As part of my job I have to read the dregs of tabloid press, namely the Daily Mail, and that attitude is really obvious there. It's a prevailing attitude of 'only the lazy are unemployed or sick' along with 'only drug addicts/alcoholics become homeless' and it always gets much worse during a recession. People back off from social responsibility and refuse to think they could be in the same situation at any moment.

One of my partners was on sickness benefit for a decade before slowly getting well enough to work again. Now he's struggling again and is petrified of ending up back on benefits once more. Seeing the current UK government talking about cutting that safety net really doesn't help his stress levels.