hotfeet Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 I was talking to a pensioner who uses bottled gas to heat his home because his home does not have piped gas. and he was telling me over this winter it has used one bottle a week at a cost of £50, how can people on benefits afford that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Tamudo Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 why dont u try for a job on probation You've got me weighed up wrong our kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manc Lad Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 You've got me weighed up wrong our kid. why all this get a job i want a job so i get get back to life before the crime sucked me in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 I know, it’s the few lazy whinging ungrateful layabouts that are the problem. Like your neighbours whom you admit to befriending.One minute you are having a chat and next thing you are slating them behind their back.Some people,not myself,would consider this duplicitous and cowardly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staunton Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Is this the Guildford and Dorking Forum? Or have I strayed onto tunbridgewellsforum.co.uk? I'm sure any tory mp who read these threads of ours would two-step around their well appointed Knightsbridge apartments with unrestrained glee to see the ordinary people of Sheffield turn against each other whilst those corporates are offshoring one hundred thousand million pounds each year right under our noses. Ignore it, but it happening, and we are all losing as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buck Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 I get around 59 pounds a week from the UK as its share of my OAP. I get about the same from Canada. Our US pension for my wife and I amounts to just under $2000 a month, mortgage $800, heating $90, phone and internet $110, cable $105, car and house insurance $114. With a small job, and a couple of small company benefits we're able to live well on about $250 a week for gasoline and groceries and about one night out for dinner. My most recent experiences with Europe have been a yearly visit to Ireland which we were forced to suspend a few years ago on my doctor's advice. We found the cost of food very high compared with here, and this was before Ireland got hit with the Euro disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Like your neighbours whom you admit to befriending.One minute you are having a chat and next thing you are slating them behind their back.Some people,not myself,would consider this duplicitous and cowardly. No I slate them to their face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vague_Boy Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 IDS -- even if he does think like this -- really should learn that it is really better not to say these things out loud if you're a politician. insisted he could live on £53 a week after a 51-year-old market trader told the BBC that he gets by on the meagre sum If I were IDS I'd do a wee bit more research than listening to one market trader. Does he count taxi drivers among his political advisers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francypants Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 Come on everyone, sign the petition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELFIRE1 Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 I would imagine IDS's dinner wine will cost more than £53, the wealthy have no conception how we live. Angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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