Solution or Slavery? – Workfare

In the last few weeks there have been action gathering organised by Boycott Workfare Welfare in opposition to the workfare system that has come into use with the current government.

Who Benefits?

It is all too often that we see only negative angles on the Welfare State in both the media, political speeches and reality tv programmes like Benefits Street. It is rare to see anything positive containing the words benefits or welfare.

Scroungerphobia – Britain’s growing fear

In 1978, A. Deacon coined the term “Scroungerphobia” in reference to British public opinion concerning benefits, those who receive them and the welfare system.

Welfare UK – Facts and Myths

It’s becoming more and more common to associate the words benefits and scrounger and due to the barrage of media attention that the welfare state has been receiving of late it is easy to see why. This post is designed to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the statistics about benefits.

Benefits Street – A fair portrayal of life on benefits?

The programme, which aired on Channel 4 for the first time on January 6th, aimed to show the impoverished reality of living on benefits and attempted to show that the reality of the situation is far from the way some politicians and media coverage would have the public believe.

A Simple Search

There are certain papers that are clearly less objective than others and the nature of a free press allows for this but alongside this having a free press allows for subjective viewpoints to be put across in a way that come across to some readers as  objective.