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Owen Jones responding to Channel 4's Benefits Street:
Where's the TV show about low-paid workers struggling on in-work benefits or unemployed people desperate for work?
Where's the TV show about low paying bosses and private landlords scrounging off the welfare state with low pay and rent subsidies?
Where's the TV show about rich tax dodgers who are hiding £25 billion from the public purse while millions struggle?
Where's the TV show about £16bn of benefits unclaimed by working and unemployed people, compared to £1.2bn benefit fraud?
Most social security goes to pensioners who pay in all their life. Most working-age benefits go to working people. 6.5m people are chasing full-time work
Make everyone think unemployed people are scroungers, and let the bankers and tax-dodgers get away with it. Clever, really
As for well-off TV producers trying to further their career by turning the poor against the poor: You. Are. The. Pits. #benefitsstreet