[Cherie]

....anyone else watching?

[Smithy]

Watched the first 20 minutes but it was ****, swapped to educating Cardiff

[Pete.]

I'm guessing this is on Channel 5

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Watched the first 20 minutes but it was ****, swapped to educating Cardiff

You did the right thing,

Originally Posted by Petemitch

I'm guessing this is on Channel 5

Sure is, Matt Johnson signing the death knell to his career it's hide behind the sofa stuff

[Kizzy]

I thought they were a lovely couple.

[smudgie]

Utter twaddle.
Matt was awful and I love him.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I thought they were a lovely couple.

The couple were fine although why they agreed to do this is anyone's guess, it's Matt Johnsons narration and him banging on about benefits and her dead parents every five minutes

[Livia]

Should unemployed people be given enough in benefits to pay for a wedding? No.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Livia

Should unemployed people be given enough in benefits to pay for a wedding? No.

They took out a loan to pay for it, he has rheumatoid arthritis and is unable to hold a screwdriver so had to pack in his job 8years ago, though he manages to go fishing there is no work in wales for the wife apparently

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Cherie

They took out a loan to pay for it, he has rheumatoid arthritis and is unable to hold a screwdriver so had to pack in his job 8years ago, though he manages to go fishing there is no work in wales for the wife apparently

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

[Cherie]

[Alf]

I said on here after the election in May that channel 4 and 5 would put on programs about benifits every night, it's now nearly September and it's still going on.

Pure propaganda to turn people against innocent people that don't stand a chance in life.

I'd rather see a program of how Ian Duncan Smith spends Ł29 a day of tax payers money on his breakfast alone. A story that ran for a day and then was dropped.

[billy123]

Here is the schedule for C5 last night.

[Josy]

I never watched no but saw a few of the adverts for it, it said in one of them total benefits per year (for both I imagine?) Ł9000, that's not that much compared to what some are claiming is it? and if they took out a loan to pay for the wedding then it wasn't really a benefits wedding at all was it?

[armand.kay]

Yay another benefit show...

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by bobnot

Here is the schedule for C5 last night.

I hope Kirk had a bottle of lube handy, that's a long evening.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Josy

I never watched no but saw a few of the adverts for it, it said in one of them total benefits per year (for both I imagine?) Ł9000, that's not that much compared to what some are claiming is it? and if they took out a loan to pay for the wedding then it wasn't really a benefits wedding at all was it?

Yes but they are on benefits. How DARE they fall in love or get married?? How exactly did they have time to meet or have a relationship? They should have been too busy, out looking for jobs.

Feckless lazy tax payers money the system immigrants hardworking contribute nothing handouts scam idle! And other associated buzzwords! I would know, I lived in a flat above 8 dozen of them for 12 years.

[Amy Jade]

I saw bits and they are theives in my opinion, he claims to be in too much pain it hold a tool such as a screwdriver or hammer but his 'hobby' is fishing? how is he able to fiddle about with that but unable to turn a screw?

and her excuse was worse 'there are no jobs in Wales' **** right off, I have two jobs at 17, one in a local farm shop and another waiting tables in a resturant - if I can walk into those jobs I'm sure she could clean or even sit behind a till

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Yes but they are on benefits. How DARE they fall in love or get married?? How exactly did they have time to meet or have a relationship? They should have been too busy, out looking for jobs.

Feckless lazy tax payers money the system immigrants hardworking contribute nothing handouts scam idle! And other associated buzzwords! I would know, I lived in a flat above 8 dozen of them for 12 years.

No body is saying that at all, the unfortunate thing for many people on benefits is that these programmes seem to weed out the "stereotype", this couple spent 30 quid on hiring a sunbed for a month, Im not sure that is a great use of taxpayers money and they should have had the brains to shut up about it as it's the sort of thing that gets people backs up when they are struggling to pay the gas bill, and why do the programme in the first place, they did it because they got a free honeymoon!

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Amy Jade

I saw bits and they are theives in my opinion, he claims to be in too much pain it hold a tool such as a screwdriver or hammer but his 'hobby' is fishing? how is he able to fiddle about with that but unable to turn a screw?

and her excuse was worse 'there are no jobs in Wales' **** right off, I have two jobs at 17, one in a local farm shop and another waiting tables in a resturant - if I can walk into those jobs I'm sure she could clean or even sit behind a till

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Cherie

No body is saying that at all, the unfortunate thing for many people on benefits is that these programmes seem to weed out the "stereotype", this couple spent 30 quid on hiring a sunbed for a month, Im not sure that is a great use of taxpayers money and they should have had the brains to shut up about it as it's the sort of thing that gets people backs up when they are struggling to pay the gas bill, and why do the programme in the first place, they did it because they got a free honeymoon!

[billy123]

It is designed to make working class people feel better about their lives even though they are a lot worse off than they have been for a long long time.
Giving them a section of society to look down on makes them feel relatively superior even though it isnt a true reflection of the world.
The sad thing is that so many are willing to put the blinkers on and lap it up like good little citizens.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Cherie

No body is saying that at all, the unfortunate thing for many people on benefits is that these programmes seem to weed out the "stereotype", this couple spent 30 quid on hiring a sunbed for a month, Im not sure that is a great use of taxpayers money and they should have had the brains to shut up about it as it's the sort of thing that gets people backs up when they are struggling to pay the gas bill, and why do the programme in the first place, they did it because they got a free honeymoon!

Yes, they weed out the stereotypes, a miniscule minority, and the effect is the demonisation of all people stuck on benefits and a public mindset that wants to cut all benefits and persecute everyone on them.

It's trash telly at it's absolute worst, and a trash mindset.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by bobnot

It is designed to make working class people feel better about their lives even though they are a lot worse off than they have been for a long long time.
Giving them a section of society to look down on makes them feel relatively superior even though it isnt a true reflection of the world.
The sad thing is that so many are willing to put the blinkers on and lap it up like good little citizens.

Exactly. Working class pride. An effort to make people feel proud and superior just because "they go out to work", even if it's for peanuts. Keeps people quiet.