What world do you live in? One that doesn't constantly bombard you 24:7 with ads, promises of a better life, dreams/fantasies, 'beautiful people', etc.? Buy buy buy. More more more. Welcome to Earth.
Yeah they kept on saying how are they supposed to live their lives on that money and that is the point you are not meant to! Benefits are supposed to be temporary unless you legitimately cannot work any job, they are just a safety net so you don't become homeless so you can go on to get a job.
Agree and considering she had a bad back she did amazing standing out early hours at a car boot . Only time you saw her limp or complain was when she was going for the assessment lol
My first wedding had 200 guests and cost £7,000. The marriage lasted 4 years. The second we did with two witnesses for £23 including filling up the car. 31 years later it’s still a bargain.
EXACTLY! My wedding cost was $27, and we will be celebrating our 35th Wedding Anniversary this coming April. A close friend of mine wedding cost was $30,000+ and they divorced five years later, and were STILL paying off their wedding after the divorce.
@@cherylharewood2549 umm numbers to back that up? This feels like , oh but rich people aren’t happy. $27 on a wedding? A dozen roses according to a New York Times from the era was $25. You got married. That’s not a weddings.
Shit, you know this may be the biggest event to happen good for them.. so I hope this wedding is both of their dreams and smile about that day forever.
Some people are partly able, I’m guessing she’s one. Able to walk stand and sit in small amounts, like how a lot of people who use walking aids and wheelchairs can in fact stand and walk without one in small batches, hell I’m one of these people.
If you can't afford to pay the 27pounds to reserve your marriage date then that's a huge red flag that you can't afford to get married. Simple as that.
I don't see that.. Since they are already living together, getting married is just a few quid extra for the ceremony and administrative costs so they can afford to get married, just gotta be frugal about it, that's why extra 27p per months is alot for them.
@@knkjkjn Yeah with the taxpayers money that is meant for food and essentials as they get back on their feet but these people get too comfortable that they never will.
@@FlashySolution So what? No where it says for what they can spend their benefits on. Working ppl always get so jelly on ppl on benefits, it's funny. If you think it's so nice to live off them in poverty ,then quit your job and you can enjoy the benefits train too ig. No one forces you to work. This is what taxes are for. I'd rather see tax money to go to them instead of sending weapons to Ukraine ,extending the conflict which isn't our business in the first place.
I would have thought, getting the date arranged and paid for is the ultimate priority over a taxpayer funded dream wedding expenditure …but that’s just me.
I can’t whip up much sympathy for the couple who were making good money with the laundry “we never had to save anything- there was plenty coming in”. I live on pension, have no debt and have enough in savings to carry me six months. I don’t understand not saving.
They are complaining that the amount they receive in benefits won't allow them to maintain their former spending habits! Benefits are not designed for you to maintain a middle class lifestyle. They are designed to feed you and keep a roof over your head.
I would surmise the money coming in was all cash from the launderette machines and the 'book keeper' saw it all as income; forgetting that costs such as rent, electricity, rates, repairs, income tax etc. needed to be deducted from their cash flow.
@@hislittlemrs.9235 Went bust so could be anything. Most likely because they were spending the money frivolously and had nothing banked in case they fell on hard times and fell behind on rent etc. Seeing as another laundromat in the area was still in business it's also poor management and probably that lady being the book keeper didn't actually know what she was doing. So a combination of 3/4 things.
When I think of my grandfather going down the pits and being totally ashamed when they closed and he had to apply for subsistence….and then there is this lot.
My Papaw in West Virginia in The USA worked in the coal mines here until one collapsed causing a coal car to break loose and smash him. He survived through it . Once he healed he wasn’t the same , he couldn’t go back . We did what every respectable mountain folk did.. made liquor . 😉 the money was a lot better. Honest quality product the family took pride in .
@@HillbillyYEEHAA 💯 It's always easier for people to punch down rather than up. It makes them feel superior. It is righteous anger in the wrong direction. We should be looking to the massive corporations, bankers, governments, big business and the dark wealth, for answers as to why the system is the way it is. People don't do this, they choose instead to blame and denigrate the poorest, possibly not well-educated and most vulnerable in society. Go figure 🤔
We were a family of 11 and survived with 3 bedrooms. My mom was a family of 12. 10 kids in one room. Yes it was tight and yes when we were not in school we spent most of our time outside playing.
I’ve seen this many times, I worked in a job centre and the people who actually need help,after working all their lives are the most deprived. I stopped working there after 4 yrs due to their in compassion to people who were genuine, but people who had never worked a day in their lives got everything going, benefits, crisis loans, community care grants, deprived area funds the lot
Yes your right, I've thankfully always been in work for the last 30yrs. Only time was about 12yrs ago, when I got made redundant. Not knowing how the system worked I went down to the local job centre, mainly to see if I could get any help with money to pay for my council tax. I was told it would take up to six weeks to get any financial help. I laughed told her I would be back working before then, I was back in employment by the end of the week. Point is the system doesn't really help those that need or deserve it. It's just for long term wasters lol!!@
That’s half the problem in welfare states,some people have never worked a day in their lives and probably never will the bludgers and the poor bloke who’s been made redundant or unemployed for some other reason,they make it hard for them while they’re paying for the rent and food money plus enough to go for a fair few pints a week,plus they’re letting to many Poles and east European bludgers into the country who come just to rip off the welfare system,that’s half the problem,make it harder for them to get the dole or something so that the people who are entitled to a hand up can get it.!
Who is letting “them” in? Did you sleep through the past few years throughout the whole Brexit disaster? EU nationals cannot simply come in and live here anymore. And just out of curiosity what is the percentage of Poles coming into the UK (past tense) not working and claiming benefits only? Not long ago your kind kept moaning about Eastern European folk terrorising job market and “stealing” your jobs. So is it one or another?
@@BBrunnel It does not work like that ,you can actually get sometimes more benefits if you just work a few hours a week (Universal Credit and a higher Housing Benefit)
@@Rk-vr1xvToo late, I am now retired after 46 years of full-time work. My pension is not any higher than the "Universal Credit" or the smorgasbord of benefits dished out to people of my age who have never worked. It's also true that, after paying for general living expenses and taxes (which went to support the scroungers), there was never enought to put in a private pension so I only have the minimum state pension.
@@ileanamuntean7338 you do realise it's a standard rate you get .. people who have enough money to live on universal credit usually disabled or have disabled kids ... otherwise it's £260 per month for under 25 plus rent
@@kelly9714 I know right. Worried about having their benifits cut, goes on national telly showing off all their unnecessary expenditures 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣
Right? How much more space does it take for him to sleep in the same bed as his partner of 17 yrs? Lmao I hope someone ratter them out to whatever agency it is in the UK
I am 68 years old Australian on an age pension with degenerative scoliosis which gives me pain 24/7. I still work 2 x 5hr shifts at a supermarket and have done for 5 years since being unable to work full time in my chosen career. I was a single mum of 4 after my divorce when my children were very young and always worked to support my family. They are all productive people with good careers and 3 have them are raising their own young families. They tell me that the best gift I gave them was a very strong work ethic which I am very proud of. I work part time still because I have 7 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren and want to be able to give them nice gifts for birthdays and Xmas. I still feel that working, even part-time, is super important for my health, wellbeing and self-esteem. I truly cannot understand this mindset that it's not worth working. I worked all my life, going back after each child was born, so this British attitude seems alien to me. Mind you, their are plenty of Aussies who make a lifestyle out of disability because until recent years many alciholics and drug addicts were able to get a disability pension for life
My 17 yr old son has Scoliosis, and I see what he goes through everyday with pain, it's no joke. I'm so sorry you have this painful issue 😔 You are absolutely right 💯 you need the socialization, self esteem, and a pay check. So many depend on government checks when they could absolutely work. The couple w/ 5 kids wanting to get married, the man needs to go out and get a full time job doing what ever it takes, his fiancé taking care of him is so cringe 😳. The woman with sciatica needs to go to a chiropractor to readjust her back, to take the pressure off the nerve. I've had it (sciatica) really bad to were I couldn't walk for almost 2 months. I went to a chiropractor, and it helped so much. My mom is always saying "if you done use it, you loose it". I'm 52 with advanced Ostioarthritis, I've already had a Total hip replacement, and need the other one and, my right knee done lol and I'm still raising teenagers. They are the youngest of my 6 kids. My 4 older ones are all on there own doing very well. My oldest son is in his last 1 1/2 yrs to become a Biology Professor, I'm so proud of all of my kids, and 5 grandkids. I hope the best for you, love from California, USA. Oh, lol we have way too many on government paychecks too 😄.
I have worked almost 50 years for at least 8 hours per week. I was sick three times for a couple of weeks. Just got my pension aged almost 67. We are from a generation in which work is the basis of life.
