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Could you live on £7.50 a day?
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Originally posted by vetran View Post
£53 is plenty for food if all your other costs are met.Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson -
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostHe shouldn't need to as he has a job, paying someone just enough to survive is the incentive for the claimant to do the same.
£53 is plenty for food if all your other costs are met.
The idea of making politicians live on this amount is to ensure they understand properly how their policies effect people.
There have been several programs over the years where celebrities including former MPs have lived with the poor members of society whether they are pensioners or families on benefits where one of them has a disability."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post£53 is plenty for food if all your other costs are met.
Pasta, potatoes, market veg, just avoid processed food (apart from a few cheap tinned beans).
I'd just live off wine boxes personally...If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.Comment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostLots of people on benefits are actually working.
The idea of making politicians live on this amount is to ensure they understand properly how their policies effect people.
There have been several programs over the years where celebrities including former MPs have lived with the poor members of society whether they are pensioners or families on benefits where one of them has a disability.Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostLots of people on benefits are actually working.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostThen the 'jobs' that exist in the UK don't pay enough, why should the tax payer subsidise firms that are either greedy of not viable.
If the electorate hadn't repeatedly voted in new lie the wages would have gone up. Instead 'new' labour imported cheap labour and kept the unemployed on benefits through a mini boom.
Work fair, benefit cuts and immigration controls are the only way out IMHO.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostThen the 'jobs' that exist in the UK don't pay enough, why should the tax payer subsidise firms that are either greedy of not viable.
This is why I don't like workfare. I have no problem with unemployed people volunteering or being told to volunteer for a charity but I have an issue with Poundland etc being given a worker for free. Lots of people have done some sort of menial work throughout their lives and the people who tend to get caught by these policies are actually useful i.e. know how to stack a shelf."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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He said he could do it. Now it's up to him to prove it, if he expects anything he says in future to be believed.
But of course he doesn't actually care whether he's believed or not. He's just a bully boy making sure he and his cronies are all right, and sod the peasantry.Comment
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