Remember that the welfare state is not solely socialist. Part of its original purpose - as explicated by the high-grade capitailsts who cooperated with the socialist intellectuals in its inception - was to help transform the individual into an effective industrial producer.
In other terms, at least in part, the original conception of the welfare-state was helping turn the individual into a participant of the economy, a 9-5 worker.
The hippy who opts out of the 9-5 system, grows his hair long and moves to living off the land is as much an enemy of the system as you are.
The artist who decides to live off couch-surfing and donations and dedicate himself to abstract paintings is as much of an enemy of the system as you are.
The family who moves out into the boonies and name their daughter Gaia and start homeschooling her are as much of enemies to the system as you are.
Today, the people who invented and came up with these ideas are all dead and hopefully roasting in Hell of some description.
But the system - the bureaucrats in this story - still hate anybody who opts out of the idea of 'work regularly, get money, buy products'. Nothing is more loathsome to them. This is inherent to their hatred of homeschooling, guns, and off-grid living. They want you to live in a city, take state-scheduled trains and buses to work, wear a suit and tie. They want your life to follow precisely the path that they have forged for you, because this is the 'efficient' path.
I do not know if this specific story is true - certainly other stories from British press have been proven false on this forum before - but it fits with the overall pattern.
