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Springsummer123 · 12/03/2016 08:35

Name changed as obviously sensitive subject and don't want to put myself .i possibly don't know enough on this so am interested in other views . I may have only seen a small percentage - I'm insure ?
I have 2 sisters . One has had a stroke .which had devestated the family . She is quite well off yet has been upset she will loose a benifit that I believe is for her husband being her carer . Ok discussion to try to ease her fears it's very clear they don't need it . They can afford all care , holidays good standard of living on her payout . Number of property's all fully owned out right . Yet she thinks she should get it as some sort of compensation for the stroke .i can see why she would be angry with life but she doesn't need the money ? Surely it's right to be cut ?
My second sister works with adults with autism . She was saying they are struggling to spend the last part of their money entitlement before the next claim . I know they have holidays etc and their is still money over ( my sister accompanied many times )
So I'm wondering in some cases should the disability benifits be cut ?

DawnMumsnet · 12/03/2016 10:02

Morning all,

The OP's been in touch to say she posted this before seeing the recent news. She regrets posting now and has asked if we can delete this thread.

We think it's best all round if we take it down.

DawnMumsnet · 12/03/2016 10:19

Sorry, forgot to add the crucial emoji to the end of our post. It should have read:

The OP's been in touch to say she posted this before seeing the recent news. She regrets posting now and has asked if we can delete this thread. Hmm

We still think it's best if we take it down, though.

DawnMumsnet · 12/03/2016 10:23

We are dealing with the OP behind the scenes. For what it's worth, she doesn't have form for starting goady threads and has apologised about this one.

DawnMumsnet · 12/03/2016 10:40

@PageStillNotFound404

Why do you think it's best, Dawn? Why do you think it's better to pretend these views don't exist? Not being goady, genuinely interested in your thought process at MNHQ.

We're not in any way pretending these views don't exist, but when a thread is mostly filled with ODFODs and biscuits and has been reported for being inflammatory, we'd rather remove it and let this issue be discussed on other threads.

DawnMumsnet · 12/03/2016 11:08

@ilovesooty

I agree MrsVamos

I think deleting it also encourages goady fuckery and sets a dangerous precedent.

Our difficulty here is, depressing as it seems, we're not certain that this was intentional goady fuckery. The OP got in touch soon after posting it to say no malice was intended and to ask if we could take the thread down - in our experience, that's not the usual form for a gf. As we said, she has no form for starting dodgy threads and we thought then (based on all the ODFODs and the biscuits and the subsequent angry reports about it) that it was best to get rid.

Clearly with hindsight it would have been easiest all round if we'd just posted a 'deleted for being inflammatory' message and been done with it.

We still feel the thread should be taken down, but we're prepared to go with the majority view here if the consensus is that it should stay.

DawnMumsnet · 12/03/2016 11:37

@SilverDragonfly1

Dawn In that case it illustrates very well how even people who are generally pleasant can have extremely prejudiced views, largely governed by the media, rather than thinking and researching their own opinions.

Thread should stand.

We think this just about sums it up, unfortunately. Sad

Looks like the majority view is that the thread should stay, so we'll be leaving it to stand for now. To all those saying it would be good if the OP could come back to the thread, it's possible that she's not even aware that it's still running as the last correspondence from us was to say that we'd be deleting it. We've been back in touch now to explain the situation.

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