Benefit Street
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Barney2004
Vital 1st Team Regular
agreed mate. Needs a kicking.
James06
Vital Football Legend
Read his wiki page mate, it's hilarious.
He took two iraqi's prisoner, he bashed one of them over the head with a metal tray, but then felt guilty so made the iraqi hit him 4 times with it. Some of the things he's asked for when he's got hostages are mental. Once 'an inflatable doll, a helicopter and a cup of tea!!'
He also released a hostage when he felt guilty after farting in front of him!
He took two iraqi's prisoner, he bashed one of them over the head with a metal tray, but then felt guilty so made the iraqi hit him 4 times with it. Some of the things he's asked for when he's got hostages are mental. Once 'an inflatable doll, a helicopter and a cup of tea!!'
He also released a hostage when he felt guilty after farting in front of him!
gator
Vital Champions League
If you ever get the chance to see the programme about him it's like a film come documentary about him it's absolutely brilliant total nutcase but a hard one.Comes from a good family too him and his brother were made to wear dickie bows to school by his mother was hilarious.He once told Dave Courtney the cockney gangster (who Vinny Jones character in lock stock was based on)that he was going to bite a whole in his chest and suck the life out of him because he said he was a cocky bastard.Courtney said he shit himself and all he could whimper was please Michael don't lol.
Juan Mourep
Vital 1st Team Regular
Sentencing petty criminals to violent anal rape, are you a traffic warden? Public school boy? Or just a Catholic?
Bikini Inspector
Vital Football Hero
How was that 50p man running a car?
Socialism has a lot to answer for.
Socialism has a lot to answer for.
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Guest
Guest
They say they found these idiots at a job fare, it better not had been that job fair at Villa Park, if it was Lerner would need to go ASAP.
Clubpaver
Vital 1st Team Regular
Two guys who work at our place live in that street and they`re both decent fellas with jobs and families,so maybe the program makers exaggerate it slightly.I`ll ask the 2 guys when i see them.
I`ve dropped the one guy off a few times after work,but that was at 2/3 in the morning ,so i didn`t see any of the real goings on.
I`ve dropped the one guy off a few times after work,but that was at 2/3 in the morning ,so i didn`t see any of the real goings on.
kefkat
Vital Football Legend
Horrible program. Mr KK wanted to see it. I was messing around on the laptop whilst it was on. Mr KK said it was funny the way my nose curled in disgust everytime I looked at the TV.
Programs like these sensationalize and bring more stereo typing on people on welfare. Yes this does go on however not as much as people like to think. The Westminster and Media propaganda runs smoothly with programs like these. The average person thinks everyone is the same on benefits.
To give white Mom (without knowing whether she is definitively fiddling the system or not) her due when she said she was working and on benefits, she may have meant tax credits, as they are classed as benefits too.
People don't get that the circle of benefits is much smaller of the pie chart than they think of those on disability job seekers and so on. I have the pie chart saved. If I can find it I will post it up.
Of welfare 52% is state pensions with the rest being split with housing benefit, disability, job seekers, DLA, tax credits and other/s.
Alot more people on housing benefit than are actually on disability/jobseekers as many get the it as a top up of wages towards living expenses. Same as DLA alot don't realize DLA is NOT means tested and alot of people do work who are on it.
Back to the program as JF described them as low class: I will add also, without much understanding of life: For them to appear on a program like this and not to expect any repercussions is rather foolish or/and naive/below average intelligence.
As for the people who had 2 children who had been sanctioned who thought a stint in prison would be good, words fail me. What about their children?.. Mind you............................. make what you will of the ......................
Programs like these sensationalize and bring more stereo typing on people on welfare. Yes this does go on however not as much as people like to think. The Westminster and Media propaganda runs smoothly with programs like these. The average person thinks everyone is the same on benefits.
To give white Mom (without knowing whether she is definitively fiddling the system or not) her due when she said she was working and on benefits, she may have meant tax credits, as they are classed as benefits too.
People don't get that the circle of benefits is much smaller of the pie chart than they think of those on disability job seekers and so on. I have the pie chart saved. If I can find it I will post it up.
Of welfare 52% is state pensions with the rest being split with housing benefit, disability, job seekers, DLA, tax credits and other/s.
Alot more people on housing benefit than are actually on disability/jobseekers as many get the it as a top up of wages towards living expenses. Same as DLA alot don't realize DLA is NOT means tested and alot of people do work who are on it.
Back to the program as JF described them as low class: I will add also, without much understanding of life: For them to appear on a program like this and not to expect any repercussions is rather foolish or/and naive/below average intelligence.
