... and the dolers are up in arms about it !

90 per cent of residents living in the 137-house street claim one or more benefits ranging from £500-£900 a month in free hand-outs.

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The pair, both 23, who pick up £750-a-month in child tax credits, child benefits and job seekers allowance, say they have been disowned by their family because of the show.

They live with their two-year-old daughter Casey and son Callum, four.

Ms Howe said: 'They've just tried to make us look like slums. Everyone on the street is fuming about it.

'Our faces are everywhere. Half of my family and friends have already disowned me because of it - I've had to take them off Facebook. Some want me to change my name on Deed Poll.

'We might be on benefits but everyone has got to start somewhere. When people have said nasty things on Facebook, I've just said "Well how were you brought up?"

'We're going to be put in the same group as all benefit claimers.

'There's been so much recently about people being on benefits and we don't want to be caught up in all that.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534110...ative-stitch-up.html

We only get £380.

What about MPs who rape the public purse on expenses and Nadine is vile.

Don't they count ITK ?

nice to know all that taxpayer money is fed straight back into the system, keeps it ticking over and lots of people employed.

How about MPs get the minimum wage Hedda ?

Winston Green,Brummagem town.
Famous for its prison,and being full of immigrants!
Typical of the BBC to paint benefit lifestyle as white,in an area predominantly of foreign ethnic origin.

Pattaya wrote:
Typical of the BBC to paint benefit lifestyle as white,in an area predominantly of foreign ethnic origin.

Its Channel 4 Pat - not BBC !

Homeless people can only be white people who are on crack and alcoholics on the BBC.

well, if that programme doesn't win the Tories the next election, nothing will !!!!!

They should run it nightly, as a Party Political Broadcast in the run-up to the election !

In The Know wrote:
Pattaya wrote:
Typical of the BBC to paint benefit lifestyle as white,in an area predominantly of foreign ethnic origin.

Its Channel 4 Pat - not BBC !

4 got

I refuse to have a TV in either of my English homes ITK,boredom is not on my agenda.

It's TV ITK, 30% non fiction 70% fact.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/benefits-s...-documentary-2994242

Channel 4 has changed since the Thatcher era.

Now let's get it back as it was in the 90's a Euro porno channel.

Pattaya wrote:
I refuse to have a TV in either of my English homes ITK,

Two homes eh?

I feel a new tax coming on !
Spare House Tax has a ring to it, don't you think?

I'll mention it to Mr Silliband !

Pattaya wrote:
I refuse to have a TV in either of my English homes ITK

You should have seen it, Pat - unbelieveable !

I counted at least three sofas abandoned on the street (plus a fridge in the background). Litter everywhere.

The gardens hadn't been done for years (you'd think with ALL that time on their hands the dolers would want something to do !)

None of the men had shaved (or washed probably), and looked as if they had been wearing the same clothes for years.

One couple admitted being caught fiddling £1500 a month and had had all their benefit stopped (except for a small allowance for the children).

Of course they ALL knew the local drug dealers !

Naturally not one person actually did anything to try and get a job (except for one nice black guy who was quite entreprenureal and went door-to-door selling 50p cups of coffee / washing up liquid etc). I bet someone offers him a job - he was the only one worth bothering with.

Not a pony in sight !

Ha ha ha ......see a big assumption it was the BBC !

and the BBC sometimes wonders why its underfire from all angles......

In The Know wrote:
Pattaya wrote:
I refuse to have a TV in either of my English homes ITK

You should have seen it, Pat - unbelieveable !

I counted at least three sofas abandoned on the street (plus a fridge in the background). Litter everywhere.

The gardens hadn't been done for years (you'd think with ALL that time on their hands the dolers would want something to do !)

None of the men had shaved (or washed probably), and looked as if they had been wearing the same clothes for years.

One couple admitted being caught fiddling £1500 a month and had had all their benefit stopped (except for a small allowance for the children).

Of course they ALL knew the local drug dealers !

Naturally not one person actually did anything to try and get a job (except for one nice black guy who was quite entreprenureal and went door-to-door selling 50p cups of coffee / washing up liquid etc). I bet someone offers him a job - he was the only one worth bothering with.

Not a pony in sight !

How much do you think is real and made for TV ?

I know the local dealers, I'm on the dole, I don't smoke weed or snort coke or speed. When your dole buying clothes is expensive, depending where you live there might only be a Next which atrocious in prices. I get my clothes online works out cheaper, I got 5 IPL cricket shirts they were £2 due to very small factory defects, normally RRP is about £15.

In The Know wrote:
Pattaya wrote:
I refuse to have a TV in either of my English homes ITK,

Two homes eh?

I feel a new tax coming on !
Spare House Tax has a ring to it, don't you think?

I'll mention it to Mr Silliband !

Wonder what 'Ballilocks' will make of it?

I knew some good would come out of it !

Benefits Street : Police To Probe 'Criminality'

Residents on the show claim they have received death threats

news.sky.com/story/1191494/benefits-stre...to-probe-criminality

Channel 4’s website says: ‘If you have been affected by issues in the show, 4Viewers has help and support information’.

Does that include counselling for foul language induced trauma? Or a misplaced jealousy of vulnerable people living off benefits? Or wounded pride in Britain’s Second City being reduced to this sad level?

Or anyone now being cursed with the name James Turner?

The street could be really nice, with houses so well set back that viewers in Kings Heath and Harborne would be envious of the space.

Except, like so many other inner city thoroughfares, it’s a litter-strewn mess.

In that respect, people can work all day long, claim as many benefits as they want and/or complain about the way they are being portrayed on national TV.

But if they are prepared to live with basic litter, where is the self respect that elicits any sympathy?

www.birminghammail.co.uk/lifestyle/showb...eet---graham-6474038

ITK you do watch crap on TV.

In The Know wrote:
Channel 4’s website says: ‘If you have been affected by issues in the show, 4Viewers has help and support information’.

Does that include counselling for foul language induced trauma? Or a misplaced jealousy of vulnerable people living off benefits? Or wounded pride in Britain’s Second City being reduced to this sad level?

Or anyone now being cursed with the name James Turner?

The street could be really nice, with houses so well set back that viewers in Kings Heath and Harborne would be envious of the space.

Except, like so many other inner city thoroughfares, it’s a litter-strewn mess.

In that respect, people can work all day long, claim as many benefits as they want and/or complain about the way they are being portrayed on national TV.

But if they are prepared to live with basic litter, where is the self respect that elicits any sympathy?

www.birminghammail.co.uk/lifestyle/showb...eet---graham-6474038

It is like an entirely different world isn't it? They all seemed to boast about their crimes, and thought it was normal,and then "White Dee" said "if someone offers you a hundred quid pair of jeans for a tenner you're not going to say no, are you?"
I dont want to encourage stealing, but I couldn't help hoping that someone offers her a decentknockoff bra!