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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The Great British Benefits Handout.........yesterday on  Channel 5 at 9PM.


Three long-term unemployed families living on benefits are given a cash lump sum of £26000 in return for signing off, to see if they have what it takes to improve their lives and escape the benefits trap.

An interesting experiment.........or complete waste of time and taxpayers money?

[Mr Gav]

Bullets are cheaper 

[STEMO]

Recorded it as wifey wanted to watch (un)happy valley.

I never realised there were so many nutters in Halifax.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Recorded it as wifey wanted to watch (un)happy valley.

I never realised there were so many nutters in Halifax.

I feel sure there are plenty of people on benefits who would rise to the challenge and 'make a go of it'

Unfortunately though, I get the feeling that  Channel 5 have picked some of the less able in society because it makes for better television.

[Bigron]

Was that £26,000 each, or split three ways?
Either way, it's just throwing good money after bad - what jobs will they be fit for and how much tax will they be able to pay to get us our money back?

Ron.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Was that £26,000 each, or split three ways?
Either way, it's just throwing good money after bad - what jobs will they be fit for and how much tax will they be able to pay to get us our money back?

Ron.

£26000 for each of the three families, Ron.

[aaronjb]

Did they blow it all on coke & crack and then succumb to an overdose?

[Bigron]

FH!
When will governments and councils realise that it isn't THEIR money that they are giving away/wasting, but OURS? Just like the fact that the roads don't belong to them, but us; they simply manage them (badly) on our behalf.....

Ron.

[STEMO]

£26000 equals the benefits cap, so it was a years money in advance. When it's gone, they will simply claim again.

[Varche]

I try not to watch programmes like that or Police camera inaction. Just makes your blood boil. Probably the reason they made it.

I have got to say that Britain is getting to be a terrible place what with all the murders in Shetland, Midsomer, Halifax and wherever Silent Witness is filmed.

[STEMO]

I'm watching it now. I'm sat on my fat arse with ginsters pasty and a large bottle of full fat Coke, waiting to see what the fat, lazy bastards get up to.

[STEMO]

I'm watching it now. I'm sat on my fat arse with ginsters pasty and a large bottle of full fat Coke, waiting to see what the fat, lazy bastards get up to.

Cancel the pasty....just had a glimpse of someone's shit-encrusted bog. Apparently it's damp in there so that must stop them from cleaning it.

[aaronjb]

I'm watching it now. I'm sat on my fat arse with ginsters pasty and a large bottle of full fat Coke, waiting to see what the fat, lazy bastards get up to.

Cancel the pasty....just had a glimpse of someone's shit-encrusted bog. Apparently it's damp in there so that must stop them from cleaning it.

 

[STEMO]

Can someone tell me........does every family that receives benefits live in a filthy hole, groom themselves with chip fat and have a distinct lack of teeth. Or is it just the ones channel 5 choose to show?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I do think  some of the 'guinea pigs' were missing the point of the exercise.

One  spent £300 treating the whole family to a meal. Another bought his son a£400 playstation.

How much is £26000 free of tax and national insurance really worth?