Those types definitely exist and Minnie is a prime example; keeping up with the Joneses at the expense of the Joneses hard-earned taxes. She wants top of the range everything without ever having to contribute back to society in any meaningful way, even her “influencing” is self-indulgent. She says she “works” on social media but she doesn’t even treat influencing like a real job, she posts intermittently as and when it suits her and she’s got something to show off, and otherwise she uses it as a platform to therapise herself and cash in a bit of extra pocket money for more frivolity. She’s not even trying to be relatable.
But what I’m saying is it’s important to acknowledge that there are single mums on benefits who use it as a means to an end when they stumble upon temporary hardship, they don’t all exploit the system for a free luxury lifestyle. I resent people like Minnie for so publicly and brazenly being that exact stereotype and doing a disservice to all the single mums on benefits in council houses who have had to kit their homes out on Facebook Marketplace and Freecycle, have had to make kids’ bedroom makeovers birthday presents to justify the expense, haven’t afforded new clothes in half a decade, live years without carpets and decor and certainly wouldn’t ever spend £300 on a rug, meanwhile they’re borrowing tools from friends to hang basic curtain poles because there’s no way they could afford tools of their own.
Silly materialistic girls who have their lifestyles on tick aren’t an accurate representation of life on benefits at all, they’re a representation of entitlement, greed and debt.