UK - One in six of all households, no one works...

[Neil]

JESUS CHRIST! Now I see why I pay so much tax! Yesterday's report said there are three million homes where no one works, nearly one in six of all households. They include 4.3million adults, excluding pensioners, and nearly 1.8million children. They cost £12.7billion a year in benefits. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-million.html

[SymphonicX]

I've got a friend with a shed load of kids who's come down with a brain condition which means he can't work as a roofer/builder anymore...he doesn't even claim benefits, I've been trying to convince him to get disability....he won't do it, he's too proud! It's a shame people like him go without, even by choice, when a guy who lives next door gets 1500k a month for claiming disability for nothing. Still, this is typical "hate-everything-and-everyone" Daily Mail drivvel. **** 'em.

[MinionZombie]

I've no problem with a case like where that dude has the brain condition getting benefits - it's what the system was made for. I wholly object to the collection of people who abuse the system, or use it as an excuse to do f*ck all - and I also wholly object to the government using it as a means to buy votes and control the working class. 'Oh we'll give you a scrap more money (but take it away with the other hand), and then you vote for us okay?' Absolute garbage. Under a certain level of earnings, they should be taken out of tax entirely and be allowed to keep their cash that they've earned to spend on their family, and then benefits would be reduced or perhaps even cut out completely for certain families as there'd be no need as they're not coughing up to the gubment, which in turn means they're held over a barrel by the likes of Brown and his scummy underlings. ... I didn't read the article though, the Daily Mail just sh*ts me off.

[Neil]

Six million Britons live in households where no one has a job, official figures revealed yesterday. According to the research, 1.77million children - one in seven of under 16s - are growing up in welfare-dependent homes. The number of homes where no one works has risen by 43,000 in the past five years to just over three million. This is nearly one in six of all UK 'working-age households', those that include at least one person aged between 16 and 59, for women, or 64 for men. The non-working households include almost 4.3million adults, excluding pensioners, and the 1.77million children, of whom 1.2million live with lone parents. There is mounting evidence that in Britain's recent boom years four out of five new jobs were taken by immigrants.

[acealive1]

so much for sayin the USA is lazy........

[Danny]

oh the us is lazy too, weve just got more bone idles per square feet. i work my as off at a ****ty mcdonalds job as a fry cook, go to university, and still find time to film adverts for people, i think a lot of claimers and dolies arent simply lazy but lack total direction. i know a guy whos bene on since he left high school and does nothing but play halo all day, hes quite happy to live in the same ****ty council house till he dies, never even leaving the shires. a lot of these people are not thick either, this guy was a literal science genius, but just rather exists for the sake of it with no passion for anything. hell i got only 3 C's at G.C.S.E and im taking a bloody degree at university, if you have a dream or enough drive you can get your ass into something good, but some people just would not do more than look on the jobcentre website once a week. its a shame, but thats the entropy of middle england at work.

[SymphonicX]

hell i got only 3 C's at G.C.S.E and im taking a bloody degree at university, if you have a dream or enough drive you can get your ass into something good, but some people just would not do more than look on the jobcentre website once a week. its a shame, but thats the entropy of middle england at work. I agree. It's sad. I left school with piss poor GCSEs and only had the equivilant of 2 A-levels when I left college, after a Btec in media... Straight out of there, into a career with major broadcaster, now being paid to edit for TV...only thing that separates me from the rest is that I had the balls to ask, and went head first into everything I did.

[Danny]

man i hear that, you always gotta ask, or youll never get anything if you expect it to fall into your lap, hell to progress to the 2nd year of my degree you've gotta go out on your own and make a commercial video for someone else, its MANDATORY. two people quit then and there because it was "too much work" SO THEN WHAT IS THE POINT OF TAKING A COURSE THAT FOCUS' ON THAT THEN?!? -i just whet to a local board games and ccg emporium, knocked on the door to the owners office and just said what i needed to do and asked if he was interested. its free so you bet you ass he was. yet everyone else is finding trouble, mostly because there looking on the net instead of just asking someone yknow? -actually a more apt example is the fry cook job, i was told i needed a job in 7 days or i was homeless, i got about a total 6 hours sleep over the next week adn covered 200 miles of road, but on day 7 i had one. did i rely on the government or the job center to lead me by the hand?, F-no, i just asked.

[_liam_]

Er I think it's more to do with the looming economic recession than Britons being lazy (although admittedly we have no shortage of ponces). Anyone actually been jobhunting recently? It's a nightmare

[Rottedfreak]

Er I think it's more to do with the looming economic recession than Britons being lazy (although admittedly we have no shortage of ponces). Anyone actually been jobhunting recently? It's a nightmare Yep, it's hell, why do so many employers ask for years experience? how can young people get any if the majority jobs ask for that?

[_liam_]

You either don't have enough experience, or you are overqualified It's madness

[MinionZombie]

You either don't have enough experience, or you are overqualified It's madness heh, I know how that one goes alright.

[Chic Freak]

Oh god, wish me luck for Thursday & Friday then. I've decided to get one of these "job" thingies when I move to London and am going to try and track one down then. It's never good when reading your own CV makes you laugh the first time round

[MinionZombie]

Eep, well jolly good luck to you Miss. Yeah, what are these "jobs" that people talk about? I hear they have them in places called "offices" now? ... Madness, surely. ... Seriously though, even as a struggling freelance filmmaker, it's what I want to do and I actually would go mad if I was in some normal job, especially one in an office. I remember working at a garage when I was a bit younger, and I didn't like the slave-to-the-clock vibe, the constant repetition, and the crushing of my creativity. I just felt like a robot, and I'm not trying to be dramatic, I genuinely did feel overtly "meh" throughout. Still though, it wasn't for an exceptionally long time, and it paid for the computer (among other things) on which I'm currently editing that sex education DVD I've been working on for a few months now.

[Chic Freak]

Eep, well jolly good luck to you Miss. Cheers, no doubt I'll be b!tching about how it went, one way or the other, when I'm back on Saturday! Seriously though, even as a struggling freelance filmmaker, it's what I want to do and I actually would go mad if I was in some normal job, especially one in an office. Oh, don't. I've been self-employed and loving it since I turned 18. The idea of having a boss who is actually allowed to tell me what to do is already grating, and it hasn't even happened yet. I just feel like it's irresponsible to not at least try and have a more regular income than I do atm if I'm living in the most expensive city in the country. Doubt I'll be in an office at first, more likely a bar, shop or cafe I'm currently editing that sex education DVD I've been working on for a few months now. OMG You HAVE to Youtube that when it's done