Killed by benefits cuts: Starving soldier died 'as result of Iain Duncan Smith's welfare reform'

Raggamuffin wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:
Well, no more so than to decide what Mighty Mouse or Superman would do ... at least they still tell us about what Superman's up to. Nobody seems to be keeping up the God/Allah/Buddha/Vishnu/Xenu stories, but if you want to find out what's going on in the world of Agent Renard, I update that nearly nightly Nobody likes a fiction writer who stops telling stories...

Yes, yes, whatever. You don't need to keep reminding me how bigoted you are, and how you like to harass people of faith.

nicko wrote:
Lone wolf. if you can't have a go at some poster on here you'll have a rant about our news papers!  do you have all the brit  papers delivered then?if you don't, shut your cakehole,you are talking bollocks.

sphinx wrote:The Mirror is printing half a story as usual.

The fact is that if someone on jobseekers misses an appointment their benefits are only sanctioned until they do attend  with it being extended only for those who have done it before.  That is unless there is a good reason for missing the appointment in which case no sanctions are applied and all monies backdated.

So why did he miss the appointment?  Why did he not reschedule an appointment as soon as his money stopped?

I mean yes this guy is salt of the earth innocent - but what about those who are wasters and who did used to miss appointments left right and centre - how are the job centre staff supposed to know who can be let off missing appointments and who should be sanctioned for it?

Irn Bru wrote:Whilst we are on about scum and those who served this country this thread was strangely silent in condemning how this lad died not even a show of compassion.

All his fault was it?

risingsun wrote:It is, and there are so many cases like his, and with the 'government' (I type that word loosely) we have now and the policies they say they are going to impliment (well, loosely again as they wouldn't actually tell us where the cuts are going to fall, but it's not likely to be on the rich) the list of those dying just because they are sick or poor will be endless.   But never hey, cos those who voted Tory have shown they don't give a flying fuck as long as they are ok.