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Claire true Lilxx

What about all the parasites who refuse to get a job because they get more in benefits,,and then continue to churn out more kids for us all to keep.

I.M My Mum wrote this years ago it always sticks in my mind when i see how peeps have worked and payed there way to get what back nowt, i refuse to have a private pesion cos i want some of what i've contributed to this Country back The Dole Queue A place to go on Monday. It most times takes an hour. Then when I get my Giro I shudder and sink lower. With thoughts and hopes long gone of ever finding work, I realize just how it feels to be a British burk. My parents and their parents were British, born and bred. For myself and millions more I''m not sorry they are dead. For in this country England, a land that once was great, there''s nowt left for her people but bigotry and hate. The powers that be, are turning the clock back to the time of poverty and hunger of nineteen twenty nine. So come on all you English folk, let''s not be stricken down. Get up and rally to the flag, the country and the crown. Take up your pens and paper, insist upon your rights. Make the government take a U-turn, besiege them with your plight. Deluge them with your letters. Let them add up the tote, then if they do not listen demand another vote.

I have lived off my savings for the past year because I was told by the Job Centre that I could not have any money in the bank - which I now realise was the wrong information. I am now skint and have been forced to apply for Job Seekers Allowance. Can you live on £57 per week - yes I have to pay my bills and live on this sum. I have worked for 35 years and paid full NI and this government claim I can live on £57. Have a file full of rejection letters and I get treated like a piece of sh*t when I visit the Job Centre. I.M.

I know Lil, but i did'nt want it to turn into a heated argument!! it's nice to keep the threads light hearted!! But thanks for that!! Helenxx

Helen no need to have deleted, Lilx

Thanks Lil sorry!! i will delete my post!!

Helen i think you will find as stated that is mainly for peeps takin the mick not cases where peeps are unable to work Lilx

Hi Catherine any news yet? I have alway's said that the Gov should open work place's just for people on unemployment benefits they should register daily for work, if they dont register stop the benefit, that way they would soon get out and find a well paid job or train to achieve such Lilx

Don't you think that they have left it so long that it is going to be a hard habit to break? I do so hope it works, but I hope it is the really work shy who are caught and it doesn't become easy for them to 'catch' some people and ignore the ones who deserve to be made to work. Ann Glos

Thats OK, providing the 'innocent' people don't get penalised. Some people can apply for a hundred jobs and get turned down for every single one of them. The Government should concentrate on those people receiving £100s in Incapacity or Disabled Benefits each week, who actually go out work. These are the people deliberately stealing money. Not those who just can't get a job because there face doesn't fit, or they have been passed over for school leavers etc.

Morning Lil I saw this too-if people are claiming for genuine reasons then no problem. It mentioned the same people have been on these benefits for like 6/7 years and show no intention of looking for employment. If there's nothing wrong with these people then yes something should be done, as there's no reason they can't go out to work. People find it easy and I think it almost becomes a routine that they get stuck into. catherine xx

JOBLESS layabouts who refuse to take work face having ALL their benefits chopped, a minister will warn today. Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton plans to target a “hardcore” of 100,000 fit people who have spent six of the last seven years on benefits. He will argue that hard-working taxpayers should no longer have to support them. Britain’s bosses are battling to fill 600,000 vacancies — enough to take two in three claimants off the dole. Mr Hutton will contrast their attitude with the wave of eastern European immigrants who flock here hungry for work. In a speech Mr Hutton will ask: “If workers from Poland can take advantage of these vacancies in our major cities why can’t our own people do so as well?” Under existing rules, unemployed people who refuse to take a job can have Job Seekers’ Allowance cut. But official figures show action is taken against just one claimant in 50. After a drive to force them into training, Mr Hutton now believes it is time to go further and withhold benefits. He will say: “If we are to break the cycle of benefit dependency we need to ask whether we should expect something in return for the help we provide.” Under the shake-up, the jobless will be expected to take active steps to find work and to be better trained. Mr Hutton will tell the Institute for Public Policy Research: “For those who won’t do so, then there should be consequences, including less benefit or no benefit at all. Our reforms must confront the can work-won’t work culture. “We cannot ask hard-working families to pay for the unwillingness of some to engage in the labour market.” New figures show Manchester has two-and-a-half times as many vacancies per head than the average. Many of the claimants are low-skilled but there is no shortage of low-skilled jobs. Last month 950,000 were claiming Jobseekers’ Allowance.

About time i say