Reform party want to slash the size of the state and give tax cuts to the rich.
Farage would stop payments to the disabled completely and make them beg on street.
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Farage would stop payments to the disabled completely and make them beg on street.
Yawn. Another Notch lie.
SShhhh. You're not supposed to say stuff like that.
100% of people who don't work WANT to work. Absolutely none of them play the system. Absolutely none of them are content to remain on benefits year in year out.
You need to cut him some slack. I think he gets travel sick sometimes being bounced around on the Woke Express.
Panel beating Amazon vans must be the business to be in. Many look like they have taken them banger racing at the weekend. Some say the drivers play 'van bingo'. The winner is the first to get every single panel, inc. roof, dented or mangled. Have actually seen one or two of their vans where the driver could quite legitimately shout "house!". The vans were only 2 or 3 years old.
Yes, someone in my local is a subby for Amazon in his own ancient Tranny. Seems to be more of a hobby for him because I don't think he makes much money. Often his pay seems to go on van running costs and repairs.
The vans used by subbys are usually just old. The really battered ones are the ones actually owned and signwriten by Amazon. Usually only 2 to 4 years old, but have had a very hard life in the hands of dozens of different kamikaze 'drivers'.
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I don't envy these folk that job. Watched a film a few years back, the story concerned a family man struggling to make ends meet. He was a driver for a local parcel depot and had his own clapped out van. I think part of the story was the firm offered better vans that you could lease from them, however he wasn't delivering enough to opt for that. His van broke down, couldn't afford to get it fixed, the downwards spiral continued.
Many years ago, when I was dossing around between jobs deciding my next move, a friend of a friend gave me some temp casual work. The job was driving a Tranny delivering new camera films to chemists. The deliveries were in the south Somerset/north Devon areas. Bearing in mind I'm driving down from Bristol and it was pre-satnav days, it was a nightmare trying to drive and read a map and list of chemists to deliver to, not knowing the area. I'm guessing the person who normally did the deliveries did this on a set route and knew the area. I arrived back in Bristol very stressed after what stretched out to a 12 hour day. Doubt if I managed much more than half of the expected deliveries - about half the packages came back with me.
One day was enough!
Meanwhile...
Living standards for all UK families are set to fall by 2030, with those on the lowest incomes declining twice as fast as middle and high earners, according to data that raises serious questions about Keir Starmer’s pledge to make working people better off. The grim economic analysis, produced by the respected Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), comes before the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, makes her spring statement on Wednesday in which she will announce new cuts to public spending rather than increase borrowing or raise taxes, so as to keep within the government’s “iron clad” fiscal rules.
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Someone's gotta pay for that £5bn rise in defence spending...turns out it's the folk who can't afford it.
Living standards for all UK families are set to fall by 2030, with those on the lowest incomes declining twice as fast as middle and high earners, according to data that raises serious questions about Keir Starmer’s pledge to make working people better off. The grim economic analysis, produced by the respected Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), comes before the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, makes her spring statement on Wednesday in which she will announce new cuts to public spending rather than increase borrowing or raise taxes, so as to keep within the government’s “iron clad” fiscal rules.
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Someone's gotta pay for that £5bn rise in defence spending...turns out it's the folk who can't afford it.
No doubt there will be a world war before then.
That should cheer everyone up.
Fact is that during wartime the suicide rate decreases.
Money appears from nowhere,wages go up , the not in employment or training generation get conscripted and sent off fight the latest enemy, that should solve the problem of feckless youth sitting at home playing video games, while their mum does their ironing.
Before WW2 my old man worked in a shipyard as a welder, he said the work was sporadic and he had to travel to Liverpool and Southampton to work.
He said the grass was growing on the slipways back home and the Unionist government did nothing to help, apart from provide lectures about the need for government to save money.
Once Hitler invaded Poland , money appeared from nowhere, the Yanks arrived and he started earning wads of big white fivers.
My mum's brothers joined the army and RAF, while my dad stayed at home and made big money working and drinking 7 days a week.
