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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Escapee if you could get some details on those people because i don't drink and sure as hell couldn't afford to go to a pub eveyday i'd ask them how they manage it. With rent and council tax increases this year we'll be down by about five quid a week the rent alone was doouble what benefit increase i got so totally freeze benefits please i'd be better off.
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These can be found in the Ernest Willows Wetherspoons on City Road Cardiff, they are in every time I go in there for breakfast or an evening meal. I go in most Sunday mornings and often pop in during the week for breakfast (Less alcohol) if I'm working from my partners house.
My local one, The John Capel Hanbury in Pontypool is exactly the same but I know the regular ones in there are getting the alcoholics allowance. The Sirhowy Wetherspoons in Blackwood that I sometimes go to for lunch with work colleagues is the same.
Since the benefit cuts the numbers have dropped, but there still seems to be the core who start their shift about 9am, completing their shift around 9pm when they give up gripping the bar with their fingernails.
In my local one a couple of years ago I overheard one explaining to another how to get the alcoholics allowance.
It was something like:
Do what I did, go to your doctor and tell him you drink x bottles of the strong cider white lightening etc every day, he will give you a note.
I am sympathetic towards people who are genuinely unable to work, also the situation mentioned by Grimupnorth where people are expected to move after spending a large part of their lives in a home.
What I am completely against is what the previous government did making it far too easy to claim benefits for those who choose not to work, and throwing benefits at them in an attempt to meet child poverty targets they set themselves.
The bottom line is, I don't believe any individual or family on benefits should be financially better of than someone who has a full time job.
An interesting example.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...-given-6905668