'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.

[slowcoach]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

on a more serious note i welcome anything that will get the bone idle piece of ***** that i live next door to into work -mid thirties and never worked just boozes and breeds at my expense ,sharing his time among the other scroungers in the street all doing the same every day boozing and breeding

i bumped into him last Sunday and he had the brass nuts to tell me he was taking it easy cos its Sunday [i went into the house mad as hell taking it kin easy the bone idle ****]

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

Just trying to keep things in perspective....

[DABhand]

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

[Osem]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Are you really supporting state aided obesity, alcoholism and drug addiction? Or is it that giant anti Tory chip on your shoulder?

Is that a rhetorical question?

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.

[Gavin78]

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

[Osem]

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

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Gavin78

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

"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"

[Escapee]

Originally Posted by RizzyKing

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.

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.