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Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 3:19 pm
by Pstotto
Why not have a benefit capital where if you're on benefit you go and live there? The irony is that if the unemployed had to create themselves (paid for), then there wouldn't be any unemployment.
Pick a nowhere place, Isle of Sheppey. They all go and live there, but SOMEBODY has to build the city from scratch, make the windows and doors, put food in the shops and mind the store etc.
Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 3:30 pm
by Burnley1989
Fortunately I’ve never needed benefits but some aren’t as fortunate.
Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 3:31 pm
by AlargeClaret
It’s called Blackpool ....
Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 3:34 pm
by Pstotto
Imagine if that were official though?
Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 3:41 pm
by Tall Paul
When do you leave?
Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 3:45 pm
by Pstotto
You have to leave if you get work in the town.

Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 3:46 pm
by AlargeClaret
It’s called Blackpool ....
Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 5:09 pm
by AngleseyClaret
It's called Rhyl where I live
Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 5:26 pm
by IanMcL
I think this thread is in the poorest of taste and should be zapped.
Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 5:28 pm
by Spijed
Pstotto wrote:Why not have a benefit capital where if you're on benefit you go and live there? The irony is that if the unemployed had to create themselves (paid for), then there wouldn't be any unemployment.
Pick a nowhere place, Isle of Sheppey. They all go and live there, but SOMEBODY has to build the city from scratch, make the windows and doors, put food in the shops and mind the store etc.
What next, having certain sections of society getting numbers tattooed on their forearms?
Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 5:31 pm
by Clarets4me
IanMcL wrote:I think this thread is in the poorest of taste and should be zapped.
Agreed .... btw Ian, still laughing at the suggestion on the " Election Predictor thread, that you might be a 6th Form Politics student, It may be that you once were, but not this side of 1975, I suspect !

Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 5:33 pm
by IanMcL
I left school, with my O levels, in 1969!
I did chuckle at that too.
Ever young!
Re: Benefit Capital, why not?
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 5:39 pm
by bobinho
Mmmm.... you been doing so well recently too.
Shame that.