Unemployed.

[Jim Brady]

I'm afraid it's not that easy,where did you read that in the Daily Mail.You have to receive a proper referal and i think that you are allowed to use it only 3 times.Many of the 1500 unfortunate people that were queueing for the 40 20 hour jobs will be using a food bank,are these scroungers,I dont think so these are desperate people who would be glad of any job.Some people try and compare like with like, all us old people were around and married and brought up our kids when the work was plenty that is not the case today.Just think for a moment ,think about where you live and you are a young couple with three kids,where or what would you be working at.As regards cigarettes most of the are smoking counerfiet cigs at £3.00 a packet which are filed with horse muck and all other kind of rubish,they are not paying £8.00 a pkt.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[robpage]

No Jim I don't read the Daily mail , I belong to a Church that is affiliated to a group of churches that run these schemes here locally , http://www.paulsgrove.org.uk/about-u...ach/food-bank/ that is the link to a Church in Portsmouth ( North ) that does the banks on a large social housing estate with a rough reputation . The Church I go to does not run one at all , but directly supports a Southsea Church that puts on suppers in Southsea for people who need or want a hot supper , that is called St Simons , here is their link http://www.homelessuk.org/details.asp?id=UK22309 . My immediately local food bank is run by the Living Waters Church weacocks Farm Estate and Waterlooville Baptist Church , and as far as I understand there is no limit , except your need


"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat..."
Matthew 25:35

[Captain Kong]

Once you get on the Benefit ladder you have it made, One Benefit opens the door to other benefits. Child Allowance, £20 for the first one and the others £17 , [ or thereabouts,]
Three kids- £54 , it does not cost that to feed those kids. They can get free school meals including breakfast and dinners.
They do not pay Council Tax, or Rent. They get help with gas and electric bills, They are getting Free Central Heating gas boilers and Radiators. I cannot get that. because I pay Tax on my miserable Pension and I have to Pay Council Tax £1,350 out of my Pension. `Ey you` next door has Never worked, he has a Mercedes Car and a Toyota car, I have a ten year old Kia.
He had all new Radiators and new Gas Boiler fitted in November, cost a few thousand pounds, I cannot have that. He does not pay £1,350 Council Tax as I do. They get help with the Dentist treatment I dont, they get help with the Optician for new Glasses I dont.
His big teenage son has a mobile, he has fancy football boots that he wears when he comes home from school and boots his new football against my car,
All these people have mobile phones, computers and I Players or pods. They are all well fed and no one works.
I guess they have a real hard time. I really do feel so sorry for them.
Yes they can afford to Eat Cake. and Take Aways and Pizzas etc.
Brian, who worked from 15 years old to 68 years old and paid tax since 1950, 64 years. and still am.
Benefits are a good way of life today. No One is suffering, I see them smoking, I see them drinking, I see them with mobile phones , I see them getting free food. I see them driving cars.
Yes I really do feel so sorry for them.
My poor old Dad would never believe it if he came back today.

[robpage]

One of my Grandchildren attends a local college , he pays £20 a week in bus fares with an advanced ticket , he needs £2.00 a day £10.00 a week for college food so my daughter is already down £10 on his child benefit . The horse dropping and straw fags sell locally for around £4.00 , I gave up 23 years ago , I could not afford duty paid fags when I came ashore . Jobs are tight here , and a lot of kids are working part time in McDonalds , Next , Argos and such like , but there are still jobs around , I live in a good area for employment , there is housing , expensive but subsidised , a bonus for private landlords , so maybe here central South Coast , I have a rose tinted view on life , but we still have busy food banks

[Jim Brady]

Rob my reply was not to you re Daily Mail.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[robpage]

I was at a church meeting last night when a "Posh" lady from the south coast , voiced an opinion on feeding the needy , as to why we !!! should feed them !!! , so I am a bit sensitive about it today , telling someone to F-in Shut up was not a good idea in a church meeting , so I shut up and bottled it in , sorry Jim , I'll go and threw bricks at the squirrels instead





Yo any animal rights activists , no real squirrels were harmed in this outburst

[vic mcclymont]

The system is open to abuse no matter which paper you buy or read. Even the helpers no that it is going on.
There are genuine claimants, but there are many who given the chance for a freebie will take every opportunity that they can get.

[cappy]

Let them eat cake !!!!!

#####by jim your very biblical this morning ....there for the grace ....let them eat cake.... my granny always said the lord helps them that helps themselves........but lord help them caught helping themselves.....

[robpage]

Sorry Cappy neither is a biblical quote , next time you stay in a hotel reach into the bedside drawer and read the Gideon's bible found there , instead of wasting money in the bar . Or pop down tpo the Ferry in One legged Mary had some interesting quotes tattooed across her thighs . Your quotes are :-

John Bradford (1510–1555) was a prebendary of St. Paul's. He was an English Reformer and martyr. The phrase "There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford", spoken by Bradford while imprisoned in the Tower of London when he saw criminals being led toward their execution at Tyburn, entered the English language in modified form. Bradford was in the Tower of London for alleged crimes against Mary Tudor for his Protestant faith. Bradford was burned at the stake on 1 July 1555.

SAY WHAT you will about her, Marie Antoinette never actually uttered the words "Let them eat cake." We have that on the authority of biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, who spoke on the subject at the 2002 Edinburgh Book Fair.Though historians have known better all along, it is still popularly believed that Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI and queen of France on the eve of the French Revolution, uttered the insensitive remark upon hearing peasants' complaints that there wasn't enough bread to go around: "Let them eat cake," she supposedly said. It's simply not true."It was said 100 years before her by Marie-Therese, the wife of Louis XIV," Fraser explains. "It was a callous and ignorant statement and she [Marie Antoinette] was neither." Truth be known, the attribution is doubly erroneous in English, because the word "cake" is a mistranslation. In the original French the alleged quote reads, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche," which means, literally, "Let them eat rich, expensive, funny-shaped, yellow, eggy buns."

You can see why it caught on., I was just bored today , sorry Cappy !!! , ( it is true about Mary's tattoos though , an ex pat west coast aussie told me , so it must be true .)

[cappy]

jesys rob i was only trying to help allright dont give them any cake or bleedin eggy bread .......and if they see one eyed one legged tattoos and what hangs round it they wont want to eat for a month its all jim bradys fault talking in hoi polloy