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Top advice to benefits claimants reversed to prevent offence to the little darlings..

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  • chem1st
    chem1st Posts: 67 Forumite
    Nobody on benefits can afford that anyway, unless they are on disability or pension benefits.

    Working age benefits are a pittance. Only the pensioners and disabled are raking in enough to afford such luxuries.
  • markharding557
    markharding557 Posts: 3,116 Forumite
    A large number of low paid workers are affected by this as well.
    Not the average daily fail reader would know.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    markharding557 wrote: »
    A large number of low paid workers are affected by this as well.
    Not the average daily fail reader would know.

    It would b einteresting if everyone stopped smoking, drinking an gambling GO would have to do some reverse budgeting PDQ. At least he could blame the OBR.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • dryhat
    dryhat Posts: 1,305 Forumite
    Shock horror.....

    The daily mail gets its stories from HPC.

    http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=188719



    You know, the site that is always behind the curve.
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    chem1st wrote: »
    Nobody on benefits can afford that anyway, unless they are on disability or pension benefits.

    Working age benefits are a pittance. Only the pensioners and disabled are raking in enough to afford such luxuries.

    Ciggys and booze? Really?
  • chem1st
    chem1st Posts: 67 Forumite
    PaulF81 wrote: »
    Ciggys and booze? Really?

    Aye.

    Roll your own duty free baccy and cider/the occasional cheap lager at a push.

    But not cigarettes and pub drinks.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    PaulF81 wrote: »
    Ciggys and booze? Really?

    £71 a week for everything apart from rent and council tax life of riley.
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    £71 a week for everything apart from rent and council tax life of riley.

    My wife and I live on about 3/4 of this on full time wages.

    We don't smoke, have sky (ok, free view) and rarely drink.

    Some of these LA types need to have a word with themselves. It's a safety net, not a means to have a cushy life.

    Perhaps if they spend more time learning to cook decent food instead of watching sh@te pumped through their idiot lantern by rupert Murdoch they might actually start enjoying life.

    Does anyone else experience their brains turning to mush whilst watching eastenders and its ilk?
  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    chem1st wrote: »
    Aye.

    Roll your own duty free baccy and cider/the occasional cheap lager at a push.

    But not cigarettes and pub drinks.

    My heart bleeds.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    PaulF81 wrote: »
    My wife and I live on about 3/4 of this on full time wages.

    We don't smoke, have sky (ok, free view) and rarely drink.

    Some of these LA types need to have a word with themselves. It's a safety net, not a means to have a cushy life.

    Perhaps if they spend more time learning to cook decent food instead of watching sh@te pumped through their idiot lantern by rupert Murdoch they might actually start enjoying life.

    Does anyone else experience their brains turning to mush whilst watching eastenders and its ilk?

    So you spend less than £60 a week on food, energy, clothes, transports in fact every thing apart from rent and council tax.
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