Ahh, ‘Benefits Street.’ Another programme designed to highlight the lifestyles of the ‘scum’ of Britain, the very worst of society. A programme which is created in order to promote a public outcry towards people who are claiming benefits, all of whom are obviously dossers who never actively seek employment, of course.
I saw it coming the moment that I saw the title ‘Benefits Street.’ It was inevitable. A programme which is essentially designed to promote government cuts and vilify the unemployed, thus making the governments measures seem almost fair. About as fair as cutting hundreds if not thousands of jobs by the day (I don’t keep track of the exact job cutting statistics, I just know that David Cameron should be dragged into the street outside 10 Downing Street and be put into the stocks, and that is a very toned down version of what I could really say about him) and then imposing sanctions on people for refusing to work 10 and a half hour shifts at hell-hole, tax dodging companies such as Amazon. I'm pissed off to a ridiculous degree with programmes like ‘Benefits Street’ which aim to lambaste and ridicule people who don’t have a job in this ridiculous time of worldwide austerity, being judged by people who just happened to have a mate or a family member who ‘got them in’ somewhere despite having absolutely no idea how to actually do their job to any passable standard.
Now I'm not saying that some of the people on ‘Benefits Street’ aren't scroungers, because let’s face it fungi and his mate Danny are shoplifters who most likely don’t make trying to find a job their main priority in life, but only showing the worst case scenarios of people who claim benefits helps to create a nationwide loathing towards everyone on benefits. The thing is though, whether or not what these people are doing is right or wrong, the culture as a whole wouldn't have to exist if money wasn't the driving force in the world, the thing that you are slated for not having enough of, the thing that you are expected to devote so much of your time to obtain and accumulate, sacrificing your family life, your sleep or your health, or quite possibly all three of these things at the same time.
The people featured on ‘Benefits Street’ are the victims of corruption on a much higher scale, do you think that these people really want to live their lives the way that they do? Maybe some of them do, maybe they’re quite content with shoplifting and then selling on their stolen goods for a small profit, but not many people on benefits are like that. How about a programme called ‘banker’s street’ where the corpulent, greedy bastards at the head of the hierarchical structure of HSBC are exposed for laundering almost a billion dollars for Mexican drug cartels in America. Yeah guess what, there are a lot more important things in the world than people scrounging a bit of benefit money off the corrupt ocean of dickheads and liars that we call ‘the Government’. What attract your attention more, $881 million dollars of Mexican drug money knowingly laundered for murderers in the USA ‘the greatest country in the World’ or Mark and Becky in Birmingham who fiddled something between £1000-£1500 a month in benefits? No one even went to prison for the unbelievable, ridiculous, mind blowing corruption at HSBC. You know who the real criminals are, open your eyes. This is just one small puddle in a vast sea of corruption.
I could delve into all sorts of cases of deceit and corruption which occurs at the top of big companies, businesses, banks, in the porn industry etc. but I don’t know if my word document has enough pages to contain my fury. I intended this article to be solely about ‘Benefit’s Street’ when I started to write it ,with, perhaps, one or two digs at David Cameron and the shambolic government, but once I started to touch on the topic of corruption I couldn't help but launch a torrent of abuse and I do not apologise for it, nor should I.
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