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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Right, right, because it's people on welfare that are destroying the economy... Tory logic

[–] BrightCandle 9 points 1 year ago

In Tory land the reason the economy is in trouble is because the Poorest people have too much money.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (52 children)

There's like 15 people in this country who could be looking for work and aren't. How does inflicting revenge pain on them raise any sort of money for the rest of us?

They're either lying, or utterly incompetent when it comes to understanding who's in the welfare system.

Or both I guess.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They understand what their voters want to hear: it's not us causing the problem in this country, it's the lazy benefit cheats

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

We've come full circle on this one. This is pretty much exactly the same shit they said 13 years ago when we all had to 'tighten our budgets' whilst the richest people in the UK got significantly richer at our expense.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Clearly the poors should be pulling themselves up by their stiff upper lip or something like that

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Jeremy Hunt: "A "poor" asked me for some change or a warm drink the other day. Obviously I wanted to help him, so I punched him in the face and stole his rucksack and blanket, which will support and encourage him back into the world of work."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Replaying Cameron and Osborne's greatest austerity hits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Feels like a shit tribute act

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Tory MPs must be crapping themselves.

[–] DrCake 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haven’t they been saying this for like the last decade?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yes

It's a great bogeyman they can spend money going after because the people who they'll screw over (ie those who will lose their home if they start working as minimum wage is too low and support is only given to people who earn below a certain amount which is way too little) would never vote for them anyway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, election year in New Zealand too and National are doing the exact same thing... I'm so tired of this boogeyman, I don't know how other people aren't just as tired of this bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Where's the package to save us from corporate welfare Mr Cunt. Bail out any banks recently? Fuck off

[–] MrNesser 13 points 1 year ago

It's an election year even if its not been announced the tories are doing their favourite thing of targeting a minority within a majority

[–] BrightCandle 12 points 1 year ago

It continues to disturb me that this is so popular. Hurting the most vulnerable in our society for votes is pretty sick and twisted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, get a job like us cause, we do fuck all and get paid too.

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