People on benefits should be put in the stocks

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...and have rotten eggs and tomatos thrown at them.
How dare they go on holiday and be allowed to have christmas presents etc
They should live on bread and dripping.

Now here's a fitting punishment for the layabout scroungers aka benefits claimants (hilariously, my predictive-texting phone changed 'layabout' to 'kayaking'! ): force them to read the DM from cover to cover for a MONTH!! Then they'll see what REAL journalists (yeah, real journalists, not your twunting, left-wing, lentil-moisturising Grauniadites) think of them!

Mwa ha ha haaarrr.

at kayaking scroungers.
But I think your punishment too harsh Speedy.

Kate - they paid ATOSS (arf) £80m?? To save...how much in benefits costs? Arse over face, IMO.

Sue, as you can see, I am pure evil.

(Damn! That nearly became 'pure weevil'! Must fix blinking phone, grr)

Weevils are not pure. They are evil weevils. Munching away on tax-paying roots.

what exactly are weevils?

Weevils are little scroungy fuckers. They lay about all day watching crap tv and then scuttle around looking for places to spew their vileness...

don't they live in rice????.................paid for by taxpayers and benefit claimants - i don't think they are fussy

cupcake I'm with you on this one. THey should save up their FREE money if they want a better Christmas. £10 is neither here nor there. Multiply that by the millions on benefits, then we can see how many other things people are missing out on.

Not to worry, uni fees will be raised, so we'll rob the future workers before they start earning tax to pay for lazy arseholes.

Rice and my garden blushing. I feed them to the hens. Scrounging weevils.

Hey, I'M a benefit claimant, for a few more weeks, anyway. I worked my arse off (sigh...wish that had made me shave a few inches off it) to earn my self-employed maternity benefits. If anyone's going to insult the "lazy arseholes", it's bloody gonna be ME!!! Yeah? YEAHHH??

Seriously, this thread started so well and now has descended into the blazing he'll of a Daily Mail battleground. It amazes me when people make sweeping judgements like ALL benefits claimants are nose-picking arse-wiping Jeremy Kyle watching weevil-weaving shit-stirring council-house facelift-wearing fag-puffing kayakers . I tend to view such dim-witted presumptuous generalising with condescension.

It sucks you are disable and I'm sorry about that. But I am not convinced that £10
a) makes you feel better
b) enables you to do a lot
c) takes your disability away,

Not when that £10 multiplied by the millions claiming it could buy school books.

ANd you're right, I don't envy you.

I just don't see what £10 can really do to make their life SO much better. It isn't going to take away the disability, and to be honest, ,it isn't upto the Govt to fund ANYBODY regardless of disability.

Aaaaarrrrgggghh!! Bloody phone! That should have been: "blazing hell"!

Blazing hell!

Ah, the DM. Enough said :)

They should be lashed with sticks by tax-payers tis the only way..

*mumcentreplus FINALLY some sense!!

LifeforRent: with an extra tenner someone not very well-off might...

• buy some extra food over Xmas
• buy a few packs of nappies
• go to see a film
• put it in the bank and be £10 richer than before
• pay for quite a lot of mobile phone minutes and get to talk to someone they love

-buy a nice book, or 20 nice books from a charity shop

Need I go on? I wrote that list in under a minute. Doesn't take much imagination. £10 might not transform a life forever, but that doesn't make it a worthless payment which should be retracted.

People who can't spell the plural of tomato should have their benefits cut

Ohhh I'm sorry-do people on minimum wages not fancy an extra tenner? Some nice food, a few books? Or is it just people who don't work who deserve it?

Try putting £1 away for a few weeks before Christmas and buy some nice things then. We shan't be raising the value of the pound if we're just handing them out to people.