I have a long term stance of viewing the unemployed as luckless unfortunates, who have been employed but got sacked or made redundant and in need of a safety net.
I must therefore thank NewJudge for his post, in terms of opening my eyes to the kind of lifelong freeloaders who, I now realise, are the people other people habitually talk about. So that might explain why all my soapboxing about the safety-net category never got the faintest hint of a warm welcome.
The 26 kids bloke: in a generation or two, will the Isle of Wight need its own app like the Icelanders use, to make sure they're not about to unwittingly get off with one of their closer cousins?
It's particularly galling because, while working I decided that my paltry salary wasn't enough for me, let alone a wife and kids. Being single, I never got into conversations about parenthood so I was clueless about the fact that working people still got child benefit. I chose not to raise a family based on ignorance while those in the know workbthe system and raise a herd. Tell me how I'm supposed to remain calm about that?
@AOG
apologies for not having any suggestions, I can't even think straight at the moment.