Perhaps someone should ask why there is (if there is) a class of people to whom it is more attractive to claim benefits than to work.

If you say it is because benefits are too generous, then I will say to you you have never lived on them, nor truly known anyone who has lived on them.

I remember my late wife telling me of the period when she was a student in the 69s and 70s, in the days of the "madly generous" student grants - after she had been deserted by her husband, who was somewhere in Nepal with his guitar - how she had had to ration eggs for breakfast for her children.

The problem is not benefits. It is the fact that at entry level all there is is McJobs. There is no economy other than servility, no manufacturing, only "service industries". If your efforts will not benefit you, you will not exert yourself. Check the "forced helplessness" thread.

And, for the benefit of Mrs Mary Shitehouse, and the occasional passing Catholic priest, the human race exists because it has a sex drive. It is too late to take it away.