I was out of work (thankfully only for about a month) and tried to claim JSA - I met the criteria but the job centre twisted and turned and brought up technicalities (I was on my final day of employment when I started my claim, for example - I knew I was being laid off). I didn't get a penny of it.
I wonder how many of the commenters on this thread run the household, buy all the food and cook the meals?
I wonder how many of the commenters on this thread run the household, buy all the food and cook the meals?
Yeah, that was my point.
Iv got to fend for myself for 3 days, 2 kebabs and a Chinese will do me fine I hope.
A few years ago I had one employee who would routinely turn up to do concreting etc in Timberland clothing and such like, meanwhile I was wearing either Primark or stuff my wife had condemned as no longer suitable for being seen in. Eventually he went bankrupt when he couldn't pay off his £60k credit card bill, all spent on frivolous crap.
People live above there means, can't cook won't cook, can be arsed to to cook, have absolutely no incentive to save money if they're able to and now it's coming back to bite them. I do however acknowledge there are some genuine cases where people are hard up & need help but I'm guessing a large majority have themselves to blame for the position they now find themselves in & instead of taking responsibility expect others (government) to bail them out. And any politician who publicly said this would be expected to resign in the modern day woke world we live in.
Just arse holes , they have more thsn forty quid they just have their priority’s arse about tit .Tesco chairman john allen reports that his checkout staff are frequently asked by hard up customers to stop swiping items once the bill has reached £40. Shows what we are up against and how thick people are when they want tesco staff to budget for them, what happens if the first £40 worth of goods swiped arent the staples like bread, veg, milk etc but are pop , chocolate bars and crisps
the problem starts before school, we need to invest in pre school, so children hit infant school being able to eat with cutlery, speak and hold conversations and control their bowels. If they can't do any of that, which surprisingly some can't, then they are always behind and on their back foot and never catch up.
well, the calves that are suckled by their mothers seem to do far better than the calves that are bucket fed and weaned early, so if it works for cattle why shouldn't it work for people. When my cousins wife had their daughter, I asked in hospital how they made sure she had colostrum (as his wife had a very hard birth very very poorly), I mentioned how important it was for my calves and lambs, she replied babies are not calves or lambs so no need for colostrum!!
Govt wasted 9.9 Billion (thats 9.9 thousand million) on unuseable PPE in the pandemic, 4.5 million to help some migrants is a drop in he ocean compared to the money govt are giving away to their mates
Mothers always worked, apart from in some weird, middle class rose-tinted view of yesteryear.
Oh ffs. you know what he means!
They didnt have their wages taken into account for mortgages tho , which drove more out to work for longer .
Don't think many people actually got mortgages until sometime post war anyway. Both my grandmothers worked (seamstress, nurse).
