Driving on wrong side of M4 for 7 miles!!!

[mcquiggd]

They hand them out at Lunar House. Probably got the car off the social as well.

[lilelvis2000]

They hand them out at Lunar House. Probably got the car off the social as well.

Yeah, riiiiiiiight

[mcquiggd]

Actually there was a case a year or so back when the local 'social security' office authorised a payment to buy a family (I think they were Kurdish...?) a car as it worked out cheaper than paying for their taxis to visit their mother in hospital.

[Troll]

Yeah, riiiiiiiight

From the Social Security website:

The reasons why financial assistance are given include:

* the relief of poverty.
* social protection. The idea of 'social security' implies that people ought to be able to feel secure. This involves, not only being protected against poverty, but being protected against the hardships that may arise through a change in circumstances. If people become sick, or unemployed, they should not, the argument goes, have to lose their possessions or deprive themselves as a result. This is why people on benefit should be expected to have cars and television sets.
* redistribution. Benefits which go to people who have inadequate incomes, at the expense of people who are more, are progressive. Support for children, by contrast, is mainly a form of horizontal redistribution, going from people without children to people with children.

HTH

[mcquiggd]

From the Social Security website:

The reasons why financial assistance are given include:

* redistribution. Benefits which go to people who have inadequate incomes, at the expense of people who are more, are progressive. Support for children, by contrast, is mainly a form of horizontal redistribution, going from people without children to people with children.

Actually it's this bit that scares me... it openly admits that policy is redistribution of wealth, irrespective of how that was earned, and why it should be 'given'.

'Progressive'???? They have bulk bought new labours 'phrases to justify your inadequacy' book.

[vetran]

3 Months

Out in a couple of weeks then.

Apparently we will be out of cells next week, so only hardened crims like pensioners who refuse to pay council tax will be locked up.