Child Poverty

[WILF 49,737]

30 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

My biggest pet hate is the ‘ no jobs out there ‘ brigade, I’d love to kick the whole lot them right in the balls, cnuts don’t even look Cos every time I do there’s loads a jobs an I feel confident I could walk out mine today an get another tomorrow

I had this exact same conversation with a good pal of mine the other year.

He was saying the same as you but I said to him there’s something you ain’t thinking about......some people can’t afford to work !

Take my old area, a 2 bed house is going to cost you £1200-1500 a month to rent, just rent....that’s before council tax, water rates, electric, gas blah blah blah

How is a forklift driver on £400 a week before tax with a wife and a couple of kids going to afford that?......he is minus £100 a week before he makes himself a Sandwhich ! 
That bloke can’t afford to go to work......and that is wrong !

[Born Hunter 17,909]

5 minutes ago, WILF said:

I had this exact same conversation with a good pal of mine the other year.

He was saying the same as you but I said to him there’s something you ain’t thinking about......some people can’t afford to work !

Take my old area, a 2 bed house is going to cost you £1200-1500 a month to rent, just rent....that’s before council tax, water rates, electric, gas blah blah blah

How is a forklift driver on £400 a week before tax with a wife and a couple of kids going to afford that?......he is minus £100 a week before he makes himself a Sandwhich ! 
That bloke can’t afford to go to work......and that is wrong !

There’s no wonder you could afford to buy a farm in Ireland if you were living in a place that rents out two beds for 1500! Lol

Youd get a four bed here for half that I reckon.

[jetro 5,349]

5 hours ago, micky said:

 Its feckless parents who are responsible not the Government , back in the early 50s our neighbours had 16 kids and their dad was often out of work  and on the  dole but they got by !  they never lacked  for  Food or Warmth a nd never asked for anything  what they did have in heaps was Pride and Dignity .

Two neighbours beside me, one family 17 kids, the other 16, any a few more large families around here, they never seen a days hunger or want for anything

Atb j 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 16,823]

12 minutes ago, Born Hunter said:

There’s no wonder you could afford to buy a farm in Ireland if you were living in a place that rents out two beds for 1500! Lol

Youd get a four bed here for half that I reckon.

With all due respect mAte , Lincolnshire is an anomaly in the property market . I have a few mates there with nice houses that are reasonably priced. If they were sat at the Cambs / Suffolk border , they wouldn’t have a sniff of a mortgage there 

[iworkwhippets 13,137]

Fat idle bilge rat, lives over the way from me, never done a days work, has money for taxis and so on drug money the snidey git and whats more hes convinced this world owes him a living, world is full of em, it will never change

[sandymere 8,263]

45 minutes ago, socks said:

Spoken like a true corbinista

Just strikes me as common sense, you get what you pay for.

[sandymere 8,263]

https://fullfact.org/online/comparing-benefit-and-tax-fraud/

 

[Born Hunter 17,909]

6 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

With all due respect mAte , Lincolnshire is an anomaly in the property market . I have a few mates there with nice houses that are reasonably priced. If they were sat at the Cambs / Suffolk border , they wouldn’t have a sniff of a mortgage there 

I don’t live in lincs mate. But I accept it is cheaper around here and there is a population problem effecting house prices.

[THE STIFFMEISTER 16,823]

Im not going to give you a whole Oliver Twist poor me tale , but we were so poor we had to wank the dog off to feed the cat. Things like carpets , wallpaper and curtains were for other people. 

Although my mam is a treasure , I love her to bits, when I look back , if it wasn’t for her working ( and leaving me at home alone ) Id probably have been taken into care. 

My mam worked factory hours with long shifts , heavy work for a woman . She has arthritis as well , so it literally crippled her and she lived on tablets for years. Bless her she was a saint. 

Somewhere in this country right now , in an inner city dump in London , Manchester , Newcastle , Edinburgh or Middlesbrough there will be young lad with a similar existence to my childhood but without a strong mother figure to help , provide and work for him. 

And he’ll have no chance to grow and thrive. 

Meanwhile some carpet bagger from Sudan will be walking into terminal 5 at Heathrow and start his quilting tablets next week for aids 

something isn’t right when that can be allowed to happen 

[Qbgrey 4,260]

Have,nt read all the posts but i do believe the govt need to get the lazy benefit lot out into employment,my cousins one of em,gets a job then deliberately looses it ,dresses in rags,even had to borrow money to get a cab to his own dads furneral.proffesional ponches.its my daily goal to go out and try earn a coin,shows your kids you are responsible.

In this lockdown id happjly earn 50 aday wiping a cows arse to provide for my lot.i had my very first interview in my life with a huge construction firm,was much more experienced role ,and more technical than id ever worked on.told the project manager doing interview the truth,but i said to him"i been on sites all my life,let me do 2 weeks if im not what your looking for i shake your hand,and walk away,no payment needed?".he said ok,stayed with them 8yrs,got put up the ladder too,earnt good.our govt is giving too much out to the wrong people,here in uk and abroad.

[WILF 49,737]

If you took everyone off the benefits system tomorrow do any of you think you would get one penny back?......seriously ?

Would you f**k....and that’s why kids shouldn’t be starving ! 

[WILF 49,737]

1 minute ago, W. Katchum said:

We shouldn’t be wanting to take em all off,  we should be encouraging them to want to go to work mate, how we do that I don’t know. But I do know that the biggest majority work prob love it an thrive if it happened, I think like iv said a lot these Filk start off being lazy an not wanting to work but end up an a real rutt 
 

we should always have benefits for those that need it I reckon, to do away with them would be a shame as it’s part of who we are, same as the nhs

Yeah fair one mate, all I meant is that it’s easy to get into the normal old “f***ing scroungers” debate but lads ain’t thinking about it......look at the current situation, lads who have grafted and paid in and they can’t get £94 a week to keep them going !!

The BIG question should be, what have the governments done with all that gargantuan amounts of money ?.......what did it pay for?.....because it obviously hasn’t been for what they told everyone it’s for  

[THE STIFFMEISTER 16,823]

Stashed away like they had in the Icelandic banks , necky c**ts 

[jetro 5,349]

1 hour ago, WILF said:

I had this exact same conversation with a good pal of mine the other year.

He was saying the same as you but I said to him there’s something you ain’t thinking about......some people can’t afford to work !

Take my old area, a 2 bed house is going to cost you £1200-1500 a month to rent, just rent....that’s before council tax, water rates, electric, gas blah blah blah

How is a forklift driver on £400 a week before tax with a wife and a couple of kids going to afford that?......he is minus £100 a week before he makes himself a Sandwhich ! 
That bloke can’t afford to go to work......and that is wrong !

Something similar was on the radio here not to long ago. This lad, working full time, was earning close to 600 a week. 

Didn't drink or smoke, no social habits really.  After travel to and from work, rent, electric ect ect paid, he was down 20 euro every week.

His wages wasn't meeting the price of living where he lived 

Atb j 

[dogmandont 10,060]

1 hour ago, W. Katchum said:

My 13 year old lad used to do weekend in farm with us, shit down kicked in an now he working more days an ain’t far off your 50’quid a day wage haha only works around 4 hours a day an so far this month he got about 400 odd coming his way on pay day an still a week left to earn more  

 

with kids it a case of monkey see, monkey do, they see you going to work an earn food for the table then it’s normal for them to want to do same

Your lad reminds me of myself.