Who cares about what you have done?... sounds to me like you are trying to justify yourself... why mention how good you think you are?... or how great it is to work your LIFE AWAY!...maybe all your family wanted was TIME WITH YOU. - trading your time on this planet away for a few leftover pennies + a dilusion of fake morality, while grabbing a few snatched memories a month, if your lucky,.. sounds tragic. Theres FAR MORE HEALTH RELATED ISSUES LINKED TO THE MODERN DAY WORLD OF WORK than almost anyrhing else... FAR BETTER to teach your kids to have AWARENESS OF SELF HEALTH + SELF RESPECT..... a "good work ethic" these days is actualley a licence to be taken advantage of and used.
We got married in our lounge by our local pastor and instead of presents it was a pot luck reception. Saved us a fortune and everyone we wanted to be there was there and 12 years later we're still going strong. Conversely a mate of mine spent 20-30k on an expensive wedding and within 4 or 5 years it was all over ...
@@1972dsrai - I agree. My main point is don't blow a whole pile of money on a wedding that you can't afford in the first place (in terms of this episode) when that money could be used elsewhere (i.e. debt repayment or a house deposit) etc ... :)
My fiancée and I were married in 1972 in her church, a small Baptist congregation. She had just graduated from college and I was in the Navy. We didn't have much money. There was a luncheon buffet in the church hall and my mother in law's Sunday School class helped out. We used her family's 14 foot camper. My father in law pulled it to Lancaster, Pa. He stayed in it the next week. Three days later we flew to my duty station. We were out of the country for the next three years. Despite not knowing the language she found work in the medical field doing home care work. She didn't work in her profession which is Physical Therapy. She was paid minimum wage and I drew E-3 Pay. In that three years we paid the little loan she had off. It was small because she had worked in Summers cleaning rooms at the Jersey Shore for two years. At MCV in Richmond she worked in the cafeteria and in the labs cleaning animal cages. She used public transportation. I bought a used car from a sailor who was leaving for her work. It was a POS and I was constantly repairing it. The attitude of my family was disgusting. These are people for whom the reception is what's important. They go to the church in hair curlers and house dresses but get all dolled up for the reception. The bride and groom go tens of thousands of dollars to pay for the reception. They hope the monetary gifts will cover some of it. I heard some grumbling about my wedding because we didn't have alcohol and the food was some catered prime rib dinner. They usually can't afford a house for years and live in apartments. We got out of the Navy three years after the wedding. We stayed with her bachelor uncle for a year. He didn't charge us rent. I dis a bunch of repairs while we stayed there. It was an old Victorian house and needed a lot of work. We bought an old cottage that had been in a fire and was fixed up. My family had bad comments about the tiny house but we didn't care. Three years later we moved to North Carolina. We were able to buy a better, brand new house. We paid it off early. Our son was the first college graduate in our family. We paid for all the expenses of his education. He was able to graduate without debt and we gave him the old car he'd been driving and he traded it in on a new car. He and his wife make very good money but are still thrifty. The money is already put away for the kid's college education. We weren't cheapskates, just thrifty. We'd both grown up in poor families and knew the value of a dollar. I had 7 younger siblings and she had 4 younger brothers. 9We deprived ourselves of nothing because our needs were simple and our wants simpler. These British people have the idea that the government is supposed to supply them with everything. I've seen a lot of these videos and it's shocking how much the government spends on housing alone. I've seen two women, one with 11 kids two of whom have children and are getting housing, food and child care benefits. The mother believes she can have all the children she wants and the taxpayers must support them. You can gauge her attitude just watching her peel a potato. She doesn't skin the potato she takes gouges off of it. What does she care? She didn't buy it. Or the two women with children who do not work with one swearing she's never coming off benefits. "You think I should work at McDonalds?". She and her buddy shop all day. One keeps buying clothing. Or the couple who haven't worked in six years with two TV plans. She berates her daughter for getting a job because she could do better on benefits. The saddest cases are the 10, 11, 12, and 13 year old girls who are pregnant. I was working a repair in a public housing project and speaking with the customer she divulged that she had grown up there. When she got pregnant she was given an apartment of her own. When her daughter got pregnant she too was given an apartment. And the grandmother is still living there. That's four generations of women living in the same housing project in three different apartments. We're going down the tubes and fast.
@@robertcuminale1212 - Thanks for your story Robert. We certainly do live in an entitled generation who want a caviar lifestyle on a bread and butter income. At the end of the day, the people who will actually get ahead are the one's who are prepared to live frugally and are prepared to work hard to eliminate debt, save and make practical decisions to improve their financial positions. The two best benefits from this is that it develops a mindset shift to delayed gratification and teaches patience. This is what we've done for the last almost 10 years and we've got from panicking about money to being in control of money. While it certainly hasn't been easy at times, the rewards far outweigh the sacrifices and the light at the end of the tunnel grows a tiny little amount with each passing payday!
The airport striker should be given his job back, he just happened to be 6months ahead of the industry-wide strikes, following his own principles for striking, fair play to him standing up for what was right
I’d quit thinking of spending money on a wedding and go to the court house and spend that money on extra groceries. Wedding money is a waste as far as I’m concerned. You don’t make enough to spend money foolishly. Spending on a car to take you a mile is foolish . Decorate your apartment and have delicious snacks and desserts with a nice cake and with champagne and save money
Was thinking the same. My dad had been active in various societies trough his life and had a lot of aquaintances and work mates and such so I decided to make the food for the gathering after his funeral afterwards myself. Rather something simple like meatballs and potatogratin, danish smørrebrød with pickled herringsand some applepie for dessert. Simple but allowing to welcome anyone who wanted to attend after the funeral ceremony in church because that was like who he was in life.
Late reply and I totally agree. As a chef I'm doing ALL the catering for my wedding, lol. The only thing I'm paying for is the venue, my dress and the food...I'm not rich enough to afford a lot of the things that go into weddings but I figure as long as we eat great and party down, mission accomplished! 😝🎊
Not every person on benefits is like this. Stop generalising. They pick only those for the show, a person that doesn't smoke and budgets their money well is boring to film.
My wedding was £12,800 (at least). My brother's wedding was about £800. My brother has been married for about 15 years. I was separated after less than a year. £13,000 and for what? One enjoyable day, that was it.
Its called make something, sell something, no smokes, tattoos, out to eat, booze, drugs, etc. Clean floors, stock shelves, whatever. Benefits WERE NEVER MEANT to live on. It was to help out for a few months in a hard spot.
Thousands live on benefits and have no intention to work for a living. They expect us to crawl out of bed at 6.30am instead. That is whats wrong with this country. A pile of layabouts sucking this country dry.
Not sure if you can in England but in Australia you can get married in the court house it’s a set price includes tea and coffee, photos etc it’s affordable
Is it vital for them to depend on government benefits to have an extravagant wedding complete with limo service during these dire times they're going through financially? If they're so desperate to have a dream ceremony of a lifetime, why not contact her majesty, the Queen, offering disbursement for the event? I remember looking at a magazine photo of a young woman wearing a tattered two-piece suit and worn-out shoes to appear halfway decent at her wedding in 1943 to a WW2 soldier before he shipped out to Europe. No wedding gown, no tux, no bridesmaids, no grooms, no wedding cake. Least of all, no reception at a five-star convention hall. Simply the Justice of the Peace, two witnesses, and the happy couple were in attendance. We can't always have extravagant wants and dreams out of life, but these lovebirds should use sensible measures purposely to sustain themselves without relying on government assistance to spend on ostentatious improvidences.
I got made redundant during covid i worked in a coffee shop and had to use the little savings I had on my rent . I got a job pot washing for 10 hours a day I suffer endometriosis which causes extremely heavy bleeding for up to 3 weeks a month, I've been hospitalised and put on a drip due to passing out and anaemia on the waiting list for a procedure to help my problem . These people make me sick
I had edometriosis and fybroids so i feel your pain and inconvenience. Had a hysterectomy and never felt better. I wish u a speedy relief one way or another.
I get a nice flat paid for and £1500 a month and I'm working with a private doctor to get more, I can work but I've been seriously mistreat so retirement seems fair. After what I've endured at the hands of English people I think you owe me a comfortable living. People do try and degrade me but I stay healthy and get nice girls, the cost of this is that I have to spend a lot of time hurting people. I squirted dogshit on 8 people's heads from the 4th floor today, I pissed on a baby bike rack yesterday and tomorrow I'm gonna pop some bike tires with a drawing pin. I think of you more as slaves rather than me being a scrounger
As an adult having no money will make you miserable. But having more than you need won’t keep making you more and more happier. It’s not a linear relationship, more an exponential one. How you get your money and what you sacrifice to get it also plays a big part, for some can even make you miserable even if it more than you need and want.
The climbing on the roof to protest something was dumb! No wonder he got fired! The couple planning their wedding needs to realize they are living In near poverty and settle for a justice of the peace or a preacher who will marry them for a small donation. Definitely no limousine!
Why are tax-payers paying for your wedding? In any reality? It’s insane. Everyone else is working to pay for this bs. They are all capable of working , getting an education, childcare. They know more than anyone else, the supports out there. I’m a single mum. Always have been. One son. He’s almost 20. I got a student loan and became a teacher. 17 years into my career. It can be done.
