No Benefits for Alcohol

It's a Thursday.

The front page of The Times has Tories to cut benefits for long-term unemployed.

The plan would bar...

Oh, this is harsh.

The plan would bar claimants from alcohol and bets.

Don't use the word bar to the people that you can't let drink.

No, listen, I'm all in favour of making the welfare system more efficient, but don't rub their faces in it.

Meanwhile, there's two main points of this, and it's worth bearing in mind it's very easy to make plans when you're in opposition.

You're basically just sending a message out there, whether you plan on following through on it or not.

But one would say that the government should not be involved in telling you what to spend your money on.

But I suppose if it's the money that they're giving you, I don't know.

And if it is being spent on betting.

The other day I had a rant about how I don't really care about all these news stories saying, oh, the betting industry has been hit by more tax.

You make nothing.

You know what I mean? There are shops on the high street where you go in there, you buy a thing.

Now, sometimes it's absolute tat that you don't need.

A vanilla-scented candle.

No one needs a vanilla-scented candle.

Even worse than that, I saw a candle once that was called Cotton Sheets.

It was the fragrance of a candle.

Let's not normalize the smell of cotton sheets burning, you idiots.

Anyway.

No, because you can see how that's going to go back.

But the point is, there are shops out there that make things.

So at least you've added to society.