Complaining even before the programme airs!

5th baby at 21 she must have been barely over the age of consent and had one a year ever since. Ruddy madness!!

I must say that I ended up NOT watching it, for more or less the same reasons that loopy said in her post ^up there.

Perhaps that gives me even less right to post about it.

However, we did have to spend some time on JSA, and believe me, if you have got off your derriere and bought a house (albeit on an interest only mortgage) the amount of benefits/handouts/or other help you can get is zilch, zero nothing. If we had been renting, we could have claimed for help with that.

absent m'dear, you are right of course, sadly.

Well, they aren't going to make a tv programme about non-smoking, non-drinking, law-abiding unemployed people carefully budgeting their meagre allowance, making sacrifices for the sake of their children's well-being and assiduously seeking whatever kind of work they can get are they?

I do wish they would stop making these programmes, but failing that, I suppose we shouldn't watch them.I know a lot of these people are living a scroungers life but I can't help thinking also what a rotten life some of them lead, they seem such hopeless cases.I also think they put on an element of bravado for the cameras.

It's the children I feel sorry for....
They don't stand much of a chance in life.......l.

Are they strict catholics, perhaps?

I doubt it.

I daren't watch it, would end up throwing something at the TV.
I still fail to understand how, having lost my job through restructuring, I am ineligible for Jobseekers despite having worked for the past 42 year, yet there are umpteen freeloaders who've never worked in their lives....... And no, I don't have any savings, pensions etc

This programme is a repeat from last Monday. I didn't realise that this was her 5th baby. God only knows who is looking after the other four.They were dossing down with some other young man and a pet rabbit in his flat whilst they waited for the council to allocate her a flat because of her condition. They spent most of their time shoplifting. I felt sorry for the rabbit and was horrified at the thought of a young baby living there.

Well, they have to keep themselves busy somehow phoenix

However, it never ceases to amaze me how many people are on benefits - including disability benefits, often for a 'bad back' - and have one child after another.
When DH or I have had a bad back we ..... oh well, you know what I mean!