Hearts FC = Channel 4's Benefit Street

[KiddA]

I annoyed a few Jambos last night comparing channel 4's shocking new show Benefit Street to HMFC :greengrin any tech experts that could edit this picture on this ink with a wee jambo hat? http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/452213/Benefits-Street-The-show-exposing-area-where-9-out-of-10-households-are-on-welfare or feel free to find any other pictures of the Benefit Street's ****bags :thumbsup: and photo shop a few Jambo tops on there. I wish I was better at croping stuff and pasting. The jambo's I was winding up were far from pleased but is there any difference from that shower of ##### and the new programme :dunno: Anyway any extra bait for those bitter #####s would be much appreciated :thumbsup:

Thanks in advance

[Keith_M]

"The series is the latest evidence of the way work-shy Britons have milked a system that continues to pay out like a limitless cash machine – as exposed last year by the Daily Express."


Please don't, you really shouldn't encourage these right-wing, self righteous rags.

Their 'evidence' consists almost solely of the hearsay from a couple of Jakeys. It really is UKIP/Daily Mail territory.

Britain is broken, not by the un-typical work shy, but by the rich 'Bankers' and their political poodles in charge.



Rant over, and breathe :greengrin

[Elephant Stone]

Down with poor people.

[God Petrie]

Reality TV at its worst.

[Paisley Hibby]

"The series is the latest evidence of the way work-shy Britons have milked a system that continues to pay out like a limitless cash machine – as exposed last year by the Daily Express."


Please don't, you really shouldn't encourage these right-wing, self righteous rags.

Their 'evidence' consists almost solely of the hearsay from a couple of Jakeys. It really is UKIP/Daily Mail territory.

Britain is broken, not by the un-typical work shy, but by the rich 'Bankers' and their political poodles in charge.



Rant over, and breathe :greengrin

Spot on mate. Blame the poor for being poor. It's been going on in this country since at least Victorian times. Helps government justify benefit cuts alongside big tax cuts for the rich. Can't believe how many fall for this pish.

[Bostonhibby]

Down with poor people.

:greengrin

[heretoday]

I trust the O.P. is enjoying a long sleep.

[lord bunberry]

Reality TV at its worst.

I hate these type of programs, all they are designed to do is make people look down on people less fortunate than themselves. These programs don't paint an accurate picture of the vast majority of people on benefits, all programs like this do is further stigmatize being on benefits.

[Pretty Boy]

"The series is the latest evidence of the way work-shy Britons have milked a system that continues to pay out like a limitless cash machine – as exposed last year by the Daily Express."


Please don't, you really shouldn't encourage these right-wing, self righteous rags.

Their 'evidence' consists almost solely of the hearsay from a couple of Jakeys. It really is UKIP/Daily Mail territory.

Britain is broken, not by the un-typical work shy, but by the rich 'Bankers' and their political poodles in charge.



Rant over, and breathe :greengrin

Well said.

[Sir David Gray]

I hate these type of programs, all they are designed to do is make people look down on people less fortunate than themselves. These programs don't paint an accurate picture of the vast majority of people on benefits, all programs like this do is further stigmatize being on benefits.

Disagree.

I watched the first episode the other day and it really annoyed me.

There are many people in this country who have absolutely no intention of finding work, think that they have a God given right to the money that they get every couple of weeks and laugh in the face of those of us who get up at 7am every morning and go out to work, many of us for peanuts, so that we can provide these people with their cans of super lager, their Sky TV and their designer clothes.

I may have missed someone but I didn't see anyone on that programme who I would have given benefits to.

There are many vulnerable people in the country who rightly get awarded benefits as they are genuinely unable to work and they are unable to look after themselves and I do feel sorry for anyone like that who is having their benefits removed. It is not right and it should be highlighted.

However you can multiply the street on that programme many times up and down the UK in every town and city. They are a work-shy, waste of space and I'm glad if something is finally being done about it and wholly support anything which highlights this to the majority who are honest, hard-working people.

[lord bunberry]

Disagree.

I watched the first episode the other day and it really annoyed me.

There are many people in this country who have absolutely no intention of finding work, think that they have a God given right to the money that they get every couple of weeks and laugh in the face of those of us who get up at 7am every morning and go out to work, many of us for peanuts, so that we can provide these people with their cans of super lager, their Sky TV and their designer clothes.

I may have missed someone but I didn't see anyone on that programme who I would have given benefits to.

There are many vulnerable people in the country who rightly get awarded benefits as they are genuinely unable to work and they are unable to look after themselves and I do feel sorry for anyone like that who is having their benefits removed. It is not right and it should be highlighted.

