Too fat to work.

[Fly]

Just hope this program is another reality type program.
A couple so large to work get £2000 a month in benefits, and live rent free !!

[Old Cruser]

Watched it the other night Fly, think the bloke who was getting married was on his 5th marriage?
Someone said he'd been on the Jeremy Kyle show and sent to a rehab place to lose weight seems he took himself out after a couple of days!

[Fly]

"We're both on diets and celebrate when we have lost weight."
One week he lost three pounds.

Ring, ring. Ring ring. "Hello, can I order a take away please, I'd like a large kebab."   

[simondjuk]

Thats precisely the reason I dont watch programmes about this sort of this as id be buying a new TV every week.

For the vast majority (i believe around 95%) of the population that are overweight, thats down to eating too much of the wrong stuff and not enough exercise.  How that can be claimed as a disability is beyond me.

If it can be proved that being overweight is down to medical reasons (5%?) then by all means they should receive payments.

[therealjr]

One of the papers (Fail I think) carried an article on them and they guy said it was the systems fault because it was too easy to claim.

[Fly]

Seen your posts simondjuk, therealjr. and nicheuk, stop posting quicker than I can type LOL

My dad was always overweight, at work, and after he took ill health redundancy from the pit, which he was entitled to from the NUM.
Mum didn't start declaring benefits and carers benefit to replace his lack of wages.
She went to work !

That is exactly my point nicheuk.
These programs might glorify some bits, but it's all wrong.
They take the piss, and stop people who really need help, getting it.

I'd truely love to meet you nicheuk.
I'm not the person my posts might make me look 
I doubt you are either 

[Gerty Gumdrop]

The story was in all the papers.  It didn't differ much between any of them and i stopped reading after the first paper as I felt provoked into getting cross!

[Old Cruser]

Benefits Streets was thought to set out and deliberately make people who are on benefits look bad it had a lot of publicity.
Most Counties probably have a street such as this one but it doesn't give a true all round picture of people on benefits, many would love to work but need to be able to take a wage home which will pay for them and their families, with the low minimum wage and zero contract hours what chance do they have.

Many fat people are able to work, the large gentleman who was to be married was past 'fat' and his health was suffering - I think I read that he did work prior to a stroke and then piled the weight on.

Didn't the EU rule that Obesity was a medical/ disability condition not so long ago?

[Slacker]

I suppose whilst programmes like this are turning the low-waged against those on benefits they are not attacking reckless gambling bankers and tax-dodging celebrities and corporations

[simondjuk]

Didn't the EU rule that Obesity was a medical/ disability condition not so long ago?

I believe so, although as ive said, for the 5% with a medical condition then thats fine.  For the other 95%, just an excuse to claim money while doing sweet FA.

[Pete]

Too fat to work, but not too fat to eat...

Mr. Creosote - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

[therealjr]

I suppose whilst programmes like this are turning the low-waged against those on benefits they are not attacking reckless gambling bankers and tax-dodging celebrities and corporations

You mention the reckless gambling bankers like they are some sort of recent addition to the country like all the problem immigrants so beloved of UKIP..
They have always existed it's just that during the 80's 90's and 00's they were the people generating the wealth in the economy that allowed the country to be prosperous. Those same bankers allowed Gordon Brown and his economic advisors (2 chinless wonders called Milliband and Balls as I recall, wonder whatever happened to them?) to preside over a buoyant economy and bask in the glory. The bankers went unregulated because no one wanted to risk de-railing the gravy train. When that train did hit the buffers, through greed, bad timing, bad luck or through just the normal cycle of these things it's very easy for the left to apportion blame. But they conveniently forget they had 13 years it taking the credit. They could have spent those 13 years making regulatory changes to prevent it happening.