More Evidence That Benefits Are Far Too Generous?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/489061/Benefits-spent-on-funding-teenager-s-drug-habit
They should not have enough for bob hope!

[ummmm]

Her family were giving her cash.

[DrFilth]

ummmm no one wants to read about that they just see the bits they like

// benefits //

[retrocop]

Yes.Her family were giving her their hard earned BENEFIT money as well.!!!Don't need the benefits if they can waste it on drugs.Let the girl eat cold turkey.It does'nt cost the taxpayer anything.

[inksplotter]

Were they told to scowl at the camera? Sorry, it just seems like fodder for people who just want to be outraged at society-bet the Mail didn't even cover the story.

[DrFilth]

retrocop can you point to me where it says in the article that her grandmother and great-grandmother have never worked and saved for their old age ?

> "As well as asking my grandmother and great-grandmother for money to splash out on the drug, I would trash my mum's house if she didn't give me £10 a day from her benefits to buy cannabis."

[mikey4444]

This rather vacant women should have marched her daughter into the nearest Police Station and handed her in then !

[retrocop]

Well you reap what you sow.Mother and Grand mother are aiding and abetting a drug crime.

[sherrardk]

Let's be fair here, at least this 'story' has enabled the morally outraged (at pretty much anything with the word 'benefit' in it) the opportunity to have their daily fix of spleen venting.

[DrFilth]

> Yes.Her family were giving her their hard earned BENEFIT money as well.!! <

so you just made it up

[retrocop]

Dr Filth.
How much of your own money do you donate to worthless junkies to fund their habit?Are you more generous than the rest of us taxpayers?
"hard earned" BENEFIT was written tongue in cheek.dooh

[vakayu]

Digressing a little from topic,having watched a channel 5 programme about how easy it is to get benefits in this country by immigrants was a real eye-opener,it implied just work self-employed(in this instance collecting scrap metal)which entitles you to get national insurance number and off you go!!!

[DrFilth]

vakayu near the end of last year suziboys mate came out of work he got the dole for 6 months then they stopped it and said to him that his wife had a job and income and they had to manage on that till he found work

he had never claimed a penny in his life before losing his job

[Quizmonster]

So, TTT, the benefits bill is £120 billion. How much are the tax avoidance and evasion "bills", would you suppose? Substantially greater, I warrant, and I ask because these are dodges only the rich are in a position to take advantage of at the expense of the rest of us. Unpaid due tax is money the Treasury SHOULD have for the benefit of us all but doesn't.
To return to the Westminster 'barrels', I'm not the one who's scraping them, it's the wealthy spongers in Parliament who regularly empty them in the bars there at my and your expense!

[vakayu]

suziboys mate??

[DrFilth]

vakayu sorry it is a person who use to post on this site forget his ab username

[ludwig]

// Would someone please tell me what a lentil munchery is. //

Lentil munchery (n): The act of munching lentils. A pastime undertaken by lentil munchers. Alt: A room or space set aside for the purpose of lentil munching. (see also yoghurt knitting, tree hugging).

[vakayu]

^^^?????

[Zeuhl]

/the benefits bill is 120bn/

the majority of which goes to Pensioners.

[ToraToraTora]

yes QM I agree but this thread is about dope heads on benefits. By all means start your own thread to talk about tax avoidance.

[ToraToraTora]

ok so what is the work shy scum budget then Zeuhl?