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Meh ... there were times when both me and mrs bless had to manage with less. There could be times ahead when the same thing applies ... it's a pretty crappy situation, but not impossible by a long way. -
sorry daily fail link but apparently he can afford Sky & Broadband and only earn't £2,700 in 14 months on his market stall.
Also has a Gambing habit.
I suspect he will quietly be dropped by the left wing press as he now looks like a benefits bludger.
Truth about BBC 'welfare victim' David Bennett who dared Iain Duncan Smith to live on £53 a week | Mail Online
He set up a new business as a self-employed market trader and said he worked up to 70 hours a week, sometimes working every day, but that he had earned only £2,700 in 14 months.
Mr Bennett said he was forced to borrow money to pay his rent after his housing benefit was cut from £75 a week to just £57, and he was made to pay £5 a week toward council tax.
He told the programme: ‘I work for a living, I’ve always worked for a living, I’ve worked since I have been 17 years old. I put a lot of money in taxes and national insurance but what I’m finding now is that it’s hard times. Why would I consider myself a scrounger?
‘I try to stand on my own two feet. Conditions have gone against us. Everybody hits hard times every now and again. If the Government wants to class me as a scrounger that’s entirely their problem.’
Mr Bennett, from Hunwick, County Durham, said he did not claim child benefits for his children, aged ten and 14, because his ex-wife was their main carer. Mr Bennett said he was paid housing benefit and working tax credit, and earned around £200 a month from his stall, giving him a total monthly income of £633.
He pays £400 in rent per month and around £176 in utility bills, but also pays for a landline, mobile phone and Sky with broadband.
He claims his bills leave him with £23 a month, meaning even a £10 bet would account for almost half of his monthly disposable income.
Mr Bennett said the ‘terrible’ weather conditions meant he had only been able to work on his stall for 21 days so far this year – around seven days a month – despite selling cold weather gear including hats, gloves, scarves and duvets.
seems to be rocket scientist as well.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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...yes
Sack of potatoes - 3.95
12 jumbo sausages - 3.95
sack of apples - 3.00
two huge loaves 4.00
Big pack of Quaker Oats = 2
4 pints of milk = 1
= 18 quid
isn´t this "bench wisdom" ?Last edited by BlasterBates; 2 April 2013, 14:14.I'm alright JackComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
Why dont you go and do the job then? All people like you can do is sneer and show us how clever you are with your cynicism. You are a typical priviliged arrogant arse who would not lift a finger for anyone else.
IDS is working with Frank Field and others to try and unravel a problem that is destroying this economy.Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Lunch these days is 260 grams of noodles for 80 pence.Comment
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post-- Frank FieldThe universal credit programme is on course for disaster
Iain Duncan Smith's plan to streamline our benefits system is practically unachievable
Doesn't look as though his "working with Frank field" is going too well...Last edited by Ignis Fatuus; 2 April 2013, 14:41.Job motivation: how the powerful steal from the stupid.Comment
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I just happen to know that they are friendsOriginally posted by Ignis Fatuus View Post
Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness"Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
JK Galbraith
I notice that IDS lists that he owns shares in Byotrol (who list a number of directors of other drug companies on its board) who are apparently making a loss yet seem to be winning contracts with the NHS, s'funny that especially with a possibility of the privatisation of the NHS looming...IDS is a privileged git who talks out of his rosewater smelling arseThe Tories love to create the justification narrative that the unemployed are largely idle and feckless layabouts "sponging" off the hard working people of the UK. It helps them to divide society by stoking resentment amongst working people, that those without work are living "a life of luxury" on benefits. It is a classic example of a political distraction technique. Those responsible for the economic meltdown and the ongoing unemployment crisis are the corrupt self-serving politicians, the reckless bankers, the something-for-nothing property speculators and the corporate fatcats. Yet the Tories and the right wing press would have us believe that the crisis was caused by the poorest people in society. They are directing us to blame the victims of the crisis rather than the perpetrators. They are directing us to blame the symptoms rather than the disease.
Neoliberal financial sector deregulations and reckless financial sector activity caused the economic crisis, but the Tories and the right-wing press believe that the public really are gullible enough to blame the poorest people in society, many of whom have lost everything they valued (their job, their income, their home, their self-esteem, their family) and are now surviving on subsistence welfare payments. They really believe that they can con us into blaming the victims, rather than blaming those that made themselves fat with their reckless property speculation, dodgy expenses claims, corporate kickbacks, brazen profiteering, corruption, derivatives gambling, insider trading, tax-dodging, money laundering, Libor rigging. The corporations and millionaires that created the crisis are getting huge tax cuts, whilst the poor get abused as feckless scroungers.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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