OT-Benefit Britain, life on the Dole

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I think C5 come out of this very badly.

All the people featured displayed openness and trust in their dealings to camera, yet the snide two faced production team stitched them up, making them appear ridiculous and moronic.

Some people don't have the life experience or defence techniques to deal with these turds unfortunately.

C5 guilty of the worst type of opportunism and cynical exploitation of trusting people.

There are people like this in most UK towns- no need for anyone to get over anxious about how Hull was portrayed.
 
Stuart Blampey said:
I think C5 come out of this very badly.

All the people featured displayed openness and trust in their dealings to camera, yet the snide two faced production team stitched them up, making them appear ridiculous and moronic.

Some people don't have the life experience or defence techniques to deal with these turds unfortunately.

C5 guilty of the worst type of opportunism and cynical exploitation of trusting people.

There are people like this in most UK towns- no need for anyone to get over anxious about how Hull was portrayed.
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Yet you're the one who loves to highlight anything negative about other places. Its ****s like you these programmes are made for.
 
It must be hard for a lot of people in Hull when unemployment is so high...think us older ones on here had it easy because there was.a time when you could walk out of one job and find another the same day

I'm glad I'm not leaving school nowadays with no qualifications like I did when I was 15.

C5 are taking the piss out of those stupid enough to go on the programme.
 
It didn't really give the city a bad reputation, focused on them few people which could be found in any city.
Nice to see a happy ending for a few of them aswell.


I hope I don't finish Uni and end up like that couple though, I wish I was born a few years earlier when finding work was easier!
 
The problem with dogshit tv like this is that they're not obliged to put a disclaimer at the beginning of the programme to state that the program has no journalistic content whatsoever.
 
Patches O'Houlihan said:
That Mark lad has a 2:1 in History and he can't find work, Channel 5's response is to take the piss out of him.
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If a graduate can't get a job in four years he's either applying for the wrong jobs or has something unemployable about him.

Yes the job market is tough but if you really want a job you can get one (especially a graduate), it might not be the job you want or pay as much as you would like but there is work out there if your willing to do it.
 
Hull always suffers with the statistics because of how our boundary is used to get these figures - in most cities they will include surrounding villages n suburbs to raise averages - in hull this isn't the case
 
I'm not watching it, but my Facebook news feed is full of people making ill informed comments. Who ironically claim benefits or have claimed benefits

It's Propaganda at it's worse.

Target the poor and cover the rich.

It's no coincidence that these types of shows are aired on government funded TV channels.

It's really depressing for me because I could be one of them if work carries on the way it is for me.

The problem isn't the bottom, it's the top of the food chain
 
Duffens_Briefs said:
I haven't watched Five since they took off late night smut.
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Enjoyed a few Red Shoe Diaries did you?

I think Benefit Street was such a farce and clearly exaggerated benefit claimants general scuzziness, it undermined any future documentaries of a similar nature. The fact this is on C5 makes it even less credible.

Anyone with half a brain cell can see this is sensationalist clap trap.
 
I'd like to be violent toward the **** of a narrator.

All of it was utterly snide and even if it wasn't, use of the term 'project baby' (on repeat) is alone worthy of corporal retaliation.
 
Leon T Trout AFC said:
I'd like to be violent toward the **** of a narrator.

All of it was utterly snide and even if it wasn't, use of the term 'project baby' (on repeat) is alone worthy of corporal retaliation.
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The vast majority of the very small viewing public of this programme will already have moved on and forgotten this mean-spirited and unpleasant televisual trash.
 
Stuart Blampey said:
I think C5 come out of this very badly.

All the people featured displayed openness and trust in their dealings to camera, yet the snide two faced production team stitched them up, making them appear ridiculous and moronic.

Some people don't have the life experience or defence techniques to deal with these turds unfortunately.

C5 guilty of the worst type of opportunism and cynical exploitation of trusting people.

There are people like this in most UK towns- no need for anyone to get over anxious about how Hull was portrayed.
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You're barking or completely deluded if you think the Nation shared that view.

Those exploiting the system that's created the ridiculous sense of entitlement that these people treat as 'normal' was the only real issue on show here
 
Tobes said:
You're barking or completely deluded if you think the Nation shared that view.

Those exploiting the system that's created the ridiculous sense of entitlement that these people treat as 'normal' was the only real issue on show here
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Pipe down Tobes.

Take some time to reflect on the tone of the narrative, the incidental mocking music, the jeering spirit of the visuals.

Maybe it's not as simple as you perceive it.....
 
HCAFC (Airlie Tiger) said:
If a graduate can't get a job in four years he's either applying for the wrong jobs or has something unemployable about him.

Yes the job market is tough but if you really want a job you can get one (especially a graduate), it might not be the job you want or pay as much as you would like but there is work out there if your willing to do it.
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Believe it or not, there will be people out there unwilling to employ him because he'll be seen as over qualified!
 
Stuart Blampey said:
Pipe down Tobes.

Take some time to reflect on the tone of the narrative, the incidental mocking music, the jeering spirit of the visuals.

Maybe it's not as simple as you perceive it.....
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Some of the photography and the way the area was portrayed in general was probably unfair on the City in general, but that doesn't alter the narrative itself.

A 42 year old racist f**king moron who was dropping £450 a week to pay for his feckless reproduction despite never having lifted a finger in his entire sorry existence, and living a comfortable lifestyle complete with car, plasma etc etc. Who's offspring had seemingly inherited his feckless outlook by choosing to reproduce without a thought to who was going to pay and whether it was morally the right call to make.....
 
Mr. Hat said:
Believe it or not, there will be people out there unwilling to employ him because he'll be seen as over qualified!
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When I was at college I enrolled on a employability course there was this guy who some great experience and great qualifications, but seriously couldn't get a job.

They helped him tailor his covering letter and CV in a way he wasn't over qualified for the roles he was applying for.

I think he got a job within three weeks.

You now really have tailor CV's and covering letters.
 
Tobes said:
Some of the photography and the way the area was portrayed in general was probably unfair on the City in general, but that doesn't alter the narrative itself.

A 42 year old racist f**king moron who was dropping £450 a week to pay for his feckless reproduction despite never having lifted a finger in his entire sorry existence, and living a comfortable lifestyle complete with car, plasma etc etc. Who's offspring had seemingly inherited his feckless outlook by choosing to reproduce without a thought to who was going to pay and whether it was morally the right call to make.....
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You mean you were unaware there were people like that in this country?

It must have been a revelation for you.
 
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