[joeysteele]

Oh gosh Kirk, asda smart price meat I wouldn't touch with a bargepole,it is awful, totally tasteless unless you competely cover it with something else.

I am really fussy as to what 'meat' I eat anyway,I don't see why being on JSA or ESA or other disability benefits means not t eat properly.
Also as to JSA,I wonder how someone living alone with bills to pay and to get around too, how on earth they manage.

The question really is should people who are out of work, ill, disabled and vulnerable really have to live an existence where they have to eat really cheap,often substandard food,with no variation as to real choice, day in day out, week in week out, year after year unless they hit lucky and someone does offer them a job eventually.

I have even come across jobcentres actually checking as to if someone unemployed actually had an interview with a company or firm and that they even went to it..

There are still not the jobs available for all the unemployed,nowhere near the vacancies needed,to be encouraging and forcing the sick and disabled into work too only adds to that problem,never mind increasing the retirement age.
Until that environment is there that has vacancies for those out of work,they can sanction all the like and threaten this and that as to all ways of making people look for work.
It isn't there,with a wage that would be needed to cover all the additional costs of working too,such as travel costs.

The work I am currently doing and where I live and have to go to, costs me loads in fuel for the car and then parking fees to be there most of the day when I am there.
I am fortunate,I can easily manage to do so but that is not the case for everyone else.
I just don't accept that people should be 'forced' to live in a sub standard way just because they are out of a job, ill, disabled or vulnerable.
More should be done to help that majority of out of work citizens to find work but from a true supportive angle and not by sanctions that bring even more misery.

All those that are benefit claimants that make up the 99% that official independent statistics say are claiming rightly.
If that is so, then why should they, whether they be unemployed, overweight or disabled and vulnerable be expected to live in a sub standard way.

If this govt; had created enough 'genuine',I stress genune, vacancies with regularly paid work over the year, then there would be little defence of people not finding work or not going to work ' 'if they can'.however that day is a long way off and all this shambles of a govt; can do is set out to create havoc and misery in those vulnerable peoples lives.
Jobcentre staff are snowed under trying to help people into work,they must feel they are banging their heads against a brick wall as the task they have is an impossible one, since you canot fit the unemployed into the far less vacancies currently available.