Under 25s could lose housing benefit - Cameron

[absolutelegend]

there seems to be a widespread consensus of opinion that the only answer to sorting out education is to throw money at it. You could triple the education budget overnight but, if curricula, assessments and policies stayed the same, nothing would improve.

Maybe not but more teachers and more learning resources certainly would help.

[davieG]

All that's missing is the cap with a letter D.

Ha! I thought he was trying to shit in their classroom especially with that look.

[Daggers]

Ha! I thought he was trying to shit in their classroom especially with that look.

He's shat in every classroom.

[Bellend Sebastian]

Further evidence of the brilliant life that can be had on benefits:

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2012/06/29/desperate-jobseeker-sets-himself-alight-outside-selly-oak-jobcentre-97319-31284847/

[Daggers]

Further evidence of the brilliant life that can be had on benefits:

http://www.birmingha...97319-31284847/

Leaving Birmingham by any means necessary sounds a good choice to me.

In other less funny news:

“I now believe that this governments economic policies – cutting spending in a depression, reducing welfare benefits for the most vulnerable, removing employment protections and cutting taxes for the richest – are completely wrong, economically unjustifiable, and I cannot in good conscience defend their actions.”

Torbay Councillor Matthew James has resigned from the Tory Party after calling Cameron’s plans to slash Housing Benefit for those under 25 “the final straw”.

In a statement on his website Cllr James says he will remain as an independent but that a “a misguided and damaging commitment to austerity” means he must leave for the sake of his “own integrity”. Basically he’s saying “I used to be Tory, but then I grew up. Sorry about that.”

[Rincewind]

Had to smile at a tweet from a jobsearch site.

If you are going on holiday don't forget to have your job alerts diverted to where you are or you may miss out on a job opputunity.

I wish I could afford to go on holiday on my £71 pw.

[Daggers]

Had to smile at a tweet from a jobsearch site.

If you are going on holiday don't forget to have your job alerts diverted to where you are or you may miss out on a job opputunity.

I wish I could afford to go on holiday on my £71 pw.

Get a family going then, Ken. Unemployed families live the life of Riley - although I hope for their sake it's not my dog Riley's life which consists mainly of eating chicken shit and shoving his nose up my other dog's arse.

[Rincewind]

I couldnt have a fortnight anyway. I have to sign on every other Tuesday or they'll take it off me. Thought it was the same for all on JSA unless they are disabled then they can hobble to the quacks every six months For another excuse me from work ' letter.

[absolutelegend]

I wish I could afford to go on holiday on my £71 pw.

That's mad. How are you meant to pay rent and bills out of that?

[Rincewind]

I get benefits for rent and Council Tax. Everything else I have to pay for. Changing my name to Riley apparently anyone with that name are living it up.

First they calculated that I have £10 income which is less than £71 JSA so I am allowed the full rate If I earnt £72 they would say I am bringing in more than what it is calculated I should live on so that would be taken off benefits.

Well something like that.

[Guest MattP]

Leaving Birmingham by any means necessary sounds a good choice to me.

In other less funny news:

“I now believe that this governments economic policies – cutting spending in a depression, reducing welfare benefits for the most vulnerable, removing employment protections and cutting taxes for the richest – are completely wrong, economically unjustifiable, and I cannot in good conscience defend their actions.”

Torbay Councillor Matthew James has resigned from the Tory Party after calling Cameron’s plans to slash Housing Benefit for those under 25 “the final straw”.

In a statement on his website Cllr James says he will remain as an independent but that a “a misguided and damaging commitment to austerity” means he must leave for the sake of his “own integrity”. Basically he’s saying “I used to be Tory, but then I grew up. Sorry about that.”

Usually supposed to get more Conservative as you get older aren't you? I was a Liberal at Uni until I realised the World isn't a bed of Roses.

Reading his bio on his website you have to wonder why on earth he ever joined the Conservatives.

[Fox92]

I wish I could afford to go on holiday on my £71 pw.

Obviously, you currently have bigger ties than me, but I get less than that, mainly because I got banned for five months (thankfully I got a job a few days after).

I already have a very successful range of Daggers merch.

[Rincewind]

You get more intolerent of others the more you have to think of yourself and family. When younger you have the idology about saving the world. People tend to less of that when a wife mortgage kids come along not always in that order.

[Daggers]

I was a Liberal at Uni until I realised the World isn't a bed of Roses.

They'd melt.

[Guest MattP]

They'd melt.

They were destroyed when Bon Jovi took his women back.

[Rincewind]

Some people stopped being Liberal when they realised the world was not a bed of roses for everyone and they were determined it would not be them left with the weeds.

[MooseBreath]

That's mad. How are you meant to pay rent and bills out of that?

Obviousy rent is free. They just don't think to mention that because they take it as a given that they shouldn't have to pay for their own accommodation. Likewise council tax. They do have to pay for gas and electricity at maybe £50pm, so that leaves them over £250pm to spend on whatever they want. You've never wondered why they're all in the pub every day drinking and smoking? They've got money to burn, pretty much literally.

