An unemployed man who had not eaten for three days set fire to a job centre in order to get a hot meal in police custody, according to the Manchester Evening News.
An unemployed man who had not eaten for three days because his benefits had been stopped set fire to a job centre in order to get a hot meal in police custody, according to the Manchester Evening News.
Bee O’Brien, 49, set fire to the customer telephones at a jobcentre in Moss side after a row about his benefits.
O’Brien told police he would “commit a crime and get arrested. I need some food”.
According to the Evening News:
‘O’Brien, of Camelford Close, Hulme, admitted criminal damage, attempted arson, and using threatening words and behaviour when he appeared before Manchester magistrates.
Gina Clayton, defending, said: “His benefits had been stopped for some reason and he hadn’t eaten for three days. He was simply desperate for some food. He went to the job centre to get his payments and lost his temper.
“He was aware that if he was arrested he would have been given food at the police station.”’
O’Brien was given a 12 month community order and ordered to do 40 hours unpaid work.
Last month a disabled man took his own life after worrying about how he would manage once his benefits were stopped.
128 Responses to “Tory Britain: Man sets fire to job centre after not eating for three days”
Lester Forbes
Sometimes
people do have their benefits stopped for various reasons, it’s always
happened since benefits began, in almost all cases of civil disruption,
there’s an underlying reason, usually drug or alcohol abuse or mental
illness. There’s nothing to suggest it had anything to do with ‘Tory
Britain’ except a sneering article in a left wing ‘political blog for
progressives’.
Blogs
and well, anybody shouldn’t be using people with probable mental
illness as political pawns, so we can all share, retweet and justify as
a reason for an attack on the government.
shame on you left toe!
Shadowworld
The Tories are scum!
mystery
DWP-I get sacked, sign on, they refuse any money unless i get a letter saying i was sacked, i explain they wont as it was unfair dismissal they refuse but insist i still sign on or i will never get a penny. So i walk 7 miles every time they ask me to come in and then home again. I have to beg off mates to survive. I had been paying circa £1000 a month tax. Now i hunt with 0 Job centre help and find a job. After i get it i get a single £42 giro. 12 YEARS later a letter finds me from DWP, pay back that £42 NOW or we take you to court where you may pay up to ££1000 or go to prison. Yes DWP are fuckng bstards and useless.
Henry Page
From today’s Daily Telegraph: (read it to the end – you will be gobsmacked)
Two Russian multimillionaires racked up a bar tab of more than £130,000 at a Mayfair nightclub after going head-to-head to see who could produce the most extravagant bill.
A spokesman for the Embassy venue described the tab as “off the scale”,/i>, as the men worked their way through 30 Magnums of Cristal and 20 bottles of Dom Perignon.
By the end of the evening the bills were an eye-watering £66,778.91 and £64, 279.70 – making a grand total of £131,058.61. “Even compared to pre-recession, that’s a huge spend,” the spokesman said.
He added: “A regular spend for bankers here would be around £5 -7,000 a night. Sometimes we’ll get £10-15,000. But this is a massive, massive spend.”
So there you have it. City bankers regularly go out and spend between £5,000 and £15,000 a night! How do you feel on your JSA now? Protests, protests and protests – that’s the answer!
Henry Page
From today’s Daily Telegraph: (read it to the end – you will be gobsmacked)
Two Russian multimillionaires racked up a bar tab of more than £130,000 at a Mayfair nightclub after going head-to-head to see who could produce the most extravagant bill.
A spokesman for the Embassy venue described the tab as “off the scale”,, as the men worked their way through 30 Magnums of Cristal and 20 bottles of Dom Perignon.
By the end of the evening the bills were an eye-watering £66,778.91 and £64, 279.70 – making a grand total of £131,058.61. “Even compared to pre-recession, that’s a huge spend,” the spokesman said.
He added: “A regular spend for bankers here would be around £5 -7,000 a night. Sometimes we’ll get £10-15,000. But this is a massive, massive spend.”
So there you have it. City bankers regularly go out and spend between £5,000 and £15,000 a night! How do you feel on your JSA now? Protests, protests and protests – that’s the answer!