On the other hand, while I do think it's ridiculous to splash on such details for the wedding, especially considering their circumstances, I don't want to moralise over if they manage to put aside some quids for something extra. One could do such by for instance getting marked down soon to be expired foods from the grocery shop now and then but you can't rely on that there will be such available though, the social welfere offices can't account on that local storeowners miscalculate their circulation ratio for different items.
Honestly though! The audacity of Brian is astounding! 🙄. “I wanna work for myself Rachel, I don’t want to work for someone else”. Like you have a bloody choice! You’re an ADULT with a roof to keep over your head, you’ll taken whatever you can damn well get until better opportunities arise. We can’t all be entrepreneurs and it takes a lot of hard work and effort. This man is calling about available pubs trying be a landlord 🤔. Mate, you haven’t got a pot to piss in and you’re wasting time pottering around trying to buy a pub. Is this a joke? 🤯
@@gtavmj-1852 Not when you have no bloody money to afford the overhead. It literally doesn’t make any sense. What he needs is a JOB. Then once he’s back on his feet with some savings, he’ll be better placed to look into buying a pub. Literally common sense 😫
I think his goal is great, but it won't take a blink of an eye for it to happen. He's defo very traumatised from his last job, but he's got to be realistic.
During the housing crisis, my dad had a heart attack and lost his job a month after. His industry pretty much saw zero growth for a year. He was without a job (not for lack of trying) for about 7 months... And yeah, he'd had a middle class job prior. My mom had to beg him to go on benefits after 5 months. He was so embarrassed and would rather us be homeless than take the dole. Interesting to see different perspectives.
This makes me so mad the benifit system is there to help people who need it theres no shame people like your dad who paid in gertting support untill he was able to get on his feet again, hope hes doing ok now.
I dint understand the shame I'm I'm why would anyone want to go homeless rather than claim look at the politicians how much they get they all crooked dodgy deals
Scamming the system is so exhausting. If these folks put the energy they expend on getting over the system into working a right proper job,they’d be living well.
When I married my second husband, we had to pay for the license and maybe a fee for the town mayor to marry us. Our honeymoon involved going out for frozen yogurt. The whole thing was less than $50.
There are people who have worked all their lives that end up om benefits. There are people who work who get benefits. They have paid into the system and are entitled to help
After rent they'll probably have around £800 a month left. I suspect that the £350 a week is for the housing benefit as well. So about £185 a week. A mate of mine lives in London and gets £39 a week - he's on universal credit and for what ever reason he has been in the 'assessment' phase since universal credit was introduced. That has to cover gas, electric, water and food. He's ex-forces and has a long list of mental health problems and physical health issues. I keep telling him to get some help with claiming PIP because he clearly needs it. He hasn't paid his electric bill in about 3 years so I hate to think how much he owes them. Edit: I just checked, he's not on UC, he's on ESA (£55 a week) but has money deducted due to debt. Either way, he should be getting more support. He served this country, you'd have thought they'd treat him a little better :/
@@Vikface1978 I have a remote job. Living in a tent isn't a bad shout and I'd be left with way more than a grand a month. I'm a home owner tho, not a scivvy renter serf.
I feel that these programs are designed to antagonise viewers who are not on benefits, those whose taxes support the people on the show. Every one that I watch has at least one ridiculous situation where someone is laying out a pile of money on the likes of a wedding, a holiday, a sauna etc. It makes me suspect that the storyline is fake.
I pay around 900 twice a week in taxes ( I live in Chicago🙄) , I don’t begrudge anyone who has to have assistance to live. I do get angry when I pay that much in taxes and our government will not take care of our elderly or Veterans but give my hard earned money to other countries for good will.. well we have a lot of Will that needs goodness right here! I have no drama helping take care of my neighbors. All it could take is a catastrophe for me to be in the same boat or any of us for that matter.
Makes for good ratings not all benefits people are like these ones with every one like this there are five or 6 doing the right thing. This gives a distorted view on what most recipients are like
Yeah. It's one thing to plan a dream wedding for fun, like in 10 years we'll do this and that, but be realistic in the moment, and then when things get better go for a better wedding
When I was looking for a job before, I really tried. Experienced rejections, companies who will never call back. I pushed thru despite rejections. Im here in southeast asia. I dont see some of these people trying hard to apply.
I mean, define a cleaning job. Being a cleaner and being a hygiene operative are wayyyy different. Cleaning house and cleaning factorys are miles apart. I'm a supervisor for a large hygiene team in a factory and believe me its easier than you think for anyone to get let go. It's isn't an easy job, trust me.
Absence? Punctuality? Incompetence? Laziness, not doing a good job or meeting the task objectives for the day? Same reasons you can lose any job. I worked as a room attendant, which is a hotel room cleaner and it was very structured and routine. Certain amount of rooms to clean every day, to a certain standard. If you didn’t fulfill it, you would be spoken to. And if nothing changed, retrained, then ‘let go’ for incompetence. You can literally be fired from any job 😂
55 hours a week to get £1,500 a month she's getting swindled. I have a very complicated job hours wise. It's hard to explain. But the long and the short of it I work 3 days a,week and after tax and all my bills are paid I get £2,480 a week.
She's claiming she can hardly move around etc yet she sits on a chair twisted sideways with a leg crossed. I also have degenerative discs in 2 areas of my back and my neck and I couldn't manage to do that.
Sciatica sufferer here too. Struggle to get out of bed initially some mornings and wake up with shooting pains down my leg in the night. Never had a day off work with it as getting up and mobile actually helps. Also have to cycle to work and back. These people are lazy arses plain and simple.
I don't understand how someone can plan a wedding on benefits. They should be concerned about finding a job. Many others are working on less and taking care of their children
So they shudnt be allowed to get married just because there on benefits?🤔? Don't get me wrong I think it's a total disgrace when people are full blown drug users or alcoholics and using all there benefits on getting wrecked. But nah I don't think them getting married is wrong just because there not working
@@markmoody236 If being married is so important to them, why not just show up at the registry office in whatever clothes and just do it. Benefits are not meant to being used on Rolls Royces and wedding dresses.
At least Paul can have a laugh and do the best he can Karen's whinging would drive me crazy my grandson has the same condition he's doing as much work as he can and studying
In general, these people seem to be fit enough and healthy enough to work. I am guessing that they are choosing not to take anything that would leave them with the same as they get on benefits or just a little bit more. This seems to be the way of those on benefit this is plain wrong and never the way things were intended to be. The original benefits system gave you enough to get by, not enough to have any more than the basics. This pushed people to get off as soon as possible as they were much better off at work. Furthermore, there was a social stigma to being on benefits. We now have a situation where people can live for years on benefits, not being flush but more than getting by. This must stop, if not then this country is heading for even worse financial crises.
You can not blame people for not wanting to take jobs that only pay as much as benefits, because they will then have costs that mean that they will be in receipt of a lot less than being on benefits. Think how much transport to work is likely to cost and then there is the removal of accompanying benefits such as council tax reduction, free school meals, free prescriptions and free dental care. Fine if you are a teenager living with mum and dad who will pay, not so fine if you are an adult.
I don't live in an environment where people will allow me to progress. I did work my way up to a good wage and an awesome job but people in the community were so spiteful that the harrassment got to much to bare. Now I get about £1500 a month to spend from the government and I'm working with a private doctor to get more. If England wants to be spiteful then I'll educate myself and live a life of leasure 🤷🏼♂️ I'm 30 and I consider myself retired, at least until I can save enough for a house in a different country
@@joycef8443 Most of the people on these programs are too proud to start at the bottom and work their way up but will happily go on TV and make themselves look like idiots.
Honestly though! The audacity of him! 🙄. Having his girl Rachel support him financially and when she asks about him getting a job, he says “I wanna work for myself Rachel, I don’t want to work for someone else”. Like you have a bloody choice! You’re an ADULT with a roof to keep over your head, you’ll taken whatever you can damn well get until better opportunities arise. We can’t all be entrepreneurs and it takes a lot of hard work and effort. If he was my man, he’d be on Indeed every single day. One thing I can’t handle is a lazy man, especially when I’m a go getter 🤧.
Sorry but that couple with two homes should be charged with fraud. Together 11 years, have 3 kids and he needs a separate house while claiming benefits? Sorry but they are taking the absolute piss. You mean to tell me they don’t have a double bed in the master bedroom? They literally have a living room big enough for two sofas, both of which are leather. 100% guaranteed she is down as a single mother according to the benefits system and the reason why they aren’t married is because they are scamming the system.
She gets that from PIP which you can claim even if you work. 500 means she gets high rate on one of them, so she's lied about her needs one way or another since she's not struggling to get around or take care of herself.
