Living on £53 a week.....

Fella

Did Prescott try to survive on just one Jag, one wife, and one face?

And failed on all 3 counts.

A._Badger

Fella wrote: »

Did Prescott try to survive on just one Jag, one wife, and one face?

And failed on all 3 counts.

You forgot the one braincell.

Generali

Fishingtime wrote: »

I think this has been done before a few years back. I forget who did it.

Matthew Parris tried and failed but came close IIRC.

Just to make the point, most people get a lot more than £53/wk as they get housing benefit, something for the kids, council tax benefit.

I read somewhere that they also get free fags and Sky TV but I don't think that's right.

chewmylegoff

So it turns out the individual in question doesn't live off £53/week at all, his actual income is £633 a month (presumably after the expenses from running his stall) and in an amusing stereotypical twist he claims to only have £20 quid a month left after paying his sky tv bill. It's almost like someone has made it up to wind up people on the debt free wanabee board.

So really the challenge to IDS should be "can you live off £146 per week somewhere in the north east of england and maintain a sky subscription".

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302545/Im-ducker-diver-Truth-BBC-welfare-victim-dared-Iain-Duncan-Smith-live-53-week.html

I await the inevitable 'daily mail is !!!!' comments...

dktreesea

The_White_Horse wrote: »

the whole point is this: people that don't work are entitled to nothing. they should be grateful for every £ they receive and have it drummed into them that every £ is in effect stolen out of the pockets of those who do work and they should be ashamed to be a beggar living in this way.

the benefit should be a "safety net" to help those who fall on bad times - and be paid at a much higher level to actually help those people.

the workers, who work and pay tax are in it together to assist each other when times are tough. people don't work to support a money grubbing underclass that never has and never will contribute.

That would be all well and good if the government were able to provide an appropriate job for the ones who don't want to work to do. As in "Take this job or lose the benefit." But that's not today's reality in Britain.

People can't just "get a job". It's not their decision! When will the "all benefits recipeints are scroungers" camp get this into their heads. It's not only not their choice whether or not they get a job; they can't even control whether they keep it thereafter.

A person out of work could go for 5,000 jobs over several years and still not get one. 5,000 jobs that match their qualifications. Jobs which have any number of applicants applying for them, only one of whom will be successful.

CLAPTON

dktreesea wrote: »

That would be all well and good if the government were able to provide an appropriate job for the ones who don't want to work to do. As in "Take this job or lose the benefit." But that's not today's reality in Britain.

People can't just "get a job". It's not their decision! When will the "all benefits recipeints are scroungers" camp get this into their heads. It's not only not their choice whether or not they get a job; they can't even control whether they keep it thereafter.

A person out of work could go for 5,000 jobs over several years and still not get one. 5,000 jobs that match their qualifications. Jobs which have any number of applicants applying for them, only one of whom will be successful.

Clearly there are a whole variety of people in different situations.

Whilst it's true that only some of those aren't really trying it's also true that hundreds of thousands immigrants seem to get jobs.

It does sometime seem that it's totally outrageous to suggest a young person from, say the Welsh valleys, should go to London to get a job but it does seem that a young person has no trouble coming form Poland.

The_White_Horse

wrong - it is not the Govt's responsibility to get people jobs. The lazy scrounging brigade thinks everything is the Govt's responsibility. get me a job, and if you can't, pay me anyway, house me, feed me, look after my kids, blah blah blah.

You are NOT entitled to anything.

I have a job. I went out and got it. The govt didn't assist me.

Most people that can't get jobs are just lazy or incredibly thick. most Poles that come here have a job within a week paying NMW or higher.

wymondham

The main issue is that someone who has no concept of being short of cash constantly and having a strict budget makes decisions on those that do..... not sure how we'd get around this but just shows up how someone like that possibly 'understand' the problems they are tasked with?

N1AK

A._Badger wrote: »

You forgot the one braincell.

Actually he's done shockingly well on that one... sadly

N1AK

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I await the inevitable 'daily mail is !!!!' comments...

Wait no longer; the daily mail really is an irritating, pestilent rash on the gonads of the nation but that doesn't mean that it can't clumsily trip over the truth from time to time