The welfare state is not generous, it is funded by millions of workers paying tax.
Also there is a great trick being played on the average British worker.
Many(most) of the highest paid jobs could be done as well and probably better by
thousands of other people.
It may come as a surprise,although some people know, but jobs such as those in the city
and Londons trading floors are essentially semi- skilled, and yet these people are getting
great wealth.
There are jobs such as this for which you have to have no measurable skills.
Indeed it is likely that those that are worst will make the most money...for a
time. This is how the system works.
Very very few people, if any deserve to get very large wages, they can all be replaced
by thousands of others.

MT gave me a grant called the Enterprise Allowance Scheme in 1989.

Been self employed just about ever since Dusty.

I wouldn't call myself one of the 'select few'. I just applied...

Thatcher made a generation of ponces encouraged to gamble on stocks just like before the great depression.
Its ethereal and ridded with corruption.

So?
It was the industry that got everything it wanted. No body is saying they don't make 5hit loads of money at others' expense, the question is what effect does that have?
If 'we' had backed R+D engineering as the focal point that would have been the major contributor.

£3.45 - Should have done a euromillions try?

That bloke died because he hadn't taken his medicine.
His death wasn't caused by them stopping his benefit.

What did he think ''oh they've stopped my benefit so I won't take my medicine any more.''

How can you possibly know that?
We don't know why he didn't take his medicine.

I agree study, I don't think they have
I regard this as unacceptable by the DWP whatever anyone else thinks

It is, ebul.
They're following the letter of the rules without using discretion.

The one which this thread is about, crippen, with the link in the opening post.

It is there in the OP

I doubt whether this system is designed to get people work either.
It is designed to stop people claiming JSA, if people can find a way of making a bit of money themselves they stop claiming,
it is not worth the aggro, or they may live on savings until pension age

I know a 59 year old man in this position, He has worked all his life, unemployment is no fault of his own.
He has to learn how to use a computer, he has to make all these applications, knowing he never will never get a job
People don't employ 59 year olds.

NO

BUt saying his electricity was cut off is clearly wrong

That's correct IS, he hadn't been cut off.

So, according to you, the geezer asked for it - He should have got himself a job!
bought electric, and dealt with it all better.
All his own fault.

Tw@ts.


There is no point in trying to reason with non-empathetic sociopaths who think everybody is living the same life they are.

Crippen, you only ever write such nonsense, I can't work out whether you're a troll or you're actually as obnoxious as you come across on here.

No he didn't I.S. it was stopped.

ok study.


i did not know it was totally stopped.

will need to do some research.

He hadn't run out of food, they found a tin of sardines and a can of soup.

What I don't about the rules for JSA, is the injustice of a system that guarantees the security of a man with a family but readily throws a single person to the wolves.
It's far too easy for a couple to get together and breed for benefits.
I'd certainly make life harder for these people in the form of reduced benefits.
If that meant hardship for their kids then that's their problem not the state's.

Have some people no compassion at all for fellow human beings?

Christ,that someone would even contemplate using such a situation as this to troll beggars belief,its an affront to every human instinct to be THAT much of a tw4t.

sad tale