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?

AND...

The poor can't afford pets, so they could donate their pets to be "chicken" and burgers and really contribute to society and feel part of it. And if they all wore McDonalds uniforms (or Kentucky etc), they could sell their own clothes to raise a bit of cash!!!!

Oh surely not wimpy, chicken cottage would be better.

oh grovel! how blue sky of you! Genius!

Does mc donalds not do vegetarian options then? I quite fancy a chocolate shake now, but they always give me brain freeze :(

TwoBras

Do you not read what anyone says. My post angered you yet you clearly didn't understand it.

As for the McDonald/wifi argument, well lets repeat again what others have said, not everyone has a device that they can use, thus making the argument totally irrelevant twobras

Come off it Hully, Wimpy has Brown Derbys- it's positively upmarket.

What you want is a Starburger.

veggie burgers? Onion rings? Garnish? whats not to love?

On a serious note

IT IS BEYOND DISGUSTING

Disenfranchisement taken to its extreme.

Cut them off, silence them, hope they'll quietly die.

Oh hell, just make life free! Free for everyone! Nobody has to pay for a thing. Bugger it.

thethers darling! not seen you in ages, hows lil bubba? Weaned on to MaccyD yet?

I fashioned a computer out of ham once.

Do I win a £5 food voucher?

There is a vegetarian option - spicy veggie deli.

They could also do food for the elderly. That would save money on government funded carers preparing food for the elderly at home, and the elderly could apply for their stair lift funding online using the McDonalds wifi connection.

Would that make you all happy? 'Government announces that life is free in the UK.'

What a great country that would be.

Oh it gets better

But, tethers, did you steal the ham?

Yes! not even joking

I am fine, Hully. But very, very tired as baby is 10 months old and a raving insomniac with a kamikaze approach to health and safety.

Et toi?

Why not twobras?

This is a true story:

The native Americans had no cash or conception of it, they lived in communal societies and took care of each other. When America was "discovered" and they were a bit inconvenient and a bit massacred, the few that were left were offered some useless barren desert and told to stay put and live there.

They didn't want to much.

By then things had got to the point where they couldn't really just keep killing them off, so they scratched their heads and came up with a plan.

Guess what they did?

They gave them trousers. With pockets. Because you put things in pockets, and you develop a sense of ownership and mine mine mine and start acting SELFISHLY.

So I'd say no cash is a damn good thing.

In that case you win a 3 week holiday with Vicky Price. Starting tomorrow.

No tethers but you do get a no purchase access all areas pass to WIFI in McDonalds...

Oh I'm all right tethers, I mainly live on rage and despair these days.

I made the keyboard out of slices of pepperami

Now that's the kind of box-excluded thinking I reckon would get benefit claimants full of feck.

And what did Jesus say?

To the least of them...

Love thy neighbour...

etc etc

Not. get everything you can and the devil take the hindmost.

I agree Hully. I've read that story too.

I have a bag of despair in the cupboard left over from Christmas, Hully. It's yours.