To think This Morning was wrong to shame this woman?

[MrsMattBomer]

www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/phillip-schofield-blasts-benefit-scounger--9561308

Sorry, but what business does he have to decide what someone spends their benefits on? So what if she bought a bottle of Prosecco?

He says he doesn't care about the Prosecco but it's so obvious that he does. This is a man worth £2million sitting in his ivory tower and shaming a woman for buying a £4.99 bottle of Prosecco.

Is this what this country has become? A country where we deny people any pleasure or fun because they are on benefits?

[dontbesillyhenry]

gets popcorn and hard hat for OP

[PigletWasPoohsFriend]

Errrrr he is a journalist. If you actually watch the This Morning interview it was very balanced.

It wasn't just about the Proseco --but that would get in the way of your outrage wouldn't it-

[Nell51]

I saw the interview on the show. He didn't care that she spent the money on prosecco but it was the manner in which she said thanks to the tax payer that riled him.

[EggnogChai]

Of course she can spend her xmas bonus on processo but 'cheers to the taxpayer' is an inflammatory comment that's a bit out of order wouldn't you say?

[MrsMattBomer]

PigletWasPoohsFriend

In what universe is Phillip Schofield a journalist? He used to be on CBBC presenting with a bloody Gopher puppet! He's hardly Jeremy Paxman, is he?

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

YABU

[Celaena]

£2800 on Christmas gifts??? Ffs

[MrsMattBomer]

EggnogChai

I saw the post and thought it seemed genuinely like she was thanking people.

I know if I had to rely on benefits I'd be thankful to the taxpayers for paying towards that system.

[CannotEvenDeal]

YABI

She's the twat

[CannotEvenDeal]

YABU even

[WorraLiberty]

I think it's pretty clear that the woman's dickish comment "‘So cheers to the taxpayer for my Christmas gift’", was what got his back up.

You can't see that, OP?

[TitaniasCloset]

This is all to promote her books. Whatever they are about. I'm sure she is glad of the publicity..

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

She spent £2,800 on her kids Christmas presents because she wants them to have the same Christmas as when they were rich?

How's that teaching her children to behave responsibly?

She's the twat.

[Allthebestnamesareused]

This woman is apparently a publicity seeker. She has been on one of those other benefit shows and so on and is really not very pleasant. I am afraid I can't feel sorry for her!

[amispartacus]

I think that women is going to be in financial trouble - she's used credit cards and loans to pay for Christmas and is hoping her book pays for it.

Those bills don't go away.

[SparklyLeprechaun]

Yabu, he did nothing wrong, and it clearly wasn't about the prosecco, it was about a very crass comment she made.

[CaraAspen]

No he isn't, OP. His view would be similar to any other person who heard someone say the "cheers "thing. If she had said "Thanks to...", that might have had a different tone.

[AgentCooper]

Hmm. Whatever the ethics of buying prosecco with benefits, when I was unemployed a few months ago I was really, really struck by how much daytime TV has turned into bear - baiting. This Morning, Loose Women, it's like the Mail brought to life, stoking hatred.

[CannotEvenDeal]

I saw the post and thought it seemed genuinely like she was thanking people.

Somehow I don't think that when she was a teacher she cracked open a bottle to thank her headteacher/governing body/local authority.

[SouthWestmom]

He sounds like a twat over egging a point tbh.and wtf people in benefits don't know they get £10 at Christmas? It's automatic, you dont go cap in hand to the benefits office and ask nicely for it!

He knows fuck all from the sound of it.

[Astro55]

But Phillip hit back: “It doesn’t sound like that. It sounds like ‘Cheers! Here’s what I bought with your money

It's the attitude - how many working people got a taxpayer bonus??

[amispartacus]

I was really, really struck by how much daytime TV has turned into bear - baiting. This Morning, Loose Women, it's like the Mail brought to life, stoking hatred

Can't pay, we'll take it away
On benefits......
Jeremy Kyle

It's awful. We mock the Victorians for their freak shows and the Romans for what happened in the Collisseum but we still do it now. Humiliation in the name of public entertainment.

[CondensedMilkSarnies]

She doesn't come across well tbh . She keeps saying she's proud to be in benefits , does she mean grateful?

She also seems to have a funny eyebrow - which annoyed me

[SheldonCRules]

Benefits should provide the bare minimum of food, shelter and heat. The very fact they fund so many luxuries shows they have become a joke at the expense of tax payers.

[Servicesupportforall]

I don't think either of them came out of it well. Davina looked embarrassed