Sentences with phrase «as scroungers»

As a Liberal Democrat in the coalition I wouldn't dream of describing people on benefit as scroungers.

«With long term unemployment already rising sharply, the government can not get away with labelling the long - term unemployed as scroungers when there are more than five jobless chasing every vacancy.

In an interview with the World at One, he expressed sympathy with a woman interviewed by the programme who said she objected to be labelled as a scrounger because she was receiving money from the state.

Not exact matches

Polls show the public share Osborne's prejudice against «scroungers», the «neighbour still asleep, living a life on benefits», as Osborne put it today.

The only time the media is interested in hearing from them is when they want to portray them as racist idiots or benefit scroungers.

Elsewhere, deputy leader hopeful Caroline Flint suggested that Labour needs to start attacking so - called benefits scroungers as much as bankers.

A very similar line is being used to target disabled people as welfare «scroungers» and «fraudsters» by the government and by companies reassessing disability support, such as Atos.

Stereotypes of Muslims as benefit scroungers, «aliens» or «other» - as niqab wearers and immigrants who don't belong here - take a long time to shake.

Being disabled I counted on you to be fair honest and treat me as I would have treated you, but nope I'm now a scrounger work shy.

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.

And it is at its nastiest when the wealthy seek to engage the rest of us in blaming the needy for their own predicament, to depict them as feckless scroungers.

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.

According to BBC Radio Derby, the unnamed voter had referred to a Polish family living in the town as «scroungers».

According to BBC Radio Derby, a member of the public in Sawley, Derbyshire, had referred to a Polish family living in the town as «scroungers».

According to BBC Radio Derby, the member of the public had referred to a Polish family living in the town as «scroungers».

I think glibness, I think ideologically based rhetoric, I think trying to divide up society between the haves and have — nots and mobilise the middle ground against the rich is as unacceptable as we have from elsewhere in the political spectrum trying to mobilise the middle ground against what they call welfare scroungers but are actually poor people who have little and want more.

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.

Hendley (James Garner) is the «scrounger,» whose job is to get a hold of things like picks and shovels as well as ID badges and documents.

Kingsley argues that the impulse to try to prevent these refugees from re-settlement is wrong - headed and that contrary to their portrayal as drains on the welfare system of wherever they land, «people who travel for so many miles through such horrific conditions in order to find work can not accurately be portrayed as lazy benefit - scroungers.»

The riots of the disaffected scroungers will be as nothing when compared with those of the disaffected tax - payer.