Benefits Street.

[anneasquith]

nice to see neighbours helping others in the street :)

[emmie]

DF, i only watched a nano second, not sure many are really employable.
attitude is half the problem, not necessarily sickness.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/benefits-street-final-recap-white-3132378

[DrFilth]

emmie form your link

> More emphasis on Simba… walking, sitting, smoking. Going nowhere fast.

At the hospital, Fungi is waiting for the result of his cancer test, with White Dee there "to distract him".

Fungi says: "I used to be an ex-user so it might be hard to get a vein".

At least he’s showered. <


if he has or is waiting for his test results i don't think this person will be looking or worried about a job

[B00]

To be fair Dr F, I don't think he ever was- was he?

And further more, I highly doubt he will be in the near future either.

[naomi24]

DrFilth, how many working people do you think have to go for cancer tests? They don't stop working because of it.

That man has never had a job - he's sponged off the state all his life - and incidentally his tests proved negative. He doesn't have cancer.

[DrFilth]

boo from the other posts on that link one says he was an ex user so if he was looking would any boss want to employ a person who when they went to the bog stuck needles in their arm

[emmie]

people get jobs with criminal records, and with long term sickness, depends on the nature of the person, some make out and out excuses to not work at all, i confess in my life i have only come across one, a distant relative, who was to my mind a total parasite.

[naomi24]

DrFilth, he'd find it difficult to get someone to employ him - which is why he should be made to work in return for his free hand-outs. He could start by keeping the street clean and clear of the rubbish the residents leave there.

[DrFilth]

naomi > DrFilth, how many working people do you think have to go for cancer tests? They don't stop working because of it. <

i know one person who did go to hospital and was told he had to go back in

that person was sent home from work by the nurse

.... me

[naomi24]

DrFilth, I'm not with you. What are you saying?

[B00]

Not sure where you're going with this Dr F, we're both in agreement that an undesirable is hardly in the running for any jobs.

Not sure why you felt the need to say that due to his cancer scare he wouldn't be looking for and worried about a job. He wasn't prior to it, and he won't be now that the scare was just that- a scare.

[ummmm]

There have always been people like fungi....more or less unemployable since day 1.

[DrFilth]

naomi
> DrFilth, I'm not with you. What are you saying? <

i have been in hospital for 3 ops for one problem do i have to print it out in big capital letters

after the 3rd op i had to report to the works surgery the nurse asked what had been said took one look at me and i was sent home, they refused to allow me back on the site for a day then had to report back to them

[naomi24]

DrFilth. You didn't have to print it out at all. If you were ill, you were ill. Why are you comparing yourself to lazy scroungers?

[hc4361]

naomi, what work do you consider suitable in return for benefits?
If it's street cleaning, litter picking, graffiti removing then you will be giving the council very cheap labour and the people already employed to do these jobs will be unemployed and end up doing the same job for dole money.

You can't foist unemployable people on to charities - why should they waste value time overseeing people incapable of doing the job.

I wouldn't want random druggies in my old mother's house doing odd jobs for her, thank but no thanks.

If they do anything truly useful then those 'employing' them won't properly employ people to do the same thing.
If they are just filling their days for the sake of it (painting stones white then scrubbing them clean again, for example) then that is a waste of the overseers time.

[DrFilth]

> You didn't have to print it out at all. If you were ill, you were ill. Why are you comparing yourself to lazy scroungers? <

i did not print it all out that is just one problem


and let us just say that is not on my last few medical reports -(

[ummmm]

DrF...you are proving Naomi's point. People in full time employment get sick too...

[DrFilth]

hc4363 > I wouldn't want random druggies in my old mother's house doing odd jobs for her, thank but no thanks. <

if she has any tabs she better keep them under lock and key -)

[hc4361]

Another thing about forcing the unemployed to work for their benefits - who will pay the childcare costs for unemployed parents? The tax payer, no doubt, adding another couple of hundreds pounds to a family's weekly dole bill.

[hc4361]

There's always a risk she'd start dealing, dr.filth. Some people would pay good money for the stuff she takes :D

[DrFilth]

ummmm then they get no benefit you can't have both anymore