Orcs on the Right.

The right wing press in Britain is at it again:

A Million on Benefit and Able to Work! resounds the headline.

The implication is clear enough. There are a million people out there who are just plain lazy and sponging off the tax payer.

The purpose of the right wing press is, of course, to feed the ill-informed prejudices of timid Middle England in order to keep the right wing politicians in power. (Ironically, right wing politicians generally come from a class of people who have generated their wealth down the centuries largely by sponging off others – usually tenants, workers and so on.)

So, the message is plain: reduce or remove altogether the largely pitiful welfare payments to these ne’er-do-wells in order to force them back to work. Fine, except that there aren’t the jobs for them to do. It’s odd how the Orcs on the right wing always manage to forget that bit.