Summary
THERE is nothing quite as effective in calling up a big, fat moral panic as a mention of the unholy trinity: alcoholism, drug addiction and obesity. Last week, the UK Government drew attention to those layabouts who lounge all day chomping on chips and watching television while drawing incapacity benefit or drinking themselves into oblivion rather than getting to work.
Or at least that was the image David Cameron seemed to be playing with when he pointed out that, of the number of people drawing incapacity benefit this time last year, 80,000 were alcoholics, drug addicts or obese.See the full content of this document
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The Myth of the Boozy Scrounger
Taxpayers, he ruminated, would object. "That's not what I pay my taxes for," they'd fume. "I pay my taxes for people who are incapacitated through no fault of their own."
Clearly, those 80,000 individuals are being targeted as part of the Government's drive to get 1.5 million peop...See the full content of this document
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