my parents were ( and still are) two of the most hardworking people you could ever come across, I vividly remember many Christmas mornings, sat in the back of the car - with my dad taking my mom into work at a care home. My dad worked many, many hours as a train driver. We lived in a council house on a rough council estate, never once did my parents use the excuse that being 'lower working class' ( what a fucking awful tag to have), should go hand in hand with claiming benefits and living off the 'hardworking middle class' ( who of course are keeping this country together )
Im a full time student, work part time and my children get what they are given through sheer hard work and my desire to teach them that if you want something in life- you have to go out and work for it.
However- I can do this because I have a supportive partner who looks after our children when its not possible for me to be at home.
This is something that not all families have, if I was a single mother - who could I rely on to look after my children??
These single mothers who are tagged with the lable of 'work shy spongers' etc - how do you know that they dont want to work? How is it possible to lead a fairly normal life with NO support?
what about people who cannot, through ill health, work? Are we assuming that all people on DLA are doing it because they want to claim benefits and not work? All of them?
Its easy to judge people when you have no idea about their lives, I know a few people who are too unwell to work, they are severly depressed at the thought of having to claim benefits, they want to work.
Dont even really know what point im trying to make, apart from, it pisses me off when those socially excluded get shat upon from a great height. Its hard to get out of poverty and social deprivation when its the only thing you know.