Benefits Street reviewed: if anyone’s being exploited, it’s the taxpayers, says James Delingpole

My favourite scene in the first episode of the new series of Benefits Street (Mondays, Channel 4) — now relocated to a housing estate in the north-east, but otherwise pretty much unchanged — was the one where the street’s resident stoner and low-level crim Maxwell has to attend a court summons.

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Benefits Street reviewed: if anyone’s being exploited, it’s the taxpayers, says James Delingpole

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