Benefits Street

tibawo

I actually liked the 50p man but thought his loo roll was expensive... That's a 100% mark up on what I pay.

sockpuppet

What struck me was how striking it was that those people weren't the way they were because they were on benefits, but rather they were on benefits because of their lifestyle choices, attitudes to society, and (lack of) work ethic.[/QUOTE]


My thoughts exactly!

xmaslolly76

OMG are you all really falling for this rubbish. Do you not see what the corporations are doing?

All this hatred towards a tiny minority of people. The main bulk of the welfare bill is given to working families and pensioners. These programmes are made to make you all feel this way so when the welfare budget is cut non of you argue even though it will be the millions of hard working families in this country who will suffer, the very people this government promised to help not the likes of the people portrayed in these programmes. I think this government has far bigger problems to worry about than the 0.7% this programme represents when an increasing number of its working families are struggling to put food on the table and are turning to food banks.

Instead of attacking the vulnerable of society and demanding they do something about the £1.6b in benefit fraud why don't we ask what they are doing about the £25b we are loosing to tax avoidance and evasion by the corporations and very rich of this country.? Why don't we ask why they are taking an 11% pay increase when more and more people can't afford to eat?

Until we get over this Daily [STRIKE]Fail[/STRIKE] Mail mentality and ask the right questions and stop accepting this utter b******t we are being fed they will continue to sit in their ivory towers s*****g on us all.

billchecker1

I wish it were propaganda, but it isn't.There is a large majority of claimants who do view this as being a lifestyle choice.


I will never forget sitting in the living room of a "mother" to three kids who was happily telling her 17 year old "when ya gonna get pregnant so you can get your own council house".


You cant defeat this mentality until you take it away.


If people are happy in their situation, when everyone else is doing the same thing, then it is cultural. There is no incentive to work.


Benefits should remain as a safety net, not a choice for the work shy.

xmaslolly76

They are a minority though and cutting off their money won't stop that attitude that's a much bigger social problem that we all need to tackle. If you stop welfare to these people they won't go out to work they will turn to further crime.

carefullycautious

They haven't got far to go the street is right by Winson Green Prison in Birmingham

SG27

leveller2911 wrote: »

One had a 50" telly above the fireplace, 2 I-phones but whinging because she may be evicted for not paying the rent.....

aint life a b1tch............

Don't jump to conclusions. It's quite probably that those iPhones and 50" tv are all nicked.

Davesnave

xmaslolly76 wrote: »

They are a minority though and cutting off their money won't stop that attitude that's a much bigger social problem that we all need to tackle. If you stop welfare to these people they won't go out to work they will turn to further crime.

I agree. It's all very well saying they should get off their fat backsides and work like the rest of us, but most benefit scroungers have few skills and no chance of being hired for employment.

Like turning the proverbial oil tanker around, it will take decades to sort this problem out. Radical measures, implemented quickly, would backfire on whichever government dared to implement them. These people's kids would be of less value to them and the first to suffer, not that many don't already.

How many advocates of a get tough approach would step forward to help pick up the pieces? I've a friend who fosters a child from the sort of family portrayed in the programme. It's not all smiles, hugs and thank yous!

J_i_m

Davesnave wrote: »

I agree. It's all very well saying they should get off their fat backsides and work like the rest of us, but most benefit scroungers have few skills and no chance of being hired for employment.

But there are plenty of jobs which require minimal skills. Stacking shelves for instance is hardly academically challenging, it might require a certain level of "common sense" but it certainly isn't medical science.

Heck.. We even have have "skilled" workers coming in from eastern Europe to do things such as strawberry picking because they can get better wages for unskilled jobs here than they can in their home countries for genuinely skilled jobs.

No one in Britain wants to do these "un skilled" jobs, but they still whinge that the foreigners come in and "steal our jobs" all the same.

And these programmes do target the extreme worst case minority to gain the maximum daily mail mob effect.

But it's the system which as equally guilty for creating this benefits culture.

Poppops

i'm always gobsmaked at programmes like this when you see someone who could work but admits they don't want to, and their houses are messy or dirty.

I'd love to have more time to clean.

The world looks like a better place when you've hoovered.