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Aneirin -> RE: The new minority (11/24/2008 6:06:22 AM)
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It used to be in Britain, not sure if it is now, that if you were a healthy, young, British birth, traditional ethnic British, able bodied, unattached, unreligious, single male, you were nothing, you were completely on your own as no council, political or special interest group is interested in you. That was the consensus of oppinion of many I knew when it came to social housing. If one did not have any of the 'minority' or 'disability' tags, you were entitled to nothing, no help from anyone. The advice was given though those people that did not fit into a special interest group were in theory entitled to the same help as anyone else, it was just that the special groups took priority and when the special groups have priority, there is more special groups than there are of those not in a special group.
With social housing, the advice was from the council, 'your status would improve if you 'shack up' with a pregnant woman', even then though your status would be better, the pregnant woman is the interest and holds the power in the situation. Even recently with myself, well, only last year, the employment services told me my benefits. would become easier to live on if I were with a partner, they knew single persons entitlement was not enough to live on and were amazed at those that manage. It strikes me that the benefit entitlement is purposfully kept low to force single people off benefits as soon as possible. Possibly this works for some, but others who are ill sink deeper, and the less inclined to work, possibly enter the world of crime to make ends meet.
I do know of people who have actually read up in books about symptoms of mental illness to convince medics in the hope that they can access a special interest group so they may have the same benefits as those in the special groups, the belief being that special group people have an advantage in life. The resultant is, given the feigned mental illness, they are pumped full of dodgy medications that they don't need and it creates a problem where they did not have any before.
It is quite possible that the group of people that don't fit into any special interest group, are in fact saddened by their status and the unfairness they see in society. For the want to feign a mental illness and be willing to take medications they don't need, that does indicate an illness, perhaps the illness of hopelessness, the unfairness they see in the society they are supposed to be part of.
And contrary to the LGA, queue jumping does exist, the very status of a woman that becomes pregnant, the authorities have to provide adequate accomodation for that status, the birth of an um changes the status again and if that um has any disability, again the status changes, the authorities have to respond to the status, so a woman who might be in the minimum group with the single males, can jump status in as much as nine months. Many single people know this and if desperate enough, a woman will seek pregnancy for the increased status it gives her.
Maybe if housing was available and affordable in this country, we wouldn't have this stupid situation where a percentage of the population feels unheard and unwanted and prepared to ruin themselves just to be treated as any other member of the population, the equality they seek. Perhaps even if our society actually recognised these healthy young un- anything people are actually the strength of the country, they might be in a better situation, more emphasis on the workers, not the 'disabled ', sure look after those that struggle, but focus some attention at the people that are capable of moving the country forward.
Just think, if we ever became an industrialised nation again, will we actually have the workforce available, or will they all seek to do other, given that their moral is broken.
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