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Nick and Margaret: we pay...

180 replies

TattooEnvy · 11/07/2013 21:13

Anyone watching?

I'm hoping Nick and Margaret are going to take a balanced non judgy view...

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bico · 11/07/2013 21:28

Isn't also about contributing to society? If you live on benefits and don't work at all then how are you contributing? At least WTC/CTC supports working households.

HeadFairy · 11/07/2013 21:28

Is it chubfuddler? I didn't know that. That is good.

EnglishGirlApproximately · 11/07/2013 21:29

I'd be surprised if the single mother with £1300 month income doesn't claim tax credits if she has 2 children?

bico · 11/07/2013 21:29

Lynette same here. My house would be tidier Grin

bico · 11/07/2013 21:30

Is that the working single mother's income? I thought she had her own cleaning business.

HeadFairy · 11/07/2013 21:30

Bico I do agree with that bit, yes (about contributing to society)... and this is where I think we've failed so many families. It's down to poor education, poor support for families who come from the sort of background where the idea of contributing to society is quite alien.

TattooEnvy · 11/07/2013 21:30

I think pp had it right, they hand pick the people on programmes like this. They would be bored if they followed me for a week...

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Chubfuddler · 11/07/2013 21:31

I'm not knocking tax credits. I get them myself. I'm a single parent and work full time. I can still see through this manipulative nobsense, putting people with fuck all against people with even less and getting them to scrap over the crumbs.

YoniWheretheSunDontShine · 11/07/2013 21:31

I am v Confused telling her to buy chicken fillets because they are more value than a whole chicken?

susiedaisy · 11/07/2013 21:31

I'm watching its interesting

twistyfeet · 11/07/2013 21:31

froth

BreakOutTheKaraoke · 11/07/2013 21:31

Is that woman a frigging idiot with the chicken? She'd buy fillets instead?

Arisbottle · 11/07/2013 21:31

That scene in the supermarket was stupid, chicken fillets are very expensive .

susiedaisy · 11/07/2013 21:32

Chicken fillets are way more expensive than a whole chicken isn't it, don't understand where she was coming from

Helpyourself · 11/07/2013 21:32

Silly woman's just wrong about the chicken.

Chubfuddler · 11/07/2013 21:32

Yes even I thought that was shit advice about the chicken.

HeadFairy · 11/07/2013 21:32

Yoni I thought that... it's such bollocks. A whole chicken weighing 1.5kg is much cheaper than 1.5kg of fillets.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 11/07/2013 21:32

Chub, you are putting things very well.

bico · 11/07/2013 21:32

So the graduate has no reason to work at all. I'm shocked at the level of his student debt but I suppose that is now the reality for many.

LazyMonkeyButler · 11/07/2013 21:33

That bit was just madness Yoni, chicken fillets are the most expensive way of buying chicken - surely everyone knows that?

poorbuthappy · 11/07/2013 21:33

I think this whole programme is a crock of shit.
They have chosen the extremes guaranteed to piss the most people off ever.

This is the BBC, we pay for this absolute fucking shit and should stop now.

poorbuthappy · 11/07/2013 21:34

Honestly how have the BBC managed to get away with this for so long?

LazyMonkeyButler · 11/07/2013 21:34

Grin many x-posts about the chicken.

bico · 11/07/2013 21:34

£20 a week on a night out seems a lot to me.

SupermansBigRedPants · 11/07/2013 21:35

I chanced on this when flicking channels - within seconds some woman was explaining why she had cats when she was unemployed. I got really pissed off and changed it straight over, that type of show is not for the hormonal side of me.