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The people with a low quality of life in the UK can't stand up for each other?
It's not as straight forward as it should be, RA.There's division. Many people are under the impression that anyone claiming benefits is a sponger, who lives parasitically from the tax deducted from the former's wages.
There's resentment by many, who think that because they go to work to earn a living, everybody else should too.
The media has in recent years, done plenty to stir up this resentment, by running stories of the less usual cases, where people are living on benefits, but producing more & more off-spring - 15 kids in a 10 bedroom council house, & demanding a bigger house 'cause they've another child on the way - that kind of thing. It's the exception to the rule, but some people have been allowed to take the piss - and it's coloured a lot of people's perception of the reality, that most people on benefits live that way because they're not fit enough to work, or just can't find a job.
And there
have been cases in the past where some folk have chosen not to work because they could pick up as much in benefits as they could earn in a wage, so there was no financial incentive.
With more companies going to the wall, and more immigrants scheduled to arrive to compete for what few jobs there are, things are getting worse.
But a lot of people don't look at the bigger picture, and just stick with their ingrained, ignorant beliefs about people on benefits being lazy, and a financial strain on the country.
So people with a low quality of life might stick up for each other, but they have no leverage anyway. What's more important is whether enough people from all walks of life will bother to stand up for them.
