And Another Thing…

I’m sure his account was hacked – the fallback excuse for politicans seemingly.

It’s just that famous old-fashioned right-wing Tory “common sense.”

How is it relevant who the council is in coalition with? Guilt by association?

And what, pray, of Labour’s policies in office to encourage claimants to take up work, the continual prattle of Patricia Hewitt and her like about poor diet and insufficient exercise and don’t forget Gordy Mc “I’ve abolished boom and bust” Debt exhorting us to let the good times roll? You don’t really want to throw stones, Tom, do you? Surely not.

I only had a discussion last week that surely no one thinks of us having an undercalss any more. Proves me completely wrong.

What an unbelieveable attitude.

I suppose the difference was that they (Labour) were making some attempt to help people improve their lives, whereas chaps like Mr Howells would rather just demonise them as fat proles who make an active decision not to work.

Mind you, some people really are beyond help. I've heard about this bloke who was called 'Fat Dave' at school and nearly got expelled for drug use. The head probably didn't want to embarrass his mum because she had some para-legal sort of job. Then he embarrasses himself in front of a load of Americans because his history of WW2 is entirely based on war films where the Americans win it more or less single-handedly. Oh hang on, that's the Prime Minister …. gawd help us.

Ashley Howells did come back with a reply to Pits N Pots, where the story broke on Wednesday afternoon apologising not for the comments, but for posting the comment on twitter.
http://pitsnpots.co.uk/news/2010/07/work-slim-dow...

He didn't mention anything about his twitter account, and the only think he looked hacked off at was Mark Porter and Stoke on Trent in general.

So there’s no such thing as someone being unemployed and who is happy to not work & just take the benefits? Maybe in the socialist utopia dreamworld that seems to pass on this website and others.
We seem to live in a country now where you have to be so polite and mealy-mouthed when you criticise anyone that it’s hard to tell there is any crticism there. Political correctness gone mad. The Councilor should be able to say what he likes and, if the majority of his constituents don’t agree, he will be voted out next time. He should not be silenced by political correctness. It is the PC attitudes today which give us all these bland, grey, characterless politicians.

So there’s no such thing as someone being unemployed and who is happy to not work & just take the benefits?

It’s so much easier to scapegoat ‘the unemployed’ rather than blame the real culprits – low pay and lack of jobs.

So people don’t want to work for peanuts? What a shock! Lets reprimand them for their cheeky failure to be masochists.

Work is supposed to be a quid pro quo in which something of value to both parties is exchanged. It doesn’t work if one party defaults on their obligation. Hard work in exchange for decent pay, not one without the other.

I find it surreal that Tories go on and on about ‘incentivising’ people, usually themselves, but abruptly withhold the principle from those they consider “unworthy.”

The country would be much better off if more politicians had the guts to tell the truth.