£10 Christmas bonus.

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Just curious as to if you got yours from DWP (PIP etc). When? And what amazing thing you bought with it?
Mine came yesterday and I bought electric and gas top ups, chocolate and painkillers.

zenasfuck please read my subsequent posts. It was a query. The moan was about our stingy government. I didn't know it was only for people on disability benefits. I thought we were being penalised yet again for working. We already have to pay for school dinners because apparently WTC covers it. Bollocks does it.

Ah. Marley's ghost turns up for people who don't really get Christmas and clanks his chains all night, as you have now noticed Edwin. I see he kept you up late. I suggest you read the original Dickens, you'll feel right at home.

We have a few unpleasant and insulting posters on here but I’m really pleased to see that most people have understood the plight of disabled people and their carers. There are people here in worse situations than mine and I really hope that £10 can bring joy to a few. Whether it is wine, a panto or chocolate - enjoy

Dont worry birds, edwins fantasies shouldnt trouble you, we really shouldn't be reacting to the poison. I'm imagining a scummy E London bedsit, few bottles of Aldi pink and a bitter fury that life treats other people better than me. And its not fair. And I got bullied on mumsnet, etc. Its nearly Christmas, lets send Edwin some Christmas spirit.

MummyLife thank you. I know some are overturned but I hear so many horror stories I'm accepting it's more than likely we'll have to go to the tribunal. And I'v'e also heard horror stories of people having to wait for nearly a year for the MR to be looked at, declined, and then a tribunal date set up. It's so stressful - you've been through both. But thanks for letting me know about the tribunal - I feel a little less stressed knowing that!

Edwin yours are some of the most unpleasant posts I've ever read on here.

Twisted yes, we do have different values. I do indeed prioritise a vulnerable woman and child being prostitutied by her pimp over your DC going to the panto

As I said, I hope your enjoy it

So what do you want those of us who are disabled, or carers 24 hours a day to do about another awful situation? But you sit there holier than thou talking about all the money and time you give, while still paying a grotesque amount of money on fucking cheese and wine. And you think that those of us who have much, much less than you to give up £10? Actually, we probably have a lot more than you do - love.

No wonder you're reporting this thread for bullying. I bet you'd love it to come down so you leave no footprint of your warped views on how one of the most vulnerable groups in society should be giving up what little they get to help another vulnerable group. While you crack on with you cheese and wine. But hey, let us eat cake.

Wow. Came on this post to say I put our £10 to a new high visibilty vest for ds as his last was stolen by twats at school. Then I find I’m supposed to feel guilty about a measly ten quid bonus for Christmas.

Merry Christmas to all the sanctimonious posters here judging the disabled for a tenner, bravo to you for really putting us in our place 👌🏻

Its 'life' is a complete fantasy. It's just getting its kicks out of hounding vulnerable people quite possibly in the same way that the piss troll over its interest.

Edwin is either a troll or a fantasist.
She clearly doesn’t work with the homeless because if she did she would know that there are no children on the streets. Families with children get housed in b&b accomodation or temporary housing, failing that the children would be removed by social care. No child would be sleeping on the streets here in the UK unless totally under the radar and those turning up at homeless shelters are not under the radar. Of course she would know that if she was really volunteering at homeless shelters.
And do I believe that she is an investment banker who spends £120 on a fork or do I think she is a pathological liar who likes to spout bullshit to make vulnerable people feel bad?

Well that's a whole thread of 'how to spot a troll' bingo. I'm trying to work out which squares are left.

She also wouldn't be allowed to take her very young children to visit the hostel on Christmas day.

Come to Scotland. I just got 224. Its not a Xmas bonus per se but snp recognise the contribution that carers make to society and have started paying out 2 224 additional payments a year on top of carers allowance. Extremely handy two weeks before Xmas. I guess it's what your government prioritises torys don't give a fuck about disabled people or their carers, can find 1 billion bribery money at the drop of a hat though.

She isn't a troll, she's been around as long as I have, around 2010 and her posts are consistent, unfortunately.

I'd say she was a typical investment banker, focusing on one charity she's picked and now thinks she knows about having a hard life enough to lecture everyone.

You see the same in those high earners that make one of their yearly holidays a 'church/well building cause' in Africa and then come back and tell our UK poor that they don't know their born.

As for conversion rates. I think of every thing in regards to chips. In the 70's a portion of chips was 9-12 pence. By the mid 80's they were 16p, here in Liverpool. So my disabled DDs £10, should now be £84.

I do indeed prioritise a vulnerable woman and child being prostitutied by her pimp over your DC going to the panto

I presume you'll be giving up the panto tickets you bought back in January? Nice and early to ensure good seats, several hundred pounds spent? And that £3.5k you spend on a holiday in Mexico, you'll be forgoing a holiday in 2019 and giving that £3.5k to charity instead?

My two £10 bonuses are gone, DS left with DH not long ago to do his Christmas shopping, but I'd happily donate a non-bonus tenner into a whip-round. The moneu raised could be used to buy Edwin a clue.

What the hell did I just read Thank god I passed out from a combo of fatigue and amitriptyline at 10.30 last night and avoided edwinbear's posts in real-time.

Please don't make this thread go poof MN, everybody needs to read how edwin and their wealth talks to people who sometimes have to choose between heating or eating.

How can you be a carer for someone 300 miles away?

Chips £2.50 portion here. There goes a tenner for average family. Bloody shocking trivial amount, it's not a bonus, it's a bloody insult. Good luck to you irnbru, nice to hear something positive.

I wonder how many homeless people could have been helped with the £15k Edwin spent on a cutlery set or the £3.5k she spent going to Mexico. I bet she has premium seats at the panto too.
Why didn’t you give the money you spent on those things to the homeless Edwin?
How can you eat from your £15k cutlery set without choking on your food when you know that the £15k could have prevented a homeless woman from being pimped out and could have provided many many people with a bed for the night on a freezing cold winters night? No point in telling us all about the marvellous work you fo when you give up your time if you are wasting money on frivolities Which could really help some homeless people.
It really is like those rich celebs who give up their time (but not much of their money) to tell poor people that they should give every last penny they have to charity.

I genuinely do work for a homeless charity and earn a pretty rubbish wage. I also have a daughter who is on dla and we got the extra £10 this year. To be completely honest, we don't desperately need it, but it will give her an extra little birthday present (close to Christmas day!) I would never talk about how incredibly wonderful I am doing this brave and thankless job, and vilify those who may have a tiny bit extra, because, you know, I'm not a cunt, and dds disability is incredibly minor. What have found is that our richer and more affluent volunteers are such virtue signalers, that in some way we'd rather not have them than have to thank them all so profusely every second they are doing something we do every day.

We put it on our electric meter for a bit of extra help. I’m not going to lie, some of these comments are a bit hurtful. I understand that people have to work hard and don’t get any recognition from their bosses and I think that’s disgusting, I also know people get large bonuses from work at Christmas, I don’t begrudge them that even though lots of them don’t really need it.my daughter is a prison officer and has to work all over Christmas and the new year, she won’t get a bonus and it’s her first Christmas of being married but again, she knew this could happen when she signed up for the job.

Please people, have a little bit of compassion , to some of us, this tenner is a bit of a lifeline, too some of us it’s a small treat, but it’s not fair for people to be nasty about it. If you don’t like it then that’s fine.