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Originally Posted by danielf
My thoughts exactly. What bright spark thought this up? Here we've got a lad (presumably) that apparently thinks nothing of smashing in shop windows to take whatever he fancies and people think the appropriate punishment is to take the little money he has away. What the hell do people think he's going to do now that he's got even less money than before? I figure he's not going to get a paper route or wash cars...
I think a spell in prison is far more appropriate.
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the little money that the dole gives them will only account for a small part of their income .Those who are career claimants don't just get dole ,they live mainly on the proceeds from crime eg drugs ,robbery ect so stopping their dole won't make that much difference to them financialy .Also quite a few don't even bother claiming because they earn enough from their criminal activities to not have to ,instead they shack up with some bird who gets housing benefit so they have somewhere to live for free and stay off the benefits radar so not having the inconvenience of having to look for work to keep benefits.
Stopping the rioters benefits will make the honest tax payer feel a lot better but won't make that much difference to the career claimant/criminal