Fixing Benefits Britain

Perhaps if you tried putting yourself out, and even merely attempting to gain employment, you wouldn't feel this way.

Oh my God, you're so right, a job would remove all my problems.

Seriously, **** right off.

A working age benefit for the disabled. I have stated repeatedly that the disabled should be exempted from welfare truncation.

Yes, it is worth the sacrifice. Just as I disagree with corporate taxpayer subsidies, I disagree similarly with working age benefits.

It is not the only lifeline they have, the best and most cost-effective lifeline they have is getting employed!

Carers aren't disabled.

So do you disagree with contribution based JSA?

'Middle England brainwashing' - does 'lefty northern, Welsh or Scottish brainwashing' spring to mind for you then?

Perhaps it would. You seem very defensive - is this the reason you stated on your claimant form as to why you cannot get a job?

Yes. I was referring to public funding for carers - this is part of the budget for disabled welfare.

The majority of forms of mental illness do not mean one cannot get a job. Agoraphobia or compulsive hoarding are very different from not being able to walk. I'm sure you know that.

Ok, so I need MORE stigma. I already know there are lots of people that would consider me a 'scrounger' and say that my illnesses aren't real. Christ I beat myself up enough about claiming benefits but when I only leave the house to buy food and spend all day in bed surrounded by a growing pile of rubbish, I don't have a choice.

So what happens to all the people that have been ''sacrificed'' then?

Also, you speak of employment like it's just sitting on a plate ready to be served. You do realise there's a certain amount of employment shortage, right?

Also, some people are unfortunate enough to be somewhat unemployable on the surface, either due to appearance, borderline mental deficiency, inexperience, location etc.

One thing I will say though is hopefully the digital age brings us less of the need to travel fo work or interact with others in our work. Perhaps this will give the unfortunates a fighting chance. If only employers could catch up properly.

I'm not understanding why all this fuss over money that goes on benefits. It doesn't make logical mathematical sense when so much more of taxpayers money gets squandered elsewhere. It's a diversion.

I suspect that it's actually not to do with money. It's more to do with a deep-seated judgementalism that ignorant people have of people that for one reason or another don't work. And the only information they get is from the fuming red-faced hysterical media, hence the arrival of the phrase ''workshy''. A bit like the phrases ''Hard work'', ''Hard working families'' and ''Vile''. Pure and simple brainwashing of the arrogant who are not half as intelligent as they like to think they are.

we must cut back the public sector bureaucracy by 50% - welfare state by 60%

Don't listen to idiots like this.

It shouldn't be called benefits in the first place - it should be called 'money so I don't lose my home and starve'. These people with a lack of compassion tend to have never experienced any hardship in their life living on the bank of mum and dad or never having the unfortunate experience of being made redundant.

bye-bye defence, bye-bye police, bye-bye prisons

Don't listen to idiots like this.

It shouldn't be called benefits in the first place - it should be called 'money so I don't lose my home and starve'. These people with a lack of compassion tend to have never experienced any hardship in their life living on the bank of mum and dad or never having the unfortunate experience of being made redundant.

bye-bye defence, bye-bye police, bye-bye prisons

I never mentioned physical disabilities?

And thanks for answering my question - you really are clueless about mental illness.

People who are 'borderline mental deficient' can get jobs - there are plenty of plumbers and deliverymen in this country who don't have a clue what they're doing, believe me. Yet they still get employed.

The majority of forms of mental illness do not mean one cannot get a job. Agoraphobia or compulsive hoarding are very different from not being able to walk. I'm sure you know that.