£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.

Edwin - when do you actually see your own children? You have said you are out of the house everyday from 6.45am until 7pm and then you volunteer until the early hours at the homeless shelter goodness knows how many nights a week and then apparently you are a carer for somebody 300 miles away too. By my calculations that doesn’t leave much time for your own children to have any meaningful contact with you.
Do you value helping others above spending time with your own children?
Does eating from a £120 fork ease the pain that your children have from barely seeing their own mother?
Aren’t you too exhausted to have meaningful engagement with your children when you are actually home with them?
I think perhaps you need to re-evaluate your priorities and then you might be able to enjoy life a bit more and be less bitter as a result. Helping others can only make you feel good to a certain extent, you need to have some balance.

This is a very very hard read. I don't have a disability or get any form of benefit. I am truly in awe of the strength of some on this thread. There should be far more than £10.00.

Edwin, I've been here a while under various names and your posts are some of the most vile and hateful I have ever encountered. They have made me ashamed to be a human being.

You can still donate to charity and be a horrid person. Volunteering at a shelter does not give you the right to spout such vile nonsense at other vulnerable people.

You seem to be using the fact that you do x y or z for charity as a free pass to just be awful on this thread. Please, quite simply, give your head a massive wobble.

You have completely taken away from the kindness of your acts for the homeless by being utterly despicable here.

My son got it on his DLA. Iv chucked it in his savings account just to piss off all the resentful idiots on here.

I cannot read any more of this. Makes me feel even more sad for my disabled son and others, seeing the attitudes expressed in this thread.

I am horrified at some of the attitudes on this thread! Edwinbear's posts show them to be an utter disgrace. How unpleasant does someone have to be to begrudge £10 to a disabled person?

Someone who is privileged enough to live in luxury (£120 for a fork?!) has absolutely no fucking right to guilt trip vulnerable or poor people like that. No fucking right at all.

I hope all of those who have received this bonus have enjoyed their treat, or at least found it slightly easier to pay the heating bill this month. I wish our government gave more, and that people weren't having to live in such grinding poverty to start with.

Try working for the NHS. Our bonus would be to not work over Christmas! So, as you work for a government agency why do you get a handout and we do not?

Easier said than done but please try and ignore edwinbear - as usual they are only here to goad. Please report instead of replying (as they want you to) and getting upsetting over the fantasy bollocks they are spouting trying to get a rise out of people. Maybe MN will finally banhammer them if we keep reporting. An early Christmas present!!

You actually get a liveable salary and a pension for your work. Which the OP does not. Just because not everyone gets a bonus, I don't see why anyone should begrudge disabled people and their carers.

Why is everyone so keen to race to the bottom?

It is not a competition.

Fuck me it's like whack a fuckwit mole here today.

I hope this thread and actually these shitty handout entitled lucky posts stand so everyone can see how much disabilism there is towards people these days.

It's a good job it's not a race as I imagine the vast majority of us with our FREE ten pounds will be slow as fuck with our wheelchairs and faulty bodies

(No offence intended to those of us with either of those things!) Just an attempt to say Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum and we shouldn't sink to their level or let them upset us. I know it's hard though.

@Liketoshop. Am I reading you post correctly ?

Really ?

Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum

Hear hear!

Liketoshop

I really don't understand your point. Anyone in the world could say 'well a bonus to me would be....'

This is about deserving people receiving a little bit extra and sharing what they spent it on. Don't turn it into a competition.

Stamping your feet and saying 'well I didn't get anything?!' like a child makes you sound resentful and well, not very compassionate.

And I really find it quite appalling that after reading some of the posts on this thread you can say 'try working for the NHS' as if that is worse than what some posters here / their children go through daily.

Fortnitels , did you know that you can claim pip for mental health problems and arthritis ,this is available for working people as well and is non means tested.

I applaud the investment banker for the realisation that many people suffer and actively doing something to help.

This doesn’t mean that she knows all about poverty though.

My £10 extra will likely go on the heating. However, DH has had lots of work recently and if all payments come in as they should then we will be okay. We’ve already bought a couple of extra bits for the local food bank. These have been presents for teenage boys as DS is a fortunate teenager who will get lots from family. He knows that many teenagers won’t get the same so we involved him in choosing something a teenager would like.

My point is that most people can do their bit. Edwin may not have views that we like but she/he is at least doing something to make the lives of other people better. That has to be applauded along with the family who don’t need their £10 extra in a benefit payment who donate it to a charity. Who knows, at some point Edwin may even realise there is a difference in poverty and come to an understanding about how people end up homeless and see the deficiencies in the systems meant to support the vulnerable.

I do hope this thread stays up. there are some helpful post on here and some really heartfelt ones. such a shame it has been hi jacked.

Got a feeling it was here a poster once said people on benefits should be grateful because as a taxpayer she was buying their children Christmas presents. I believe the term is “she got her arse handed to her”

LilMy33 that’s a lovely use of the little bit extra. Hope you and your family have a really enjoyable time. x

DeloresJaneUmbridge it makes me very sad that there are actually people who have been brought up to think that way

@liketoshop you are in the wrong job then! Surely if you did work for the NHS, you would see the horrific struggles severely disabled adults and children go through day in day out. The weeks / months we have all spent in hospital, fighting infections, crying because we just can't go on anymore. Carer parents getting told the worst news imaginable about their ill children. And you are still bitter about us receiving £10?!

That's sick!! You should defiantly NOT be working for the NHS!!!!

Good fucking grief, the milk of human kindness truly has run dry for some people in this thread. If anyone who’s complaining about a £10 bonus being given at Christmas can, hand in heart, say that they spend no more than that on their own festive extras, then I’d understand your wrath slightly better. As it is, coming on here bitching, whilst simultaneously listing your own expenses/luxury items makes you look like an ignorant tool. To all those struggling this Christmas, enjoy the bonus, this is a tough time of year for so many - financially and emotionally - so no one has any right to make you feel shut for an extra £10.