Your husband's work, Eliza, displaces any other person from that work, whether he or they are self employed or employed. With the lack of money (= demand) in the system there are only so many buyers of his goods or services. Apply the same standards to your husband as you do to for example many Eastern Europeans who come here and work on a self-employed basis. You can't have it both ways.

Babies are often unplanned. Dogs are often a cheaper substitute - something to cherish and nurture.

Plenty of intending tattoo artists tattoo their friends for no charge, to get practice (like trainee dentists and apprentice hairdressers).

The poor with bad credit records cannot get landlines. They have to be contactable and to be able to make contact to seek work.

You don't seem to know much about the people you demonise.

Plainly you seek only to argue that those who cannot maintain themselves should suffer. Civilisation moved on from that long ago, one part of that step being the repeal of the Poor Laws. Yes, you are a bigot.

My suspicion is that you invented the name Eliza for yourself because it is Eliza Carthy's name.