"Fairness means giving people what they deserve"

[becstarlitsea]

...according to David Cameron. Apparently the people who don't deserve much are single parents, SAHMs who haven't married their partner, people who rely on housing benefit to live near their family in London... Y'know, the really bad, evil people.

AIBU to be thinking 'what exactly does David Cameron deserve? And how best can we give it to him?'

DO you know we the whole of MN deserves?

No more bloody threads on Child Benefit.

In particular, no more bloody threads on child benefit that don't say that's what they are in the title.

For goodness sake. Can this all be kept to one thread? or at least 17 threads? PLEASE

Agree with Trillian....no more please!

Surely taxation in itself isn't giving people what they deserve. It's redistributing money that people have earned in a way which disproportionately gives more to those who have earned less.
If it was about giving people what they deserved then people who earned more money and contributed more to the coffers would get more in return and people who have not worked at all would get nothing.
It's a social construct run soceity in accordance with ideals set up by the country and it's people, it has nothing to do with fairness in an objective sense.

Oops sorry - can you believe I haven't read any other threads on it? I just read the Guardian and was feeling cross. Didn't realise you'd all been there and done that. Apologies all.

PS I clearly deserved that

mayor, i agree with you :)

Feel free to bring up your very good point on one of the milllllllllions of other CB threads

Ooooh, no, I wasn't looking for a serious political debate which is what I imagine is happening on the other threads. Just a pondering on exactly what he might deserve. Tarring and feathering and rotten tomatoes seem a bit passe. I was considering a gypsy curse of the 'may you have toothache and a sore bunion for the rest of your days' variety - but thought others might have better ideas.

Thanks bubbley. It's not often that happens.

And who the hell is in charge of deciding what people 'deserve'?

Oooh a "toothache for the rest of your life" curse would be the evillest of all curses.

Exactly, Colditz. I am fuming that a fucking slab of gammon with shifty eyes has got the right to determine what I and my family "deserve".

I am sick to the back teeth of this man already. I dread his face being on the news because for some reason, at the minute, it always seems to be followed very swiftly by my DH and I being shafted sideways.

How about this...

Mr Cameron's just desserts curse...

Every time you enter a room
may you forget what you went in for
May you stub your toe and whack your shins sore

May your teeth ache
May your reading glasses break
And may you become allergic to cake

But it's just not pesky enough... Need more peskiness. And some black candles.

It's a good start, becstarlit, but can you draft something in about him ending up on a shit salary and having to sit down and work out whether he and Samantha have to wait until payday to do their food shop?

Thanks!

How about 'May you have permanent intense labour pains'?

Mwa ha ha ha harrr

K How bout...

May Smythson go bust
On the same day as the fund of your trust
And may your food shop be monthly at Lidl

Excellent

I'd like him to grow a womb and then get that period pain which shoots right up your arse.

Just thought of another...but I can't make it rhyme, and since I couldn't make the others scan...

'May you become eligible for every benefit you ever cut, but just below the threshold you cut it to.'

Definitely the 'having to decide between the grocery shop or the phone bill this week' decision.

Ooh, I've got that now ShirleyKnot. I am sending the bad vibes to Dave.

If we all send him our bad vibes,will anything happen?

TrillianAstra well said

I don't know if it will work, but we have to try. Under the new administration.... it's the law. From now on we have to do our best to give everyone exactly what they deserve. So whatever we think Mr Cameron deserves we have to strive to ensure he gets it.

Next time you see him on telly check to see if he's limping. If he is, it's the bunions.

Piles the size of grapefruit hanging from his arse.