On Saturday, we went for a pleasant couple of pints at the Victoria, and a lovely curry at the ever fantastic Golden Moments. A very enjoyable evening, with only one exception: the group of 4 people on the next table who were happily regaling how one of them was claiming incapacity benefit, and the others a veritable raft of benefits- fraudulently claiming to not co-habit, and ‘lying upstairs in bed laughing’ whilst the incapable one (who seemed capable of walking around the restaurant and shovelling curry down her neck) lied to the benefits officer downstairs.
Grrr. [expletives deleted] [visions of a killing spree suppressed]
I’m a very strong believer in the welfare state. It’s essential for a civilised society. Why, though, do we have to put up with people screwing the system and robbing us all? It should be there to help people that need it, not to pay for scumbag parasites to enjoy a slightly-more-expensive-than-average curry.
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Do they have no shame?
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Evil Overlord 19: Bring back the workhouse (but not one preserved for tourism) for convicted benefit fraudsters.
This makes my blood boil. What can be done about it? Is there not some sort of way these people can be reported to the authorities?
Makes my blood boil too. You can report Benefit fraud but you’d have had to record the conversation on a mobile phone or something to provide evidence or stands witness.
Would have ruined my evening and I would have had to say something but then I’m a mouthly b*stard!
I’m sometimes a mouthy git, but not in my favourite restaurant in Walsall :-/.
And yes, as the Bumpkin says, you can report people, if you know some details, but how to report $randomscrounger ?
Blimey, ‘a mouthy git’, would never have guessed š
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I’m actually a little more tolerant most of the time than the blog suggests, but I’m rapidly becoming a grumpy old man, and running short on patience.
Welcome, by the way, what brought you to this outpouring of shite?
Thank you. I followed through from that other great outpourer of witty pig swill, Mr Brownhills Bob, then became mesmerized by the really scarey, yet strangely beautiful graphic at the top of your blog and your uncanny interest in piggyness. Then I hit the RSS button…
Bob is picking up a lot of traffic, and deservedly so-it’s a good blog.
The graphic was done for me by a colleague- I asked for ‘zombie pig’. One day I’ll actually finish hacking the theme about a bit more.
“Iām actually a little more tolerant”
My arse. More tolerant than what? Sir Alf Garnet, Lord Bernard of Manning?
[*explodes in burst of outrage*]
Hey thanks, Dinkey. I’m with you over Stymaster’s graphic… it’s very gothic. And the witty pigswill was a welcome compliment, too… ooh, this is going to my head.
I’m with the Stymaster on this one, it’s infuriating. What’s really bloody annoying is that for every scumbag there’s a genuine claimant denied aid by some android box ticker with no experience of real life whatsoever.
There will always be people working the system. Every time they tighten it up, the more genuine claimants get screwed.
Bob