Indeed. Noting that Amazon (that makes how much profit a year?) receives more in government grants than it pays in corporation tax would be a more suitable target for your anger, as a taxpayer.
Rather than railing against ‘feckless scum’ which seems to be all that present government policy consists of, we might do better as a society if we tried to look for solutions instead. Places and people like that exist as they have effectively been abandoned by the state, to their fate. For decades of de-industialisation. What did they think would happen? That the former steelworkers would all nip back to college and re-train themselves as web developers? Then all set up their own businesses?
One of the things that stood out last night was the woeful level of education in the young people. They were essentially unemployable. Should we try and rectify that? I feel sure that its right at the top of Michael Goves to-do list