British Tory work and pensions spokesman Chris Grayling seems to think that it’s the Prime Minister’s fault that so many young British are bone lazy. The daily Mail reports that a fifth of children in the UK are living on benefits, because their parents aren’t working. In fact, many of them aren’t even looking for work - they just sit around. My sister-in-law was like that. In fact, she didn’t even want to get married to her great love (she eventually did) because she’d have to start paying rent and her benefit would be slashed, all because he had the temerity to have a good job. Gross.

But this Grayling fellow blames Gordon Brown.

“Gordon Brown and his ministers are always claiming how much they have done - but the reality on the ground tells a very different story.

“Worklessness is endemic in many communities, but even so, the fact that nearly half the children brought up in some areas come from homes entirely dependent on benefits is a figure that should bring shame to ministers, particularly given the fact that so many people have come to work in Britain from overseas in the past ten years.”

Mr. Grayling doesn’t think that maybe the derelicts themselves might be to blame?

You know, I saw a t-shirt at CPAC that read:

We’ll solve poverty the day after we solve laziness and stupidity

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