Britain’s worst benefits blackspot has been revealed – an area where just one person works for a living.
The rundown Cottsmeadow Estate in Washwood Heath, Birmingham tops a table of workshy communities. Official figures show that 99.1 per cent of working-age adults there live off state handouts.
Among 105 people who could hold jobs, forklift truck driver James Beards is believed to be the only resident who is in full-time employment.
‘I’d never dream of claiming benefits,’ he told the News of the World. ‘It annoys me that I work hard to make a living and other people can just live for free off the state.’
Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions reveal that among residents, 50 are listed as on the dole, 30 are signed off sick and get incapacity benefits, 20 pocket lone-parent payments and five claim other handouts. The Cottsmeadow Estate is one of five communities where more than 90 per cent of adults are on some form of benefits. 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. The shock statistics are based on the number claiming benefits in the second quarter of 2010, and the latest population estimates for neighbourhoods of more than 100 people.
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UK ghetto
UK ghetto
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I wouldn't mind but Washwood Heath isn't exactly a ghetto. It's not particularly affluent either, just average in Birmingham.
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Yep scrounger central, surprised there weren't more parts of Oldham on the list TBH.Gob wrote: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.
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Come to Australia Daisy, we have koalas....
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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...and bludgers!
Look at me, I'm not going to work today!
Look at me, I'm not going to work today!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?