Please sign This petition Ian Duncan Smith to live on £53 a week.

Pollycat

guilds wrote: »

You have to look beyond the idea of IDS slumming it on £53 I know it wont happen, it is about raising awareness of the injustice.

Just how can starting a petition asking a high ranking politician to live for 1 year on a certain amount of money 'raise awareness of the injustice'?

If someone had come up with with a cracking idea to 'raise awareness of the injustice', I'd be right behind it.
This petition is just a joke.

guilds wrote: »

If you say to quote "I don't whinge about the sytem dealing me a bad hand - it hasn't actually." you may just be confirming why the cuts have to happen, are You saying the system has been or is generous to you ?

No, the system has not been nor is generous to me and I doubt that it ever will be generous to me.

I don't claim benefits and I never have.

I worked for over 30 years before taking early retirement - which is currently totally funded by myself (in the form of occupational pension & savings), not the state.
Any sick leave I had was funded by my employer, not the state.

I will receive the state pension in 5 or so years time, having paid a considerable amount in NI contributions (not to mention income tax) over my working life.

I do agree that cuts are necessary, although I'm not convinced that this current government have got it right with what they have implemented.
It's just a pity that successive governments have allowed things get out of hand before this lot of Tories realised that people who were working but found themselves worse off than people on benefits were fed up of that particular injustice.

guilds

ILW wrote: »

Do you actually know what JSA stands for?
It is supposed to be a temporary measure to survive on whilst finding a job. It is not about a lifetime.

Yes I do , and it's not free money as you call it, it comes with conditions so why do you feel the need to kick people when they are down?with jibes about jealousy, do you feel someone's getting something more than you? like me you seem to be in the position of being able to stand on your own two feet, but I always remember there but for geace of god go I.

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/iain-duncan-smith-iain-duncan-smith-to-live-on-53-a-week#share
Signings are now 251k and counting.
Come on MSE get your sigs on this affects you too!!!

ILW

guilds wrote: »

Yes I do , and it's not free money as you call it, it comes with conditions so why do you feel the need to kick people when they are down?with jibes about jealousy, do you feel someone's getting something more than you? like me you seem to be in the position of being able to stand on your own two feet, but I always remember there but for geace of god go I.

To be fair, I mentioned jealousy when you going on about how much Ian Duncan Smith had. Which is irrelevant.

guilds

Polly we will have to agree to to disagree on this, I am a musician I know the power of PR this is a brilliant opportunity for those who feel they have no voice to respond, it far better than looting shops a wrecking the community they live in. so I view it very positively.

SPELLKASTER

IDS is all mouth and trousers; I bet if push comes to show he wont try living on £53 a week.

This made me bloody angry hearing his comments earlier today; the MP's do not know what living on the breadline is like.

I'll eat my hat if IDS agrees to live on £53; I bet he doesn't!!

ILW

SPELLKASTER wrote: »

IDS is all mouth and trousers; I bet if push comes to show he wont try living on £53 a week.

This made me bloody angry hearing his comments earlier today; the MP's do not know what living on the breadline is like.

I'll eat my hat if IDS agrees to live on £53; I bet he doesn't!!

Why should he?

guilds

ILW wrote: »

To be fair, I mentioned jealousy when you going on about how much Ian Duncan Smith had. Which is irrelevant.

Not getting on your case ILW check back it was the OP who mentioned IDS and money. I am quite comfortable with anyone who has wealth glasshouses and all that;)

Pollycat

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver wrote: »

Come on MSE get your sigs on this affects you too!!!

No it doesn't.
Not everyone who posts on MSE is on benefits.

guilds wrote: »

Polly we will have to agree to to disagree on this, I am a musician I now the power of PR this is a brilliant opportunity for those who feel they have no voice to respond, it far better than looting shops a wrecking the community they live in. so I view it very positively.

Yes, we will agree to disagree.

Maybe we can revisit the effect this petition (and I mean this petition specifically and not other pressures brought to bear by other organisations such as churches) has on the Government's benefits policy a little further along the line.

ILW

guilds wrote: »

Not getting on your case ILW check back it was the OP who mentioned IDS and money. I am quite comfortable with anyone who has wealth glasshouses and all that;)

Fair point.