Mikael,  you do realise Torquemada can earn £800 per day. That makes him entitled to feel superior.

All the abuse is fair game. Probably most of you do not know real poverrty but I am trying to make avchange. I can easily provevthat I am a winning gambler, despite drink and drugs. A lot would kill for thatbsobdin,t be too judgemental ahaha.

It's a difficult question to answer however I agree with the poster who suggested going to Citizens Advice. The problem you have is that if you make a fuss you'll probably be blacklisted and lose the opportunity for work in the future. Good luck you certainly deserve compensation but whether it's worth fighting for is debatable.

What kind of extensive criminality are we talking?

Do tell...

Asked for some remuneration and the silence is deafening. Workers rights have been eroded under the tories and it's definitely time for change. As a nationalist, I'm not a natural Labour supporter but the whole country clearly needs Corbyn, sooner rather than later.

Richie can you not get on the PIP scheme for pretend drug addiction and psychosis releated illness?
I've a relative who has his whole life paid for and he's as thick as pig sh!t so even you should be able to convince the authorities,just think you will be getting paid to be an accepted addict with a free furnished flat,almost no bills and a pretty competitive weekly payment to feed the addiction and if you get caught doing a crime you won't get jail because of your illness/addiction win win.
You're welcome.

Richie
They aren't victimless crimes. We all know what drugs do to people who take them and supply them. Shoplifting puts prices up, stolen good are stolen from someone.

It's almost like they're encouraging him.

It is isn't it,and the reason why is this.
They don't always view indivdual cases as we would think they do i.e is this person genuinely ill therfore entitled etc.
They in many cases with people who are likely to commit crimes and do everything they can not to work (not saying that's you as you work when you can) view it as a whole cost to the system spread across the board on the potential deficit a person may cost society,like police time,courts,police time/costs,jail time,NHS,prescriptions plus other benefits compared to giving them a weekly payment and bills knowing they'll never work but are less likely to commit crimes etc. and cost the system less on the whole.
Seems crazy but when you personally know someone on these schemes living the life knowing they've been arrested 100s of times(stopped arresting mine just taxi'd him home instead),done jail,searched for by helicopters the lot it all adds up so easier to keep them sweet this way and admittedly from a crime point of view it's better than it was him getting everything for nothing.

Charlie, I was being a bit facetious. Didn't mean dealing drugs either, just possession, which is punishing myself more than anyone else.

Not having an especially **** time, elise. Thread just spiralled a bit with too much personal stuff. It's cathartic, in a weird way Having been posting much cos the best poster, Burkey1885, has been banned!

Sort of hard to reply to your post, DenzilPenberthy.

My first thought, from experience, was that when an addict tells you they're due some money in the future, they are invariably setting you up to ask for a short-term loan.

My second thought was that the system is unfair. My brother has a got a catalogue of genuine disabilities and scored a 0 on the test (perfect health, fit for work)

The kind of people you describe are basically my entire social circle. I guess it makes sense to write them off but I hope for something better for myself. Knowing me, I'll end up there somehow.

Richie
The predicament of your brother sums it up as he isn't going to cause the system financial damage through criminal activities therefore the cost of putting him on benefits outweighs what he otherwise would incur.
They will have the opinion that he will go down the straight routes when if he was a wrong un committing crimes etc. they'd say financially the system would be better off with him on sickness benefits.
My relative gets more for his pretendee illness than his own mother who is a genuine woman who worked for the civil service all her life til she was laid off with bad MS,she can't walk unaided,wears a nappy,has almost constant vertigo,struggles to read without head pain,has various arthritis amongst other things.
She has a pension which she worked and paid for but still how they can justify giving her son more than her is morally disgusting,all the players understand the game from the shysters to the government paid workers who visit the rogues and ask have you been a good boy this week?