[Tim Deegan]

Originally Posted by Mr Angry

Let me be clear about this Tim, you stated earlier that "a bank is a private business". The fact is that 99% of them are not and they operate on a plc shareholding basis.

To use your own terminology "simples".

If you actually did bother to read the posts, then you would understand. A public limited company is not owned or controlled by the tax payer or government. It is owned by individuals or organisations who own shares. So the government do not have any control over executives bonuses (which is what the conversation started about.

So get your facts right.

Originally Posted by Mr Angry

You see Tim that suggests that you either don't have the nads to stand over your stated convictions or that you have a degree of tolerance for benefit fraud. Which is it?

Just because I am disgusted by someones actions, then it doesn't mean that I have to drop them in it. I can understand where you are coming from, but unless you know the circumstances, then you can't really comment.

I can say that I was really happy when they did lose the DLA and the car, that myself and many other tax payers were paying for. And I wish it had happened a long time a go. But for circumstances that I can't reveal, I couldn't be the one to drop them in it.

Originally Posted by Mr Angry

I'm not "judging" you or your son Tim - I'm merely commenting on what you write. It strikes me that you are so blinded by prejudice that you cannot even comprehend that there are people, like you, who will pre judge your son as milking the "system" despite the fact that he may well be very ill.

Can you not see how self contradictiory your position is?

This is where you couldn't be more wrong. I am probably one of the least prejudice people you could possibly know. If you had read my posts, and the ones I was replying to, then you would know that all I want is justice, and for the people who abuse the system to lose their benefits, and the people who deserve it to get all the help they need.

You are commenting on what I write in the warped way that you choose to interpret it. If you had more of an open mind, and didn't just think the worst of people, then you would understand what I said.

Originally Posted by Mr Angry

I don't see what Scandinavian folklore has to do with any of this.

Was that supposed to be funny???
You know exactly what I mean.

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Originally Posted by peanut

If someone openly admitted something like that to me, then I would take offense by it. If I didn't know them well or that they were neighbours in the same street, I'd would probably make a call. But if they are good close neighbours, eg, live right above or below (in a flat), then moralistically that would be up for debate. If they were friends, I would have to make myself known to them of my position against it.

I personally get it nearly every other day from people that just because I appear to look well, whatever happens or whatever I say really doesn't mean much to those people.

I also do things (not very often) that could be brought into question even more, I might go bowling etc, which on the front/look of it, would or could make me a prime candidate of a benefit fraudster because on paper I basically look like I'm death warmed up.

I know exactly what you are saying, and it can be very difficult knowing what to. If it had just been down to me, then I would have made the call.

The person in question had a motorcycle accident many years ago, and had serious knee injuries that prevented him from working. But for many years he has been doing tiling, patios, building etc.. So as you can see, he has at the very least almost completely recovered.