The UK government's cruelty towards welfare recipients is pushing low-paid workers into desperation. Some have to steal to eat. Some children can't afford to go to school.

If the Tories seriously wanted workers to work more hours, or get higher pay, they would make employers give workers longer hours and higher pay. That would be effective. But Tories don't really want those changes to occur, they only want an excuse to harass and punish workers.

This adds to other injustices to the disabled and the unemployed.

The real purpose is to demonize the non-rich as an excuse for dooH niboR (Robin Hood in reverse).