Why am I paying for these people to get benefits when they have

[Hedgehogbrown]

Only joking! If I have to see another thread from some selfish fucker moaning about other people having seemingly more than them, I'm going to rip my eyes out. Pay your fucking taxes and stop being so selfish! Or quit your job and go on benefits then if it's such the high life.

Not 5 million people!

No. Only the arseholes are arseholes are arseholes. HTH.

Some people just won’t admit that there’s a huge group of this country being screwed over.

Well said.
Mumsnet is full of miserable goady threads lately, bemoaning how shit the UK is and everyone's planning to leave, almost like there's an underlying agenda by some third party to shit stir and cause unrest...

If it carries on I won't be bothering with the site, it'll get like Twitter/X.

I can imagine the annoyance of people who work long hours to scrimp and save to try and start a family when others are popping out sprogs on a regular basis and have just had a huge rise income while sitting on their arse.
Christ no wonder they are all laughing at the "slaves" who are being taxed to kingdom come and back again 😡😡

when others are popping out sprogs on a regular basis and have just had a huge rise income while sitting on their arse

Can one pop out a sprog whilst sitting on one's arse?

Honestly, this sort of shite posted on a parenting site is so depressing.

Aye but its not shite though, is it?

I think it`s wonderful that parents can now have more babies and i hope they do.
I hope parents have as many as they want more the better.

I agree @Hedgehogbrown

Also I'm sick of reading threads about "will the extra money actually be spent on the children"

When did people start getting so feckin up their own arses???

To be honest for me it’d probably be the time a poster on here told me I was a spoilt brat for saying I wished there was more help for people who want to buy a house

Fuck all actually

You are told "stop buying fancy coffees" and you'll get that mortgage in no time.

Not me. I'm content with my lot and I'm always happy for people worse off than I am to get a better deal, through fairer distribution of wealth and resources.

Aye, but it is a pile of steaming shite. Most women don't pop out sprogs in order to get the benefits.

Well, that’s exactly my point.

“don’t buy a coffee” “don’t go on holiday” meanwhile property prices spiral ever upwards and currently sit at about 15 times my salary in my local area. Of course what I should do is up and leave, leave my job, my family and my friends and move 500 miles away so I can be broke and miserable. But broke and miserable with nobody around me

According to DWP’s official stats, 37% of people on Universal Credit were in work in December 2024. That isn’t “most people on benefits”, and I couldn’t find any data on the average number of hours worked. So I don’t know where you are getting your figures from to make that statement?

Yeah get to work, spend your life working so you can still barely afford groceries and housing. The billionaires need their little worker ants. Poor Elon is only making a trillion atm.

You’re complaining about the wrong people

Do they not still have the help to buy scheme? My DS and DIL it got them onto the property ladder

Is it when you take out those who don’t have a requirement to work ( very young children , pensioners , disabled) then the majority of the remaining are in work?

A LISA is pretty useless when you need a deposit of £50k to have a chance of buying these days.

I hope decent parents who put their children’s needs first have as many children as they want and they are able to give a good start in life to.

I hope people who are, or would be, crap parents don’t have children.

And that’s regardless of income - crap parents can come from all demographics.

There will apparently be a consultation on a product for first time buyers to replace LISAs in 2026.

Whether that will actually help anyone who knows.

Good luck living on benefits is all I say as we're currently on UC due to redundancy and it doesn't even cover bills, let alone food!!
It most definitely isn't the high life that the right wingers lead us to believe it is!!

AKA, they’re binning off the LISA and replacing it with an even worse scheme because we have to pay more benefits and pensions.

brilliant

Pay taxes and stop being selfish? What a charmer. I guess you’re the benefit scrounger then?

I think we do need a separate ‘Benefit Bashing’ board though, where all the threads can get moved to.