tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post1433829950569799468..comments2024-03-17T09:17:01.454+00:00Comments on Vic the Vicar!: IDS - that £53 commentVic Van Den Berghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09581156515370131898noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-52662219737455565302013-04-02T13:50:19.810+01:002013-04-02T13:50:19.810+01:00Indeed they are but playing into the class war stu...Indeed they are but playing into the class war stuff is to alienate many. We need to made a reasoned stand rather than a kneejerk response.<br /><br />Use facts to confound the foolish and duplicitous and remember that there is no political party who can stand detached from this - they are as guilty as each other ;-(Vic Van Den Berghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09581156515370131898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-19828973423656467802013-04-02T13:48:42.958+01:002013-04-02T13:48:42.958+01:00A quick clean up of message from 'anon':
...A quick clean up of message from 'anon':<br /><br />It doesn't matter whether he said it or not, he and the government are still wrong)!<br /><br />[expletives deleted ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-71336387002008099522013-04-02T11:53:30.104+01:002013-04-02T11:53:30.104+01:00Emma,
We had a chap who'd gone blind - sent h...<br />Emma,<br /><br />We had a chap who'd gone blind - sent him for a driving instructor assessment as he'd held a driving licence for many years before losing sight!<br /><br />Can't print his or my thoughts or the comments of the assessor when he turned up with white stick and guide dog!<br /><br />Numbers not people - bl**dy frustrating!!!Vic Van Den Berghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09581156515370131898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-49821210274511600192013-04-02T11:53:08.269+01:002013-04-02T11:53:08.269+01:00I think they've found her a nice position as a...I think they've found her a nice position as a draft excluder in one of the council officesEmmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-87615896581636269102013-04-02T11:52:46.560+01:002013-04-02T11:52:46.560+01:00Indeed Emma,
same as when I was working with thos...Indeed Emma, <br />same as when I was working with those on benefits and/or long-term unemployment some twenty years back!<br /><br />All about statistics, misrepresentation of reality and flawed thinking <br />Vic Van Den Berghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09581156515370131898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-2513320053563030352013-04-02T11:51:50.407+01:002013-04-02T11:51:50.407+01:00Ravi,
But the focus has to be what he, and the re...Ravi,<br /><br />But the focus has to be what he, and the rest of the parliamentarians are doing, not shouting about the man. Wrong issue - standing for the people is surely what we should be doing!!<br /><br />Wrong focus Vic Van Den Berghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09581156515370131898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-90353328826294809632013-04-02T11:51:14.827+01:002013-04-02T11:51:14.827+01:00All I know is that they want my mum on a back to w...All I know is that they want my mum on a back to work scheme!Emmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-90542960390576240872013-04-02T11:50:39.787+01:002013-04-02T11:50:39.787+01:00Ravi Holy As one of the muppets you're fed up ...Ravi Holy As one of the muppets you're fed up with (!) I still think he said what he said having read this!<br /><br />Ravi Holynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-66511050934350683272013-04-02T11:49:10.331+01:002013-04-02T11:49:10.331+01:00The problem is that IDS has done the government a ...The problem is that IDS has done the government a great favour by taking the limelight and pushing the real issues into the waste bin. Even the chat shows are ignoring the real people and their plight and engaging in the politics of envy rather than seeking what is right and just!<br /><br />Bummer isn't it?~<br /><br />And yet seems all so familiar from the stuff I encountered from the Con Them side of the fence some twenty years back )same politics and methodology - different parties in power!Vic Van Den Berghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09581156515370131898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5366621735995057721.post-64168681574129630342013-04-02T11:26:00.689+01:002013-04-02T11:26:00.689+01:00Although I agree with you that focussing attention...Although I agree with you that focussing attention on one individual may be diverting attention from the wider issues, I do think that it is perfectly fair to challenge IDS (and others) about how much they REALLY understand about what this is doing to very vulnerable people. "If I had to I would" may be simply a statement of fact, but whether IDS actually understands what surviving (hardly living) on this level of income I rather doubt. In spite of Edwina Curry's claim the IDS has been unemployed for a brief spell after leaving the army, I rather suspect that there were r3esources available to him which are beyond the wildest dreams of most peope in this situation. To be honest, I suspect most of us would find a way of survivng this situation for a week or two at a time, but coping for a much more extended period must be dire. My perception (along with a lot of others) is that these decisions are being taken by people who have NO idea what the individual consequences will be. It is the already powerful using that power to make the powerless even more so.Revsimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06723218589040920365noreply@blogger.com