| 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. |
| And these plays are not attended by dole scroungers, Trotskyites, hopheads or peaceniks, but by the decent ordinary people of Galway. |
| Forget all that, forget any sort of reasonable discussion, let's just call them thieving scroungers again. |
| 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. |
| And I have known more dole scroungers who refuse to work than I care to think about. |
| It is strange, in fact, that the perception of immigrants as unproductive scroungers has had such staying power. |
