jods

P P P Pick up a potato.

Fat gunt.

paulr

Not watching. In fact why do people watch this crap.

tubbytommy

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its another program to make the working population get mad at benefit scum, its the daily star on tv.

PaulC72

The only one on the program I want to see get her benefits stopped is the woman, she isn't as bad as she makes out. Half of her issues are treatable by tablets.

'I have done my stint and I am not doing any more **** them' - sums it up for me she worked for 22years thats all.

Take it off her!!!!!

jods

There's 380+ Billion reasons to watch IMHO.

tony de wonderful

We've a whole society addicted to collective help, whether it is those on benefits - who really soak up very little, to the massive farming subsidies, the banks are their bailouts, the taxpayer and saver sponsored housing boom.

jods

Wonderful. The guy offered a job in a call centre. Fair tear-jerking that. Good luck to him :-)

rob84

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Fair play to the lad, he accepted the help he was given, Unlike that other useless waste of space who said it hurt to pull a damn potato across the table, sponging retard

ScoobyWon't

I wonder what kind of backlash she'll face? I expect she'll end up on This Morning

jods

And Jeremy Kyle. "I can't eat no potatoes me"

Lisawrx

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Agreed. She really made me quite angry.

There are no doubt plenty of people out there (I know some from experience) that have their problems which can make daily life a struggle, but they still go out and earn a living. She just came across the whole way through as if she felt entitled to be kept, just because she had worked in the past. I do believe she did genuinely have problems, but it just seemed like she played them up.

hodgy0_2

all nicely topped off with a little baby born to be king

lee green impreza

Makes you feel that all people that are on benefits don't deserve them I know that's not true but some people are having benefits when they can work. Shows how easy the system is to bend to suit yourself IMHO

lee green impreza

Also love it how I work 12 hour nights look after my children run a scooby and a house and never ever once asked for any hand outs because I can't put fuel in (not that it's ever happened) makes me sick. I work hard yet your neighbours could be sat in a house paid by the tax payer and driving a brand new car all through our taxes?

Lisawrx

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It's just strange, because for every story we get told of people bending the system as you put it, there is another one about somebody having benefits stopped that appears to need them. There is certainly something very wrong with the system we have.

tony de wonderful

Not a massive issue in my mind, although the way our land ownership is dominated by an ancien regime is an injustice. What gets my goat are our fake markets which socialise costs and privatise gains.

hodgy0_2

not really that massive in mine tbh

just sets the tone, we have an entitlement society from the bottom to the very very top

as I have posted many many times before

jods

What REALLY boils my **** is the people who set up multiple identities and buy properties from handouts which they then rent out to family, who then claim the rent - to buy more properties and have kids in tow when visiting the cash machine (aka Benefits office). I feel far less animosity to the claimant who cuts Doris's lawn for a £10 a week but they're the ones who seem to be targeted.

It seems very very simple to me.

Fingerprint &/or retina scans of everyone claiming support / entry to UK / in fact EVERYONE. No scan = No £££. Share the info throughout the Eu.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

Was really moving seeing the disabled guy get his first job offer, and shows what the benefits system originally was all about. A pretty stark contrast in work ethic between him and the fat woman who, even if given a job on a plate wouldn't accept it I imagine.

As it stands the system treats the two cases pretty evenly, which is mortifying.

Felt sorry for Mervyn the old fella too, clearly hasn't come to terms with losing his wife, and needs plenty of support - I imagine there's hundreds of thousands like him.

JackClark

That woman boiled my ****. If she can drive that free car then she can drive a taxi or a bus, lose the car or get a job. She can spend the petrol money on some wallpaper.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

I did LOL when she said she couldn't use the typewriter - probably because of your expensively manicured hands love!

alcazar

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But..........ever wondered why there are so many of these programmes/articles at present?

Could the poor be the next Tory target for hatred?

Surely not.......but it seems to be working.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

The idle, not the poor. Just happens that most idle people are poor.

Shaid

Yes, there are.

Too many to list, poor old lonely soles just hanging on until they die. Tis a sad state of affairs. Most people as such are very lonely with little support from family or friends (or even neighbours).

sprigeteer

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What I found really sad was the fact that he was so isolated within his immediate society. None of his neighbours were willing to help out and he seemed bereft of moral support. Poor old bugger.

mrmadcap

Did you all see at the end when old Merv paid tribute to the young lad and said that he was the most deserving and the reaction of that fat bitch!!!!!!

JackClark

Let's face it that woman was only disabled because she was fat. Bad back... fat, Diabetes... fat, plus any other nonsense she could trick her doctor into signing for. How do we react, we give her money for food for sitting on her fat **** and buy her a car for her fat ****. Take away the food and transport and she'll be back to good health in a year.

Leslie

I still remember the days when people would be ashamed to have to rely on benefits. They regarded it as an admission of failure.

Les

paulr

And single parents had to give up their children, gays had to stay in the closet, etc,etc. I know what you mean though Les.

mrmadcap

Did you ever find out who your mother was? and when did you come out of the closet?