Thou shalt steal

The increasingly pointless Church of England reached a new low this week when some dopey minister claimed that it was ok for people on benefits to shoplift. Perhaps this useless dullard wasn’t aware that Britain has the highest rate of people on disability benefits in the world – there is absolutely nothing wrong with at least half the 2.5m people claiming disability. As for unemployment benefits – of course there are many genuine claimants. But every day at my local Jobcentre Plus there is a long line of expensive cars – Jaguars, Range Rovers, Toyota Sports etc (cars I as a taxpayer could never afford) – parked on the double yellow lines with their engines runnng and their drivers waiting while a member of their family was inside filling up with taxpayers’ money.

Perhaps the Church of England should preach ‘thou shalt not defraud the benefits system’ rather than ‘thou shalt steal from shops’.