DM does a good deed.

[Zippy]

So basically a DM reporter spun a web of lies to the CAB in order to get a handout and the fact someone helped him in his supposed hour of need is considered a bad thing? These people really are low aren't they.

The heart-warming side of the story is the pile of food that has been removed from would be scroungers, thereby saving them from the scourge of dependency.

WTS. Jesus H.

[Brian Potter]

They handed the reporter loads of food without checking whether or not he was on JSA. Simple questioning would have started with "can I see your JSA sign-on book please?".

[eek]

They handed the reporter loads of food without checking whether or not he was on JSA. Simple questioning would have started with "can I see your JSA sign-on book please?".

But lack of food has nothing to do with getting JSA... In fact its the inability for the DSS to process JSA quickly which is why food banks are needed.

[doodab]

They handed the reporter loads of food without checking whether or not he was on JSA. Simple questioning would have started with "can I see your JSA sign-on book please?".

What about the working poor? I suspect plenty of people in low wage jobs are struggling to make ends meet as well.

[Brian Potter]

But lack of food has nothing to do with getting JSA... In fact its the inability for the DSS to process JSA quickly which is why food banks are needed.

I was referring to the article screen-shot which a fellow CUK'r posted, in it is the following:

After asking for details of how much Jobseekers’ Allowance was received, the assessor’s questions turned to the dietary requirements of the reporter and his family.

So, the questioning should have started with: "May I please see your JSA sign-on book?". Had that question been asked then the reporter would have got fack all in grub, unless they went down the route of faking JSA sign-on books?

[Brian Potter]

What about the working poor? I suspect plenty of people in low wage jobs are struggling to make ends meet as well.

Define the working poor? Who is a poor worker? But before you start, please tell me your own background and what qualifies you to identify someone as the 'working poor'.

[doodab]

Define the working poor? Who is a poor worker? But before you start, please tell me your own background and what qualifies you to identify someone as the 'working poor'.

I would have thought given I referred to "people in low wage jobs are struggling to make ends meet" you could have put two and two together there. The point is that there are clearly people who are a) poor and b) not claiming JSA.

Really demanding I define this and that and questioning my background is pointless diversion, and I really can't be arsed to get drawn into it given that you come across as an intellectually lazy deliberately contrarian troll.

[Brian Potter]

I would have thought given I referred to "people in low wage jobs are struggling to make ends meet" you could have put two and two together there. The point is that there are clearly people who are a) poor and b) not claiming JSA.

Really demanding I define this and that and questioning my background is pointless diversion, and I really can't be arsed to get drawn into it given that you come across as an intellectually lazy deliberately contrarian troll.

Have you ever struggled to make ends meet? Please define 'poor'...you've gone from 'working poor' to 'poor'. Define either one please.

You know nothing about me.

[doodab]

Have you ever struggled to make ends meet? Please define 'poor'...you've gone from 'working poor' to 'poor'. Define either one please.

Don't be so lazy. If you need to know what "poor" means look in a dictionary. Even an idiot should be able to deduce that "working poor" means someone who is both working and poor. Really, if you can't be bothered to think even slightly before posting moronic responses then I'm not going to bother.

I have struggled, particularly when growing up when we were well into the bottom 5-10% of the population economically speaking. Not that my background is any of your business or has any bearing on whether or not there are people who are struggling to make ends meet now.

You know nothing about me.

This is relevant how exactly? I don't really want to know anything about you. The impression you create is that of a lazy troll and that's enough to put me off.

[Brian Potter]

I have struggled

The above communicates a lot about you. You struggle no matter what, you struggle for the sake of struggling. I wrote that you knew nothing about me yet your own anger boils over into:

Don't be so lazy. If you need to know what "poor" means look in a dictionary. Even an idiot should be able to deduce that "working poor" means someone who is both working and poor. Really, if you can't be bothered to think even slightly before posting moronic responses then I'm not going to bother.

What's 'moronic' about your comment above is the simple fact that your anger boils down to myself highlighting how the foodbank person did not ask the DM reporter for proof of JSA income. The thread is about the supposed bad behaviour of the DM towards foodbanks. I asked a simple question and you swooped in with negativity and complete irrelevance. You're obviously angry about not being poor, just like our property rich leftie political class eh?

And then you write the following:

This is relevant how exactly? I don't really want to know anything about you. The impression you create is that of a lazy troll and that's enough to put me off.

I didn't ask you a question. I told you that you do not know anything about me, and you still don't. However, I know a lot about you and that's you're a very sad individual.

Good luck with your life.

P.S. and after insulting me, you then have the wierdness to 'like' my posts? As Peter Jones would say: "I'm out"...sorry guys.