Benefits Street

Lord_Baltimore

The whole programme was an insidious manipulation of the viewers' perspective.

For follow up programmes can we have Greedy Banker Street, Fiddled Expenses Road, Extortion Estate (where Power Companies are located) and Where's My Fat Cat Bonus Avenue?

The amount of money ploughed into that lot would really make your hair curl.

Vintageryan

xmaslolly76 wrote: »

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.

I am sorry that is such a lazy attitude and as soon as someone starts mentioning The Daily Mail "attitude" my eyes glaze over.

DRP

Vintageryan wrote: »

I am sorry that is such a lazy attitude and as soon as someone starts mentioning The Daily Mail "attitude" my eyes glaze over.

of course it is lazy but is less dangerous laziness than the distorted picture we see being painted all over the media about 'scroungers'.

As xmaslolly said, a tiny minority of DWP cash gets spent on the unemployed - a few tasty cases on prime tv doesn't make it the norm.

roger196

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

The whole programme was an insidious manipulation of the viewers' perspective.

For follow up programmes can we have Greedy Banker Street, Fiddled Expenses Road, Extortion Estate (where Power Companies are located) and Where's My Fat Cat Bonus Avenue?

The amount of money ploughed into that lot would really make your hair curl.

Welfare should be about supporting people in a crisis not a lifestyle choice. To get things into perspective, consider the following groups on welfare( though it has a polite name for it)
The bankers are being supported by a £380 Billion quantitative easing program. There is a difference to bailing out the banks as oppose to the bankers. This sum could be clawed back thru withdrawing all bonuses in the last ten years.
Legal aid is welfare for lawyers. Housing benefit is welfare for landlords. When is a cap of £25k being bought in for these feather bedded groups.

Davesnave

J_i_m wrote: »

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.

I agree that the system has created these people, and in time the system can reduce their number, but for practical and political reasons it probably won't happen overnight.

When I mentioned 'skills,' I meant all kinds of things related to holding down a job: like turning up on time, being presentable, knowing how to relate to other workers and the public; not higher level activities.

While almost anyone can stack shelves in Mr T's (done it myself!:rotfl:) would Mr T want these folk on the payroll? Many have been used to a chaotic, unregulated life since birth, so throwing them in at the deep end simply wouldn't work. They'd be out the door before lunch.

Unfortunately, supporting such people into regular work probably costs more than just giving them money just to stay out of the way. Without support, which means education at a basic level and raising their self esteem, they aren't going to find an interest in work when there are other options available.

One thing we do know is that there aren't the trained personnel out there to perform that supporting role.

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

tberry6686 wrote: »

Just watched this programme.

Gobsmacked. the only person with anything to their credit is the 50p man.

Time to introduce working for benefits

Yes he get of his backsIde and made an effort

keyser666

gadgetmind wrote: »

Yes, and I'm sure he declares this self employed income the the benefits people and on his tax return.

What a muggy comment, just joining in for the fun of it are we?

Vicky123

Am I the only person who thinks those featured on the programme had an utterly miserable existence? They didn't appear to be living the high life at all and most of them presented as unemployable, who would seriously consider giving them a job, especially when there is so much choice today?
There seemed to be no future for them, nothing to aspire to and probably worse to come.

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FireWyrm wrote: »

Unfortunately, I work for a living and therefore do not qualify for the massive TV's/Sky, iPhones or subsidised rent and utilities that a growing majority enjoy.

If you're unable to afford to use your heating how are you able to afford to cover the costs of your healthcare, pension and the public services that you use? Your existence is subsidised by tax payers too.

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