Sentences with phrase «about scroungers»

12:05 - Miliband is following up the autumn statement, and Osborne's point about scroungers getting lots of lie - ins.

ITV went and used a soap to show us about scroungers by getting a family into it's major soap.

Council officers should be immune to poisonous talk about scroungers, but they are not.

Not exact matches

The public's hostility to the benefits bill is, in large part, due to the commonly - held view (articulated by Field) that it encourages scroungers: in the same poll, more than one in four respondents said they thought at least half of all welfare claimants were «scroungers who lie about their circumstances to obtain higher welfare benefits».

And the 15 % who don't are precisely the Daily Mail's «hard - working, squeezed middle classes» — the people the Tories and the right - wing press are constantly trying to whip up into a frenzy about how they're paying through the nose to fund a bunch of scroungers.

But Labour had three green papers on welfare, and three programs on the same day on the BBC about benefit scroungers.

Labour's awkward compromise in this area makes it look like they can't decide, while Labour voters especially applaud the Tory approach to a get tough policy on welfare — they are often the people who see abuse of the system at first hand, and for them, fairness is about stamping on scroungers and shirkers.

Migrants feel strongly about the way they are labelled as workshy scroungers by the media and politicians while contributing more to the economy than the indigenous population.

Although, as I've said before, he and his colleagues shouldn't allow that confidence to spill over into callous rhetoric — there's more to Iain Duncan Smith's reforms than lazy lines about «scroungers» and «shirkers» admit.

Instead of arriving at the position of either backing the government's welfare bill or forever being depicted as the friend of the scrounger, shadow ministers should have been making a big argument about the regressive nature of the Budget, the lamentable symbolism of effectively scrapping child poverty targets and the removal of in - work benefits to those eponymous hard - working families.