https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/iain-duncan-smith-iain-duncan-smith-to-live-on-53-a-week?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=21557&alert_id=qrSdtClCyu_aBEKzqsKld

This petition calls for Iain Duncan Smith, the current Work and Pensions Secretary, to prove his claim of being able to live on £7.57 a day, or £53 a week.

On Monday's Today Programme David Bennett, a market trader, said that after his housing benefit had been cut, he lives on £53 per week. The next interviewee was Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who was defending the changes. The interviewer then asked him if he could live on this amount. He replied: "If I had to, I would."

This petition calls on Iain Duncan Smith to live on this budget for at least one year. This would help realise the conservative party`s current mantra that "We are all in this together".

This would mean a 97% reduction in his current income, which is £1,581.02 a week or £225 a day after tax* [Source: The Telegraph]

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CC, I think you're holding back some anger there...... you shouldn't do that it's bad for your heart

http://youtu.be/JYi8lA9y_BY

[b]You know something I don't think it is bad for my heart[/b], I think a spurt of aggression is what this country actually needs......we have been sh*fted from all political quarters since most of us have been born, we work hard in with the vision of it being easier for our kin and easier for our kids.......that's just a f*cking downright lie.

The stats are something like 1% own 95% of the worlds wealth......except for the small fact they wouldn't have jack if people did jack, those that are running the country, of all political persuasions, have as much in common of those we usually pick up as a martian has - in actual fact a martian wouldn't probably stand by and watch them starve......f*ck it, lets watch jezza

On Monday's Today Programme David Bennett, a market trader.

I wonder how many on here have £50 + a week to spare after paying all our bills?

The answer is quite clear, get a f***ing job.

I hear oakum picking is getting popular again

The problem is that many people in this country have got very lazy over the last 20 years.

Many of them fed on benefits that exceed the amount people earn from working.

A prime example is the scum bag that burnt down his house (actually the taxpayer's house) and killed his 6 kids.

You know something I don't think it is bad for my heart, I think a spurt of aggression is what this country actually needs......we have been sh*fted from all political quarters since most of us have been born, we work hard in with the vision of it being easier for our kin and easier for our kids.......that's just a f*cking downright lie.

The stats are something like 1% own 95% of the worlds wealth......except for the small fact they wouldn't have jack if people did jack, those that are running the country, of all political persuasions, have as much in common of those we usually pick up as a martian has - in actual fact a martian wouldn't probably stand by and watch them starve......f*ck it, lets watch jezza

No doubt you're right and have the figures that back that statement up, but I think you're talking in general terms about a section of society who are very small.

I think what p*sses people off is the fact that those on benefits didn't actually get the country into the sh*t state that its in, they didn't gamble peoples money and lose it in bad quick investment schemes, they didn't fiddle their expenses.

What it looks like is that the poorest and most needy in our society are the ones being made to make the largest sacrifices, I mean, whats the latest one....they have to claim their benefits online? Perhaps they can switch on their laptops whilst their by the pool in their mansions - better still perhaps they'll ask their man servants to do it.

We are being told hard choices have to be made, yet it seems to poorest are being given no choice, they have to comply. As I said previously, the poor didn't get this country into the sh*t, the rich did, with pure greed.