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Saints and scrounges

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  • 10-05-2013 8:28am
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    joe stodge
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭


    I've just been watching a tv show called saints and scroungers on bbc, it's a program where they name state benefit cheats and explain how/why they were caught.

    Would a show like this work on Irish television?

    I personally think it would, as ireland is so small everyone knows everyone and if they start naming people on national television it'll work as a deterant.


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    Valetta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    http://www.tv3.ie/shows.php?request=paulconnollyinvestigates


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    conorhal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,987 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Show's like this, Boarder Force UK, Nothing to Declare, One Born Every Minute and their ilk are nothing more then a PR excercise attempting to reassure the public that their boarders are secure, their hospitals safe and staffed by caring angels that make no mistakes and your hard earned cash only goes to the deserving.
    They're nothing but a sham to provide an illusion of competence to a government's failing citizens at every turn, so it's unsurprising that the worse governments get, the more of these shows we see (along with Numpty Idol and other televisual prozac).
    Watch Prime Time Investigates instead.


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