[arista]

This woman was on Daybreak ITV1HD


Welfare mother defends her right to buy booze and cigarettes

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Video on this Link - If you can bare her


The Council said Sorry for their Posters

[Vicky.]

Yeah, funny how you only ever see people like her in the papers/news.

Never see anything about the benefit claimant who doesnt smoke or drink, doesnt have sky or a huge flatscreen, and is scrimping and saving in every aspect of their life yet still struggles to make ends meet.

Oddly enough, I know many of these people. I know one person who lives it up on benefits (and I suspect they have a job on the side tbh)

[arista]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Yeah, funny how you only ever see people like her in the papers/news.

Never see anything about the benefit claimant who doesnt smoke or drink, doesnt have sky or a huge flatscreen, and is scrimping and saving in every aspect of their life yet still struggles to make ends meet.

Oddly enough, I know many of these people. I know one person who lives it up on benefits (and I suspect they have a job on the side tbh)

Grass them Up.

Do The Right Thing

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by arista

Grass them Up.

Do The Right Thing

Nothing at all to do with me.

And I am not sure they have a job anyway, just seems they must have to live the lifestyle they do when unemployed.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Nothing at all to do with me.

And I am not sure they have a job anyway, just seems they must have to live the lifestyle they do when unemployed.

OK Vicky

I will Let you off

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Yeah, funny how you only ever see people like her in the papers/news.

Never see anything about the benefit claimant who doesnt smoke or drink, doesnt have sky or a huge flatscreen, and is scrimping and saving in every aspect of their life yet still struggles to make ends meet.

Oddly enough, I know many of these people. I know one person who lives it up on benefits (and I suspect they have a job on the side tbh)

I see people like her every day? forget the news....its everywhere around here....people who simply never work and yet are always smoking and drinking?

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by the truth

I see people like her every day? forget the news....its everywhere around here....people who simply never work and yet are always smoking and drinking?

Can I ask you something without you taking offense?

Do you happen to live in a really rough council estate in a very bad area by any chance? Or does work take you to places like that a lot?

Because your experiences seem so different to mine (knowing loads of people like this woman, knowing families with 9 kids who have never worked, etc etc), and to many people in my circle of friends too.

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Can I ask you something without you taking offense?

Do you happen to live in a really rough council estate in a very bad area by any chance? Or does work take you to places like that a lot?

Because your experiences seem so different to mine (knowing loads of people like this woman, knowing families with 9 kids who have never worked, etc etc), and to many people in my circle of friends too.

I run 4 businesses dealing with jo public, dealing with 1000s of people....the stuff I see I couldnt even print on here.

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by the truth

I run 4 businesses dealing with jo public, dealing with 1000s of people....the stuff I see I couldnt even print on here.

Haha I can imagine

[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21881007

A row has erupted over whether a Budget initiative aimed at helping people get on the housing ladder could be used to fund the purchase of second homes.

Under the scheme, due to start next January, loans for those putting down 5% deposits would be guaranteed.

Labour said there was nothing to stop people using it to buy second homes.

The Treasury says this is not the point of the scheme but parents may be allowed to buy homes for their children when it is finalised.

The Help to Buy scheme was one of the most eye-catching initiatives in Wednesday's Budget, but Labour has said the policy is beset by confusion amid questions about who might benefit.

The aim of the policy, which will be available for homes up to £600,000 from January 2014, is to breathe new life into the housing market, which has been hit by banks demanding bigger deposits from homebuyers.

The final details have yet to be worked out but it could facilitate £130bn of home loans over three years.

Treasury sources initially stressed to the BBC that it was not designed for second homes but they would not be specifically excluded.

As the government sought to clarify the situation, Housing Minister Mark Prisk denied suggestions by Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls that the Help to Buy scheme was potentially a second-home "subsidy".

Only Tory parents can afford to buy houses for their children .....