Welfare Gone Mental

In the good old days, mental health conditions and neurodiversity and all that sort of thing were dealt with Britishly and on an individual level by working hard, playing by the rules and being economically active. Nowadays the freak or loony next door is whooping it up on benefits and getting more nice things than you are, and this is a Bad Thing. Such is the stuff of reasoned debate in the Conservative leadership contest, wherein the non-male, non-white candidate is straining to prove her ideological worth by endorsing a thirty-six page denunciation of the "economic advantages and protections" from which the neurodiverse are deriving such ruthless advantage. At least one Conservative from the hypocritical wing, who once wrote a report on how autistic people might more efficiently be chivvied into making money for the rich, has expressed concern at the essay's conflation of loonies with freaks, when in fact they fall into separate categories and require different modes of bullying to get the best results.