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Benefits Street exposes Britain's dirty secret - how welfare imprisons the poor

The left should be angry at how we treat those at the bottom. Instead, they're angry at people talking about it

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

No scandal has been more successfully covered up than the appalling truth about what happens to Britain’s poorest people. We have, as a country, grown used to pretending they don’t exist; we shovel them off to edge-of-town housing estates and pay them to stay there in economic exile. We give them welfare for the foreseeable future, and wish them luck in their drug-addled welfare ghettos.

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