‘I fear the winter and hope for nothing’
Welcome to 21st century Britain:
The television is our only window on a life we once led. We sit destroyed by poverty and watch the world go by as if we were dead but have yet to fall over. While watching the TV we see MPs and MEPs who spend more on taxis than we get to live on and they are telling the country they are going to get tough on us and people like us because we live on benefits.
I’m off out to slap anyone patriotic.
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 at 12:49pm under ...In a brewery, New Labour
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MPs and MEPs need taxis.
People like me on disability benefits don’t need to live.
That is their belief and their calculation.
As an equality exercise, why not use the same lie detector technology and interrogation and examination techneques used on benefit claimants on MPs and MEPs when giving their expenses details. Or during tax claims, or on non-doms. Why not start with Tescos and thier inventive accounting? I’ll bet my wheelchair the tax take increase would be many, many times greater than that lost by the amount of fraud in the system.
It must be remembered, that the figures for fraud in the benefit system always includes the amount lost to the Treasury through incompetence. They like it that way. Separate the two figures and the real story would be how come the benefit system is so unbelievably inefficient, including the cost of appeals subsequently won by claimants (something like 80% won by claimants in the case of Disability Living Allowance), wrongly given or taken benefits, incorrect information inputting, etc. In addition, even the government agreee not all those who could get the benefits actually apply for disability/carer’s benefits.
Twat the sick and disabled: they deserve it, eh?
FWIW, the Disability Discrimination Act doesn’t work in the employment or service sectors either.
It must be remembered, that the figures for fraud in the benefit system always includes the amount lost to the Treasury through incompetence.
How do you mean, precisely?
ejh’s latest blog post… But not today the struggle
Like this:
http://www.nao.org.uk/pn/05-06/05061387.htm
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