Outrageous though their conduct is, the sums involved are not exactly large when set alongside the humungous sums of money being bunged at the Banks or at the work-shy or the NHS. ❋ Unknown (2009)
No surprise that German voters resent seeing the fruits of their labors eaten by retirement-loving, work-shy Greeks who partied while they sweated and saved. ❋ Irwin Stelzer (2010)
"And taxpayers such as me, the diligent and industrious folk who, with our earnings, make life tolerable for the work-shy malingerers whose fortunes seem to concern you so much, would not be obliged to give away their hard-earned wealth to support such parasites!" replied Scrooge. ❋ Simon Hoggart (2010)
At most it should be £8000 for rent and then food and fuel vouchers only for long term work-shy. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Now they are on stage being applauded wildly for their efforts to stop themselves being evil, work-shy scroungers. ❋ Simon Hoggart (2010)
Where is the incentive to work hard , when government is handing out such large sums to the work-shy in society. ❋ Unknown (2011)
When everyone is watching, the welfare state has funded entire generations of work-shy parasites; a criminal underclass who lie around on benefits while the country needs to import a million Poles to carry out basic jobs they should be doing. etc etc on January 22, 2010 at 5: 25 pm alex ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)
In the past such folk would have had only a ghostly presence: evil, work-shy scroungers whom none of them actually knew, but who haunted their imaginations. ❋ Simon Hoggart (2010)
The name means "Let them talk", and was chosen in response to the men of the village calling the women work-shy and idle. ❋ Unknown (2011)
And, if they're not doing that, the work-shy foreign piss-takers are taking advantage of our welfare system, claiming this, claiming the other… We know the drill. ❋ Unknown (2012)
Brits have been labelled as the most work-shy workers in Europe, with one in five Brits feigning illness at least once each year for time off work, according to a recent survey by AON consulting. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When I interviewed him recently, he spoke passionately about the feelings of rejection and dejection that accompany being made unemployed and told a story about wanting to rip the throat out of a Tory MP whom he heard pontificating about the jobless being work-shy layabouts. ❋ Andrew Rawnsley (2010)
The government's spinners achieved domination of another morning's news coverage with headlines screaming: "Three strikes and you're out": the threat of a new range of tough measures against the work-shy, the most severe of which would penalise those who three times fail to apply for or accept work by removing all their job seeker's allowance for three years. ❋ Andrew Rawnsley (2010)
He routinely abused socialists, homosexuals and the work-shy, and he could be boorishly, almost grotesquely insensitive. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It made R. feel even more awful that he knew people suspected him of being a malingerer - the very last person you'd have had the right to accuse of being work-shy. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Other shows include Him and Her, a comedy starring Russell Tovey about a work-shy man, while Glamour Models, Mum And Me follows Georgia Douvall, daughter of Alicia Douvall, who regularly appeared in the tabloids on the arms of famous celebrities, as she weighs up whether to continue her education or follow in her mother's footsteps and seek fame, fortune and riches. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When he wasn't touring the country on horseback and writing Rural Rides, William Cobbett, the 19th-century polemicist, was drafting a series of brisk letters to what was seen as a work-shy class of teenage boys in the 1820s. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A vendor selling pharaonic fakes who describes modernization's crushing of old ways is depicted as work-shy and implicitly mocked for his expensive-looking wristwatch. ❋ Unknown (2010)
