http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=welfare-reform The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 01:51:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-171979 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:15:15 +0000 godly1966 171979@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well done easily the best and the cleanest. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-171088 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:24:52 +0000 sponge finger 171088@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'd like to see that bunny pic on some of the protest placards re the Bedroom Tax </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-171003 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:29:15 +0000 Squudge 171003@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ta. I have to admit the Owsla bunnies frightened me as a kid. Scary artwork.<br /> I can quite see then as bunny people-traffickers. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-170937 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:39:51 +0000 Ironduke 170937@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lovely work. And fair play to the watership down cartoonist who accepted the brief to 'create a really vicious looking bunny rabbit' too. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-170936 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:36:29 +0000 sponge finger 170936@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>neato? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=58828#post-170913 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:29:50 +0000 Squudge 170913@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It has been discovered that from April 2013, rabbits on the Downs will incur penalties for having less than 20 bunnies in a chamber. This has set the hares running with terrible results in some deprived areas. A spokesrabbit from Watership Down, near Basingstoke, today gave a shocking account of resultant bunny-trafficking. </p> <p>"The Owsla bunnies run the finances round here and have been forcing us to up the numbers. We have had to break into domestic hutches and a local pharmaceutical lab. Most of the newbies are very unhappy about having their passports taken away and being kept in cramped conditions with only a ditch for sanitation, then forced to be sex workers". </p> <p>"Not that I am complaining about that bit", he admitted, "but the educated ones taken from private hutches have been inciting unrest and banging on about their leporid rights. </p> <p>We didn't expect the Warren Reform Act to have an impact here, but what with modern agricultural methods and ongoing outbreaks of 'myxy', warrens are nothing like as crowded as they used to be. These days a modern young couple of rabbits, far from being huddled ten families to a chamber, can now spread out and have a bit of privacy. The pups expect separate bedrooms, and we even had a snooker room at my old warren near Winchester."<br /> <img src="http://assets4.pinimg.com/upload/87116574014537293_94Iipk84.jpg"><br /> Some of the rabbits expressed concern at the viability of the bunny trafficking enterprise. "The immigration ferrets are on to us. You try passing off a lop-eared bunny as kin without proper paperwork, and some of the new intake are more trouble than they are worth. Princess Flopsie here is a total nightmare, demanding that we raid the local nurseries for Frisée and Radicchio. The lab bunnies want us to ring their private healthcare provider at the first sign of every sniffle. Really that could blow the whole operation."</p> <p>"The idiotic part is that we will lose the 25% single-occupancy discount on tax levied by the polecats. That is something the Owsla hadn't factored in. The government just don't think through the consequences of these new policies" sighed the spokesbunny, who admitted he only voted Tory because Cameron's big shiny face reminded him of the moon. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163&page=2#post-156878 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:39:52 +0000 BleepingTom 156878@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2012/12/tory-mp-alecshelbrooke-introduces-bill-for-welfare-cash-card-to-stop-claimants-buying-cigarettes-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2012/12/tory-mp-alecshelbrooke-introduces-bill-for-welfare-cash-card-to-stop-claimants-buying-cigarettes-and.html</a></p> <p>Guys seriously this is a satire site not a news site. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163&page=2#post-156842 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:15:53 +0000 Sir Lupus 156842@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Don't know what colour, I'll investigate. I guess in the future everything will be cards - or on yr phone - but that makes it look sort of cool or desirable, whereas the ration stamps idea gets closer to the miserly heart of the idea. </p> <p>and asylum seekers as the new version of Thatcher's Scotland - everything is tested on them first...? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163&page=2#post-156759 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:16:38 +0000 Squudge 156759@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sir Lupus - what colour are the asylum stamps?/cards I briefly flirted with that idea when putting the sub together but didn't realise they already existed.</p> <p>Damn - are ration books going to be Oyster Cards in future (or 'value-range beans' cards)? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163&page=2#post-156725 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:42:15 +0000 Sir Lupus 156725@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>very good. and the truth in 2032? this is <em>already</em> very close to the system under which asylum seekers waiting for their case to be heard receive their 2/3 of income support - they get special cards loaded with credits - except that they can only use their cards at certain large chains/supermarkets, not independent shops. of course, there's no suggestion that the owners of these large chains might have donated money to any political parties... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156618 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:35:15 +0000 The All New Jeni B 156618@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Absolutely, because it's such a luxury for women having to buy them. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156611 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:32:52 +0000 Squudge 156611@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I know which way it should be for whomever decided to put VAT on them </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156589 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:45:34 +0000 The All New Jeni B 156589@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I suspect Des may be asking a few questions of you young Bourbon...</p> <p>Squudge, brilliantly thought out and well written.</p> <p>I'm a little concerned that tampons are a sore point for you, you do know they're inserted lengthwise rather than sideways? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156577 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:39:37 +0000 Bourbon 156577@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mrs Custard????????</p> <p> I have never met her.</p> <p>Honest.</p> <p>Never.</p> <p>Ever.</p> <p>No sir.</p> <p>Never. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156576 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:35:34 +0000 Squudge 156576@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>are you going to give me the manky sausage and save the best cuts for Mrs Custard? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156575 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:34:06 +0000 Bourbon 156575@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wrong choice, you lose.</p> <p> Lets look at what you could have won. ------------&gt; </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156574 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:32:19 +0000 Squudge 156574@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>right...</p> <p>GOVERNMENT STAMPS OUT BENEFITS</p> <p>(final answer) ...even if you can vouch for the fact it is irrational </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156573 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:30:40 +0000 custard cream 156573@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>another sure fire winner! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156572 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:30:39 +0000 Bourbon 156572@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Or </p> <p>Stamping out benefits is rational insists government voucher </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156571 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:29:55 +0000 Bourbon 156571@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Or </p> <p> Welfare stamps on government </p> <p>As it could mean they are coutesy if them or it backfires and welfare 'stamps on the government' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156570 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:19:14 +0000 Squudge 156570@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>not bad at all... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156569 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:17:03 +0000 Bourbon 156569@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ok how about ...</p> <p>Stamping out benefits is rational insists government voucher </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156568 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:09:33 +0000 Squudge 156568@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>oh go on, have another go, my headline bores me ...inspiration needed</p> <p>...mmm... I might have got it, what about:</p> <p>'GOVERNMENT STAMPS ON WELFARE' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156560 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:10:47 +0000 Bourbon 156560@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>No, I was to busy sulking </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156559 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:54:14 +0000 Squudge 156559@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>did you one-star me??<br /> }-) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156558 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:40:34 +0000 Bourbon 156558@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Last time I try and help!!!!! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156555 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:21:40 +0000 Squudge 156555@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>true :-)</p> <p>I'm hoping for a snappy headline that works though... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156543 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:49:49 +0000 Bourbon 156543@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>oh, but I got all three. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156537 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:36:14 +0000 Squudge 156537@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>hmm...</p> <p>Welfare state to be commemorated with stamps (?) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54163#post-156533 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:15:09 +0000 Bourbon 156533@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Stamping out benefits is rational insists government voucher </p>