"His house, his booze, his drugs, his women and his 17 children were paid for by a benefits system meant to be a safety net for the truly needy. The trial of Michael Philpott and his wife Mairead is over, and they have been convicted of multiple manslaughter. This was one of the most horrible crimes committed against children in Britain in recent years" writes A.N.Wilson. " It was cynical. It was calculating. And it was done out of malice in a ham-fisted plot which went wrong. The trial spoke volumes about the sheer nastiness of the individuals involved. But it also lifted the lid on the bleak and often grotesque world of the welfare benefit scroungers — of whom there are not dozens, not hundreds, but tens of thousands in Britain." Read it all. [Thanks BJS]
