Why do a lot of the British public hate people on benefits?

Society will never be 'fair', that's just something you've got to deal with.

I will never stand for inequality. Attitudes like that are the reason it took so long for women and POC to get the vote.

One thing I don't understand is that people in this country always seem to make a big deal out of those claiming welfare. 'My hard working tax money' ' I don't want my preciously earned taxes going to single mothers', but do these people even pay attention to where ELSE their 'hard earned money' goes? You never hear them speak about it, it's just scroungers this, scrounger that...People like David Icke are right here, surely?

I mean why do people get so up in arms about someone on £50 a week on JSA, but they don't care if a rich, overweight, flabby politician spends some of their hard earned money on stuffing his face with sandwiches and kit kats each week? What about all those illegal wars your tax money paid for?

I have been on benefits before and also worked and it didn't bother me at all that I paid tax that went to help out single moms and those in desperation.

In a country that is still ruled by a monarchy, how can a guy claiming 50 quid a week or 300 quid a week housing benefit and eating tesco value noodles for dinner be your enemy?

One thing I don't understand is that people in this country always seem to make a big deal out of those claiming welfare. 'My hard working tax money' ' I don't want my preciously earned taxes going to single mothers', but do these people even pay attention to where ELSE their 'hard earned money' goes? You never hear them speak about it, it's just scroungers this, scrounger that...People like David Icke are right here, surely?

I mean why do people get so up in arms about someone on £50 a week on JSA, but they don't care if a rich, overweight, flabby politician spends some of their hard earned money on stuffing his face with sandwiches and kit kats each week? What about all those illegal wars your tax money paid for?

I have been on benefits before and also worked and it didn't bother me at all that I paid tax that went to help out single moms and those in desperation.

In a country that is still ruled by a monarchy, how can a guy claiming 50 quid a week or 300 quid a week housing benefit and eating tesco value noodles for dinner be your enemy?

There will always be rich people, and there will always be poor people. That is the 'inequality'. Unless you want a society where everyone is paid the same amount of money, then that will not change. But that is an absurd idea.

There will always be rich people, and there will always be poor people. That is the 'inequality'. Unless you want a society where everyone is paid the same amount of money, then that will not change. But that is an absurd idea.

The fact is, there are people who are BETTER off on benefits than if they were working a minimum wage job. Benefits are too high and people shouldn't have to make the decisions of 'doing the right thing and working but getting less money than they would if they were on benefits' and that's a big issue.

I mean, of course the welfare system is a great system and it does help a lot of people who do need it BUT it needs to be majorly reformed. If there are people who are outright lazy and don't want to hold down a job then they shouldn't be entitled to benefits.

The thing is, money is tight for everyone. There are many people paying taxes who are also eating tesco value noodles because their basic wage barely covers living costs, those counting down the time for their next paycheck because they are behind on their rent. If they weren't taxed, they would perhaps afford a little more than their cold dinner.

That's when people start questioning. My mum would have loved a big family, but she only has me and my younger sister, who is 8 years younger than me because that was when they could afford to raise another child. There's a family down the bottom of my road who has 9 children, and the parents has "back problems" so they can't work, yet their back is fine when they are having sex making more children every few years.

I suppose we do care if rich people are wasting their money, but I would argue they are not really taking ours, they are just not spending it in the same way we would. ... If you win the lottery, some people would splurge it all, some invest it, and others give to charity... just because they spend it on flashy cars or whatever, isn't really my business. Where I'm questioning, is money that gets taken from people who are already struggling to make ends meet with a job and given to the unemployed so they don't struggle.

I agree, that yes taxes pay for other things e.g. police, nhs, schools etc but if these kids were not given such a free ride, there would be less crime on the road and schools would be a pleasure to teach in. How many countries in the world where education is seen as a privilege, and students study hard to do well in life? Yet kids in Britain have got it all wrong and very willingly fail and not care about school, have a child at 16 etc etc..it's such a cycle. We need to teach children from a young age that we don't get things for free..but as long as there are such lenient rules on benefits, this won't happen.

No, but I want a society where the minimum wage is enough to live off and where people don't end up with serious mental health problems because of benefit cuts.

I agree that some individuals deserve benefits because they are unable to work due to the fact their particular medical condition impacts heavy upon their life
Being disabled myself maybe I am slightly biased against people who say you are not genuinely disabled and therefore don't deserve benefits and other stupid comments like that
I was born disabled and will die disabled so never know anything different

Yeah, and it isn't any of your business how many children someone decides to have or at what age they decide to have them. Do you suggest we limit how many children someone can conceive depending on how much they earn? Your comments are ridiculous and nothing but anecdotal hearsay which, as other have pointed out, is the only argument people use to back up their views on those claiming benefits.

Regardless, these "benefit scroungers" people talk about are a minority. Of course you will always get people who refuse to work and would rather live a life on benefits, but for most people this is not the case. Especially considering how soul-destroying claiming JSA is and how little money you are given. Not only that but the majority of people who claim benefits are actually in work but their wages are so low that they need to claim additional benefits just to get by.

I can't wait for five more years of austerity and inequality!

Yeah, and it isn't any of your business how many children someone decides to have or at what age they decide to have them.

In your case benefit are acceptable. You've been born with a saddened disadvantage in life - sorry if that sounds offensive.

Benefits should be there for people in your instance.

No, but I want a society where the minimum wage is enough to live off and where people don't end up with serious mental health problems because of benefit cuts.

This was not hearsay, or an opinion, and it was not 1, or 2, this was a good 20-25% of the town. I dont doubt that nationally this is not the case, but you vote for things that are relevant to you, your own experiences, and this was mine, an attitude of "Whats the point in going to work to get money when you can claim it off the government anyway", and this was when I was in School, where many people wanted to just claim money off the government than go out and work.

Not everyone on benefits deserves or is entitled to them.