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Just read the 2nd July entry, and it jogged my memory...here's a frugal alternative to spending a fortune on sun cream.....if you have a store called Home Bargains in the South as we do up in Newcastle, try there for both sun cream and aftersun. I took my 10 year old niece on a (budget!) holiday to Majorca in the May school holidays and was looking at paying a minimum of £10.47 for the cheapest 'decent' suncream for her I could find, this being Nivea Children's (factor 40). Even in cut-price store Wilkinsons it was this price, but I luckily found it in Home Bargains for £3.99! And also managed to bag a 500ml bottle of aftersun for £1.49 there at the same time!Hope this helps xxx
The DWP beaurocracy does keep a lot of people in work, true enough; and those of us out of work, often through no fault of our own, it keeps off the breadline. It was probably worse in the work-house.
Its not only the MPs on the fiddle, though, its the whole system with the NHS prejudice which decides our fitness to work or otherwise and entitlement to therefore a lot of different benefits and the local Councils who administer social services, social housing , housing and council tax benefits.
My own Council is now taxing me £3.25 a week out of my Pension Credit (!) because, they say I owe them ( an unspecified amount for an unspecified reason for an unspecified time) following my recent re-housing which was given High Priority on Health grounds! I have been dropped in a dump barely fit to live in, and have to spend my own money to make the Councils property habitable. I had to paint and carpet three rooms before I could even move in, it was that filthy. I got ripped off by the painters, ripped off by the carpet supplier and now I'm getting ripped off by the Council.
The kitchen, bathroom and hallway/stairs remain in need of attention. A lot of attention. If I were to vacate now, without first doing up the place a bit decent, they will charge me for repairs and re-decoration, no doubt....any way those who are not actually bent and making a few bob on the side are mainly interested in wielding their little bit of power, passing the buck and taking home their pay-cheques.
We, the claimants are the scapegoats for a corrupt society: its NOT all down to the benefits cheats... Who is actually cheating whom? Welfare State? Whose welfare? The rulemakers and their minions all hide behind each other and unite their efforts to delay, deflect and discourage.
Scapegoating is a very simple and well understood psychological mechanism: refusing to see ones own faults and projecting them on other, vulnerable people. Its not a revolution we need, its a Union. What ever happened to the Claimants Union, anybody out there?
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