Plus the Govt are threatening to overhaul incapacity benefits & start penalising the long-term workshy a bit more for not trying a bit harder to find work. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)
Then you change the definition of 'workshy' and deny many of those very people access to benefits. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In the last week, there have been plenty of references to "workshy" people and "scroungers", and that follows the infamous Osborne remark earlier in the autumn about "lifestyle choices". ❋ Madeleine Bunting (2010)
And when we squirm about the language of "workshy", "layabouts" and "idlers", let's be honest enough to admit it is more often the language of newspapers than MPs. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I've always known that I find Tories morally objectionable - that is, I think it is wrong to favour businesses over employees, to force people to work for free, to screw the poor through cutting benefits, to brand people 'workshy' when there just aren't any jobs to be had, to make students pay to access education - but I've accepted with disappointment that there are people in society who think differently. ❋ George Irvin (2010)
You keep banging on about how we should punish the 'workshy' and those all those public sector workers with easy jobs but as far as I can tell you just sit on the Independent website all day making dull comments. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Concerned Queen wants Kate Middleton to shed her 'workshy' image Concerned that Prince William's girlfriend Kate Middleton has been without a job for some time and is perceived to be doing nothing other than socializing and waiting for the Prince to propose, the Queen has suggested that Kate involve herself with charity work. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Dubbed "Waity Katy" in some British media reports, Middleton's friends claim that reports suggesting that she is "workshy" are "utter nonsense". ❋ Unknown (2008)
Welsh singer Tom Jones dubbed workshy WELSH singer Tom Jones was branded workshy by job centre officials who recommended him for work "which wouldn't dirty his fingernails. '' ❋ Unknown (2010)
See, that sort of model wouldn't let private firms rake in huge profits while cutting the poor and desperate- sorry, I meant 'workshy spongers', of course - loose to live or die on their own. ❋ Unknown (2011)
There is a tremendous scene in the first act in which Sarah turns on her thieving, workshy husband, reminiscent of O'Casey's Captain Boyle in Juno and the Paycock, with uncontrolled fury. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Glenda Jackson MP, on the work and pensions select committee, said she thought "it was not very sensible" to characterise benefit claimants as workshy. ❋ Unknown (2011)
And so the argument will roll on about The Fairy Jobmother, with us all accusing each other of being soft-arsed liberals or boggle-eyed neocons, and of "mollycoddling the workshy" or "bullying the working classes" and how the problem lies with the government … In fact, let's blame Eric Pickles – I find it easy to do this with most subjects thanks to Eric's "Cenobite from Hellraiser" qualities. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Claims that the "workshy" might get a job are limited in reality by the lack of jobs available. ❋ Unknown (2012)
The last refuge of incompetent and talentless local council standard workshy clowns, who sell LAW for cash. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)
If they are not happy then lilly livered, workshy, uniform carrying cowards may take a ‘complaint’ from them which results in a little investigation with some words of advice. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)
The "poor" can be seen as scroungers, workshy, benefit frauds – you can say what you like about them. ❋ Jonathan Jones (2010)
Mark: I am [knackered] after a hard days work. How was your day?
John: Oh I didn't work today, my [ribs] were sore.
Mark: You [workshy] twat, you have had more days off this year than you've worked.
John: Meh ❋ Do Some Work!! (2009)
Mark: I am [knackered] after a hard days work. How was your day?
John: Oh I didn't work today, my [ribs] were sore.
Mark: You [workshy] twat, you have had more days off this year than you've worked.
John: Meh ❋ Do Some Work!! (2009)
