Mandy (TV Series)

The Career Ladder (2024)

Tom Basden: Benefits Advisor

Quotes 

• Benefits Advisor : Mandy, this is serious, okay? If you've been doing a job, while claiming benefits, then that is a crime.

  Mandy Carter : A crime... So what, I have been fixing the church's roof up for a few extra quid.

  Benefits Advisor : Right.

  Mandy Carter : It's hardly the crime of the century, is it? Heh, it's hardly crooked million-pound PPE contracts, is it? Or, or, or billionnaires hiding their money abroad to avoid paying taxes. Or Prince Philip, assassinating Lady Di, is it? No, but as ever, the rich get away with it, and you go after the small fry. Yeah, the easy meat. The Mandy Carters of the world, who are just trying to struggle through the cost of living crisis as best they can. Well, if that isn't the real crime, then I don't know what is!

  Mandy Carter : [regaining her composure]  On Judgment Day, who do you think God's gonna punish? The poor woman who fixed the church's roof up, so she could afford some fucking cheese? Or you, who pursued and punished her, and sent her to an early grave!

  Mandy Carter : You know better than me, but you side with the rich because you think you're like them - but you're not. They're laughing at you, doing their dirty work, while they party on their mega yachts, drinking caviar and eating supermodels. What a little man you are!

  Benefits Advisor : [looking baffled at a bird appearing in Mandy's hair] 

  Mandy Carter : [unaware of the bird]  Yeah, that's stopped you in your tracks, hasn't it? That's made you think, hasn't it?

  Benefits Advisor : Eh, no. It's... Mandy, you've got, ehm... There is something in your hair...

  Mandy Carter : Don't try and distract me, you petit-bourgeois stooge.