And Proud
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Synopsis
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.

Duration
6 x 60'
Definition
HD
Genre
Factual
Subgenre
Lifestyle
Producer
Channel 5