Could you live on £7.50 a day?

[vetran]

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petition...e-on-53-a-week

should Dunkers do it?

[gingerjedi]

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petition...e-on-53-a-week

should Dunkers do it?

He shouldn't need to as he has a job, paying someone just enough to survive is the incentive for the claimant to do the same.

£53 is plenty for food if all your other costs are met.

[Platypus]

I like the ready-to-use email template for the hard-of-thinking

[SueEllen]

He shouldn't need to as he has a job, paying someone just enough to survive is the incentive for the claimant to do the same.

£53 is plenty for food if all your other costs are met.

Lots of people on benefits are actually working.

The idea of making politicians live on this amount is to ensure they understand properly how their policies effect people.

There have been several programs over the years where celebrities including former MPs have lived with the poor members of society whether they are pensioners or families on benefits where one of them has a disability.

[hyperD]

£53 is plenty for food if all your other costs are met.

WHS

Pasta, potatoes, market veg, just avoid processed food (apart from a few cheap tinned beans).

I'd just live off wine boxes personally...

[gingerjedi]

Lots of people on benefits are actually working.

The idea of making politicians live on this amount is to ensure they understand properly how their policies effect people.

There have been several programs over the years where celebrities including former MPs have lived with the poor members of society whether they are pensioners or families on benefits where one of them has a disability.

Then the 'jobs' that exist in the UK don't pay enough, why should the tax payer subsidise firms that are either greedy of not viable.

[VectraMan]

Lots of people on benefits are actually working.

Which just goes to show there's something fundamentally broken in our economy.

[vetran]

Then the 'jobs' that exist in the UK don't pay enough, why should the tax payer subsidise firms that are either greedy of not viable.

well the polish etc are happy to work for that.

If the electorate hadn't repeatedly voted in new lie the wages would have gone up. Instead 'new' labour imported cheap labour and kept the unemployed on benefits through a mini boom.

Work fair, benefit cuts and immigration controls are the only way out IMHO.

[SueEllen]

Then the 'jobs' that exist in the UK don't pay enough, why should the tax payer subsidise firms that are either greedy of not viable.

Agreed.

This is why I don't like workfare. I have no problem with unemployed people volunteering or being told to volunteer for a charity but I have an issue with Poundland etc being given a worker for free. Lots of people have done some sort of menial work throughout their lives and the people who tend to get caught by these policies are actually useful i.e. know how to stack a shelf.

[NickFitz]

He said he could do it. Now it's up to him to prove it, if he expects anything he says in future to be believed.

But of course he doesn't actually care whether he's believed or not. He's just a bully boy making sure he and his cronies are all right, and sod the peasantry.