I’ve had to turn it off as there now interviewing ex boxer Anton Du Beke.

Millsy Went to the gym. Fuck that shit.

Same here, went for a massive ‘disk2’ deltoid work out, but was confronted by Charlie’s dour phizog on every screen. Mercury And Solace sounding the absolute business as ever.

    C_J Deets? Link? How much of that is pensions? What percentage of the populace is it? How does that compare to ten years ago?

        There a street party in the road that you access my road off tomorrow and as luck would have it I’m doing an mtb race tomorrow too so I get to avoid/ignore it

        This AI imagery stuff is a bit shit init.

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        What a fucking cesspit twatter can be. About 3 posts down there’s another bit about Charles contributing 30k to a feed for the homeless.

        Both could be wrong, both could be true. But what people get out of posting shite to prove a ‘point’ is beyond me.

        Not a great mirror on human nature.

          Amps my source is The Times and therefore behind a paywall but look into it and correct me if I’m wrong.

          None of it is pensions - this is working age benefits I’m talking about.

          Don’t know how it compares to 10 yrs ago but it’s “up 52% since the pandemic and by £34bn since Rishi Sunak became Chancellor (which is more than the combined annual budgets of the Home Office and the Foreign Office). “

          “There are 5.5 million economically inactive people excluding students and retired people. “

              C_J “There are 5.5 million economically inactive people excluding students and retired people. “

              Unemployment levels at an all time low though aren’t they?

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                  I rather enjoyed it. a lovely way to pass the time whilst doing the ironing. Millie looked fidgety. Charlie looked a little bored. Hazza bugged out early.

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                    benson I rather enjoyed it. a lovely way to pass the time

                    Where you ‘doing an Ant’?

                      Along_the_Wire yeah but there’s millions claiming incapacity benefits and therefore not counted as unemployed because they’re not seeking work

                          C_J

                          The reality is a bit more nuanced than that.

                          The main benefits: Jobseekers Allowance, Employment Support Allowance (ESA), (which replaced Incapacity Benefit) is now claimed under the umbrella of Universal Credit (UC). ESA claimants are put into different ‘groups’: those who are assessed as being incapable of actively seeking work and those who are able to actively pursue work.

                          From memory, around ⅓ of all UC claimants are in employment already but claim UC to top up their wages because they in ‘in work poverty’. What was the Tories’ answer to this? “They should just get better paid jobs”.

                          If you meet the criteria of the assessment, you might be able to claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which is payed to those in employment and those incapable of work.