Roadside Mum #6 It is immoral to charge me for my own victimisation

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Yeah, if you tweet about planning to off yourself then people are going to be concerned. Who knew?

No doubt she'd be ranting about nobody caring if her followers had stayed silent. As ever, you just can't bleeping win with her.
 
The government is taking its time to off Roadsidemum and others.

My dark search of Roadsidemum's twitter tells me that this was her prophecy on:

2023
May: 13
Feb: 2
Jan: 30, 27

2022
Nov: 17 (landlords in cahoots with government)
Aug: 20
July: 28, 25
May: 19
Apr: 2
Mar: 11
Jan: 30

You get the picture. Weirdly I think I've missed a key word in the search as I haven't found the full array of last winter's heating crisis, which was definitely a government policy to kill people.

My search was "roadsidemum kill", and I am amazed at the number of her tweets that are around killing black mould.

It didn't make me think. I just am glad I don't have to deal with black mould.

Look, all I'm saying is, your government isn't very good at its policies to kill people.

If I have the tone wrong here, please press report asap to remove this post
 
Wooh said:
Look, all I'm saying is, your government isn't very good at its policies to kill people.
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I'm saying this as someone who is comfortably middleclass and doesn't interact with the benefits system at all, but I do think that labelling everything a government plot to kill people, as she seems keen to do, just makes her look hysterical and ridiculous.

Are there huge problems with the benefits system, the amounts that people are entitled to, the way it is administered, the way it is easy to fall through the cracks, the way DWP employees hassle people who are clearly incapable of working and the ease with which they apply sanctions or stop benefits? Yes, of course there are. But just because the system is badly designed, underfunded, and poorly administered doesn't mean that the government is planning a modern Aktion T4.

There is no excuse for frightening people who are encountering the benefits system for the first time with "the government want you dead," all it does is devalue the message that the social security system is massively threadbare, significantly underfunded, and failing people. That's the drum she could and should be banging.
 
Witchfinder Sargeant said:
I'm saying this as someone who is comfortably middleclass and doesn't interact with the benefits system at all, but I do think that labelling everything a government plot to kill people, as she seems keen to do, just makes her look hysterical and ridiculous.

Are there huge problems with the benefits system, the amounts that people are entitled to, the way it is administered, the way it is easy to fall through the cracks, the way DWP employees hassle people who are clearly incapable of working and the ease with which they apply sanctions or stop benefits? Yes, of course there are. But just because the system is badly designed, underfunded, and poorly administered doesn't mean that the government is planning a modern Aktion T4.

There is no excuse for frightening people who are encountering the benefits system for the first time with "the government want you dead," all it does is devalue the message that the social security system is massively threadbare, significantly underfunded, and failing people. That's the drum she could and should be banging.
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This is what I wanted to show. Thanks, mate!
 
Witchfinder Sargeant said:
I'm saying this as someone who is comfortably middleclass and doesn't interact with the benefits system at all, but I do think that labelling everything a government plot to kill people, as she seems keen to do, just makes her look hysterical and ridiculous.

Are there huge problems with the benefits system, the amounts that people are entitled to, the way it is administered, the way it is easy to fall through the cracks, the way DWP employees hassle people who are clearly incapable of working and the ease with which they apply sanctions or stop benefits? Yes, of course there are. But just because the system is badly designed, underfunded, and poorly administered doesn't mean that the government is planning a modern Aktion T4.

There is no excuse for frightening people who are encountering the benefits system for the first time with "the government want you dead," all it does is devalue the message that the social security system is massively threadbare, significantly underfunded, and failing people. That's the drum she could and should be banging.
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Well said @Witchfinder Sargeant and @Wooh

I've survived on benefits for a while now and it IS brutal for all the reasons you mention.

This week's announcement by the Work and Pensions Minister has sent chills up my spine, along with many others who have to go through their awful work capability assessments. Just because it's SUCH a slog to get all the benefits you're entitled to and, once you finally get eveything sorted, you're just hoping for it to remain stable so that you can focus on your life. So, whenever govt threatens to make life harder for welfare claimants, it does freak people out.

However. The govt ALSO likes to throw out periodic clickbait announcements like this which are intended to get the press activated (left and right) and send a message that it's somehow tough on welfare spending. It means nothing until it's been through the whole parliamentary process and things like this take months or years to come to fruition.

The media doesn't help because they immediately pick up these stories and run sensationalist headlines, mostly fact-free. They are very few journalists who actually understand the complexities of the benefits system and there's so much misinformation in the media which contributes to agitating both the left and right wings.

My policy -- whenever one of these announcements lands in the media -- is to take some very deep breaths to calm my anxiety and then look at what credible people are saying about it. Organisations working with ill and disabled and low income people. Reputable think tanks. MPs on the relevant committees or portfolios. If it looks like a big new policy shift (like introducing Universal Credit for example), then there'll be months and months of political to and fro and plenty of opportunities to join campaigns, air your voice and use social media to put out a message.

Even if there is some hideous change to the system coming down the line, we have time to prepare for it and to mobilise against it. Nothing is going to be taken away overnight.

This kind of hysteria displayed by Roadside Mum serves no purpose other than attention-seeking. She's not working with anyone else to create a broad representation of voices on this. She's not allied to any organisation or citizen group or anything. It's just drama with her. And that pisses me off just as much as the weaselly ministers dropping little bombshells in the press for clicks.
 
HotesTilaire said:
She once went to town at 5pm to get cash out of a machine and was concerned about the swarthy man in a shop wielding a giant knife, reading between the lines she passed a kebab shop and assumed they were trying to do what ”The Government“ are also trying…operation unalive RSM.
I wonder if she used to smoke a lot of weed?
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I muted her on Twitter ages ago so haven't seen this stuff. Yuck.

She does seem to fight with everyone and sees enemies in every corner. Doesn't really fit with being a hippy traveller type which is what I always assumed she was.

Does she ever share happy interactions with friends? Or nice things that happen? Cos even the most unpleasant and antisocial person must have some people they like hanging out with.
 
Rarely there was the garden table with lots of booze picture she posted.

I thought she moved to the utopia that was Scotland.

Tories are losing by-elections left right and centre. There is only so long they can avoid a general election so of they are putting out narratives that appeal to Tory voters like being tough on benefits.
 
nobotoxta said:
Ageist too. It's always an 'old guy'. I've just started rereading her dreadful tweets and it's really not a pleasant task
I actually work on the front line helping people with illness, benefits, housing, and if she was given to me as a patient I'd be refusing to take her!
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Akshally she worked as a council outreach worker with GRT communities so she probably already knows everything 🙃
 
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