to envy/hate people on benefits to be as well off if not better than us

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I know that this post may have some mixed reviews and may even get me slated but I can,t help it.
Someone I know although she is a genuine case her and her husband have as much as me and dh coming in and with a brand new car thrown in for good measure.
I can only dream of a new car and I work my tripe off 5 days a week as well as dh whilst some people can sit at home and get the same income coming in it seems really unfair.

alot of people either have that thing that blocks cold callers, or like me are always busy with their disabled child when these people call, so no not a true picture.

molepom you mean the goats...
they might have as goats like polls

Peachy I will do, just don't have it in me to take this thread seriously anymore.

"Data have been weighted to the known profile of the population" so that should have been taken account of.

many people dont answer the phone

I did mean the goats, but after just having to stop DS from eating his homework (trying to make paper mache, by chewing paper) I'm not so sure now.

dd has been known to do that......maybe our children think they are goats

Mine eats like one that's for sure, and just as stubborn.

Is the poll so bad. No one is criticising the disabled benefits specifically. Would people like to see this country bankrupt like Greece. It needs reigning in.

And yes so do the tax evaders and bankers. Corruption and dishonesty is rife in this country.

Well I'll be honest on my forty years I've never seen ANYONE on DLA who was capable of doing "many a task". Just wondering where you come across ALL these capable disabled people OP? My cousin is a GP. She knows loads of them but it is too much hassle to stop signing them off sick.

Why is it too much hassle Lunaticow? Just curious.

Poll conducted by Mori to a lot of people who have been fed shit and misinformation for ages!

Lunatic my own GP says that Gps who sign off people without need should be fired.

I take it that was a dig at me Tilly?

I'm perfectly entitled to question the value of a poll that totally forgets to mention a crucial disability beneift, currently undergoing an arbitrary 20% cut. Was that just an accident do you think?

Why even Boris Johnson has his concerns about it, though it took a FOI request to establish that.

lunaticow just a small point, yet AGAIN, why would your GP cousin need to sign DLA claiments off sick? DLA IS NOT AN OUT OF WORK BENEFIT.

Perhaps you are mistaken?

Not suitable for work, kids or goats.

Mind how you go now. Don't want to get hit by a bus and end up disabled do we?

Peachy, I'm also very suspicious of the selective press coverage.

When MacMillan (amongst others) were campaining against the changes to ESA, which meant that patients going through IV chemo would have to face back to work interviews (I kid you not) there was one tiny article in the Guardian. Nothing else.

I have to wonder why it slipped through so quietly.

I actually quite like these threads (when not trying to hide them!), I will tell you why, I got a bill from the HMRC today saying I owed them tax. £50. I can afford this, and hopefully at least a % of this will go to pay for some of the benefits that will be truly needed by people. So thank you for reminding me that it isn't all about me and wanting a new pair of jeans, life is about providing for those who can't for themselves. This includes my children as if I didn't provide for them then I would rely on people like myself to do so.

So thank you, even if this thread has made me incredibly sad at the situations that are out there, and the gall of some people who knock the benefit system, you have reminded me that I am very lucky and have opportunities to help others even if some of you don't want to . Shame on you.

wubblybubbly no, it was a general comment

DPs bros interactions with medical staff (with his father because his whole family are uttlerly p'd off with him):

1. quoting the consultant he insisted on seeing for the nth time 'if you come back here again & talk to me about your leg [name], i am going to call the pysch team'

1. he walks into an appointment with his GP. GP sighs loudly.

he is a complete timewaster. you'd sign him off so he stopped coming & you could deal with the people who needed medical care.

Ooh can I have a goat sevenfold

Or would that make me a scrounger to be envied by the OP?

Okay, - assuming the OP is on to something.

Can someone explain to me how I could go about sitting at home all day whilst wearing expensive clothes, having holidays abroad plus weekend mini-breaks and eating out in restaurants?

Very keen on this idea!

Ta muchly!

Fair enough Tilly.

Can I just ask though, did you not raise an eyebrow at this quesion?

"62% want to see benefits capped for people who have 'too many children' (27% do not). "

Was that genuinely how the question was posed?

And if you could give me actual figures too, that would be grand! Ta

Think the OP has f'd off Starlight - not before time given her unattractive disability envy.

Amazing how many people envy disability and wish they could be disabled too.

I have to admit Wubbly, I raised an eyebrow at that one too.

Oh, that's a shame.

I hope she has started up her own business at weekends running workshops on how to do it. She'd improve her income massively and make a killing. She could take commission. i.e. establish the income of her client group before the beginning of the course and then take a 10% cut of their increased income.