“Rapist Russell Brand charged with attempted comedy”

Or caught by a mob and Gadaffied?

“Truly the worst”? Really that’s the worst painting of you that you can imagine?

Hahahaha.

Gets paint brushes out…

This is a good and thorough answer, and it is likely entirely correct.

I still think traitorous cunts made a ton of money off it though :)

Because some people stood to become personally very rich off the back of it, and were willing to damage a whole nation for their own benefit, because they’re traitorous cunts.

Nothing if the legislation was written properly.

Not good if the legislation was written badly.

raises his pale, sun-forgotten, semi-transparent hand

“The Scottish and the Northern British, sir”

I’m not quite sure what you’re on about there, sorry.

I literally only spoke of the people who are caught in a debt-poverty trap, who you accused of being rich people that just wanted free money, rather than people who genuinely needed support.

I didn’t even comment on anything else you have referred to.

This is people living in a week-to-week manner, who’ve had to borrow £300 off a pay-day lender to cover a shortfall (sometimes an emergency or unexpected outgoing, sometimes there were just fewer hours of work available) because they literally have no other money.

They’ve then found out the predatory, scummy lender’s practices and interest rates mean that a few months later, despite paying back every spare penny they can afford, they now owe £2000 to that lender, pushing them deeper and deeper into a poverty they cannot ever escape from.

They didn’t ask for the debt to be paid off, but it’s definitely a need, not a want. There’s no need to be spreading that sort of victim-blaming nonsense.

Anyway, they now owe those scum £0.

Ideally, most of this situation wouldn’t even exist in the first place, and it’s a shame this is the only process currently available to help these people, but this is literally saving people’s lives and though perhaps not by itself lifting anyone out of poverty, it’s certainly keeping people out of more severe poverty.

The original long-winded quote is from GK Chesterton, but the shorter, neater quotable one is from Terry Pratchett, or more recently Neil Gaiman.

Please just give us physical mouse buttons as an option.