lickthelid
Lives here....
I'm interested in this issue. Like most of us I had opinions on the benefits "culture" in the UK and spent most of the first episode of this shouting at the TV. However as the series progressed I started to feel ashamed of our country's policies that both encourage a mentality where people see themselves as better off out or work and also effectively works to keep many people who want to work unemployed for fear of actually losing money. The debates that have followed have generally followed one of two threads:
1- that channel 4 spent 18 months filming the entire street yet Cherry picked those likely to provide the "best" talking points and that in doing so grossly misrepresented the vast majority of those living on James Turner st
2- that the show actually highlights the true problems associated with a life on benefits but that actually the majority of those claiming benefits do so correctly and the majority of those being because they are actually retired rather than unemployed.
Clearly this is a divisive issue and I'd be interested to hear everyone's opinions on the show or the argument it has raised both in and out of parliament. Does our benefits system need over hauling?
1- that channel 4 spent 18 months filming the entire street yet Cherry picked those likely to provide the "best" talking points and that in doing so grossly misrepresented the vast majority of those living on James Turner st
2- that the show actually highlights the true problems associated with a life on benefits but that actually the majority of those claiming benefits do so correctly and the majority of those being because they are actually retired rather than unemployed.
Clearly this is a divisive issue and I'd be interested to hear everyone's opinions on the show or the argument it has raised both in and out of parliament. Does our benefits system need over hauling?