Benefits street

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Anyone watching ?

More divisive effluent for the uninitiated to bleat on about.

More 'poverty porn' so that other more fortunate people can pat themselves on the back and say 'there but for the grace...'

if the Guardian thinks people dont live like this they are very WRONG

BUT the majority DO NOT live like this

They are beahaving like children. Terribly immature. Just ripping everyone off - including each other.

The street itself looks good. If you wandered into it you'd never guess what was going on.

The only people I feel sorry for is the people on this street who work
Very sad indeed

What I don't understand why it's not ok to be pissed off that people who can work should

And I very much doubt they have been manipulated on appearing they no doubt thought it was there five minutes of fame.

Well there famous all right

Just caught part of it. It certainly does seem to be out to stereotype though good to see its not portraying them all as living in luxury.

The scene with the 50p man was humbling. Imagine being in a situation where you're relieved that someone has given you half a cup of washing powder, a roll of toilet paper and a few sweets for the children. I know people are struggling but that scene really bought it home to me :(

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That was the same women who had just been busted for claiming £1500 a month through benefit fraud. No sympathy here.

I thought Channel 4 was the Lefty channel? If the Left are making programmes like this......
These sorts of people have always been around and always will.

No that would be the bbc I remember them calling the people smashing there way into footlocker protesters in the riots

Another benefits bashing programme.
The last one I saw starred a woman who had been on Jeremy Kyle and her husband had slept with most of her daughters.
Out and out propaganda, Cameron and his cronies will be having a field day.

Please don't watch these shit programmes. Just repeating what I said on another thread but people are tweeting shit like this because of that:

Benefits street. Wish I could blow the lot up, scruffy low life's. Cut the benefit system altogether.

It's just designed to wind people up and get people talking. Pile of shite.

I watched it because i wanted to know what all the hype was about.

I was saddened and shocked. Shocked by the amount of tips for those on the edge of legality enough tips to tempt them maybe?

And saddened, totally saddened by their situations. Ive been that woman who couldnt afford the 50p man and it brought back some very uncomfortable memories. I was in debt rather than on benefits, but the end result was the same.

Heheh. As expected.
Mind you C4 did have a woman in a burka delivering the alternative Christmas message once. These people were hoist by their own petard unfortunately. I quite admired the chutzpah of the bloke nicking the magazines from Premier Inn.

I love how it's on the same day as GeorgetwatfaceOsbourne announces more benefit cuts.

The idea of George Osborne being in cahoots with C4 is about as likely as Fungi training as a social worker.

I didn't mean that as if it was planned btw moondog, just find it funny as people were already saying how great it was at the welfare cuts were and then this is on the same day! You couldn't ask for worse timing!

Whether this is exaggerated for tv or not.....this is what is going on!!! Some ppl think that they have "rights" to benefits and give those who are genuinely "needy" a very bad name!!!

This programme has made me so angry.....I have worked all of my life....no one gave me anything....I saw myself through Uni... and never, ever thought of claiming money from the state!!!!

"They" produce babies without a thought of how they will support them!!!!.......and then expect the state to provide!!! Sorry.... but not sorry.....get out there and work!!!!!!

it doesn't matter if you're on benefits or you are a millionaire. Their is absolutely no need to live how they are .The rubbish on the street is awful. The sofas and mattress just dumped. Why? no need at all.

Well someone has been well suckered in..Jackie

There are apparently roughly half a million unfilled jobs at the moment.

There are apparently approx 2 and a half million unemployed people (1.5 million jsa if I interpreted the figures correctly). (9 million 'economically inactive' but 2.5 classed as unemployed / 1.5 million jsa)

And many of the people are not where the jobs are and do not have the money required to relocate to another part of the country. And many people are not qualified for the jobs that are local to them.

So it really isn't as simple as 'get out there and get a job'. There are between 1 and 2 million more people needing jobs / could work than jobs existing. The areas of high unemployment are not generally speaking the same places where the jobs are.

What is your solution? You are clearly very angry, so what do you propose would solve this problem?

How do you propose to relocate the unemployed to the places where there are vacancies and make half a million jobs employ 2 million people?

'get out there and work'. If everyone in the country could shufty round to be in the place where there was a job that they had the skills to do, there'd still be 1-2 million classed as unemployed. What would be your solution for this?

They're living in shit - if i were home all day the least i'd do is fold and put away my washing.

A couple of people who couldn't afford the 50p man were on sanctions. I'd get sanctioned / suspended at work if i didn't fulfil my contract too.

The fact this makes good telly just makes you wonder what society we live in. People not working, breaking the law, slobbing about, moaning they aren't getting enough handouts from the hardworking taxpayers. Loved seeing what we pay people to have spare rooms for - growing weed. Depressing people at its best.

Nevertheless, I know one person on benefits who doesn't fit this image.

you ahve no idea what you woudl do if you were stuck at home all day. i would like to think i would have a very tidy h ouse but the reality would quite possibly be very dfifernt. no point in tidying up todya, do it tomorrow, and th enext day and the next day. i am tidier when i have less time

Any sensible person watching knows that they're showing a tiny minority of benefit claimants so all this talk of labelling everyone is bullshit.

Why shouldn't we see where money is going, even in small clusters? It's hideous that we've allowed this culture to develop.

Saying that - i don't think its quite as minor as we think. In my last house (crap area, all i could afford) i regularly came home to find my neighbours (5 families) on deckchairs in the street, drinking cans and wearing jarmies (realise that sounds inflammatory, totally true though)

Well would you want to sit in your PJs drinking on the street all day?