My mum was refused a blue badge even though shes had one knee replacement and is well on the way for a second one.
I wonder how many of you slagging these people off have got child benefit and working tax credits and child tax credits and for those who are retired, pension credit.
I find it hysterically funny how someone will slag off someone on benefits whilst £100s in tax credits, usually more than those they’re slagging off get, go in their bank every 4 weeks.
hear hear! slagging off the wrong people. Need to slag off the real scroungers, politicians and corporations.
instantKarma:
hear hear! slagging off the wrong people. Need to slag off the real scroungers, politicians and corporations.
Politicians are quite poorly paid given the seniority of their role and the hours they put in. The pay for a non-ministerial MP is only £10k more than a London Tube driver but they put in almost double the hours.
Is a truck driver registering as a Ltd Company, abusing the flat VAT scheme, claiming all kinds of allowances, paying themselves so little wage and drawing the rest as a dividend they pay no national insurance working for an agency as “self employed” even though it doesn’t meet the HMRC criteria whilst most likely using their low “taxable income” as a justification to claim £1000s a year in tax credits any better than the corporations like Google and Starbucks?
The basic annual salary for an MP from 1 April 2014 is £67,060. MPs also receive expenses to cover the costs of running an office, second home, travel, turn up for 10 mins to get £300 benefit, 11% pay rise, 25% pension increase, the list goes on. Sorry but I for one do not feel sorry for them in the slightest, especially the tories!
With regard to tax avoidance, surely you can’t put MULTI MULTI MILLION POUND corporations avoiding paying their way in the same sentence as an someone who is self employed on maybe £11-£18ph?
instantKarma:
The basic annual salary for an MP from 1 April 2014 is £67,060. MPs also receive expenses to cover the costs of running an office, second home, travel, turn up for 10 mins to get £300 benefit, 11% pay rise, 25% pension increase, the list goes on. Sorry but I for one do not feel sorry for them in the slightest, especially the tories!
Of course I forgot that the only work they ever do is when they’re sat in the House. As for the pay and pension rise, it was one awarded by the independent pay review body we said we wanted.
With regard to tax avoidance, surely you can’t put MULTI MULTI MILLION POUND corporations avoiding paying their way in the same sentence as an someone who is self employed on maybe £11-£18ph?
Of course I can. Both are doing the same thing however in some respect the self employed truck driver is worse because as well as avoiding tax, some of them will be using the figure generated by that avoidance to enable them to claim income related benefits from the government, such as tax credits, despite banking enough from their work that they would be normally excluded from qualifying. So not only are they not paying as much tax as they should, they’re actually taking more from the pot than they pay in, something the multi-million pound corporations aren’t doing.
You are absolutely right. Even though the government encourage tax avoidance (isa’s, pensions, expenses blah blah) and it is perfectly legitimate, it is not socially responsible and totally unfair to take the shortfall from the poorest. I have a B in my bonnet with regard to corporation tax avoidance because there is such a massive amount of money that can be put back into society.
As the Pope recently said, ‘greed will destroy the world’. Then again maybe he should be spreading his 10+ billion back into society too.
I always used to think tax the rich give to the poor then one day i thought, wtf should someone who has made a go of life, worked hard, built up a business etc have to subsidise those who can’t be bothered to put the effort in!
Yea your right. ■■■■ the poor, let em rot. We will always find a middle class ■■■■ to do the dirty work 
ajt:
I always used to think tax the rich give to the poor then one day i thought, wtf should someone who has made a go of life, worked hard, built up a business etc have to subsidise those who can’t be bothered to put the effort in!
And here is the crux of the problem. On one hand you have the people who work two or more jobs to keep their heads above water yet are refused help from the government because they work. On the other, you have the people who don’t work and have no intention of working but are living the lifestyle of decent wage earner. Nice cars, flash goods, nice food etc, all on the tax payers coin.
I agree, why should someone who has worked hard to achieve his goal in life be taxed to high heaven just to fund some council slob who refuses to get a job?
Thing is with the zb the poor those so called benefit scroungers who have never worked (how do you know which have never worked ) ? If they were not paid any benefits what do you seriously think would happen,? they would some how suddenly find jobs or become employable, ? or crime would increase at an alarming rate, (don’t forget this bunch of parasites uk plc have cut the funding to police forces) prisons are full , I’ll tell you shall i mass civil unrest aka civil war anarcy in the uk that’s what would happen , because don’t forget if you cut benefits then WTC and child benefit pension credits, cold weather payments ect ect would stop too, bring it on, its what these idiots in power need a reality check for those who they are supposed to work for us (lol they don’t know what the word means) that we have had enough and no longer are oblivious to their shady dealings, i would be carefull what you wish for as the aftermath of uk wide rioting would cost the tax payer a dam sight more than what they are paying out now, and the largest chunk of the welfare bill spending is pensions and pension credits, not JSA /ESA or PIP ESA/JSA cost each of us probably less than 10p per week
Unions need to be given more power the balance has been out since thatcher meddled, workers need rights, at the moment they are being shafted some bosses
Thank you England
Just think see that big wedge that comes out yer wages every week has helped this fella out, helps me sleep at night so it does 
There must be good benefits in Witney, there’re always a few mobility scooters parked outside our local Weatherspoons. 
There’s a right lazy scabby family also in Witney; 5 kids, parents don’t work (Dad has some “medical problem” where he finds it difficult for himself amongst groups of people. But not so difficult to pick up several magazines and newspapers in WHSmith, then take the family to Costa Coffee.
Then there’s the lazy [zb]s who think they’re entitled to a blue badge because their teenage son has “behavioural problems” (really is just a nasty little scrote but they need an excuse).
"we are in this together "
instantKarma:
hear hear! slagging off the wrong people. Need to slag off the real scroungers, politicians and corporations.
+1 mate, +1… just been reading how members of the house of lords are furious that their catering / drink budget will be amalgamated with the house of commons… chief concern quoted being worries that the quality of the champagne offered wont be up to scratch. Oh, the H.O.C drinks budget is 65000.00 per year…they all receive 300 quid for each day they attend. If youve ever watched it on tv, most of them appear to be asleep. Their only interest is in maintaining the status quo.
People need to wake up and recognise the real enemy, and stop believing the rags ffs.
instantKarma:
well done cameron, keep up the good work! [zb]
Funny his mum felt up to giving a quote yet did ■■■■ all to resolve the situation.
I had an ex brother in law who went on benefits claiming he was disabled,he apparently had every problem going,he was rumbled when a neighbour wondered why a disabled bay was being painted outside his taxpayer funded flat,when the benefits agency investigated they took photos of him over a period of days jumping over his fence and putting a washing machine in his taxpayer funded car,by that time he done taxpayers to the tune of £100,000 pounds,never found out if he was sentenced or not,how many others are getting away with it while drivers like us and every other taxpayer work hard
Latique:
"we are in this together "
that phrase “we’re in this together” boils my ■■■■ more than any other. I wish we were all in it together, and that I could dip my hand deep into the ■■■■■■■■■ MP’s, Corporations and scroungers seem to.
working is a mugs game. 
druncle:
drinks budget is 65000.00 per year
it’s 265,000 a year 