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Original poster

To think This Morning was wrong to shame this woman?

313 replies

MrsMattBomer · 07/01/2017 13:09

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?

OP posts:
Twogoats · 07/01/2017 19:52

Surely she makes money from these TV appearances? Shouldn't that affect her benefits?

Not being goady, just curious!

NotStoppedAllDay · 07/01/2017 19:57

Not if she doesn't declare it!

Original poster
MrsMattBomer · 07/01/2017 20:00

Can we please just leave this? Seriously - if you want to go on about this make another thread!

I've asked several times for people to either report the thread or just leave it but nobody listens.

OP posts:
LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 07/01/2017 20:08

Making another thread would be against guidelines

Livelovebehappy · 07/01/2017 20:10

Just making my very brief contribution to this thread, before it's 'brought to a close'. The criticism of the woman is not because she's on benefits but because a) she is saying 'cheers to the taxpayer', in a clearly provative and goady way, and b) saying she is 'proud' of being on benefits. Yes, she can be proud of the person she is, but proud of being on benefits? Really??

SparklyFuckingBusinessFairy · 07/01/2017 20:14

She thinks she's on a fast track to being a celebrity. What a nutter. OP, your ire is misplaced.

FeralBeryl · 07/01/2017 20:15

Hmm Just. Hide. The. Thread.

People will talk on it more if you keep coming on and clapping your hands like a deputy head at the end of assembly too.

yummymummycleo · 07/01/2017 20:17

I don't begrudge her the drink but I don't like the attitude. That's what would rile me up. She is rubbing people's nose in it. Her attitude is horrible. I agree PS was just saying what many tax payers would be thinking.

What about those people who work and on the poverty line who couldn't afford a bottle of wine to celebrate Christmas Day? It's a finger up to them too. The women was BU

Original poster
MrsMattBomer · 07/01/2017 20:22

Yes, I agree, my ire was misplaced although I do think the media in general has a bias against those on benefits.

Can we now please just leave it? Thanks to all contributors.

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NameChanger22 · 07/01/2017 20:22

I didn't watch much of the interview, I turned it off because it was nasty.

Two millionaires, who probably spend thousands (if not more) every day on all kinds of luxuries, up on their high horses looking down on someone living on the breadline, when she was only thanking people for the £10 bonus she got.

It's pretty sickening. There's something very wrong, bitter and nasty about this country.

I'm a taxpayer, I want more equality, not more of this shit.

Dawndonnaagain · 07/01/2017 20:24

There are others, who don't work Sir on benefits popping kid after kid out, because someone else will pay for it. People abuse it all the time.
There are one or two who abuse it. This sort of woman is loved by the government because she causes the anger that you have displayed, doing the governments job for them. The evidence clearly indicates that there are very, very few people doing as you describe.

She thinks she's on a fast track to being a celebrity. What a nutter.
Perhaps you'd be kind enough to choose your language a little more carefully, please.

What about those people who work and on the poverty line who couldn't afford a bottle of wine to celebrate Christmas Day? It's a finger up to them too.
In all likelihood she too couldn't afford the prosecco, but it's about choices and whether you like it or not we're all allowed to exercise said choice as long as we're not damaging anyone with said choices.

Original poster
MrsMattBomer · 07/01/2017 20:26

Thanks for all contributions!

Let's just leave it now, eh? Wine

OP posts:
CaraAspen · 07/01/2017 20:27

"MrsMattBomer

Can everyone just report this thread please? I didn't want it to turn into a benefits bunfight (yet again) but it has!"

Why did you start it then? Have you been here long enough to know how it would pan out?

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 07/01/2017 20:29

Stop telling people to stop posting - HIDE THE THREAD

CaraAspen · 07/01/2017 20:31

"itsmine

'how wrong it is for a millionaire to shame someone on benefits for how they spend their money'

It was how she said 'cheers to the tax payers'!!! that was the issue. Imagine if there'd been a rich person saying 'thanks to the plebs who work in my factories for peanuts!!' in the paper, it's not about benefits or money, it's about gloating. Which she knew. She got what she wanted, all the publicity."

In a nutshell that us exactly what the odious woman did. It is so weird to see that so many posters are defending this behaviour.

CaraAspen · 07/01/2017 20:32

In a nutshell that is exactly what the odious woman did. It is so weird, given the facts, to see that so many posters defending this behaviour.

CaraAspen · 07/01/2017 20:36

"YouHadMeAtCake

Livia grin"

Drat. I missed that funnnnneeee.

yummymummycleo · 07/01/2017 20:36

As I said she had the choice to spend it on the drink If she wants to spend her bonus on that BUT my point was she shouldn't rub it in other people's faces, especially those tax payers who are paying towArds it especially those who can't afford themselves.

Dragongirl10 · 07/01/2017 20:36

YABVU

You may wish to pay more tax to fund her bloody prosecco, but l certainly don't.
In fact l would like much more of our hard earned taxes to go to the pension of the elderly lady next door, who is shivering in front of a one bar fire in the recent cold snap ...and she worked all her life.

I have several working friends who only have one or at the most two dc, as they cannot afford more, who only buy charity shop gifts at Christmas, and scrimp and save pennies for emergencies like the boiler breaking down...yet she is flaunting her coloured hair , make up, decent clothes, £2800(!!!!) worth of Christmas presents and fizz on national TV....she should be so ashamed, and so should you for supporting her point of view.

The presenter may well live in a 2 million house but he EARNT IT and the tax on his salary will be over 50% with NI....his contribution to society is substantial......I despise people with her attitude.

amispartacus · 07/01/2017 20:37

Yes, I agree, my ire was misplaced although I do think the media in general has a bias against those on benefits

Why do you think she went on the programme?
She seems like an intelligent women. What was her USP for the producers?

amispartacus · 07/01/2017 20:38

Yes, I agree, my ire was misplaced although I do think the media in general has a bias against those on benefits

Yes they do - and I don't think her behaviour did anything to reduce the bias and the perception some people have of people on benefits.

Original poster
MrsMattBomer · 07/01/2017 20:38

CaraAspen

No, I've only been here since about September and posted about 5 threads. I genuinely didn't know.

As I've said, I just want the thread to end.

LiviaDrusillaAugusta

As I've said, it is a bit unfair to keep going on about something purposely when I've asked not to. I don't want to hide it - go start a thread in chat or something if you want to discuss this woman, who actually isn't what I wanted to talk about in the first place!

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OP posts:
CaraAspen · 07/01/2017 20:39

"CannotEvenDeal

No you ranted at everyone This ^^

IT'S A TENNER. A FUCKING TENNER was an early gem for someone who wasn't trying to be argumentative. grin"

NO NO NO!!! That is not in the slightest bit argumentative; it is sweary and argumentative.

Patriciathestripper1 · 07/01/2017 20:41

He's a sexy silver fox Blush

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 07/01/2017 20:41

People CAN'T start another thread - it would be against Guidelines

Hide the thread if you don't want to participate further - just because you started the thread doesn't mean you get to shut it down.