Radio 4

[BDG]

The welfare state did not create the class of social parasites some seem to think it did. They always existed, it is just no one felt like they were being bled dry supporting them.

In the past, when you were on the bottom end of society, you bloody well knew it. Survival was your motivation. Sure, we have removed that motivation, but the group of people it has been removed from always existed and I daresay if you looked at the 300,000 plus homes where NO ONE has ever worked in them, look back in time - the ancestors will be the petty criminals and unskilled, illiterate labour of Victorian England.

In the past, these people fed of the waste society produced. Now they feed on the cream of money taken from those that rightfully earned it.

This is the difference.