Shan wrote:So anyway what's the story with this Ben Bradley? Silly fecker or just a typical Tory pr1ck?
A bit of both Shan, he seems the perfect poster boy for the right wing, many of whom you will find here in various forms. Those who would say, yes great idea, sterilize those who "do not contribute to society" but who would never dream that that category would include many for whom it's not a choice and those whose actions mean they cheat society whilst probably look like upright citizens to the gormless.
Taking the quoted example:
“There are hundreds of families in the UK who earn over £60,000 in benefits without lifting a finger because they have so many kids (and for the rest of us that’s a wage of over £90,000 before tax!).
'It's not long before we're drowning in a vast sea of unemployed wasters that we pay to keep!'"
As Rooster has said many will consider his only fault speaking those words publicly, but you do not have to be a genius to understand that you require a huge number of progeny and most, parents & or children, will have to have serious health issues to receive benefits on the scale he mentions.
A large number of imbeciles may think, wow, £60 grand to sit at home looking after a dozen able-bodied and ill children. It almost never seems to occur that whilst £60k might be a decent salary to a couple with 2 or 3 kids that if you throw in an extra 8,10,12 kids it doesn't sound like a huge amount.
Britain is a vile country, in recent years we've had the unsightly advent of poverty porn tv which has copperfastened those on benefits as hate figures "for all right-thinking people". What they never made clear was when they said
right-thinking, they meant fu@king closet nazis rather than "correct".
This little tory wasp is the exact sort who will appeal to the type who would bring back the workhouse or the eugenics fans who would wish to breed and more importantly sterilise "wasters" out of society.
In other news, though only elected last year, the little sh1t belongs to a party who have frozen public sector wages for the entire term of their recent governments making nurses and many others we rely on incrementally poorer over the last 10 years.
His interesting contribution? " “If you think your job or your pay isn’t good enough for you, quit! There are millions and millions of other people who will quite happily take your burden off your hands! If you think you deserve better pay, then get a job with better pay. If you don’t feel capable of getting a job with better pay then be grateful for the one you’ve got!"
A great sentiment at a time when the NHS is losing nurses faster than they can recruit them.
If others admire this @unt's homespun wisdom, feck all I can do about that but I'd love him to die soon.
Thanks for asking.
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