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[albitz]

Im on a roll now.
As for prescriptions.People in England now have to pay almost £8 per item while people in the other countries in the U.K. dont pay a penny.Its completely outrageous.
A level playing field for all British citizens,or let the seperatists have their way and break up the union.But once they have got their way,no subsidies whatsoever under any circumstances.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I was paying almost £60 a month for Prescription medicines

So why on earth did you not get a pre-paid prescription certificate?

I have to say everybody sits and moans about cuts but nobody ever comes up with an answer as to where the money is coming from to if the cuts are not made!

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I know exactly what you are saying, Mark....but all the cuts seem to be hitting the least well off all the time. I am lucky in my situation that it does not affect me ( only standard fuel rises etc, etc)

But in my observations, I fail to see where anyone with a bit of wealth is giving up anything or suffering in any way.
The system itself is silly. As regards free prescriptions....my wife gets free prescriptions (has done for years)....but my son who suffers with asthma, which can be life threatening, does not. As my wife says, she would have willingly given up hers so my son had free prescriptions.
If there was proper independent audit on the government itself, what they award themselves, what they spend within government itself on vehicles, decorating, entertainment etc, etc, I bet there there would be millions that could be saved.
They should learn to make do with Tesco Value, the same as the rest of the population are expected to.
Did you see I.D.Smith spouting about how he could make do on £53 per week. He soon got off of that subject!!!!!

Yep.......and the bedroom tax is yet another example. In complete contrast Cameron and Osborne went out of their way to give a tax cut to the super rich.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Im on a roll now.
As for prescriptions.People in England now have to pay almost £8 per item while people in the other countries in the U.K. dont pay a penny.Its completely outrageous.
A level playing field for all British citizens,or let the seperatists have their way and break up the union.But once they have got their way,no subsidies whatsoever under any circumstances.

Agreed. Not to mention free education north of the border.

[omega3000]

There wouldn't be a problem with welfare in this country if the money was genuinely given to the people that needed it, unfortunately though, I reckon more than half of all the claimants are spongers that are knowingly taking money off taxpayers. Looks like we've saved a fair bit of money on the 900,000 people that didn't want an assessment though eh? Wonder why

I read this and frankly im disgusted  These scroungers should be brought to justice and pay the money back    A lot of people have been denied the help because all these toss pots have been claiming out of an open pot . But no ! They will give up the benefits they stole and never brought to justice , thats why this countries in a mess 

[omega3000]

Something else to look at 

The latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions show that 1,830 incapacity benefit claimants are obese, 42,360 suffer from alcoholism and 37,480 are listed under ‘drug abuse’.

[Steve B]

Poor ian is being picked on for opening his mouth      Do a refresh/reload  supporters amount moves so quick

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/iain-duncan-smith-iain-duncan-smith-to-live-on-53-a-week

[albitz]

It isnt a bedroom tax,it has been labelled that by the opposition.Labour actually proposed a proper bedroom tax in 2011.They proposed taxing elderly people whose kids had flown the nest out of the homes they had bought and paid for.
The tax cut for the super rich is an attempt to make the U.K. an attractive place for wealth creators.During the whole of the New Labour years, taxes for the rich were lower than they are now,apart from the last few weeks when they put it up to lay a booby trap for the incoming govt.When they put the higher rate of tax up it didnt generate a penny in extra revenue.
Im no fan of Osborne at all,but I found it difficult to disagree with almost everything he said.
Talk is cheap though,and he has been found wanting - badly - in his task of creating a climate in which the economy will grow.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Our economy wont grow given its demic whilst a global recession remains and hence why attempting to grow by throwing public funds at it wont work also.

What I would like to see is public contracts going to Uk jobs

[PhilRich]

I was paying almost £60 a month for Prescription medicines

So why on earth did you not get a pre-paid prescription certificate?

I have to say everybody sits and moans about cuts but nobody ever comes up with an answer as to where the money is coming from to if the cuts are not made!

Mark, please don't patronise me, if you take the trouble to re read my post again you will see I stated I was paying almost £60 a month for Prescription medicines and appliances  . The latter are not available on prescription from the NHS and are damned expensive regardless of how much income you have, and of course I obtained a Prepaid Certificate. You seem to believe by your general demeanor to the less fortunate in Society that they are all leeching off the State and by definition you personally, and everyone else in work and paying tax! Well I was a worker and taxpayer too until an injury at work caused by an idiot not doing his job properly and hiding the resulting bodge led to my disabilities. Yes the Benefits System is being abused by the breakless, workshy and those who lie and deceive their way through life, but neither I nor many many thousands of others fall into any of those categories! Instead of tackling the REAL problems this Country faces this lot has taken a sledgehammer to crack all the nuts, not just those that need breaking!

