Benefits Street: Our media is at it again.

 Channel 4 have recently added a new show on to the pile of downgrading, divisive and controversial shows to help portray this "Scrounger" image that all benefits claimers must be. This is clearly just a made up symbolism considering that 60% of benefits go to people in work, and the majority of the rest of it goes to disabled people.

 Benefits street, which the producers tricked the participants into thinking it was about "community spirit", portrays a working class street in Birmingham as a lazy, racist and hopeless community who appear to just be scrounging off the British state. This is a dangerous generalisation which needs to tackled head on and removed from popular T.V culture.

 This misrepresentation of the working class is nothing unfamiliar to British television, streams of shows can be found which aim to divide the working class into thinking that sections of the working class are holding back the rest by robbing the state. This is the Ruling class' favorite tool to holding back the class conscience and to stop the united spirit the working class had after WW2 from returning, after all why would anyone in their right mind help people who sit around all day, who are racist to foreign cultures, and who have Jeremy Kyle style arguments?

 This becomes even more evident when you start listing all the shows chasing down tax invading bankers and the employers who exploit their non-unionised work force. This non-existent list clearly shows which side the T.V producers are on. The side which has the money. Lessons of the past show us that the only way to beat money is through solidarity, strength in numbers, if we say we have had enough of these scandalous shows then the media will have no choice but to listen.

 As a community we can not allow the medias lies to act as an obstacle to class unity at a time the government are selling off the NHS, have you seen this in the main stream media? No because they're using T.V shows like Benefits Street as a smokescreen to cover up the blatant class warfare this government is acting out. We need to not feel anger towards or hate the people who are struggling to make a living and instead direct it at the true criminals of our time, the ones who constantly rip us off and make us pay for their crisis. That is the bankers, CEO s and politicians; not the innocent community trying their best to get by on the poor hand of cards society has dealt them.