Falklands veteran dying of cancer told: You have to work again

Unless he is up for a job playing Tarzan, having one leg is irrelevant. Dying of cancer is the more important factor here.

Ian cu ntan smith...the most odious man in politics...lives in a 10 bed house ,doesn't have to pay for it as it's owned by he's dad in law..with his wife , no kids, but brings in bedroom tax for those not as fortunate....

Surely he would have a military pension by now.

IDS is evil, simple as that

Yes I'm sure there all looking forward to the train and bus fares shooting up in January whilst their wages stay the same.

People thanking him secretly , working on zero hour contract are you for real ? they wont be needed in january so they will be even skinter , places like amazon ( google it see size of factory in dunfermline ) who treat staff like cattle will get rid of the xmas staff and that will be them all back on jobseeker ready for work experience in poundland , until next xmas then carry on and and on

staff on zero hours wont get paid off if no work , they get told to p1ss off and come back when there is work

if your on a contract your guaranteed a wage of 37.5 hours in most works ive been in the past (rained off etc you get paid ), little difference imo

I work for myself , if I don't work I don't earn money that simple, no holiday , no sick pay no f all but I prefer it that way because the bottom line is better for me.

What's remarkable is that these erosions of workers rights and conditions of employment flourished under New Labour - the party of the working man.
And what were the unions doing as well?

I think we can safely forget Labour as the party of the poor.
They're more busy making people poor than helping them to get on.

, labour are the working mans heroes

RIP.

I'm just not convinced by the methodology of posting single examples of inequity to make a point. Left wingers post stuff like this and right wingers post about people ripping off the benefits system - surely we need some actual stats to make up our mind (unless our minds are already made up). You'll never get a totally fair system though; unfortunately the optimal point is probably one with about as many benefit fraudsters as people being wrongly denied payments (or something like that). Reducing both to zero would be prohibitively expensive.

Like pawras, I work for myself and love it. If people don't like my work I don't get paid. It feels much better than working for a boss and is vastly superior to being on benefits (a decade and a half ago I signed on for about a month and God it was depressing). Personally I just don't feel the need of a safety net, what with the extreme laziness and f*ckwittedness of the average person. Obviously there is a need for a safety net in general, though.

i will not here of any bad against the new labour party

but do they pay tax??????????????????????///

It’s like I was counting until Thatcher was brought into it.

On one hand I don’t agree with those who clearly aren’t capable of work being forced to do so but on the other hand you can’t have people blatantly taking the p&ss, which they do and I’ve seen first hand personally without watching sensationalist stuff like “Benefits Street”

“So the rich do not have to pay tax”
At what point is someone classed the rich? The bit you forget is that the vast vast majority of people have earned their money fair and square and others have no god given right to take a chunk of it to compensate for their own failings.
Too many people in this country don’t want to take off the training bra and have this false entitlement complex re other people’s money via handouts etc.

The nub of the problem is we have far less low skilled jobs that are relatively ok-ish paid compared to what we used to but just as big % of morons as ever.
I would put a good chunk of that at the door of globalisation.



Ps I view new labour as traitors due to their open door immigration policy and I won’t for them ever ever ever!

mad mad moon early morning paper rounds stink dont they

You are in trouble if you've been delivering the Sunday Times today.

Self employed and love it.

So glad not to be involved with office politics/unions/pay disputes etc.

Very thankful

At what point is someone classed the rich? The bit you forget is that the vast vast majority of people have earned their money fair and square and others have no god given right to take a chunk of it to compensate for their own failings.

You would if I ran the country..you would have no choice

We are one society, I would like to see a fair society, I would like to see everybody working, for that the government

must provide jobs at a reasonable wage for everybody(well all men)...preferably private but if not public

I would like a better society not a worse one.....otherwise what is the point of anything???????

Yeah well human nature means you’re not likely to get your way.
sadly true

We are going to do it one day, you would toil for yourself and others,
In fact you probably do all ready to an extent if you run a business

I believe in capitalism, but it must be controlled, not this uncontrolled monetarism