Phillips' "biblical norms" stuff isn't going down very well. If she just said "traditional values", I'm sure it wouldn't irritate so many of their readers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1DxNXp4U8

This is brilliant - Mad Mel gets a thorough kicking in the comments, and most of the lunatics get comprehensively red-arrowed.

I'm trying to figure out how that first sentence led to the next.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... hbour.html

Substantial number of comments saying that the elderly busybodies should have minded their own business. As they should have.

Err when you do a Fraud Referral you don't enter details of who told you, the only details you enter is the person completing it, There is a box that allows you to say if it's from the public, I smell some bullshit.

On the other hand, they could have been doing what they thought was right as per the (previous) govenment campaign about shopping benefit cheats

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There are crimes that nobody would hesitate to report, such as cruelty to children/animals/the vulnerable (not the only ones but that sort of area). But shopping one's neighbours for SUSPECTED benefit fraud smacks to me of 1984/Nazism, I'm afraid. I realise this is not the accepted Mail line - thank God.

My local police force recently had a high-profile campaign with the slogan 'too much bling? Give us a ring' advising people to turn in friends and neighbours who appeared to be living beyond their means. I had to chuckle when they attempted to raise awareness for the campaign by parking a seized Range Rover Sport with tinted windows in the middle of the pedestrianised shopping thoroughfare in Colwyn Bay.

I suspect displaying things like that is probably not the best way to educate the huddled masses that crime doesn't pay.

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I think comparing something like this to 1984 type police state is a bit much, benefit freud is no different from stealing after all. The whole campaign seems confused since the ads screened a couple of years ago clearly suggested that it was your civic duty to report anything suspicious. Plus with the new, less sympathetic, government i would think they take this even more seriously

The real issue is how the 'suspected fraudster' got hold of the info of who reported him.

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I'm not keen on people letting out council flats at commercial rates. But even so, doubt I'd report it. I certainly wouldn't report someone I saw doing a bit of work in a pub- as someone did to my sister.

I was following that when I was staying up at the folks' in N Wales recently, the poster with a bloke wearing awful Mr T-esque gold chains was pretty funny.

How you'd decide someone has 'too much bling' is a mystery though, surely it all depends on taste?

A "fraudian slip", perchance?

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Not to mention BA Baracus, and Bagga-T out of Rastamouse...

They would agree with that one though!