Benefits Street

She sums up everything that is wrong with celebrity culture. Awful, awful person.

Amen to that.

I like her. But, it tells you something about society when she appears to be in a minority of one. Or, maybe the program makers are more than a bit selective. Don’t know why she bothers.

I see ATOS wants to end it’s contract early http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26296503

Katie Hopkins

She sums up everything that is wrong with celebrity culture. Awful, awful person.

Interesting -the programme is being investigated by Ofcom to see if Channel 4 has broken broadcasting guidelines.

I am still waiting for actual examples.

Sorry to keep you waiting, firstly gangmaster workers, the majority if not all are on zero hour contracts, that is how the system operates, no work, no pay, try claiming holiday pay or sick pay, redundancy money obviously does not exist,end of.

Of course other employers see this tactic and want some of that, real situation.

A home care company contracted to local authority providing care services to people in their own homes, company announced that they had sold the contract on to another company, all workers hastily contacted told their existing jobs were safe, but of course new contracts would be required, the nice shiny new contracts were all zero hour, with less allocated time for each call, travelling time between calls classed as not working.

Many workers simply stopped work and started proceedings against the new company, but of course many workers simply felt trapped and needing to carry on. Fortunately the local authority got involved, discovered that the new company was actually just a name change and not a new company at all, discovered some balls and told the new company that they were in contravention of the existing contract and would take legal action.

Eventually sanity was restored, workers got some sort of an acceptable contract, but during all this many elderly people were missed out of visits, cases of people left in their bed until afternoon etc, experienced workers left.

In this case the care contract has now gone to another company created by ex workers of the original company with local authority support, but this was a real attempt to force zero hour contracts on to a workforce, an attempt which has succeeded in other areas.

I just read that on the debate, they are putting the snob Katie Hopkins up against ‘White Dee’ who features in Benefits street…. that’s going to get messy.

I’ll give it a watch!

9.00 p.m., tonight, on Channel 5 “The Big Benefits Row: Live; now you can see what the self-proclaimed “experts” think.

“All my taxes are paying for your benefits!”

A better and more accurate way of stating it would be “Our taxes are paying for our benefits”

That is very useful, thank you 🙂

Hi Matt,
Not sure if this helps.

http://www.ifs.org.uk/bns/bn13.pdf

2. Government spending on social security benefits
In 2011–12, over £200 billion was spent on social security benefits in Great Britain
(henceforth GB).4
This amounts to approximately £3,324 for every man, woman and
child in the country, or 13.5% of GDP. At 29%, expenditure on social security
represents by far the largest single function of government spending.5

Approximately 30 million people in the UK – approximately half the total population
– receive income from at least one social security benefit. For means-tested benefits
such as Income Support, receipt of the benefit usually depends on the claimant’s
family income, together with their family circumstances and personal characteristics.
For contributory benefits such as state pensions, eligibility usually depends on the
claimant having paid sufficient National Insurance contributions (NICs) during their
lifetime. NICs are made by employees whose earnings are above a threshold (£146
per week in 2012–13), although the government usually treats those earning
between the lower earnings limit (LEL, £107 in 2012–13) and £146 per week as
though they were making contributions.6
Some benefits, such as Disability Living
Allowance, are neither contributory nor means-tested and are universally available
to all people who meet some qualification criteria.
All benefits require some residence conditions to be met (usually that the person be
present and resident in the UK), although different degrees of ‘residence’ are
required for different benefits. By and large, people ‘subject to immigration control’
(i.e. people who require leave to enter or to remain in the UK but who do not have
it) are unable to claim benefits. As the UK was a signatory to the 1951 UN
Convention on the Status of Refugees, refugees in the UK have the right to claim
certain benefits, such as Income Support. However, the Asylum and Immigration Act
1999 removed asylum seekers from mainstream benefit payments, and they now
have payments administered by the National Asylum Support Service.

Cheers guys, I made my brain hurt last night trying to research how much of the tax payers money goes on each individual benefit, I thinkkkkkkk, I worked it out at around 20% into the general benefit/pension pot, and around 1% each to Housing Benefit, JSA & Incapacity benefits. It was for a point I was making about people that give it the ol’ “All my taxes are paying for your benefits!”

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MattCooke

In my case, quote whatever you like.

Indeed – some guidance would be helpful. I don’t think I’d object other than being quoted out of context, a problem which seems to be commonplace these days, sadly.

Apologies Trump!:)

No probs Charlie, 🙂 I still wonder what the legal situation is though,maybe Moggy or a mod could advise.I personally don’t have a problem but others may ,especially if it things said are taken out of context and traceable back to the originator against their will.

Apologies Trump!:)

sorry, just to clarify, I was asking if I was allowed to quote people on this forum in my blog, or if I need to ask individual permission of the poster. .. I suppose I could power phrase…?

And of course you’ll be able to read it , it’ll be on the NCR website i’ll post a link when it’s up, probably later next week 🙂 It’s been a while since I wrote anything of great length… always have my English Teachers voice n my head haha

Sorry – I thought it was the other way round.

Matt was asking about the Newport City Radio blog.

🙂 I know ,but he wanted to take comments from this forum and put them on Newport city radio blog–well that’s the way i understood it -but i am probably wrong :very_drunk:

P.S will we get to read the blog,i certainly would be interested in reading it.