What’s wrong with spending your benefits on prosecco? Nothing | Phil McDuff

Moaning about the fecklessness of the poor, as Phillip Schofield did, may make some of us feel virtuous. But we belittle ourselves and damage our economyThe first benefits “fauxtrage” of 2017 is upon us, barely a week in. Harrumpher-in-chief Phillip Schofield decided that the best use of his time was to shake his head patronisingly at a woman who had the gall to buy two bottles of prosecco on her “Christmas bonus” – a pittance added to her benefits payments. This le