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Originally posted by supermouse
Originally posted by SearchLightsInc
I disagree, we urgently need to start paying proper wages. Did you not read the part where i mentioned the minimum wage has never risen above or on-par with inflation? Wages have stagnated, living on £56-70 a week is a bare BARE minimum. People deserve more than 6.50 an hour, this is an expensive country to live in!
We should be building more affordable housing for the people who do go out to work so they dont have to pay private landlords half their wage just for a roof over their heads.
So far all the conservative party have done with their time in power is made the rich richer and that trend looks set to continue with the privatization of the NHS. Labour are a joke. Libdems? I'd rather vote a 6 year old into office.edit on 30-9-2012 by SearchLightsInc because: (no reason given)
Well I think everyone can agree that making the rich richer is a good thing - being rich is nice right?
Don't be fooled by the term "affordable housing" that's just a scam to make housing more expensive. For example, if you give the London scroungers £500 a week housing benefit then it forces the rents up for the rest of us. It is an expensive country to live in because of all the handouts we are forced to pay (to unemployed scroungers, middle class landlords and rich land-owners). Massive problems have been caused in London because Labour stole half of whetever anyone built for "affordable housing" and subsidised half of London households with housing benefit. How can an honest person compete against scrounging on that scale?
You mention minimum wage not keeping up with inflation. Surely you realise that the reason we have inflation is because of the massive money-printing we are doing to give away to all the scroungers? Without the scroungers we wouldn't have inflation and the minimum wage would be fine.
I've worked for less than half that minimum wage, in a great job in a fast food place. I lived well because my rent was low and I got some free tacos.
This survey forms part of a wider piece of research supported by MasterCard, exploring the role that prepaid cards might play in the delivery of direct payments and benefits. It comes at a crucial time as the Government prepares to launch a new ‘Universal Credit’ in autumn 2013 that will replace existing income-based benefits and tax credits.
The results also build upon the findings of the recent British Social Attitudes Survey, which found the percentage of people who believe governments have a responsibility to the unemployed to have enough to live on has plummeted from 85% of voters in 2001 to just 59% in 2011.
Demos’s Deputy Director Claudia Wood said: 'These findings paint a worrying picture of a nation divided between welfare claimants and the rest.
“It suggests that many now view the welfare state as a form of charity towards the poor rather than social insurance for all. If the majority still saw the welfare state as an insurance scheme - a contract of protection in return for contribution - then people would be more supportive of autonomy for benefit claimants.”
She added: “The government’s rhetoric around 'problem families' and ‘scroungers’ is clearly shaking people’s faith in the welfare state. Those wishing to restore it will need to find a response that reassures a nervous public.”
Marion King, President of MasterCard UK and Ireland, said “The roll out of direct payments and the introduction of Universal Credit have the potential to increase financial inclusion, especially if the combined payment is loaded onto a pre-paid card. This is because the card will give access to more ways to pay for goods and services while simultaneously enabling individuals to budget and save. Prepaid cards can also provide local authorities with the ability to monitor and control spending where appropriate.”
“It is important that the subject of control be discussed, because some local authorities are already using this technology in a limited fashion. This is no longer a hypothetical debate.”
Originally posted by teapot
Not only are the slaves required to work for nothing but a bus pass, a survey published today by DEMOs says that the majority (of a sample 2,052 people) believe benefit recipients should have their benefits ringfenced, ie claimants should be restricted on what they spend their benefits!
The survey was commissioned in partnership with Mastercard and from the results, it is clear to me that this forms part of the doing away with cash and switching to the 'electronic transactions only' banking-cartel agenda to lock us all down.
This survey forms part of a wider piece of research supported by MasterCard, exploring the role that prepaid cards might play in the delivery of direct payments and benefits. It comes at a crucial time as the Government prepares to launch a new ‘Universal Credit’ in autumn 2013 that will replace existing income-based benefits and tax credits.
The results also build upon the findings of the recent British Social Attitudes Survey, which found the percentage of people who believe governments have a responsibility to the unemployed to have enough to live on has plummeted from 85% of voters in 2001 to just 59% in 2011.
Demos’s Deputy Director Claudia Wood said: 'These findings paint a worrying picture of a nation divided between welfare claimants and the rest.
“It suggests that many now view the welfare state as a form of charity towards the poor rather than social insurance for all. If the majority still saw the welfare state as an insurance scheme - a contract of protection in return for contribution - then people would be more supportive of autonomy for benefit claimants.”
She added: “The government’s rhetoric around 'problem families' and ‘scroungers’ is clearly shaking people’s faith in the welfare state. Those wishing to restore it will need to find a response that reassures a nervous public.”
Marion King, President of MasterCard UK and Ireland, said “The roll out of direct payments and the introduction of Universal Credit have the potential to increase financial inclusion, especially if the combined payment is loaded onto a pre-paid card. This is because the card will give access to more ways to pay for goods and services while simultaneously enabling individuals to budget and save. Prepaid cards can also provide local authorities with the ability to monitor and control spending where appropriate.”
“It is important that the subject of control be discussed, because some local authorities are already using this technology in a limited fashion. This is no longer a hypothetical debate.”
www.demos.co.uk...
edit on 2/10/2012 by teapot because: grammer
It really is a shame that people no longer know how or why to stick together.
The breaking down communities happened with thatchers right to buy scheme,
Then came the mass immigration which decimated white working class communities,
I believe government now is full of privately educated citizens? (cons,labour,libs)
What chance do we really stand at clawing this country back from the lazy upper-class fecks who have never done a weeks graft in their lives?
Now im apologising for my rant
Hey squaddie you earn too much for social housing in Tory Hammersmith
The lengths some right-wing buffoons will go to gain self-publicity and climb the greasy political pole shafting the squaddie born and raised in Hammersmith & Fulham is despicable. Andrew Johnson and Mark Prisk hang your heads in shame!
Reader next time you hear any Tory talking of returning heroes or how grateful they are to the men in khaki who put their lives on the line, or in the next day or so when the news tells us of yet another UK soldier killed in Afghanistan remember, this government is denying them the right to have children and a roof over their head!
speye.wordpress.com...
Originally posted by teapot
Here is an amusingly presented blog about the cost of housing in London:
Hey squaddie you earn too much for social housing in Tory Hammersmith
The lengths some right-wing buffoons will go to gain self-publicity and climb the greasy political pole shafting the squaddie born and raised in Hammersmith & Fulham is despicable. Andrew Johnson and Mark Prisk hang your heads in shame!
Reader next time you hear any Tory talking of returning heroes or how grateful they are to the men in khaki who put their lives on the line, or in the next day or so when the news tells us of yet another UK soldier killed in Afghanistan remember, this government is denying them the right to have children and a roof over their head!
speye.wordpress.com...
May seem a little off-topic but since the MOD has announced (www.dailymail.co.uk...) there will be another 8,000 redundancies come January, I just wonder how many are seeing what I'm seeing? How long do you think before we shall see workfare 'option' National Service 4 Dole?edit on 3/10/2012 by teapot because: add link