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Benefits street

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viagrafalls · 06/01/2014 21:04

Anyone watching ?

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viagrafalls · 06/01/2014 21:04

Looks like its not going to be doing anyone on benefits any favours so far unfortunately.

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theywillgrowup · 06/01/2014 21:06

yep,though i know i will be huffing and puffing

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viagrafalls · 06/01/2014 21:07

Me too - Its pretty much as I expected.
wonder when we will see a flatscreen telly

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theywillgrowup · 06/01/2014 21:14

the problem is there are claimants that live like this,i know a few but this is gonna portay ALL claimants as this which is just not true

and i am a claimant myself and dont live anything like this

god im frothing at these on tv as some will think were all the same

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sonlypuppyfat · 06/01/2014 21:14

I saw a massive telly.

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theywillgrowup · 06/01/2014 21:16

ha ha

i saw a massive pile of laundry

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 06/01/2014 21:17

Here we go again- let's portray everyone on benefits as scum of society.

White dee seems like a nice woman.
Feel sorry for fungi - addiction is such an illness.

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Theknacktoflying · 06/01/2014 21:17

Such an awful, divisive programme - it isn't going to add anything positive to the argument.

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 06/01/2014 21:19

Brilliant shop lifting tip there... Shock

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KenDoddsDadsDog · 06/01/2014 21:19

I feel sorry for Fungi .

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IndigoCat · 06/01/2014 21:21

Tin foil, I never knew!

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sonlypuppyfat · 06/01/2014 21:21

They are a bunch of potty mouths.

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viagrafalls · 06/01/2014 21:21

I just think it could have been done differently - I mean what about the honest people that genuinely are deserving/need their benefits.

And how are they going to get away with actual thieving on tv???

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Tinkertaylor1 · 06/01/2014 21:22

Another attempt of the media trying to create a two tier system. Clearly these people have been failed by every support system we have.

Not all people on benefits are like this. Apparently they tricked the residents to participate in a ' community spirit' show.

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BopToTheTop · 06/01/2014 21:23

Pretty much everybody that has been shown before offers nothing to society, so why should they be 'entitled' to anything

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viagrafalls · 06/01/2014 21:23

I like Dee. Smile

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 06/01/2014 21:24

So much rubbish on the street... Aren't the council supposed to clean up?

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theywillgrowup · 06/01/2014 21:24

there money has been stopped because they have failed to attend appointments

im no fan of the goverment but to say "our moneys been stopped" without mentioning the peoples refusal to attend,so not quite as it seems

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KenDoddsDadsDog · 06/01/2014 21:24

WTF?

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ISeeYouShiverWithAntici · 06/01/2014 21:25

another one?

saints and scroungers, 1940 benefits, about 2 or 3 others I can't remember the title of but saw advertised.

It feels like propaganda. Considering these are the people being hammered atm. Start by portraying all people in a certain situation as being 'undeserving' in some way. remove any dregs of so called 'decent people's' understanding/care before you begin your attack upon them.

Now I know the press in this country does not exist to spout government propaganda / to manipulate popular opinion in favour of government policy - so why does it feel like that's exactly what's happening?

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sonlypuppyfat · 06/01/2014 21:25

When she said we've not been paid? I thought you only got paid if you earned it.

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Loveleopardprint · 06/01/2014 21:27

Finding it quite shocking. Aren't they worried about the consequences of the filming. Is it exaggerated for tv??

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viagrafalls · 06/01/2014 21:28

Iseeyoushiver That's excactly what it feels like, propaganda! I can just imagine those tory scrotes Cameron and Osbourne, nodding their heads and high fiving at each other.

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 06/01/2014 21:28

It is propaganda.

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theywillgrowup · 06/01/2014 21:30

no,now if you dont attend appointments,eg job club,medicals,signing on etc they can sanction you (stop your payments)

thats why they havent been "paid" they havent complied with the new rules that have been coming in for awhile

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