I would like to see the people in power all spend a month on benfits and nothing else, and see how they like it.
I would also like to see them all spend a week in hospital in pain and all that, but that one isn't actually humainly possible. They would probably say the first one isn't humainly possible eaither, but they should have a taste of what it's like to ring around phamacies on a sunday or be in a medical queue for over 8 months for something that would more or less fix them. They need to know what it's like to choose between eating and heating. They can go back to their privalidged worlds afterwards, but in the mean time, I want them to know what it's like to live in the shoes of someone who is told "It'll be sorted in a few days" when the banks won't give them an overdraft full-stop.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:29, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

The problem with this idea is that if you know you have a maximum of a month to endure,
then it wouldn't be so hard to bear. Plus the slimy cunts would all find ways round it, much like Leicester's r'n'b dwarf superstar and serial policeman-Tazerer 'Mark Morrison' with his communiuty service.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:33, Reply)

Yeah', I know what you mean.
This is why the likes of Tommy Robinson can talk about "I'm talking for the average man on the street", and spout his views talking for the average person. Someone from Eton can't do that.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:43, Reply)

Micheal Portillo spent a week living in a council flat on benefits,
it was actually a good documentary.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:35, Reply)

Did he resort to 'turning tricks' to make 'ends meet'?
He's actually slightly less of a cunt in person than one might imagine, I am told.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:36, Reply)

I watch This Week every so often and he seems nice enough,
the fact he gets on with both Dianne Abbot and Andrew Neil shows he must be a nice enough guy.

Nope but he was shocked he couldn't buy a daily broardsheet and get meat on the same day and stuff like that.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:41, Reply)

Oh, I always thought it was "Ends Meat", like, to get the cut-offs cheap bits of meat.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:43, Reply)

I think it's to do with tightening belts and that, squeezing until the two ends meet

(PsychoChomp, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:45, Reply)

Nope.
The internet throws up several not-very-convincing origins for this, most plausible to my mind is that it’s from bookkeeping, in which the total at the bottom (“end”) of the column of income must at least match that at the bottom of the expenditure column if one is not to be living beyond one’s income.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:48, Reply)

I don't see why we shouldn't set MPs pay exactly at benefit level
they can claim housing benefit and child benefit and whatever else they'd be entitled to, but should have to interview every couple of weeks and specify what exactly they've done in parliament in order to receive their giro.

They're all going to walk into fat consultancies afterwards anyway.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:09, Reply)

I wouldn't quite go that far, but the sentiment is totally right.
I'd also like to see it that it would be impossible for any councilor or MP to recieve higher wages than the PM.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:26, Reply)

What the fuck is a councilor anyway?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:26, Reply)

someone who is elected to serve on a town or borough council
local government for local people.

Why not go that far? If unemployment benefit is enough to live on, as MPs claim, why not pay MPs only that much? They might be a bit more inclined to improve the lot of the unemployed and less given to moaning about dole scum.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:34, Reply)