Benefits Street, the TV series is called: Benefits Street, the short but narrow minded concept of St James Turner street in Birmingham, where the majority of residents are critized for living a benefit-dependant lifestyle. Don't get me wrong, but a lot of us rely on benefits at some point in our lives, but why people feel the need to blame St James Turner residents for relying on benefits, when many of us do, too. Ever since 'Benefits Street' had been showed, the BBC news has claimed that over 50,000 people signed a petition suggesting the show exploited residents and should be pulled from the air. They also claim it has had over 5 million viewers so far.
The controversy has led to vast quantities of visitors, treating the street as if it were a tourist attraction. Vunerable children cycling down the pavement are left too traumatised to play outside,or even go to school. This is all due to the publicity of this show, and how it results in people throwing abusive comments towards these unfortunate families.
My overall conclusion of this news is that not everyone who is benefit-dependant chose to be this way:
MAYBE they can't find a job.
MAYBE they are refugees.
But the only soloution for a possibility of peace in this street, is to stop influencing the public with more 'Benefits Street'. We do NOT want theese poor residents to be looked down on like peasants.
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