Pin photos of benefits cheats to lamp-posts to shame them, says top DWP official

[mudskipper]

Why single out benefits cheats? Why not muggers? Or drink drivers? Or drug dealers? Or shoplifters? etc...

Sounds like picking on an easy target. If I was going to follow a life of crime, claiming a few quid I'm not entitled to seems less harmful than robbing old ladies.

[mudskipper]

Anyway - how would you get the pin into the lamp post? It would bend, shirley.

[BrilloPad]

I think we need more of this Do you want this octopus to have fewer legs? - LOL Zombie on lamp-posts.

[d000hg]

Pin photos of benefits cheats to lamp-posts to shame them, says top DWP official - Telegraph

says Terry Moran, whose salary in 2011 was £169,000.

What precisely does his salary have to do with anything? How very English... look down on the poor, take digs at those you aspire to be.

[Scoobos]

What precisely does his salary have to do with anything? How very middle class... look down on the poor, take digs at those you aspire to be.

It is relevant though, you can't be in touch with earners of less than 26,000 (the household income average) - who are in fact, the majority of the country; and the people that idjits like him are supposed to be serving.

[d000hg]

You don't need to "be in touch" to be allowed to make comments about benefit frauds. After all most of us aren't "in touch" either but we think we're in a good position to lambast benefits claimants, let alone benefits cheats.

By this logic, we aren't "in touch" with the rich either, but we also like to tell them how they're doing it wrong!

[bobspud]

Pin photos of benefits cheats to lamp-posts to shame them, says top DWP official - Telegraph

says Terry Moran, whose salary in 2011 was £169,000.

I don't mind him earning £169k well done him!
I don't even mind if he has chosen to be an interim professional rather than a fulltime resource.

I do mind if he does not get results. Or worse causes a stream of ambulance chasing law suits from claimants that say that they have been abused mentally or physically because some anonymous government official posted a photo up to make them a local version of a pedophile...

The law should be the deterrent not the crowds...

[Old Greg]

You don't need to "be in touch" to be allowed to make comments about benefit frauds. After all most of us aren't "in touch" either but we think we're in a good position to lambast benefits claimants, let alone benefits cheats.

By this logic, we aren't "in touch" with the rich either, but we also like to tell them how they're doing it wrong!

It is important to distinguish between benefits claimants and cheats.

I expect they will get muddled up, just as refugees became asylum seekers, and then muddled withbogus asylum seekers.

All jolly useful at drawing some attention away from the crimes of our betters.

[MarillionFan]

What precisely does his salary have to do with anything? How very English... look down on the poor, take digs at those you aspire to be.

Salary is an indication of success. If you don't 100k a year minimum then you are worthless.

Everyone knows that.

[exguid]

Mod note:

Exguid, if you've just joined to insult other posters this is going to be a short membership.

Oh, and don't think that by flooding the board with your comments today is going to win you friends moderator wise...