Jacob Rees-Mogg Still Keeps Digging That Hole !

[mikey4444]

Jacob Rees-Mogg: Food banks 'rather uplifting'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41264965

"He told LBC radio the only reason for the rise in their use was "that people know that they are there".

God help us all if this Tory Twit ever gets into Number Ten.

[-Talbot-]

mikey4444
"He told LBC radio the only reason for the rise in their use was "that people know that they are there".


As someone who keeps banging on about workshy British I would have thought that you partially agree with him?

[gness]

Did Theresa May really say there were many complex reasons why people go to food banks?

I know I'm finding the lady surprisingly dim by the day......but many complex reasons!

[mushroom25]

"let them eat their pets" - a saying by those administrative geniuses the Venezuelan government...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-41265474
the towering esteem in which Mr Corbyn holds Mr Maduro can only mean this is bound to be labour policy......

[Deskdiary]

Does anybody find it odd that I had a post yanked for calling Lammy a Richard Head ( obviously didn't use Richard) and yet people are allowed to get away with calling JRM and Johnson a 'tawt', basically the 'C' word?

[ladybirder]

Yes I do DD. It's a disgusting word and I have seen far less offensive words removed.

[Mamyalynne]

Our wonderful language is mangled on here daily, by people who sing from both pages of the book.

Lame indeed.

[jourdain2]

I agree with ladybirder at 15.54.

[gulliver1]

Just love the part where he says " When the Tories came to power they allowed job centre staff to tell job seekers that food banks were available" I can see now what Theresa May meant when she said we are the party for the working class,

[david small]

Very insensitive comments by Rees-Mogg. He says things how he sees them. I do not agree with his selective vision. Walk a mile in my shoes/trainers etc.

[naomi24]

I agree with Ladybirder at 15:54 Thu too. Mikey’s spinning again.

By the way, Mikey, he did say, “the former Labour government had failed to inform people of their existence”. Well, they would, wouldn’t they.

[gulliver1]

Would Mogg be able to claim child allowance for his six children, or are people means tested these days.

[fiction-factory]

No. Means tested

[scooping]

"To have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow citizens I think is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are," he said.
That's what he said. He did not say food banks were uplifting. Sounds good to me.

[mikey4444]

Gulliver....Child Benefit can be clawed back if the parent earns enough to pay HRT.

[Deskdiary]

We stopped receiving child benefit a few years ago when they brought in the earning threshold (which, incidentally I agreed with).

My understanding was if you earned over a set amount you could still receive it, but had to pay it back. Seemed pointless to me so we opted out.

I don't know whether it's still the case, but the child benefit thing was a classic case of thinking that defied any logic. If there was only one earner and they earned in excess of £60k, they either opted out, or had to pay it back. But if there were two earners earning below £50k each, they were still entitled to receive it.

So in other words, somebody earning £60,001 was subsidising child benefit for a couple who could be earning £49,999 each.

Bananas.

[mikey4444]

I have no problems with the recent change for IHT earners and Child Benefit.