I personally think this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard anyone say).
I am 46 years old and I have always worked full-time since leaving school at 16 apart from a few weeks of job search and job seekers allowance when I got made redundant from a job 20 years ago. My current circumstances are that I am working full time but have just received a food voucher and my line manager has taken me out for lunch a few times because I can't afford food. Also had to sell a few possessions recently just so I could pay my bills. It seems unfair that this happens to working people, when dole scroungers (I have met many over the years) seem to manage really well and never appear to 'go without'.
09/09 Anders
I am 46 years old and I have always worked full-time since leaving school at 16 apart from a few weeks of job search and job seekers allowance when I got made redundant from a job 20 years ago. My current circumstances are that I am working full time but have just received a food voucher and my line manager has taken me out for lunch a few times because I can't afford food. Also had to sell a few possessions recently just so I could pay my bills. It seems unfair that this happens to working people, when dole scroungers (I have met many over the years) seem to manage really well and never appear to 'go without'.
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Totally agree. Country is fooked now. Scroungers know how to work system. About the only thing they're good at with plenty of experience. Just pump out loads of kids to follow in their footsteps
27/06 Adrianblack
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It's about time all these millions of so called disabled people who are actually just lazy scroungers were taken off their life long benefits dragged out of the pub and told to get a job and pay their own way, I don't care what anyone says we all know the vast majority of them have nothing wrong with them they're just bone idle scroungers
06/02 Mr bird
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My sister owns her own house, a former council house on a nice small estate in a pleasant area, which is now almost all privately owned, apart from 2 properties which remain council. One of these remaining council properties is next door to my sister, and around a year ago a young family moved in, a mid to late 20`s couple with 3 kids under the age of 5. Both the adults are fit and able with nothing to stop them working.
Neither of them work, they are at home every day, and can be seen chain smoking out the back of the house and on their smart phones every half hour, takeaway`s are regularly delivered, they are both covered in tattoos, they keep a pedigree dog and run a car. When the first cost of living payment was paid, a £200 hot tub appeared at the back of their house a couple of days later, which fits in nicely with their fancy barbeque.
Gardening and general property maintenance never seems to enter their heads, despite having all the time in the world on their hands to cut hedges, grass etc. The man of their house did appear to have a job 1 day a week at a supermarket (the magic 16 hour or less per week limit as they call it), as he was seen stood smoking in a uniform, this did not last long however, he was seen in the uniform early one morning as if ready to go to work, but was seen a hour or so later (smoking again) back in civvies, so obviously he couldn`t be bothered to go to work and phoned in sick or jacked in altogether.
So, it appears a life on universal credit is rather cushy for the bone idle, they get all their bills paid, can afford luxuries like being able to chain smoke, hot tubs and regular barbeques. They can afford to cover themselves in tattoos and can afford to spend around £1000 on a dog, as well as ordering regular takeaways, they can afford to run a car etc.... not bad when all you do all day is watch TV, surf on your smart phone and chain smoke.
These leeches have a better life and are better off than many people who go out to work full time and pay they own way, it makes me sick. There needs to be a far stricter vetting process to weed out these benefit scroungers, remove their benefits and force them into work. We all know the reason these spongers shiete out a tribe of kids is purely for all the extra benefits they can trouser, it is too easy for them to play the system and choose a cushy life on universal credit.
I have no problem with lifting the benefit cap for people who genuinely need help and who are unable to work, but unfortunately there are hundred`s of thousands, if not millions out there who just con the system and deserve nothing.
03/11/22 Geoff
Neither of them work, they are at home every day, and can be seen chain smoking out the back of the house and on their smart phones every half hour, takeaway`s are regularly delivered, they are both covered in tattoos, they keep a pedigree dog and run a car. When the first cost of living payment was paid, a £200 hot tub appeared at the back of their house a couple of days later, which fits in nicely with their fancy barbeque.
Gardening and general property maintenance never seems to enter their heads, despite having all the time in the world on their hands to cut hedges, grass etc. The man of their house did appear to have a job 1 day a week at a supermarket (the magic 16 hour or less per week limit as they call it), as he was seen stood smoking in a uniform, this did not last long however, he was seen in the uniform early one morning as if ready to go to work, but was seen a hour or so later (smoking again) back in civvies, so obviously he couldn`t be bothered to go to work and phoned in sick or jacked in altogether.
So, it appears a life on universal credit is rather cushy for the bone idle, they get all their bills paid, can afford luxuries like being able to chain smoke, hot tubs and regular barbeques. They can afford to cover themselves in tattoos and can afford to spend around £1000 on a dog, as well as ordering regular takeaways, they can afford to run a car etc.... not bad when all you do all day is watch TV, surf on your smart phone and chain smoke.
These leeches have a better life and are better off than many people who go out to work full time and pay they own way, it makes me sick. There needs to be a far stricter vetting process to weed out these benefit scroungers, remove their benefits and force them into work. We all know the reason these spongers shiete out a tribe of kids is purely for all the extra benefits they can trouser, it is too easy for them to play the system and choose a cushy life on universal credit.
