Cllr. Gavin Ayling

I’ve added some more products to the first shop and opened another with overtly anti-Labour images…

Buy, won’t you now?

I hate the government shop
I love England shop

I have long received a Bulletin from the Conservative Central HQ which speaks of the party’s position on several items.

These days I scarcely need to read them: Cameron has been so successful in garnering media attention that I have heard the stories on the radio before I’ve come home to read my e-mails. Today’s for example, was on the railway privatisation admission…

And he’s quite right too.

It’s irritating that the children mentioned in this article are not wrong.

Failed by school, failed by their parents (normally) and failed by a society which pays people greater dividends for ultimate failure than hard work achieves, young girls (and boys) are taking advantage of the ‘free’ home, free dentistry, ‘free’ school meals and ‘free’ hand-outs that are then available to them.

And you don’t have to be bottom of the IQ ladder to benefit from benefits. A reasonable wage is still bettered by the Council house which is way beyond the reach of anyone even on the mean wage without years of saving.

And when this ne’er-do-work reaches retirement age, there’s no question of their home being taken for payment of nursing home bills etc — having their own-means, workers are penalised again by watching those who have not “paid their way” lose out not at all.

There are people in this world who work hard and then, through perverse misfortune, lose their home, lose their job and genuinely need the help of the state (the rest of us, really). At the same time there are people who leave school having not tried and not been punished for not trying and never get a job. These two groups of people are not similar in any way.

And yet the state treats them the same.

I want a social security safety net. I think it would be cruel and unusual punishment to allow people to be turfed out onto the street penny-less. But at the same time I begrudge paying tax to fund someone else’s work-free life.

I love Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, but those people who really are like Jonny shouldn’t be being molly-coddled — they should be given a simple message by taxpayers: work (if you can) or lose your benefits.

… the market provides solutions: Ford