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White Dee: On Daily Politics today.
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Telling the MPs how to deal with the benefits system.
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Agree with this but lets not forget the darling of the left Jack Monroe. Who gave up a good paying job to go on benefits . Then complained that they were inadequit even though her ex partner and father of the child was working and contributing. So two parents working could not look after their only child .This is surely a slap in the face to all hard working parents with children .Isn't it fortunate that (ex grammar school ) Jo was able to use her self imposed benefit lifestyle to create a blog to show the poor and the benefit class how to cook thus earning her a lucrative column in the guardian and a book deal . Lets not feel too sorry for Jo who now lives with her multi millionaire partner . I'm sure Jo will use her self imposed benefits lifestyle and the effect it had on her child for years to come ...now where have I heard someone critisize someone for using their child as political tool.........
If I had to choose I say White Dee is the more genuine person (never thought I'd say that ! )
One idea which she agreed on was to provide a card rather than paying cash benefits. See with the card they could tell what the benefits was being spent on the hope is it would cut the money being used to spend on drugs for example. Of course their would be ways around this but their is enough merit in the idea to make it better than just handing over cash.
Yes, because everyone on benefits is buying drugs.
It appears to be a hobby for some.
I don't know her background but assumed from her comment she's a single mum which made me think about that £19k figure she mentioned. Did that figure take into account what a working single mum would have to fork out on chid minders and the like? I'd be inclined to think it didn't so you can stick a fair few thousand on top of that figure (gross) to cover that cost which, by my reckoning would mean you'd probably have to be earning higher than the national average (assuming that to be £26,500)
The little introductory movie was a bit odd. Why did they decide cutting to images of laptops, games consoles and the like would help move the debate away from benefit scrounging when those items are symbolic of the perception of it?
Were they being deliberately baity with that? If so, to why? It served no purpose other than to reinforce the negative stereotype.
No she isn't - she is a product of the system your party created!
If you pay people more not to work than work they won't work. She has just made rational choices - why work when you are no better off.
We don't know. We are not privy to her medical records!
Or flog the value of the cand in exchange for ****, booze, dvd's, cash for drugs or whatever.
Irrespective of what she says, it's hardly a accolade to be proud of. A bit of a new low.
I'd swear your account's been hacked.
There is a couple who have live in a council house near us since the 1970's, they have at least 12 kids and neither of them have ever worked, well at least as long as I've known them anyway. Funnily enough they have always said the same thing as you "why work when you are no better off".
Their children have grown up now and have children of their own, and guess what , they are now saying " Why work when you are no better off" ;-)
all i have to say is
Is she still on benefits ?
Is she not being being paid for all these interviews and TV appearances?
Looks like reality TV is the miracle cure for this particular variety of "depression".
Quite - yourself for example
Your previous post said
"This woman is a disgrace."
With working tax credits and family tax credits and tax credits to help pay towards childcare and housing benefit available to those in low paid work I do no believe the claim that someone who is a single parent of two is better off on benefits. I would expect they would always be better off financially in paid employment. And I expect that holds true even if they are disabled as DLA/PIP can be claimed in work and there are additional tax credits for the disabled.
I doubt her claim that she was advised to not get a job and stay on benefits by the DWP.