The hide of these people.....the welfare money they get is off honest everyday working people.... Also the money is to live on...not to arrange a wedding....first thing they buy is cigarettes...hate to think my hard earned,.. because l work money... Goes to bloody bludgers
"Crap on the car boot today"... "by the time you've bought cigarettes"... and therein lies your problem. Can't expect to be making any decent money when you are going to waste no doubt another £10, if not more on some cigs.
When I was young, there was 6 of us in a room and kitchen and 1 bedroom, come sitting room…and an outside toilet😳how can these people complain about what they are getting from the tax payers?…my brother is better off than us and has been on benefits all his life..my husband worked for over 40 years, and I have worked too…very unfair Britain…
I still don't understand why the government can't pay these people in vouchers for the essentials. They spend all of their money alcohol and cigarettes.
I’m guessing the laundromat couple didn’t upkeep their business and lost customers. They traveled and spent money instead of putting it back in the business. 2 months and they needed benefits?? No savings???
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Being broke and on benefits looking at rolls royces for a wedding lol. These folks are buggin out.
Then blame others for being broke
If you think about it, it makes perfect sense why they are broke.
What world do you live in? One that doesn't constantly bombard you 24:7 with ads, promises of a better life, dreams/fantasies, 'beautiful people', etc.?
Buy buy buy.
More more more.
Welcome to Earth.
Mr & Mrs Wishy Washy did my head in!! Absolute WINGERS!!!!
Yeah they kept on saying how are they supposed to live their lives on that money and that is the point you are not meant to! Benefits are supposed to be temporary unless you legitimately cannot work any job, they are just a safety net so you don't become homeless so you can go on to get a job.
I can see why Mrs Wishy-washy is stressed. She has such a stressful, demanding life lol
Agree and considering she had a bad back she did amazing standing out early hours at a car boot . Only time you saw her limp or complain was when she was going for the assessment lol
She is the worst of the couple. He is just her slave.
Complaining they only have £19000 of taxpayers money a year to live on smh
My first wedding had 200 guests and cost £7,000. The marriage lasted 4 years. The second we did with two witnesses for £23 including filling up the car. 31 years later it’s still a bargain.
EXACTLY! My wedding cost was $27, and we will be celebrating our 35th Wedding Anniversary this coming April. A close friend of mine wedding cost was $30,000+ and they divorced five years later, and were STILL paying off their wedding after the divorce.
@Peter D the majority of big weddings do not last.
@@amandab8433 congratulations. The majority of big wedding do not last.
@@cherylharewood2549 umm numbers to back that up? This feels like , oh but rich people aren’t happy. $27 on a wedding? A dozen roses according to a New York Times from the era was $25. You got married. That’s not a weddings.
Sounds like a big celebration.
Correction:
You CAN afford to get married.
You CAN'T afford a wedding.
A wedding IS the ceremony, they can't afford the reception.
There is no such a thing can't afford to get married. What they mean can't afford a reception. Get married if ye want too stop make excuses
Shit, you know this may be the biggest event to happen good for them.. so I hope this wedding is both of their dreams and smile about that day forever.
Agreed. Costs £50 to register
Seriously, WTF!!
Great actress that Karen - she sits fine in the car and stands until she has to get assessed … then she needs help walking LOL
Some people are partly able, I’m guessing she’s one. Able to walk stand and sit in small amounts, like how a lot of people who use walking aids and wheelchairs can in fact stand and walk without one in small batches, hell I’m one of these people.
If you can't afford to pay the 27pounds to reserve your marriage date then that's a huge red flag that you can't afford to get married. Simple as that.
I don't see that.. Since they are already living together, getting married is just a few quid extra for the ceremony and administrative costs so they can afford to get married, just gotta be frugal about it, that's why extra 27p per months is alot for them.
@@knkjkjn Yeah with the taxpayers money that is meant for food and essentials as they get back on their feet but these people get too comfortable that they never will.
@@FlashySolution So what? No where it says for what they can spend their benefits on. Working ppl always get so jelly on ppl on benefits, it's funny. If you think it's so nice to live off them in poverty ,then quit your job and you can enjoy the benefits train too ig. No one forces you to work. This is what taxes are for. I'd rather see tax money to go to them instead of sending weapons to Ukraine ,extending the conflict which isn't our business in the first place.
@@knkjkjn yeah for food, shelter and utilities. The basics. Benefits via the tax payer’s money are a safety net
I would have thought, getting the date arranged and paid for is the ultimate priority over a taxpayer funded dream wedding expenditure …but that’s just me.
I can’t whip up much sympathy for the couple who were making good money with the laundry “we never had to save anything- there was plenty coming in”. I live on pension, have no debt and have enough in savings to carry me six months. I don’t understand not saving.
They are complaining that the amount they receive in benefits won't allow them to maintain their former spending habits!
Benefits are not designed for you to maintain a middle class lifestyle.
They are designed to feed you and keep a roof over your head.
I would surmise the money coming in was all cash from the launderette machines and the 'book keeper' saw it all as income; forgetting that costs such as rent, electricity, rates, repairs, income tax etc. needed to be deducted from their cash flow.
Did they say why the launderette closed?
@@hislittlemrs.9235 Went bust so could be anything. Most likely because they were spending the money frivolously and had nothing banked in case they fell on hard times and fell behind on rent etc. Seeing as another laundromat in the area was still in business it's also poor management and probably that lady being the book keeper didn't actually know what she was doing. So a combination of 3/4 things.
@@hislittlemrs.9235 probably same reason most closed over the last few decades..nearly everyone has a machine at home..
If you don't have a job... your job is finding a job!
How TF can there be jobs for everyone if your borders are completely open and illegals are being treated better than indigenous Brits!!
When I think of my grandfather going down the pits and being totally ashamed when they closed and he had to apply for subsistence….and then there is this lot.
Don't blame them. Blame the system.
My Papaw in West Virginia in The USA worked in the coal mines here until one collapsed causing a coal car to break loose and smash him. He survived through it . Once he healed he wasn’t the same , he couldn’t go back . We did what every respectable mountain folk did.. made liquor . 😉 the money was a lot better. Honest quality product the family took pride in .
@@HillbillyYEEHAA 💯 It's always easier for people to punch down rather than up. It makes them feel superior. It is righteous anger in the wrong direction. We should be looking to the massive corporations, bankers, governments, big business and the dark wealth, for answers as to why the system is the way it is. People don't do this, they choose instead to blame and denigrate the poorest, possibly not well-educated and most vulnerable in society. Go figure 🤔
Lazy animals...
@@k_j_n1242 Yup!
3 kids and you want a 5 bedroom house?! Bloody heck we were a family of 5 n managed in a 3 bed semi no problems.
Yeah greedy scroungers
And they live apart... bullshit
Do they fuck live apart 🤣🤣 she only got a single bed?? Unbelievable……
We were a family of 11 and survived with 3 bedrooms. My mom was a family of 12. 10 kids in one room. Yes it was tight and yes when we were not in school we spent most of our time outside playing.
I have 4 kids in a 2 bed. I'd be happy with just one extra room!...what on earth do they need a 5 bed for!!?
I’ve seen this many times, I worked in a job centre and the people who actually need help,after working all their lives are the most deprived. I stopped working there after 4 yrs due to their in compassion to people who were genuine, but people who had never worked a day in their lives got everything going, benefits, crisis loans, community care grants, deprived area funds the lot
Yes your right, I've thankfully always been in work for the last 30yrs. Only time was about 12yrs ago, when I got made redundant. Not knowing how the system worked I went down to the local job centre, mainly to see if I could get any help with money to pay for my council tax. I was told it would take up to six weeks to get any financial help. I laughed told her I would be back working before then, I was back in employment by the end of the week. Point is the system doesn't really help those that need or deserve it. It's just for long term wasters lol!!@
That’s half the problem in welfare states,some people have never worked a day in their lives and probably never will the bludgers and the poor bloke who’s been made redundant or unemployed for some other reason,they make it hard for them while they’re paying for the rent and food money plus enough to go for a fair few pints a week,plus they’re letting to many Poles and east European bludgers into the country who come just to rip off the welfare system,that’s half the problem,make it harder for them to get the dole or something so that the people who are entitled to a hand up can get it.!
Exactly. I completely agree with you, the way they are living makes them lazy, of course, the main culprit is the government
Who is letting “them” in? Did you sleep through the past few years throughout the whole Brexit disaster? EU nationals cannot simply come in and live here anymore. And just out of curiosity what is the percentage of Poles coming into the UK (past tense) not working and claiming benefits only? Not long ago your kind kept moaning about Eastern European folk terrorising job market and “stealing” your jobs. So is it one or another?
@@granty6125 excuse me, at least people who come into the country want to and will work!
Just love it ! Caviar taste with hotdogs wallet.. lmfao 😂
champagne taste glue money
Champagne tastes on a beer budget
Since filming ended, Brian moved back in with Rachel 😅
Probably “rents” hid flat out too. 👀
@@Rebecca236let’s not say things that aren’t proven!
They "live apart" (or pretend to) because they get more benefits like that. Many working families in UK can't afford a two-bedroom house.
