The real culprits

 

This is the week that the focus fell on identifying the malcontent's who have inherited our Benefit System.    Who it is claimed use, for their own benefit,the System by manipulating the rules and avoiding the common understanding, that claimants have to be deserving.

The Philpot family apparently exemplify the benefit scrounger. A clearly dysfunctional family with a very unpleasant man who dictated two women, each prepared to accept living and supplying this man with a sexual platform to produce children by the bucket full. 

The Tory's have been quick to link the dreadful tale of the Philpot's, with the claimants of benefit assistance  and in doing so, to demonise all benefit claimants

It has been a tactic of the Tory's to link our economic condition with the strain that the benefit culture has imposed on our borrowing requirement. There is no doubt that the complex array of benefits that we, as a civilised country, feel are necessary to insure the financial problems that effect people throughout their lifetime, do not bring more trauma  than necessary. 

Problems arrive on our doorstep which are often no fault of our own. We can fall ill, we can become unemployed, the wage earner dies and leaves a family to carry on somehow, all these events can be traumatic and society such as ours has the view that "the whole", "care for the few" for a period of time, until the situation repairs its-self. 

The concept, which came into being after the second world war and has gone through many formats, becoming more and more complex as the New Labour government sort to define the different type of claimant.

The politicians and the media seek to project a story that most of our financial woes are due to the burden these claimants put on our finances. We see the Chancellor, hurriedly dismembering the essential bridges that society has come to accept as part of the country we believe in.
There is no doubt work to be done to reduce the bill by, for instance, re-examining the way that private landlords have made a packet out of tenants,who's rents are paid through the benefit system.
Having sold off, (under Thatcher), all the post war stock of rented houses, held on the Councils books, used, to house the poor,  the Councils have been actively  discouraged by central government from borrowing on the open market to build new stock, the council now has to turn to the private sector, who obviously have little or no social conscience and make what ever they can out of this social dilemma.

Needless to say there has been little or no comment from anyone about the gigantic hole in the counties finances resulting from massive tax evasion. 

The huge problem of "laddering" by the global industries as they produce a complex web of interlinking companies to hide the profit and therefore the taxes due.

The money laundering that is part and parcel of the off shore tax havens, and owes much to the demise of Cyprus.

Our horse meat scandal illustrated the length of the chain of the producers and the many counties that finally assembled the product, never mind the financial trail as each account moves through boarders and different financial conventions.

The global economy has produced a monster whereby the tax revenues that society needs to, protect its citizens, repair the roads, build the hospitals etc etc.is missing. How convenient to blame the underclass !!

The silence is defining, from the opinion makers, from the political class from the elite, from all the beneficiary !!