I have no problem with lifting the benefit cap for people who genuinely need help and who are unable to work, but unfortunately there are hundred`s of thousands, if not millions out there who just con the system and deserve nothing.
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Lazy dirty scrounging scumbags have no shame gleaning from the working taxpayer like myself, 41 years I've worked and still working I'm nearly 62 years old and would love to carry on until my pension age of 66, but unfortunately for me my place of work is closing at Xmas so that's me out of a job at this age of life, am I going to ashamed to not have job? I don't know, I may just hang my boots up and retire, but I have paid my part to the low life scrounging sponger, these lot hold no shame and think they have an entitlement to the free money, I know this person who has been on benefits for 45 years and still claiming, and this lazy B****** is now 64 years old, this must be near enough to a record and simply has no shame....personally from me, I would pay them with dried rice and beans, the ones who lost jobs through no fault of there own, my heart goes out to them, and things will get better. as for this lowlife who can afford to buy 2 dogs for £2300 and go on holidays abroad, the benefit should be stopped, and made to go out and work for their benefits, genuine people don't take offence, scrounging tramps get off your lazy arses do something for society.
05/08/21 Lonzie
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@ Rodney, Know what you mean. The benefit scum of the UK that have always been work shy and dedicated parasites are too much trouble for the DDS to handle. They would rather let their breedings staves to death than earn a living. The DSS knows this, so their hands are tied by the do-goders that defend them. Let's hope COVID wipes a lot of these lardy asses out.
19/12/20 Jethro
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I live in Mansfield Nottinghamshire and surrounded by benefit scroungers. My neighbour is 41 years old and has never worked and gets £325 per week. Sleeps all day and has a nice car and a 60 inch TV. What's the point of going to work. I was in the Same job for 37 years and before that the army for 9 years. We need a strong government to make these people go to work or at least work for benefits.
18/12/20 Rodney
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@Milox, Yes Great Yarmouth is now classed as the Anus of Norfolk, even the Travelers have stopped coming, that's why the road system is not being improved under Government funding, keep whats here well contained.
17/12/17 Guest
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I TOTALLY AGREE,I LIVE IN GREAT YARMOUTH AND SEEN A MASSIVE DECLINE,,NEVER SEEN SO MANY LAZY,IDLE LAYABOUTS IN ALL MY LIFE,,,THEY ARE TAKING THE MICKEY OUT OF THE SYSTEM,AND THE GOVERNEMENT ARE LETTING THEM,,,,I WORKED ALL MY LIFE,APART FROM A FEW OPS,,,NOW WELL RETIRED,,,YARMOUTH KNOW THIS TOWN IS SEASONAL,,,WHY ARE THEY LETTING MORE PEOPLE IN TO LIVE,KNOWING THERE,S NO WORK FOR THEM,,,,HOLIDAY MAKERS DONT SEE WHAT WE SEE,,,ALSO THE AMOUNT OF YOUNG GIRLS HAVING KIDS IS DISGUSTING,,,ALL TO CLAIM BENEFITS.. GOVERNEMENT WANTS TO ALLOW 2 CHILDREN PER,,, AND HELP THEM,,ANYMORE KEEP YOURSELF,,,,,, ITS THERE MISSFORTUNE,,,,ALSO GET THE FATHERS OF THESE KIDS BEFOR YOU PAY ANY MONEY OUT.......A THING CALLED MAINTINANCE... AND COMMON SENSE,,,,MAKE THEM WORK,,,,OR GET NOTHING,,IT MUST BE STOPPED NOW,,,,,,
11/12/17 MILOX
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I completely ageee with everything you said there, it's a pet hate of mine scroungers that refuse to work. At the same time the government are to blame, they need to cap benefits for the ones that are able to work and just can't be bothered and see what they do then. I find it disgusting that we work so hard and have a lesser life that the ones that sit there watching daytime tv and spend our tax money on fags and booze. Something needs to be done. I would be happy for my tax money to go to those who can't work and those who are looking for work, but the ones that refuse to work deserve nothing.
10/11/16 Working Girl
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The situation detailed in Zanni's post is simply disgraceful.
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.
04/11/14 Samson (Delilah's too busy to post)
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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@Dead and buried - I think this is inhumane - not every one of these individuals are criminal. However, I do believe they should be given food tokens, instead of their Giro cheques, so the children at least can eat, as it's not their fault that their parents are feckless. Also, anyone on handouts should be offered free sterilization, from age 16 onward, and problem families need to be closely monitered and the children taken for adoption at soonest opportunity - there are many couples who can't have their own children, but are decent and law-abiding - it would give these 'ghetto kids' a fair chance in life, and they would see how normal, decent people live, and adopt this attitude as their own.
04/11/14 marmalade
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This is one of your "scroungers" - a man let go and who then is told he has to go back to work for the same company for just his unemployment benefits or be punished by being sanctioned. Forced labour in other words.
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.
04/11/14 Zanni
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.
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Build human energy conversion plants that burn the lazy and provide heat for the working people who can't afford to have their heating on .