Oh, I really, really hope...

.... this prat gets burgled.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/8425420.stm

"A priest from North Yorkshire has advised his congregation to shoplift
if they find themselves in hard times."

 

Why?

 

Was that the only bit of the story you read?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, petrolcan

Not at all. I read these bits too:

"My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift.

I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good
thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither."

That's quite right. It is neither.

"I would ask that they do not steal from small, family businesses, but
from national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed
on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices."

Oh, that's OK then. Of course, my wife used to work for such a national
business. She's been threatened by thieves in the past.

"When people are released from prison, or find themselves suddenly
without work or family support, then to leave them for weeks and weeks
with inadequate or clumsy social support is monumental, catastrophic
folly."

Oh, right on. After all, if you've been released from prison, then a
little light thieving is absolutely the way forward.

"We create a situation which leaves some people little option but
crime."

And there was silly old me thinking we had a welfare state.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, sweller

Because he is advocating stealing from others.

 

I think you need to see him on tv and listen to what his actual point
is before judging him.

Actually, you wouldn't agree with him so don't bother.

 

So, to be clear, his view is people should steal and your response to it is
that people should steal. I can't quite see the logic or, indeed, the moral
high ground in that one.

 

*ding*

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Andrew998

Simple expediency. I hope that if someone is going to steal, they steal
from him, since he'll understand why and not get upset.

 

And you are probably right.

 

He looks like the kind of **** who's done time too. What's the betting that
at some point he'll confess to being an ex crim?


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Well, theoretically, we do have a welfare state.

Just don't ever try to take advantage of it, especially when you'd
really need to, nor if you find yourself in need of urgent assistance.

 

Which I suspect will kick in with the first payments in about 6 weeks.
I hope everyone can survive eating snow and living in a wheelie bin
until then.

 

The Pipster has it on the head there. We know there are hordes who get
carried along on the backs of state handouts but yet I don't know anyone who
has fallen out of work and REALLY needed help.... who got any worth a damn.

Perhaps it's like Old Money. You must be born into it.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ginge

Surely the Church is there to help in such circumstances?

 

It does. Apparently "the church" is the largest non-government provider
of social welfare in the UK.

 

But should that be so?

 

Actually, immediately after release from prison things aren't so bad -
Probation bods will make sure you've got somewhere to live and you
will get some cash in advance for the first few weeks. I suspect it's
after that that things get bad - when trying to live something
approaching a life with no job skills and no group of friends except
the old firm, as it were.

Going back to crime is not generally a result of absolute poverty, but
more that it's the only way they know that lifts them that level
higher.

 

On the other hand, if you lose your job, you will be waiting weeks for your
first dole payments. As far as I can see, the system is set up to deal with
people who are likely to be on benefits for ever. You sign on, get a council
house and that's you set for life.

 

I rent a garage in NI from a friend who is responsible for crisis loans. You
are quite correct and indeed supporting these cunts is why decent folk who
fall on bad times get nothing. The system has already been sucked dry.

Uninhabited Scottish island. Napalm. YKIMS