But What of the Moral Dimension?
Anti-entrepreneurial elements from King's College London are seeking to subvert the national pluck and gumption with research into the heretical question of whether poverty can be mitigated by making people less poor. Selected scroungers and shirkers will receive cash transfers to relieve whatever financial difficulties have arisen during their holiday at the expense of Britain's famously lax and liberal welfare system, and their outcomes will be compared with those of people receiving handouts from charities. Even the customary fines by the Department of Workfare and Punishment will be evaded, under the pretext of forestalling purchases of tattoos or widescreen TVs, and in defiance of all British values. Should the scheme be expanded to include ex-prisoners, there is even a risk that rates of re-offending may fall and undermine profits in the offender warehousing industry. Reducing public spending is all very well; but it hardly seems likely that the great British public will be inclined to prioritise such crass materialistic concerns over the all-important patriotic tradition of kicking the underdog.
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