[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Jack_

I'm really quite sick of stories like this appearing in red top tabloids and other trashy papers which give those who are welfare dependant a collective bad name. The demonisation of this group of people is really quite appalling, cases like this are few and far between and are vastly exaggerated and it's awful that they're used as means to target often the most vulnerable and needy people in society.

I do feel her case is as you say an exception and I do think it is wrong she can get so much.

I also though totally agree with you, being the exception as she and this case is, it is completely out of order for most benefit claimants to end up being demonised as scroungers when the media set out to present this case as a likely norm or at least more widespread in the system.

I think it totally wrong to allow those on benefits to be demonised by the media and also that the Govt permits that demonisation to go on even fuelling such demonisation of them at times too.
Really good point you made.