Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Fredxx brought next idea :
Perhaps state benefits should be withheld from you too.

That might be difficult, because I don't get any at all, not a penny
:-)


Not even winter fuel payments or a bus pass,free prescriptions ,a bit of
state pension to go on top of your one gained as part of your career?
You must be in the minority amongst pensioners who dont get any of those
though it is fair to say that many
dont regard them as benefits being hypocritical sods .
And many people now forget that when they were younger that they received
family allowance or similar payments when they were bringing up a family.
They are/were benefits as well but as middle class people like teachers
claimed them as well they were respectable ones so not in the same class as
a bloke without work because his job had disappeared claiming the dole.

GH