Benefit Street Where 90% Of The People Claim...

[trt]

If they are stupid enough to take part in a CH4 documentary about benefits they deserve to be belittled!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534110/Theyve-just-tried-make-look-like-slums-Jobless-stars-Benefits-Street-documentary-accuse-Channel-4-manipulative-stitch-up.html

[josaphine32]

I will be watching it, cant comment until I have seen it, but how can one estate have 90 percent of people on benefits,

[pixie373]

Maybe it's owned by council or housing association? It's hard to tell, as they seem to have just lumped everyone in together, when they are individuals.

[Caribeing]

On Channel 4 tonight will watch people don't have to take part if they don't want to but all publicity is good for them, benefit issue is a big part of society at the moment and it is disturbing to see the amount of money some people are paid!

[Postdog]

Doesn't say estate.

[flump1]

If this has been filmed in an area of high unemployment and there have been a few of those crop up of late, then I can appreciate how one street can all be claiming benefits. If anyone thought that being part of this docu-programme would be glamorous then they are naïve . It is cheap television, no more.

[sunny-dave]

"it is disturbing to see the amount of money some people are paid"

A semantic quibble from dave :

The word 'paid' implies that they have done some work to earn the money ... they haven't. They are being given the money.

They may (or indeed may not) deserve the money - but it is not 'pay'.

[flump1]

Dave , some of these people may be on benefits because there is no other way of supporting their selves. They may well have worked hard in the past and paid their dues. I am a prime example, when my health deteriorated to the point I had to cease work, I had worked for 36 years. Being on benefits for a lot of us is depressing and programmes like this one don't do claimants who are genuine any favours. Being on benefits is loathsome.

[sunny-dave]

I wasn't making any moral judgements - I've been there myself & know how horrible it can be.

Sorry if I implied that, it wasn't my intention, I was just on a pet hobbyhorse about the use of words.

[jno]

just so, flump, I'm sure ABers like wolf would say the same.

[sherrardk]

One of the things that annoyed me about the article was the way they included child benefit in with 'benefits'. If that's how the programme makers/article writers want to classify benefit claimants then presumably vast swathes of the country are on 'benefits'.

[bundleone]

Quite well off people do not feel any shame in taking benefits ie: child benefit, heating allowance , but are quick to deride people that are poorer than themselves sometimes through no fault of their own, and even if it is their own fault children have to be fed and clothed and given a decent life, it,s easyto judge.

[ELVIS68]

Typical C4 documentary, something else to show whilst they're filming the latest lot of Pikey weddings

[TTG]

Nice big tv and expensive phones.

[horseshoes]

TTG yeah, we just commented on that! Very expensive phones!

[jno]

sherrard, yeah, shame they didn't find out about my winter fuel allowance, I could have been the star of the show.

[Ric.ror]

I'm turning it off now
I feel it's not helping my blood pressure

[horseshoes]

Lol Ric.ror

[Ric.ror]

Honestly after the day I have had with the police ringing my son about something and nothing and then watching this lot


I hope I'm more tolerant tomorrow

[flump1]

Well that was as I thought it would be, a few people who are happy to be televised leading their warped lives. Very similar to the other benefit programme they put out a while back. I feel desperately sorry for the ordinary law abiding folk who live nearby.
Sunny Dave xx

[naomi24]

I've just watched this. Not fit enough to work claims one who confesses he has never worked in his life - but nevertheless is fit enough to go out shop-lifting. A young couple with two small children getting £1500 a month until they were caught fiddling their benefits. Tolerant? Why? I have no objection whatsoever to paying people who are unfit to work, but I do object to paying those for whom benefits have become a lifestyle and who not only are content to scrounge from society, but deem it their right.