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The Unemployment Movement would like to add its name to the list condemning the BBC for its continued portrayal of those on Benefits as lazy, of low intelligence and even lower morals in a propaganda war instigated and kept alive by the government.

This letter was printed in the Guardian on Saturday 29^th October is re-printed here in full. The Unemployment Movement has no connection with and does not endorse any of the groups or individual mentioned, but stands whole heartedly behind the Unemployed of the United Kingdom and those that would assist in their defence.                

BBC accused of anti-welfare stance

We are outraged that the BBC is joining the propaganda war aimed at destroying the welfare state, Britain's most civilised and civilising legacy (Last night's TV, G2, 28 October). In the 1940s, after years of depression and slaughter, working-class people who had sacrificed so much felt entitled to a life without the constant threat of war and poverty. Family allowance, income support, unemployment and housing benefits, disability benefits, a state pension, the NHS and free education have assumed that everyone contributed and deserved to be looked after "from the cradle to the grave".

Entitlement fostered not only dignity and respect, but decent wages and working conditions for those in work. Since 1979, Thatcher's love for the free market and her hatred for "the culture of entitlement" has determined social policy. We are now all expected to chase non-existent jobs or work for our benefits, i.e. £1.63 an hour; sick and disabled people are found "fit for work" even despite terminal illnesses; older people have had their pensions postponed because living "too long" is a crisis; the vital work of mothers and other carers is disregarded and dismissed. The minimum wage is bypassed and we all stand to lose. Why should corporations pay a living wage if they can get claimants and prisoners to work without one?

Read more: BBC Welfare Propaganda

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The coalition government’s moral crusade against benefit fraud took a twist as it released a survey of the top ten excuses used by those caught in its propaganda drive to vilify those on benefits.

Read more: Government Propaganda Drive on Benefit Fraud

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As the UK faces up to an economic crisis and a drought of job opportunities its political parties and agencies have decided to follow the perverse doctrine of the abuser (child, rapist) that it better to blame the victims (unemployed) personal behaviour than their own psychology .

In doing this we face one of the most profound set of changes to our welfare system that rather than keep poverty and destitution at bay, it will be used as a tool of punishment for being unemployed and poor a crime of contempt of those that associate you with being of low moral standards and intelligence. 

Read more: Principle’s and Aims of the Unemployment Movement