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Offline Merddin Emrys

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Re: Unemployment and Benefits
« Reply #555 on: November 03, 2014, 07:52:42 pm »

Why haven't they made a confiscation order on this person?

Probably because he's such a big bloke!  :o
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« Reply #556 on: November 04, 2014, 12:28:57 pm »
** Bodybuilder jailed for benefit fraud **
A former Mr Wales who falsely claimed £28,332 in disability benefits for eight years whilst continuing to compete in bodybuilding competitions is jailed for six months
Why haven't they made a confiscation order on this person?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-29880418
This sums up just how flawed the system is.. I feel I should comment, but I am lost for words... $angry$  printable words.


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« Reply #557 on: June 14, 2015, 07:32:02 pm »
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Couple on benefits wed in ceremony that cost taxpayers £5k - and get NHS op to improve sex life

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/couple-benefits-wed-ceremony-cost-5878755

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« Reply #558 on: June 14, 2015, 11:00:51 pm »
A disgusting waste of OUR money!  $angry$
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Re: Unemployment and Benefits
« Reply #559 on: June 15, 2015, 08:16:19 am »
The tip of a very large iceberg I'm afraid.

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« Reply #560 on: June 15, 2015, 10:34:12 am »
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Couple on benefits wed in ceremony that cost taxpayers £5k - and get NHS op to improve sex life

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/couple-benefits-wed-ceremony-cost-5878755
Interesting to see even a newspaper like the Mirror is having a go at benefit claimants now.

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« Reply #561 on: June 15, 2015, 10:37:30 am »
The irony didn't escape :-))))


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« Reply #562 on: June 15, 2015, 12:50:42 pm »
BRILLIANT  :)

What a ridiculous article  _))*

come almost feel the steam coming out of the ears of the angry idiots who fell for it $angry$

the only bit of YOUR money they are getting is the vast amount of money the mirror has given them for agreeing to be exploited by their newspaper which you might have bought a copy of (are clicked on their website giving them advertising revenue).

They are certainly laughing at you. Win for the happy couple, win for the mirror, big loss for anyone who sees it as anything else but poverty porn.

some of my personal highlights

"Richard and his granny bride"

age branding and discrimination is ok if they are benefits 'scum' is it?

"And that was in the same breath as bragging they plan to get the Government to fund a luxury honeymoon in Malaysia."  L0L :laugh: _))*
So they have a plan to get the government to get them a luxury honeymoon in Malaysia do they? Please pray tell this ingenious plan! Unless they created the benefits system themselves, it's not really their plan at all is it?

"Even their sex life has been boosted by the state – because mum of seven Sandra had plastic surgery on the NHS to give her a “designer vagina” three years ago"

Ralph Lauren are really branching out these days  D)

"Broom – who quit his job five years ago to become an actor – said: “Thanks to the taxpayer we were able to have a great day."

My pleasure matey  $good$

"We’ve saved £600 for our honeymoon and want the Government to match it. but hoping the Government will offer a ­honeymoon voucher or bonus.”

I hope the government will give me a Ferrari bonus and an invisibility cloak voucher  8)


This really brightened up my morning!!!  $thanx$

Offline Merddin Emrys

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« Reply #563 on: June 15, 2015, 06:34:53 pm »
I have never bought a copy of the Mirror in my life! Glad to see even you see them as benefit scum, they are of no use to society in any way!  &shake&
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« Reply #564 on: June 15, 2015, 07:21:40 pm »
It's the eternal problem: I'm willing to accept the vast majority of benefits claimants are decent, honest and willing to work. But we'll always have liars, cheats and frauds in our midst; after all, they're who nearly brought the world to its knees, financially. Except I doubt many of those were claimants...

One major irony about all this is the simple fact that people are generally incapable of discriminatory scaled perception. Put another way, the bankers who committed massive, truly massive frauds and who cost us, the tax payers billions and - worldwide - trillions of pounds, somehow fail to raise the indignation and resentment of folk in the way that a few criminal scroungers who abuse the system (for peanuts, in banking terms) inevitably do. It strikes me if you're going into crime, do it in a really big way. That should ensure you won't be hated nearly as much as the local alcoholic and might even end up being admired.

I accept it's a psychological issue, but I suspect it says rather a lot about our society.
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Offline Merddin Emrys

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« Reply #565 on: June 15, 2015, 07:50:03 pm »
I don't like the bankers either! Not the  people behind the counters, the ones at the top who caused such major problems! I also have every sympathy with 'genuine' benefits claimants,  but surely it is there as a safety net rather than to pay for weddings etc?
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« Reply #566 on: June 16, 2015, 06:55:55 am »
I agree entirely and I wasn't having a go at you :-)))) I was really just making the point that people become more incensed by small-scale crime than by the really big stuff.
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« Reply #567 on: June 16, 2015, 08:14:36 am »
Ian, I know you were not having a go at me  :D  I suppose people react to what they see in the media, I suspect that many people think 'why are these people not working yet receiving money, yet we have to go to work?'
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« Reply #568 on: June 16, 2015, 09:58:13 am »
Ian, I know you were not having a go at me  :D  I suppose people react to what they see in the media, I suspect that many people think 'why are these people not working yet receiving money, yet we have to go to work?'

I can tell you quite easily. That couple was able to pay for that wedding and the many other things they have, not through the taxpayers. But through channel 5, the daily mirror and about a dozen other media outlets. Of course the paper conveniently doesn't mention any of that. The irony, the brilliant irony in my opinion. Is that the couple mentioned are NOT even on benefits, they used to be but are now full time on the 'hate celebrity circuit' along with a dozen other desspots like this lady

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/josie-cunningham-arrested-nhs-boob-job-5688477

There is a LOT of money to be made by making people angry,  $angry$ at the other end of the spectrum there is this charming lady

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/suncolumnists/katiehopkins/6414865/Katie-Hopkins-I-would-use-gunships-to-stop-migrants.html

Again full time on the 'celebrity hate circuit' - basically, people who are paid lots of money and told what to say to wind up lots of people to sell lots of papers.

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Brilliant I think  $good$

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« Reply #569 on: June 16, 2015, 11:21:28 am »
I find Katie Hopkins strangely attractive.... I have developed a crush on her!   $salute$ $smack$
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