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Anyone watching? c4 now

Poor connors mum.

Sole, she had said she was giving blow jobs for £15-20, but some of the girls were doing everything for a tenner.

I'm despairing, wtf do you do with teenagers like that??????

How do you stop the rot.

Some of them look about 12!!

"They keep fighting". What does the narrator mean? Fighting for what? Terrible, meaningless commentary.

"They keep fighting, they don't give up"

It makes it sound as if they have integrity, like deep down they are decent. They don't appear to be.

Oh good god breakout! :(

She said the only way she can escape being 'branded' was to move away. But she can't run away from herself. Nobodu can.

So do channel4 want people to think that all people who live on council estates are like that?

Hmm serious problems but the programme does seem more about showing scummy behaviour rather than about being skint.
Fuel for more benefit bashing I think.

This doesn't help any problems, just holds a mirror to them.

So do channel4 want people to think that all people who live on council estates are like that?

I hope not usual. I live on a council estate, I know parts of it may happen, but it's not something I see around here. Drugs are generally limited to smoking pot (not for me, may I add, but I see that as something that happens everywhere), never seen a prostitute round here, not really any teenagers around. The main problem round here is young parents, not necessarily under 16, but under 18. I myself was only 18 when I had my daughter, but typically people round here have more than one, in quite quick succession, in order to not have to work.

And lol at posters on here being PO faced about the swearing.

Err,hello this is MN where posters compete to be the most sweary?

In order not to work or because there is no work?

There is swearing and there is swearing.

I have it on c4+1 as I missed the start.

Connor has no respect for his mother swearing at her like that.

Am going to have to stop watching, and go and tell my polite , if slightly disobedient DS to get to bed.

It's not just the swearing with connor, it's the rudeness and total lack of resect for his mum

I am not sweary.

If I were his mum he would not be coming into the house

Jeremy vile candidates the lot of them

I'm sweary here but not.in reality. I think.it not speak it. Certainly.not every other word.

i'm watching this now. what a load of bollocks. that's not skint. i'm skint and i dont shoplift or buy stolen goods or sell drugs or tolerate my dcs throwing glasses down the stairs after me or swearing at me. my dcs go to school every day and aren't on report. prison isn't hanging over them like it's inevitable. those people might be skint aswell but that show isn't about skint people.

It is propaganda.

Lots will fall for it.

I watched this last night followed immediately by Made in Chelsea to see the contrast.

Lots of swearing, drinking, shagging around and rude and nasty attitudes in both programmes. The houses and clothes were nicer in Chelsea though so that makes it ok???

www.humberside.police.uk/newsmedia/did-you-watch-the-first-episode-of-skint-here-is-what-we-have-had-to-say

North Lincs Homes are the Registered Social Landlords who are the landlords

Bit late here but I could stand at my front door and throw a stone to 'the precint/wall' what ever they called it, 10 houses away maybe.

I've lived here for 2 years and prior to this I lived in one of the 'naice' villages on the outskirts of town. I can promise you it's quieter with far less commotion here!

I walk through to the shop many times a week and I've never been offered any cut price chicken, razors etc etc. we have had no bother what so ever. Life for me at least is nothing like what was shown. I'm not saying that there isn't trouble but I've never seen anything like that and never near our house.

drcoconut yes some of it must have been staged. I was waiting for a bus with ds and they filmed a boy on a bike wheeling up the street at least 3 times! It took a while to remember that they were filming in the area so I'm hoping I'm not on it!

I presume they came here knowing what they wanted and searched to find it.

I had a flyer through the door to say how they were filming locally about our 'community feel'. I said to dh it would end up looking like shameless. I called them to see if they would like to come and film us. I was working, doing a full time degree, dh doing 12 hour shifts, baby on the way soon to be a stay at home mum through choice on dh's wage. Surprisingly they wasn't interested in filming dh at 5oclock in the pouring rain biking to work, they didnt want to know about my degree, could have filmed me graduate maybe, spoke to us about the life of struggling to live on a wage with no benefits, meal planning to Feed the family not getting stolen chicken!

I'd almost hoped some of this was staged. They obvs had an agenda in mind.
Connor's mum looked sad but she should have been doing more. Don't think there was a dad on the scene.

I felt for Connor Poor lad didn't have much of a chance. There's a long story before you get to where he is now. His mum wasn't effective, but didn't seem to get much support. After all that time, how on earth was she supposed to get him to school? He looked ready to be mentored.

I watched it with 16yo ds. We both appreciated just how huge the gap in opportunity is for children out there (he is very dyslexic but comes from a family that doesn't struggle).

Life's so shit for lots of people. This is why I still can't decide where I am on the political spectrum. On one hand, I love my house and lifestyle and the opportunities my children have through education and social contacts. On the other, it's so unfair.