From The Daily Mail:
A young couple who receive more than £170,000 a year in benefits appeared on ITV's This Morning to defend their taxpayer-funded lifestyle.
William Windsor, 30, and Kate Middleton, 31, who live in a comfortable twenty-bedroom mansion in Norfolk and are expecting a daughter next year, say they are better off on £170,000 benefits and argue that unless they are able to find jobs that pay £180,000 a year or more, there's no point in working.
The couple also hit back at those who describe them as scroungers, arguing that because their hard-working parents have always collected rent and taxes, they are entitled to continue claiming for themselves.
Kate, who has worked in her parents' greeting card business in the past, said: "I don’t see that we’re living off the taxpayers, we’re entitled to the same money as his parents have been receiving all their lives."
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6 comments:
Nice parody.
RK, ta, the best ones are the easy ones.
"they are better off on £17k benefits and argue that unless they are able to find jobs that pay £18,000 a year or more, there's no point in working"
Both the happy couple and the DM are crap at maths: if their current income is £17,680 this is equivalent to take home pay (or is the government daft enough to tax people on benefits?), so a job paying £18,000 a year would only bring in about £220 a week, bringing their income down to £300 a week once you include child benefit and child tax credits.
Of course, the DM doesn't point out that £7,280 of that £17,680 is going straight into the pocket of the landlord of their "comfortable" flat. (WTF is "comfortable" supposed to mean? any couple with half a brain and time on their hands can make the meanest shithole "comfortable". I suppose that DM readers would ideally like everyone on benefits living in a workhouse or somewhaere else that is designed to be as uncomfortable as possible.)
B, yes, good maths. To have a similar net income after housing costs from working, they'd need to be on at least £30,000 gross.
Best parody yet. Going to steal^H^H^H^H^H share on Farcebook.
TCO, ta.
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