Britain on the fiddle, BBC1 last night.
 

Did anyone watch it?

Re: Britain on the fiddle, BBC1 last night.
 

No, I didn't watch it.

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All foreigners scamming the system, one Nigerian had a million quid home in Nigeria after rinsing the system for years.

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Didn't watch it, figured it was another program like saints and sinners, designed to slowly brainwash people in to thinking all benefit claimants are **** of the earth.

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yeah plenty already under that influence here do not need any more

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I do hope that The BBC will give the same equivilent air time to those subjected to ATOS and DWP investigation where they they subjected to verbal examinations to determine their disability.

Under the ridiculous points system, benefits are withdrawn from rightful recipients, only to have them reinstated by the independent Tribunal some months later. By that time the regulations regarding benefits have removed the possibility of claiming benefits for 6 months.

I appreciate that there are any number of fraudulent recipients of benefits as there are in any walk of life and the book should be thrown at them but there are many on work based benefits and Disabled benefits who are increasingly being demonised as scroungers by large parts of the media and a considerable amount of the public when they are nothing of the sort.

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Personally I'd prefer to see the companies avoiding tax and the powerful people that do the same and the corruption at local government highlighted alongside the dole fiddlers on prime time TV.

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I don't understand how we have become so unbalanced in this country one type of wrongdoing and the proverbial book must be thrown but another few types and we shrug and carry on. No type of fraud is ok and should be punished to the max but there seems to be a massive difference if your at the lower end of the social scale then the top and we call ourselves a developed nation bit of a joke really. I suppose this is what happens when politics becomes so corrupt and professional but doesn't make it right and it would be nice to see all those doing wrong demonised not just a convinient section as it is now.

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The biggest fiddlers in this country are the MP's, £150 for a lamp, £600 for curtains, IDS gets £1million a year for his farm, then there's the £10,000 a year the MP's get for their Children.

Re: Britain on the fiddle, BBC1 last night.
 

I read somewhere that they also get an Heating Allowance. Does anyone know something different to this.

Re: Britain on the fiddle, BBC1 last night.
 

Perhaps we should all get jobs that mainly achieve turning various groups of society against each other it seems to be financially rewarding even though it's morally bankrupt.

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They already did on R4 last week iirc.

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radio 4 vs prime time tv hmmmmm

The unemployed and the sick are a convenient patsy . In 10 to 20 years the state pension will cost the tax payer 100/120 billion doubling what it costs now. With inflation and rates staying the same the ESA and JSA will cost 6 billion each

Is the state pension sustainable ? I know those who have paid NI want it to be and say why should we lose out but be honest with yourselves is it?

As for Britain on the fiddle the biggest crooks in the country are those in power

Re: Britain on the fiddle, BBC1 last night.
 

Forgot to add that, yes they also get a heating allowance for their homes, no wonder they won't lobby the big energy companies to lower their prices.

Re: Britain on the fiddle, BBC1 last night.
 

SOME unemployed and SOME of the sick

Blimey ,you really got it in for pensioners haven't you .

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No they don't ,far too much generalisation .SOME of the out of town living expenses include heating but things are a lot stricter since the expenses are handled by IPSA .MP's are getting a lot less in expenses hence the need for a pay rise

Re: Britain on the fiddle, BBC1 last night.
 

no just trying to get people to realise just how big a bill it is.

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I didn't watch the prog, l bet it didn't start with MPs who are always on the fiddle. Or the illegals that are ripping off the country.

Or the big money earners that are paying millions into the Tories to get peerages and tax reductions. The programme should have started at the House of Commons and it would probably go to a series, that's where it should have been.

Its just the tip of the icebergs, instead of picking on the sick etc.

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It actually dealt with those who are ripping off the benefit system and illegals also doing the same.It also pointed out that the numbers doing so are small.However the sums they are getting rich by are not and the authorities are using the law to seize criminal proceeds from those stealing from the taxpayer. A million here and there is a very nice result..:tu:

Re: Britain on the fiddle, BBC1 last night.
 

Wife has just come out of hospital after spending 7 days with with our new baby...partners could get the meals for the wifes if they were busy...to find that they were coming down for the meals then the wifes were going so the husbands were feeding themselves not leaving enough food for the rest of the patients.

Can you guess who was doing it? foreigners, one of them flew in from Nigeria expected to stay the night and kicked off they had to call security to remove him, his wife couldn't speak much english but new what the benfits form was when the bounty women came round with the pack of information.

While what I said only covers a small area the fiddle is on everywhere

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My belief is that if anyone comes into the country, they should be checked at the border.

When they enter the country - they should be banned from getting anything from this country for FIVE, and then if they can declare they are paying into the country, then they should be allowed the pleasures that we get.

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I'd just like to point out at this time that Panorama have made programmes detailing exactly which MPs have been fiddling expenses (IIRC the Telegraph's original expose was researched in association with Panorama), and they've recently shown a programme on the tax avoidance schemes used by large companies.

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Doesn't surprise me. English is Nigeria's official language and in my experience most Nigerians speak very good English although they might not choose to admit it at times...

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Facts like those routinely pass Arthur by. Still they say ignorance is bliss don't they...