I think his fiancee has a job so she wouldn't be getting benefits. Just him.
@@BBrunnel It does not work like that ,you can actually get sometimes more benefits if you just work a few hours a week (Universal Credit and a higher Housing Benefit)
Quit working and join them
@@Rk-vr1xvToo late, I am now retired after 46 years of full-time work. My pension is not any higher than the "Universal Credit" or the smorgasbord of benefits dished out to people of my age who have never worked. It's also true that, after paying for general living expenses and taxes (which went to support the scroungers), there was never enought to put in a private pension so I only have the minimum state pension.
@@ileanamuntean7338 you do realise it's a standard rate you get .. people who have enough money to live on universal credit usually disabled or have disabled kids ... otherwise it's £260 per month for under 25 plus rent
I do t believe for one second that couple are living apart! 👀👀🙄🙄🙄
ikr
Could be true. Only 3 kids!!
If she has a bed why would he need a different house?? Defo on the con them two!
@@sugar4522 exactly, and to have the audacity to air this crap too 🙈
@@kelly9714 I know right. Worried about having their benifits cut, goes on national telly showing off all their unnecessary expenditures 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣
...And the Oscar goes to Brian and Rachel... telling us they don't live together! 🏆 🏆🏆🏆
Nearly spit my dinner out! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The lack of financial knowledge is astounding.
£19,000 a year for doing nothing that sums this country up
She's a good actress! She should get an oscar for her performance for the medical!!
Karen, she suits her name
Clearly not because her benefits were reduced lol
A medical done by none medical professionals funny that paid to a company that’s folded 2 over company’s torries strike again
Would they not try the local councils for street cleaning or binmen? They seem to be dreaming too high like running a bar.
wtf is a torrie. try getting an education you simple minded person@@United4eva608
When times are good people need to save, comes in handy when times are bad.
you shoot yourself in the foot saving. you become ineligible to claim anything.
Save for 1%?? I would rather invest in tins of Spam. Price went from £1.50 to £3.50 within 15 months.
Good old Brian rents his flat out pulls in the money from the benefits and lives with his mrs after dark, what a classic 90s scam😊
Right? How much more space does it take for him to sleep in the same bed as his partner of 17 yrs? Lmao
I hope someone ratter them out to whatever agency it is in the UK
What does he do with his rent money ?
What is wrong with going to a legal person to marry the two.
Private detective warranted with a camcorder, tape addressed to the council I think.
@@xxxautopsy99xxx11 years
They deserve an Oscar for their performance 🎭
I am 68 years old Australian on an age pension with degenerative scoliosis which gives me pain 24/7. I still work 2 x 5hr shifts at a supermarket and have done for 5 years since being unable to work full time in my chosen career. I was a single mum of 4 after my divorce when my children were very young and always worked to support my family. They are all productive people with good careers and 3 have them are raising their own young families. They tell me that the best gift I gave them was a very strong work ethic which I am very proud of. I work part time still because I have 7 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren and want to be able to give them nice gifts for birthdays and Xmas. I still feel that working, even part-time, is super important for my health, wellbeing and self-esteem. I truly cannot understand this mindset that it's not worth working. I worked all my life, going back after each child was born, so this British attitude seems alien to me. Mind you, their are plenty of Aussies who make a lifestyle out of disability because until recent years many alciholics and drug addicts were able to get a disability pension for life
My 17 yr old son has Scoliosis, and I see what he goes through everyday with pain, it's no joke. I'm so sorry you have this painful issue 😔
You are absolutely right 💯 you need the socialization, self esteem, and a pay check. So many depend on government checks when they could absolutely work. The couple w/ 5 kids wanting to get married, the man needs to go out and get a full time job doing what ever it takes, his fiancé taking care of him is so cringe 😳.
The woman with sciatica needs to go to a chiropractor to readjust her back, to take the pressure off the nerve. I've had it (sciatica) really bad to were I couldn't walk for almost 2 months. I went to a chiropractor, and it helped so much. My mom is always saying "if you done use it, you loose it". I'm 52 with advanced Ostioarthritis, I've already had a Total hip replacement, and need the other one and, my right knee done lol and I'm still raising teenagers. They are the youngest of my 6 kids. My 4 older ones are all on there own doing very well. My oldest son is in his last 1 1/2 yrs to become a Biology Professor, I'm so proud of all of my kids, and 5 grandkids. I hope the best for you, love from California, USA.
Oh, lol we have way too many on government paychecks too 😄.
I have worked almost 50 years for at least 8 hours per week. I was sick three times for a couple of weeks. Just got my pension aged almost 67. We are from a generation in which work is the basis of life.
70 in 2 months, still working as a nurse in Central Qld Aus.
Who cares about what you have done?... sounds to me like you are trying to justify yourself... why mention how good you think you are?... or how great it is to work your LIFE AWAY!...maybe all your family wanted was TIME WITH YOU. - trading your time on this planet away for a few leftover pennies + a dilusion of fake morality, while grabbing a few snatched memories a month, if your lucky,.. sounds tragic. Theres FAR MORE HEALTH RELATED ISSUES LINKED TO THE MODERN DAY WORLD OF WORK than almost anyrhing else... FAR BETTER to teach your kids to have AWARENESS OF SELF HEALTH + SELF RESPECT..... a "good work ethic" these days is actualley a licence to be taken advantage of and used.
@@gtavmj-1852 I agree with your last statement but the rest was a bit harsh.
People are encouraged to comment on UA-cam.
We got married in our lounge by our local pastor and instead of presents it was a pot luck reception. Saved us a fortune and everyone we wanted to be there was there and 12 years later we're still going strong. Conversely a mate of mine spent 20-30k on an expensive wedding and within 4 or 5 years it was all over ...
You can't equate what you spent on your wedding to how long it will last. Makes no sense. I get your point though.
@@1972dsrai - I agree. My main point is don't blow a whole pile of money on a wedding that you can't afford in the first place (in terms of this episode) when that money could be used elsewhere (i.e. debt repayment or a house deposit) etc ... :)
My fiancée and I were married in 1972 in her church, a small Baptist congregation. She had just graduated from college and I was in the Navy. We didn't have much money. There was a luncheon buffet in the church hall and my mother in law's Sunday School class helped out. We used her family's 14 foot camper. My father in law pulled it to Lancaster, Pa. He stayed in it the next week. Three days later we flew to my duty station. We were out of the country for the next three years. Despite not knowing the language she found work in the medical field doing home care work. She didn't work in her profession which is Physical Therapy. She was paid minimum wage and I drew E-3 Pay.
In that three years we paid the little loan she had off. It was small because she had worked in Summers cleaning rooms at the Jersey Shore for two years. At MCV in Richmond she worked in the cafeteria and in the labs cleaning animal cages. She used public transportation. I bought a used car from a sailor who was leaving for her work. It was a POS and I was constantly repairing it.
The attitude of my family was disgusting. These are people for whom the reception is what's important. They go to the church in hair curlers and house dresses but get all dolled up for the reception. The bride and groom go tens of thousands of dollars to pay for the reception. They hope the monetary gifts will cover some of it. I heard some grumbling about my wedding because we didn't have alcohol and the food was some catered prime rib dinner. They usually can't afford a house for years and live in apartments.
We got out of the Navy three years after the wedding. We stayed with her bachelor uncle for a year. He didn't charge us rent. I dis a bunch of repairs while we stayed there. It was an old Victorian house and needed a lot of work. We bought an old cottage that had been in a fire and was fixed up. My family had bad comments about the tiny house but we didn't care.
Three years later we moved to North Carolina. We were able to buy a better, brand new house. We paid it off early. Our son was the first college graduate in our family. We paid for all the expenses of his education. He was able to graduate without debt and we gave him the old car he'd been driving and he traded it in on a new car. He and his wife make very good money but are still thrifty. The money is already put away for the kid's college education.
We weren't cheapskates, just thrifty. We'd both grown up in poor families and knew the value of a dollar. I had 7 younger siblings and she had 4 younger brothers. 9We deprived ourselves of nothing because our needs were simple and our wants simpler. These British people have the idea that the government is supposed to supply them with everything. I've seen a lot of these videos and it's shocking how much the government spends on housing alone. I've seen two women, one with 11 kids two of whom have children and are getting housing, food and child care benefits. The mother believes she can have all the children she wants and the taxpayers must support them. You can gauge her attitude just watching her peel a potato. She doesn't skin the potato she takes gouges off of it. What does she care? She didn't buy it. Or the two women with children who do not work with one swearing she's never coming off benefits. "You think I should work at McDonalds?". She and her buddy shop all day. One keeps buying clothing. Or the couple who haven't worked in six years with two TV plans. She berates her daughter for getting a job because she could do better on benefits. The saddest cases are the 10, 11, 12, and 13 year old girls who are pregnant.
I was working a repair in a public housing project and speaking with the customer she divulged that she had grown up there. When she got pregnant she was given an apartment of her own. When her daughter got pregnant she too was given an apartment. And the grandmother is still living there. That's four generations of women living in the same housing project in three different apartments.
