I Will Deal With It

understatement of the year!

Posting on the politics threads is certainly challenging roses.

When new posters won't go onto the politics threads.....it's not the politics that bothers them but the rude/insulting/bickering/bullying posts about anything at all.

Good for you Primrose and all should remember that gossiping about another forum member and asking ( sarcastically)if they have changed names is something unpleasant and personal.

@Primrose

Sorry you're not able to deal with a confident person

No problem with 'confidence' but I've never cared for bossiness

and have to create a fake backstory

I wasn't creating a fake back story at all. Just 'wondering' as your posting style is a bit familiar. But that must be sheer coincidence.

P.S Have you explained what you mean by 'discussion' anywhere?

That is so sad mostlyharmless but I expect you could hear the same story over and over again.

"As most of the UK press is currently right wing, it has managed what would seem an almost impossible feat. It has persuaded voters that it is not the rich, who tend to avoid paying taxes, but the poor who are the social and economic vultures."

I would also add the disabled to the poor in that quote.

durhamjen I'm sure most people would be very sympathetic. She lives alone and looks so frail and wobbly, but that is how she feels. Neighbours would know if she had a disabled parking permit I suppose but not if she received PIP.

I'm not the forum police, but I don't like bullies

I don't think you recognise them Primrose. Try looking in the mirror.

Thanks for the link Mazie it worked.

That's sad, mostlyharmless.
Can she not contact AgeUK and get advice?
How would neighbours know if she was getting PIP unless she told them?
Or are you saying that some people would assume she was, even though she isn't?

About claiming disability benefit (PIP) I have a close friend who has had Parkinson's for years. She can't work now, is a WASPI women so can't get her pension for several more years. She is reluctant to claim PIP as she feels neighbours see her at good times, when she has just taken medication and is at her best, feeling strong enough to go out. She goes to the gym to strengthen muscles and goes swimming too. It doesn't mean she is fit and well. Neighbours don't see her when she is at her worst barely able to stand. Because of this she feels she can't claim the benefits to which she is entitled.
We really don't know what people suffer when they are at home unable to go out.
We can't assume everyone is capable of working.

Again who knows, but it must be possible to find out from GNHQ?

No Maizie, I haven't changed my name. Sorry you're not able to deal with a confident person and have to create a fake backstory so I can fit into your assumptions. I'm not the forum police, but I don't like bullies.

The same thoughts occurred to me Maizie.

No, I didn't think it was you, nn Anyway, you're still here and unchanged..

Is it possible to have two profiles on Gnet?

Who knows?!!!! But it certainly isn't me!!

Try this one, Smileless
I think there was a bit missing from Penstemmon's link

www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jul/29/leasehold-tycoon-man-whose-firms-control-40000-uk-homes?CMP=fb_gu

Primrose65

Sat 29-Jul-17 20:53:35

I think it's time to move on now ......

Sun 30-Jul-17 10:20:52

It's time you stfu trisher You've acted like a playground bully.

What is intriguing me is why, from what I can make out, a very new poster feels emboldened to act as the forum police? These are just two examples. In real life most people in a new group spend some time establishing themselves and working out the group dynamics before trying to take charge.

Or is Primrose someone who's changed their name?

Tried to open the link Penstemmon but just got a blank screen. Could be me, I'm not very good with technology but perhaps you could check the link is OK.

oops! posted before I finished my comment.

How will Teresa May and her cabinet react to growing anger at this, easily sorted, level of parasitic money making?

://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jul/29/leasehold-tycoon-man-whose-firms-control-40000-uk-homes?CMP=fb_gu

Here is another story of leeching money.

The man in question knows nothing about it!

But it does give everyone on here bit more understanding of the prejudice others, especially the members they share this forum with. If they actually have to claim benefits they get a bit more sense to of the mind-set some have of them. This will be personal to at least some on here.

I tried to explain and reason with you and you refused to listen, so I resorted to needling you by making it personal and you take violent offence. You started the posting about a man you accused of benefit fraud. Admit that this was a wrongful assumption and I will drop it. Instead you pretend to be bullied. Its a fucking discussion and you can leave it at any time.
rar you don't know who is reading these posts and who might be affected by accusations of benefit fraud and afraid to claim benefits because they fear what others will say. At least I am open and honest and not gossiping behind someone's back. And I have said I knew it was wrong. It was a tactic to show how it feels to be accused of fraud.

I have no desire to continue this futile argument trisher so this is the last time I will respond to a post from you regarding the issue of fraud.

You have IMO undermined your own argument by doing the very thing that you criticised me for doing. You are behaving like a playground bully but will not succeed in bullying or intimidating me off of this, or any other thread.

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