Un-fucking-believable
25 November 2008
So lemme get this straight. I can’t be trusted because I’m a foreigner and so I need to be tracked (and I’ll be paying the Home Office for the privilege, they will be pleased to know I do fuck all because I’m so tired from work). I pay all sorts of taxes and National Insurance, and am not allowed, under any circumstances, to claim any public funds. Why am I bothering working to pay for British nationals who live off the dole and tax-free, cash in hand jobs, or take long-term sick leave and full pay? I should just give up my private sector job and join the civil service (job for life, final salary pension).
My friend Graeme, who’s an economist, says we should all be extremely worried about what’s happening. You bet we are. I really don’t understand why governments are throwing good money away, trying to force the consumer to go back to spending the way we did before. The fact that we are going through this madness right now is incontrovertible proof that massive, thoughtless consumer spending doesn’t work.
So now our tax money is going to dole bludgers, benefits cheats, and bankers. That’s just fucking great.
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Welcome to the club! It gets easier after a few years when you are jaded but will become enraged again when you realised that you cannot claim unemployment benefits if you have more than £3000 in savings.
Comment by Jerry — 26 November 2008 @ 1:30 am
I think she's a bit of a loon. What's more it seems that she's getting increasingly desperate to find a group that she can pick on to be among the first to have the pleasure of an ID card.
Comment by Mr mist — 26 November 2008 @ 9:39 am
Jerry, I have no problem with not claiming benefit, I have a problem with being treated like a criminal while the real benefits cheats are claiming my tax money for booze and drugs.
Mr mist, I think that's it exactly. And immigrants are sitting ducks, because there's nothing we can really do about it.
Surely the law-abiding immigrants she speaks of are already eminently trackable via our NI number? They aren't really going to manage to find the illegal immigrants and give them an ID card, are they?
Comment by Andrea — 26 November 2008 @ 11:43 am
No, and that's the problem right there. Introducing the ID card might make various things easier for people who want a single card to do lots of things (an eventual aim I think) – and that's fine, I have no problem with that. But the claims that it will somehow make the UK "safer" or that it could magically cut down things like illegal immigration, or weed out terrorists – well as far as I can see that's all just unfounded nonsense. The same people that don't have valid ID now still won't have it after the card comes in. Smith is pretty lucky right now that everyone is focussed on the economy so that this debacle and the flip-flopping she's doing between trial groups isn't really in the news.
Comment by Mr mist — 26 November 2008 @ 12:16 pm
I understand where you are coming from perfectly but there is very little what we can do about it. O used to work for the DWP for a while and some of the fakes who claim benefits are incredible. Worst still is the attitude of the DWP itself: 'It is easier and cheaper to keep paying them (the known benefit fraudsters) than to prosecute them'.
And no, you can't track with NI as the database is not 'shared' with other agencies.
Comment by Jerry — 26 November 2008 @ 4:36 pm
Jerry, can't they just share the NI database instead of creating a whole new one? Clearly we've got a need to mop up unemployment! And the state grows again…
Mr mist, hell in a handbasket, methinks!!
Comment by Andrea — 28 November 2008 @ 1:13 pm