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Although tbf when I was on the breadline if I'd have been able to pick up an expensive telly at half price and then sell it on a month later at near-retail price for profit, I'd have been all over that shit. When you're in the gutter, every little helps, as a wise woman on the telly somewhere once said.
fairy nuff if people are on breadline try to make a buck, but my point was that some are not, and they still perform like animals
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That's true, but there is an thread of classism running through the general outrage levels about it. I mean, a bunch of people fighting over a microwave in Asda isn't what most people would see as a very classy thing to do, and so I think for that reason it has become bound up with "poverty" in Britain's ever-so-class-conscious popular imagination.
Although tbf when I was on the breadline if I'd have been able to pick up an expensive telly at half price and then sell it on a month later at near-retail price for profit, I'd have been all over that shit. When you're in the gutter, every little helps, as a wise woman on the telly somewhere once said.