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To start a benefits "myth busting" thread so that I can link the thickos of Facebook to it

491 replies

MarmaladeTwatkins · 02/04/2013 15:33

When they start moaning about how people on benefits can afford diamond shoes and other such items.

I'll start.

  1. Housing benefit is mostly paid out to WORKING people. So all of this talk of going out and getting a job and buying their own home if they don't like the bedroom tax is a flawed argument.
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rhondajean · 02/04/2013 22:07

Glad to be of use to someone more than Grin

rhondajean · 02/04/2013 22:09

Itv news now for zero hours contracts btw.

IneedAsockamnesty · 02/04/2013 22:14

The link was not mine I just reposted the link so Rhonda could read and see what she thought of another posters bollocks evidence.

Because Rhonda has much more energy than I do at the moment and is quite likely to pick up on all the things I would and she does not swear as much as me

ouryve · 02/04/2013 22:16

Maisie, you need one of these and one of these. Your outbuildings will be down in no time.

Someone else will have to advise on the fingernail repair. :o

rhondajean · 02/04/2013 22:18

I swear a lot in real life Blush

I also keep missing things on here because I go off to get evidence to debunk one set of bollocks and another lot is here by the time I get back.

Plus, perkily, I have to WORK. Which an awful lot of the bb brigade don't seem to have had to do today Hmm

rhondajean · 02/04/2013 22:18

PEskily, peskily, work was not perky today.

rhondajean · 02/04/2013 22:24

FUCK ME. Quietly buried in the news today, the queens got an extra £5million To cover the running costs of her household.

How many spare rooms has she got???

Still, she is a pensioner I suppose...

morethanpotatoprints · 02/04/2013 22:27

Maisie

Do you have a dh/ dp or muscles. I am only 4ft 10.5 (.5) being very important and I love smashing stuff to bits and building walls. Me and dh quite often spend a few weeks knocking our house to bits.

Darkesteyes · 02/04/2013 22:31

And the Mail uses the death of six children to make a right wing political point.

twitter.com/hendopolis/status/319193925019643904/photo/1

Darkesteyes · 02/04/2013 22:33

When they caught Harold Shipman i dont recall any headlines saying..

Product of Middle Class UK!

rhondajean · 02/04/2013 22:33

Product of educating people to use lethal drugs perhaps?

ParsingFancy · 02/04/2013 22:36

Well it's not the first. Xenia was banging away linking the Philpotts and benefit reform right here on MN last week.

Sometimes what people say is so bizarre and twisted you can't begin to imagine how to engage with them.

IntheFrame · 02/04/2013 22:40

I think maisiejoe123 might have a point in that getting work done down south is a mission.

No one can do any sort of job in my town without adding on a big whack because it's only the rich that can afford anything. I can go down the road to the (poorer) south coast and get it done for half the price. No one can afford to live and have a regular job (shop work, office admin etc) anywhere in my local area without help.
Basically the rich have artificially inflated the price of labour locally and so have to pay to get people in from further afield. Which is fine as long as your labour have the money/time to get to work.

grovel · 02/04/2013 22:48

Darkesteyes, I think you've chosen a poor example of DM fascism. This man is shit. This man abuses/tries to kill women and he takes the piss out of the system. This man benefits a bad name which is so sad. But not as sad as the death of the children.

grovel · 02/04/2013 22:49

"gives benefits"

Darkesteyes · 02/04/2013 22:53

i agree grovel. But the Mail are using the deaths of six children to make a political point and according to my Twitter feed many people agree.

Darkesteyes · 02/04/2013 22:56

Rise in companies using zero hour contracts.

www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/apr/02/rise-staff-zero-hour-contracts

Darkesteyes · 02/04/2013 22:58

Meanwhile they want people to put in more hours.

www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/02/plan-to-push-low-paid-into-doing-more

Darkesteyes · 02/04/2013 23:00

This man benefits a bad name which is so sad. But not as sad as the death of the children

Yet no one ever says/said that Harold Shipman gave the middle class a bad name!!!!

Viviennemary · 02/04/2013 23:05

Why are people not up in arms at the Queen getting an extra £5 million. Isn't that more than 1% rise.

morethanpotatoprints · 02/04/2013 23:12

I think many people think the Queen has enough already. They can't believe the gall tbh.
In time of austerity, when people stand to lose a significant amount of money and have a spare bedroom taxed, once again a stupid amount of millions is added unnecessarily imo.

morethanpotatoprints · 02/04/2013 23:14

Vivienne

Apologies misread your post Smile

YouTheCat · 02/04/2013 23:14

I'm up in arms about it.

grovel · 02/04/2013 23:14

She had a great year. Performance-related pay.

Viviennemary · 02/04/2013 23:34

What about this cap on housing benefit. Doesn't the Queen count. Can we all have £5m a year pay rise. My expenses have gone up too this year.