The BBC recently broadcast a fly-on-the-wall documentary on a housing scheme in Kilmarnock Scotland. Apparently it was first shown on regional TV but is now on Tuesday night on BBC1. The first episode is on iPlayer (I don't think you can view it outside of the UK though) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sj713/The_Scheme_Episode_1/ Has anyone else seen this TV programme? I'm dumbfounded by it. I think it just goes to show what a S-hole Britain hs become. Not one of them has got a job, all on state benfits. I've never wanted to emigrate more. Or own a flamethrower. I'd happliy let Ratko Miladic loose on the lot of them.
But of course its not Labours fault just a coincidence that under them the growth in the underclass went through the roof and the opposite end of the spectrum the super rich just got richer. They screwed this country with protection for the lazy and removed the word greed and responsibility form the dictionary. Ill never forgive Labour for they did to this country.
Im talking about greed in the terms of people who think its ok to live on benefits and earning sick levels of wealth. Responsibility in terms of Junkies for example been forced to accept some form of responsibility for there self inflicted curable disease and reralise THEY have a duty to get off and stay clean WIth goverment/Taxpayer help, not just the later.
You must be living in an alternate reality where people earn 'sick levels of wealth' on benefits. You seem a tad judgmental, my darling.
LOL no sorry, Im talking about both ends of the spectrum ie people choosing to live on tax payers earning and people who earn sick wealth in there job which is more abundant as the rest struggle.
Judging by some of the TVs and kitchen's these benefit scroungers have, I'd have to say that they do indeed have 'sick levels of wealth' comparative to what they contribute to society.
I have to agree, I'll never vote for them again. They essentially bribed these layabouts with extensive benefits thus ensuring their future votes. I'm just hoping the Tories stick to their guns and force these untermensch back into work.
Problem with the tories is its there duty to protect the rich and make them richer while the working class suffer its there duty to encourage class segregation.
I wouldn't unhappy to see them remove the particular 'class' shown in 'The Scheme' though, would you?
Both ends of the spectrum are a disgrace to society, ID be ashamed to be either. Yes the Opposite end dont take benefits but From the experience Ive had they develop disgusting attitudes to people who don't have there wealth. The royal family for example are the symbol of the rich and class segregation.
I used to have Xmas and Easter holidays in Kilmarnock, actually its quite a friendly wee town, all in all. There are some real head-case villages in Ayrshire e.g. Maybole at night-time -> exit quickly. As for voting, I cannot see me voting for the Laborious Old Toads again. However, I will never ever vote for the Tolley party.
I think we have to keep in prespective that most of these run down areas were traditionally very tough working class areas that supplied the workforce for heavy industry. Now that that's all gone (thanks Maggie) and some people just aren't cut out to work in a bloody call centre.
Call centres are not the most stable employers either. In days of old, heavy industry did breed a sense of camaraderie and of community AND the workers developed skill which supplied industry with competitive capability - this has all gone now - replaced with a vaccous society with which it is very difficult for people to feel part of.
Around here, long before I moved here it was mining and steel And a huge mill works. People where shipped in from Liverpool, manchester & Ireland to work in them. Real hard work (even now people don't tend to live that long but they're the last of the generations now it's all gone) In one respect I'm glad the heavy industry has gone but it's a crime that it wasn't replaced with something else. Many of the places shut were profitable but even those that weren't should have been subsidised to keep people employed, possibly cheaper in the long run. They've bailed out the banks but left the working man to rot
There are big parts of everywhere that are the same. Huge extended families that make a living from abusing the system. Trouble is their lives are tailored to maximising benefits and they're very good at finding loopholes
Although I suspect this was meant to be tongue in cheek, the royal family are actually net contributors because they donate all income received from their estates to the Exchequer. As such their effective tax rate is incredibly high compared to anyone else in the country.
