MNHQ PLEASE! can you put all the benefits cap threads in one place? (and I never normally shout)

Couldn't agree more! Please ring-fence? them. Is ring-fence correct here? I feel it should be yet it sounds not. Hmmm.

oh dear, so that is a no then

With respect Rebecca, they are all about the same thing.

The current benefits cap. They broadly cover the same ground. I.e people not understanding that the majority of benefit claimants do not access anywhere near enough that amount. They are full of vitriol and inverse jealousy. Occasionally a poster recounts their child commenting on the fact that poor people dare to live in London or-gasp- asks if they themselves are poor. As if one should be ashamed of that. Personally, I would not only be ashamed, but mortified if my child spat out that crap. But hey ho that is just me.

Enough is enough. Surely that amount of unpleasantness, ignorance and prejudice directed towards any other minority would not be tolerated.

Oh how I would love to see MNHQ popping onto yet another benefit thread and posting that.

Or perhaps just "get back to work you lazy ignoramuses! There's taxes that want a payin'!" But I fear the sarcasm would be lost in the message.

'A mnetter has gone mad and is shooting people'

I had heard that.

I think Pag is right and Dooin. Delete the ones sprouting like mushrooms (ffs on one of them a mnetter has gone mad and is shooting people ), and do one for all and monitor it.

There are some very good and valid arguements and discussions being made by grown ups getting drowned out by the "my cousin Sharons yada yad yada....", smuggers and frothers. IF it's all in one place that it can be monitored and some of the intelligent comments might reach the twatterati that turn up n these kinds of threads.

plus I'm sick of hiding them

then un hiding them in case I'm missing something

then getting annoyed at them cluttering Active convos

at easier to shoot them . Agree KatieMiddleton that many of those posters are happy to physically corral those less fortunate . I just think it's too convenient to take a breather from the facts ( I don't mean in the sense of you *Huntycat , truly worn out by your efforts ) as if these topics don't cover every part of many people's lives .. no chat or hobby topic can distract them for more than 5 minutes ( which is perhaps all you " hide them" posters are asking for , a short rest from the bigots).

These threads are indeed useful for trolls / agents provocateurs but the the "give them enough rope" argument may apply

Not sure there's a solution the miseries of alienation ... once you see reality there isn't going to be much rest & it's a lifelong fight < most pretentious post ever on MN >< needs new category for self- shooting lefties >

so it's easier to shoot them

Personally my response to Pags was on a groan at the duplication, not the CONTENT of said threads so please don't turn this one into a nother battleground!

As KM said polite & tidy

I read a bit of one. I haven't posted.

But I am a bit shocked at the names pf posters being such arseholes on them.

I'm in the unsatisfied lefty corner (although 6 hot cross buns may sate my hunger)

Can we please tidy up the benefits threads ? Do we have a benefit bashing topic?

No I'm really not. Those threads are all entirely predictable, I'd rather not read them. A few I have inadvertently opened because they are in chat or Aibu and the mn app cuts thread titles very short so it isn't always clear what threads are about.

There's a lot of unpleasantness on mn on this subject and it's really not just in one direction.

Ah, BigMouthBugle...

chub I believe the implication was actually that those who can't be sympathetic to those very real people in difficult situations who will be affected by the cap as lacking in humanity.

I haven't seen them.

I'm in a grouchy mood so I shall search them out and unleash my inner bitch

Not politically satisfied, but I have just had a rather yummy homemade pizza.

Better add smug to that description.

Yes, agree.

Like Te, I don't mind discussing the cuts and pointing out discrepancies, but I do have the feeling that 80% of those reading have made up their minds without even reading a single article about the cap (the DM does not count).

Could we make it a provision that anyone who posts on these threads has to agree to read a wide range of papers and blogs, and answer questions on the actual ins and outs of the proposed changes.

Am I on the same thread as everyone else or is there some creative reading going on here?