Letter to the Editors from the March 2014 issue of the Socialist Standard
Dear Editors,
Well done for attacking awful programmes like ‘Benefits Street’ (Socialist Standard, February).
Apart from profit, the aim of such programmes is clear: it’s to turn working-class people against each other, and try to discredit the welfare state. If you can get ordinary people to resent other workers, then the propaganda has worked.
The system we live under gets let off the hook, thanks to sections of the media. And some tabloid newspapers are even worse in misrepresenting the working-class. Compare this to the totally uncritical coverage of the Royal Family in the media.
During the 1970s and 1980s Birmingham lost thousands of jobs. And like most working-class cities, people have been hit hard by the latest recession.
Blame the system not ordinary people!
Graeme Kemp,
Wellington, Shropshire
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