This bloke is apparently so disabled that he hasn't worked for 8 years.
But he can afford to go out boozing, afford to go to a premiership football match, and best of all, is fit enough to try to attack a horse.
He must be so proud.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/newcastle-united-fan-who-punched-1836372

Is on medication and his been drinking:banghead: so thats why he reacted like that...
What a joke!

Didn't look to be unfit as he danced around the horse.
Another typical workshy benefits scrounger.
This scumbag is living off public money & I would imagine that the public would like to see his income severely cut.
Another prime example of why benefits shouldn't be a free handout.
I wish I could afford to go to football matches & have loads of drink.

I expect that is really why he is so upset to have been caught and publicly identified.

pooroldcodger said:

I expect that is really why he is so upset to have been caught and publicly identified.

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Indeed, I often feel that most criminals (when they sorry) are only really saying "I'm sorry that I was caught"

i ho - i ho - its back to work you go! - with a bashful pride - i ho - i ho - you stupid little.....

I think there should be people investigating lots of these claims of ""unfit for work""
Hell anybody can be sat on a checkout, its not hard

Ziggy

This is such a big job that it has been contracted out! Unfortunately that is not an ideal situation, but it needs an industrial sized solution to it.
They need to get on with it sharp-ish

Well I work a mile from where this happened and there people in my office who have been in wheel chairs since birth yet are not burdens on the state...however I doubt he could pass the IQ test...

StevenRB45 said:

Well I work a mile from where this happened and there people in my office who have been in wheel chairs since birth yet are not burdens on the state...however I doubt he could pass the IQ test...

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Exactly. Every so often I take a bloke in a wheelchair to work. It's some sort of scheme designed to get the disabled into employment. Sadly, it's a lipservice, the employer gets a free lackey & the scheme pays his wages. But employers really don't have any work, I suspect they have to wrack their brains to find something, anything for him to do. His last job, they had him removing staples from paperwork before it was sent off for shredding - jeez, mind destroying.
The sad thing is that he wants to work, he is desperate to work. He's even done a few computer courses so he can show he's got the brains.

So he had a few pints and then a couple of bottles of beer, then punched a horse called Bud? I see a marketing opportunity for a certain American beer manufacturer.

Not only can he afford to go drinking and attend a Premiership match, but he lives in an area overlooking open fields, unless it's a reclaimed landfill site.

Buying the tickets from 1st4football tickets, the prices start at £85, rising to £190.

I definitely want to know why I am funding a lifestyle that I cannot afford.

sludgeguts said:

Exactly. Every so often I take a bloke in a wheelchair to work. It's some sort of scheme designed to get the disabled into employment. Sadly, it's a lipservice, the employer gets a free lackey & the scheme pays his wages. But employers really don't have any work, I suspect they have to wrack their brains to find something, anything for him to do. His last job, they had him removing staples from paperwork before it was sent off for shredding - jeez, mind destroying.
The sad thing is that he wants to work, he is desperate to work. He's even done a few computer courses so he can show he's got the brains.

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I seem to remember you work for a bus company so that may be the case, with my job there's nothing about it stopping a disabled person doing it just as well as anyone else, the building was built with it in mind, all you need to be able to do is answer a phone and work a computer e.t.c.

Beard it may look like open fields now but this is morpeth...It's probably a nice lake when it rains. Seriously though round here a lot of the crap areas have nice views cos they are old mining areas without mines where it might look idyllic but unemployment drugs and drink are rife.

And money, clearly.

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And money, clearly.

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Well let's just say when I heard on the news the sentence, some people are going to now going to have to live on only 350 quid a week I nearly fell off my chair...that's what 18000 a year? Oh no to be in such poverty...there are Africans sending shoes and food parcels to help them..

StevenRB45 said:

Well let's just say when I heard on the news the sentence, some people are going to now going to have to live on only 350 quid a week I nearly fell off my chair...that's what 18000 a year? Oh no to be in such poverty...there are Africans sending shoes and food parcels to help them..

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And don't forget, that's £18k AFTER tax - with access to certain freebies that the workers have to pay for.
As I have said before, about time these people were made to earn their benefits somehow.

Although I started this thread, and if I worked for the DW&P I would have somebody knocking on Johnny Geordie's door faster thah you can say Newcy Brown, unfortunately this maximum benefits figure is a bit of a red hetrring, because in many cases the bulk of the figure seems to be in housing benefit, being paid to private landlords/
My suggestion would be to start a massive social house building programme, which would also help with jobs and the wider economy. This would then put a damper on the overheated rents and therefore benefits. These properties would not be available to own, and certainly not to sub-let, and the agreement would be that you moved to a property of a suitable size (maximum 3 bedrooms), or down to 1 bedroom deoending on your circumstances.
And I would start building these new properties on brown field sites first of all to re-generate the cities.

pooroldcodger said:

Although I started this thread, and if I worked for the DW&P I would have somebody knocking on Johnny Geordie's door faster thah you can say Newcy Brown, unfortunately this maximum benefits figure is a bit of a red hetrring, because in many cases the bulk of the figure seems to be in housing benefit, being paid to private landlords

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People who work also have to pay the inflated rents charged by private landlords. However they have to A: work for their money and B: a vast percentage are on less than 350 per week especially after tax.

I ended up buying a house simply because it was cheaper than renting so I'd agree with more social housing as long as its not in an area those working full time on minimum wage couldn't afford to live in.

I agree completely with you, but what I meant was, the fact that the state has been prepared up 'til now to pay almost unlimited rents, there is no downwards pressure at all on the rents, so this makes it even worse for those of us who are working as it inflates prices even more. If the link between benefits and private landlords could be drastically reduced, then rented accommodation would be cheaper for the working person.

Rents will certainly vary from area to area and obviously I have no idea as to how much most of them are, however, in our street some friends opposite pay £425 per month for a 2 bed terrace. It's very well decorated and the landlord attends to any issues promptly.

£350 per week equates to (approx) £1500 per month which works out at around £23,000 a year before tax and N.I.

If our neighbour, a welder, and his partner, a teaching assistant can afford the rent, council tax, water rates plus all the other utility bills, I don't see why it should be difficult for someone on this level of benefits to manage. Not only that but Motorbility can provide various levels of vehicular support from a Blue Badge right through to providing a car with zero Vehicle Excise Licence.

Conversely, I wouldn't swap my ability to walk, run (after a fashion) and ride a bicycle and motor bike for their benefits.

You'd struggle to live anywhere full time on minimum wage tbh.