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December 15, 2013
In 1942 when austere civil servant Lord Beveridge launched his famous blueprint for the foundation of the modern welfare state he declared that his plan “is not going to give everybody something for nothing”. The provision of social security, said Beveridge, was to be based on past contributions through tax and national insurance.
More than 70 years later that ideal has been lost. As the benefits system has remorselessly expanded in recent decades, the ethics of reciprocity and self-reliance have evaporated. Far from encouraging personal responsibility, as Beveridge hoped, the welfare state creates perverse incentives towards idleness, family breakdown and fecklessness. Not only is its £209billion annual bill completely unaffordable but it is now inflicting severe damage on our social fabric. That is why radical reform of the failing system is so urgently needed.
Welfare’s culture of entitlement is perfectly embodied by Birmingham single mother Marie Buchan, who has eight children. This week serial reproducer and benefits enthusiast Ms Buchan whinged to the press about her financial situation because her payments from the Government have recently been reduced. Under the new benefit cap introduced by the coalition no one is allowed to claim more than £500-a-week or £26,000-a-year.
For Ms Buchan the limit has meant a cut of £82 in her weekly benefits. Even though she is still receiving £500 a week from the taxpayer she is furious. “The benefit cap has hit me hard. Money is very tight. It is tough bringing up children on your own, a constant battle,” she moans.
Well no one asked her to have such an absurdly large brood if she could not afford it. “I always wanted a big family,” she grandly explains. But why should we have to pay for her ambitious fecundity? Ms Buchan seems to think that the rest of the world owes her a living. She insists, “I’m no scrounger” but there is no hint of gratitude for the money that has been lavished upon her family, only the grasping demand for more. In true modern, narcissistic fashion she portrays herself as a victim, saying: “People already judge me for having eight children…but I love my children dearly and would not change anything.”
Because she has built up rent arrears of more than £2,000, despite living in social housing, she now wails that she and her family might be evicted. She also complains that she owes £600 in traffic fines to Birmingham City Council, having been caught 10 times driving in bus lanes.
With her characteristic spirit of martyrdom she says that all those infringements arose when she was taking one of her daughters to the children’s hospital.
But if she is as povertystricken as she claims what is she doing running a car? Does she think that she is so special that she should be exempt from normal traffic rules? Ms Buchan graphically illustrates how welfare can infantilise its recipients. Cocooned by state subsidies, she has kept on giving birth without any thought to the consequences. In fact her youngest child, now just two months old, arrived more than a year after the benefits cap was first introduced. The concept of contraception seems as alien to her as the world of proper work.
