Tower block of commons

Generali

StevieJ wrote: »

What is a 'arris flat screen' you seem to know ?

it's slang innit:

aris - Aristotle - bottle - bottle and glass - ars e

chucky

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Next week, we get to see how hard it is to live on benefits, and the MP is proud to have been within the budget, and then the mother goes and buys £48 worth of fags.

t'was £34, come on Graham

maninthestreet

Fortunately, there was a methadone dispensing 'clinic' near by, so that all the down at heel, oppressed chavs could get their daily fix.

bo_drinker

The_White_Horse wrote: »

they all had big tv's and pc's with broadband, sky plus (i saw the remote) and fags and dogs. I would have had a lot more respect for the mp's if they said "to be honest love, for a lazy slag that doesn't work, you do alright. If you don't like it here, f**k off and get a job and pay for a nicer place".

I see they had cash to waste on the lottery, bingo, food out, partying.

what a load of trash. these scum bags have more cash than i do after i pay tax and all the bills these scroungers get away without paying.

I would sign the petition to knock the tower block down, provided they were all in it at the time.

hateful scum!

Ian D S got me when he asked the girl, "you know Big Ben, well the building below it Houses of Parliament". Not a clue totally brain dead.
MP's day all sit rahnd in a room an talk innit :rotfl:

harryhound

If you dole out free money, you get more takers - it is simple market economics innit..

When I look back at my "career", as a university drop out, the most money I made in a single transaction was given to the rest of you.

The second largest was learning how a "quirk" in the tax system worked, we are not talking City of London telephone numbers here but I did do an evening course in the C-o-L called "Government & Business". That was all about making a profit out of the government's rules; rather than using your own capital to profit from providing goods and services to fellow members of humanity.

lethal0r

i saw most of it and thought it was very ordinary.

the program makers chose to highlight your typical easy cynicism from the general public - people saying all politicians are s**t, they should be put in jail, "things would be better if I ran the country" etc...

nothing new, although I will give episode 2 a chance.

ninky_2

i want to see the follow up series where all the council estate tenants are MPs for a week. they have to answer the bag full of green pen brigade letters, do PMs questions etc etc. if they get to vote on drug legislation etc all the better.:rotfl:

leveller2911

lethal0r wrote: »

i saw most of it and thought it was very ordinary.

the program makers chose to highlight your typical easy cynicism from the general public - people saying all politicians are s**t, they should be put in jail, "things would be better if I ran the country" etc...

nothing new, although I will give episode 2 a chance.

Well ,aren't they????;)......Ive worked for 2 of them and they def are A1 sh1te bags......

lethal0r

leveller2911 wrote: »

Well ,aren't they????;)......Ive worked for 2 of them and they def are A1 sh1te bags......

its too easy to take that point of view though.

if you yourself became a politician tomorrow, then most people would think you were useless before you had even done anything.

the oldish black guy stood outside that shop near the start of the program was very cynical about politicians, yet didnt even know who his local councillor was.

so he'd made no effort to find out about things, yet he'd decided they were crap anyway.

BitterAndTwisted

Unless I was watching a different programme I saw no pleadings of poverty last night. Lots of poorly-dressed people living in horrible surroundings but I don't hate them for that. It's not necessarily a revelation that people who believe that politics and politicians are so far-removed from their daily lives to barely have any relevance at all and therefore have no interest in them or little understanding of what they do. All of the host families seemed pretty good-natured considering but I couldn't comprehend how the woman complaining about that foul mould in her bathroom didn't get of her arris and do something about it. Like giving it a good scrub. Even a bit of Vim could be afforded on Income Support, couldn't it?

I have a feeling that Austin Mitchell and his wine-swilling wife are going to come off rather badly in this series, especially after being filmed popping out in the pricey motor to visit well-heeled friends for dinner rather than staying home and cooking their own like everyone else.

I'm quite looking forward to next week's programme