Who Made Mick Philpott?

Is Mick Philpott a product of our welfare system as many have suggested and an equal number have rebutted?

It's a bit like global warming you can't pin any particular storm on the phenomenon  but it isn't unreasonable to say that it makes them more likely. The way our welfare state along with the criminal justice system work does make it more likely that sociopath's can thrive.

When he was convicted of the premeditated attempted murder of a girlfriend who rejected him he was released from prison after just three years. A functional criminal justice system  should not let a man who does that out of prison before he is even 25.

When he decided to not to work the welfare system provided for him. When he decided not to have a vast number of children that he could not support, the welfare system picked up the slack and effectively rewarded him with an income of £60000 a year for this antisocial behaviour.

The women he preyed on and controlled seem to have mostly been the results of broken homes, girls who have been failed by social services.

There will always be bad people, but a parasite like Philpott could not have thrived without a system that is broken. 

Philpott And The Far Left

In the light of Mick Philpott's conviction for killing six of his children it seems like a good opportunity to revisit the buffoonish Owen Jones's take on Philpott - the victim of hatred against the poor.

The simple fact of the matter is that people's instinctive reaction is correct- people who have lots of children with no intention of supporting them and are defiant about claiming benefits from the public purse are engaging in sociopathic behaviour.

This isn't a general 'hatred' of people on benefits, I know people who are looking for work, I know people who are genuinely disabled and they are decent people.

 But I also know people and know of people who do abuse the system and have no intention of doing anything but claiming everything they can- in one instance a mother who looks up conditions on the internet and then makes her children learn about them to con the doctors to claim more benefits (this is not someone I know personally or I would inform on them).

The people who make martyrs of all benefit recipients- which is much of the anti austerity movement- don't acknowledge that there is a difference between someone who has fallen on hard times and somebody who expects other people to support them indefinitely.