How can you not be in that position? If you know all about their personal circumstances?

Don't expect a rational answer anytime soon, he was doing the hit & run routine long before AjW was weaned off his battery-licking

Probably substantially more than you think.

Next time you are out and about in a large city, might a suggest a visit to the local magistrates' court for some light entertainment?

It's a never-ending procession of people admitting guilt to low-level offences, then asking to pay the fine at £7 a fortnight because they don't work and are on benefits. And 50% of all fines go unpaid.

Your problem there is that like some police officer friends of mine your daily life is immersed in a sub-culture of just one element of real life, so much so that you end up believing that this is normality and lose sight of the fact that you are looking down a microscope into a petri dish full of the crappiest examples of life, lift your head and look around and you'll see that "normality" is VERY different.

Police Officers, court officials, solicitors specialising in criminal law, the Daily Mail and The Express - all guilty of believing that the lowest common denominator is the norm.

While were discussing benefits it's becoming transparently clear that IDS's flagship Universal Credit roll-out is an unmitigated disaster.
No wonder there having to sanction so many claimants.
Trying to recoup some of the financial black-hole he's created.

T0sser with a capital T.

Seems like you got the abuse anyway!

Seriously though I understand this Cod'ed is a bloke in his 60's or 70's. You would have thought he would have grown out of trying to abuse people over the internet by now.

The insults are getting poor coddy, which is a shame.

He received "abuse" after dishing out nasty accusations about people on this forum, which, even when challenged, he cannot and will not then back up, but doubtless has now run away again, as is his wont.

If people cannot take "abuse" they should avoid dishing out what amounts to libel.

I haven't run anywhere, and if people seriously believe that nobody on here is taking the state for a mug then that is up to them.

Stop trying to deflect the question from yourself.

You're the one who has made an accusation. Now either back it up or take it back.

He won't back it up Minty because he can't. In his own words when we met in July "don't take any notice what I write on the message board, I just like to wind people up".

I guess he thought yesterday was my turn to be wound up, but it didn't work, again in his words peoples problem is thinking that a few random peoples opinion on line matters", so I took his own advice, his opinion of me is of no matter to me either.

So, Standee reckons that 30%+ are on the fiddle.
Does that justify penalising the other 70%?

We hear the same argument about the unemployed, who can all get a job "if they really want to", despite the number of vacancies being about a fifth of the number of people out of work.

What we don't get is honesty.
If these critics were honest they'd admit that they simply don't feel any conscience towards helping their fellow man.

If Thatcher's Britain was the "me" society, what we are seeing now is the "Why should I" society.