A Citizen's Guide to the Underclass
The functionaries of ZaNu Labour's 'black hand' of political correctness and the puritan apparatchiks of the ConDem Party squirm like maggots in a fisherman's tin, refusing to acknowledge the salivating underclass scum smirking from rent free social housing squalor.
The underclass kill, drug, imprison and feed their own children to savage dogs or turn them into 20 a day nicotine addicts before they start school. They camp like Wilburys on the verge of an imaginary internet world, creating ego-centric, self-regarding persona, waiting like parasites for the next helping hand to arrive - so they can eat it.
Marx described them as the lumpen proletariate, the depraved elements of all classes. Today's underclass are not elements dislodged from their social roots by economic upheaval, as KM described.
Today, the underclass are like tooth decay. They form a tribe like the armies of wandering vagabonds that Henry VIII killed with such glee, for sport, in the 16th Century.
Today, the political class cannot bring itself to say underclass let alone acknowledge that such a thing exists. Latter day Marxists, with their syrupy liberalism believe the likes of Karen Matthews to be role models for independent living in the 21st Century.
Intervention is now the rationale for social workers
Today, social apologists of all descriptions seek to understand the killers of Baby P by appeal to the departmental handbook of individual needs failure. The handbook provides a tidy solution for the end of year review of the 'seen to be doing something' cycle. Successful reviews are based on the number of interventions by handbook operatives. The process of intervening becomes the rationale. During the intervention process no attempt is ever made to address individual needs failure, to do so would damage the self-worth of the case (underclass scum) and undermine an empathetic and healing discourse.
The history of the underclass as a collection of failed individual misfits is inextricably bound to the techno-social engineering project. Discussion of the latter is central to understanding the New Politics - however, we can say with some certainty that Henry VIII was no apologist.
The Underclass: a major problem for the New Politics
The first rule of politics, create a panic before you do anything.
Government officials said that the ‘permanent and embittered underclass’ might take their anger out on ethnic minorities. Then the government announced that it would train an army of therapists to deal with what it labelled ‘the epidemic of anxiety’ that the recession would cause.
New Labour’s Baroness Scotland warned that ‘domestic violence will rise with increased financial worries’.The Big Society requires more than anything else a positive mental attitude on the part of its citizens. The Underclass has an attitude problem, generational wallowing in a culture of benefits does not lend itself to an upbeat temperament. Current political rhetoric says, getting all these sturdy beggars (3-4 million) back into work can only be good for them. It would also save a very big slice of welfare spending.
Cracking down on the Underclass - Phase one.
Chancellor George Osborne has signalled a renewed crackdown on the "out of control" welfare budget. He plans to cut another £4 billion, after announcing an £11 billion cut in June 2010. His aim is to encourage people, who from some 'life-style' choice remain idle and living on State handouts, back into work.
The main problem with this National Socialist strategy is that the work is just not there. However, there is also a key structural problem, long term scroungers are ill-prepared for the discipline and do not have skills required in any work place. A further major problem will arise when those people who have genuine welfare needs get caught up in the cull of the underclass. Could be that George, the son of a baronet, is behaving like a mad knight errant, slashing left and right, ploughing his charger through sturdy beggars and deserving poor alike.
George says: "Of course, people who are disabled, people who are vulnerable, people who need protection will get our protection, and more." Nice sound bite but when George sends out his cuts diktat to his brownshirts he will have to rely on their ability to discriminate, to apply some intelligence and judgement to individual cases. Be in no doubt there will be collateral damage.
Underclass Assault: The Second Phase
Millions of welfare claimants are set to have their benefits scrapped and replaced with a single "universal credit", (01/01/10).
Under the changes, housing benefit, income support, incapacity benefit and dozens of other payments will be swept away in a major reform programme intended to break the culture of welfare dependency by making work pay. The intention to reduce housing benefit will have a major impact on the life of the underclass, forcing many to move out of the centre of towns to the margins, i.e. no doubt based on the Paris District 13 model. A key advocate of benefit cuts is historian David Starkey.
A return to a by-gone age of roaming vagabonds
Historian David Starkey has said he believes "the poor" should live in areas where they can find work.
He wants "the poor", the man servants and the kitchen maids to move out of the gentrified Islington squares to roam around the nation seeking out job opportunites.