[ozzycat]

i agree that things cant go on the way they are . get the ones that abuse the system but why put people like me and EMD and others that have no choise but to live on benefits though no fault of there own be tarred with the same brush and labled scroungers its not as if we dont want to work i would love to get up in the morning and go to work my old boss is and has allways said if ever you can work theirs your old job back it breaks my heart to know that i cant provide for my family any more and have to rely on handouts .i realy do feel like say bugger it and topping my self  what stops me doing it is not seeing my grandaughter growing up
  [rant over]

[Selseybill]

As a disabled person myself and having to attend various medical reviews over the years i found the ATOS one a joke. The office i had to attend was 30 miles away and on the 3rd floor. I found the staff very rued and uncaring. Most of the assessment staff are junior 2/3 year nurses with no specialise training. My assessment started from the waiting room by watching me via the CCTV, once in the medical room the nurse was not interested in any of the letters i had from the GP or the consults i am under or the medication am on or what was wrong with me including informing her my left leg was removed from the knee down. Part of the test was a movement assessment. I was asked to point my toes up whilst in the seating position. When i told her i couldn't do it with my left leg she wanted to know why. At this point i was getting really pi** off, so i took my false leg off and slammed in on her desk. Oh she said you've got a  prosthetic leg. Hello love try listening to what i told you within 5 minute of this mockery started. Then she complained that i refused to hop to the bench with just my sock on across a slippery lino floor. Am tiring to get better not smash my head on the floor.
Wanting to know what she had written about me i asked the DLA office for a copy of the report. It took ATSO 3 months to send the report to the DLA office. The report was a joke, i seemed to be written by someone else who was not at the medical. There was no mention i had a prosthetic leg and use a stick to walk or the 3 major heart attacks i had last year and the other problems i suffer from.
 Lucky the DLA know i only have one leg and problems with the other but my case worker wanted to known how i grew another leg. I just told her i had eaten all my greens each day.

My conclusion of ATSO is it a not professional and caring company but is only interested in the monies gained from their government contract. The feedback and programmes i seen about them isn't that favourable to say the least.

As some of you know i work in France most of the year travelling back and forth, but i am employed by Pirelli UK and pay full UK taxes. Thank God never had to claim unemployment or other benefits.
 

[ozzycat]

As a disabled person myself and having to attend various medical reviews over the years i found the ATOS one a joke. The office i had to attend was 30 miles away and on the 3rd floor. I found the staff very rued and uncaring. Most of the assessment staff are junior 2/3 year nurses with no specialise training. My assessment started from the waiting room by watching me via the CCTV, once in the medical room the nurse was not interested in any of the letters i had from the GP or the consults i am under or the medication am on or what was wrong with me including informing her my left leg was removed from the knee down. Part of the test was a movement assessment. I was asked to point my toes up whilst in the seating position. When i told her i couldn't do it with my left leg she wanted to know why. At this point i was getting really pi** off, so i took my false leg off and slammed in on her desk. Oh she said you've got a  prosthetic leg. Hello love try listening to what i told you within 5 minute of this mockery started. Then she complained that i refused to hop to the bench with just my sock on across a slippery lino floor. Am tiring to get better not smash my head on the floor.
Wanting to know what she had written about me i asked the DLA office for a copy of the report. It took ATSO 3 months to send the report to the DLA office. The report was a joke, i seemed to be written by someone else who was not at the medical. There was no mention i had a prosthetic leg and use a stick to walk or the 3 major heart attacks i had last year and the other problems i suffer from.
 Lucky the DLA know i only have one leg and problems with the other but my case worker wanted to known how i grew another leg. I just told her i had eaten all my greens each day.

My conclusion of ATSO is it a not professional and caring company but is only interested in the monies gained from their government contract. The feedback and programmes i seen about them isn't that favourable to say the least.

i know exactly how you feel mate all igot from them was why cant you climd the stairs to the 4th floor because im in a wheelchair  and theres no lift working  when they sent sombody down he said they didnt tell me you had a wheelchair i just looked at him and said thats what ive been trying to tell you for 30 mins  it took my doctor before they would accept that i was in one evan though the bloke had seen me they sent me home 4 days later got a letter saying that they woulnt call me for an inyerveiw again how thick can you get the bloke behind the receptiun dest actualy said to the bloke "are you stupid or do they pay you to be thick the guy in a bloody chair how do you expecthim to climb staird" he said some of them do

[Selseybill]

Ive got to go back in 3 years but by that time my other leg will of been removed.So ill make sure ive got a large motorised chair that wont fit in lifts.

[ozzycat]

Ive got to go back in 3 years but by that time my other leg will of been removed.So ill make sure ive got a large motorised chair that wont fit in lifts.

you can borrow mine

[Selseybill]

Thinking along the line of the Top Gear ones