[dirtyroboto]

thats awful robot., were you in Somalia>
Yes, and it was awful like I expected, apart from the fact that I thought we were there to help but never came near to that goal. This is also a well known charity so I thought I would be doing something.

Yes its insane that all that money is wasted on transporting these people.

why are the goods shipped out so awful? Is it the way they have been kept or not washed? etc.
Well, I was shown around the warehouse before this stuff was taken to be loaded on the plane and I saw a great deal of really good stuff. I expected to see this gear when we unloaded in Somalia!?! for some reason I never learned, they had shipped unsorted and mostly unwashed items that were nothing like what I had seen at the warehouse.

Not everyone here are leeches. with all the forced redundancies many people are forced out of work.
Yes. That is exactly the reason for the system in the first place. To help people who need it, not people who demand it!

The high cost of housing causes a lot of hardship and the greedy landlords that charge ridiculously high rent-- takes most of a workers wages. certainly with my family.
This is from the country that had OVER 3 regular TV programs every day showing how you could buy a house for cheap, slap some paint on and sell it for a good profit!

In the days when there was council housing more people had a hope of renting property at a fair price.
Until people realised "right to buy" was a gift horse and bought their council house for cheap, only to cash in by re-selling. This was done on a massive scale and pushed the market into a frenzy.

everything changed here when so called care in the community came into being. Plus Margaret thatchers policies.
While I didn't agree with her policies I sure loved her style. She still has more balls then any of the pale twats in the picture today.
The aim is for the elderly to remain at home and be cared for in their own home, but the social services never have enough staff to fulfil their needs.
Yes, if their own home is not taken from them to pay for the help in the mannor it is currently.

our current coalition govt is whizzing through so many radical cuts and changes-- I dread to think of the outcome.
The outcome is failure!
workers who are in the care system usually are very badly paid.
Unlike bankers, who make billion pound mistakes and get a bonus for putting everyone in a sinking ship.
So there is less care here than there used to be.
I would say that people there, now care less. Unless you are talking money of course. Then it's everyone down to Tesco to buy 10 lucky dips as it's a rollover this week.
It is lazy leeches who do just take take take-- but not all workers are like that. They struggle just to make ends meet. which is why I wonder so many are keen to come to live here.
Not all workers are like that, but enough people abuse the system for it to fail the people it was set up to help. People from poorer EU countries see that, get told that and dream of that. Get to England and you can get more money in one month then you earn in a year, and guess what! You don't even have to work to earn it!