And, fundamentally, he insists "the poor" must ditch their values of fairness and entitlement - it's all gone far enough, too far! They, "the poor" expect to remain idle, living in properties (among their betters) that they will never be able to afford without state support - they must roam.
Starkey is a 'better' and he knows best what's good for "the poor".
Starkey is on message, asking his audience to revalue the meaning of words. New Labour began the process of newspeak. Telling citizens which words could nolonger be used, telling citizens how to think about things correctly. What Starkey is doing is adding intellectual support to the ConDem cuts agenda. Telling citizens, forget what you were entitled to and what you thought was fair, adjust to the new reality.
Clearly Starkey is advocating a return to the days of his hero, (Henry VIII, for whom he has an unhealthy fixation) and a return to the days of armies of wandering vagabons. And everyone, except historians like Starkey, knows how Henry dealt with the embarrassment of these 16th Century job seekers. They were hacked down in the fields by his knights.
This is not the 16th Century, it's all far too complex for the superficial analysis provided by Starkey. The poor of Islington are being contained by welfare handouts, these local handouts prevent the disturbance that would be caused by wandering and roaming. That's what the welfare system is in place for, to consolidate the indigent poor, to keep them holed up watching their flat-screen tele's 24/7 and not out roaming around upsetting the Somali tourists, that one sees so many of in Islington.
New Equality Act: the assault on the Underclass continues....
The Equality Act covers many workplace areas and draws nine separate pieces of legislation into a single Act.
Over at the Equality and Human Rights Commission they're popping the party balloons and opening another large bottle of ginger ale.
Someone from the Commission said, with an excited gush: "Everyone is protected by the new law".
"It [the Act] covers age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex (meaning gender) and sexual orientation."
"Under the act people are not allowed to discriminate, harass or victimize another person because they belong to a group that the Act protects, they are thought to belong to one of those groups or are associated with someone who does."
What does it all mean?
This Act is Phase Three of the ConDem assault on the Underclass. In Phase One they announced major cuts to the welfare budget - claiming it was out of control. They also announced the use of private credit agencies to spy on individual claimants.
In Phase Two they announced the phasing out of a raft of benefits, replacing them with a 'universal benefit'.
The combination of these two phases will enable benefit offices throughout the land to start refusing benefits to long-term claimants.
The new phase, this Act, will make it impossible for employers to refuse work to someone on the grounds they are unsuitable, due to ill-health or mental instability. There was nothing in the Act about fat people?
The Business Response
However, some business groups argued the new legislation will impose a heavy burden on employers.
Abigail Morris from the British Chambers of Commerce said:
"The government's own impact assessment shows that this is going to cost £190m just for businesses to understand the legislation". (Ed. And how stupid on a scale of 1-10 are Abigail's members?)
The ConDem View
The new law restricts the circumstances in which employers can ask job applicants questions about disability or health prior to offering them a position, making it more difficult for disabled people to be unfairly screened out.
Equalities Minister Theresa May says it will now be easier for firms to comply with anti-discrimination rules.
"In these challenging economic times it's more important than ever for employers to make the most of all the talent available," said Ms May.
There are also new powers for employment tribunals.
The Act will also stop employers using pay secrecy clauses to prevent employees discussing their own pay, which means men and women can compare pay.
Very Interesting
But the Act will not make employers reveal how much they pay men compared with women, as had been planned by the Labour government.
Some campaigners argued that this revision undermined the new legislation.
"Rowing back on the requirement for big business to publish and take action on any differences in pay between men and women employees is tantamount to endorsing the shocking gender pay gap," said Ceri Goddard, chief executive of the Fawcett Society. (Ed. We don't like the Fawcett Society, do we?) No!
The missing piece of the jigsaw
Training for work is currently provided for the Government by two large companies. Their track record to date is woeful. How on earth are they going to provide training for a mass exodus from the benefit system, without substantial new funding and or, a large increase in untried and untested training providers.
Page links...
Karen Matthews, is due to be released from prison in early 2012, for arranging the kidnapping of her daughter Shannon, in order to claim £50,000 in reward money.
District 13, futuristic French film in which the underclass are marginalized within a walled ghetto - described by the Daily Mail as socially clueless drivel.
August 2011
'White chavs have become black': David Starkey