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AIBU?

at the BBC's planned 'Hunger Games' type show?

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betseyfly · 31/05/2015 18:08

If it were Channel 4 and I wouldn't be surprised, though I would be just as appalled.

The proposal is - unemployed people and low-paid workers will compete in a series of challenges in competition for a cash prize. Does anyone know how to start an online petition against this?

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betseyfly · 02/06/2015 15:12

Well the alternative AnyoneForTennis, is to do fuck all (which you would be OK with presumably?) which absolutely guarantees that nothing happens. What else can we do?

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betseyfly · 02/06/2015 15:26

For me this is a disturbing example of the type of voyeuristic "poverty porn" and the Beeb seems to want to push it even further. To treat poverty and unemployment via this kind of cheap, exploitative, shit format is shameful.

I've always been very much against the break up, or privatisation of the national broadcaster. But it's beyond saving if it commissions such immoral shite as this.

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IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 02/06/2015 15:35

Well the alternative AnyoneForTennis, is to do fuck all (which you would be OK with presumably?)

Yep. With people like you to look after my morality for me, there's no need to bother myself....

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RedKite1985 · 02/06/2015 15:38

I think the petition is worded completely wrong.

These people are not going to be FORCED into taking part in this, surely?

And I can't see that it is much different from The Apprentice

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betseyfly · 02/06/2015 16:41

But you still like to disparage others that do ?

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ApeMan · 02/06/2015 16:45

ffs I had my hopes up, but it turns out nobody will be killed.

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IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 02/06/2015 23:10

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HelenaDove · 03/06/2015 00:16

"I've always been very much against the break up, or privatisation of the national broadcaster. But it's beyond saving if it commissions such immoral shite as this."

THIS!

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HelenaDove · 03/06/2015 00:17

If you are going to demand a licence fee then you bloody well treat all payers of it with equal respect including the licence fee payers who are on low incomes.

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NRomanoff · 03/06/2015 07:01

It sounds awful. But like a lot of things like this, the people who are against it aren't always putting their point across well.

Its not the hunger games, they aren't killing each other, they aren't forced to do anything, there won't be only one person leaving alive. The comparisons and poor wording never help a cause.

And it is quite similar to the apprentice, as pp said.

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DamnBamboo · 03/06/2015 07:04

Jack Monroe is a whinging, smug and very self-centred person.

I am amazed at some of the uttershite she spouts quite frankly and whilst a lot of what she says is spot on, she has slightly lost the plot a bit.

Example of moaning about abuse received on twitter and dishing it out quite viciously herself at times too (especially on election night).

If people want to compete in this show, so be it. And comparing it to the hunger games is a little over the top isn't it.

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prepperpig · 03/06/2015 07:07

Oh for goodness sake.

Its the apprentice for those who are unemployed. How is this even vaguely like the hunger games where children are forced to take part in a fight to the death?

It reminds me actually of the Mary Portas thing where she interviewed loads of out of work applicants to try to give them work in her knicker factory. How exactly is this any different?

If you don't want to watch it don't watch it but there no need for the sensationalism and pearl clutching.

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DamnBamboo · 03/06/2015 07:09

Jack Monroe is so articulate

We must have seen a different question time then.

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HelenaDove · 03/06/2015 19:33

How is it The Apprentice for the unemployed when unlike The Apprentice there is no job at the end. The prize is £15.000 A bloody sight less than those producing this shit are on.

The brilliant Ken Loach"s take on it.

www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-0a85-Loach-brands-BBC-poverty-porn-show-fascist-TV#.VW9Hpc9Viko

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imnotafeministbut · 03/06/2015 19:51

I doubt the OP meant "Hunger Games" in a literal way?? Use some imagination/subtlety/nuance thinking folks please! I take it, it is simply the very idea of watching people compete, using the fact they are unemployed and are in great need, which is such a brutal, undignified travesty. As well as an insult to anyone desperate enough to appear in it and to the viewing public.

The mind boggles at how this appalling 'concept' got further than the 'ideas' stage let alone actually get produced. Even worse is the fact this is with public money.

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NRomanoff · 03/06/2015 20:06

Bgt is a competition and no way comparable to the hunger games. I have imagination. It's a terrible comparison because they are not similar.

This type of speaking, to increase the drama on everything is ridiculous and makes people look ridiculous imo.

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NRomanoff · 03/06/2015 20:08

and it's like the apprentice. the apprentices don't get jobs, they get a big investment. Thats not money in their pocket. It has to be accounted for. In theory people on this show could start a business with their winnings.

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imnotafeministbut · 03/06/2015 20:43

Yes, there's money in the offing, and it'll be fun to see the poor and desperate debase themselves. I mean, come on you dramatists out there, they could get some money at the end! £15,000, that's the equivalent to a year’s living wage outside London.

Consider the fabulous “entertainment” value of achieving it by any means necessary, and at their expense ? Never mind helping these people get and do work that benefits real people, they could get some money, and how.

Yes, public degradation has come a long way it seems.