What will you be watching on TV tonight?

[Letters]

Also it's ridiculous that you can be better off on benefits than if you work

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

The bit about whether the woman bought a chicken was spurious but some of the gadgets raise eyebrows.

I'll catch that first part up then.

I wonder if this woman would work in any of these places herself. It's easy to pick a job for someone else. Notwithstanding that there hasn't been a place they've visited with an actual vacancy yet...

Also, the programme makers seem to have picked extremes. One the one hand a well-qualified young person doing good in society (but not paying income tax and therefore not important in the other peoples' eyes) and the obvious arsehole that applied for about 25 jobs in 4 months.

Surely another solution is to tax people less in the first place so people take home more of their pay [and presumably therefore pay them less in tax credits etc], instead of cutting benefits to such a level that you can only just live on.

[Letters]

To be fair to the programme they did point out that the vast majority of the welfare budgets is on pensions. I don't agree they've picked extremes. They all seem fairly typical families and none of them are Jeremy Kyle caricature chavs

[Xhaka Can’t]

The programme before it was better and more illuminating on the challenges faced by those on low incomes.

[Xhaka Can’t]

The bit about whether the woman bought a chicken was spurious but some of the gadgets raise eyebrows.

The guy with the gadgets wouldn't have been able to obtain them on the benefits he gets - he sponges off his family. He has no pride whatsoever and as long as his family do shit like pay half his mobile contract, he'll never move on.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Also it's ridiculous that you can be better off on benefits than if you work

Agreed, it is completely wrong, but the solution is so complex. The overhaul of the benefits system could really be a step in the right direction if it was aligned with employment policy that seeked to cut out (or reduce) corporate welfare by bringing in a living wage. The NMW was a step in the right direction - a massive step, but more needs to be done.

[Niall_Quinn]

The guy with the gadgets wouldn't have been able to obtain them on the benefits he gets - he sponges off his family. He has no pride whatsoever and as long as his family do shit like pay half his mobile contract, he'll never move on.

Got to be careful on the pride thing. Rich ****s use their media to push that line. If you don't go to work and hand over half your money to a bunch of spongers in parliament and the rest to a bunch of foreign thieves who run the utilities then you have no pride. If we all sat at home and refused to work the shit would just end. A week would be enough. People who support the system are just as big a problem as those who abuse it. The abusers are only copying their "betters" after all, like wanker bankers.

[Cripps_orig]

Peggy Mitchell is coming back this autumn

[Ollie the Optimist]

The bit about whether the woman bought a chicken was spurious but some of the gadgets raise eyebrows.

i watched that program, was quite an interesting one. some of the taxpayers were condescending little fuckers, but the one thing that really got me, was the family that went to a food bank because some months they couldnt afford food at all yet it was shown they had sky. piroities eh?

[The Wengerbabies]

Also it's ridiculous that you can be better off on benefits than if you work