It is important to define what we mean by middle class. I mean it as in the middle class English (people with a certain background, intersectional feminist mindset, and or wealth privilege).

I don't think the small minority of people taking as much as they can from the system are even taking that much, in total. A particular type of middle class intersectional feminist ideology is crippling the middle class. They want mass immigration/open borders for example, which requires the equivalent of a city the size of Newcastle upon tyne to be built every year. The immigrants do not generate enough tax receipts to pay for the increase in burden on the services, new doctors required for the growing population, etc. This has the middle class paying for many new arrivals (including their children) schooling & health care. This is unsustainable, yet mass immigration is sacred to this particular type of middle class. Mass immigration creates a feedback loop where we look for skilled work abroad instead of training our own people (because it is cheaper, and we cannot afford the increased burden; hence austerity)

In England, class mobility has pretty much ceased to exist, so those not born into middle class, have completely vanished from certain job types. With no way to climb they cannot become bigger tax payers themselves.

This middle class type focuses on its ideology about oppression and white privilege etc, instead of the main issues the country is facing.
[https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/24/clapping-banned-oxford-university-stop-people-triggered-10975221/](An example of clapping being banned in Oxford to make it more Inclusive) ... This allows this type of middle class to ignore class privilege, and the low number of working class entering Oxford/etc. A healthy economy requires those at the bottom to be able to rise, instead what we are seeing across the board is a tearing up of the social contract between the state and people.

I've worked in construction, journalism, and many other industries in England. I have never come across any working class lay abouts and would argue that they (the English working class) work/graft harder, and are more so affected by government interference as money = freedom. Bedroom tax, austerity, etc