We're going down the tubes and fast.
@@robertcuminale1212 - Thanks for your story Robert. We certainly do live in an entitled generation who want a caviar lifestyle on a bread and butter income. At the end of the day, the people who will actually get ahead are the one's who are prepared to live frugally and are prepared to work hard to eliminate debt, save and make practical decisions to improve their financial positions. The two best benefits from this is that it develops a mindset shift to delayed gratification and teaches patience. This is what we've done for the last almost 10 years and we've got from panicking about money to being in control of money. While it certainly hasn't been easy at times, the rewards far outweigh the sacrifices and the light at the end of the tunnel grows a tiny little amount with each passing payday!
Sounds terrible though 😅
The airport striker should be given his job back, he just happened to be 6months ahead of the industry-wide strikes, following his own principles for striking, fair play to him standing up for what was right
Agreed! The zero hours contracts are bloody criminal!
lol
Priorities are lost on this couple thats about to get married.
I’d quit thinking of spending money on a wedding and go to the court house and spend that money on extra groceries. Wedding money is a waste as far as I’m concerned. You don’t make enough to spend money foolishly. Spending on a car to take you a mile is foolish . Decorate your apartment and have delicious snacks and desserts with a nice cake and with champagne and save money
Was thinking the same. My dad had been active in various societies trough his life and had a lot of aquaintances and work mates and such so I decided to make the food for the gathering after his funeral afterwards myself. Rather something simple like meatballs and potatogratin, danish smørrebrød with pickled herringsand some applepie for dessert. Simple but allowing to welcome anyone who wanted to attend after the funeral ceremony in church because that was like who he was in life.
@@johannas.l.brushane2518 Your very wise.
Late reply and I totally agree. As a chef I'm doing ALL the catering for my wedding, lol. The only thing I'm paying for is the venue, my dress and the food...I'm not rich enough to afford a lot of the things that go into weddings but I figure as long as we eat great and party down, mission accomplished! 😝🎊
It's your money so they can't care
@@Stepatee not everyone is a chief, it's great that your are
It's very impressive how almost all the people on benefits mysteriously find the money for an expensive habit like smoking
don't forget drinking Sky/Bt sports
And tattoos
And pets
I think you will find this is from 2016 aired (so maybe 2014/15 shot), now you get 4 weeks to get a job then your told what to apply for.
Not every person on benefits is like this. Stop generalising. They pick only those for the show, a person that doesn't smoke and budgets their money well is boring to film.
My wedding was £12,800 (at least). My brother's wedding was about £800. My brother has been married for about 15 years. I was separated after less than a year. £13,000 and for what? One enjoyable day, that was it.
It goes that way sometimes
I have noticed that with many of my friends, the more lavish the wedding, the shorter the marriage.
Well, at least u have something good to remember about your failed marriage
A wedding is one day.
A marriage is , hopefully, a lifetime
@move on the quiet, don't say nothing This is a pretty backwards way of thinking. Replace the word 'women' with 'people'.
I got married, my dress was second hand,had no guests, no reception, just a drink in the pub,no honeymoon, have been married 46 year's, no problem 😊
Rachael scrubs up really well. Goodness knows what she sees in Brian.
What I was thinking
ye
You think you're a better fit for her, do you?
@@TheTacticalHaggis God, no!
Its called make something, sell something, no smokes, tattoos, out to eat, booze, drugs, etc. Clean floors, stock shelves, whatever. Benefits WERE NEVER MEANT to live on. It was to help out for a few months in a hard spot.
Totally agree
Thousands live on benefits and have no intention to work for a living. They expect us to crawl out of bed at 6.30am instead. That is whats wrong with this country. A pile of layabouts sucking this country dry.
no bloody wonder they flood in this country its gone soft
😂you notice they are all the same race😂
Forget wedding splurge!!
Put that money in savings.
Not sure if you can in England but in Australia you can get married in the court house it’s a set price includes tea and coffee, photos etc it’s affordable
@@nicolebowerman7979 you can do the same in england, you can just go to a registry office.
They should also stop wasting money on cigarettes.
@@skengy94 should just go there in a nice high street dress for a fraction of the price if you’re on benefits and money is that tight.
@@Rbhawk3rd or at least they should roll their own and save money.
Aye Brian. Utterly potless and trying to get a pub, sound 😂 👍
To be fair, he was applying for management jobs in a pub, not to buy the pub itself.
I wouldn't let him anywhere near a keg unsupervised though
It's disgusting that there benefits don't pay enough money for luxury weddings
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Is it vital for them to depend on government benefits to have an extravagant wedding complete with limo service during these dire times they're going through financially? If they're so desperate to have a dream ceremony of a lifetime, why not contact her majesty, the Queen, offering disbursement for the event? I remember looking at a magazine photo of a young woman wearing a tattered two-piece suit and worn-out shoes to appear halfway decent at her wedding in 1943 to a WW2 soldier before he shipped out to Europe. No wedding gown, no tux, no bridesmaids, no grooms, no wedding cake. Least of all, no reception at a five-star convention hall. Simply the Justice of the Peace, two witnesses, and the happy couple were in attendance. We can't always have extravagant wants and dreams out of life, but these lovebirds should use sensible measures purposely to sustain themselves without relying on government assistance to spend on ostentatious improvidences.
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Hahaha
After watching this video, I won’t never complain even again. I like my life. Wow 😳
Karen: "It's either that or starve".....you look like you are starving.
She can stand to miss a few meals.
How come Karen was OK at car boot but went into medical mode for hospital appointment, funny that
Cos she's full of it. Glad they reduced her payments but they should have stopped them completely
Bunch of scammers
Can I ask how do you know they reduced their payments in so glad they did but like you say they should have stopped altogether.
@@Jsmall910 that info was given at the end of the video, as in what are they doing now...watch closely
Ooh Karen has a scowl that would curdle milk
I got made redundant during covid i worked in a coffee shop and had to use the little savings I had on my rent . I got a job pot washing for 10 hours a day I suffer endometriosis which causes extremely heavy bleeding for up to 3 weeks a month, I've been hospitalised and put on a drip due to passing out and anaemia on the waiting list for a procedure to help my problem . These people make me sick
Jesus that's no joke.
I'm so sorry . R u getting the medical help you deserve
I had edometriosis and fybroids so i feel your pain and inconvenience. Had a hysterectomy and never felt better. I wish u a speedy relief one way or another.
Love the acting by Karen she can't bend down to put shows on and when she's walking up the steps,what a joke. "Do I look ill"
Yes and OF COURSE she has health problems with that obesity. She uses it as excuse not to work.
@MTknitter22 yea imagine going to a 2 hour interview to convince them your so so sick 😂 cringe
I would hate being on the dole. I’d feel like a complete scrounger and so humiliated! And yet these people are so proud they go on TV
It's a right and entitlement
I want to be on the dole. Being a scrounger sounds nice.
And they got paid for that
I get a nice flat paid for and £1500 a month and I'm working with a private doctor to get more, I can work but I've been seriously mistreat so retirement seems fair. After what I've endured at the hands of English people I think you owe me a comfortable living. People do try and degrade me but I stay healthy and get nice girls, the cost of this is that I have to spend a lot of time hurting people. I squirted dogshit on 8 people's heads from the 4th floor today, I pissed on a baby bike rack yesterday and tomorrow I'm gonna pop some bike tires with a drawing pin. I think of you more as slaves rather than me being a scrounger
And I'm only 30 😆
They had a launderette ... it folded did anybody else spot that 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Ffs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was a wash out
They rinsed it and it dried up.
THESE ARE THE HARD WORKING BRITS THE LAbore lock down party WANT TO help
0:45 - "Money doesn't make you happy. Bullshit. It makes me happy"
Well said. I couldn't agree more 👏
As an adult having no money will make you miserable. But having more than you need won’t keep making you more and more happier. It’s not a linear relationship, more an exponential one. How you get your money and what you sacrifice to get it also plays a big part, for some can even make you miserable even if it more than you need and want.
It certainly helps
My Brother keeps saying we will be millionaires this time next year. I don't think being so fixated on money is a good thing. I'm more into my art.
I’d rather cry in a lambo than a rover metro
But you could have all the money in the world and still not be happy....money makes life easier.
Wasting money on a wedding when you’re on benefits is why you’re on benefits
The climbing on the roof to protest something was dumb! No wonder he got fired! The couple planning their wedding needs to realize they are living In near poverty and settle for a justice of the peace or a preacher who will marry them for a small donation. Definitely no limousine!
Exactly
Would u want that sort of person to direct your flight? Thanks god they kicked him out. Or he lied he ever was that
If she can save up to have her kind of wedding, then why can’t she save her money for leaner times???
He seems dumb as dirt. Not surprising.
yeah but if it was for ''current thing'' you'd be all soppy and gushing over his stunning bravery. wouldn't you?
