Poverty in the UK.... how much of it is lethargy?

I've no doubt that there are some people living in the UK that survive on meagre state hand-outs and life must be really tough. If these adults are getting off their arse and trying to make a better life for themselves and their families then bloody good luck to them and they should receive all the help and support that the exchequer can throw at them.

It's the people that are content for a life on benefits that piss me off. Surely to god these people aren't counted as being parents of the "3.9 million children in UK living in poverty".

What I'm amazed at is how so many people can live in a house with absolutely no means of income other than benefits and yet they're still able to afford Sky TV, they still smoke, they get pissed up more often than I do, and they wear designer clobber!!!! Some of them even call the day they receive their benefits 'pay day'. Pay day!! Right.... if people can afford all of that, and can also afford to eat so much crap food that they're grotesquely obese..... then I'm sorry, but that is not poverty. That's a fucked up benefits system that allows people to take the piss and select "lazy sponging fat bastard" as a career choice.

I'd like to know exactly how 'poverty' is defined. In some parts of the world, there are skeletal-thin, orphaned kids living in gutters - I mean literally living in gutters, begging for food. THAT is poverty.