Meet the UK’s most brazen petty criminals, shameless pickpockets and benefits scroungers
With a fifth of every British pound paid in tax going directly to support benefit claimants, not everyone is happy with who gets what. In each episode we take a look at the people of Britain who refuse to work, but instead rely on other methods to fuel their lifestyles.
We explore the lives of some of those who are proud to be
living on benefits and meet the people accused of cheating the system. With
shoplifting accounting for more than four million offences every year, we
expose some unashamed Brits who are shoplifters and proud. We also see the
pickpockets and snatchers who make their money by stealing other people’s property,
revealing how they target their victims, without a thought for the
consequences. In the second series, we meet the gypsies who came to the UK from
Romania to milk the benefits system. We also meet some of the 800,000 illegal
immigrants who have crept past the UK authorities to settle in the UK over the
past 20 years.
