A recent graduate from Edinburgh has sparked controversy on TikTok by comparing the process of claiming benefits to a 'full-time job', arguing that the administrative burden and weekly meetings would be overwhelming for working individuals.
A masters graduate has complained that claiming benefits is a 'full-time job' - and working people 'would have a breakdown' dealing with the admin and weekly job centre meetings. Joshua Bishop hoped higher education would help him escape his council estate but the 27-year-old hasn't secured a role since his course ended in October.
The former business student from Edinburgh began posting his struggles on TikTok where just over a week ago (December 27) he controversially blasted the 'bulls**t' the Government makes jobseekers do. Joshua, who asked for his name to be changed so as not to lose his benefits, explains he gets £400 per month benefit payment and a council flat as long as he attends a weekly 30-minute meeting and provides detailed evidence he's looking for a role. His TikTok was captioned 'It's a full-time job trying to claim benefits with none of the positives. Most workers would have a breakdown if they had to live as a Universal Credit bandit for a week'. He's since been slammed as a 'lazy scrounger' and a 'useless member of society' by angry users who believe he just 'can't be bothered' going to the meetings. The philosophy undergraduate has since hit back at critics, branding them 'classist posh c**ts' who have never experienced being on Universal Credit. He's since claimed the meetings are a 'humiliation ritual' where staff try to 'shame' and 'psychologically manipulate' him into getting jobs unrelated to his education. Joshua also took aim at the two hours per day he says he spends gathering evidence for the meeting - insisting he's a 'graduate not some refugee trying to milk the system'. He says he hopes to find a job where he can apply his masters and if not he'll either have to work an unrelated role or earn money from TikTok videos.
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