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Originally Posted by Hugh
As an indication of support, there is a bit of a difference between 17.5 million voters and 27k petitioners... 
Re your 'rehearsed Q&A', how does this fit in with all the attacks on Osborne et al in the media, or is that all part of an overall 'master plan'? |
If you consider a master plan is, "how to control as much as possible the masses under the perception to the majority it's their choice whilst you do as you please" then sure call it a master plan for all governments, democratic or otherwise are no different in my eyes than the religionists of millennia ago.
I would look to your own ideals for an answer to that as your perception will probably be different to mine. You wont ever catch them being positively responsive to a hostile press and in the most part such hostilities of the press are made in their absence, the art is to manage the press in your presence to get your agendas across which Osborne clearly did here by tying a horrific act to his anti benefits agenda. To me at its most basic such press hostility comes with the territory and will always fulfill a purpose, and that purpose is as reliant for being anti agenda driven as it is for supporting them otherwise there would be no debate, and without debate the delusion of democracy is stone dead.
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Fact most people on sickness benefits do not have 6-25 children and live in state supplied mansions. Most honest and decent people on long term benefits are there not by their own choice and have worked, especially the ones genuinely there for life as we are usually victims of a variety of incidents that have cut our working life short, are living on the breadline and now cannot afford for our teenage children to even go to college since the Tories came in. The bursary fund is a joke of which most are ineligible for the full version, the reduced bursary is being improperly distributed and there is no body i have found to complain to. They cannot afford to look for work because we cannot afford to pay for them to find it and when they get something its likely to be a low end job with low pay, will not be able to sustain their own accommodation and paying board which we obviously cannot subsidize them the same way working parents can is a serious disincentive as it will leave them with little to nothing for themselves. That's the harsh reality of being in the position we have found ourselves in and to be continually demonized for such misfortune is abhorrent.
You want to catch the scammers fine, I am sure we all agree they need to be caught, I dare say there are and always will be plenty but for the rest of us not running judo or dance classes etc, are we not entitled to at least have some quality of life which will usually mean us trying to do what we can for ourselves and now cannot due to fear of being falsely deemed a cheater, and why don't our children have some chance of the decent opportunities yours have, and then you wonder why such entrapment appears inherited ?
Well I came from a hard working family in the most part as did my wife, and we have not spent all our lives on the dole, but now we are here due to considerable ill health I can clearly see why generations cannot get out of the trap, and the current lot so far have made matters worse for future generations not better.