Last night’s Too Posh To Pay looked in depth at so called white collar crimes; crimes committed by people who are middle class and on the face of it, respectable people.

These are people who are ripping off their employers, stealing from customers, buying stolen goods, fiddling insurance claims and even breaking into homes to fund their aspirational lifestyles.

And therein lies the crux of the matter; for ‘aspirational’ read ‘greedy’. Every single one of the people in last night’s programme who’d committed a ‘white collar crime’ had done so out of a wish to have more than they’d got. End of. Read more & comment »

“The cost of borrowing, all these pressures coming in is going to squeeze their lifestyle and I think you will see more people who are in positions of trust letting that moral wall down. You’ll see the kinds of crimes that they (the middle classes) perceive to be victimless.”

Roy Ramm – Former Met Police Commander

The British middle classes traditionally promote an image of honesty coupled with a veneer of white collar respectability. However times have changed and a new survey conducted for Too Posh To Pay reveals how the modern day middle classes are now more dishonest than other social groups. Ripping off employers, stealing from customers, buying stolen goods, fiddling the insurance and breaking into homes are all examples of crimes carried out to fund their aspirational lifestyles, whatever the state of the economy and whether they can afford to pay or not.

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