MouldyCat

Cute pic, but what is going on with those cat biscuits in the background? At first I thought that cat must be spoilt if the monks are shelling out for those fancy cat-bix. But they look like supermarket shelves - did the monks meditate in a supermarket? I even did a reverse image search hoping to find the original image, but just found lots of the exact same, with that same background.

The police even have the audacity to try and moralise about this: "As a result of her selfish actions that day, she is now behind bars and her four children will now be without their mother for a considerable period of time."

No, it's a result of our useless coppers choosing to waste taxpayer money harassing adults for entertaining themselves in ways that cause no harm to anyone else. Selfish actions my arse. You guys are the ones who have kept those kids from seeing their mum, nobody else. How about the police do something more worthwhile with their time, like investigating burglary and other anti-social criminality.

I guess it's just not easy to make it harder for fraudulent claims without throwing up more and more obstacles for genuine claimants. It's especially problematic when dealing with health benefits, as genuine claimants tend to have less energy and drive for filling out applications and attending assessments than fraudsters who are in good health. Fraudulent claims is a real problem and something does have to be done - there have been cases where gangs have been siphoning off tons of money by creating claims on an industrial scale.

Funny the article doesn't mention that people on prepayment used to pay more per unit of energy than everyone else, which IMO was always the most offensive part of forcing poor people onto them.

At least the government/Ofgem stopped that overcharging in July 2023 (the period covered by this compensation ends in Jan 2023).

Tangentially, I do feel strongly that a more fair system of energy pricing would not have any separate standing charge, and would instead incorporate those costs into the unit cost of energy. As it is, the less power you use, the higher your effective price per unit is which seems to be the opposite of what we want given the need to encourage people to use less energy. If one household uses half the energy of another household, ideally their bills would be half as much (if not even less than that).

Farage is getting disturbingly high figures for someone who's such an obvious grifter

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