Why Would You Give A £1M To People Who Can't Live Within Their Means?

[ToraToraTora]

Michael Sheen's secret million pound giveaway is on C4 on Monday at 9pm. Where as I applaud the sentiment there are more needy places than people who spend money they don't have on things they don't need and then end up in debt up to their eyeballs. I have never seen a case that was not avoidable. So great Michael, very generous but give it to the real needy not the feckless sans arithmetic.

https://michael-sheen.com/2025/03/01/channel-4-to-release-documentary-michael-sheens-secret-million-pound-giveaway-on-march-10/

 

[naomi24]

//there are more needy places than people who spend money they don't have on things they don't need and then end up in debt up to their eyeballs//

 

How do you know those people spent money on things they didn't need?

[ToraToraTora]

I know, I have never seen an example that didn't. I come from a vast family who lived like this.

[Ken4155]

You don't know, you are just surmising.

[naomi24]

//Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.//

 

Wilkins Micawber

[chelle7272]

I accrued a lot of debt as  sinlge mother. It wasn't about living  beond my means, but about my situaion unexpectedly changing and children needing things. Very judgemental to assume debt means poeple are just being frivolous or lazy,

[Atheist]

Didn't Musk give money away in return for people going to vote?

[DDIL]

Yup!!

[Atheist]

I've seen polls quoted on here, which found against the views of posters, that he polls were unreliable because the samples were only in the low thousands and therefore unrepresentative of the millions of UK people?

Now we are asked to accept TTT's judgment that because he comes from a vast family of feckless (thousands?), the recipients of Sheen's gifts are the same.

[ToraToraTora]

13:47 so spend less than your earn? Well who'd have thunk it? PMSL!

[ToraToraTora]

With these people, look under the covers, They'll have a car and probably a 3 peice on tick. Smoke 40 fags a day, waccy baccy at week ends, latest I phone and 60 inch plasma and live on take aways. Their kids will have £200 trainers and designer gear and they wonder why they are up to their eyeballs in debt.  In the end it boils down to funding people to live beyond their means.

[jackthehat]

TTT has a very set idea of how debtors live their lives and how they have got themselves into that predicament. He always trots out the same tired cliches about plasma TVs, expensives trainers, cigarettes and booze.

It never occurs to him that there are other reasons why families have become trapped in a cycle of debt - they are all simply feckless, workshy scum who ought to live on breadcrusts and thin jam.

Having said that, I can't abide Michael Sheen and am disappointed that there is yet another reason to see his smug, self-satisfied grinning mug on the TV.

[DDIL]

Is plasma tv still a thing?

[1ozzy]

//they are all simply feckless, workshy scum who ought to live on breadcrusts and thin jam.//

You forgot dripping, yummy, dripping on dried out bread toasted for breakfast.

Oh,  what a wonderful life it was.

[Cloverjo]

TTT: "They'll have a car and probably a 3 peice on tick. Smoke 40 fags a day, waccy baccy at week ends, latest I phone and 60 inch plasma and live on take aways. Their kids will have £200 trainers and designer gear"

Such rubbish. Do you personally know people like that?

[douglas9401]

Tora's baiting you again, never forget he's a master baiter.

Where he would have found the time to moderate heaven knows.

[bhg481]

Yes Douglas - he thinks he's a master debater but your desciption is more fitting.

[barry1010]

People can get in to dreadful debt through no fault of their own. Thirty odd years ago I met a young man who was on the verge on being made homeless because he had been mugged  on his way home from work one Friday, ended up in hospital for a few days.  Week's wage gone in the mugging, loss of a few days work. Borrowed money to pay rent....

When you are living payday to payday it doesn't take much to derail your life.  Not everyone has family to bail them out.

[ToraToraTora]

07:21 yes, not only do I know them, they are my relatives.

[bhg481]

barry - exactly. Have we all forgotten about the Post Office managers who were wrongly accused of fraud and had their lives ruined?

[ToraToraTora]

08:33 Barry unfortunate but they don't lob you out for missing one months rent.