The Tories reframed unemployment as welfare dependency to claim paternal care

Evidence

By shifting the focus onto the benefits system, the Tories can pose as the good patrician parent, offering the tough love solution to the bureaucratic indulgences of left paternalism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1688

Categorization

• XREF: Links to ch103 and ch42 notes on welfare-blaming discourse and how benefits claimants are moralized as individual failures. — connects to: Neoliberal paternalism in welfare traces back to 1930s European neoliberals, not 1980s social conservatism — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 216; Neoliberals attacked welfare as a threat to family, race, and dignity — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 178; Neoliberal family duty rhetoric derives from Elizabethan poor law logic — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 922 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals attacked welfare as a threat to family, race, and dignity #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 178
• Neoliberal welfare attacks racialized dependency and framed the family as women’s natural sphere #expands (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 175
• Neoliberal paternalism in welfare traces back to 1930s European neoliberals, not 1980s social conservatism #qualifies (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 216
• Neoliberal family duty rhetoric derives from Elizabethan poor law logic #responds-to (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 922