My mum called him a cowardly bustard for not joining the army, he said that John Wayne didn't join the army either, so why should he join.
He also said his father fought in WW1 and came back with shell shock and couldn't work, the state gave him **** all help because the 'government can't afford it' but once the government goes to war money is no object.
A bit cynical he was.
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WHat really winds me up is the good-for -nothing bloody whiners.
with all that
There was a R4 Question time fom NI where some stupid bint was ranting rubbiish like that.
I'm no big supporter of Reeves, but
I am one of the supposedly desperate pensioners from whom she's removed the winter fuel payment. £178 pa was it? Makes no difference to me. The actual desperate can fill in a form and get it. Fine.
I am also one of those desperate disabled who will may longer get the daily living lower allowance part of PIP. I am eligible under the 2 point parts, which aren't going to be enough any more. One would have to have at least one four pointer which means needing another person to do things like dress you.
Pip was always faulty. It tested the same things as Invalidity Benefit, but much less rigorously.
Once getting PIP before retirement. you automatilcally still get it when past retirement age. BUt you can't apply for PIP once past that age. Wierd.
You would have to apply then for IB, which as I say is harder.
They have nowhere near the staff to do reassessments frequently enough, so I will probably get PIP at the same rate until I die. Older people tend to get worse, quite fast, so not worth reassessing to save money, when they might cost more.
But sure, stop people like me getting it in the first place, fine. That part is about £70 a week, so I filled the form in. It's 3.5k tax free pa.. I just checked, yes it's still coming. By April with the pension and rest of pip it'll fill another isa.
I do pay into the system, i get a tax bill.
So yeah OK Rache, these things are OK.
She's cutting civil servants. So hark the cries - Austerity! Services slashed! The poor penalised!
It's about 10,000 out of 543,000 people, over 5 years.I think it is.
Under Two percent then
Under Nought point four percent per annum.
3.7 people in a thousand,
FFS.
with all that
excrement.
There was a R4 Question time fom NI where some stupid bint was ranting rubbiish like that.
I'm no big supporter of Reeves, but
I am one of the supposedly desperate pensioners from whom she's removed the winter fuel payment. £178 pa was it? Makes no difference to me. The actual desperate can fill in a form and get it. Fine.
I am also one of those desperate disabled who will may longer get the daily living lower allowance part of PIP. I am eligible under the 2 point parts, which aren't going to be enough any more. One would have to have at least one four pointer which means needing another person to do things like dress you.
Pip was always faulty. It tested the same things as Invalidity Benefit, but much less rigorously.
Once getting PIP before retirement. you automatilcally still get it when past retirement age. BUt you can't apply for PIP once past that age. Wierd.
You would have to apply then for IB, which as I say is harder.
They have nowhere near the staff to do reassessments frequently enough, so I will probably get PIP at the same rate until I die. Older people tend to get worse, quite fast, so not worth reassessing to save money, when they might cost more.
But sure, stop people like me getting it in the first place, fine. That part is about £70 a week, so I filled the form in. It's 3.5k tax free pa.. I just checked, yes it's still coming. By April with the pension and rest of pip it'll fill another isa.
I do pay into the system, i get a tax bill.
So yeah OK Rache, these things are OK.
She's cutting civil servants. So hark the cries - Austerity! Services slashed! The poor penalised!
It's about 10,000 out of 543,000 people, over 5 years.I think it is.
Under Two percent then
Under Nought point four percent per annum.
3.7 people in a thousand,
FFS.
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Good job you’re making a fortune playing the stock markets and you don’t actually need any help from the government.
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Was it Ken Loach's film, "Sorry We Missed You"?
of course there are people who play the system
but people like you love to use the phrase "benefit scroungers" giving the false impression that everybody on benefits is a scrounger..............they arent, its a small percentage
Reform are a party that wants to slash the state, deregulate and privatise everything
so its not excrement its true............if Reform were in power ordinary citizens would be worse off
Farage is just a mini Trump...........have a look how he is destroying peoples lives
