Benefits Britain 1949 CH 4

[upsidedown]

Crikey !!


Series 1 Summary
Everyone's got an opinion about the welfare state, whether we're bemoaning 'scroungers' or pointing out how it's failed the vulnerable, but there's no consensus on how it can be fixed.

In this bold piece of living history, current benefits claimants volunteer to live for a week by the rules of 1949 to explore how our safety net should work.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Been watching it tonight. That woman deserves nowt. She just doesn't want to work. Not prepared to try and life clearly way too easy on benefits in 2013.

 

[upsidedown]

Good that the young guy has got a job now and the older chap was as happy as in the "home'. Good programme look forward to next weeks.

 

[One Planer]

Just a quick thread tidy to keep things in track. Please keep it that way as I'm sure the OP doesn't want his thread railroaded.

As per the Op. It says something when there is enough of this going on to make a TV show about.

Sad really but I suppose it's a sign of society these days.