State of the benefit system on BBC2 now

[cazzer]

Piss boiler part 2?

[Negative Creep]

Regardless of the moral aspect, there is some truth in it. Who is going to bother working40 hours a week when you can get the same for doing nothing?

[nyxster]

I think that's the point, take away benefits and they have no choice, work or starve.

Edited by nyxster on Thursday 27th October 21:13

[Benjurs]

That chap....'I want to work BUT....if I work I'm only earning a few pounds more and I'd miss watching my kids growing up.....

WTF???

Seriously the benefits should be curtailed for people like him...there's two of them and their obese child should be at school all day...so what's he missing..?

If there's a job he should be forced to work it else his benefits should be cut...

Fecks sake...

I don't know if I can watch anymore.....

[Negative Creep]

Great. What if they can't find a job?

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

I haven't seen anybody who is even remotely employable yet.

[jaybirduk]

Having just watched Dale Farm I don't think my piss can take any more boiling. I'll pass.

[Benjurs]

He just said he could get a job...but he didn't want to because he would only be a few quid better off....

Next arguement...

[EDLT]

That "engineer" from Ecuador probably wouldn't be able to afford his Islington flat if he got a job as an engineer.

[BadRotorFinger]

Words fail me...............

[Victor McDade]

The engineer.

'If the government didn't pay my rent I'd have to work very long hours and even then I'd struggle with the rent'

[VeeTEC]

Housing benefit is being capped at £1600/month.

"It's not fair. The families might have to move out of Islington, or maybe even out of London."

Awww...bless 'em

[Victor McDade]

'even if we got a job, half of our pay would go on childcare;


Welcome to the real world Madam Scouse.

[Deva Link]

People who work need to be paid more - the difference is too marginal for many people.

[Victor McDade]

Deva Link said:

People who work need to be paid more - the difference is too marginal for many people.

Alternatively, reduce the value of benefits to make sure the difference between minimum wage work vs a life on benefits is significant.

[Jasandjules]

Negative Creep said:

Regardless of the moral aspect, there is some truth in it. Who is going to bother working40 hours a week when you can get the same for doing nothing?

Actually a mate of mine made far more on benefits than he could earn working in a warehouse...

[VeeTEC]

Deva Link said:

People who work need to be paid more - the difference is too marginal for many people.

No. They need to stop being workshy s. Looks like America have got the right idea. Work and you're eligible for benefits. Don't work? fk off lazy.

[cazzer]

Although the difference in the US is that if you have worked...and you lose your job, you get very good benefits.
For a while.

[ninja-lewis]

Victor McDade said:

Alternatively, reduce the value of benefits to make sure the difference between minimum wage work vs a life on benefits is significant.

Or just don't taper them away so steeply at the same time as a worker becomes liable for tax and NI.

[Westy Pre-Lit]

Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

I haven't seen anybody who is even remotely employable yet.

Once they have no money to put food in their mouths that would soon change.