Slightly different times, in that it is something that people aren’t as arsed about it now. Remember that you could actually get locked up for it at the time he was born.
Another pretty nasty example of how punitive benefit sanctions have become:
A cancer patient was stripped of her benefits for more than a month while undergoing debilitating chemotherapy following an apparent mix up.
Marisa Da Silva, of Isleworth, was diagnosed in August 2015 with breast cancer and has been unable to work since her treatment began the following month.
The 39-year-old was initially awarded Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), thanks to help from Macmillan Cancer Support to obtain the benefit.
But this payment was withdrawn in November and she says she was told she would need to apply for work to qualify for Job Seekers Allowance (JSA).
She claims one Jobcentre officer even advised her to hide her condition from potential employers, despite the chemotherapy leaving her unfit to work on all but a few days a month.
It’s a horrible story, but the last part I have highlighted is particularly galling. Had a similar experience with this when I was out of work for quite sometime after uni (graduating in 2010 with a sodding BA was not fun). I was told to hide A) My mental health issues & B) My degree. As both would apparently hinder my job prospects. When I pushed back and said I was uncomfortable with this, particularly the first part, I was told I could be sanctioned - as I was deliberately harming my chances of gaining employment.
I really fucking hate these guys.
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True Pap, but to wait until he’s 52? Silly boy (him not you).
And KRG - they sound like lazy jobsworths who care about nothing, save your hate for someone who will notice.
Originally posted by @KRG
Another pretty nasty example of how punitive benefit sanctions have become:
A cancer patient was stripped of her benefits for more than a month while undergoing debilitating chemotherapy following an apparent mix up.
Marisa Da Silva, of Isleworth, was diagnosed in August 2015 with breast cancer and has been unable to work since her treatment began the following month.
The 39-year-old was initially awarded Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), thanks to help from Macmillan Cancer Support to obtain the benefit.
But this payment was withdrawn in November and she says she was told she would need to apply for work to qualify for Job Seekers Allowance (JSA).
She claims one Jobcentre officer even advised her to hide her condition from potential employers, despite the chemotherapy leaving her unfit to work on all but a few days a month.
It’s a horrible story, but the last part I have highlighted is particularly galling. Had a similar experience with this when I was out of work for quite sometime after uni (graduating in 2010 with a sodding BA was not fun). I was told to hide A) My mental health issues & B) My degree. As both would apparently hinder my job prospects. When I pushed back and said I was uncomfortable with this, particularly the first part, I was told I could be sanctioned - as I was deliberately harming my chances of gaining employment.
I really fucking hate these guys.
Hiding ur Mental Health Issues sounds like really good advice to me! I never tell potential employers that I’m going to spend half my working day looking for pictures of Yanet Garcia on the internet, and the rest of it masturbating in the company toilets. Whether it’s right or wrong, employers tend to be prejudiced against these kind of things.
A sad fact of life, my mate has to keep it secret from his family or most of them, he is 42 and had the same boyfriend for 15 years.
Why’s that Barry? What would the family do if they knew he was A Gay?
Disown him, cut him off and never speak to him again in all probabllity, certainly would have nothing to do with him, he moved from the midlands to Liverpool, his sisters know but thats it.
Jeez, what a bunch of cunts. I can’t suppose that is common reaction tho anymore, surely. It wouldn’t be like that in my family 4real. Are they black or asian? I saw tv show the other day saying that black & asian communties are much more against homosex than rest of British Society. They done a survey, and it was like 70% of white ppl support Gay Marriage, but only 30% of black ppl, or something like that. The show was presented by a black gay bro, so it wasn’t Racist.
don’t get Barry started on black or Asians views on gay people!
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Yes he is Hindu, religion and masculinity in some communities, religion and culture in others, is backward and stoneage anyway and there is no excuse for it at all.
Yeah, sure.
Completely hilarious, is mental health. Up there with cancer for the lol-factor.
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David Cameron trousers half a mil in rent since 2010.
Fuck me, I guess those 450K houses _are _affordable. 
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Another slap for the Conservatives today, seeking to place curbs on the Freedom of Information Act.
The Information Commissioner reckons there is no case for changing the legislation, arguing that there are already enough protections for public interest cases.
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And a tap on the derriere from the Lords re political funding
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Wasn’t quite sure where to put this. John Prescott has been on sparkling form lately. First coining the term “Bitterite”. Now this pearler.
John Prescott @johnprescott
I see Andy Coulson has got a new job in PR. I left him a good luck message on my mobile.
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I bet his password’s still 1,2,3 though 
Originally posted by @pap
Wasn’t quite sure where to put this. John Prescott has been on sparkling form lately. First coining the term “Bitterite”. Now this pearler.
John Prescott @johnprescottI see Andy Coulson has got a new job in PR. I left him a good luck message on my mobile.
Is that 2 Jags you’re talking about PAP?
The very same, although I prefer “Two Jabs”.
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For a politician I think it’s best to resolve issues through dialogue rather than fitsicuffs, but then…it was John Prescott.