The working-class, not the scroungers, the media and politicians try and portray them as.  These people have been failed by successive Governments, Labour and Conservatives who have pushed a broken economic model, based on ‘growth at any cost’.  They have allowed multi-nationals to strip this country of almost everything, whilst lining their enormous pockets.  In the meantime, the ordinary people have suffered along with the environment.

An army of benefit scroungers? The evidence just doesn’t stack up | Matt Barnes | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.