[Bellend Sebastian]

Obviousy rent is free. They just don't think to mention that because they take it as a given that they shouldn't have to pay for their own accommodation. Likewise council tax. They do have to pay for gas and electricity at maybe £50pm, so that leaves them over £250pm to spend on whatever they want. You've never wondered why they're all in the pub every day drinking and smoking? They've got money to burn, pretty much literally.

Some of them might spend it on food.

I wish I could heat and light Bellend Towers for £50 a month

[Rincewind]

Obviousy rent is free. They just don't think to mention that because they take it as a given that they shouldn't have to pay for their own accommodation. Likewise council tax. They do have to pay for gas and electricity at maybe £50pm, so that leaves them over £250pm to spend on whatever they want. You've never wondered why they're all in the pub every day drinking and smoking? They've got money to burn, pretty much literally.

In the words of Samuel Johnson.

That is both good and original

But the parts that were good were not original and the parts that were original were not good.

[MooseBreath]

Some of them might spend it on food.

I wish I could heat and light Bellend Towers for £50 a month

£250pm on food? Jesus, I wish I could eat so well. £50pm on food maximum. And i've had this bills conversation on here before and posted official national averages which prove there is no reason why a single person should spend any more than £50pm on gas and electricity. Should actually be quite a bit less.

[FoxyPV]

Obviousy rent is free.

It's not though. Most of the ones I know who are on JSA are in private rents because there is no housing exec accomodation for them, so they have to use their JSA to top up their rent.

[BoneDog]

I've come to the following conclusion.....

It's the end of days. The year is 2028. The country has long been robbed of it's wealth and people are living in a post apocalyptic, desolate, blood-soaked wasteland with a fraction of the population remaining. Many of those remaining live in walled worker communities with cyanide microchips in their necks. Try to escape, or become useless, and the chip is activated.

Outside of these walled compounds, people have become so weak that they can barely crawl 40 metres, at best. There are no more crops for them due to the last generation allowing Monsanto to phase out natural seeds and only sell seeds that don't reproduce a new crop after the first. It's a struggle for the crawlers to lift an arm, stick a finger up and say "F*&k you Jimmy" in a Scottish accent to the drones that occasionally pass overhead.

At the bottom of a once green and pleasant valley is an aggregation of 43 crawlers, scrambling to be the first to reach a tasty looking decomposed Hedgehog that they all insist has their name on it for lunch. Roughly 70% of them are still, after two decades of debate, arguing whether the fine mess they all find themselves in is Major's, Thatcher's, Blair's, Brown's or Cameron and Clegg's fault!

Sitting further uphill watching the scramble are two youngsters. El Half-Full tuts and says to his pal, 'Those poor deluded fools. My Grandad warned them what was cracking, all thanks to his marvellous "education", but would they listen? Would they piss! Looks like rain, come on, let's get back to the bunker, I fancy another tin of those BBE 2015 Sardines marra.'

[Bellend Sebastian]

£250pm on food? Jesus, I wish I could eat so well. £50pm on food maximum. And i've had this bills conversation on here before and posted official national averages which prove there is no reason why a single person should spend any more than £50pm on gas and electricity. Should actually be quite a bit less.

Were they official national averages from 1982? It was costing me nearly £80 a month for gas and electric when I lived in a titchy terraced house on my own and hardly had the heating on because I wasn't there half the time. I also liked to forego the well and use mains water occasionally, and to save on going out I must admit that I allowed myself the luxury of a television set, and communicated with the outside world via landline telephony, all of which incurred further costs.

£50 a month on food? I'd love to know where you buy your food from. Perhaps you catch and kill your own swans like I do

[Webbo]

I've come to the following conclusion.....

It's the end of days. The year is 2028. The country has long been robbed of it's wealth and people are living in a post apocalyptic, desolate, blood-soaked wasteland with a fraction of the population remaining. Many of those remaining live in walled worker communities with cyanide microchips in their necks. Try to escape, or become useless, and the chip is activated.

Outside of these walled compounds, people have become so weak that they can barely crawl 40 metres, at best. There are no more crops for them due to the last generation allowing Monsanto to phase out natural seeds and only sell seeds that don't reproduce a new crop after the first. It's a struggle for the crawlers to lift an arm, stick a finger up and say "F*&k you Jimmy" in a Scottish accent to the drones that occasionally pass overhead.

At the bottom of a once green and pleasant valley is an aggregation of 43 crawlers, scrambling to be the first to reach a tasty looking decomposed Hedgehog that they all insist has their name on it for lunch. Roughly 70% of them are still, after two decades of debate, arguing whether the fine mess they all find themselves in is Major's, Thatcher's, Blair's, Brown's or Cameron and Clegg's fault!

Sitting further uphill watching the scramble are two youngsters. El Half-Full tuts and says to his pal, 'Those poor deluded fools. My Grandad warned them what was cracking, all thanks to his marvellous "education", but would they listen? Would they piss! Looks like rain, come on, let's get back to the bunker, I fancy another tin of those BBE 2015 Sardines marra.'

The world is going to end on December 21st, it's in the Mayan calendar.

[The Doctor]

The world is going to end on December 21st, it's in the Mayan calendar.

yeah, but in the Mayan calender, we're already in 2013 - we've cleared that apocalypse.