I am incandescant with rage!

It's bound to happen.

yes petallus the programme showed a family getting on the coach in their village to travel to Britain with the express intention of getting a house and claiming benefits.

How do you defend the indefensible? As Diane Abbot once said.

I haven't seen the program but are we talking about immigrants claiming benefits and social housing?

We watched it last night almost wished we hadn't really. Agree absolutely with Henetha's post no more to say than that.

Ditto all the above. I think back to the time when we had two small children. Low wages, pitiful family allowance, strikes, inflation. You just got on with it and work hard to provide for your kids and pay the mortgage.

Why should people who have contributed nothing and have no intentions of ever doing so get so much?

I'm incandescant right there with you, Phoenix. It's outraegeous and blatantly so unfair. We seem to be penalised for being born here, hard working all our lives, honest, paid our dues for donkey's years, and yet have to scrape along on the minimum income considered necessary to live on .

I have every sympathy with those who fall on hard times and need a helping hand to get back on their feet Phoenix. What the 'bleeding heart brigade' can't, or won't, see is that there are those who are deliberately taking benefits out of the system that ought to be available for those in genuine need.

I don't blame you for being incandescent.

Yes. Although any minute now we'll have calls for 'compassion' for these people.

We watched it too. Both of us speechless for once.

David Cameron has been trying his hardest to protect Britain from the effects of the enlargement of the EC. And he only gets slated for it.

Im watching it too and it makes me mad to think they are so blatant in getting money for nothing and still the government lets them in. No disrespect but I think there has to be a limit to the numbers coming in and they should all have good qualifications.
when I think how I work for minimum wage and they sit on their backsides. I get really annoyed

You should see the overpayment case I'm dealing with tomorrow!