1949 benefits programme on C4 now..who is watching?

[Allthingspretty]

anyone?

Patterson is respectful, calm, and wanting to work, I really feel for him. They obviously wanted him to react negatively. Good on him.

I wonder how the man already had a council house before the woman and her children moved in?

Nicola seems like a really lovely mum.

Would the tv crew really have let him sleep rough??? Really????

I hope not Farrow.

I find this programme interesting but distressing, that poor man crying last week and now patterson sleeping rough :(

Ok, this programme this week is wrong on so so so many levels. I disagree with both the single mum and the single man treatment. Disgusting.

I would have walked off the program at the mention of care poor Nicola sounds like she's had it hard enough already

Wannabe, I would have left as well.

I would be gobsmacked if they really let him sleep rough

I watched last week. I think you will find that the people taking part actually get a lot out of the experiment. - new friends , new outlook etc

Does anyone else think this weeks program seems aimed at saying to some people "be thankful for what you have today". It seems so contrived.

And the unsuitable single mum is just lovely!!

This is a strange programme. How real are these consequences? Did he really sleep rough ?
Was Nicola in serious danger of losing her kids?

Haven't they reintroduced something like the rehabilitation officer - people helping families get kids up for schools etc.

Poor single mums. Bloody crap - I remember the mum and baby homes in the 80s. The emphasis being it was the naughty girls who wound up there, in shame.

Wow. Shit, I didn't expect the female officer to react like that - it's no wonder she felt uncomfortable at the first interview. She's experienced it first hand.

I don't think it is contrived it is just contrasting at the difference in society today and society in 1949. Some aspects are clearly better but some are worse.

Katie, a lot of benefit programes come across as that and I agree with you.

Waswondering you and me both

Having watched last weeks I think it is a very interesting social experiment. Yes there is an element of 'be thankful of what you've got today' but that of course will happen when comparing two different social eras. What else do you expect ?

Well, it it was real I would feel sympathy. How can they get that upset though, it's not real! They must have volunteered for the show in the first place so should be prepared to go through with the outcome, otherwise what would be the point ? I bet they have been payed to be in it too.

Apart from the rehabilitation officer this week's episode makes me cringe. Society simply doesn't accept discrimination like this today (I hope).

But that £31 a day wouldn't need to just be childcare - as a single parent on minimal wage she would get 70% of her childcare paid for through tax credits.

Society doesn't accept discrimination like this today thank goodness but it lets people live in shitholes like that family !

I thought they treated the single mum dreadfully given her background. She was so upset!

Interesting experiment though.

"If I'm not feeling it I'm not going to do it" Yeah I feel like that every day

Next week's programme looks interesting!