And now it becomes obvious why, in the UK, that the Tory government is deliberately trying to shred the social fabric with excessive cuts etc - all justified by their illogical ideology of &#x27;austerity&#x27;. The fact is, the tax credits cuts are going to take 4 billion pounds out of the economy - people who get those tax credits spend them, they don&#x27;t squirrel them away in their pension plans or buy more buy-to-lets properties like the well off... I am actually thinking of moving back to the US, it is getting so incredibly insane here.<p>But if you are trying to prevent a revolution - setting up the infrastructure for monitoring the populace while creating the conditions that would precipitate a revolution makes good sense.