Skint - Itv - 9.00Pm

[silliemillie]

Did anyone watch this program?
Apart from it being diabolical....
At the end it said 'In Memory of Gordon' I didnt pay too close attention to their names, who was this please?

[2sp_]

I'm watching it just now on +1.

I'll listen out for a Gordon.

[factor-fiction]

Why was it diabolical, silliemillie?
It was an eye opener, i think, for some people

[leahbee]

Yes I watched it. Now I know where Jeremy Kyle gets the people for his show from.
We were very poor when I was young and had to go without many things but we would not have dared to answer our parents back or swear at them. We would have got a real good hiding.

[silliemillie]

Factor - It appeared to suggest that everyone on the estate were the same which I am sure they are not.
But of the familys they showed, they were diabolical.

It makes my blood boil when people sit there smoking & drinking & bringing more & more kids into the world and then moaning they are skint.

[2sp_]

I grew up on a council estate and it was nothing like that!

[silliemillie]

Exactly Leah, both my parents & myself & my late husband worked very hard & were still skint but our children would NEVER behave like that. These familys use it as an excuse for everything.

[sherrardk]

Just watching it - I think it's meant to provocative. The narrator has just said about the pregnant woman 'she's back from hospital, she's just dropped her seventh'!

[giveup]

I think its very sad. I don't think I've ever met anyone that bad. I did voluntary work in a womans refuge once,but they were nothing like the people on this programme.

[Ellipsis]

Gordon was one of the producers. 1965-2013. Poor chap.

[silliemillie]

Thank you Ellipsis, thought I hadnt heard the name during the show,

[leahbee]

I know that I am old fashioned but I am of the opinion that there is a serious lack of discipline these days. I don't think that it is a bad thing to be just a little bit scared of parents,teachers and police. There were eight of us in my family and I am sure that this anda wonderful mother that kept us on the straight and narrow. Well that and my mother telling us that if we ever took anything that did'nt belong to us she would chop our hands off.

[giveup]

I take it we are paying for the nine children?

[ELVIS68]

Broken Britain at its very best, or worst

[sherrardk]

I am half watching this at the moment. Part of me is outraged (at the handout culture, the why me, I am dyslexic, etc). Part of me (a smaller part) can sort of see how it escalates to this. Poor parenting, so poor role models. Parents who are too weak/witless/know no better. It does make me really annoyed that the parents are moaning that they are skins, but spend their benefits on fags and booze rather than on food for their kids.

[sherrardk]

Skint ^

[giveup]

Stealing seems to be a way of life. Take away their benefits and I suppose they would steal more. I just can't believe it.

[anneasquith]

as usual, show the worst parts/people of a deprived area, and everyone up in arms...... but it makes good telly ? the male featured in the programme who had step children and 2 of his own had worked for 24 years. and has only been unemployed 1 year.

[Booldawg]

plenty of people are skint. I wonder if the programme will feature families on low incomes that work all the hours, pay a mortgage and still have nothing left at the end of it. Skint with no safety net!

[patsyann]

Having watched skint I then watched my recording of The Dales with Ade Edmonson. He revisited a lovely family with a farm right out in the wilds.^ children ranging from teenager to newly born and they all work really hard. The Chidren are delightful and have the run of the farm and work alongside Mum and Dad. Mum had last baby on roadside verge it came so quickly.And still possibly wants another. They are so happy and contented but Dad realises they may want to spread their wings in time. But they are totally grounded.What a comparison with the people shown in Skint. And of course there are lots of good people there too.

[Mamyalynne]

What I saw in 'Skint' was sheer hopelessness and acceptance of their fate , hardly anyone especially the young ones seemed happy or to have life behind their sad eyes.