Proper CUK fodder!

[original PM]

Agree with you spartie.

What would be good would be a debit card that allows you to pay rent, elec/gas, food, clothes but no fags, booze, hairdressers, false nails, tattoos, ipads, TVs etc.

After all surely things like this are the basics and everything else is a luxury?

For a kid from a rough council estate in the welsh valleys Im turning into a bit of a Tory here mind!!! :-)

Lol no you are not you are turing into someone who is sick and tired of paying taxes to support the scummy under class.

[Robinho]

Simply not true in this day and age - you need basic numeracy and literacy skills for the most basic of jobs - e.g. how can you stack shelves if you cannot read the food packaging or the shelf labels?

Assuming this isn't a pisstake. If you haven't learnt that by the age of 16, they you should probably be on disability benefits.

[d000hg]

What would be good would be a debit card that allows you to pay rent, elec/gas, food, clothes but no fags, booze, hairdressers, false nails, tattoos, ipads, TVs etc.

What about the poor kiddies? Won't someone think of the poor kiddies?

[original PM]

Assuming this isn't a pisstake. If you haven't learnt that by the age of 16, they you should probably be on disability benefits.

No they should not - the fact is if they have not learnt this by the time they are 16 they need to be forced

Everyone gets the same chance to an education I admit the some schools are better than others but the main problem will not be the school but the parents lack of interest in ensuring their children do learn the basics... but this is becuase the parents have lived quite happily on the dole and so see no need to work.

Until you make living on the dole nothing more than bread, water and a shed it will not change.

[original PM]

What about the poor kiddies? Won't someone think of the poor kiddies?

Bring back Jimmy!

[Zippy]

It's 15k's worth of theft quite simply.

That is the issue.

So a woman who is smart enough to screw the system is dumb enough to talk to Closer and/or the Wail.
Is this adding up for you? cos it sure isn't for me.

Even assuming this story is (semi)genuine, there is no evidence that she's a prostitute or doing other cash in hand jobs. She probably doesn't drink excessively, smoke or run a car, and shops carefully.
Some of you seem to get your opinions of 'feckless' Britain from that hilarious circus the Jeremy Kyle show. That's interesting because it's generally on when tax and NI dodging IT ninjas are at work.

[Robinho]

No they should not - the fact is if they have not learnt this by the time they are 16 they need to be forced

Everyone gets the same chance to an education I admit the some schools are better than others but the main problem will not be the school but the parents lack of interest in ensuring their children do learn the basics... but this is becuase the parents have lived quite happily on the dole and so see no need to work.

Until you make living on the dole nothing more than bread, water and a shed it will not change.

The literacy rate is 99% here. I doubt there are many children that aren't mentally disabled and didn't bother trying at all at any point in their life, that haven't learnt to read.

[psychocandy]

Lol no you are not you are turing into someone who is sick and tired of paying taxes to support the scummy under class.

Maybe I am. I just don't go for all this 'feel sorry for yourself crap' or 'its where i live/was brought up'.

If you dont like, A) Listen in school B) Get off your arse and do something about it.

No reason for anyone to sit on their arse and claim benefits unless they or close relative have serious GENUINE health problems.

[The Spartan]

Llanedeyrn !!!!

Yes indeed the place is riddled with benefits cheats my own mum was caught twice and got nothing but a slap on the wrist for it and paid it back out of her benefits at 2GBP a week.

Pentwyn is no better the majority of the new housing estates all have houses owned by the council or housing association so each street is guaranteed to have strivers on which majority are law abiding and hardworking but it only takes a few and you've the neighbours from hell

[BrilloPad]

No reason for anyone to sit on their arse and claim benefits unless they or close relative have serious GENUINE health problems.

We have no doubt you have GENUINE mental health problems