Are All Benefit Scroungers White?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3480234/Pregnant-heroin-addict-woman-prefers-spend-cash-tattoos-not-food-New-benefits-documentary-set-shock-Britain.html

In the interest of diversity, why are there no benefit scroungers chosen from ethnic minorities, so as to be portrayed in these kind of documentaries?

[andy-hughes]

It's a sad indictment of our society that there is a massive audience for this kind of nonsense - it's the television equivalent of poking the lunatics through the bars of Bedlam Hospital.

If you are someone who likes to gaze and gasp, or get into a seriously het up state about where your taxes are being used, then this is the programme for you.

If, like me, you regard this as another in an endless series of parading inadequate people before an appalled nation of viewers in some sort of ghastly unedifying Groundhog Day, then you will find something more fulfilling to do - placing things in the fridge in alphabetical order for example.

As to the finer nuances regarding the ethnicity of the participants - that is rather like caring if the wasps that buzz around your picnic are orange with black stripes, or black with orange stripes ... who cares?

[naomi24]

Perhaps people from ethnic minorities have better sense than to live at Jaywick. Have you been there? We we're in the area once and thought we'd take a look. We drove straight through without stopping. I'd nominate it for the worst place in Britain.

[jackthehat]

The programme is filmed in Jaywick.....if there are no ethnic minorities in the area there will be none to appear in the programme.

[naomi24]

Oh ... and in answer to the question 'Are All Benefit Scroungers White?' - no they're not.

[andy-hughes]

jack - //The programme is filmed in Jaywick.....if there are no ethnic minorities in the area there will be none to appear in the programme. //

Not much anyone can add to that.

A news thread buttoned up in three responses - is that a record?

[Baldric]

Sounds absolutely missable to me.

[naomi24]

Baldric, the programme, Jaywick - or both?

[Mamyalynne]

No they aren't.


What a terribly sad place.

[Baldric]

Having just Googled Jaywick.
Both

[Baldric]

Village of the Dumped.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303489/East-Jaywick-Life-seaside-deprived-village-England.html

[EcclesCake]

A friend of mine was part of the production team for the first series. She found the experience both heart warming and would destroying at times.

The demographics will reflect those of Jaywick and the willingness of residents to participate.

[EcclesCake]

For would read soul destroying.

[retrocop]

Jaywick??? Sounds like a toilet freshener.

[anotheoldgit]

Seems like some are escaping the real question by focusing on the location, so perhaps I should have added, and why did Channel 5 choose Jaywick, when they could have used any London inner city area?

[jackthehat]

Perhaps you could ask the Production company, AOG?

Why didn't you ask the 'real' question you wanted answering rather than frame it in such a way as to be answered as it has been?

[Cloverjo]

I thought they were all African, Asian or Muslim, or I'd have thought so by other posts on AB. :P

[anotheoldgit]

Cloverjo

/// I thought they were all African, Asian or Muslim, or I'd have thought so by other posts on AB. :P ///

Posts on AB and reports in some of the press, are very much different from what they like us to see in all it's glory on TV.

[naomi24]

AOG, //why did Channel 5 choose Jaywick, when they could have used any London inner city area? //

Forgive me if I'm gaining the wrong impression, but are you actually miffed because Channel 5 didn't choose a more 'diverse' (haaa! Don'tya just love that word?) area?

[Mamyalynne]

I think only the programme makers could tell you why they chose one of the worst places to live in Britain as their location.