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.

Oooohhh, oooohhhhh, oooohhhhh, don't forget the cold weather payment, we get £25 when it is below freezing for a week or more, ask riven how far it goes trying to keep the place warm for a quadraplegic, go on, dooooooo itttttttttttttt.

EXACTLY you don't need it, but will take it anyway.

i hope this is a joke! im claiming jsa well when i say claiming i applied two months ago but not had a penny!

i have worked all my adult life and because the company i worked for went bust i am out of work! believe me it is totally crap 64.50 a week and doing everything i can think of to find work.

ive noticed people who have never been out of work are always slagging benefit claiments off but just you remember you could need them one day!

yes there are some that seem to love living with little money (they normally sit outside the job centre with their can and fags) but alot of us hate it and you shouldnt tar everyone with the same brush! im sorry but this REALLY REALLY p*es me off

We just piss the extra tenner up the wall. Life in a wheelchair is such a godsend - we get free parking as well you know! Bingo!

Game on.

Yeah well £10 at Christmas isn't going to change that but is going to dip heavily into the pot that is designed to pay for YOUR FREE healthcare, and quite possible for your children to go to zoos state education. THen the poor blame EVERYONE else for their misfortune.

a) It's patronising
b) I'm not too sure what on Earth you think £10 will buy them that families on low incomes wouldn't want to receive. IMO free money should be banned.

I sell scrouger beating sticks ...tenner a time PM me ..

LifeForRent, i'm waiting for you to estimate how much it will cost to heat a house for someone who is quadraplegic through the winter , bearing in mind not being able to move really fucks up the ability to create ones own body heat.

Free car, too, trib!

Yes, the life of Riley, for the disabled and their carers, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds a year.

Ooh, catty, Quattro!

Life, what are you saying? That people with disabilities, who cannot work, should be forced into work just so that they can be thought to "deserve" £10? Or, as you mentioned school books earlier, that schoolchildren "deserve" the £10 for books more than a person wiu a disability "deserves" a tiny bit more cash? How do you define "deserve"?

People who read the DM deserve to be flogged in public.
People who make illogical generalisations deserve to be trapped in a cage with Jeremy Clarkson.

Just a couple of my "deserves"...

Luckey me, I CAN tap my foot.

Can you tap your foot ? I'm guessing yes ?? Isn't it lovely making ourselves all nice and warm tapping our own feet, aren't WE luckey?

I feel one of those self employed moments Cameron was talkin about...before I know it I'm employing half the neighbour-hood...and the other half will be beaten ...perfect!

You can tap your foot???

Quite agree with Kerry, et al. The welfare state is there for a reason. Feckless fuckers who abuse it deserve all the shit they get, if they get it.

But disabled people, etc., need more.

Not less.

Plenty of people don't even celebrate Christmas. Why should anyone be given money to celebrate something that they may or may not choose to participate in?

I don't begruge a tenner to disabled people at all, but I do think there is something a bit wierd when it's called a 'Christmas bonus' in a country that tries to be inclusive of all races and religions.

Whilst contradicting my previous post, I would happily give up the tenner at Xmas, we genuinely don't need it and my dh's quality of life is shit regardless of whether we get it or not. So a voluntary opt-out system I would definitely support. Means testing it is not economically viable.

But I really will say walk (or possibly roll) a mile in these shoes before you judge. Being disabled is just unbelievably shit and I would say the UK is one of the better places to live, even within Europe, in that situation. It is impossible to imagine what it is like unless you're in the situation.

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Life - you mentioned free schools and the NHS. How many billions of people around the world have NO free education or healthcare? Billions! Do Brits "deserve" it and they don't?

Call it a Morris dancing bonus then if it pleases you. As long as it gets given to those who need it, I doubt if they care what it's called.

'People who make illogical generalisations deserve to be trapped in a cage with Jeremy Clarkson.'

Now that's a fate worse than death.

Now if I was trapped in a cage with Clarkson, I'd probably shag him, even though I suspect his breath smells.

expatinscotland, no, you must mean if they were trapped in a cage with Jeremy Kyle.