Rampent Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I meant Peter Cellars and Rod Stewpot.I have not heard about the threesome but I bet Rod Hull had a hand in it. Emu had a hand in Rod's death - he pushed him. FACT!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasai Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 http://www.dailyshame.co.uk/2013/03/satire/mp-lives-on-18-a-week-food-bill-and-we-love-her-for-it/?fb_action_ids=10151522097772180&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=widget&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151522097772180%22%3A439025986178182%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151522097772180%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%7B%2210151522097772180%22%3A%22widget%22%7D I found this interesting. MP attempts to survive on £18 a week. I wish more MP's would give this a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna B Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 That's part of the point - most in reciept of benefits or payments are getting theirs cut/frozen. But it's repackaged as striver vs skiver, which is pretty offensive as the vast majority of people in reciept of benefits are strivers, but are being painted as skivers. Interesting that the payments to MPs for things like plasma TVs, scatter cushions, and extravagent breakfasts at more than £40 a time are unaffected. Still were all in this together Their allowances have actually gone up. I've lost the newspaper cutting, but it was in the paper the other week (in very small print) And a lot of the changes that came in after the expenses scandal have been quietly revoked because MPs deemed them 'unworkable.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Hasn't this guy already been shown to have lied and so this WHOLE thread is now pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJC1 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Hasn't this guy already been shown to have lied and so this WHOLE thread is now pointless. He didn't lie. The telegraph pointed out he was telling porkies because the guy is on something like 600 quid a month. But that's not AFTER costs that's before so he may well have 53 quid. Then again the Telegraph has it's agenda, which is right leaning. These stories get put out to discredit and stop people fighting hypicrosy and challenging authority systems. The fact still remains IDS said he could live on £53 a week. Many people have to do that, so let's see him put his money where his mouth is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansheff Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 IDS the man who while in opposition submitted a claim for £39 for a breakfast and also a£9 claim for a prawn cocktail, at that rate he wouldn't even manage a day on £53. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthedog Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Just as an aside to the IDS bashing... He also introduced the ATOS assessments for incapacity benefits claimants. Ahead of that coming into force 830k people dropped their claims. An idiot, or someone doing what is expected of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Just as an aside to the IDS bashing... He also introduced the ATOS assessments for incapacity benefits claimants. Ahead of that coming into force 830k people dropped their claims. An idiot, or someone doing what is expected of them? Are you saying 830,000 people withdrew their claims for benefit?Do you have the figures before and after the Atos award?Do you think IDS thought up the ATOS wheeze or is he simply a mouthpiece? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthedog Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Are you saying 830,000 people withdrew their claims for benefit?Do you have the figures before and after the Atos award?Do you think IDS thought up the ATOS wheeze or is he simply a mouthpiece? Sorry - I was wrong. It's 900,000 people... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9963012/900000-choose-to-come-off-sickness-benefit-ahead-of-tests.html Of course he didn't think this up by himself. Departments such as the DWP have researchers who look for areas such as this before presenting them to the minister as a proposal. Why "the ATOS wheeze"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Sorry - I was wrong. It's 900,000 people... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9963012/900000-choose-to-come-off-sickness-benefit-ahead-of-tests.html Of course he didn't think this up by himself. Departments such as the DWP have researchers who look for areas such as this before presenting them to the minister as a proposal. Why "the ATOS wheeze"? The use of incapacity benefits to disguise unemployment figures was introduced by the Thatcher administration,and thet encouraged the proliferation of the scheme.Now the conservatives have withdrawn their support and are using ATOS to weed out the undeserving.They identified 1300 people to be fit for work who subsequently died of their complaint,so they are not too clever at their role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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