Anakin Skywalker wrote:
TBH you can slightly see their point there as the state subsidising monsters isn't a good thing (Although how to stop it is another thing). At least they haven't just jumped in feet first and acted like scum at a feeding frenzy.
Well, the state would have to be able to work out which were the monsters and were not, to start with.
And since most parents receive child benefit, pensioners receive a state pension – and fuel payments etc – it's unlikely that the state would ever be able to stop this.
The key word, though, is the "subsidising", which neatly makes a quite specific link between benefits and people who commit crimes like this.
The whole Mail thing is factually flawed too. When Philpott tried to kill his former girlfriend, he was AWOL from the Army. Which rather suggests that he was not remotely a "product" of something that subsequent to that.