Estate where only one person has a job. Enjoy
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Estate where only one person has a job
official figures show that 99.1 per cent of working-age adults who live in one area of the UK pocket some sort of benefit every week.
Rundown Cottsmeadow Estate in Washwood Heath, Birmingham, tops the table of workshy communities where almost everyone lives off the state.
Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions reveal that none of the other 105 people of working age on this estate held down a full-time job at the last count.
The Egerton Street area of Oldham, where 110 out of 113 (or 97.3 per cent) of residents claim state benefits, was second on the list. Sandhills in Liverpool was third, with a 95.5 per cent jobless tally.
The Westport Road area of Burslem South in Stoke-on-Trent came next with 94.2 per cent of residents on benefits while Whalley Banks in Blackburn, scored 92.9 per cent and came fifth
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/222197/Workshy...
Pesty said:
Sheeda Pistol said:
My push bike nearly got pinched off me round there.... horrible place... needs nuking...
we have been telling you that for ages you always argue that Birmingham is a nice place 
Just not that bit...
Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 10th January 10:30
Sheeda Pistol said:
Pesty said:
Sheeda Pistol said:
My push bike nearly got pinched off me round there.... horrible place... needs nuking...
we have been telling you that for ages you always argue that Birmingham is a nice place Just not that bit...
t holes as well.Bing o said:
Sheeda Pistol said:
Manee said:
Its quite possibly the worst place. ever. I hate it.
I take this comment is not aimed at Birmingham as a whole is it.You are talking about that part mentioned in the article right?
Because he is right.
Sheeda Pistol said:
Bing o said:
Sheeda Pistol said:
Manee said:
Its quite possibly the worst place. ever. I hate it.
I take this comment is not aimed at Birmingham as a whole is it.You are talking about that part mentioned in the article right?
Because he is right.
The whole city is oen big bad awful design.
Uhura fighter said:
Eric Mc said:
Is this an indication that those who don't work (for whatever reason - genuine or not) end up herded into these estates?
Very much. Lower housing costs.Looking at the photo (and confirming with a quick bit of google), those three tower blocks are 13 floors each. Even assuming there's nothing else to the estate than the tower blocks, that's still fewer than 3 adults of working age on each floor.
Something doesn't seem quite right about that?
Puggit said:
Would be interesting (but nigh on impossible) to compare that data with Sky usage and 50+ inch tv screens...
Bear in mind, tho, if you've a family to support on benefits, a sky subscription and big telly comes in much cheaper, in the long run, than forking out for a familys-worth of entertainment by other means.I'm sure you'd agree with me when I say, if my sole source of entertainment was a Sky subscription, I'd be a very depressed feef.
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feef said:
Puggit said:
Would be interesting (but nigh on impossible) to compare that data with Sky usage and 50+ inch tv screens...
Bear in mind, tho, if you've a family to support on benefits, a sky subscription and big telly comes in much cheaper, in the long run, than forking out for a familys-worth of entertainment by other means.I'm sure you'd agree with me when I say, if my sole source of entertainment was a Sky subscription, I'd be a very depressed feef.
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One thing I can see that is common to all those estates in the list is that they used to be industrial areas with plenty of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs,for example Washwood Heath home of LDV, Burslem home of the potteries until the work went abroad. These areas are this decades' equivalent to the mining towns or steel working towns, places where even the thickest school leaver could walk into a reasonable paying job.
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