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A typical DM 'story'.

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Greatnan Tue 11-Dec-12 06:52:09

The Daily Mail has managed to find somebody who ticks all its boxes - an unemployed, non-white single mother who apparently lives very well on benefits. I wonder how much they paid her for this non-story. The headline says that she received £15,500 in benefits and can afford designer clothes, foreign holidays and plans to spend £2,000 on toys for her two children this Christmas. I looked at the arithmetic. If you take out the housing and council tax benefit components of her benefits, she received £766 a month cash, and claims to save £250 a month. So, she manages to feed three of them and pay for fuel, phone, insurance, transport, etc etc. out of £516 a month. Wow, she should replace George Osborne.

What can the motive of the DM possibly be in running this item? Did she approach them because she was so proud of herself?

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Joan Tue 18-Dec-12 06:10:53

So did I!! I remember classifying them into:

You too can be beautiful like me.
Buy this car/shed/expensive equipment and become more of a man.
Trust us and give us your money (superan, insurance, banks etc)
Eat this crap food and feel good.

I managed to convince the lads that most ads are for something you don't need and can't afford anyway.

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petallus Tue 18-Dec-12 09:31:20

When my DD2 (now 42) was an adolescent, if I saw her watching an old film with gender stereotypes abounding, I would deconstruct for her, from a feminist perspective.

It drove her mad and she reacted in the opposite direction.

Ha! Years later she sees the truth of what I said all those years ago.

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Grannyknot Tue 15-Jan-13 19:17:43

This made me laugh today www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

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Anne58 Tue 15-Jan-13 19:26:06

So beautifully done!

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Greatnan Tue 15-Jan-13 19:53:57

grin

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jeni Tue 15-Jan-13 20:16:07

Reminds me a bit of ? chas and Dave? Rabbit

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Nonu Tue 15-Jan-13 20:28:08

Ana , 13/12/12 Did you not know the political leanings of newspapers Before ?

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Anne58 Tue 15-Jan-13 20:33:52

jeni a bit more "gentle" than Chas & Dave, but I do see what you mean.

Greatnan Just knew that you would like it! I am sending it to B, who had a stroke just before Christmas and does actually read the DM (I'm prepared to make allowances for him grin .

I spent a few hours sitting with him today so that his wife could get out on her own, she asked me to pick up a copy of the DM on my way over, under the circumstances I agreed!

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jeni Tue 15-Jan-13 21:19:34

That's stretching charity a bit you know!

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merlotgran Tue 15-Jan-13 21:26:22

Love it, although I will be careful who I pass it on to as nobody laughs at any reference to Ian Huntley in this neck of the woods.

If anyone in the family quotes something from the DM we shout, SO IT MUST BE TRUE. Still read it online though grin

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Joan Tue 15-Jan-13 22:33:11

I read the lot - well, bits of them. The DM is a right wing rag, and I'm a leftie, but you have to read all points of view. At times I read the Guardian, The Australian, the Courier Mail (Queensland state daily) the BBC, Huffington Post, NY Times, Yorkshire Post. When something big happens in the Middle East I read The Jerusalem Post, and likewise I read French, Austrian and German papers when something big happens over there.

I read the article this thread's about, and had a laugh. The truth about benefits, well over here anyway and probably in the UK, is that fraudulent claims are less than 1%. So over 99% of claims are honest.

I reckon that lass in the article has a very generous boyfriend and parents! And/or has wildly unrealistic hopes and dreams.

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