God help us....

I like to consider myself a compassionate and tolerant human being. Yet I find it quite hard to watch programmes like BBC South East's recent "Breadline Britain" feature without being consumed by a mixture of disgust and outrage.

Sporting a fetching black eye and festooned with the regulation hoopy earings and clown pendant, a single mum muses on the shortcomings of her two-bedroom flat in Maidstone, and her plans to become a "beauty ferapist". Her flat is, of course, provided free of charge by the local council. She also doesn't pay council tax and pockets a not insubstantial £120 a week in benefits, plus free nursery care for her bastard offspring. The flat in question is full of children's toys, and the young mother has sufficient spare cash to be able to visit the pub and to smoke. Something that - incidentally - I couldn't afford to do. So far, so good - a life of leisure, paid for by the tax-payer. Nirvana, surely. Yet is she happy? alas not.

Along with the other charming single mothers from the estate, it seems that all is not well. "We 'avn't got gardens", bemoans one particularly eloquent lady of leisure. Later in the the feature, we see the young mother remonstrating with a bus driver who refused to let her ride for free to collect her weekly cash handout. "I don't 'ave any money", she wails. "I 'ad to buy fags."

Oh dear.

This, then, is the reality of Britain's underclass - a class that has thrived under Labour. Incentivised by freely available cash handouts, unencumbered by those troublesome morals and unbound by a society that has long since abandoned the conventions of acceptable behaviour, Britain's underclass has now become so established that its members are completely unable to comprehend concepts like personal responsibility. Instead, they seem to think they have a right to demand free housing, free health care, free money, simply for spawning the next generation of yobs to plague our town centres. This is the very situation highlighted by Mr Justice Coleridge in his damning assessment of the social consequences of misguided liberalism. Labour's response? Ed Balls and another fucking useless initiative.

Oh dear...we are surely screwed