A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

kidcat

mardatha wrote: »

This govt are really the pits. Enough to make decent people sick.

Hear hear.

Feels as though these sorts of things are a punishment.

Dorastar

Don't worry people - long term my dd has serious plans to be ruler of the world so I will keep her in the loop as to our thoughts and demands and then she can sort it all out for us!

smileyt_2

Mardatha - absolutely 100% behind you on that.

I went on some training today to train tenants how to help other tenants with budgeting and debt advice. It was run by a smashing bloke from Shelter who spoke graphically of the despair he was encountering already - and that's before a lot of the changes have kicked in. Most of you know that I do supported lodgings for a gay charity supporting homeless young people. I had optimistically hoped that maybe with the changing attitudes and more acceptance I would one day be redundant. However it looks as if I will be needed more than ever - if the charity can keep afloat, that is.

It is grim out there, and getting grimmer. I don't know what's going to happen to all the people who are going to be made homeless because they fall behind with their rent due to the bedroom tax. Pensioners will apparently only be exempt if they are pensioners at the time the legislation comes into force (April 2013). Anyone who becomes a pensioner after that will be affected. At least whilst you're of working age there might be a slight hope of getting a job, but once you're a pensioner that's it. The Government makes me sick to my back teeth.

Anyway. On a positive note, I have volunteered to help set up a budgeting club, which will involve stuff like tips on batch cooking etc - oh, you know, all the stuff which OS-ers do as naturally as breathing. I also want to start a craft club so that people can come and make presents and save money that way.

And then I have plans to go and kidnap the whole Government and make them live on benefits for a year in a damp, cold, vermin-infested flat on a pre-payment meter for gas and electricity.

Love to you all, you wonderful people xxxx.

jpscloud

While you're at it Smileyt make them pay for their everyday expenses themselves rather than getting it all paid by the taxpayer! And as for those multimillionaires paying an average of 10% tax while people on minimum wage are paying the full whack... :mad:

Byatt

smileyt wrote: »

Mardatha - absolutely 100% behind you on that.

I went on some training today to train tenants how to help other tenants with budgeting and debt advice. It was run by a smashing bloke from Shelter who spoke graphically of the despair he was encountering already - and that's before a lot of the changes have kicked in. Most of you know that I do supported lodgings for a gay charity supporting homeless young people. I had optimistically hoped that maybe with the changing attitudes and more acceptance I would one day be redundant. However it looks as if I will be needed more than ever - if the charity can keep afloat, that is.

It is grim out there, and getting grimmer. I don't know what's going to happen to all the people who are going to be made homeless because they fall behind with their rent due to the bedroom tax. Pensioners will apparently only be exempt if they are pensioners at the time the legislation comes into force (April 2013). Anyone who becomes a pensioner after that will be affected. At least whilst you're of working age there might be a slight hope of getting a job, but once you're a pensioner that's it. The Government makes me sick to my back teeth.

Anyway. On a positive note, I have volunteered to help set up a budgeting club, which will involve stuff like tips on batch cooking etc - oh, you know, all the stuff which OS-ers do as naturally as breathing. I also want to start a craft club so that people can come and make presents and save money that way.

And then I have plans to go and kidnap the whole Government and make them live on benefits for a year in a damp, cold, vermin-infested flat on a pre-payment meter for gas and electricity.

Love to you all, you wonderful people xxxx.

Could you explain the bedroom tax? I am a bit scared now, if it's affec ting pensioners too. I don't follow everything that's happening because it's so scary. I already pay more than half my income in rent. There was an article in the Met£o saying that the percentage of rent being half of income has gone up.

katieowl_2

smileyt wrote: »

And then I have plans to go and kidnap the whole Government and make them live on benefits for a year in a damp, cold, vermin-infested flat on a pre-payment meter for gas and electricity.

Love to you all, you wonderful people xxxx.

:iloveyou: Smileyt. I could drive the kidnap van?

Kate

kidcat

I could infect them with my germs and let them struggle while ill, paying for prescriptions etc!!

katieowl_2

Byatt wrote: »

Could you explain the bedroom tax? I am a bit scared now, if it's affec ting pensioners too. I don't follow everything that's happening because it's so scary. I already pay more than half my income in rent. There was an article in the Met£o saying that the percentage of rent being half of income has gone up.

http://www.housing.org.uk/policy/welfare_reform/bedroom_tax.aspx

It's not really a 'tax' it's a benefit cut...but as far as I'm aware it only applies if you get housing benefit? I don't believe it applies to people who pay their full rent? (Like my mum, or I'm sure she'd have done some ranting about it!)

Kate

katieowl_2

kidcat wrote: »

I could infect them with my germs and let them struggle while ill, paying for prescriptions etc!!

Shhh...or we'll all be taken out and shot for fermenting dissent!!!



Kate

mardatha

But you all do a lovely ferment We pay full everything now, so we end up with less than we had on pension credit LOL