| It is strange, in fact, that the perception of immigrants as unproductive scroungers has had such staying power. |
| Forget all that, forget any sort of reasonable discussion, let's just call them thieving scroungers again. |
| I reminded myself that it was Pop's business to play up to the both of us, charm being the secret weapon of all scroungers. |
| Yes, there are scroungers, layabouts, bad parents, but they are not limited to teenagers, or single mothers, but come in all sexes, ages, shapes, sizes and races. |
| Besides all that, Pop did not come in fawning and full of extravagant praise, as most scroungers will. |
| However, in spite of popular hostility to scroungers, the evidence suggests that the proportion of the poor in modern Britain is similar to that of the past. |
