5,000 Southend children living in workless families (From Echo)
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5,000 Southend children living in workless families
5:00pm Thursday 19th August 2010 in
UP to 5,000 children in Southend live in homes where no one works, according to a report by the Prince’s Trust.
The trust says research shows 15 per cent of children in the borough are growing up in jobless households.
This is higher than the regional average for the East of England, where 12 per cent or 123,000 children are growing up in workless households.
The study by Qa Research, commissioned by the trust, shows children from workless families are significantly more likely to struggle to find a job, as well as feeling less confident about their future.
Nigel Holdcroft, Tory leader of Southend Council, said the authority was commited to tackling unemployment.
He said: “It is very much a priority for us and, notwithstanding the economic climate, it will continue to be so.”
Nearly one in ten young people in the East of England are expecting to end up on benefits because other people around them have.
According to the report, based on interviews with 2,048 16-to-24-year-olds across the UK, young people whose parents do not work are twice as likely as their peers to feel they have no talents.
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torridpiper
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5:17pm Thu 19 Aug 10
And 89% were in McDonalds today stuffing themselves full of junk food.
What is wrong with sticking the little brats up chimneys cleaning them out?
And what is wrong with their parents clearing dog cr-p from local parks after all it is their bloody dogs that made the mess.
reptile
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5:59pm Thu 19 Aug 10
stropmag
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7:05pm Thu 19 Aug 10
torridpiper wrote:Ignoring the comment about fast food consumption, I would challenge you to provide evidence of the figure of 90% that you quote. Of course, there's no point in the challenge as you couldn't possibly.
90% are asylum seekers new to the town and receiving benefits.
And 89% were in McDonalds today stuffing themselves full of junk food.
What is wrong with sticking the little brats up chimneys cleaning them out?
And what is wrong with their parents clearing dog cr-p from local parks after all it is their bloody dogs that made the mess.
There's a good deal more wrong with Southend society than asylum seekers. Perhaps we should be looking closer at the native population before we start pointing fingers at others.
Perhaps we should be looking at a system that has failed to discourage benefit claims.
Perhaps we should be asking questions of a society that provides huge rewards to some whilst honest hard working people struggle to pay the bills for a modest lifestyle.
The children of todays unemployed may be the revolutionaries of tomorrow.
Dismiss such a possibility and make wild unjusifiable claims about asylum seekers at your peril.
Southendman
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7:13pm Thu 19 Aug 10
'V'
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7:36pm Thu 19 Aug 10
gitreal
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7:38pm Thu 19 Aug 10
torridpiper wrote:muppet/ This is deffo one of your worst post Clive
90% are asylum seekers new to the town and receiving benefits. And 89% were in McDonalds today stuffing themselves full of junk food. What is wrong with sticking the little brats up chimneys cleaning them out? And what is wrong with their parents clearing dog cr-p from local parks after all it is their bloody dogs that made the mess.
anon anon
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9:32pm Thu 19 Aug 10
'V' wrote:haha you plank...
Once the double-dip hit thanks to the tories' fiscal policies (higher inflation, higher cost of living, both about to be made a LOT worse by the impending VAT increase to 20%), the situation will only get worse.
do your home work , thank mr brown...
Hugh.Janus
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11:06pm Thu 19 Aug 10
'V' wrote:I think I will agree with evilc on another post elsewhere, go see a Doctor ASAP, namely a 'Nut' doc as you seriously need your head sorting out. Or are you simply here for the sake of making abrasive moronic comments. You really are not doing yourself any favours.
Once the double-dip hit thanks to the tories' fiscal policies (higher inflation, higher cost of living, both about to be made a LOT worse by the impending VAT increase to 20%), the situation will only get worse.
In case you really are intelligent enough, have a very close look at the last thirteen years of a Labour Government and see why we are in the mess we are and why we will all suffer because of namely two mens arrogance and inability to run a fiscal policy that made sense, without robbing pension funds/gold reserves etc; if you are capable of doing that perhaps you might just learn something, namely how to keep your mouth shut.
leighman
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11:23pm Thu 19 Aug 10
leighman
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11:23pm Thu 19 Aug 10
BASILBRUSH
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11:39pm Thu 19 Aug 10
As for Asylum seekers, they dont get the hand outs or properties people read in The Sun. Around 73% of applications get refused asylum in the UK.
Economic migrants do not get benefits if they have been here less than 5 years, or qualify for tax credits or housing benefits. Even after that this they have very restrictive entitlements depending on NI contributions and residency status.
At least Economic migrants are prepared to take the low paid jobs. Perhaps if our own layabouts accepted these positions rather than grabbing the ridiculously easy handouts currently available, you would not see the economic migrants people complain about.
Tougher times ahead, but necessary thanks to the Numpties that spent the last 13 years wrecking our countries finances.
gitreal
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7:01am Fri 20 Aug 10
Labour loved handing out hard earned taxpayers money to the scroungers. Pretty soon these benefits will stop and these undesirables will either be forced to work, or face starvation. It is a shame that the kids suffer because of their parents laziness.
