I don't care - we need to counter the cynicism at both ends of the scale. For example, it cannot be right that someone that pays into the system their whole lives can then be refused housing in favour of an able bodied person that has paid in nothing and caused their own homelessness by arriving in the UK without a job or means to support themselves. Needless to say the tax avoidance is also disgusting.

There are some very strange situations in the UK at present - for example when a person would actually be worse off by going out to work, or when someone's (viable) career plan involves having a child in order to get a house and benefits.

Given my political views I'm consoled by the fact that the level of welfare spending is unsustainable in the long term. The UK is already going deeper into the red every month, despite supposed austerity.