Re: 'Diet or lose benefits', unemployed obese warned
 

How the hell can they afford to drink all the time most of my money is gone after bills and food shop how do they manage it though that said there is a group of single mothers in Starbucks everyday usually complaining about how they don't have money to go out at weekends. If I could afford it I'd go buy a jar of instant put it on their table and mention the money saved by going to each others house and drinking that rather then the £4 a mug of warm cats pee they chug down. With the exception of Arthur no one really thinks the system is working but damned if we can get anyone to really sort it out.

Re: 'Diet or lose benefits', unemployed obese warned
 

On the other hand, your neighbour is not likely to be a member of the “Westminster Ring”

Just trying to keep things in perspective.... ;)

Re: 'Diet or lose benefits', unemployed obese warned
 

I have seen people get obese so they are clinically unable to work so they live off benefits, then if female have kids to further cement it.

But there is people out there who is medically unable to lose weight etc. And it would be unfair to put them in the same basket.

But I can see why, it is quite simple.... at the most give people who can work a 2yr benefit amount, if they find nothing in 2yrs.... bye benefits. They will soon quickly change attitudes and find work if available.

And what makes it so funny, is most of these people are the ones that complain that the Polish etc are stealing all their jobs. So much hypocrisy these days, it isn't even funny anymore :P

Re: 'Diet or lose benefits', unemployed obese warned
 

Is that a rhetorical question? :D

Providing due care is exercised in the process I don't see any reason not to help and incentivise people who's lives have, through choice, become so unhealthy that they can't work. Difficult medical judgements and decisions have to be made all the time and I don't see that this is different but where there's a clear medical/psychological reason for the problem, that must be taken into account and allowed for.

Re: 'Diet or lose benefits', unemployed obese warned
 

So how many fat ppl will use mental health issues as a way to get round it

Re: 'Diet or lose benefits', unemployed obese warned
 

If they claim mental health issues as factor then presumably they'll need to agree to treatment for those issues.

Re: 'Diet or lose benefits', unemployed obese warned
 

"The burger talks to me. it tells me to eat it. and the pizzas threaten to kill me and I think that eating as many as I can of them reduces the threat"

Re: 'Diet or lose benefits', unemployed obese warned
 

It's the same story in Wetherspoons, I go in my local one for breakfast on a Friday or Saturday morning and take the partners youngest in for breakfast on a Sunday. The same group of benefit claimants are in them every time, they are often complaining as they wait because alcohol is not served until 9am, in my local one they drift in and start drinking from around 8.25am.

I went in Tuesday evening with both of the partners kids at 7.30pm because she was working late and I hate cooking. The regular benefit claimants were either still in their regular seats or the standing ones were clinging on to the bar. Tim Martin is the individual who has benefited most from our generous handouts to benefit claimants.