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?

Don't normally like Pip, but he was right. Cheeky, lazy woman

If I wanted that I'd have done so - I wanted to discuss how wrong it is for a millionaire to shame someone on benefits for how they spend their money

I didn't see it. Did he ask her about the £2800 she spent on credit cards and loans to fund Christmas?

Of course, that might not have been any of his business.

If it wasn't his business, what was the 'selling point' of her appearance? Was it about her new book?

And TM is hardly Newsnight ffs - it's a dumbed down piece of shit presented by patronising twats. If you really want to take it seriously then I suggest you step away from the TV

And at the same time as denigrating poorer people he was presenting Text Santa every year saying how ppl should help those less fortunate.

The hypocrisy is sickening.

Why should you have the thread deleted just you disingenuously claim that you didn't want a bun fight?

Cheeky maybe right. I didn't see the interview so I can't comment on that statement, but Lazy!!!!!!!! I wouldn't call being a carer lazy. Its a 24 hour demanding and physical job.

I don't think this has turned into a bun fight?
I see people questioning your AIBU, I see people offering their own unrelated opinions on PS being unsavoury, I see people realising they've been had by the very person you defend initially.
Who here has slagged claimants?

Hardly. She has plenty of time to shop!!!! Lazy

Because a) I didn't want an argument, b) it seems both sides are as much to blame as each other and c) I genuinely am feeling slightly unnerved by all of this.

As I said - I'm clearly wrong to think PS was a twat, so sorry. Hopefully MNHQ will delete this as it is basically just turning into a slanging match.

If you Google this woman she is fame hungry. She gave up her teaching job to seek stardom, went topples in an internet movie now claims she can't go back to teaching. Most people with a couple of kids, or even just themselves, to support would not be so downright irresponsible.

Yep. She's been on just about every single 3rd rate TV show that will accept her and she's told a pack of lies to get on TV and in the papers.

Cheeky maybe right. I didn't see the interview so I can't comment on that statement, but Lazy!!!!!!!! I wouldn't call being a carer lazy. Its a 24 hour demanding and physical job.

She is not a carer.

Leaving the woman, Philip schofield and her book aside, so many people have preconceived notions about benefits.

So I tell you what, I'll gladly swap you. You live on 73 quid a week, maintain a home , food, clothes , as well as look after a profoundly disabled child while struggling with your own disability , and I'll sit on MN and bemused someone a measly luxury like a cheap assume bottle of prosecco.

Begrudge not bemused

op

The wine bit is unimportant to me - I didn't see the interview so I have no idea how everyone came across.

What do you think of Deborah - based on what you've read and know about her?

OP, you can't just get a thread deleted because you don't like it.

That's not how Mumsnet works.

She's been on just about every single 3rd rate TV show that will accept her and she's told a pack of lies to get on TV and in the papers

It's an interesting relationship - she gets paid to be on these shows. The shows get people watching and that helps ratings. The DM picks it up, prints articles and get clicks. People then start threads on it, MN gets clicks and money. Then the person knows she is 'good for businesses' so it carries on.

It's a symbiotic relationship. Who are the losers? The children?

WorraLiberty

It's not because I don't like it, it's because I genuinely feel uneasy about all this. I didn't want an argument.

Channel 5 have an afternoon of Can't pay, we'll take it away

amispartacus, god yes I'd be embarrassed to leave the house if she was my Mum.

OP do you know how to hide a thread?

If you scroll down (or up, I'm not sure) you should see a 'hide thread' button.

ami yes, sadly I think it is her children that will suffer the most here.
She's made some poor choices which have obviously had a great impact on them and sounds like she is continuing to make them unkeepable promises wrt her housing situation.
I agree she's had a tough time,but she's certainly not helping the situation.
The children need security and quiet stability. They are now likely to be present as she gets a mouthful of abuse from a Daily Mail reader in the street.

It mentions in the article She's has 4 children by 4 fathers. I see not one wiff of critic for them.

It's a symbiotic relationship. Who are the losers? The children?

I think we are the losers. Politics and public opinion are swayed by stories that have very little to do with reality.

Yep. The losers are people who have no other option than to rely on benefits whilst hatred is whipped up all around us.

I really just think the thread should be deleted. If other posters would report too I'd be most grateful. Plenty of other places to debate benefits but that was not my intention with this thread.