Become famous - upset people. It's so today.
There’s a post on FB doing the rounds – the average Brit pensioner gets £79 a week, the average asylum seeker gets £350 a week, a free car, luxury housing, etc etc, share if you think this is a disgrace.The FB friend who shared it is raging
and so are the other comments. It is, of course, a joke – or so the original poster would claim. No intention to spread false information, no no no. I posted a copy-paste from the UK govt website showing exactly what allowances an asylum seeker can claim (around 10% of the amount quoted), and also the current full state pension (more than double the figure quoted). The angry comments have stopped but I’m the party-pooper. People want to be angry. We live in a world where people want to be lied to, they love to be outraged. The current potus is, by modern standards, the most successful in history. Whether people are fawning, mocking, or gobbling like turkeys with rage, he fulfils the modern need to a T. Everyone has heard of him, everyone has an opinion, and every other politician in the world seems to be acting out in the hope of getting as much attention. Never mind the quality, feel the width.
Get with the beat, Baggy. I may be gone a while, I am trying to work out my best way of cashing in on now that I have finally worked out how it's done
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Personally I don't think people WANT to be angry, rather they expect their own Gov to rather do more for THEM as citizens than the 'asylum seeker' or whatever they choose to be called. As I commented on Z's blog, folk are getting fed up with. JMO.
Not fake news,
Governments are dumb just after fame and FREE calls
Housing
You’ll be given somewhere to live if you need it. This could be in a flat, house, hostel or bed and breakfast.
You can’t choose where you live. It’s unlikely you’ll get to live in London or south-east England.
Cash support
You’ll get £37.75 for each person in your household. This will help you pay for things you need like food, clothing and toiletries.
Your allowance will be loaded onto a debit card (ASPEN card) each week. You’ll be able to use the card to get cash from a cash machine.
If you’ve been refused asylum you’ll be given:
somewhere to live
£35.39 per person on a payment card for food, clothing and toiletries
You won’t be given:
the payment card if you don’t take the offer of somewhere to live
any money
Extra money for mothers and young children
I completely agree it's annoying that someone who has been refused asylum still gets money!
Now if your point on this blog is to create fake news for the purpose of getting attention, then of course, outrage and retaliation is the best way to do that.
You commented on one of the blogs that people don't like good news for the same purpose. I beg to disagree. I love good news, the only thing about it is that we can just smile and be joyful about it and that is the end of the story. On the other side, being bad and outraged, then we try to attempt to find a solution of whatever that is bad and it takes a lot of bickering and or insane opinion blabbing.
So there you go. Fake or not on your post about these numbers, that is the fact in my country and of course, why not, it is a discrepancy issue between who is going to be given better care, our own people or those strangers that are from all over the world.
Check this out, if in fact two thirds of the world need all to be seeking asylum, guess what, the second and first world will soon all be flattened out to be just that.
This is a last-ditch attempt to stem the death of the blogs and is based on how often each blog is read, and the number of different people commenting, as many of the CS-killing blogs are supported by only a tiny non-representational handful of members
No that was a complete lie (I'm practicing) but did you say WHA? before you got to this point?
Good morning Z and everyone.
this woman showing different kind of snake bites
she is the guinea, I recommended her for an Oscar
Doesn't - ever - mean it is right to make up fake stories.
I saw a very clever and well-done video posted by a SF writer forecasting events in 2030, 2040 and 2050 with fantastic gains in surgery and intergalactic travel but believe me some bits would have depressed you very much indeed, especially the mock-ups of 2 to 3 billion refugees on the move as global climate change and natural disasters make whole areas incapable of sustaining their populations. But that's by the by.
The point of my blog is not whether we offer aid or not. It is that people are making up fake news to inflame and upset readers about the amount of aid we offer at the cost of our own citizens.
It's so effective that the actual lies which annoyed me so much are completely immaterial and this is now a blog about offering aid at all.
I imagine she'll block me soon, or unfriend me, because I just don't play, the last whacky story she re-posted was a 30-second-check on Snopes to debunk so I just keep spoiling the fun.
Thank you for the laugh, I knew you were deliberately deviating from the truth, but was hoping you wouldn't come clean so quickly. Spoil sport!
The mega-rich?
Themselves?