[Margaret Pilkington]

No Less, you are not a scrounger. You have paid into the system and are claiming what is yours.
You will pay into the system again, when you are employed....you are employable, you have a skill....you have a work ethic.......you told us you would take any job until things pick up.
No-one has suggested that you have sudenly become incompetent with money...or that you should be denied the entertainment of your choice.

Why do you think that generations who have never worked is OUR disgrace as you put it?

They have never paid into the system as you have....and in essence they are taking your money too.

The magic fix you talk off was way back down the line...opportunites missed.
Other factors too have had an impact......the uncontrolled immigration....the global economy. But it has to be said that there are some people, who unlike you.....do not want to work, but want to be kept by the state.
If you feel that this acceptable then, so be it.......but it is an unsustainable situation.