[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

You are not only one of the most intelligent and knowledgeable members on here Joey but one of the more rational.

Whenever we have held opposing views your posts remain balanced and your attitude civil.

I applaud the fact that you discern between someone stating facts gleaned from personal experience and someone merely attacking those genuine people who have to rely on benefits.

What others seem to miss, is the fact that the obese mother of 12 who wrongfully receives benefits of £900 per week I was referring to, and other fraudsters like her, are the very ones giving ammunition to the Anti-Benefits & Bash The Poor Brigades.

Without these scum the media would not be able to highlight such cases and influence public opinion that these cases are the norm.

Thank you Joey for accepting my posts in the manner in which they were intended.

Coming to what you say in your post; I cannot fault any of which you say.

I am shortly going to be posting my very last post on here Joey and starting a new thread to do so, before deleting my account, and I think you should find a lot of what I have to say in it very interesting and enlightening.

She isn't a fraudster though, the fact there is/are large families on benefits is not enough reason to demonise them in the media either.
By branding them scum you've shown that you subscribe to the model as portrayed in the right wing tabloids.
they are scapegoats, trawled out across the pages when there's something to cover up as it's a guaranteed headline grabber.