To think its completely outrageous for the govt to not include internet access as a necessity on the voucher programme when

[MadameDefarge]

they are now demanding all benefit applications and correspondence has to be online? I think it is disgusting. Its pushing already marginalised and often vulnerable people beyond the edge. In our Borough over 20% of folk do not have internet access. These people are generally the poor, the foreign, those with MH issues. Is this just another step to ensure the poorest most vulnerable members of society have no voice or access to services?

You are by thinking that a huge continent such as Australia has one time line. That is shocking. Not U.

ffs these threads are dominating MN at the moment

it seems the whole country is disabled or has mental health issues,its becoming the stock example on here,seriously we must be the sick man of europe

YANBU

5Eggs...TB is very very tired. She needs to rest. and not be disturbed.

Out of interest, if you are all SO POOR, why are you all online in the middle of the afternoon?
This is the last thing I'm going to say to twoBras whose stuck-record blithering is just getting on my nerves now.

1. Who said we were poor? You can be rich/middling and have empathy, you know, just like you can be able-bodied and care about the less able-bodied.
2. Why not be the internet in the middle of the afternoon? Some of us are on annual leave from our jobs. For others it might be the only contact they have with the outside world. Whatever the reason, it's none of your fucking business to be honest.

Zone, my love, zone.

Fair point! ha!

Thank you Jamie.

Ok woolly some were saying they were skint. You are not one of them obviously.

Good grief, I have just sat and read some of the biggest load of bollocks ever (and that is not a word I use regularly)

Madam YANBU

Madame even

I can't see why the govt don't just put McDonalds in charge of all the shiftless poor? They could house, feed, employ and give them internet access!!!!!!!

Brill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YANBU at all Madame.

TwoBras you're not the only person on here who has gone through shitty circumstances and come out the other side. Good for you (not sarcastic - I'm glad when people get out of shitty circs). But please have a bit of compassion for those who don't have your particular survival skills.

And as for save £2 a week to move well.......

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Best stop before I pee myself

Mrs D! I am shocked. shocked that someone so robust and take the shit and get on with it felt the need to report you. shame.

Hully that's a bloody great idea, they'll kick themselves that they didn't think of that first

Ah Hully!!!! the voice of reason! And solutions, not problems!

And what about Wimpy? Hardly anyone goes there anymore, they could have some of the poor, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. I can really see this taking off.

I say bring back the knickerbocker glory. and the workhouse. a winning combo I feel.

Mrs Devere, you just summed the whole argument up as a modern version of 'There's a hole in my bucket."

Well I am on the internet in the afternoon as I don't work, my toddler is napping and the other four mad things are watching a film. Dinner is already made and its the first day of the holidays so we are having a lazy day, apart from dp, he is at work!

I am not smug tho, I realise we are lucky, very lucky but shit can happen to anyone at anytime and that's what we have the safety net for, its crap that it is being worded and made harder to access by those that need it most.

So op yanbu.

All food banks should have a few computers for the poor to use (provided they ask nicely). See? Lateral thinking.

Sorted.

Wimpy

How apt