Sentences with phrase «of scroungers»

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.

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.

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These are the very people who will be turned off by the kinds of attacks on immigrants and «benefit scroungers» launched in recent months.

Punitive conditionality policies feed off an «us and them» perception of welfare: they — «the benefit scroungers» — get it, while we — the «respectable taxpayers» — don't.

We see time and time again that many groups won't put money in the welfare and benefits section because of «benefit scroungers».

Turning his fire on to tax avoiders within big business, Mr Hodson said: «Why is the government calling those who are out of work scroungers?

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».

This extends to a heightened sense of «benefit scroungers» who appear to be getting a better deal, especially when it comes to housing.

The public's suspicion of benefit «scroungers» seems to be fading - potentially giving critics of the coalition's welfare reforms a louder voice in the debate.

Years of austerity, cuts and scrounger rhetoric have devastated provision.

While this might suit the scroungers narrative of Grant Shapps and the Tory press, I'm afraid it simply isn't true.

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.

The 2012 Tory conference is quickly becoming a supermarket checklist of populist, pub bore rants: Europe, «elf and safety, scroungers.

«For years our union has been at the forefront of the tax justice campaign, and we are proud to support UK Uncut that has popularised our message that the real fraudsters and the real scroungers are to be found in the boardrooms not in the jobcentres.

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.

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

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.

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».

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

Figures obtained from Department of Work and Pensions suggest some welfare reforms aren't hitting «scroungers» but the most vulnerable.

But what of Rey (Daisy Ridley), the desert scrounger whose budding gifts in the ways of the Force dominated the last movie?

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.

In the stuffy words of the old (not updated) OED definition: a scrounger, a bluffer, a cadger; smooth talking is the theme here — to blag — origin uncertain, like all the best words, but maybe related to French blague, or joke.