And before anyone says disadvantaged.....th
is is just an excuse to hold your hand out with a sullen look on your face for more welfare. And it should be called exactly what it is 'welfare' not benefits.
Lazy gits need a kick up the jacksey.
Can't wait until this government puts their welfare cuts in action. Bring it on.!!
el caballero de la noche
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7:52am Fri 20 Aug 10
The blind belief that the last 13 years of socialism has improved our lives is beyond belief.
We have become a country that needs to find excuses and reasons for everything without a thought for WHO actually picks up the bill.
An enquiry for this and an enquiry for that, a report say's this and a report say's that equals UTTER CRAP!!
Members of my family would often have 2 or 3 jobs paying pathetic wages just so they could make ends meet and be proud, often travelling 100's of miles to find work often sleeping in building site hut's for 4 or 5 nights before returning home, as kids we did paper rounds of worked in shops just to help out, NO money went on luxury items.
Our Society has now because of Socialist ideaology expect something for nothing with enough money also to have endless amounts of kids that they cannot afford, they expect to be given enough money to smoke like troopers, drink like fish and have Sky TV.
Well hopefully TIME IS UP the country voted for change and it is on it's way I only hope this pathetic Government hits the historical non deserving scrounging takers and not the people that have worked hard and saved money all their lives for their old age.
Bring it on as we the payers have had enough.
k4y1
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8:41am Fri 20 Aug 10
gitreal
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8:45am Fri 20 Aug 10
'V'
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11:10am Fri 20 Aug 10
BASILBRUSH wrote:Of course I voted. If you think the economy is not going to go into meltdown once the tories' 20% VAT rate hits, then you're living in cloud cuckoo land.
I really hope you voted during the local and General elections V? Otherwise your constant anti-Tory ramblings mean nothing..... Then again, judging by your recent efforts they generally mean nothing anyway. ;)
As for Asylum seekers, they dont get the hand outs or properties people read in The Sun. Around 73% of applications get refused asylum in the UK.
Economic migrants do not get benefits if they have been here less than 5 years, or qualify for tax credits or housing benefits. Even after that this they have very restrictive entitlements depending on NI contributions and residency status.
At least Economic migrants are prepared to take the low paid jobs. Perhaps if our own layabouts accepted these positions rather than grabbing the ridiculously easy handouts currently available, you would not see the economic migrants people complain about.
Tougher times ahead, but necessary thanks to the Numpties that spent the last 13 years wrecking our countries finances.
NEVER TRUST A TORY.
gitreal
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11:41am Fri 20 Aug 10
essex beaufighter
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2:45pm Fri 20 Aug 10
Unfortunately that is not the message that is put across to people now. In a society that wants everything immediately and an attitude of "it's my right to have it regardless" and with a benefits system that provides luxeries, what can be expected.
Make the welfare cuts and make them hard. Make benefit payments in tokens that are redeemable on essentials and not cash to spend on cigarettes and booze. No more luxery items such as large TV's and computers. Or, why not stop handing out money altogether and have food parcels collectable from your local Job Centre upon showing that you have looked for work, therefore no cash or coupons necessary. Whilst i have every sympathy with the genuine unemployed who through recent government failings have lost their job I have none with the work shy and feckless who continuously sponge a living from the hardworking and morally decent of society.
Bosniavet
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4:50pm Fri 20 Aug 10
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As for whether the figures are artificially high due to asylum seekers being housed in Southend, I would be interested in seeing PUBLISHED figures relating to the number in the borough. I am also very interested to find out how those of the 73% refused asylum & the recently arrived economic migrants who do not work, leave the country, or find themselves detained manage to have housing & purchase necessities like food if they are not paid benefits or given housing by the state.
AS regards the constant griping about the 2.5% rise in VAT that is due to be imposed, maybe you would like to take notice of what the economists (not the government) of all persusasions have said about bothe this & the previous temporary cut by the same amount. Basically, they have proved the cut made very little difference to sales, earnings, or the spending power of the general population, & concur that the same can be said of the imminent rise.
Southendman
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9:28pm Fri 20 Aug 10
BASILBRUSH
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11:27pm Fri 20 Aug 10
People thought if fuel prices ever reached £1.20 litre the world would stop driving.... Guess what, people still drive.
What surprises me are people that criticise the current administrations policies so soon after they have inherited a huge mess from the previous administration.. Its highly likely the Lib/Cons will suffer in the next session as a consequence of cleaning up the mess... It seems people have short memories though.
This is a golden opportunity to reform the Welfare state whilst sorting out this mess. They are making the right noises, I just hope they follow it up.
I am lucky to have a good job, with a reasonable salary that I have worked very hard to get, but its going to be tight financially for a while. I'd rather the deficit is sorted sooner rather than later.
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