Mrs Dogsmilk has just advised me that the online petition started after IDS declared in today's Telegraph he could live on £53 a week has hit Radio 4's coverage.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/996476...-on-53-per-week.html

The petition, as you might expect, asks him to put his money where his shit spewing mouth is.

www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/iain-dunc...to-live-on-53-a-week

My favourite 'say why this is important to you' comment is

Sums it up perfectly.


34,000 signatures and counting. It was at about 8000 when I signed it earlier today. I wish it was legally enforceable.

Ah well. In these dark days we have to find some fun in politicians making an arse of themselves by saying something stupid and proving for the umpteenth time they're full of shit.

I liked this one

and this

mikey mikey wrote:
Nobody could argue with either of those.

It seems to have struck a chord. How many online petitions push 40,000 before the day is out?
Brain dead fuck IDS displayed both what a cunt he is to make such a comment on today of all days and was too stupid to realise how ill-advised such a comment would be. What a wanker.

I'd love to see him forced to live on £53 a week. Forever. I'll bet he spends more than that on biccies, the smug, sickening oaf. I shall sign the petition.

*Edit* 41,734 sig's now.

Gilly wrote:
Well it's supposed to be a democracy. He should obey the will of the people. I think we need a referendum on the issue. Fuck, they should all be forced to do it.

In all seriousness I think politicians should be paid the national average income and all outside business interests forbidden. A kind of 'performance related pay' if you like. They love that sort of thing. General wages go down, so does theirs - how is that not fair?

dogsmilk wrote:
Hear, hear! And they should be fully accountable. Every penny of their 'expenses' should be announced regularly in the media.

fingers crossed someone will shank him for pocket full of change.

dogsmilk wrote:
+1

Jane

All politicians should receive minimum wage and goodwill from their constituents as their pay to incentivise them to prioritise the bottom of the pyramid

53,549 supporters

I heard the clip in which he was asked this question and you've never heard anyone change the subject faster. You can listen to the clip here:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21991953

I think it took about 1 second for him to change the subject.

I've just emailed the petition link to a dozen or so friends & relatives. I hope others will do so too.

wake_up_bomb wrote:
I don't think I even heard heard it. I simply felt a strong urge to insert barbed wire up his rectum.

Spoof - but you wouldn't know it.

Poor people still clinging to life, warns Iain Duncan Smith


The work and pensions secretary has issued a stark warning that some poor people are stubbornly clinging to life despite his best efforts to remove them from the welfare system by killing them off.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Iain Duncan Smith said that people who are poor and alive are much more likely to claim benefits and tax credits than people who are dead.

“The overwhelming majority of people who claim benefits are alive,” he explained.

“This is a situation that we cannot allow to continue.”

“We need to implement a system that encourages people off benefits and into mortuaries.”

Duncan Smith on obituaries

Mr Duncan Smith also lambasted the tax credit system put in place by Labour, describing it as “not fit for purpose”.

“It is not fair that decent hardworking people should have to foot the bill for decent hardworking people,” he said.

“What we need is a fairer system that involves employers paying what they want, being able to sack people when they want and for whatever reason they want.”

“Employers are more likely to create jobs and take on more staff if they can sack them.”

Duncan Smith used numerous pieces of evidence-free evidence in order to highlight how the poorest in society are causing the UK to haemorrhage money quicker than Paul Merson playing Three-card Monte.

“It is important when discussing welfare reforms that I use the word ‘fraud’ as often as possible,” he said.

“It is equally important when discussing tax avoidance and MPs expense claims that I don’t use it at all.”

“That way everyone knows where they stand.”

newsthump.com/2012/12/31/poor-people-sti...s-iain-duncan-smith/

Thanks Gilly. If we have anything left, it is the fun of taking the pissout of these horrible bastards.

He's just been absolutely slated in the Press Preview on Sky News!

Jane

dogsmilk wrote:
A former Tory MP who swapped his life of luxury for a week of harsh reality on Tyneside is to repeat the experience two decades on.

In 1983 fresh-faced public school and Cambridge-educated Matthew Parris spent seven days living in a bedsit in Scotswood, Newcastle, trying to get by on £26.80 of benefits.

He was challenged to survive a week on the dole by TV producers after he sparked a political row.

He had told a constituent she was lucky to have a council house and that being on the dole was meant to be unpleasant, otherwise people would not have an incentive to work.

Needless to say, middle-class Parris, more used to an MP's salary of £15,000, struggled to survive and admitted living on the dole was a "meagre" and "threadbare" existence. But now, two decades and a career change later, the journalist and broadcaster has gone back to the same West End street to try again...Programme makers are remaining tight-lipped whether Parris, now 54, fares any better on a 21st Century job-seekers allowance of £54.65.


sanctumzone.co.uk/forum/Big-Brother--Gov...re-state.html#109762

Upon leaving the Scots Guards, Duncan Smith spent a period applying for jobs and claiming unemployment benefit, during which he joined the Conservative Party....

Following the 2010 general election, the Conservative Party formed coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, with David Cameron as Prime Minister. Cameron appointed Duncan Smith to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with responsibility for seeing through changes to the welfare state.

Outlining the scale of the problem, Duncan Smith said almost five million people were on unemployment benefits, 1.4 million of whom had been receiving support for nine or more of the last 10 years. In addition, 1.4 million under-25s were neither working nor in full-time education. "This picture is set against a backdrop of 13 years of continuously increasing expenditure, which has outstripped inflation," he said. "Worse than the growing expense though, is the fact that the money is not even making the impact we want it to. He continued saying "A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate."


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Duncan_Smith

The Devil's Tune is a novel by the Conservative Party politician Iain Duncan Smith, published in November 2003...



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Tune_(novel)

LightGiver wrote:
Yet a week is fuck all. It's simply an experience. It doesn't factor in paying bills, buying clothes, replacing broken fridges or washing machines etc or the worry of how you'll cope long term real poverty brings. Any MP struggling to go one week on the dole is a pampered cunt who has no concept of the reality of the country they claim to be fit to run. And I guess that's pretty much all of them. The cunts.

Petition at 93,000