First it was people on various disability benefits who were the enemy. The Cameron line is that these people are dodgers who should have their benefits removed and be made to work, or be left hungry.
The state has already got busy to make the disabled pay for what they have been costing the capitalist state.
Then it was ‘spare room criminals’ – that is council house tenants who are living in adequate accommodation with secure, for-life tenancies – who were added to the list of millions of enemies.
These are to be evicted, or otherwise forced to quit their homes, by having their housing benefit slashed and their secure tenancies ripped up!
Now it is the alleged millions of benefit fraudsters, who are to be pursued by government ‘bounty hunters’, and hunted down and brought down, and forced to live a life of poverty.
They join the already long list of enemies.
There are the public sector workers, who, we are told by Cameron, retire on final salary pensions that even the bankers and bosses are envious of.
Then there are the BA and other private sector workers who will not accept massive wage, jobs and pensions cuts.
As well, there are the millions of young people whose lives are being destroyed by the ruling class. They are termed the ‘lost generation’ but are really thought of as the enemy within because, as everyone knows, it is only a matter of time before they lead the working class to revolution.
It turns out that 90 per cent of the population are threats to capitalism, and therefore enemies of the Tory-LibDem coalition, because they demand jobs, wages, homes and a decent life, all unobtainable under the present order.
This is why the Tory party and its Liberal allies are busy attacking them and robbing them on behalf of a bankrupt ruling class.
The Child Poverty Action Group yesterday made some interesting points about the Tory-LibDem coalition’s latest plan to set the bounty hunters onto benefit claimants.
Its statement not only called the payment by results private companies whose job will be to terrorise benefit claimants ‘bounty hunters’, it showed that there was no need for them.
It said the true situation is that benefit fraud ‘is currently at an all-time low (less than 1% of claims)’.
It added: ‘Administrative problems and low take up (News Line emphasis) remain a problem for families.’
It continues: ‘The system’s complexity means £16bn is unclaimed by some of society’s most vulnerable people. This initiative stigmatises the most vulnerable people and is likely to further reduce take up of much needed benefits and tax credits.’
It adds: ‘The National Audit Office believes at least £40 billion of revenue is lost every year due to a failure to collect tax revenues effectively. Other estimates suggest the full loss may be over £100 billion per annum. The decision to focus on benefit rather than tax fraud is unfair, unjust – and makes little economic sense.’
However, persecuting the poor and forcing them into hunger makes really good sense for a ruling class that is counting on the ministry’s blind eye continuing to be turned towards tax fraud, which is seen as a ruling class right, ,just like the huge bonuses of the bankers.
Cameron and Clegg are proposing to mug and strip the poor bare to keep the bosses and capitalism going.
The trade union leaders stand around and watch.
News Line calls for a mass lobby of the TUC on Monday, September 13 to demand that it calls a general strike at once to bring down the coalition and bring in a workers government and socialism.