Hastings gull
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- Nov 23, 2013
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There you go hook line and sinker. C5 could easlily churn out documentaries on people who have been screwed by the benefits system, sick and disabled people who have died or comitted suicide after being declared fit for work, carers who have been f**ked over by the bedroom tax, people who's lives have been impacted by cutbacks in social care, mental health provision etc etc I could go on....Truth is they don't because it's easier to poke fun at and demonise at some fat waster getting a few grand from the tax payer and it keeps feeds the prejudice and ignorance that these are the people responsible for the state of this country.
Are there people milking the benefits system? Sure there are. Are there hundreds of thousands? I think not. Benefit fraud makes up less than 1per cent of benefit expenditure. All the while London is being turned into the money laundering capital of the world, and corporations devise their schemes too avoid paying billions in tax.
What an unnecessary post. Of course they could have chosen to report on what you mention, and it is hardly as if we don't see programmes on those less fortunate than ourselves. I suspect that you just don't like seeing programmes such as this one. I am not sure how you can come up with such a figure, and then say hook, line and sinker to me -afterall who is going to advertise that they defraud the system?