Quote Originally Posted by blue matt View Post
dont read either to be honest, I have various news feeds ping though on my phone and my MBP ( oh sorry, MacBook Pro )



I own 2 Billy Bragg CD's, so no

but seriously

I have spent my life Voting Labour or Plaid , I was a GMB Union rep for a few years, I have only once voted Conservative, so I dont class myself as right leaning, but as I have grown slightly older I have certainly moved away from the left ( but not in favour of the right ) I guess I just want all to have a equal shot at life BUT I dont want the working class to be penalised by the " too lazy to work lot " ( having worked as a carpenter for the local council / housing association I have seen it all ), I do get annoyed when I see people playing the system to screw it over, I guess thats right wing to you though
People screwing the system are a tiny percentage of benefit claimants and the majority need it. It’s something like immigration that has been used by the media as an excuse to divide people and get them to not want a more socialist government even though it would more than likely be better than all of us.

You can read studies that show benefit fraud has an effect of about 0.01% on the country’s budget while tax fraud from companies and billionaires is way way above that.

Now ask yourself why that isn’t reported in newspapers or on the news channels ran by very wealthy people?

This has been clear for so long I can’t believe someone would use this as a reason to vote. All this info is out there if you consume independent trustworthy media. It’s used as propaganda by rags like the express all the time.

This is why people don’t trust articles from the mail or the sun because they have been doing this forever and their intentions are clear and their “facts” are easy disproven.