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I normally dont have a lot of time for Edwina Currie but having heard her saying there are no people actually starving in this country I have to say I totally agree with her. She went along to the house of one woman, mother of three who is 'so poor' she is having to accept food parcels (worth £35) from a local charity but in the house was a very large well groom boxer dog, two or three budgies, a large TV, and mobile phones this is a 'starving' family. In an interview today the woman in question said she was so angry at Edwina for doubting her, when questioned further she said if she didnt have the handouts she d have to get a job that she didnt like, and she didnt see why she should be unhappy. By the end of that interview she wasnt the only one feeling angry
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What channel and what time was that FC?
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Hi BB I think mainly in news programme thats where I saw it, they were also discussing it in detail on Radio 5 alive last night and just now interviewed the lady on The One Show
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Well maybe thats because no ones feeding them as opposed to them living on benefits which is a whole different story and would warrent a thread on its own
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Listening to another interview this morning with a 'poor person' she was bemoaning the fact that she was now so poor she would have use hand me downs for her new babies and as she was pregnant she had a yearning for an Indian takeaway which she now couldnt afford, she was then getting ready for taking the car out for the school run.
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How sad, seems they were let down by Social Services...but I don't suppose anyone will take responsibility, pass the buck, blame the government, throw a sickie (poor stressed out social workers) and have a strike so some more 'ordinary' people can slip through the net.
I watched Edwina Currie the other night and like Funkychick I thought she talked a lot of sense.
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There's a big difference between the really needy and some of the people who live off benefit....I noticed the young woman who was mentioned at the start of this thread had managed to find money to have her hair styled and coloured and her nails were sporting coloured nail varnish...!
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that couple so sad but why they no go to Elizabeth fynn charity british legion the list go on of the places to get help...the social workers need better training they should have known...
talking to an 'x' m.p who sole intrest this year was to get foxtrot right then go into panto maybe not the right person to ask..
i know i sounding very tory which i not,but look at average wage of teacher dr's etc time they pay morgage and in my son case both need car pay extra tax and god knows what else the money they left with is not far away from some people on benifits...it very difficult to say who wrong or right
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Sorry SD but I dont know any doctor who money is similar to those on benefits
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he pays his rent has to pay half of road running cars pay child care work from 7am untill quite often 12.Midnight.i use dr as example lets use your job you get up and work. time you paid all your rent no help all out of own pocket your water rates community tax no heating help..i assume you pay for all household repairs.i just spent time in two bed house brand new kitchen and bathroom all repairs free no rent to pay or any other bills apart from gas and electric,never worked and 4 offspring all following same path.retirment pension be the same as yours even though five people never done days work in life...You my friend have just paid for all that.It makes me pretty pi88ed.
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......but SD we are singing from the same hymn sheet which is why I started this thread
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yes we are i just got confused with the two threads robbies apprentship and this one..and as edwina and miss widdicombe are hoping to get parts in panto,then a panto horse's ar8e where they belong
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I m not bothered with pantos SD I know so many people who are VERY comfortable on benefits and far better of than me and NO-ONE s starving in this country they may have to cut down and may be inconvienced but no way is anyone starving That couple that Gawden used as an example are not the norm, cant imagine what happened there but it is nonsense saying people are walking 12 miles to a soup kitchen every day, there is loads of help out there, I can only presume the learning difficulty factor meant they didnt i=understand how to get help, but where are the two peoples families, easy to blame SW but where are the immediate family, friends, neighbours
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i agree,i worded it badly..in this country no one starves.i do belive this couple had mental issues or it a story well off beam designed to annoye people....yes were was family friends.you dont commit suicide just like that as a rule without some give away signs.....there plenty help out there as i said british legion elizabeth fyn,how they not get refered i dont understand...he was in the forces and would have known
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This has just been posted by the BBC website:
Cap child tax credit after four children, says MP
A Conservative MP has suggested that caps should be put on benefits paid for children in workless households.
In an article for ConservativeHome, backbench MP Harriett Baldwin proposed that unemployed families get child tax credits for no more than four children.
She acknowledged it was a controversial idea but said the issue of children growing up in workless households was "extremely serious".
But Lib Dem MP Jenny Willott said the idea could end up penalising children.
The government already plans to put an overall £26,000-a-year cap on the amount of benefits a family can get - equivalent to £500 per week per family - from 2013, with some exemptions.
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..and as edwina and miss widdicombe are hoping to get parts in panto,then a panto horse's ar8e where they belong
SD - FYI: Edwina Curry is NOT appearing in Panto this year. She was invited to do panto this year in Windsor as a good fairy. But she declined. Article
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there you go give then, give the girl her due fairy not really her best acting role and widdy got whitches part first.
do it not worry you that they got their acting skills in parliment not RADA..panto what they aspire to...can you really listen to that link take her seriously or indeed the rest of them
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how would you deal with it.I am not any of the three parties i green so a limited family of four sits well with me.The extended family sorting some of the problems not the state,
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