Another victim of our social safety net. The article doesn’t say, but this guy’s probably paid in thousands over the years, like most of us, but when he needs the state they’re not only absent, but malicious.
When bankers crashed the global economy Tories chose to impoverish the sick and disabled.
This is the result.
They made no secret of it. Every person who voted Tory is complicit.
I have no sympathy whatsoever. They try and get you with the emotive writing but, if you actually read the details, you can see this guy is full of crap.
He starts by saying “[I] was assessed as being “fit for work”; I was ill but not ill enough”. Then goes on to work another three jobs. So clearly he was fit for work.
He then goes to shit on Tories for a while, making it clear this is nothing but a political jab.
He also says “I rent privately, an extortionate £1,080 a month for a studio, and the most someone in my area can claim in benefits is capped at £1,250”, so at least he’s self aware. That is a stupid price for a studio. He needs to find somewhere cheaper, find a room mate if he has to, else get out of London.
And dear god there’s a lot to unpack in this next paragraph, so I’ll just use bullet points.
>At the end of 2018, I did the sums and realised that after paying for diesel and the London congestion charge, I was effectively grafting for £4 an hour, which was £6.55 short of the London living wage at the time.
1. 2018. The ‘Cost of Living Crisis’ started in 2021, so everything before and including this is just background info.
2. He has to remove expenses to rack up pity points with the ‘£4 an hour’. You’re not working for £4 an hour, that would be illegal. You’re making a lot more, and choosing to waste it.
3. Speaking of wasting it, **this guy has a car**. Only about half of households in London own cars. That’s households, and this guy is running a car while on benefits, and regularly enters the congestion zone. Why the fuck do you need to drive in the centre of London? It has the best public transport in the entire country.
And just to top it all off, is this article a plea for help in the face of starvation? Is this a case of ‘Help me I can’t feed my kids’? Is it fuck. This is a grand plea of “I don’t think I can work, but I clearly still can. The government isn’t giving me enough money for my joyrides past parliament. I’ve already been using food banks, and if it gets worse I might have to go back”.
That’s terrible 🙁
The main problem here is the extortionate rent of £1050 pm for a studio. Do we just keep raising benefits indefinitely so that 90% of it can go straight to some slumlord? The cost of housing has to be tackled.
Lol the guardian are almost as bad as the Tories such a hypocritical media outlet publishing this yet they were leaders in the character assassination of Corbyn the very politician who spoke out against these exact sorts of misjustices.
the tories – lovely bunch of arseholes aren’t they
He looks after his kids part of the time. His wife looks after them for the rest of the time, and she also gets all the child benefit, so she should be contributing something to his costs of looking after them.
He is being treated as a single person because that is more or less what he is. If his wife is on benefits, she will be getting more because she won’t be treated as a single person.
So the headline is hardly accurate. He has £50 a week mainly for him to live on, with a bit of that going to his kids.
And the reason he has so little left is that he chooses to rent a place that costs £1000 a month. Is he supposed to get extra public money to pay for that?
1. If the kids were living with him why was his ex-partner in receipt of child benefit?
2. Since the kids were with him why is he not entitled to child support payments from the kids mother?
3. Most importantly, why is it the governments responsibility to give anyone any money in any case?
People should earn their own money and manage in whatever they earn. Why should the government take from Peter to pay Paul?
Why is Coffey still minister of DWP she’s an asshole
Most workers have only £50 a week to live on. The UK economy is completely broken when the biggest companies here post huge profits but the employees see nothing from it. This is not just an issue for those on benefits, it’s an issue for the majority too.
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Another victim of our social safety net. The article doesn’t say, but this guy’s probably paid in thousands over the years, like most of us, but when he needs the state they’re not only absent, but malicious.
When bankers crashed the global economy Tories chose to impoverish the sick and disabled.
This is the result.
They made no secret of it. Every person who voted Tory is complicit.
I have no sympathy whatsoever. They try and get you with the emotive writing but, if you actually read the details, you can see this guy is full of crap.
He starts by saying “[I] was assessed as being “fit for work”; I was ill but not ill enough”. Then goes on to work another three jobs. So clearly he was fit for work.
He then goes to shit on Tories for a while, making it clear this is nothing but a political jab.
He also says “I rent privately, an extortionate £1,080 a month for a studio, and the most someone in my area can claim in benefits is capped at £1,250”, so at least he’s self aware. That is a stupid price for a studio. He needs to find somewhere cheaper, find a room mate if he has to, else get out of London.
And dear god there’s a lot to unpack in this next paragraph, so I’ll just use bullet points.
>At the end of 2018, I did the sums and realised that after paying for diesel and the London congestion charge, I was effectively grafting for £4 an hour, which was £6.55 short of the London living wage at the time.
1. 2018. The ‘Cost of Living Crisis’ started in 2021, so everything before and including this is just background info.
2. He has to remove expenses to rack up pity points with the ‘£4 an hour’. You’re not working for £4 an hour, that would be illegal. You’re making a lot more, and choosing to waste it.
3. Speaking of wasting it, **this guy has a car**. Only about half of households in London own cars. That’s households, and this guy is running a car while on benefits, and regularly enters the congestion zone. Why the fuck do you need to drive in the centre of London? It has the best public transport in the entire country.
And just to top it all off, is this article a plea for help in the face of starvation? Is this a case of ‘Help me I can’t feed my kids’? Is it fuck. This is a grand plea of “I don’t think I can work, but I clearly still can. The government isn’t giving me enough money for my joyrides past parliament. I’ve already been using food banks, and if it gets worse I might have to go back”.
That’s terrible 🙁
The main problem here is the extortionate rent of £1050 pm for a studio. Do we just keep raising benefits indefinitely so that 90% of it can go straight to some slumlord? The cost of housing has to be tackled.
Lol the guardian are almost as bad as the Tories such a hypocritical media outlet publishing this yet they were leaders in the character assassination of Corbyn the very politician who spoke out against these exact sorts of misjustices.
the tories – lovely bunch of arseholes aren’t they
He looks after his kids part of the time. His wife looks after them for the rest of the time, and she also gets all the child benefit, so she should be contributing something to his costs of looking after them.
He is being treated as a single person because that is more or less what he is. If his wife is on benefits, she will be getting more because she won’t be treated as a single person.
So the headline is hardly accurate. He has £50 a week mainly for him to live on, with a bit of that going to his kids.
And the reason he has so little left is that he chooses to rent a place that costs £1000 a month. Is he supposed to get extra public money to pay for that?
1. If the kids were living with him why was his ex-partner in receipt of child benefit?
2. Since the kids were with him why is he not entitled to child support payments from the kids mother?
3. Most importantly, why is it the governments responsibility to give anyone any money in any case?
People should earn their own money and manage in whatever they earn. Why should the government take from Peter to pay Paul?
Why is Coffey still minister of DWP she’s an asshole
Most workers have only £50 a week to live on. The UK economy is completely broken when the biggest companies here post huge profits but the employees see nothing from it. This is not just an issue for those on benefits, it’s an issue for the majority too.