[neilwilson]

The notion that people are proud to be 'on the dole' in the UK is deeply pejorative and not at all backed up by the evidence.

For example, sequence LFM2 at the Office of National Statistics entitled "inactive - wants a job". That's 1,869,000 people at the last estimate.

The overwhelming number of people who end up short of work due to the structural failures of our current economic system want to work. And they should have the opportunity to do so.