People from Brighton,Crawley and Bexhill all sitting around stuffing their faces and moaning about how much they are NOT receiving in Benefits . 16 grand in some cases which apparently isn't enough.
Disgraceful !!!!
I saw it. I had a certain amount of sympathy for the woman in Crawley who had been an everyday tax paying member of society until illness, but that slobby mess of a couple in Bexhill and the tattooed blob in Brighton lived up to the stereotypes.
I know thinking really isn't your forte Timmy, but didn't you stop and think what this programme was really all about? Or do you firmly believe that all people on benefits are enormous slobs in the bookies as soon as the benefits arrive and living on deep fried potatoes in lazy squalor? This was simply hackneyed car crash TV, something for tired working people to feel better about themselves when watching.
I'm working for about 2.00 per hour being self employed, and my wife was made redundant a few weeks ago. We have paid thousands in to this system over the years, but there will be nothing from the government to help us out. I'm in the process of now looking for extra work. What I have learned over the years, it doesn't matter whether it be Labour or Tories in power, the workers have always got penalised and always end up paying for the people you saw on the programme.
What we have now thou is a Tory hating agenda as well, where people cannot distinguish from lazy scroungers, because we are not allowed to say lazy scroungers anymore, and the people who really really need it, which has blurred the whole debate on benefits.
I would rip up this whole benefit system up, I would make sure ALL disabled and people with serious illness got enough, I would stop giving it away to people who have made zero contributions to the system, and reward it to the people who have made an effort. There is nothing wrong with this, its called fairness.
My wife gave up work five years ago for health reasons, and is not claiming anything from government.
We are just living on my wage, our choice, no complaining here.
And in your case, and I understand your reasons you should be given something to help you live on for the contributions you have made.
You may be right, but the word pride has a lot to do with it.
What's the point of watching crap like this. Cheap tabloid tv designed to demonise those at the bottom of society while those at the top who are really robbing us blind continue to get away with it.
All systems are there to be played, but if anyone loses their job and has to resort to benefits they'll find that benefit and job seeking life is not the life of riley it's cracked up to be.[/QUOTE]
A very convenient conclusion, and doubtless true in some/many cases. What, however, galls hard-working folk, is the nauseating spectacle of slobs, and there hundreds of thousands of them, who clearly have little intention of contributing to society, and use whatever wherewithal they have to secure ever more benefits. I was behind someone in a queue the other day, who was asking the council officer, if, as a drug addict, he could have a free bus pass.
I know it's pride, I understand you reasons, but I have no problems paying in to the system knowing people like yourself get the help you need.
Both ends of the scale are abhorrent... in either case it's the working man in the middle who end up paying for it all.
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The single bloke who played Father Christmas came across as a nice fella. He did complain about lack of money and worry about bills after coming back from a £ 400 holiday to Tenerife though
[A very convenient conclusion, and doubtless true in some/many cases. What, however, galls hard-working folk, is the nauseating spectacle of slobs, and there hundreds of thousands of them, who clearly have little intention of contributing to society, and use whatever wherewithal they have to secure ever more benefits. I was behind someone in a queue the other day, who was asking the council officer, if, as a drug addict, he could have a free bus pass.
Just for a bit of context, it was clear that this old guy couldn't afford it either. He was down on his luck, he'd worked briefly, and decided "everybody deserves a holiday sometimes don't they?". It was an impulse purchase he couldn't afford, and he was sick with worry when reality hit.Blimey I work fulltime have a 16 month old baby and my partner has decided not to go back to work and be a stay at home mum. We are skint but happy I wish I could afford a £400 holiday to Tenerife. Funny old world.
My wife tried to get a job through the job centre, as this was part of the process for claiming mortgage payment, through the mortgage protection insurance.What's the point of watching crap like this. Cheap tabloid tv designed to demonise those at the bottom of society while those at the top who are really robbing us blind continue to get away with it.
All systems are there to be played, but if anyone loses their job and has to resort to benefits they'll find that benefit and job seeking life is not the life of riley it's cracked up to be.[/QUOTE]
A very convenient conclusion, and doubtless true in some/many cases. What, however, galls hard-working folk, is the nauseating spectacle of slobs, and there hundreds of thousands of them, who clearly have little intention of contributing to society, and use whatever wherewithal they have to secure ever more benefits. I was behind someone in a queue the other day, who was asking the council officer, if, as a drug addict, he could have a free bus pass.
Went to the local job centre, as per above, and as you said it is not easy.
Cut a long story short, it made her stressed even more going there, so both decided health more important, and now just living on my wage.
Adjusting is no problem
What's the point of watching crap like this. Cheap tabloid tv designed to demonise those at the bottom of society while those at the top who are really robbing us blind continue to get away with it.
All systems are there to be played, but if anyone loses their job and has to resort to benefits they'll find that benefit and job seeking life is not the life of riley it's cracked up to be.[/QUOTE]
A very convenient conclusion, and doubtless true in some/many cases. What, however, galls hard-working folk, is the nauseating spectacle of slobs, and there hundreds of thousands of them, who clearly have little intention of contributing to society, and use whatever wherewithal they have to secure ever more benefits. I was behind someone in a queue the other day, who was asking the council officer, if, as a drug addict, he could have a free bus pass.
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.