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Goodbye Spongers!

163 replies

ShakesPear · 04/10/2010 23:06

Anyone else thrilled that the family on benefits living in a £12,000 pcm in London house paid by us will no longer be getting that benefit?

In fact I wonder if the cap on unemployment benefit is to high!

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TotorosOcarina · 05/10/2010 09:37

Last orders - hahahahahahahahah!

cinnamontoast · 05/10/2010 09:35

Even Stephanie Flanders is not impressed by GO's cap on benefits, seeing it as an attack on people with health problems and a refusal to support children - here. She says it's purely to pacify Daily Mail readers and will save a pathetically small amount of money.
Btw, astonished that anyone can still use the term 'spongers'. Let's at least have a grown-up debate about this.

hmc · 05/10/2010 00:05

It is SqtAnqua, it is

SgtAngua · 05/10/2010 00:01

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

TheCrackFox · 04/10/2010 23:42

I am really uneasy about it.

I live in a very mixed area (I am not on benefits) but TBH a good deal of people here are - I am seriously concerned that there will be major civil unrest. It all seems too fast.

LastOrdersAgain · 04/10/2010 23:34

I like turtles.

clemetteattlee · 04/10/2010 23:30

Yes, I am "thrilled" that they will no longer have a house.
Bring back the workhouse I say - bastard poor Hmm

MollysChambers · 04/10/2010 23:29

View nice up there on your high horse?

Alouiseg · 04/10/2010 23:26

It's a good progressive step. When some peculiar families decide to have 12 children to increase the size of their house and receive more child benefit we know that the welfare state has gone too far.

Yummy biscuits on this thread btw!

longfingernails · 04/10/2010 23:22

Yes, I am very pleased.

The biscuit-mongers can tut all they like.

It is not "progressive" to allow spongers to get more in benefits than those who work.

I would set the limit much lower than £500 a week - but it's a great start.

This government is completely changing the face of Britain - and almost all of it for the better.

sharbie · 04/10/2010 23:13

and a Hmm from me

loopyloops · 04/10/2010 23:10

Have a Biscuit from me too.

BecauseImWorthIt · 04/10/2010 23:08
Biscuit