As for the people who had 2 children who had been sanctioned who thought a stint in prison would be good, words fail me. What about their children?.. Mind you............................. make what you will of the ......................
kefkat
Vital Football Legend
Here's the link to the pie chart of how welfare is made up: Think it will surprise some of you
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=welfare+pie+chart+uk&rlz=1C1CHFX_enGB512GB512&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&source=iu&imgil=rWprweqdazBGBM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcQnDofqoMD_3-Jb2QTeUhazWod5CLeANDHhCBoSInP7WshqUCfp%253B911%253B661%253B0tloGS5Bf9XqVM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Flartsocial.org%25252Fmoney&sa=X&ei=6AvPUtOgNMme7Ab8-YHwAw&ved=0CDQQ9QEwAA&biw=1366&bih=599#facrc=_&imgrc=rWprweqdazBGBM%253A%3B0tloGS5Bf9XqVM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Flartsocial.org%252Fsites%252Fdefault%252Ffiles%252Ffield%252Fimage%252Fbenefitspend.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Flartsocial.org%252Fmoney%3B911%3B661
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=welfare+pie+chart+uk&rlz=1C1CHFX_enGB512GB512&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&source=iu&imgil=rWprweqdazBGBM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcQnDofqoMD_3-Jb2QTeUhazWod5CLeANDHhCBoSInP7WshqUCfp%253B911%253B661%253B0tloGS5Bf9XqVM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Flartsocial.org%25252Fmoney&sa=X&ei=6AvPUtOgNMme7Ab8-YHwAw&ved=0CDQQ9QEwAA&biw=1366&bih=599#facrc=_&imgrc=rWprweqdazBGBM%253A%3B0tloGS5Bf9XqVM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Flartsocial.org%252Fsites%252Fdefault%252Ffiles%252Ffield%252Fimage%252Fbenefitspend.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Flartsocial.org%252Fmoney%3B911%3B661
kefkat
Vital Football Legend
Two interesting article links below on Benefits street, I thought you may want to read
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/benefits-street-a-healthy-media-would-stand-up-to-the-powerful-and-wealthy-ours-targets-the-poor-and-voiceless-9046773.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536208/Truth-White-Dee-Channel-4s-Benefits-Street-stole-cash-poor-fund-lovers-crack-habit.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/benefits-street-a-healthy-media-would-stand-up-to-the-powerful-and-wealthy-ours-targets-the-poor-and-voiceless-9046773.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536208/Truth-White-Dee-Channel-4s-Benefits-Street-stole-cash-poor-fund-lovers-crack-habit.html
mike_field
Vital Football Legend
Not seen the programme but certainly seen some news it's created.
What scares me is film makes as they are now called, can still so openly distort a reality to suit their ends in the name of getting the programme sold, and also that human beings in the 24 hour news world we live in can be dumb enough to think you can enter into a programme like this and come out accurately and without looking like a bunch of twats?
All these years on has nobody realised TV and the media will spend 1 week building you up and then the next decade trying to tear you down in the most imaginable ways possible?
Is the craving for 15 minutes of fame that blinding?
And I know it's annoying, and I fall for it myself at points when you hear families bitching they have no money blah blah but have a 42+ screen in the background...if you step back for a second, you can get those TV's for 2-5 quid a week in catalogues but the impression is always, they had a grand to spunk on them.
We live in such a judgemental society now, it's not keeping up with the Jones' anymore, it's look down on the chavs...and I say bollocks to the freeloaders.
What scares me is film makes as they are now called, can still so openly distort a reality to suit their ends in the name of getting the programme sold, and also that human beings in the 24 hour news world we live in can be dumb enough to think you can enter into a programme like this and come out accurately and without looking like a bunch of twats?
All these years on has nobody realised TV and the media will spend 1 week building you up and then the next decade trying to tear you down in the most imaginable ways possible?
Is the craving for 15 minutes of fame that blinding?
And I know it's annoying, and I fall for it myself at points when you hear families bitching they have no money blah blah but have a 42+ screen in the background...if you step back for a second, you can get those TV's for 2-5 quid a week in catalogues but the impression is always, they had a grand to spunk on them.
We live in such a judgemental society now, it's not keeping up with the Jones' anymore, it's look down on the chavs...and I say bollocks to the freeloaders.
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Guest
Guest
Aye Mike did you see the news when they announced Sir Deadly was 90, they gave us his low down then had a dig at fans by saying they hounded Ellis out, talk about 1 sided bollocks.