Why are tax-payers paying for your wedding? In any reality? It’s insane. Everyone else is working to pay for this bs. They are all capable of working
, getting an education, childcare. They know more than anyone else, the supports out there. I’m a single mum. Always have been. One son. He’s almost 20. I got a student loan and became a teacher. 17 years into my career. It can be done.
I don't get why they needed a limo 😂
I mean, I don't care but 1000 plus quid?
Nah.
On the other hand, while I do think it's ridiculous to splash on such details for the wedding, especially considering their circumstances, I don't want to moralise over if they manage to put aside some quids for something extra. One could do such by for instance getting marked down soon to be expired foods from the grocery shop now and then but you can't rely on that there will be such available though, the social welfere offices can't account on that local storeowners miscalculate their circulation ratio for different items.
@crusader what? I don’t get your xenophobic response. It doesn’t compute.
Who cares!!!
@@gtavmj-1852 tax-payers care.
I think Dave should forget about an expensive wedding and pay for some teeth.
That’s every single Brit who live on the dole.
@@EricV89 Many of them smoke too which is an expensive, nasty (imo) habit nowadays.
Little known fact.smoking gives you cavities 😮
“By the time you brought cigarettes” um stop smoking!
And you can afford too get married not have a wedding
Get a job!!!
My god, my life alone is AWESOME.
Honestly though! The audacity of Brian is astounding! 🙄.
“I wanna work for myself Rachel, I don’t want to work for someone else”. Like you have a bloody choice! You’re an ADULT with a roof to keep over your head, you’ll taken whatever you can damn well get until better opportunities arise. We can’t all be entrepreneurs and it takes a lot of hard work and effort. This man is calling about available pubs trying be a landlord 🤔. Mate, you haven’t got a pot to piss in and you’re wasting time pottering around trying to buy a pub. Is this a joke? 🤯
Maybe the pub WAS the better oppurtunity?.
@@gtavmj-1852 Not when you have no bloody money to afford the overhead. It literally doesn’t make any sense. What he needs is a JOB. Then once he’s back on his feet with some savings, he’ll be better placed to look into buying a pub. Literally common sense 😫
@@leahmcdermott4189 True. It's good to have goals and aspirations, but he could start by getting a job in a pub, and go from there.
@@leahmcdermott4189 He could try the " Queen Vic" they always looking for staff, or get a market stall.
I think his goal is great, but it won't take a blink of an eye for it to happen. He's defo very traumatised from his last job, but he's got to be realistic.
Wow these benefit scroungers take liberty of our purse string!!
😭😭😭I don't want to pay for anyone's dream wedding out of my paypacket!!!
Me neither the bums
He did all the physical I did the brain uh brain, the emotional. 😂
During the housing crisis, my dad had a heart attack and lost his job a month after. His industry pretty much saw zero growth for a year. He was without a job (not for lack of trying) for about 7 months... And yeah, he'd had a middle class job prior.
My mom had to beg him to go on benefits after 5 months. He was so embarrassed and would rather us be homeless than take the dole.
Interesting to see different perspectives.
This makes me so mad the benifit system is there to help people who need it theres no shame people like your dad who paid in gertting support untill he was able to get on his feet again, hope hes doing ok now.
Don't be ashamed your dad has worked most of his life and has paid into the system
I dint understand the shame I'm I'm why would anyone want to go homeless rather than claim look at the politicians how much they get they all crooked dodgy deals
MIDDLE CLASS JOB…😂😂😂WTF.😂
Struggling with money, but always enough to "buy cigarettes".
don't forget the takeaways and the booze
this is why saving is important
It’s sad that they think this money is owed to them, grow up and get a job.
They wont
And it is sad we, the taxpayer, willingly pay ever increasing taxes to pay for these layabouts without so much as a complaint.
I have NO sympathy for the people complaining about too little benefits income….while buying cigarettes. They even make them a priority when budgeting
These people never sacrifice their cigarettes, so stop complaining.
That's an addiction, people with schzofrena suffer chain smoking
At 29:44...'18 grand a year in benefits' - more than some people earn, working 5-6 days a week!!
What a joke Brian and Rachel clearly living “apart” to get more benefits people do it in Canada too 😂❤
Scamming the system is so exhausting. If these folks put the energy they expend on getting over the system into working a right proper job,they’d be living well.
I find it interesting that Karen gets around ok but the day of her physical she can barely walk. In my opinion something fishy is going on.
Was just thinking that . Someone is not telling the truth.I would like to know if she is on pain meds ?
That's why honest I'll people don't get look in
That something fishy is between her legs.
@@lyndawilkinson451 she doesn’t like being on benefits but she happily took £500 a month while running a business too ,
Her money went down 😂
It’s ridiculous the laundrette couple should have savings, but they blew it! I got married and a reception for 50 for a grand
When I married my second husband, we had to pay for the license and maybe a fee for the town mayor to marry us. Our honeymoon involved going out for frozen yogurt. The whole thing was less than $50.
Lol, you have no place to talk about what makes a marriage successful if you're on your second husband.
Solution for the laundry lady. Get a job. Stop complaining and step up! Set an example for your daughter.
People on benefits don't get paid. Getting paid is the result of work. You're being provided with benefits, which is free money.
Handouts… they don’t get paid, they accept their handout
There are people who have worked all their lives that end up om benefits. There are people who work who get benefits. They have paid into the system and are entitled to help
It amazes me how they all cry the cost of living but not one of them grow a single fruit or vegetable.
They could have a garden and maybe a few hens. I definitely would
Nobody actually does that. That’s just bigoted talk.
Maybe its winter
How many people actually do that FFS?!
@@orthodoxblue7252not the entitled British
Brian has it handy his own flat and his missus house
Some of these ppl kill me, complaining they cant afford food, yet can afford to smoke.....priorities!!!!
Do you notice they can all afford to smoke
God forbid they smoke
350 a week in benefits and they're talking about budgeting. Wtf. Is their rent paid already? If it is they are better off than A LOT of people.
After rent they'll probably have around £800 a month left. I suspect that the £350 a week is for the housing benefit as well. So about £185 a week.
A mate of mine lives in London and gets £39 a week - he's on universal credit and for what ever reason he has been in the 'assessment' phase since universal credit was introduced. That has to cover gas, electric, water and food. He's ex-forces and has a long list of mental health problems and physical health issues. I keep telling him to get some help with claiming PIP because he clearly needs it. He hasn't paid his electric bill in about 3 years so I hate to think how much he owes them.
Edit: I just checked, he's not on UC, he's on ESA (£55 a week) but has money deducted due to debt. Either way, he should be getting more support. He served this country, you'd have thought they'd treat him a little better :/
@@sirplantain he should work
@@Rk-vr1xv did you not read the part about him having a long list of mental and physical health issues?
I wish I had a grand a month left over after rent.
Do you get me!!
All Brits should be on the dole
If you live in a tent in some woodland away from prying eyes you would have more than a grand.
@@stevenhull5025 Errrr how would you get or keep a job with no address?
@@Vikface1978 I have a remote job.
Living in a tent isn't a bad shout and I'd be left with way more than a grand a month.
I'm a home owner tho, not a scivvy renter serf.
I feel that these programs are designed to antagonise viewers who are not on benefits, those whose taxes support the people on the show. Every one that I watch has at least one ridiculous situation where someone is laying out a pile of money on the likes of a wedding, a holiday, a sauna etc. It makes me suspect that the storyline is fake.
It makes it sound like the programmes are commissioned by the Tory party to put the backs up of the middle classes to deflect from their failings.
I agree.
yep like rogue traders. the guy who hosted that has said, most of it was fake or exaggerated.
I pay around 900 twice a week in taxes ( I live in Chicago🙄) , I don’t begrudge anyone who has to have assistance to live. I do get angry when I pay that much in taxes and our government will not take care of our elderly or Veterans but give my hard earned money to other countries for good will.. well we have a lot of Will that needs goodness right here! I have no drama helping take care of my neighbors. All it could take is a catastrophe for me to be in the same boat or any of us for that matter.
Makes for good ratings not all benefits people are like these ones with every one like this there are five or 6 doing the right thing. This gives a distorted view on what most recipients are like
Quit smoking and you will have lot more money!
And booze, tattoos, …
Really shocked to see instead of struggling to get back in work and improving their circumstances, they’re thinking about booking Rolls Royce.
I know, absolutely hysterical...
Yeah. It's one thing to plan a dream wedding for fun, like in 10 years we'll do this and that, but be realistic in the moment, and then when things get better go for a better wedding
When I was looking for a job before, I really tried. Experienced rejections, companies who will never call back. I pushed thru despite rejections. Im here in southeast asia.
I dont see some of these people trying hard to apply.
My dumbass…I should’ve just clicked on the channel to get new videos. I’m hooked on these right now
Good old 27 quid
How in the name of fuck can you lose a cleaning job…..and how the fuck can’t you get one
I mean, define a cleaning job. Being a cleaner and being a hygiene operative are wayyyy different. Cleaning house and cleaning factorys are miles apart. I'm a supervisor for a large hygiene team in a factory and believe me its easier than you think for anyone to get let go. It's isn't an easy job, trust me.
