Corbs Vs May

[Im-a-Ridah]

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[The Wobbly Orange]

It is possible to live cheap if you choose to. I once through my own fecklessness and denial screwed up my finances that I needed my Dad to help me make it to the end of the month around September of 2015. Took that shot across the bow and lived cheaply from then on. 2 months later I had paid him back and 4 months after that I put a deposit down on a nearly new BMW. While I can see the occasional emergency need for a foodbank those using them on the regular have simply failed to budget properly.

I am now running a surplus of nearly £400 a month. So in a pinch there is nothing wrong with needing help, but to rely on it long term when you are otherwise healthy and employed? No call for that.
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Their is value in self discipline Wobbly, that is true.
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[Lord Percy]

To use a foodbank you need to have rations/stamps (or whatever they're called) provided by a doctor or social worker. I like to think they aren't complicit in allowing serial food bank users to abuse the system. Those who take the piss would surely be weeded out or focused on strongly for reformation or whatever.

Come to think of it I think it's a pretty bad sign of the times when people who can't even afford food are immediately looked at with suspicion or disdain.

[Rogerborg]

[Ste]

It's really quite easy for anyone to get a food bank referral. It's not just doctors and social workers who can refer you, each food bank company decides who they accept referrals from and of course the more people there are using their services, the more funding from the local council they'll get.

Referrals can be done by a doctor or by any health care professional from highly paid consultants right down to healthcare assistants, they can be done by people in social care, they can be done by various charities, they can be done by CAB and I expect there's plenty more places they can also be done by.

Basically, loads of people are eligible for them who don't actually need the help.

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

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Just opened up a Sun from Thursday, sub head "Corbyn walloped by all six opponents in debate".

Press really are ass
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[gorillaonabik...]

What's mad is being left with a choice of 1970s socialist or Sharia, vacuous May. It's a sh!t choice but I'm going Corbyn as although Corbyn wants to put CT up to 26%, he also wants us in the Customs Union.

However, I have no clue what May's about. She was a staunch Remainer and now a Leaver. She believed strongly that old people should pay for their healthcare but then not. She believed in taking 1,400 armed police off the streets... which she is now putting back... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2y7MoFuu-k

That selling to the EU was the best chance for jobs and our economy and then not. That we should reduce immigration but while Home Sec, increased it. Her policies on small businesses are so confusing, no-one knows what they are and she has the political direction of a revolving door.

May just looks like a political opportunist who changes her mind every 5 minutes lunging for power whereas Corbyn sticks by his guns. He has a vision for Britain and in the absence of anything less cr@p, I'm voting Labour.
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[Ste]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4574822/Diane-Abbott-embarrasses-new-TV-interview.html

[Rogerborg]

[M.C]

[nowhere.elysium]

One of the things that seems to be ignored is that London distorts reality around it. I know that everyone outside the m25 has nothing good to say about 'that london', but that's not what I'm getting at. Living costs in London are ridiculously high compared to the rest of the country, and it almost exclusively boils down to rent costs.

To put this in context: I own a flat in newham. It's a borough that is one of the poorest in London, and yet one of the most populous. I've put my flat up for rent through a letting agent - I thought the rate they advertised it at was usurious, given that it's a 1-bed flat in a council tower block. However, my arm was near enough torn off with the speed of it being snapped up, because it was thought of as being a bargain. I wouldn't be able to afford the rent single-handed. That's the long and short of it - the rental market is certifiably insane. I did actually argue the price a bit with the letting agent, because I was of the belief that a grand a month is madness, but that is (apparently) the lower end of what they'd normally ask.

Now ask yourself this: if this is classed as a normal to low sort of rental rate, how can it be surprising that people are struggling to eat? I know that the typical answer is to suggest moving out of London, but unless you're already pretty autonomous, it's a hard move to make. Shifting myself and my wife to the Midlands was far from easy, but was massively advantageous overall. Fear will typically inform people's decisions with regards to this sort of move though, and with that, the poverty trap is sprung.
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Labour must think we were born yesterday.

Abbot has stepped down temporarily (yeah until after Thursday) as shadow home secretary, due to "illness" aka, damage limitation on being a fuckwit who would be in charge of UK security and border control.

I reckon Corbyn should catch the same sick bug too to increase Labour's chances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SwZaL5fk24
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[Loui5D]

#PRAYFORDIANE

[Rogerborg]

Being a thick, lazy racist is an illness now?

Corbyn is doing surprisingly well. He's coming across as a calm, credible proponent of shriekingly insane policies.

[nowhere.elysium]

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[Suntan Sid]

Don't worry, the Abbottopotamus has been sidelined for now, she'll reappear when the positive discrimination quota needs padding out!
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