You may be surprised to find DPAC publicly apologising to IDS, after all the lies he told and the harm and distress that he has caused.
We thought about this long and hard, and we came to a conclusion, that we can’t condemn others for publishing miss-information and them fail to live up to the same standard ourselves.
So when we discovered that we falsely accused IDS of telling lies on a certain issue, we decided that we must make an apology. Of course we still condemn IDS for everything else he has done and that has been done in his name, but, on this one point of fact, we got it wrong and we are going to say ‘sorry’ for that.
The point at issue is IDS’s claims over Intergenerational Worklessness. In a report we published in 2013, and in a later blog item based on that report, we said that IDS’s claims about “Intergenerational Worklessness” were lies (Intergenerational worklessness is the term for extended families in which no-one works, instead the entire family’s only source of income is from state handouts).
We said that wasn’t true, it doesn’t happen, but its recently been pointed out to our research team that there are families who live this sort of life. In the interests of truth and accuracy we researched further, and this is what we found, and we are so disgusted by it that we thank Mr Duncan Smith for being brave enough to tell the truth:
We did find a large extended family – living in inner London, in which no one works, and who are funded entirely by the rest of society.
Phil and Lizzie live in a tax-payer funded house on a large estate in central London, although past retirement age now, it makes little difference to their lives since they didn’t work before retirement.
Phil and Lizzie have bred copiously at taxpayer expense, with offspring named Chaz, Annie, Andy and Eddie. Phil is an immigrant from southern Europe, having married into the family and is known to be openly racist.
Although its thought that Andy briefly had a job in sales, he was sacked for gross misconduct.
Eddie has dabbled in working in the entertainment industry but after that job failed, he has returned to living on benefits.
Of the four offspring, only Eddie has been able to hold down a stable marriage, the rest having been divorced and re-married.
The eldest of the four, Chaz is a bit of a hippie believing in herbal medicine and alternative religion, and his alternative lifestyle does not involve anything so conformist as getting up and going to a proper job.
Chaz has another state paid-for house, close to his parents. He has two sons Billy and Harry, both who again, do not work but prefer to live in state funded luxury, with no aspiration to work and play a proper part in society.
Billy has married and has already fathered two children, neither who is expected to play any useful role in society and are not expected to even attempt to pay their own way in the world.
Harry is the worst delinquent of the the lot, having been caught drug taking, under-age drinking and taking part in racist wild parties.
DPAC Say: when will the government get to grips with these dysfunctional problem families who soak up endless amounts of money provided by hard working families, taxpayers who do the right thing and expect others to do the same.
Its not good enough! We demand something is done, these people cannot continue to have this taxpayer funded lazy lifestyle.
Mr Duncan Smith, we apologise to you for our error.
The comments about the Royals might be tongue in cheek but for any potential supporter who might be a royalist they will be deeply offensive….
Satire has it’s place … But not here…
nice one
sometimes satire,even when not too far from the truth,is what makes people who have previously not considered the situation ,sit up and take note.once all people in greater society are treat with decency,then such satire or political sarcasm will die down. until then let the royals,mp,s and lords etc etc sweat,it should come with the priviledged territory .
I’ve no sympathy with that scumbag..he’s a coward and he’ll go to his grave as such and I’m glad I’m not related to him..I’d be ashamed.
Fantastic, had me really thinking about it.lol Great April first story.lol.lol
One of my profiles says “Mad, bad and won’t be had”, guess which attribute is applicable in this case..
Interestingly, the very people that moan about “bloody foreigners coming over here and taking our jobs and houses” are the very people that love the royals.. Go figure!
Bob, love your work, bruv! Please come up and say hello, if we meet. I was the tall guy at the lobby protest, wearing a wax cotton coat and a tweed cap.. Looking like a farmer, which was ironic considering the protest that was going on at Downing Street that day..
This is in very poor taste. I have lost a family member to IDS so called ‘reforms’ but not before much anguish and suffering. There is no place for sattire when people are dying. Please consider removing out of consideration for the bereaved.
Afterthought: I do agree our Queen should show concern for the sick and disabled. In her Coronation Oath she answered “I will” to:
“Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgements?”
Where is Mercy and Justice for the sick and disabled in Britain today?
As much as I sympathise with your struggles Agnes, it is wrong to suggest humour is inappropriate. Indeed, gallows humour is something that can help people cope when times are hard and the value of this should not be underestimated. Satire especially, is far from inappropriate in this situation- in fact, it’s exactly the kind of situation it was designed for.
You haven’t had a death in your family then? Please do not tell me I am wrong. I found this site over Easter and thought – at last, some like-minded people, who are actually doing something. Maybe I am wrong about that. Sattire will not help me. I will never, ever, find anything to laugh about in the midst of such much suffering and loss of life. Contrary to what you claim, you do not sympathise.
I think it wrong for you to state I am wrong. Especially as I have suffered a bereavement. Why not just say you disagree? After all, we are all entitled to a different point of view.
Outrageous, you leave our Lizzie alone GSTQ. I’m hoping this post self destructs at mid day lol
Lol, you almost had me there… But there is certainly truth in jest in a his case.
Wow, you almost had me, then in the words of someone else ” dat date tho”.
Haha! You had me thinking WTF for a minute there! Well, 20 seconds 🙂
Oh well done, DPAC. let’s manage to score a whopping own goal by stigmatising benefits and single parenthood, divorce and job loss and council estates. It may be meant as satire but it is about as witty as Rod Liddle. what next? Mocking them for inbreeding so much that some of their connections had disabilities?