This woman is what makes Britain great

well, she’s honest lol!!

I’ve met people like her who pretend to be working, and they’re often the loudest in attacking claimants. And there have been people like her from the start of the benefits system – when the NHS was launched, its enemies were always pointing those who sponged off the health services.

didn’t she realise that she was going to be used as part of a campaign to cut benefits for people who need them?

I got the impression from the very affluent souls who were interviewing her that they wanted to control every penny that benefit claimants get. Bring back the Gestapo.

If you want to get the real characters who have brought this country low, perhaps we should be looking up the social and educational scale rather than at the very bottom of the ladder

How do I know they’re affluent? I know roughly what tv people who appear regularly on the screen are paid. It’s more than most of us – leave it at that, as I support their campaign to keep in work. Not all of them are willing to attack those at the bottom of the scale.

There are a lot of people who would love work and can’t get it. I’m not sure if I were an employer I would want to employ the woman shown here.

There are other people who get paid rather a lot and are responsible for the people genuinely in need – those on sickness benefits and those genuinely seeking work – being genuinely brought to the very edge of destitution. Remember, 80% of the cuts in state spending on essential services are yet to be made.

nobody can have sympathy with her attitude, Mrs T. There have always been people with her attitude, literally from the dawn of urbanisation

She won’t be that long on benefits, either – her diet and her shape and her smoking and drinking mean her life is unlikely to be long.

but she was picked out for a reason.. they didn’t choose someone who’s desperate, sick.. they pick someone who doesn’t want to work and is quite happy to live off those who do.

they’ve picked her out because they’re looking for scapegoats for a time which is threatening to get more grim, and she is a good hate symbol. It’s part of a campaign against the scroungers which takes in most people on benefits. The changes to sickness benefit alone are heartless and placing a lot of people in misery already.

TV presenters are well off, but poor compared with some in the banking system who partied away as though there were no tomorrow and left us with the bill on the mat