05-04-2020, 02:51 PM
John,
We had the same policy here in the UK although it was aimed at the white working class. When industries started to vanish and the coal mines were closed down in the 1980s, the British government had a huge problem. Lots of unemployed white people with IQ skills not suited to service based employment.
So the government helpfully 'encouraged' these people to sign up for the sick. As a result, you had these huge welfare estates created where no one has had a job in 3 generations. Single young women deliberately got themselves pregnant so they would get a free council house. For each child, lots of benefit money came rolling in.
Tony Blair was particularly skilled at keeping these people voting for the Labour Party due to the fact under his government, you could live a nice life with a family of seven on the state. Just keep voting Labour otherwise the Tories would take it all away. Which as it so happens then did and this has started to lead these areas becoming even more dens of crime and poverty then they were under Labour.
I'd say U.S blacks and the once native white British working class are very similar. Both worked in many working class occupations. When those jobs went, they became dependent upon the state, especially for votes.
Not sure about the U.S however but a lot of these people in the UK have been voting Tory due to their strong support of Brexit. Unlike blacks in America, the whites in the UK are more patriotic, likely to serve in the army and likely to have issues with immigration so now they vote Conservative which at one point was unthinkable.
We had the same policy here in the UK although it was aimed at the white working class. When industries started to vanish and the coal mines were closed down in the 1980s, the British government had a huge problem. Lots of unemployed white people with IQ skills not suited to service based employment.
So the government helpfully 'encouraged' these people to sign up for the sick. As a result, you had these huge welfare estates created where no one has had a job in 3 generations. Single young women deliberately got themselves pregnant so they would get a free council house. For each child, lots of benefit money came rolling in.
Tony Blair was particularly skilled at keeping these people voting for the Labour Party due to the fact under his government, you could live a nice life with a family of seven on the state. Just keep voting Labour otherwise the Tories would take it all away. Which as it so happens then did and this has started to lead these areas becoming even more dens of crime and poverty then they were under Labour.
I'd say U.S blacks and the once native white British working class are very similar. Both worked in many working class occupations. When those jobs went, they became dependent upon the state, especially for votes.
Not sure about the U.S however but a lot of these people in the UK have been voting Tory due to their strong support of Brexit. Unlike blacks in America, the whites in the UK are more patriotic, likely to serve in the army and likely to have issues with immigration so now they vote Conservative which at one point was unthinkable.
