The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Link: Blame faulty tax credits for bad behaviour – Telegraph.

Apart from the ritual denunciation of Thatcher (there wasn’t enough money in the world, Mr Field, to subsidise the blighted British industry of my youth) this article makes so much more sense than anything coming from the Tories. People living close to the working-classes know the dispiriting effect on couples striving for an honest life of the millions of "unwaged" (formerly known, pre-spin, as "the unemployed’) living better on benefits. A young woman working all hours to supplement her unskilled husbands meagre wages told Mrs Paine how she struggled to talk him out of giving up. Their "disabled" neighbour had just taken delivery of  a new car provided by the State. "She’s more agile than me but has never worked. Everything that needs doing at her house is paid for by the Government. We never stop working, but will never own a new car in our lives"

I am heartily sick of the sons of Fettes, Eton and the Scottish manse wrecking the lives of decent men and women, while importing third world peasants to keep the economy ticking over. How can they live with their consciences?