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  Regarding those who do not work because they are better off if they stay on benefits, this is a speech made back in the great depression of the thirties:
  
  Lord Inchcape's (chairman of P&O) address at the P&O annual meeting in 1931, received the following comments in Blue Peter magazine:-
  
  In the present conditions of the country's fortunes his call for a halt in the Government's expenditure has been re-echoed and endorsed by the newspaper press throughout the Kingdom. Speaking of the present absurd levels of taxation he said:
  "This raid on the fruits of industry and thrift, this expropriation of capital which should remain as a source of reproductive trade and national wealth, is in itself a sufficient cause of regret; but a worse aspect of the matter is that a large part of the reckless plunder, instead of being applied to intensive reduction of the national debt is dispensed with too lavish a hand in the payment of doles.......In the hard times through which the country is passing a measure of relief is inevitable and necessary; but few will be found to dispute that relief which approaches too nearly and in some instances oversteps, the wages level is, morally and financially, a sin against the people. It is truly a rake's progress."

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