Cannot watch it here but I find the whole concept rather disgusting. It seems to be a combination of laziness and cluelessness.
It's obviously a bit of the "in the good old days" type moaning to say this, but my parents both came from poor families, my mum came from a family of 7 kids from a mining village. She left school at 13 and was a housemaid. My grandmother kept all the kids fed and washed on no doubt very little money and no bathroom or indoor toilet. The eldest ones worked (2 of them down the pit) and gave her their wages and she gave them back pocket money until they got married. It would not have been acceptable for any of them to sit around the house and not work. The sons that did not want to work in the colliery went south to work in the factories or into the forces. My brothers went to work at 15 as apprentices and my brother still works now at 65 in a manual profession. To sit around on the dole was considered shameful in my parents' generation, being lazy was shunned. And my mother till her dying day often said to us "You're never so poor as to not be able to buy soap." Yes, the men did often drink, and most smoked too, but they worked hard too and these were considered their little pleasures in life.
Now I don't think we ought to go back to that obviously! But where are those values now? Of working hard, making something of yourself through education, being respectable, being clean for one thing!
Something seems to have gone sadly wrong... don't worry it's not just in Britain either, although in other places where there are less benefits, people have to find other ways to get along. And showing it on the TV just seems in bad taste.
