The middle classes are Britain's biggest lawbreakers. According to a recent survey, almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of middle-class and high earning professionals admit to one of a host of offences featured on a questioneer, but these people still see themselves as 'upstanding citizens'. The figure compares with 55 per cent of the general population and 43 per cent of those on lower incomes. The research accuses the middle classes of double standards.

The poor are more honest than the rich - It's official!

A total of 91 per cent of the population, including the middle classes, think that those who commit an offence are spongers and should "not be allowed to get away with it". 64% of the Middle Class want to clamp down on those who dodge the TV licences. The middle class, as many of us will have instinctively suspected, are mostly hypocrites. But now we have the proof as we will discover.

Middle Class 'dubious morality'

The survey, highlighted on the Scotsman website questioned 2,000 adults about committing seven offences, such as not paying their road tax or TV licence and damaging items before returning them for a refund or parking in a disabled spot, fare-dodging, paying cash-in-hand to avoid tax and knowingly pocketing too much change. Professor Suzanne Karstedt, at Keele University's department of criminology, said the results showed "it is the professional middle classes and high earners who commit most of these 'crimes' and are mostly involved in morally dubious practices". Kirkby Times would like to thank Keele Universities professor for the research on this rampant middle class thievery.

Professor Suzanne Karstedt also stated that "These are the people who see themselves as respectable but are part of a 'crime wave' which is costing the UK around £14 billion in fraud and forgery every year." FOURTEEN BILLION A YEAR!!!!! Now that's some serious robbing going on.

Middle Class dumb us down and hide the evidence.

However, despite the evidence proving that it is the Middle Class who are responsible for the Crime Wave of the Century, because the middle class take up most positions of power, they try, fairly successfully, to hide what they are up to. Middle Class new labour have themselves unleashed what can be said to be a flood of petty legislation which seems to target any working class who actually have some moral right to the wealth in England. We can't even have a big picket to close down people exploiting us anymore without an Army of Plod turning up. How the Middle class fool us is to simply make sure that us working class are not educated. Once they've made sure the vital skills needed are not given to local working classs people, the middle class can then present themselves, there credentials and University degrees.

Posh Pen Pushers

The middle class parachute themselves into all the positions of power they can target, we can even see them in Kirkby were they have the upper hand and use that power to line there own already full pockets. They are great manipulators and experts at picking out and playing off any elements in the community. Kirkby's laughable left wing, the 'career socialists' here, have fell hook line and sinker for the charms of the posh pen pushers. They work hand in hand with the middle class out of towners, grateful for the crumbs of SRB, Euro and other funds which only the middle class seem to be able to fill in the forms for. This is happening in most working class parts of Liverpool and the UK.

Had Off

Kirkbys residents have now likely realised that they have been 'had off*' (*=slang for having money taken off them in one manner or other), as the Million of pounds of regeneration funds here dry up and various managers leave for pastures new.

The Class Divide of the rewards of Crime

Some local working class people are doing time for stealing small amounts of cash. Some people in Walton Jail will be there for pathetic amounts of cash. I noticed one shoplifter nicked yesterday in the B&M supermarket Kirkby, (19 August) my guess is that he had not educated himself to the level whereby he could simply defraud massive amounts of cash. He was at the arse end of the criminal ladder, not in an office doing the dirty by signing a few scraps of paper. Walton Jail, as indeed every other jail, is full of such people. Most working class people here in Kirkby won't be committing complicated acts of fraud; most will not understand the complicated process of committing fraud in a business sense beyond using a dodgy credit card, passing iffity cheques and perhaps the old insurance scam. The types of fraud which working class people may commit will carry a far higher risk for what is not a massive amount of money. Most of us Working class are not educated enough to indulge in the bigger and less risky frauds, we don't have the 'contacts' and can hardly claim insurance for too much money or goods before company investigators are all over us like flies. For the working class who do indulge, fraud is generally limited to the risky arenas and lesser minor acts of fraud which likely bring little reward. Working class risk a few months or years jail to perhaps steal a few hundred quid, whilst people who commit fraud of tens of thousands of pounds and even millions, will be rarely caught. Even if they are collared, the middle class fraudster may well be given about the same sentence as the unfortunate B&M 'buy none get everything free' shopper, carted off by Kirkbys police. The figure of 14 Billion is astounding, and this is happening every YEAR.

It's about time that the police and those who have some sway in our justice system actually looked at tackling this rampant out of control Middle Class Crimewave. The fraud squad needs expanding, maybe turning into a Civil Service employing decent people to database all the funding in the UK. If the lad nicking a few packets of meat or whatever out of the B&M supermarket is taken off in a police car, why then can we have a situation whereby the loss/misplacement of massive amounts of money in political/regeneration circles in not investigated? We can all perhaps begin by questioning the process by which some 35 Million Pounds of Regeneration Funds have been spent here in Northwood Kirkby. Maybe if those funds were properly spent then we'd have less lads and girls being caught on the old shoplifting treadmill. If 14 Billion pounds are going missing every year in the UK, I think it's about time we actually clawed back this money and jailed the thieves who steal it. We need to make big examples in the Courts of these hoards of middle class robbers who are bleeding the Country dry. Maybe Knowsley Council, looking to twin with China, may like to see the Chinese method of justice bought in for white collar fraud. That would be a bullet to the head or death by injection, not promotion. In England, the same people committing massive fraud, barely get there wrists slapped. Being a civilised Englishman or Scouser, I would not like to see our business leaders and suchlike executed. But if they are found to be robbing the Country of its Wealth, they have to pay a high price. They need to pay back every penny with interest, and thrown in jail for a very long time.

Education

As working class people, we need to understand the importance of educating ourselves to a level were we can see through the middle class bullsh** which infests the media from a local level all the way to the top. The media never have big campaigns to shop middle class thieves, it's always shop the yobs, fine the scum, round up drug dealers, jail the welfare benefit cheats and attack the poor. Generally most of the medias venom is directed towards the working class, not surprisingly, most of the owners of the media or the managers are middle class themselves. We all know working class people who may well be yobs etc - but if they don't play ball with the will of the community - they can enjoy the delights of Walton nick for all we care. People who rob off the poor are the dregs of the Earth, but the middle class have no excuse whatsoever, they can hardly plead desperation. I feel more sympathy for the shoplifter caught in the B&M yesterday than I do for the educated calculating middle class robbers who are collectively destroying this Country. I've got 14 Billion reasons to do so now.

What say you the working class Jury?