BENEFITS AND VERY STRANGE FRIEND!!

I better not make any comment on this subject.

Celegram
Goose

You sound like lovely people, salt of the earth and anyone would cherish you as a friend but you know sometimes we have to let people who treat others so badly leave our lives.

BENIFIT SYSTEM!!Excuse the capitals I'm seething I've just read of a man???who is on benefits who can afford to spend £2500 on a t.v. even if I had the money I wouldn't waste it like that.It should be the same as it is in Spain you only get out what you put in.This is one of the reasons I left the uk,(note small caps,) it would appear that the bigger waste of space you are the more money the state will throw at you.To think i worked for 50 yrs and paid taxes to support such scum really p___s me off. Rant over///Tomorrow the sun will shine i'll go to my favourite bar a couple of glasses of vino tinto (which I couldn't afford to buy in the uk) unless I was on benefits !!and all will be well with the world.

tammy

But surely this case was in the papers because it was exceptional, not because that is how all benefits claimants live. Many have been made homeless because of the bedroom tax. Lost jobs because it is impossible to get to work from the temporary accommodation they are now living in.

The fact of the matter is that in every walk of life and at every level of society there are those who, given the opportunity, will cheat, lie and defraud to get money they are not entitled to. It is just that the further up the greedy pole you go the more opportunities there are and the more lucrative they are.

Tammy - I found the bile in your post really distressing. Scum is pretty strong language !

I think he felt very strongly about it and needed to vent his feelings. Just an observation, not pseudo psycho babble.

Yes Aka I think I'd worked out he felt strongly about it - but the language used was a bit OTT and a slating of the whole benefit system. As Flick said, this is an exceptional case - three was a case recently of a dentist who cheated the NHS out of over £1 m but that wouldn't be a reason for damning the NHS dentistry system.

Perish the thought! But how can 'three' be exceptional?

Depends on your base figure AKA - 3 out of 4 wouldn't be but 3 out of hundreds of thousands would be

the character in question in in the Channel 4 programme 'Skint' which I haven't seen and have no great desire to see. Apparently the 3D TV is being paid for in instalments, so it's not as if they're paying for it all in on lump sum. The article in the Mail is full of the most outrageous emotive language - but one expects that. And no, I'm not condoning the spending of money on a TV which would be better spent on nutritious food for this large family, but frankly it's none of my business.

So there'll be no playing to the camera then?

Perish the thought, bluebell!