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Originally Posted by chriskay
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Its a must watch the whole street is unemployed.Give us a feedback on your veiws,

I'm sure there was enough distortion in the programme without you adding to it: the whole street is NOT unemployed.
whatever haha.

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Originally Posted by casper
doesn't reflect the behaviour of the majority on benefits

I agree, of course it doesn't, but aren't working taxpayers entitled to feel aggrieved when they see where some of their taxes are going, and who do you think ends up paying for the £200 worth of stolen clothing which we saw?
I just hope that when the police see this programme that the person concerned will be arrested.


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I am curious now about this program, i must watch it later

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I have no intention of wasting my time watching lies lies and more lies.Employment support allowance is about £68 a week. OK there is housing benefit on top but how can a single person pay heat light food water etc out of £68.If these poor people are smoking etc they must be cutting back on food at the detriment to their health.If you are stuck in sh.... creak it must be difficult not to have some simple pleasure such as a cigarette.
From what I have read this program is setting out to discredit people who are at their lowest ebb.The people who have taken part will have been set up. disgusting television.

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It's very clever programming, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the government weren't funding the show at some level. How better to make the masses believe that all benefit claimants are like this ?

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Originally Posted by Madge_the_Queen
It's very clever programming, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the government weren't funding the show at some level. How better to make the masses believe that all benefit claimants are like this ?


That's just paranoia.


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Suffice to say that programmes of this type are carefully edited to provoke the most reaction from the watching auidence.

Very much like the freak shows in Victorian England.

Who would watch a series about the people in the street who just watch TV and do a little gardening as their daily ritual or work in Superdrug?

That is why it is edited for maximum outrage.

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Originally Posted by casper
The trouble with these sort of fly on the wall programmes is as you say selective, usually extremes be it either rich or poor, they never seem to show what I would class as ordinary families, dad either goes out to work as a solicitor, or dad is unemployed what about dad the car worker or mum the shop assistant those on medium to low wages, these are no doubt the type of working families struggling the most, its usually all about sensationalism, and again stigmatises the benefit claimant many of whom are unemployed through no fault of their own, because they are portrayed as feckless layabouts by certain parts of the media.


withthat Apologies for the delayed response, well said casper clap

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Apologies.

Didn't consider it an insult.

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