No Such Thing as Social

Now that we have zero-hours contracts, profitable prisons, arbitrary withdrawal of social security payments and other incentivising measures, there is a correspondingly smaller need for social workers to laze around smoking illegal drugs and encouraging proles to continue their non-productive idleness in luxury hotels. As we have seen from the glamorous events in the Mediterranean, it is axiomatic that helping the poor and vulnerable constitutes a perverse incentive for poor and vulnerable people to imagine they ought to be helped. Accordingly, the Government has cut off the funding for the College of Social Work, the body set up in the wake of the Baby P case, in order to ensure that more children will take due care to be born into hard-working families. A spokesbeing observed that "it was always the objective of the college to become financially self-sufficient and independent from government", and of course there are few better ways of encouraging financial independence than shutting down any institution in need of funding, unless the institution happens to be a bank.