However you can multiply the street on that programme many times up and down the UK in every town and city. They are a work-shy, waste of space and I'm glad if something is finally being done about it and wholly support anything which highlights this to the majority who are honest, hard-working people.

How many people on benefits are like the people portrayed in that program? If I had to put a % on it I would guess it would start with a zero. While I agree that the people in that show are a disgrace I don't think they represent the majority. While were on the subject of TV programs why don't we ever see programs about hard working families who've fallen on hard times and have to make a choice between putting the heating on and feeding their kids? Tbh shows like this sicken me just as much as the workshy layabouts that appear in them.

[HKhibby]

Disagree.

I watched the first episode the other day and it really annoyed me.

There are many people in this country who have absolutely no intention of finding work, think that they have a God given right to the money that they get every couple of weeks and laugh in the face of those of us who get up at 7am every morning and go out to work, many of us for peanuts, so that we can provide these people with their cans of super lager, their Sky TV and their designer clothes.

I may have missed someone but I didn't see anyone on that programme who I would have given benefits to.

There are many vulnerable people in the country who rightly get awarded benefits as they are genuinely unable to work and they are unable to look after themselves and I do feel sorry for anyone like that who is having their benefits removed. It is not right and it should be highlighted.

However you can multiply the street on that programme many times up and down the UK in every town and city. They are a work-shy, waste of space and I'm glad if something is finally being done about it and wholly support anything which highlights this to the majority who are honest, hard-working people.
Well said totally agree with you! Its about time the work shy get exposed and their benefits cut completely! Then they will have to work whether they like it or not, and the more this sort of thing happens to them it may well sort out the uk un documented immigration problem....yes the east europeans going in and taking up employment then sending the money back to their home countries, not to mention the benefits they get for their kids living back in their countries while working in the uk! Unbelievable! The work shy thing has being going on for along time back there, but was just helped along a bit when a certain Mr Blair came along to help these people! There are many people justifyingly on benefits and need to be on some sort of assistance for some things or that etc... But i fully support the means testing of benefits for many people. My mother still lives in Edinburgh, for the majority of the year anyway, and tells me about the things she sees and reads about some of these people and finds it a disgrace and the fact she has never claimed a penny from the state, even when she could have!

[yeezus.]

Decided not to watch Benefits Street but I enjoyed the debate on This Morning in regards to whether the programme actually demonises the poor.

[lyonhibs]

Well said totally agree with you! Its about time the work shy get exposed and their benefits cut completely! Then they will have to work whether they like it or not, and the more this sort of thing happens to them it may well sort out the uk un documented immigration problem....yes the east europeans going in and taking up employment then sending the money back to their home countries, not to mention the benefits they get for their kids living back in their countries while working in the uk! Unbelievable! The work shy thing has being going on for along time back there, but was just helped along a bit when a certain Mr Blair came along to help these people! There are many people justifyingly on benefits and need to be on some sort of assistance for some things or that etc... But i fully support the means testing of benefits for many people. My mother still lives in Edinburgh, for the majority of the year anyway, and tells me about the things she sees and reads about some of these people and finds it a disgrace and the fact she has never claimed a penny from the state, even when she could have!

I assume you won't be returning to the UK anytime soon?? Tell us, how long have you been in HK as you hardly ever mention it........

I haven't seen the program, but the majority of good, honest cases of people deserving of benefits don't make good TV, so I will hedge my bets on the program being the kind of sensationalised "poverty porn" that gets the hard of thinking into a massive froth.

[hibsbollah]

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jan/08/uk-benefit-welfare-spending

Always worth a reminder of how LITTLE of the UKs welfare budget is actually spent on unemployment benefits. Its mostly made up of pensions for the old, living and heating costs for the elderly and the disabled and disability and carers allowances. All of which is going to be further hammered (£23 billion of further cuts IIRC?) by Gideon, Cameron and his cronies this year. More is spent by the government on propping up WORKING families paid low wages, often by feckless employers who then avoid paying corporation taxes, than on the workless.

Doesnt make such good telly though.

[Pretty Boy]

There really needs to be a serious debate in this country regarding trying to link the minimum wage to the living wage. £6.31 is a pi55 take, it's possible to exist on that but to live on it, nigh on impossible. There must be a way that a living wage can be implemented without massively affecting small businesses.

Of course it would be political madness for a party to suggest this because it doesn't really matter to that small percentage of voters they actively try to woo at every election.

Surely a living wage would cut the bill for tax credits without making anyone worse off, allow some groups, single parents say, to have a bit more cash for something like childcare to allow them to work and it would provide a bit more disposable income some of which would make it's way back into government coffers through VAT.