Welfare state led to the riots in England?

Why does anyone bother listening to this pontificating, clueless idiot any more ? Because he helped crash a crappy hilariously-named CMS product into the ground over a decade ago ?

I mean, I wouldn't write a blog post about the American Tea Party, for example, because I know too little of the forces of modern US politics, culture and economics giving rise to the phenomenon and would come off as a clueless idiot if I tried to do so. What makes Greenspun such an expert on the UK ?

This is a pretty awful, short article with idle speculation. Why are you posting this on HN?