Reply to: Tv Assault on the Benefits Culture

[AtW]

If you mean a fit bird with no morals who'll f**k anything? Then that's already here. She's married to Ryan Giggs' brother.

[MarillionFan]

In the 50's they predicted a future where we'd have far more leisure time as robots would do all our work, it would have worked too if those pesky mega corps decided to benefit mankind rather than just hoover up the worlds wealth and keep it for themselves.

They also predicted flying cars and wives like Barbarella.

If you mean a fit bird with no morals who'll f**k anything? Then that's already here. She's married to Ryan Giggs' brother.

[gingerjedi]

Because machines can do that far cheaper and more efficiently.

Been saying it for years - Where these guys are now, practically everyone will be in 50 years.

It's the biggest looming problem, or opportunity depending on your viewpoint, but nobody seems to believe it let alone discuss it.

In the 50's they predicted a future where we'd have far more leisure time as robots would do all our work, it would have worked too if those pesky mega corps decided to benefit mankind rather than just hoover up the worlds wealth and keep it for themselves.

They also predicted flying cars and wives like Barbarella.

[Spacecadet]

As if by magic:
BBC News - Minister denies fuelling tabloid attacks on 'workshy'

[Churchill]

Because machines can do that far cheaper and more efficiently.

Been saying it for years - Where these guys are now, practically everyone will be in 50 years.

It's the biggest looming problem, or opportunity depending on your viewpoint, but nobody seems to believe it let alone discuss it.

You are Karl Marx and I claim my five capitalist pounds.

He can't be, he didn't mention "Proletariat" or "Petit bourgeois" once.

[mudskipper]

Because machines can do that far cheaper and more efficiently.

Been saying it for years - Where these guys are now, practically everyone will be in 50 years.

It's the biggest looming problem, or opportunity depending on your viewpoint, but nobody seems to believe it let alone discuss it.

You are Karl Marx and I claim my five capitalist pounds.

[OwlHoot]

Why can't they give them generous benefits but also a bone breaking job like night shift at a local quarry.

Because machines can do that far cheaper and more efficiently.

Been saying it for years - Where these guys are now, practically everyone will be in 50 years.

It's the biggest looming problem, or opportunity depending on your viewpoint, but nobody seems to believe it let alone discuss it.

[vetran]

My favourite is:

Its a safety net not a hammock.

Watched a little bit of the cute kids wanting to be rich so they could afford a 'decent life' didn't see any of them talking about how they would get it honestly or through hard work. Strangely all their wallpaper was ripped off the wall, paint is fairly cheap so why did they have to live in squalor?

Fairy Jobmother showed how with a little bit of help the disillusioned unemployed can be helped in the right direction. The scouser needed help but more from mental health than a career adviser. He did find a job in the end though, partially I think because someone believed in him.

Friend of mine was out of work for nearly a year because he couldn't find a job that meant he was better off than on benefits. He is back in work and really happy again but for a while it was a bit depressing for him.

[BlasterBates]

Why can't they give them generous benefits but also a bone breaking job like night shift at a local quarry.

[gingerjedi]

I watched some of that Poor Kids last night....it was heartbreaking

WSS^

The thing that struck me most was the fact that people who don't work don't seem to have the time to clean their homes either.

Apparently the poverty line for a parent with 2 kids is £1000 a month after housing costs. I can see why people don’t want to work, a single parent on an average wage of say £25k would still need significant benefits to take them above that.

This country is screwed.

[Fred Bloggs]

After 6 months, all benefit should cease and food stamps should be given. End of.

[MarillionFan]

The only one who seemed to just need direction was the ginger bird

The younger guy had lost his mother when he was training for the police
The single(?) mother had stopped work to look after her kid (which is fair enough) but was going to be caught by the new rules effecting parents and benefits

But the older fella! I just wanted to knock his teeth out.

'I'm not doing this, I'm not doing that,I'm a scouser, I get to choose what I do, why don't they put taxes up if there's not enough money'

He was like the fella from Royale Family(which is obviously why he was chosen)

[Spacecadet]

Apart from the older guy, I don't think they were. They just hadn't had anyone to point them in the right direction.

The only one who seemed to just need direction was the ginger bird

The younger guy had lost his mother when he was training for the police
The single(?) mother had stopped work to look after her kid (which is fair enough) but was going to be caught by the new rules effecting parents and benefits

[pacharan]

I watched the Fairy Job Mother - I noticed that at least 2 of the unemployed had a bit of sob story to stop the viewer dismissing them as workshy whinging scousers.

Apart from the older guy, I don't think they were. They just hadn't had anyone to point them in the right direction.

[Spacecadet]

There was The Fairy JobMother last night, Poor Kids and another one I caught.

Do the panel think there has been a step change in the media to now completely villify the unemployed and is it politically biased?

I watched the Fairy Job Mother - I noticed that at least 2 of the unemployed had a bit of sob story to stop the viewer dismissing them as workshy whinging scousers.