Sentences with phrase «scroungers who»

In most suburbs around here, we have pickups driven by scroungers who pick through items left at the curb, reclaiming recyclable items and identifying saleable things that could be saved from the landfill.

I second that, followed by all the scroungers who voted against a referendum, against their respective manifesto and against their reason to be there at all, but Quentin Davies can certainly lead the way to the Halifax Gibbet if he doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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».

Not exact matches

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

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?

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

Ed Miliband could copy UKIP's lines word - for - word and the best he would get is «Labour admit they now regret destroying British culture with their scrounger Muslim flood (who vote Labour, by the way)».

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.

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.

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.

It also shows just how pathetic politicians are, including Mister Ed, who feel the need to rub shoulders with newspaper barons who have no qualms attacking the working class, demonising asylum seekers, vilifying benefit «scroungers», indulge in casual racism, homophobia and sexism....

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.

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.

Another public sector union boss, the PCS leader Mark Serwotka, agreed: the real scroungers, he said, were the rich people who avoided paying their taxes.

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.»