Skint Britain: Friends without Benefits on C4

[amrscot]

Is anybody else watching this?

One of the couples take their dog out to hunt rabbits and squirrels that they can eat.

They've just shown him with a dead rabbit he has caught skinning it in the kitchen

Horrendous..

I have a question.

Is UC an out of work benefit?

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Copper. I believe ODFOD stands for oh do fuck off dear? Couldn’t be sure as it’s not a phrase I would choose to use.

Don’t worry about fuck knuckle either as believe that was aimed at me and I’m not really bothered. As the saying goes “you can’t insult me unless I first value your opinion” 😆

Sockpuppetry.

Eg: One user has multiple accounts and uses those.accounts to back up their arguments and make it look like many people agree with them.

ODFOD means:
Oh do Fuck Off Dear.

Fuckknuckle means:
An insult akin to Shit weasel, cunt Gerbil, sphictercobra so on and so forth.

Tinker, not everyone pays Council Tax. Council Tax does not pay for roads, schools, public buildings. It pays, in part, for their upkeep and for the staff.
Not everything has VAT. Children's clothes, food and printed material are exempt.
And stop being so silly and patronising. I do know what I am talking about and I know a lot about the tax system in the country and what each part pays for.
You are simply making yourself look ridiculous with you childish tone.
Please make an effort to understand what is being said and please reply in decent English not silliness.

Thank you for the explanations of ODFOD etc. I have never come across those expressions before.

It's supply and demand that drive house prices.

If the houses prices became low enough for Toni to buy lots of other people would be snapping them up too and then prices would go up again.

I'm just not sure that the evil landlord is as bad as you claim. After all, if Toni could afford to buy two houses and make a living by letting one of them, I'm sure she would.

Tinker who is "Jolly Mr Taxman?" Is this how you describe HMRC?

'Please don't reply in silliness.'

This thread is pure comedy gold.

PMSL at the faux outrage at people using frightfully naughty words.

My personal fave is thundercunt. Brilliant.

This thread is pure comedy gold

Glad you find hilarity in our destitution, so many LULZ

So now we should increase the benefits bill so that claimants can have more money to spend on non-essential items and trigger a maximum 20% return on that increase. 🙄

The two children thing has changed as of February. Now, no matter how many children you have, you are made to claim UC in Hartlepool on the slightest, most spurious excuse.
It is frankly terrifying.
I haven't the will to go into detail about my life right now, but we (DH and I and our 3 children still at home) are scared right now.
We received £600ish three weeks ago, ( that I earned) and have been told that our tax credits, housing benefit, and council tax benefit (none of which covered the full amount) have been cancelled, and we MIGHT get some UC on March 31st...
Hopefully our landlord will be fine with us going up to a month into rent arrears and not decide to evict us, and we'll, I expect losing weight from lack of food will be good for us...

@JustAnotherPoster00

Glad you find hilarity in our destitution, so many LULZ

Grow up FFS.

I am obviously talking about the posters sniping and backbiting and acting like 12 year olds.

Homebase is that way >>>

To get a wheelbarrow to carry that chip on your shoulder.

I have seen some gems on mumsnet, but this thread is littered with some of the most childish, petty, backbiting, snide, infantile posts I have seen in a LONG time.

Hoppity. Loving the irony 😂

I do know what I am talking about and I know a lot about the tax system in the country and what each part pays for

So then you know that every person that spends money contributes to the fabric of society and you were talking out your backside then?

Or do you stand by what you said?

Which is it? They either do and you were wrong, or they don't and you don't understand the tax system.

Oh and BTW.. everyone pays Council tax now, except possibly disabled and I'll people. Unemployed people pay it, workers in low incomes pay it, UC claimants pay it. Etc etc. So you were wrong about that bit of tax knowledge there.

I am not at all outraged at naughty words. I just had no idea what a fuckknuckle is.

I stand by what I wrote.
Not everyone pays Council Tax. Children are exempt as are students and residents in old people's homes. And single occupiers receive a 25%reduction.
And, as I said, food, children's clothes, printed material, educational materials and school fees are exempt from VAT.

And those on low incomes can apply for council tax reduction, which varies from area to area but can be up to 100%.

Again, any competent economist (ie one who isn't blinded by bigotry) knows that the best and most effective way to fix the economy is to give poor people more money. Repeated experiments have shown that simply, straightforwardly, unconditionally giving money to poor peopled doesn't just improve their lives, but it improves things in their local communities, because that money goes back into circulation. The trickle-UP effect works; the trickle-down doesn't and never did. Yet stupid people keep on and on insisting that the poor need to be shamed, punished and starved, while those who waste millions of pounds via bad business decisions, or enrich themselves by underpaying their employees, should be bailed out by the taxpayer.

I stand by what I wrote.

Not everyone pays Council Tax. Children are exempt as are students and residents in old people's homes.
Quick, write to May, untapped tax revenue right there.. kids and old people, fuckers, how dare they.

And single occupiers receive a 25%reduction.

And, as I said, food, children's clothes, printed material, educational materials and school fees are exempt from VAT.

I don't want to be pedantic so I'll let you point out your error... I'll wait..

So Hartlepool is the guinea pig again.

Arent religious orders exempt too. Why are they never mentioned?

I reckon Hartlepool is a guinea pig because it's a safe Labour seat.
The Tories know that no matter what they do, people here vote Labour so they shaft us repeatedly.
The Labour party know that no matter what they do, people here vote Labour so they don't have to try to sway voters, so they shaft us repeatedly...
(And the Council is whole other thread about levels of incompetency...)
We are just FUBAR no matter what, and it is shit for those of us who are forced to live with it.

@PomBearWithAnOFRS I'm in Hartlepool too.

I've been in the position a few times where I have literally nothing and bare cupboards. As a result I have a tendency to horde food when I can afford to. If things get really dire you're welcome to come and raid my horde. Seriously. You'll save me having to buy a new freezer. There might actually be some space in mine if you take some if it.

It's mostly pizza, pasties, sausage rolls, chicken strips etc and beans, soup, rice pud because hording fresh food never works but if it's stuff you'll eat and you need it just give me a PM. You're quite welcome to come for dinner on the rare nights I am in and cook too. I know only too well what it's like to not know where/when your next meal is coming from and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.