Are the London riots the fault of the welfare state?

[fpb]

Inevitably, my conservative friends - and many conservatives who are not my friends and luckily will never be - have jumped on the welfare state with both feet as the cause of the riots. The link between "welfare dependency" and looting is held to be too obvious to be argued; and everyone speaks as though Britain had been ruined by the decision to

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Ya know I read Great Expectations...

[joetexx]

... in my teens, in an abrigded version, and I remember something like this passage but was not of an age to understand it

Grazie.