Since the Con/Dem coalition came to power in the UK, there's been a lot of demonisation of people who claim benefits. We're told that they're cheating the system, and that it's become a lifestyle choice. We're told that those of us who work and pay taxes should be angry at all these feckless scroungers who are milking the system.

Now that I'm no longer receiving any form of state benefit, and am working full time and paying taxes that go into the benefit system, let me tell who I begrudge receiving my hard earned money...

Not the ordinary benefit claimant. They're welcome to make use of the safety net, as I expect to be if ever my mental state deteriorates again, or I find myself out of work for whatever reason.

I begrudge scrooge employers, who pay their full time staff such miserly wages that the government has to top it up with tax credits. That's as good as giving the employer a bunch of taxpayers cash for nothing. Why aren't papers like The Sun and The Daily Mail complaining about this?

I also begrudge greedy private landlords, who trap their tenants in unemployment by pushing their rents up as far as the government is willing to pay. In London, where there's a huge shortage of affordable housing, this is a massive problem that's not talked about enough. Many people in the lower skilled bracket find themselves trapped out of work, because their rent will swallow all of the wages from a low to modestly paid job.

Why aren't these landlords being called benefit cheats?

The same reason why scrooge employers aren't.

The Tories look after their own.