Benefit Street

Anybody else watch this?

It's sky+ for me for when I get out of the bath   

No not watching it don't get too many wrinkles    

i'm watching it

I've put it on but may watch a walking dead before bed instead!

how can they call anybody dirty !!!

 

are you watching it saz?

Yeah but think I'm going to watch a walking dead now before I go to bed, need my fix!!

I'm not watching it

i dont want to start racist here but people need to learn english before they are allow in the country

 came to the uk to be an singer   

Is the second one on tonight?

Saz: Nice choice! Love Walking Dead!

yea it's the second one

Ah is it as bad as the first? XD

there a lot of romania that cant speak english at all there 16 of them in an 2 bedroom house

 

 All fully grown adults?

yea they look dodgy to me carry on saying be slaves but most had arm full with tatttos

Wow, Channel 4 sure knows how to pick em eh!

don't look down look alright on sunday at 9pm

yep we watched it!

Steve wrote:yea they look dodgy to me carry on saying be slaves but most had arm full with tatttos

what difference do tattoos make? these guys were working back home and followed promises of a better life how much poetic licence there was with filming I don't know but if as shown £10 for 17hrs work constitutes slave labour in my eyes

I didn't watch it, I can feel my blood pressure rising just reading about it   

I'm just not sure how they can afford tattoos if they can't afford food :S I can't afford tattoos!!

jshrew wrote:

Steve wrote:yea they look dodgy to me carry on saying be slaves but most had arm full with tatttos

what difference do tattoos make? these guys were working back home and followed promises of a better life how much poetic licence there was with filming I don't know but if as shown £10 for 17hrs work constitutes slave labour in my eyes  

i thought they wasn't working and struggle to feed their kids that why they came over

Who said they paid for them? Sure they weren't going to top studios and don't expect they will cost anywhere near the same over there anyway. Chances are they got some of them pre family anyway there's a lot of things I can afford that I couldn't if I had a family to provide for

I think the best insight was from white Dee basically implying that everyone thinks that the grass is greener in another country

they could be an gang of robbers for all we know jules and i'm sure you know there are gangs people from other country robbing, mugging and whatever else they do other here they all look rahter dodgy to me

Yeah if I was part of a mugging gang I'd make a point of getting my face on national tv too

Enough uk citizens doing * things to others its not new its not race or gender specific, and I'm sure to some people I look pretty dodgy walking through the park with a staffy, in my Adidas traccys and my hoody worn up. Oh and my ancestory is romanian Roma gypsy

We dont know there was older men with younger in that house (which how they work)   they not going tell us what they are upto on tv are they   

and how they was acting about the bloke was dodgy to me. why would they fair for their lifes for?

If they were that dodgy they would have been keeping under the radar and certainly not calling police themselves for any reason

And the guy who shipped them into the country to work for nothing, guess he isn't walking the right side of the line

not all dodgy people keep an low profile look at the show people robbing, shoplighing, buying 2 darks and an white, becasue they havn't said what they do doesn't mean they not doing it xx

there was a show about pick pocketers from romaina an while back they would came in gangs 10/20

I meant more with the calling police and Completely, but not all groups of Romanian men are pick pocketing gangs, it is just as likely that they are genuine as it is that they are dodgy

Despite being in the job I've retained my open mind and don't prejudge

<<-- dont trust anybody till they prove to me other wise i learn in my life

As global movement is so easy these days I guess we notice more people of other faiths/countries, no matter the religion/faith no matter what creed or race, there are good and bad in all.

Just like our lovely fur babies no child is born bad,

and we seem to all to easy to judge read any rag, I to am from Gypsy heritage, I was brought up spending most of my time at the local encampment I have been safer there than any where else in my life

This program has just been discussed on The One Show, they have Paul O'Grady on there tonight he was not impressed with it and wouldn't choose to watch it.

IMO i think the government push for TV channel to make show like this so they can carry on cutting the benefit bill