Absence? Punctuality? Incompetence? Laziness, not doing a good job or meeting the task objectives for the day? Same reasons you can lose any job.
I worked as a room attendant, which is a hotel room cleaner and it was very structured and routine. Certain amount of rooms to clean every day, to a certain standard. If you didn’t fulfill it, you would be spoken to. And if nothing changed, retrained, then ‘let go’ for incompetence. You can literally be fired from any job 😂
unskilled labour - such as cleaning - has thousands of applicants per job.
Hope this helps your ignorance.
They always say..living off the government...you are not...its the tax payer you are living off
a bit like the royal family then?
This is what they want you to think 😂
@@stevenhull5025 They have their own income, do keep up, ma'am.
@TheTacticalHaggis am and where did there wealth come from? Robbing other countries
My wife works 55 hours a week in a nursing home to bring £1500 a month home after all deductions.
my wife works 35 hours a week cleaning she brings 1931 after tax .i gets early retirement 1791 after tax .🙂
55 hours a week to get £1,500 a month she's getting swindled. I have a very complicated job hours wise. It's hard to explain. But the long and the short of it I work 3 days a,week and after tax and all my bills are paid I get £2,480 a week.
At least some of the people in this country have a bit of pride unlike the wan*ers in this video.
You should be ashamed of yourself to let your wife work 55 hours. What sort of husband are you??
How many hours do you work?
She's claiming she can hardly move around etc yet she sits on a chair twisted sideways with a leg crossed. I also have degenerative discs in 2 areas of my back and my neck and I couldn't manage to do that.
Exactly, I have sciatica too and sometimes the pain is woeful, but I still get my ass out to work in the morning.
Sciatica sufferer here too. Struggle to get out of bed initially some mornings and wake up with shooting pains down my leg in the night. Never had a day off work with it as getting up and mobile actually helps. Also have to cycle to work and back. These people are lazy arses plain and simple.
I hope she got her claim stopped! Yeah I saw the twisted back on the bed and the way she sat in the car all twisted round to talk.
Prime Minister of Italy absolutely right. They are changing to if people refuse a job offered their checks are reduced.
I don't understand how someone can plan a wedding on benefits. They should be concerned about finding a job. Many others are working on less and taking care of their children
So they shudnt be allowed to get married just because there on benefits?🤔?
Don't get me wrong I think it's a total disgrace when people are full blown drug users or alcoholics and using all there benefits on getting wrecked. But nah I don't think them getting married is wrong just because there not working
@@markmoody236 no but they can just go and get married they don't need a reception.
@@markmoody236 If being married is so important to them, why not just show up at the registry office in whatever clothes and just do it. Benefits are not meant to being used on Rolls Royces and wedding dresses.
Disgusting, wasting money, they look like such trash
At least Paul can have a laugh and do the best he can Karen's whinging would drive me crazy my grandson has the same condition he's doing as much work as he can and studying
Yeah, Sciatica. What a joke. If she lost weight it probably wouldn't even be an issue.
she had me fooled for a while but i eventually saw right through her!!
Watching these before they get geo-blocked in the uk - cos the rest of these have. And im too tight to renew my VPN. Great upload mate.
You need to get on the dole.
@@kayakexcursions5570 Haha What?
@@rog3833 Go get some of that free money!
In general, these people seem to be fit enough and healthy enough to work. I am guessing that they are choosing not to take anything that would leave them with the same as they get on benefits or just a little bit more. This seems to be the way of those on benefit this is plain wrong and never the way things were intended to be. The original benefits system gave you enough to get by, not enough to have any more than the basics. This pushed people to get off as soon as possible as they were much better off at work. Furthermore, there was a social stigma to being on benefits. We now have a situation where people can live for years on benefits, not being flush but more than getting by. This must stop, if not then this country is heading for even worse financial crises.
You can not blame people for not wanting to take jobs that only pay as much as benefits, because they will then have costs that mean that they will be in receipt of a lot less than being on benefits. Think how much transport to work is likely to cost and then there is the removal of accompanying benefits such as council tax reduction, free school meals, free prescriptions and free dental care. Fine if you are a teenager living with mum and dad who will pay, not so fine if you are an adult.
It will be draining
wages are too low and have to be topped up with benefits.
Times are different. For the past thirty years wages have remained oppressed while everything else went up!
I don't live in an environment where people will allow me to progress. I did work my way up to a good wage and an awesome job but people in the community were so spiteful that the harrassment got to much to bare. Now I get about £1500 a month to spend from the government and I'm working with a private doctor to get more. If England wants to be spiteful then I'll educate myself and live a life of leasure 🤷🏼♂️ I'm 30 and I consider myself retired, at least until I can save enough for a house in a different country
And as for 'Brian' he's one of lifes loafers who just lives in a dream world. He isn't even working yet dreams of buying a house.
I am afraid, aI agree with you.
Why isn’t Brian working as a bartender someplace? I get the idea he is looking for a manager’s job
@@joycef8443 Most of the people on these programs are too proud to start at the bottom and work their way up but will happily go on TV and make themselves look like idiots.
Honestly though! The audacity of him! 🙄. Having his girl Rachel support him financially and when she asks about him getting a job, he says “I wanna work for myself Rachel, I don’t want to work for someone else”. Like you have a bloody choice! You’re an ADULT with a roof to keep over your head, you’ll taken whatever you can damn well get until better opportunities arise. We can’t all be entrepreneurs and it takes a lot of hard work and effort. If he was my man, he’d be on Indeed every single day. One thing I can’t handle is a lazy man, especially when I’m a go getter 🤧.
@@Notnowdave877 haha.
"Do I look I'll?" She is really milking it
Sorry but that couple with two homes should be charged with fraud. Together 11 years, have 3 kids and he needs a separate house while claiming benefits? Sorry but they are taking the absolute piss. You mean to tell me they don’t have a double bed in the master bedroom? They literally have a living room big enough for two sofas, both of which are leather. 100% guaranteed she is down as a single mother according to the benefits system and the reason why they aren’t married is because they are scamming the system.
💯
And he takes his dinner in a bag back to his to eat it 😂
She's right. Money is just about the only thing that makes us happy. Don't deny it or you're lying.
The Laundry couple... lol he still smokes, she gets her hair done, use petrol to go to the laundry! Priorities folks!
I'll never have sympathy for anyone claiming to have no money but still managing to buy cigs or beer or takeaway.
And a brand new washing machine would cost around £220 - £10 a month over two years - compared to the £30 (plus petrol) they are paying for laundry!
@@robintyson591 . £10p/w would have it paid in over 5mths. £30 p/w would have it paid in less than 2mths. 👍 think you meaning £10 p/m.
they keep saying they had a successful business but she claimed £500 a month in disabilities while working & they no longer had said business
And then forgot to buy a washer/dryer for themselves ~ JC how stupid can you be?? 🙄
That's because it's not means tested .
She gets that from PIP which you can claim even if you work. 500 means she gets high rate on one of them, so she's lied about her needs one way or another since she's not struggling to get around or take care of herself.
Successful businesses don’t fold over night…
The hide of these people.....the welfare money they get is off honest everyday working people....
Also the money is to live on...not to arrange a wedding....first thing they buy is cigarettes...hate to think my hard earned,.. because l work money... Goes to bloody bludgers
Cigs.... Booze.... Take out.. AMAZING
30 quid for laundry service...i can't afford such luxury 🤨🧐🤷
Wash by hand you lazy woman, I did for the first 5 year's!!
"Crap on the car boot today"... "by the time you've bought cigarettes"... and therein lies your problem.
Can't expect to be making any decent money when you are going to waste no doubt another £10, if not more on some cigs.
When I was young, there was 6 of us in a room and kitchen and 1 bedroom, come sitting room…and an outside toilet😳how can these people complain about what they are getting from the tax payers?…my brother is better off than us and has been on benefits all his life..my husband worked for over 40 years, and I have worked too…very unfair Britain…
Man, which part of India are you from?
@@TheTacticalHaggisWherever it is, most likely better than the dump your from.
Yvonne.......there are no words. Taxpayers must be livid.
nice docu, lovely brits. always fun to watch
Focus on your needs and not on your wants! I want a Ferrari, but driving a Suzuki!
I have to take the subway to work.
And I cannot even afford a car...
I also have a suzuki but I'd prefer it to a fancy car any day lol
Suzukis are great and reliable
Cigarettes are a luxury they can’t afford. As well as Rolls Royce for wedding car.
Good thing Dave has his name tattooed on him, lol.
I still don't understand why the government can't pay these people in vouchers for the essentials.
They spend all of their money alcohol and cigarettes.
I’m guessing the laundromat couple didn’t upkeep their business and lost customers. They traveled and spent money instead of putting it back in the business. 2 months and they needed benefits?? No savings???