The Undeserving Poor
I turned the TV news off in disgust last night ; I felt patronized to my core. David Cameron ; after he spoke about "fairness", I could not bear to watch anymore The traditional yardstick of fairness has always been the "reasonable " person in the street. Overnight it's suddenly become the hard working tax payer and what they "think" about supporting the "family next door who choose to lounge about on their sofa all day". Since they came to power this UK Coalition has not slacked to characterize those on benefits as slackers, or to instill in the public consciousness, as Mick Hall explains ( http://www.organizedrage.com/2009_08_01_archive.html ) , that the poor do not suffer their plight due to any defects within the system, "but because they are indolent, lazy and criminally inclined, in other words we are heading back to the 19th Century philosophy of the undeserving poor." You just need to try surviving as a S...