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UK politician would live on £53pw benefit

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  • #52
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Pappa Charlie wrote: »
    You are a first class wanker!

    What is a first class wanker as opposed to a lower class one?


  • #53
    Pappa Charlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Pappa Charlie


    galwayrush wrote: »
    What is a first class wanker as opposed to a lower class one?

    Look in the mirror!


  • #54
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Pappa Charlie wrote: »
    Look in the mirror!

    Could you please get out of my mirror?


  • #55
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,663 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Phoebas wrote: »
    They'd probably go and get better jobs.

    I have no problem with that...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #56
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Most people I know on the dole hate it and are searching really hard all the time for work.
    HondaSami wrote: »
    We can all survive on little money if we have to
    No we all can't.


  • #57
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Madam_X wrote: »
    Most people I know on the dole hate it and are searching really hard all the time for work.

    No we all can't.

    Improvisation
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  • #58
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,663 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    hooradiation wrote: »
    Yeah, we tried that before.
    Didn't work out too well.

    History, it's a thing and you should probably pay more attention to it.

    We did...? Seems that paying them bundles isn;t workign either...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #59
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »
    Because I'd rather politicians focussed on getting the economy back on track than engaging in cheap political stunts.

    Also a minister generally works extremely hard, has a very difficult job and is under constant media scrutiny.

    A person on the dole spends their time scratching themselves, putting bets on the races and drinking cans of Karpackie.
    Pappa Charlie wrote: »
    You are a first class wanker!

    why was this given a red card and the first one not?


  • #60
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    It makes a lot of sense. The minister for transport should have to take the train / bus and find a parking space when they do drive. Ministers for Health and Education should have to use the public health and education systems, ministers for finance should be subject to all the taxes and cuts they impose, etc etc etc.

    The only way politicians will empathise with how their decisions affect ordinary people is if they themselves have to live like ordinary people.


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  • #61
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    IM0 wrote: »
    why was this given a red card and the first one not?

    Probably because one was a joke and the other personal abuse... It's not particularly difficult to work out.


  • #62
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »
    Just trying to put forward some hard truths about the state of Irish society,

    Those at the other end of society, those beloved establishment people you so admire, have done untold damage to this nation and have walked away from the ashes as rich people. It's these cunts who should be queueing at the dole office and searching for cheap beer deals.


  • #63
    Sergeant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Those at the other end of society, those beloved establishment people you so admire, have done untold damage to this nation and have walked away from the ashes as rich people. It's these cunts who should be queueing at the dole office and searching for cheap beer deals.

    That's how the cards get dealt. Deal with it. They won't be queuing up. The fact that many people take advantage of our ridiculously generous social welfare system stands.


  • #64
    Pappa Charlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Pappa Charlie


    Fine Gael policy at its best!


  • #65
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Sergeant wrote: »
    That's how the cards get dealt.

    The game is rigged.


  • #66
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Torygraph - Iain Duncan Smith may yet have to eat his words and attempt to live on £53 a week
    A petition with more than 455,000 names calling on the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to back up his claim that he could live on £53 a week by doing so for a year was due to be handed in to his Whitehall department today.


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  • #67
    Anynama141
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Anynama141


    IM0 wrote: »
    why was this given a red card and the first one not?
    I'm thinking because one was obviously a joke and the other wasn't.


  • #68
    Anynama141
    Closed Accounts Posts: 964 ✭✭✭Anynama141


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    It makes a lot of sense. The minister for transport should have to take the train / bus and find a parking space when they do drive. Ministers for Health and Education should have to use the public health and education systems, ministers for finance should be subject to all the taxes and cuts they impose, etc etc etc.

    The only way politicians will empathise with how their decisions affect ordinary people is if they themselves have to live like ordinary people.
    Who do you see volunteering for incessant public hatred and media scrutiny for minimum wage payments? If you think Fianna Failure were corrupt before, you ain't seen nothing yet...


  • #69
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Torygraph - Iain Duncan Smith may yet have to eat his words and attempt to live on £53 a week

    If he did it they would be complaining he is off proving a point instead of doing his job. He cant win


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