Labours Devastating Legacy

"Seven Puppies for Seven People." BBC TWO 12th November 2009

The above documentary is set in East London, near where 2012 Olympics is due to be held.

It focused on Jackie, a single mother living on benefits with a teenage son who refuses to attend school.  Sounding familiar?  They own two Staffordshire Bull Terrier crosses, one dog, one bitch. You can guess why. The bitch duly whelped 7 Staffi cross puppies in the cramped front room of her terraced Council house. Her friend, Donna, is the local whelping expert having helped over 30 litters of puppies into the world.

This Donna woman, is known locally as the "Pit Bull Lady", which says it all really. She owns a large, Cane Corso Mastiff*  and Donna is exceedingly proud of how aggressive this dog is. She boasts it would rip an adult to shreds. He's very sought after as a Stud dog locally.
(*The Cane Corso is the breed of dog most favoured as guards by the drug barons & Mafia...need I say more?)

As the story continues to unfold, we see the real under class which this Labour Government has created in the 13 years they've been in office.

None of the people we see with the puppies work. They all live in Council accommodation. Most are in blocks of flats. Yet look at their life style. They smoke, drink & go to the pub. They all have modern computers, all have internet access, new flat screen TV's, DVD/CD players, mobile phones & Sky/Virgin digital channels to watch. None live in poverty. Yet they complain "The social don't pay them enough."  These people have no ambition to work. As one young bloke put it, "Why should I lower myself to work mixing up cement on a building site, I'm better than that." Oh really? So much so he prefers to resort to petty theft to boost his benefits money.

The real little earner for these people is the breeding & selling of these puppies. Not as pets, but as weapons to be used against others. Bull terrier X Cane Corso pups can fetch up to £800. Staffi X £200 -£400 a pup.  

In conclusion, this program showed the real legacy of Labour. Generations of benefit claimers, earning plenty of cash on top, refusing to attempt to better themselves. Worst still is the fact nothing is done to stop these people breeding & owning dangerous dogs. I for one find this very worrying & quite scary.

NB. The vast majority of dogs destroyed daily in the UK are Staffordshire Bull Terrier crosses.