Benefit Street on Channel 4

[BoyBlue_1985]

I remember when Channel 4 first broadcast a comedy drama set in a scumbag estate in Manchester, complete with benefit fraud, drugs, thieving and violence. People were all commenting on how realistic it was and it ran for several series.

Channel 4 broadcast a programme with actual footage of benefit fraud, drugs, thieving and violence and it's not really how it is and they are demonising the poor.

Maybe a few really astute folks have the remarkable ability to differentiate between fiction and real life.
It's not that difficult, once you get the hang of it, which is why I stopped myself sending a floral tribute to Roy Cropper this very morning.

Is Jamie Oliver real or fiction?

Well thats a hard call. I mean can anyone be that annoying all the time

 

[BlueHammer85]

I remember when Channel 4 first broadcast a comedy drama set in a scumbag estate in Manchester, complete with benefit fraud, drugs, thieving and violence. People were all commenting on how realistic it was and it ran for several series.

Channel 4 broadcast a programme with actual footage of benefit fraud, drugs, thieving and violence and it's not really how it is and they are demonising the poor.

Maybe a few really astute folks have the remarkable ability to differentiate between fiction and real life.
It's not that difficult, once you get the hang of it, which is why I stopped myself sending a floral tribute to Roy Cropper this very morning.

Your a heartless soul Nijinsky

i laid my wreath this morning outside the rovers return

 

[mancityvstoke]

who's died?

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

who's died?

Hayley Cropper, God rest his or her soul - the People's Transsexual.

 

[Blue Hefner]

Watching it now.

Never mind being unemployed, on benefits or being a multi-millionaire. There is no excuse for having a house that untidy or having a child with dirty feet(indoors!)

 

[Pigeonho]

Watching it now.

Never mind being unemployed, on benefits or being a multi-millionaire. There is no excuse for having a house that untidy or having a child with dirty feet(indoors!)

Or giving them a bath/clothing them 'because important people are coming round'. Skanks.

 

[Lucky Toma]

Watching it now.

Never mind being unemployed, on benefits or being a multi-millionaire. There is no excuse for having a house that untidy or having a child with dirty feet(indoors!)

Why are you watching television in the daytime? Broken Britain.

 

[The Flash]

who's died?

Hayley Cropper, God rest his or her soul - the People's Transsexual.

Testicular cancer?

 

[mancityvstoke]

who is Hayley Cropper?

 

[Blue Hefner]

Watching it now.

Never mind being unemployed, on benefits or being a multi-millionaire. There is no excuse for having a house that untidy or having a child with dirty feet(indoors!)

Or giving them a bath/clothing them 'because important people are coming round'. Skanks.

I don't like the idea of programmes like this becuase it lives up to the national stereotype but the people in it don't do themselves any favors!

I'm not a parent but if I was, I cannot imagine putting my child in a locked porch at all never mind '6 or 7' times a day