To be agreeing with new conservative benefits proposal re alcohol etc

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They will cut benefits for people that haven't paid into the system and been unemployed for over 6 months (don't quote me on that number ) by 30 % and it will be given on a prepaid type card. Meaning it won't be accepted by betting shops, for alcohol or cigarettes. I feel that's right . Why should tax payers money be spent on funding cigarettes etc but I have no problem with funding the basics like food etc.
Thoughts?
Basically you will claim full benefits if you've worked and paid into the system. Should reduce generational unemployment hopefully

The manned or self check out manages every single time I use it.... it won't let me proceed with the purchase if it has alcohol in it until somebody hits the 'challenge 25 button', so totally possible at the retailer end with a small software upgrade or "The NatWest Rooster Card blocks alcohol purchases by automatically declining transactions at merchants registered under restricted 18+ category codes" so that is how it would work at the bank/ government end.

It really isn't very high tech.

Exactly. It's Thatcher's legacy.

Don’t be ridiculous. Have you even read the post? You can’t send someone to AA. That’s now how it works. If all the government and NHS schemes don’t work, AA isn’t either.

What Is it you do?

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I’m old enough to remember the unemployment figures on the front of County Hall during Thatcher’s occupation of No 10. And the pit closures that put thousands of miners out of work. And the deindustrialisation of the major cities in the north.

Along with the current financial predicament of the UK, although I'll give her the benefit that thanks to WWII the UK was screwed anyway, she just accelerated the race to the bottom.

At least Tony has manners.

The data are clear - unemployment has soared under Labour due to their disastrous policies. You might be happy to turn a blind eye to millions suffering in the UK but I'm certainly not.

It hasn’t soared, it’s gone up a fraction of 1%.

Or steal.

Or buy counterfeit fags and make their own hooch which will land them in hospital.

Stupid idea.

Running battles outside my front door thanks to police being ordered by government to precipitate a "riot". Men who used to stand and drink together in the same pubs beating and stabbing each other with weapons. No wonder the boot denied the existence of "society" when she spent most of her life in politics actively destroying it.

UK youth unemployment rate for 16-to-24-year-olds sits between 15.8% and 16.4% as of mid-2026, representing an 11-year high not seen since 2014/2015.

I like the voucher idea. I believe it's been tried in the US.

It's a bit like some charities are now trying to give aid via physical food or vouchers : harder for it to be misused.

Which "under Labour" period are you referring to here specifically? I just want to be certain which pile of shite you are slavering about.

Exactly how would it be stopped from being used on alcohol or cigs? You go for a shop in a supermarket and chuck in a bottle of wine itll just come up as Asda etc. Or would it be banned in shops that sell booze in which case there are literally no shops here that they could use.

Obviously I mean where I live. All towns are different.

Shouldn't they be reported for neglect? Is there no way of doing that?

Which is exactly the age group the government has prioritised to tackle first. The overall unemployment rate has risen by about half a percentage. That’s not “soaring”.

Apparently, unpaid Labour is fine for the rest of us.

Let’s say that I am the typical, full time working Brit. On average, about third of the proceeds of my Labour are taken off me by HMRC. Approximately a third of that doesn’t go towards the common good but is redistributed.

So roughly, 11% of the days that I work are not for me or the common good. I work 220 days a year. So, it’s okay for me to work 24 days for nothing.

Absolutely agree. No parent should need to pay for private to access a safe good quality education for their child. Every child has a right to feel safe and supported in school. But that isn't the reality, and until it is, parents should not be penalised for going private

Last week alone, my DD aged 10 (in a leafy village state primary) experienced the following

• a chair was thrown at her
• a child intentionally painted her t shirt
• a boy made sexual comments towards her
• a boy tore up her work and broke her ruler and threw it at her
• a boy swore at her repeatedly during a class exam
• a boy kept running out the classroom and tried to climb over a fence
• a boy was found vaping in the year 6 toilets

This is not an unusual week in her school life. Luckily she is a very resilient young lady, hopefully heading for a girls grammar, but she still struggles with this some days. A couple of parents have moved their children into private, many more wish they could afford to do so.

The problem isn't the parents sending their children private, the issue is the fact they feel they have no other choice but to do so.

Absolutely. Some people are so busy kowtowing to the man that it doesn't seem to have occurred to them that the man is shafting most of us from here to kingdom come. It's absolutely absurd that many salaries in the UK are below what is needed to even cover the basics of existence, but instead of getting angry with those up top, too many seem to think punching downwards at the needy and vulnerable is a constructive way for society to function. What utter mugs.

AA works for some people, though. Often the most hopeless cases.

By calling me ‘love’ you’ve really elevated yourself.

Yes. The first point I made - thanks to their disastrous policies, the tax payer is now paying to fix the damage Labour has caused in their first two years. Let's hope the average middle is happy to continue being bled dry. 😂

We all pay tax. You’re not special.